New Star Wars game!!!!

[SFWanabe 0]

CLICK HERE FOOL!!!!

[RED 0]

Looks completely mediocre.

RED

[kegetys 2]

Too bad Lucasarts games are quite crappy nowadays

[honchoblack 2]

never saw a good made star wars game

[kegetys 2]

never saw a good made star wars game  

You missed Dark Forces and TIE Fighter then :P

[WhoCares 0]

Tie Fighter was quite nice at its time - ~15 years ago

Well, they have to start the promotion for the final Star Wars movie, coming on 19th May.

But it will suffer from the same problem as the newer games, I guess

[Acecombat 0]

What about Knights of the Old republic and its sequel Sith lords ?

[Winters 1]

never saw a good made star wars game  

You missed Dark Forces and TIE Fighter then :P

and Knights of the old republic as well.

[SFWanabe 0]

What about Knights of the Old republic and its sequel Sith lords ?

Those were good games plus Jedi Academy and the X-Wing and TIE Fighter series.

[honchoblack 2]

i didnt like knights of the old republic, it was a converted console game, and you could see it by the looks, and the adventure part was a disapointment for me

Dark Forces and TIE Fighter went by me unnoticed, wasnt into computers at the time

the only star wars game i liked, i rember was a strategic game, but i dont remember the name, and no i dont mean Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds, which was another horrible star wars clone

[SFWanabe 0]

Rebellion? I liked that one too. I admit some of the star wars games sucked but Knights of the old republic 1 and 2 were both great games.

[der bastler 0]

LucasArts is defenitely going down these days with Schorsch exploiting Star Wars. what about Maniac Mansion/Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island, Indiana Jones, Full Throttle? Cancelled or turned into some 3D action adventure crap...

XWing was good. Dark Forces too (small revolution back then with true 3D). Jedi Knight 1 and 2 had good stories. Rebel Assault was a killer app for CDROM (together with 7th Guest).

But nowadays? R.I.P.

[honchoblack 2]

SFWanabe -

Yes that is the one i ment, thank you for reminding

Star Wars Rebellion was fun, a friend of mine still has the original boxed version, he treasures it

i havent played Knights of the old Repulic 2 though, since i was dissapointed fromt he first part, i rather play roleplaygames from Black Isle, like the Baldurs Gate Saga

[SpongeBob 0]

This is what Lucas Arts has in store for the future:

Quote[/b] ]He's set in his ways, but he has had to make changes in his sprawling business empire, with its nearly 2,000 employees. It includes ILM, which does special effects for him and much of Hollywood; Skywalker Sound, used by scores of moviemakers; and Lucas Arts, his fast-growing video game company.

The divisions have always operated independently, until now. "We reorganized to try to get more control over the companies," says Lucas. "This is just saying that, 'Gee, we have a video game company and we have a video animation company. These two companies should actually be talking to each other because they're doing exactly the same work.' And they weren't talking to each other."

Now, they're going to do that. This summer, all the businesses will move in together, for the first time, on one of the most coveted pieces of real estate in America. Lucas' new headquarters is nearing completion at the old Presidio military base in San Francisco.

Link

Cant say if the games are going to be better if ILM and Skywalker Sound have a part in future games.

[der bastler 0]

Cant say if the games are going to be better if ILM and Skywalker Sound have a part in future games.

They did great games with lesser budget in the 90s. "Great" meaning story, characters, gameplay --things you can only buy with the right game designers. Designers which LucasArts lost. Tim Schafer left when they abandoned the adventure game genre. And Ron Gilbert...

http://grumpygamer.com/

...apparently just discovered the open source cross platform 2D graphics library libSDL. Yeeha!

[Monkey Lib Front 10]

never saw a good made star wars game  

what about lego star wars?

[CAPAIRMAN 0]

Maybe after the final film they'll stop lowering the movies into mediocrocy and let the series die. They probably won't, but one can always hope.

[SFWanabe 0]

SFWanabe -

Yes that is the one i ment, thank you for reminding

Star Wars Rebellion was fun, a friend of mine still has the original boxed version, he treasures it

i havent played Knights of the old Repulic 2 though, since i was dissapointed fromt he first part, i rather play roleplaygames from Black Isle, like the Baldurs Gate Saga

I still play X-Wing and TIE Fighter on my older computer

[SFWanabe 0]

never saw a good made star wars game

what about lego star wars?

OMG My 6 year old cousin who plays with Star Wars legos said it sucked.

[honchoblack 2]

even LEGO seems to keep up the sucky star wars game tadition

[Winters 1]

the Star Wars franchise jumped the shark with Return of the Jedi.

[korax 4]

Republic Commando was surprisingly good, but I'll have to agree that this game looks below average, even for a LucasArts title.

[pajama 0]

Man you guys are harsh!

Keep in mind games like Grim Fandango, Monkey Island, etc as good as they were, sold like crap.

The LucasArts adventure franchise is dead...

Both the development of sequals to Sam & Max, and Full Throttal were droped.

Who wants to cater to the grognards and such when you can make a GTA clone or another Star Wars FPS that well sell kabazajillion copies.

I well always charish my memories of playing DF: JK1 on the Zone. (w00t go Jedi High School!)

[der bastler 0]

Quote[/b] ]Keep in mind games like Grim Fandango, Monkey Island, etc as good as they were, sold like crap.

Really? I've in mind that these games were at the top of the charts back then. Sold like crap?

But that's exactly why the computer games industry is going down.

http://grumpygamer.com/1230269

http://crystaltips.typepad.com/wonderland/2005/03/burn_the_house_.html

Warren Spector:

Quote[/b] ]Wal-Mart drives development decisions now. When publishers minimise risk by kow-towing to the retailers, you have a serious problem. When every game has to either be a blockbuster or a student film, we got a real problem. For my end of the game business all of our efforts are going into reaching a mainstream audience who may well even not be interested in what we do! My first game cost me 273,000 dollars. My next one is BLAH millions. How many of you work on games that make money? 4 out of 5 games lose money, according to one pundit who may be lying, admittedly. Can we do any worse if we just trusted the creative folks entirely instead of the publishers?

[killagee 0]

Actually i got bored of OFP the other day, so i went and hired a game for our under utilised x-box. I got Star-Wars, Knights of the old republic... Brillirant! I love it. I have to finish it now so i have rented it for another 3 days

just my 2cents on the subject...