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[Disney closes Lucas Arts] 1313 and First Assault cancelled
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(Another) End of an era
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/04/03/disney-closes-game-publisher-lucasarts.aspx
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/04/03/disney-closes-game-publisher-lucasarts.aspx
Staff were involved of the shutdown this morning, according to a reliable Kotaku source. Some 150 people were laid off, and both of the studio's current projects--Star Wars: First Assault and Star Wars 1313--were cancelled.
"It is worth noting that we are looking for proven external partners who can help us provide video games to our fans. We still believe in the video game industry, we still will provide Star Wars games, we're just looking at different models rather than internal production... They're evaluating everything. There's always a possibility that it [Star Wars 1313] can still come out via licensing."
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*Well, the era ended like 15 years ago but it still sucks
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Also, now my chances for a Gladius sequel have gone from 1% to 0.1% which is not cool.
Edit: I can still remember buying a package of Lucasarts games when I was younger, one of my first game purchases made with my own money. It had Dark Forces, Afterlife, Full Throttle, Monkey Island 1&2, The Dig and Outlaws (I think, or a demo for it at least).
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The studio closing, to me, has nothing to do with, "Oh no we won't get any more games from those guys." We pretty much already weren't. It's just a symbolic thing. I grew up digesting content from that company. That's all it is at this point - a suckerpunch to my nostalgia.
Clone Wars cancelled, 1313 now canned. Is The Old Republic next?
No, because it is a licensed property. This is where the discussion is at in the industry thread. Disney is into licensing things rather than producing for them internally.
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Is that a place where over the years a completely unique collection of talent has gathered? The truth is that every single talent that ever ended up there has left long ago!
Let's face it, closing down LucasArts is understandable, even though I would have been curious about 1313, LucasArts has long lost the benefit of the doubt.
In fact that opens up plenty of licenses for games that people want to see.
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Also, nostalgia. Those classic games were awesome.
Silver lining: There is a greater-than-zero chance that someone could license the X-Wing/TIE Fighter franchise. Meaning a greater-than-zero chance we will ever see that series again.
1313 looked neat.
Sucks, but oh well, maybe they'll license it out to a studio that can actually take advantage of the franchise.
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There is a new movie on the way, there are games on the way.
Problem is who's gonna make the games or get the exclusive.
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Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.
Full Throttle.
Maniac Mansion and Day of the Tentacle.
Grim Fandango.
The Dig.
MULTIPLE Star Wars games.
All of it now officially history. I don't quite know what to say except screw the financially-obsessed, bottom-line driven companies ruining all our childhoods and our favorite media. I'm actually somewhat numb to it all at this point.
I know it hurts
But look at your list, and then attach the year of release to each of those titles
Just for perspective
Take Sam&Max, LucasArts cancelled the sequel and laid off the people who worked on it. Those very same people later made the Sam&Max series we know at Telltale and quite successfully so!
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Look at it this way, though:
Lucas Arts has been struck down, but will become more powerful than we can possibly imagine.
Still, this industry these days; it's news like this that'll probably wind up scaring away all the up-and-coming new talent, leaving only the jaded veterans left wondering when they'll be next to get the axe. Let's hope that won't be the case.
Yup, Obsidian snatched an artist from Lucas Film after for Project: Eternity.
Oh people still remember that.
Well I'll just play it and enjoy it to myself because Afterlife was the shit!
So no, I'm not going to mourn the Lucasarts that just got closed down. The Lucasarts that I loved has been gone for long time.
What will probably happen: Star Wars end up being licensed to Activision who makes dozens of forgettable or terrible games and we all die a little inside
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But if at least one of the bastards responsible for Star Wars: Rebellion got canned as a result of this, I'll count it as a partial win.
I need to dig up my LucasArts Archives Volume III and try to get that working on my PC. And I guess The Dig as well, heh.
Rebellion owned. Catching the Empire with their pants down and taking over Coruscant with just a small task force was one of my favorite childhood gaming memories.
EDIT: Just remembered about the old LucasArts catalogs, and how I used to love going through them as a kid. The Sam and Max comic they had in there was pretty funny from what I remember.
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I don't think anyone was surprised Disney got rid of the Clone Wars show - it was on Cartoon Network which is a direct competitor to Disney's various networks. I mean, why let you have that to watch when you could be watching Disney's hit "Dog with a Blog".
Disney does have Phineas & Ferb and Gravity Falls so they're not all bad...
Which I would murder for an HD remake ONLY if they keep the music intact.