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Well, in this particular case, the reasoning behind recasting the character was that the voice actor was white (portraying Bosco, a black character) and that did not "sit right". It was not an offensive quote, or an offensive portrayal. Just... that. It's basically because this is apparently a thing that's been happening in the last year or few and mostly in the US. Looking at it from a country outside the US), this looks weird. It's pretty much specific to this current period and specific politics (and therefore marketing) in the U.S. P.S. The Larry game(s) always had intentionally garbage humour and I think one can find many insensitive quotes and situations. even for their time, if *for some reason* they are looking for them.

Hmm, I haven't tried with my old lucasforums account, but I'm pretty sure I was more of a lurker, and barely ever posted. Also the e-mail connected to that account was probably a now-defunct one on yahoo. I used to love reading threads on the lucasforums, especially ones on the sub-forums for the adventure game titles. But, anyway, hey all!

Only thing that should matter is if he did a good job with the voice acting or not. All the rest of it is, I agree, because of this day and age. I really don't think this should be a thing, but here we are, and the decision is already made by the devs of the remaster.

I mean, yes, I understand why they would not want that, if they are still maintaining a policy of shutting down every fan made attempt on the titles or their (acquired) IP property. But on the other hand, maybe it's time to rethink that policy? All these old titles are basically rotting currently, and I can't see how it would hurt to allow release of these old tools --probably with some basic license to protect assets or whatever. Modding community and open source projects are basically doing stuff "backwards" and working off their own tools and understanding of the resources format for stuff like fan translations (including font localization and image exporting/translation/re-importing) and open source engine implementations (ie. ScummVM's work). And that work, considering that we now know these tools exist and are *very* viable and friendly to use even today, is basically trying to re-invent the wheel and it's thus taking a longer time and more effort to produce the desired result. It is work that made these classic games accessible to a larger crowd, though, while not endorsing piracy, and I can't see why Disney would not appreciate that.

The fan game creation community and modders would do wonders with those early LucasFilms Games tools. Which seemed surprisingly easy to use (the scripts too!) and also working without issues, albeit under dosbox or some such.

I'm intrigued