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Seriously, should Lucasarts be reported to the FBI for their recent actions?  

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  1. 1. Seriously, should Lucasarts be reported to the FBI for their recent actions?

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Well, I currently suspect Lucasarts of the following:

 

Discrimination (So suddenly fans of point-and-click adventure games are worse than Star Wars fans? It's the new millennium, Lucasarts, and we should be a lot more tolerant of the other people around us!)

Wrongful termination (Not only do they cancel Sam & Max 2, they fire the people who work on it. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you...)

Mass-market scam (Lucasarts knows everyone loves Star Wars games, so they make them... but the games Lucasarts makes now have weak storylines and poor gameplay, and are riddled with bugs and glitches...)

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I'll focus on the last point there. The only game LucasArts has made and released in the last four or five years was Star Wars: Republic Commando, which was excellent and was pretty much bug-free. Story was interesting too, being a grittier, down-to-Earth version of The Clone Wars and introducing the cool General Grievous before George Lucas ruined that coolness.

 

The Force Unleashed is looking pretty cool too so far, and after the amount of time they've spent with it I'll be surprised if it's buggy at all. They are claiming to be absolutely focused on the story, and I believe them. They may be taking their sweet time with both TFU and Indy, but I think it'll be worth it.

 

And as for point-and-click adventures will never be made be LucasArts again. By the time they've finished TFU, Indy and that rumoured Clone Wars game, they'll probably back at work on another Star Wars and Indy game. We can hope for a good original IP in there, but it won't be an adventure game. I miss them, but all the talent has gone on to bigger and better things.

 

Besides, the same 'discrimination' charge could be put against Double Fine too. The guys who did Day of the Tentacle and Grim Fandango making a platform game? Heresy!

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I'll focus on the last point there. The only game LucasArts has made and released in the last four or five years was Star Wars: Republic Commando, which was excellent and was pretty much bug-free. Story was interesting too, being a grittier, down-to-Earth version of The Clone Wars and introducing the cool General Grievous before George Lucas ruined that coolness.

 

The Force Unleashed is looking pretty cool too so far, and after the amount of time they've spent with it I'll be surprised if it's buggy at all. They are claiming to be absolutely focused on the story, and I believe them. They may be taking their sweet time with both TFU and Indy, but I think it'll be worth it.

 

And as for point-and-click adventures will never be made be LucasArts again. By the time they've finished TFU, Indy and that rumoured Clone Wars game, they'll probably back at work on another Star Wars and Indy game. We can hope for a good original IP in there, but it won't be an adventure game. I miss them, but all the talent has gone on to bigger and better things.

 

That's exactly why Lucasarts needs to be investigated now, because if they're not investigated, point-and-click adventures really will never be made by Lucasarts again.

 

Besides, the same 'discrimination' charge could be put against Double Fine too. The guys who did Day of the Tentacle and Grim Fandango making a platform game? Heresy!

 

No, that's diversity, which is something I doubt Lucasarts has.

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The only game LucasArts has made and released in the last four or five years was Star Wars: Republic Commando, which was excellent and was pretty much bug-free. Story was interesting too, being a grittier, down-to-Earth version of The Clone Wars and introducing the cool General Grievous before George Lucas ruined that coolness.

Yeah! And SWRC is great.

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I've been WAY too suspicious of Lucasarts lately. I remember way back in March 3, 2004, when they cancelled "Sam and Max: Freelance Police" because of "current marketplace realities" and "careful market evaluations" or whatever excuse they used. It's because of this that an internet petition was created (and it got 32,500+ signatures), but I don't think Lucasarts even looked at it.

 

You know, I originally wrote a point-by-point rebuttal to your quaint little post. But then, I thought for a little while, and thought that it'd be wisest not to waste anyone's time, and instead will point out a date to you.

 

FEBRUARY 22nd, 1999. QED.

