LucasArts where are you?

[mrgoodbytes]

oh did I love your games. and then one day you decided that your only product was going to be star wars. a few of them were fun but seriously we are on like year 5 where EVERY game announced has been a star wars game. You've done a great job at turning yourself into a one trick pony.

Lets take a moment to look at your PC software lineup as listed on your website

Star Wars Best of PC
Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds™
Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds™: Clone Campaigns™
Star Wars Battlefront™
Star Wars Battlefront™ II
Star Wars Demolition®
Star Wars Empire At War™
Star Wars Galaxies®: An Empire Divided®
Star Wars Galaxies®: Episode III Rage of the Wookiees
Star Wars Galaxies®: Jump to Lightspeed™
Star Wars Republic Commando™
Star Wars Starfighter™
Star Wars® Jedi Knight: Dark Forces® II
Star Wars® Rebellion®
Star Wars® Jedi Knight® II: Jedi Outcast™
Star Wars® Jedi Knight®: Jedi Academy™
Star Wars® Knights of the Old Republic® II: The Sith Lords™
Star Wars® Racer™
Star Wars®: Yoda® Stories
Star Wars®: Battle For Naboo®
Star Wars®: Dark Forces®
Star Wars®: Episode I The Phantom Menace™
Star Wars®: Force Commander®
Star Wars®: Jedi Knight®: Mysteries of the Sith™
Star Wars®: Knights of the Old Republic™
Star Wars®: Rebel Assault®
Star Wars®: Rebel Assault® II - The Hidden Empire™
Star Wars®: Rogue Squadron®
Star Wars®: Shadows of the Empire®
Star Wars®: Super Return of the Jedi™
Star Wars®: TIE Fighter®
Star Wars®: TIE Fighter®: Defender of the Empire®
Star Wars®: X-Wing®
Star Wars®: X-Wing® Alliance™
Star Wars®: X-Wing® vs. TIE Fighter®
Star Wars®: X-Wing® vs. TIE Fighter®: Balance of Power Campaigns
Star Wars®: X-Wing®: B-Wing®
Star Wars®: X-Wing®: Imperial Pursuit®
Star Wars: Empire at War - Forces of Corruption
Afterlife®
Armed and Dangerous™
Ballblazer®
Ballblazer® Champions
Battlehawks 1942®
Do 335 Pfeil Tour Of Duty
Escape from Monkey Island®
Full Throttle®
Grim Fandango®
He-162 Volksjaeger Tour Of Duty
Indiana Jones® And His Desktop Adventures®
Indiana Jones® and The Fate of Atlantis™
Indiana Jones® and The Last Crusade™: The Action Game
Indiana Jones® and The Last Crusade™: The Graphic Adventure
Indiana Jones® and the Emperor's Tomb™
Indiana Jones® and the Infernal Machine®
LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
Loom®
Maniac Mansion®
Maniac Mansion® II: Day of the Tentacle®
Monkey Island® 2: LeChuck's Revenge®
Mortimer® and the Riddles of the Medallion™
Night Shift™
Outlaws®
P-38 Lightning Tour Of Duty
P-80 Shooting Star Tour Of Duty
PHM Pegasus™
Pipe Dream®
Rescue on Fractalus!®
Sam & Max Hit the Road®
Secret Weapons Over Normandy™
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe®
Star Wars Galaxies: Starter Kit
Star Wars Galaxies: The Total Experience
Star Wars Galaxies: The Complete Online Adventures
Star Wars Galaxies: Trials of Obi-Wan
Strike Fleet™
The Curse of Monkey Island®
The Dig®
The Secret of Monkey Island®
Their Finest Hour: The Battle Of Britain®
Thrillville: Off the Rails
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders®

gee, that sure is alot of Star Wars. and while there is a number of non star wars, almost every one of those is 10+ years old. Seriously, would it be that difficult for you to make a cell phone version of PipeDream or Ballblazer?? Or take some risk and try a MMORPG version of Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe.




I'm going to end my rant there.

[Mucx]

My Vote is for a revival of Maniac Mansion! Come on.

[arion]

new point and click adventure games..

kinda ironic that the company that made those games famous has abandoned them (yes i know sierra made point and click adventure games aswell but lucasarts games were far superior)

[General Chaos]

new point and click adventure games..

kinda ironic that the company that made those games famous has abandoned them (yes i know sierra made point and click adventure games aswell but lucasarts games were far superior)

On the whole I think there is some truth to that, but Quest for Glory was an excellent series, and the other quest games (King's, Space, Goblin) weren't bad either. Some of the earlier Police Quest games were decent as well.

Also, Westwood's Kyandia series deserves mention among the Sierra and Lucas Arts titles. I have to admit the final Kyrandia game was a bit... odd, but still a decent effort.

But hey, this is coming from a Sierra "fan boy." (I wonder how often that's been said before?)

[mrgoodbytes]

I understand that point and click are the dinosaur of game design. Not everyone has the patience to figure out the purpose of the rubber chicken with the pulley in the middle. Lucas could always take a risk and take a small investment into the idea eposodic gaming.

Lucas was very much the Wii of the point and click world, very casual gamer friendly. I think Zak and maybe Indy were the only point and click where you could actually die.

Sierra on the other hand... you forget a comma, you better be swapping in side B of Disk 7 to reload your save file. They were downright brutal. I was a big fan of the whole series but there is no way I would ever sit through most of those games again.

Kyandia is on my revisit list. I picked those games up long after they were in their prime and rushed through them, and only played throught them once.

sorry had to rant about that as I think Lucas has done a solid job of throwing their company away and I dont care what their balance sheet says.

[fastbilly1]

Oh you can die quite a bit in Steel Sky.

[Funk, E]

Beneath a Steel Sky isn't LucasArts.

[Randy_Marsh]

Kings Quest VI > everything

[timewarpgamer]

I, too, miss the era when LucasArts playing a more active role in video game development. While LucasArts was particularly known for its licensed titles, I feel the need to draw attention to a lesser-known LucasArts creation: Loom. While it appeared on the PC, I first experienced this incredible adventure game through the TurboDuo. Check it out here: http://www.timewarpgamer.com/pages/revi ... /loom.html

For those not familiar, Loom is an alternate take on the opera Swan Lake. It also represents a twist on the classic adventure genre. Rather than gather items, you gather songs (spells). Attaining the necessary spells and using them at the right time is what determines your success.

On top of all the other qualities that make Loom so amazing, the music is FANTASTIC. I can only hope that it is released for the Wii Virtual Console.

[Mozgus]

I'm really not one for point and click adventure, because it always seems to boil down to endless mixing and matching of random items to solve puzzles, always with ridiculous solutions. Things that no logical person would have ever been able to figure out the right way. But I did beat Grim Fandango with a FAQ and loved it.