Disney axes LucasArts and shuts down all current projects
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PhazeDelta1
Well that didn;t take long.
Clouseau
http://www.endorexpress.net/2013/03/bloomberg-looks-at-how-disney-bought-lucasfilm/
That is a link that should give further insight into what's going on. LucasArts may no longer be but the big picture is still in tact.
morbias
Disney does it again... Climax/Blackrock, Propaganda Games, Junction Point and now LucasArts... who will be next?
Tat3
EA or Activision ?
WhiteLightning
Moderator
or Crystal Dynamics ?
HonoredShadow
Modders will be sued quicker than you can say Apple
SLI-756
If only, it'd be a dream come true. Yup.
HitokiriX
considering lucasarts hasn't put anything decent in the past decade it should have happened sooner really
ATR
was looking forward to 1313..... hope that can still be released.
Agent-A01
uhm srsly
kotor 1 2
repubic commando
jedi knight outcast/academy
battlefront 1/2
empire at war
tfu 1
mR Yellow
lol, those titles are so old.
Only decent title on the list u mentioned was KOTOR 1/2 and Jedi Kinight academy.
(.)(.)
Wankers, didnt even release an HD version of podracer (off to watch ep1), great memories from some of the ps1 starwars games and I also quite enjoyed Unleashed 2, which is great with mods.
I think they should have a sale on all lucasArts games with proceeds going to the now un-employed.
Darkest
Every game on that list was fantastic, par in my opinion TFU. I firmly believe Outcast to be a superior game to Academy. Regardless, all of those games were released within a decade of todays date. That said, while KOTOR 2 was a fantastic game when it worked, it was a horrible buggy mess. Much improved by fan efforts to fix the game and restore content.
As for the OP: I'm not sure what to think about this. Part of me feels sad, but another part that played TFU2 and TOR thinks it might be for the best. After all, this doesn't mean that we wont see anymore Star Wars games. I do hope we see 1313 picked up however, that looked like it could have been good.
isidore
no no no..star wars 1313 had so much potential..Can't believe this.
-=WolverinE=-
Guess you've never played Republic Commando, which still had populated servers last year.
This news is very disturbing. Disney are full of **** and 1313 would've been profitable for it's engine alone. If they added mod support, the sales would've sky-rocketed. Oh well...another gem buried...
Kaarme
Jedi Outcast/Academy were made by Raven, Kotors by Bioware/Obsidian. I'm sure LucasArts did contribute something little in addition to marketing and a legion of lawyers (because Activision's 10000 lawyers weren't enough), but honestly I believe those doing the bulk of the real work would have been able to do it all just as well, under a license. So, even if LucasArts does become nothing but a licensing name, it might still work just as well.
But then again, like HonoredShadow said up there, since I was a JO/JA modder, I wouldn't particularly dare to trust Disney to understand a thing about the value of modding games. It was hard enough with LucasArts and Activision back then.
Veteran
Who cares the Starwars games from Lucasarts have been pretty average for a good few years now and its not only the Starwars franchise ever since Ron Gilbert and Tim Schaefer left the company there games have gone down hill tbh.
Not only that any starwars movies that come out will suck compared to the original trilogy it dont matter how many effects you put in there as the depth of the chrarcters, onscreen charisma, The story and the time of when the originals were released will never ever be beaten.
Lucasarts/lucasfilm gone/shutdown...so what who cares there not as innovative as they used to be a gamescompany or moviemaker.
Fender178
I agree. The 2nd Starwars trilogy sucked. And there were only a handful of good Starwars related games including KOTR and Forced Unleashed. And it is possible that the 3rd Starwars trilogy will suck worse than (eps 1-3) did.
rl66
well...
http://youtu.be/z7fkq22ew1Y
not so close from truth...
PCElite
Not surprising. Maybe JJ A brings some fun™®.:banana:
