bpfinsa Posted August 7, 2003 Share Posted August 7, 2003 http://ps2.ign.com/articles/432/432671p1.html This is disappointing news. I kind of wonder why they stopped production. From a business POV, I'd continue production of a sequel like FT2, and would have canned RTX Red Rock months ago, which turned out to be a flop. Maybe this will speed up production on Sam and Max. --BPF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kei Posted August 7, 2003 Share Posted August 7, 2003 Perhaps it was looking even worse than RTX Red Rock? I seem to remember reading in press day coverage that on top of everything, FT2 had missed some milestones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marek Posted August 7, 2003 Share Posted August 7, 2003 Absolutely no tears here. This cancellation is definately a Good Thing, for the exact reasons given by Simon J. Full Throttle 2 would have dissapointed many gamers. Bring on Sam & Max 2! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remi Posted August 7, 2003 Share Posted August 7, 2003 I for one looked forward to the game, but anyway... With KOTOR being a huge success and RTX falling on its ass, I hope LEC doesn't go back to being an almost 100% Star Wars company again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amishler Posted August 7, 2003 Share Posted August 7, 2003 I would tend to agree, but if they made every Star Wars game as good as KotOR and every original game as bad as everyone says RTX is, I'd say go for it. I don't think it's going to happen, though. Last time they went through an almost exclusive Star Wars content phase, they came up with such stellar titles as "Jar Jar Teaches Grammar" or whatever. Maybe the actual lesson here is that LucasArts just needs to cut back on the number of titles they do in-house, period. They might be spreading their resources too thin, even with the number of titles that they're farming out. I'd rather see 2 or 3 good-to-great titles a year than 5 or 6 that are mediocre at best. Or maybe FT:HoW just wasn't coming together and it has nothing to do with any of those things. Whatever the reason, it's probably for the best. Now they can wait and let Double Fine develop it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homoludens Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 This is for the best. It seems LA realized the game was f@cked up from the start - badly conceived, presented, and executed. If I had my way I would have yanked most of the combat/action sequences out, replaced them with environmental puzzles, and re-did the entire game using cell shading but keeping it in real time 3d. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theneb Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 Hurahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! They ain't gonna spoil the game yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixor Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 Well, I was holding onto some slim hope that this game might be great, but I guess I don't have to worry about it anymore. Honestly, if the company that releases "Star Wars: Pit Droids" decides a game isn't good enough to finish, it's got to be pretty horrendous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigJKO Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 Hey! I'll have you know that Pit Droids was quite the impressive puzzler!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinny Minnie Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 Wow! Hopefully they'll reconsider a sequel in a more adventure-like vein... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MysterD Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 http://www.gamespot.com/pc/adventure/fullthrottle2/news_6073105.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homoludens Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 Some retarded moron in a suit probably thought to throw in a crapload of action just because it's a 3D game, therefore it's supposed to have a crapload of action and the vanilla mainstreamers are supposed to like it . I'm glad it's cancelled. But unfortunately it looks like it's been stained to never be remade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burns11 Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 Damn that sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingzjester Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 Originally posted by RemiO I for one looked forward to the game, but anyway... With KOTOR being a huge success and RTX falling on its ass, I hope LEC doesn't go back to being an almost 100% Star Wars company again. Such flimsy logic, and yet I am scared sh¡tless that somebody high up in the company formerly known as LEC will think it solid reasoning. Seven out of ten people are not rational. Fuk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabacco Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 Speaking of Tim (in your sig, Kingz ): “I heard they just couldn’t go on without the emotional support of Tom Sarris. I mean, Tom was the person Ben Throttle was based on. Not a lot of people know that. So I guess they finally just realized there was no way to do it with out him.” (Courtesy of Mojo) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burge Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 I can't imagine anything to be worse than RTX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firefoot Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 Well... what can I say... I wasn't looking forward to this game... but it is amazing (IMO) that such a big company stops production of a game... dozens of screens are released, etc... I guess they were convinced of the bad implementation too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGZanthia Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 Or wath it because they got many negative reactions 2 it and realized its not gonna b big hit? (I doubt that) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remi Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 Originally posted by Kingzjester Such flimsy logic, and yet I am scared sh¡tless that somebody high up in the company formerly known as LEC will think it solid reasoning. Seven out of ten people are not rational. Fuk. Well, for certain higher-ups at LEC, that's all the logic they need. I really don't think they'll stop making original games, but if they ever had an excuse, this would be it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wersus Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 I don't understand why they started making an action game in the first place... First i was annoyed by these news, but in the long run ist's probably for the best... Maybe we'll see a sequel that is worth the name of FT in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamandMax Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 Hopefully one day in the future they'll start work another FT game, but maybe stick with the adventure genre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pebsmith Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 Originally posted by SamandMax Hopefully one day in the future they'll start work another FT game, but maybe stick with the adventure genre. Unlike the first one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlius Posted August 9, 2003 Share Posted August 9, 2003 I did not know that Ben's last name was Throttle That puts a new spin of the name of the game hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted August 9, 2003 Share Posted August 9, 2003 Originally posted by Homoludens Some retarded moron in a suit probably thought to throw in a crapload of action just because it's a 3D game, therefore it's supposed to have a crapload of action and the vanilla mainstreamers are supposed to like it . I hope that was a joke or something. "Vanilla mainstreamers?" Ugh. It doesn't take "some retarded moron in a suit" to declare that a game about bikers might benefit from some action. I think the decision was made by the game's design leads themselves, not by some mandate come down from up on high demanding more fisticuffs. The fact that it was probably a bad decision (or at least a good decision gone horribly wrong) rests firmly in the lap of whoever came up with the freakin game, not their evil bosses who throw horrible notions of realtime brawling down their throats while dangling their puny paychecks over a lit match... or something. I don't know if anything good needs to be said about anyone who approved a game and then went and cancelled it, but Simon Jeffery's (the head moron in a suit) quote about troubling and disappointing the fans was as dead on as you can get for a press release. I mean hell, no matter how much punching and driving they inject into a Full Throttle game, the only people who will buy it are still going to be us and us alone, unless LucasArts was so confident in the game that they put huge marketing dollars behind it like they've done with KOTOR. But really, did anyone anticipate that happening for Hell on Wheels? Nein. Originally posted by Carlius I did not know that Ben's last name was Throttle That puts a new spin of the name of the game hehe Did you know his first name was Ruben? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marek Posted August 9, 2003 Share Posted August 9, 2003 Originally posted by Jake Did you know his first name was Ruben? Bonus points to whoever guesses which other LucasArts character is actually Ben's brother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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