Topic: Disney closes Lucasarts

[idolminds]

End of an era.

[Xessive]

Here's hoping all the good people of Lucasarts find better jobs in better places.

[K-man]

[PyroMenace]

So no more Star Wars 1313 

[Quemaqua]

Meh. Did they do anything good in the last while? I honestly don't know.

[idolminds]

Not really. It sounds like they are closing internal development and will be farming the IPs out to others, which honestly is probably a good thing.

[MysterD]

Well, this news sucks...

When is Grim Fandango, Maniac Mansion, and Day of the Tentacle getting a re-release on some digital store like Steam, GOG, Gamersgate, Origin, etc?

[Pugnate]

I don't know why the internet is over reacting to this.

[K-man]

Well, this news sucks...

When is Grim Fandango, Maniac Mansion, and Day of the Tentacle getting a re-release on some digital store like Steam, GOG, Gamersgate, Origin, etc?

Probably a lot sooner now than it would have been.

I don't know why the internet is over reacting to this.

Nostalgia.

[Xessive]

And, y'know, it's the internet..

[K-man]

It is sad, though.  Lucasarts was one of THE premier PC developers when I first got my PC.  Their adventure games set a gold standard.

I hate to see it end like it did, but maybe we'll finally get a proper reissue of Grim Fandango.  My burned copy crashes, so I've never been able to play through it.  And I'm certainly not keen on paying ebay prices.

[Cobra951]

I don't know why the internet is over reacting to this.

1 - What K-man said
2 - Disney swallowed Lucas stuff, killed LucasArts a few months later.  Disney, already reviled in some circles, is now the devil to some.

[Pugnate]

Disney took them off of life-support after they had already been clinically dead for years. I did love Lucas Arts though. Sadly, this wasn't the Lucas Arts I loved. Perhaps only in name it was.

[MysterD]

EGMNow -> Jedi OutCast and Jedi Academy Source Code released by Raven.

If you're looking for the actual Source Code, here you go:
Jedi Academy Source Code.
Jedi Outcast Source Code.

[K-man]

Pug, I think we're basically getting to the age where a lot of things from our childhood have either been re-imagined or just aren't what they used to be.  It seems like every other day we're losing something "pop culture" from our childhood, be it our favorite magazine, a reboot of a cartoon we loved, a game studio closing down. 

It sucks, but what are you going to do?  Nostalgia sure is a son of a bitch sometimes.

[iPPi]

Aside from the Jedi Knight series and the old school adventure games, I don't think I played many LucasArts games.  A lot of it was hit and miss.  They definitely have a decent library of classics, but I don't think anyone will actually miss them in the long run especially since none of their recent releases were any good.

[scottws]

At least LucasArts sort of just disappeared before being killed off.  This unlike my beloved Sierra On-Line which made and published many of my favorite PC games from my childhood and then became just a really shitty publisher for a long time before finally being euthanized.