The Last Months of Lucasarts: Insight into what the studio was doing (New gameplay videos of what co
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[quote]Still, LucasArts intended to announce Star Wars: First Assault as an XBLA title in late September of 2012. They planned to release the game this spring. But hours before the scheduled announcement, word came down that it was on hold.
“We just got the worst case of blue balls,” said a source. “We had no idea what was going on.” - Paul Meegan, Lucasarts President
A couple months later, Disney announced that they had purchased LucasFilm and all of its subsidiaries, including LucasArts. That's when staff started to worry about their future there. "Everything Disney would tell us would be, 'business as usual, business as usual,'" a source said. "We lost any transparency we had to the executive level."[/quote]
[quote]“[There’s] a very vocal audience that's clamoring for Battlefront III,” said a source. “We were hoping to eventually give it to them.”
But over the past few months, morale has been low at LucasArts. Due to the freeze on all hiring and game announcements, staff at the company had no idea whether their games would ever actually come out.
[b]In January, a month after the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, Disney’s Iger came out and said they would be taking a close look at the violence in their video games.[/b][/quote]
[quote]In the video, you can see all sorts of vehicle combat: the player, looking from a first-person perspective, zips around in X-Wings and AT-AT Walkers while shooting down TIE Fighters and other Star Wars-y vehicles. The art isn't final, but the combat looks very cool: one section, for example, shows multiple players riding on hoverbikes and shooting lasers at everything in their paths.[/quote]
Video in the source (Actually looks really good.....)
[url]http://kotaku.com/the-last-months-of-lucasarts-472038151[/url]
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[b]In January, a month after the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, Disney’s Iger came out and said they would be taking a close look at the violence in their video games.[/b][/QUOTE]
oh jesus
God, watching this is like watching your dog getting shot
That gameplay looks so fun even in an early state. Disney is fucking retarded, a Battlefront 3 would have sold like hotcakes.
But battlefront was the best fucking game fuck disney they just purchases lucasarts and got rid of it why the hell would they so that the fucking ASSHOLES
Battlefront was so fucking amazing. Taking down AT-ATs and everything. Disney are nothing short of idiots.
I had a feeling this had to with gun violence.
[B][I][U]ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS[/U][/I][/B]
Sounds like we need a petition to get them to fix this shit
Wow, that's like dangling a fat steak in front of a hungry child and then throwing it in the bin
i don't dare to think of what the new star wars movies will be like if these morons killed off battlefront 3 because of gun violence!
I'm so goddamn pissed right now, fuck this industry
I played battlefront 1 and 2 on my PS2 years ago and had so much fun.
I loved those games I even bought Star Wars battlefront renegade squadron for the PSP just so I could play another battlefront game and I am so pissed right now.
Just goes to show: When the company you work for gets bought out by a corporate leviathan, update your resume and start looking for another job. "Business as usual" almost invariably means "We're not telling you shit because all your jobs will be gone in a few weeks".
[QUOTE=Killer900;40233799]I'm so goddamn pissed right now, fuck this [b]industry[/b][/QUOTE]
There's the problem.
[QUOTE=GreenLeaf;40233783]i don't dare to think of what the new star wars movies will be like if these morons killed off battlefront 3 because of gun violence![/QUOTE]
obviously you haven't been keeping up with the news. only violence in *Video Games* can cause real life violence. not movies, television, literature, comic books or lack of medical assistance with mental health. the only reason anything violent has ever happened in the history of the universe is because of violent video games.
FUCK. EVERYTHING.
[QUOTE=Tudd;40233481][B]In January, a month after the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, Disney’s Iger came out and said they would be taking a close look at the violence in their video games.[/B][/QUOTE]
BULLSHIT. FUCK THAT. THAT BETTER BE SOME ELABORATE JOKE.
Watching the video made me want to cry.
I'm really annoyed with this. Everything i've seen of Battlefront 3 has looked awesome, even though it wasn't finished. First Assault and 1313 also looked great, it seemed like we would get a more mature Star Wars game. Now it seems highly unlikely we will ever get anything like them.
[QUOTE=Solomon;40233733]Sounds like we need a petition to get them to fix this shit[/QUOTE]
Like that would work on them or any company.
Alright, that all looked pretty good.
But what has LucasArts done in the past few years? Like, what memorable games has it developed?
They could fucking release it as is and I'd pay $50 for it.
[QUOTE=Zuimzado;40234618]Alright, that all looked pretty good.
But what has LucasArts done in the past few years? Like, what memorable games has it developed?[/QUOTE]
Even if they did not have any amazing games recently, Star Wars Battlefront 3 would have had amazing sells. 1313 looked like it was a really decent game too.
[quote]Disney’s Iger came out and said they would be taking a close look at the violence in their video games.[/quote]
I can't wait for Kinect Star Wars '13!
MY GOD.
The fucking air battles in the end of that video...
Fucking disney.
what engine is it?
[QUOTE=CommanderPT;40233656]Taking down AT-ATs and everything.[/QUOTE]
First game I remember playing that let you do that without a Snowspeeder.
So let me get this straight
they cancelled the successor to Battlefront 2
and laid off dozens of people
because of an outdated platitude that all games should be for kids and violent video games cause people to become murderers
and because the Newtown shooter happened to play video games on his spare time
despite there being dozens of studies that can barely prove that video games even cause aggression in most sane people
fuck
right
off
Sigh...
rest in peace
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