ThunderPeel2001 Posted March 7, 2004 Share Posted March 7, 2004 ... let me count the ways... 1) You don't make original games anymore, you only RELEASE (not develop) a pile of average ones. 2) Even the ones you have developed recently (like RTX Red Rock) suck! 3) 70% of your games have "Star Wars" in the title. 4) There's only been ONE decent game from you lot in two years! (KOTOR) Before that it was Jedi Outcast (2002) and before that it was Grim Fandango in 1998! Yet you managed to released THIRTY FIVE games over the same period (not including re-releases). That's 3 good games out of 35 released! 5) Far too many games have STAR WARS in the title: Star Wars: Bounty Hunter Star Wars: Dark Forces Star Wars: Demolition Star Wars: Episode I: Battle for Naboo Star Wars: Episode I: Jedi Power Battles Star Wars: Episode I: Racer Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace Star Wars: Force Commander Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds: Clone Campaigns Star Wars: Galaxies: An Empire Divided Star Wars: Jedi Knight Star Wars: Jedi Knight (Bundle) Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast - Colle... Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi Star Wars: Obi-Wan Star Wars: Racer Revenge Star Wars: Rebel Assault Star Wars: Rebel Assault I & II Star Wars: Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire Star Wars: Rebellion Star Wars: Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron II Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire Star Wars: Starfighter Star Wars: Super Bombad Racing Star Wars: Super Return of the Jedi Star Wars: The Clone Wars Star Wars: Tie Fighter Star Wars: TIE Fighter Collector's CD-ROM Star Wars: Tie Fighter: Defender of the Empire Star Wars: X-Wing Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance Star Wars: X-Wing Collector Series Star Wars: X-Wing Collector's CD-ROM Star Wars: X-Wing Trilogy Star Wars: X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter: Balance of P... Star Wars: X-Wing: B-Wing Star Wars: X-Wing: Imperial Pursuit Star Wars: Yoda Stories 6) You pushed Sony Online to release Star Wars: Galaxies in July of 2003, yet it has only recently come close to being completed. Meaning that LucasArts fans and Star Wars fans were PAYING to play an incomplete BETA of the game for 8 months!!! (With constant promises of "impending" improvements.) 7) You only released the modestly updated versions of Day of the Tentacle and Full Throttle in SOME territories, leaving our American friends to do without (until WE fixed it for you with ScummVM!!!) ... 100) You greenlit two adventure games and then cancelled them both after months of development and thousands of dollars being spent. Not to mention your loyal fans being disapointed YET AGAIN by your distinctly lacklustre company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThunderPeel2001 Posted March 7, 2004 Author Share Posted March 7, 2004 8) A large number of your back catalogue STILL doesn't work on Windows XP (again, WE, your loyal fans, had to fix them with ScummVM). 9) You decided in 2000 never to make another "classic trilogy" Star Wars game and insisted all new games would be set in the "new" Phantom Menace universe. When you realized what a stupid idea this was (thank to everyone complaining) you changed your mind. 10) All your most talented designers have left your company. 11) You're quickly becoming the new Cryo or 3DO of the games industry (ie mass produced crap that you know will sell). 12) You publish crap original titles (RTX Red Rock, Gladius, Armed & Dangerous) so you have to cancel the decent original titles. 13) Escape from Monkey Island 14) You cancelled Sam N Max 2 a FEW MONTHS before its scheduled release date!!!!!!!!???!! 15) ... (Join in ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elTee Posted March 7, 2004 Share Posted March 7, 2004 15) You care not for your fans, only your bank balance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Posted March 7, 2004 Share Posted March 7, 2004 16) You're complete dicks to the Mac using community Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boba Rhett Posted March 7, 2004 Share Posted March 7, 2004 Yeah but who isn't, Fred? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Posted March 8, 2004 Share Posted March 8, 2004 heh. We do seem to be the targets for alot of sh*t Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted March 8, 2004 Share Posted March 8, 2004 16) Your sales people couldn't quite figure out in all the time and reseach done by them what it took a load of fans in around the age of about 14-20 about 30 seconds to work out. Sam and Max Freelance Police would work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jp-30 Posted March 8, 2004 Share Posted March 8, 2004 > , Gladius, Armed & Dangerous I have to disagree with these two games being "crap". I haven't got a console, but I've read very good reviews of Gladius and heard first hand some very good reports of it. As for Armed & Dangerous, being a huge "Giants" fan, and supporter of Planet Moon Studios I think their Armed and Dangerous is an excellent game - just the sort of thing the tired FPS genre needs. Planet Moon, you guys rock! But you must be worried about giving your game to a publishing company who runs away from such obvious sales potential as Sam & Max 2. Their marketing department must be sub-par. