The Imperial Shipyards
Imperial Entertainment TV and Movies => Gaming Corner => Topic started by: Tamer on April 03, 2013, 05:17:51 PM
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolpinchefsky/2013/04/04/the-mouse-cleans-house-disney-shuts-down-lucasarts/
Well it looks like 150 employees were let go from LA today with them announcing cancellations of 1313 and another game that I am forgetting.
My wife coined my feelings, "Didn't they buy it to actually do something with it?"
As Han would say, I have a bad feeling about this. I guess we knew there would be chanes, but wow. This was the company that gave us the X-Wing Games and Republic Commando!
RIP Lucasarts, rest in peace.
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And so the culling continues. First, The Clone Wars. Now LucasArts. Any guesses on what's next?
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do they now own ILM?
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do they now own ILM?
god i hope not ! it smells like all they wanted was the license and everything else is surplus to requirements,wonder how those people at LucasArts and Lucas Animation are feeling about "Uncle George" now? if it was me i would be feeling damn well betrayed at the moment...
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And so the culling continues. First, The Clone Wars. Now LucasArts. Any guesses on what's next?
I hate to say it but thought of Industrial Light and Magic although I am thinking now they might be independent. Good lord I hope so. I wonder if George know about any of this before he sold?
do they now own ILM?
Not sure, but if they do oh lord!
do they now own ILM?
god i hope not ! it smells like all they wanted was the license and everything else is surplus to requirements,wonder how those people at LucasArts and Lucas Animation are feeling about "Uncle George" now? if it was me i would be feeling damn well betrayed at the moment...
I bet everyone at any Lucasfilm Division is on edge now. I am reminded of the Robocop movies with their rather sarcastic take on corporate America and wow does what Disney is doing so much remind me of that.
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i bet Bob Iger laid it on thick .. reckon at this rate Ep7 will be a sodding musical!! can see it now Han Solo with a singing mini Rancor on his shoulder ...YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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i bet Bob Iger laid it on thick .. reckon at this rate Ep7 will be a sodding musical!! can see it now Han Solo with a singing mini Rancor on his shoulder ...YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just am trying to keep the Avengers movie and how great that was in the back of my head, but do agree Jay the thought of Star Wars going rate at G gives me the shudders.
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As i said in the LG.de forum: Disney is going to kill the whole Star Wars Franchise and burns down everything around it. First CW, now LA, whats next? ILM? THX?
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apparently there have been layoffs at ILM!! as well.......
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All i can say is NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! Lucasarts! 1313!!! NOOOOOO. DISNEY YOU SUCK!
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Well, here goes...
My hope is that this is a business restructuring. That people are being released and divisions shut down so Disney can reorganize these Lucas divisions into Disney divisions. Then it will all be under one Corporation Umbrella instead of having Disney, Lucas Arts, Lucas Annimation, etc...
The realist in me say Disney may be screwing it all up and having the same affect on Star Wars that they have on all child actors that come from Disney. Episode 7, could honestly be a sham. It could simply be a way of giving fans something to drool about for 20 years and never actually producing a single thing. It was nearly 20+ years between the 1st and 2nd trilogies. It is possible they want to do the same thing.
Those are my thoughts. I am possibly TOTALLY wrong. Just my 2 cents.
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Well Mungo, I find a lot of your points I agree with.
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I'm not positive, but I think ILM is a separate entity now with minimal ties to Lucasfilm. ILM is so widely used in cinema that there'd be no way to replace it. It's used in almost any film these days in ways we can't even comprehend. Then again, what do I know. Still, it's large and widespread enough, I don't know what other entity out there can fill that void if it becomes true. I don't even think Disney has the capabilities to produce what ILM does. Perhaps the layoffs that Jay was talking about are strictly the Lucasfilm extension of the corporation. I do find it rather curious that they paid almost the same for Star Wars as they did for Marvel, yet they barely touched Marvel licensees at all. However, they seem to be shuttering the many factions of Lucasfilm as if they're a disease. And sadly, no matter how much we grumble and groan, there's not one single thing we can do about any of it. Hell, Hasbro gave us a chance to ask them questions and give our opinions weeky (then tri-weekly, then monthly, then bi-monthly, then not at all) and we couldn't even get through to them. Sad, but true...
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Yes ILM is... You think Speilberg is going to let Disney **** up his 3D dino creators for JP4... No...
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With all this negativity about what Disney is doing with Lucas Arts, I have one thing to say...
