Disney closes LucasArts :(

CaptainRAVE · 3 Apr 2013 at 18:46

Don't know if posted already, but how sad

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/04/03/disney-closes-game-publisher-lucasarts.aspx

So many good games back in the day

dbmzk1 · 3 Apr 2013 at 18:50

They're mostly a publisher recently and anyone can publish a game.

Plus they were behind the butchering of Star Wars Galaxies so good riddance

bakes0310 · 3 Apr 2013 at 18:53

Shame star wars 1313 looked good.

Martini1991 · 3 Apr 2013 at 18:53

Wut.
But.

Zhokel · 3 Apr 2013 at 18:54

I was looking forward to 1313 :<

And this seems like a given xD http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/

Sleepery · 3 Apr 2013 at 19:05

we've decided to shift LucasArts from an internal development to a licensing model

This is actually pretty good news - Lucasarts have done bugger all with the Star Wars IP in the last decade. Licensing out the IP will mean a lot more star wars games from a lot of different developers.

Some of them might even be good

ps3ud0 · 3 Apr 2013 at 19:08

Jesus

- I acually thought Disney might actually use LucasArts and make it make some decent (non-SW) games again. Such a shame, especially after getting rid the cancer that is GL. Guess it will just flog the SW license to the highest bidder and allow poor games to roll out again...

ps3ud0 :cool:

Gooner Leroy · 3 Apr 2013 at 19:10

I guess there never will be another x-wing or tie fighter game

Five.Stars · 3 Apr 2013 at 19:11

Looking forward to some EA Star Wars game then? :/

Sleepery · 3 Apr 2013 at 19:24

Don't know what you're all complaining about, Battlefront was mediocre, Force Unleashed looked good but was a really bland game to play. It's been a long time since the glory days of Jedi Outcast and the like.

NuggetUK · 3 Apr 2013 at 19:25

Gooner Leroy said:
I guess there never will be another x-wing or tie fighter game

Not strictly true but that series is well dead so it was unlikely anyway.

AWPC · 3 Apr 2013 at 19:30

RIP but no big surprise its been on borrowed time for most of the last few years they have a long history of cancelling titles which they had spent of a lot of money on like the next gen Indiana Jones game which looked a little like a movie ended up becoming a terrible PS2+Wii only cutdown release etc etc

gettothechopper · 3 Apr 2013 at 19:43

Im surprised they lasted this long

last good game I bought from them was KOTOR II in 2005 and that wasn't even finished properly

before that 2003 for kotor I ? JKII / Jedi academy in 2002/3 ?
Escape from monkey island in 2000?

they lived on rubbish consoley starwars games for years, and burnt what 8 years making MMOMPGMPMG rubbish? while sacking off their origins of adventure games and decent starwars stuff

licencing could be a good thing - monkey island to Ron Gilbert ? sequels to JK / xwing by fans who now work at other devs?
OR could end up with more rubbish lol

Flibster · 3 Apr 2013 at 19:43

IIRC, the last Lucasarts game I enjoyed was Empire at War.... That was a good few years ago.

Sad to see them go, but not overly sad.

Muzy · 3 Apr 2013 at 19:47

dam it, 1313 noooooooooooooooooo

PooBrain · 3 Apr 2013 at 20:02

Zhokel said:
I was looking forward to 1313 :<

And this seems like a given xD http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/

Spam it lmao!

Kohaashi · 3 Apr 2013 at 20:04

dbmzk1 said:
they were behind the butchering of Star Wars Galaxies so good riddance

platypus · 3 Apr 2013 at 20:05

Some awesome games from them, sad times.

Tunney · 3 Apr 2013 at 20:11

LucasArts will always have a warm place in my heart for all of the amazing games they put out when I was a kid (pretty much anything before 1996).

However, they've produced only a handful of decent games since. No great loss if Disney partners with talented producers.

EDIT: GIVE ME A SEQUEL TO TIE FIGHTER AND GIVE IT TO ME NOW!

dannyjo22 · 3 Apr 2013 at 20:13

Sleepery said:
Don't know what you're all complaining about, Battlefront was mediocre, Force Unleashed looked good but was a really bland game to play. It's been a long time since the glory days of Jedi Outcast and the like.

I loved battlefront, COD just ripped it off and moved it on. A proper Star wars skinned COD would outsell the figures the pap currently sells at each year.