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Offline zedhatch

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Re: Disney shuts down Lucasarts!
« Reply #15 on: April 04, 2013, 10:09:12 PM »
Gee, and here I thought they bought it to do something with it. 
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Re: Disney shuts down Lucasarts!
« Reply #16 on: April 05, 2013, 12:24:38 AM »
I've been noticing lately in the book stores here that any and all Star Wars novels seem to be getting more and more sparse and they're not re-stocking titles. I'm wondering if the deal with Del Rey Books is another casualty in the Disney purchase???? This would suck as I've been trying to collect all of the SW books according to the time line in the front of the books, and of course I don't have every title as of yet.
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Re: Disney shuts down Lucasarts!
« Reply #17 on: April 05, 2013, 02:00:27 AM »
Man,  some of my all time favourite games came from that studio...

Maniac Mansion
Zak Mckraken and the Alien Mindbenders
Indiana Jones and the last Crusade (adventure)
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
X-Wing
Dark forces 1,2 &3
Shadows Of The Empire
Rogue Squadron
Episode One racer
Battlefront
Republic Commando

Luckily I still own playable copies of all of them...
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Re: Disney shuts down Lucasarts!
« Reply #18 on: April 05, 2013, 02:23:42 AM »
Quote from: zedhatch on April 04, 2013, 10:09:12 PM
Gee, and here I thought they bought it to do something with it. 

Those were the first words out of my wife's mouth!
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Re: Disney shuts down Lucasarts!
« Reply #19 on: April 07, 2013, 11:12:48 PM »
To be frank I think that LucasArts have dried up creatively of late. After all of the hype surrounding the latest KOTR I found the game repetitive and uninspiring, sure the screenshots and environments look stunning, but there was none of the atmosphere that games like Dark Forces seemed to evoke. The Force Unleashed  games are good fun but they would have been better in 1st person, in my  opinion.

LucasArts are just as guilty as everyone else. while I understand that developers need to recoup the large development costs of games, in doing so they stifle creativity and originality. 

I can't say I'll miss LucasArts in their present form. With the potential that the next generation of consoles will bring whoever is responsible for producing Star Wars games has a great opportunity to start afresh and to bring something new and exciting to the millions of fans just waiting to spend their hard earned cash.

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Re: Disney shuts down Lucasarts!
« Reply #20 on: April 08, 2013, 01:41:46 PM »
Jules I wondered how you felt about this. I do agree this company hadn't turned out something as cool as the X-Wing Flight Sim games for years.
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Re: Disney shuts down Lucasarts!
« Reply #21 on: May 19, 2013, 12:06:07 PM »
Dear lord EA games is going to be churning Star Wars games.....if you thought lucas arts was stale and uncreative, get ready for incomplete games you have to pay for and the down loadable content you will have to pay on top of it to get a decent complete game.
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Re: Disney shuts down Lucasarts!
« Reply #22 on: March 21, 2019, 02:06:29 AM »
Good news came in a couple days ago, six years after Disney shut down LucasArts...


Multiple sources report that Disney is actively looking for game developers to work on new Star Wars games - and: They bring back Lucasfilm Games!


https://www.gamepur.com/news/39567-disney-brings-back-lucasfilm-gaming.html


Reports started airing on March 19, 2019 (US Gamer). The German GameStar as well as Gamepur posted the news a day later. Today, on March 21, 2019, a friend of mine made me aware of this interesting turn of events...

Will EA loose their license? Is Disney going back to the roots? What do you think about these news? Let us know in the comment section below!

- Philipp
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Re: Disney shuts down Lucasarts!
« Reply #23 on: March 21, 2019, 02:07:58 AM »
Quote from: dax415 on May 19, 2013, 12:06:07 PM
Dear lord EA games is going to be churning Star Wars games.....if you thought lucas arts was stale and uncreative, get ready for incomplete games you have to pay for and the down loadable content you will have to pay on top of it to get a decent complete game.


Your prediction was 100% correct!
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Re: Disney shuts down Lucasarts!
« Reply #24 on: March 21, 2019, 02:22:59 AM »
Now that is great news. Maybe we will see more than a couple games every decade now too.
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Re: Disney shuts down Lucasarts!
« Reply #25 on: March 21, 2019, 02:43:58 AM »
LOL! I hope so, too!  ;D
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Re: Disney shuts down Lucasarts!
« Reply #26 on: September 23, 2019, 11:00:25 PM »
On the topic of shutting down... looks like Galaxy's Edge isn't doing so hot.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-parks-veteran-steps-down-sluggish-star-wars-land-attendance-1242748
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Re: Disney shuts down Lucasarts!
« Reply #27 on: September 24, 2019, 03:12:05 AM »
Uh oh, that ain't good.
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Re: Disney shuts down Lucasarts!
« Reply #28 on: September 24, 2019, 06:02:02 AM »
Quote from: Tamer on September 24, 2019, 03:12:05 AM
Uh oh, that ain't good.

I think it's very telling of modern star wars. I'm seeing less and less on the shelves all the time. Figures, games, books, comics...and I'm not seeing replenishment going on. It's very sad to see. I feel things are as divided as ever. The fan base is more fractured than the prequel era. I feel sales are representing this all too well. Star Wars should never be a mediocre brand.
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Re: Disney shuts down Lucasarts!
« Reply #29 on: September 24, 2019, 08:21:33 AM »
It was a really bad rollout. They basically have one attraction. Only one person out of six can be the pilot, which is lame unless you take your kids, and somehow only one wants to be the pilot. That is if strangers let your kid be the pilot. The other attraction, that's supposed to be better isn't finished. The first week or so, you were only allowed to stay for a few hours, before they escort you away. I guess to combat the lines. It was just bad. I doubt I'd ever go, but if I did, I'd wait until the new main attraction is operational. Common sense.
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