RIP Guybrush Threepwood

[CorNokZ]

http://kotaku.com/disney-shuts-down-lucasarts-468473749

 

[BloodOmen]

trying to care..... nope sorry just can't muster it.

 

[Gwadien]

Star Wars Battlefront 2 was so good on the Xbox

 

[Moriath]

damn huge corporations buying all up and scimming the cream leave the rest to rot

 

[TdC]

this will freak a mate of mine ooooout, wow.

 

[caLLous]

This is very sad, LucasArts were behind most of the games I loved growing up.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

...and none at all of recent years

 

[megadave]

Yeah it was basically dead already. Still a bit of a shame; i'm sure 2d point and click story games could have been popular on mobile devices and such.

 

[Chilly]

Companies don't survive. They had a good run, be grateful they gave us what they did.

 

[DaGaffer]

I genuinely can't think of a memorable LucasArts game since KoToR, which was what? Ten years ago? And I think even in their pomp their success rate was always pretty low.

 

[PLightstar]

Lucasarts had some great IP's with great looking games in development, but it looks like it became a company run by accountants without knowledge of what will sell and changes in managers, resulted in a company that couldn't release anything substantial and now Disney must have looked it and thought it was a waste of resources. Maybe we will see a continuation of the IP's under the Disney brand. Hopefully so, I would love to see another Battlefront, Jedi Knight, X-Wing or Commando game. Though part of me thinks it will never happen.

 

[Ormorof]

I genuinely can't think of a memorable LucasArts game since KoToR, which was what? Ten years ago? And I think even in their pomp their success rate was always pretty low.

and those kinds of games can still be developed they will just be published by someone else now

if anything it might actually get easier for the IP to be licenced out seeing as Disney are desperate to make some money on it!

 

[old.Tohtori]

Can't say i blame disney. LucasArts been trying to get out of the swamps for a decade(with little or no original crew left) so they decide to shut it down and spread the IPs to other developers. Might bring some good stuff out of it.

 

[Zede]

Lucas Arts were groundbreaking on the 8 bit's - The Eidilon, Koronis Rift, Rescue on Fractalas, and the super Ballblazer