 

These old games you lament? They're gone. Welcome to the whole "getting old" business. The band you really liked will get old and retire, the actor whose key role was the epitome of cool during your childhood will be diagnosed with Parkinson's and fade away from the public eye, and the games that you felt were the very best thing in the universe will be seen as little more than quaint antiques.

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You know, I originally wrote a point-by-point rebuttal to your quaint little post. But then, I thought for a little while, and thought that it'd be wisest not to waste anyone's time, and instead will point out a date to you.

 

FEBRUARY 22nd, 1999. QED.

 

These old games you lament? They're gone. Welcome to the whole "getting old" business. The band you really liked will get old and retire, the actor whose key role was the epitome of cool during your childhood will be diagnosed with Parkinson's and fade away from the public eye, and the games that you felt were the very best thing in the universe will be seen as little more than quaint antiques.

 

Wow... that was awfully cold, brah.

 

And what was the significance of February 22, 1999, again?

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Wow... that was awfully cold, brah.

 

Not really trying to be mean, just mostly dealing with my own frustrations regarding the lackluster state of things for our ever-forgotten kind. Zack & Wiki on the Wii was great, however. In a way, shocking, as the game did not come out from a LucasArts veteran, so there is most certainly hope. (Plus, that ice mansion level in Twilight Princess played eerily similar to the ever-annoying fetch quests, AND had a crate-moving puzzle, in case and of you SOKOBAN fanboys missed the good old crate-moving days (but hey, LBA1 did the very same thing for a stupid boat ticket, too!)

 

And what was the significance of February 22, 1999, again?

 

"Bloody Monday," as Scott Murphy has so eloquently called it. That's when Sierra On-Line adventure division (which was the de-facto leader in the adventure game field, sales-wise at least, if I recall correctly...This is despite my obvious preference of LucasArts adventures, although certain Space Quests will always be on par to Monkey Islands for me). That whole ordeal was something that I'm happy to say most LucasArts fans still didn't really live through. EVERY game under development at the time was cancelled completely (Space Quest VII, Leisure Suit Larry 8, just to name a couple of "big ones"), and everyone just got really, really, like, BRUTALLY fired.

 

This date marks the time when the industry has conceded that the only kind of pointing and clicking that is considered "kosher" would be while executing "USE GUN ON MAN."

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Oh, we went through it all right. The date of death for the LucasArts Adventure Game was indeed March 3rd 2004. Burned into my heart, that date is hmmm! Never really liked Sierra's adventures. The only adventure company that could hold a candle to LucasArts was Revolution.

 

Zack & Wiki was great, but the constant threat of death for even simple things like standing around to work out a puzzle made me stop playing.

 

Telltale Games and Double Fine are the main upholders of the LucasArts spirit, although I'm eager to see what A Vampyre Story and DeathSpank will be like! They're not gone, they're just transmuting.

 

But saying that LucasArts should make adventures again is like saying a dead cook should keep cooking.

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The date of death for the LucasArts Adventure Game was indeed March 3rd 2004.

Yes, damned! I was in vacation and the whole vacation I looked forward to Sam and Max 2!!

I came home and the first E-Mail I´ve read was: "Sam and Max 2 canceled"! :(:fire11:

 

And LA. No more Adventures!

Mh, every uh fan could spend 10 €, Ron takes his royalties and we can buy one of the best licenses in the world. :D

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Posting links of porn, soft or otherwise, is a flagrant violation of the TOS. Lucasforums is a PG-13 site and you can't post links of this type. This is not my normal stomping grounds so I'm not issuing a ban for this, but this is the only warning you'll receive. --Jae Onasi
Then how come the current flash animation on the right side shows an ad for adultfriendfinder with a woman with her titties out? Is that okay because it brings in money?
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Yes, and with the title "Find a SEX mate!"

 

Doesn't get more direct than that. :)

 

Heh make sure you don't have spyware. Spybot Search and Destroy is free and good; AVG is decent. Download the free editionn, kill the trojans.

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