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theholyidiot Posted March 8, 2004 Share Posted March 8, 2004 I have to say that I actually liked Escape From MI. It wasn't quite as good as the others, but it was the fourth in the series, so with that in mind, it was very good. Now then: 17) you completely ignore the hard work of a team for almost a year, then reduce that work to moot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBRAA Posted March 8, 2004 Share Posted March 8, 2004 18) It's a mystery you still attract any talents to your company. Your company has changed from pioneering in game design and made many people for-life-fans of your games - to have turned your back on your talents and walked a road that leads to nothingness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laserschwert Posted March 8, 2004 Share Posted March 8, 2004 18 b) You used to make games other people tried to mimic for years, now it is the other way around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remi Posted March 8, 2004 Share Posted March 8, 2004 19) You kill kittens. I can't back that up, but I'm sure there are some cadavers in Mike Nelson's office. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Udvarnoky Posted March 8, 2004 Share Posted March 8, 2004 Originally posted by RemiO 19) You kill kittens. I can't back that up, but I'm sure there are some cadavers in Mike Nelson's office. ...on the Satellite of Love. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptdc Posted March 8, 2004 Share Posted March 8, 2004 20. Where are the linux versions of your games? What? Why are you laughing? :~~~~( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizball Posted March 8, 2004 Share Posted March 8, 2004 21 - You have max. 4 more ocassions to cash in: 1. Star Wars Battlefield, 2. Star Wars Rebel Moon (or something like that), 3. new games based on Episode 3 Star Wars movie, 4. new game(s) based on new Indiana Jones movie. Then it's over. Star Wars is finished and people will lose interest of games based on it. No new franchise. You will end up as division of Electronic Arts and some day be assimilated as EA California or something (like Westwood, Origin etc.). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theholyidiot Posted March 10, 2004 Share Posted March 10, 2004 22) because Tim Schafer and Steve Purcell are dissapointed in you, and I must take that a few steps further, for those men together use their wonder twin powers to take form of... GOD! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaliMonk Posted March 10, 2004 Share Posted March 10, 2004 23) because you can't even spell sam & max on your own website (http://support.lucasarts.com/trg/xp/xptitle.htm, scroll down) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lagomorph01 Posted March 10, 2004 Share Posted March 10, 2004 24) Because you cancel oncoming Adventure successes to make another Starwars or Indiana Jones rip off! 25) Because everybody else on this forum says you suck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalixam Posted March 10, 2004 Share Posted March 10, 2004 Originally posted by JBRAA 18) It's a mystery you still attract any talents to your company. Your company has changed from pioneering in game design and made many people for-life-fans of your games - to have turned your back on your talents and walked a road that leads to nothingness. What talent have they recently attracted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 Originally posted by Wizball Then it's over. Star Wars is finished and people will lose interest of games based on it. I highly doubt that. Star Wars fanboys will be around for a long, long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NHJ BV Posted March 12, 2004 Share Posted March 12, 2004 Even Sam & Max hate Star Wars: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBRAA Posted March 13, 2004 Share Posted March 13, 2004 Originally posted by Dalixam What talent have they recently attracted? One of the animators for RTX Red Rock. But he left to work for the second Matrix film. I dont have his URL anymore. I got a hardrive failure and lost 120 GB not so recently. But anyway, he was talented. But the art direction and story of that game wasnt the best though however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samnmax221 Posted March 14, 2004 Share Posted March 14, 2004 It's like Ken Lay is running lucasarts these days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThunderPeel2001 Posted March 14, 2004 Author Share Posted March 14, 2004 26) Because after 18,000+ petition signatures and ALL of your die-hard fans being incredibly hurt and angered by your announcement... YOU STILL HAVEN'T UNCANCELLED SAM N' MAX 2!!! 27) Your logo was created for a completely different company, yet you annoyingly maintain that it tailored for LucasArts -- citing what each section of it "represents" - ugh. 28) You have started organising your OWN "Fan Festivals" so you can charge your fans $189 to meet each other!!! (This one makes me SICK!) 29) You're in league with the devil (see RemiO's post, above) 30) You have no games in your upcoming releases that I'm remotely interested in. 31) George Lucas's original charge: "Do what you want, but be the best" Your current motto: "How can we make even MORE money???" 32) The last LucasArts game to be revered by critics and fans alike, and to consistently reach a Top 10 status in "best games of all time" lists was released in 1998 (Grim Fandango). Six years ago. 33) ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murray the Chao Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 33)Your REALLY poor handling of Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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