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Disney has bought Lucasfilm/Lucasarts
Disney hardly makes games these days.
They have already said they only want to do social and mobile games going forward.
If any games are made it won’t be by Lucasarts. I think they will licence out the IP to other studios to make games.
An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and looks and sounds beautiful.
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Excactly, Lucien21! That why i said “While its true that LucasArts division’s has needed a good leadership for a loong time, I dont see it coming from Disney either.” too.
That said - I’d hope Star Wars 1313 will see the day, even if it will be swan song of LucasArts. It could be something exceptional, considering ILM guys are giving a hand.
I’m going to echo a lot of sentiments on this. First off LucasArts hasn’t done much of anything for me in like 10 years. We did manage to get a licensed Monkey Island game from Telltale and the special editions, but I wasn’t holding my breath for any new uses of their old IP’s. Pretty much the only thing good they could have done was let their games be released on gog, which wouldn’t even matter to me because I own them already, but I know it would make a lot of people happy.
In terms of LucasFilm, the Star Wars films pretty much can’t be ruined any further. I have the original non-special edition trilogy on VHS and that’s all I need. (Okay, I have the phantom menace and attack of the clones but I try to forget about their existence). So whatever Disney does with the IP doesn’t matter, you can’t corrupt it any further. The only thing I was looking forward to from LucasFilm was the release of Willow on Blu-Ray and I can’t see Disney getting in the way of that.
They should really make some decent new Indiana Jones films after the whole Crystal Skull fiasco. That’s one franchise that I felt was never exploited to its full potential.
They should go with that script that Frank Darabont had written (which both Ford and Spielberg were raving about) that got shot down by Lucas who “wanted to write the script himself”.
Take that script, and act like Crystal Skull never happened. That’d work for me…
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I have the original non-special edition trilogy on VHS and that’s all I need.
Well a few people are optimistic that Disney may finally release the original trilogy on bluray (with none of the special edition stuff shoehorned in). Right now the only way to watch those in HD is Harmy’s Despecialized Edition, a fan version that used the Special Edition version and removed everything that wasn’t in the original.
I have the original non-special edition trilogy on VHS and that’s all I need.
Well a few people are optimistic that Disney may finally release the original trilogy on bluray (with none of the special edition stuff shoehorned in). Right now the only way to watch those in HD is Harmy’s Despecialized Edition, a fan version that used the Special Edition version and removed everything that wasn’t in the original.
Unlikely, as Fox retains all distribution rights for those films.
I have the original non-special edition trilogy on VHS and that’s all I need.
Well a few people are optimistic that Disney may finally release the original trilogy on bluray (with none of the special edition stuff shoehorned in). Right now the only way to watch those in HD is Harmy’s Despecialized Edition, a fan version that used the Special Edition version and removed everything that wasn’t in the original.
Unlikely, as Fox retains all distribution rights for those films.
But Lucas himself was the one who refused to consider releasing the original trilogy on HD media, and not for commercial reasons. If it makes commercial sense to remaster the originals as they were then Fox might do it now that Lucas can’t veto such a release.
I think this could actually turn up to be good. I actually like Disney, they made great movies from every company they bought so far (have you forgotten they own Pixar and Marvel too). And what has Lucas done in the past few years?
But it all depends on how willing Disney is to take up LucasArts earlier projects. I for once would love to see the Monkey Island series made into animated movies. 
For now they seem only interested in Star Wars, so we can only hope. 
I don’t think they’ll make any more adventure games, though they might give licenses to other companies to make remakes/sequels to classic LucasArts games.
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Apparently, George Lucas has donated the $4 billion to charity! 
Apparently, George Lucas has donated the $4 billion to charity!
He said he plans to. Which charities and when have yet to be seen. Until then he’s not yet a saint. 
I have the original non-special edition trilogy on VHS and that’s all I need.
Well a few people are optimistic that Disney may finally release the original trilogy on bluray (with none of the special edition stuff shoehorned in). Right now the only way to watch those in HD is Harmy’s Despecialized Edition, a fan version that used the Special Edition version and removed everything that wasn’t in the original.
Unlikely, as Fox retains all distribution rights for those films.
But Lucas himself was the one who refused to consider releasing the original trilogy on HD media, and not for commercial reasons. If it makes commercial sense to remaster the originals as they were then Fox might do it now that Lucas can’t veto such a release.
Actually, my understanding was that the agreement with Fox is unchanged by this, and that agreement precludes doing so without Lucas’ permission.
However, my understanding could well be wrong. It would be nice. I’ve seen a few reports addressing this very issue, saying don’t get your hopes up, but I’ve no way to evaluate their accuracy.
Sounds like Disney’s gonna make Lucasarts focus on Social/Mobile games now… and I thought it couldn’t get worse. Ah well.
Sounds like Disney’s gonna make Lucasarts focus on Social/Mobile games now… and I thought it couldn’t get worse. Ah well.
It hasn’t been claimed as a main focused but an added focus - and it’s not necessarily LucasArts that will be making these games. They just want a bunch of Star Wars games for the mobile and social platforms.
He said he plans to. Which charities and when have yet to be seen. Until then he’s not yet a saint.
Actually, looking through this article again, you’re right - he hasn’t yet. He’s either aiming to donate to his philanthropic efforts - be it in order to create a new foundation for the improvement of the U.S. education system or towards one of the organizations he has donated to in recent years. Those include the Film Foundation, Stand Up To Cancer, Make-A-Wish, and Edutopia (which he is the chairman for).
Seems we will have to get used to characters like Duck Vader (not to mention adventure games like Mickey Island)....
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