Run, J.J., Run!!! Just stick with Star Trek.
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Gee, and here I thought they bought it to do something with it.
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I've been noticing lately in the book stores here that any and all Star Wars novels seem to be getting more and more sparse and they're not re-stocking titles. I'm wondering if the deal with Del Rey Books is another casualty in the Disney purchase???? This would suck as I've been trying to collect all of the SW books according to the time line in the front of the books, and of course I don't have every title as of yet.
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Man, some of my all time favourite games came from that studio...
Maniac Mansion
Zak Mckraken and the Alien Mindbenders
Indiana Jones and the last Crusade (adventure)
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
X-Wing
Dark forces 1,2 &3
Shadows Of The Empire
Rogue Squadron
Episode One racer
Battlefront
Republic Commando
Luckily I still own playable copies of all of them...
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Gee, and here I thought they bought it to do something with it.
Those were the first words out of my wife's mouth!
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To be frank I think that LucasArts have dried up creatively of late. After all of the hype surrounding the latest KOTR I found the game repetitive and uninspiring, sure the screenshots and environments look stunning, but there was none of the atmosphere that games like Dark Forces seemed to evoke. The Force Unleashed games are good fun but they would have been better in 1st person, in my opinion.
LucasArts are just as guilty as everyone else. while I understand that developers need to recoup the large development costs of games, in doing so they stifle creativity and originality.
I can't say I'll miss LucasArts in their present form. With the potential that the next generation of consoles will bring whoever is responsible for producing Star Wars games has a great opportunity to start afresh and to bring something new and exciting to the millions of fans just waiting to spend their hard earned cash.
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Jules I wondered how you felt about this. I do agree this company hadn't turned out something as cool as the X-Wing Flight Sim games for years.
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Dear lord EA games is going to be churning Star Wars games.....if you thought lucas arts was stale and uncreative, get ready for incomplete games you have to pay for and the down loadable content you will have to pay on top of it to get a decent complete game.
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Good news came in a couple days ago, six years after Disney shut down LucasArts...
Multiple sources report that Disney is actively looking for game developers to work on new Star Wars games - and: They bring back Lucasfilm Games!
https://www.gamepur.com/news/39567-disney-brings-back-lucasfilm-gaming.html
Reports started airing on March 19, 2019 (US Gamer). The German GameStar as well as Gamepur posted the news a day later. Today, on March 21, 2019, a friend of mine made me aware of this interesting turn of events...
Will EA loose their license? Is Disney going back to the roots? What do you think about these news? Let us know in the comment section below!
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Dear lord EA games is going to be churning Star Wars games.....if you thought lucas arts was stale and uncreative, get ready for incomplete games you have to pay for and the down loadable content you will have to pay on top of it to get a decent complete game.
Your prediction was 100% correct!
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Now that is great news. Maybe we will see more than a couple games every decade now too.
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LOL! I hope so, too! ;D
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On the topic of shutting down... looks like Galaxy's Edge isn't doing so hot.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-parks-veteran-steps-down-sluggish-star-wars-land-attendance-1242748
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Uh oh, that ain't good.
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Uh oh, that ain't good.
I think it's very telling of modern star wars. I'm seeing less and less on the shelves all the time. Figures, games, books, comics...and I'm not seeing replenishment going on. It's very sad to see. I feel things are as divided as ever. The fan base is more fractured than the prequel era. I feel sales are representing this all too well. Star Wars should never be a mediocre brand.
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It was a really bad rollout. They basically have one attraction. Only one person out of six can be the pilot, which is lame unless you take your kids, and somehow only one wants to be the pilot. That is if strangers let your kid be the pilot. The other attraction, that's supposed to be better isn't finished. The first week or so, you were only allowed to stay for a few hours, before they escort you away. I guess to combat the lines. It was just bad. I doubt I'd ever go, but if I did, I'd wait until the new main attraction is operational. Common sense.
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The plot thickens
https://www.cnet.com/news/disney-ceo-star-wars-creator-george-lucas-felt-betrayed-by-sequel-approach/
George Lucas got bamboozled
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If George Lucas thought a Star Wars theme park would make money, he would have done it 35 years ago. He sold out to Disney because he was done and Disney was the only ones with pockets deep enough to buy him out. The OT characters are aged, and Carrie is dead now, how much longer could GL hold on. He was done making movies, after the backlash from the prequels, despite his "plans". I actually applaud Disney for trying instead of just rolling over like George did.