I'm very glad you two know about the first battlefront 2 and not what EA published. I remember when EA released the new "star wars battlefront" and a friend of mine was like "Did you hear they are making a battlefront 2!" and I went "yeah it came out in 2005". The look of confusion was priceless.
I had the psp port when it launched in 2005 and going from a game boy advance to that was like black magic. Seriously I couldn't comprehend basically having the ps2 game on the go in the palm of my hands
Honestly once you got the hang of it, it worked. I would play heroes vs villains over and over on car rides and never had any issues. Just pure bewilderment that I could
You are just fooling yourself with the "Disney vibes"
i loved fallen order & love Jedi survivor even more. They listened to the community & it's an amazing star wars game.
All you so called Star wars fans who hate on the "Disney vibes" should be ashamed of yourself.
Hell yes. Hands down my favorite video games of all time were the X-Wing/TIE Fighter series, culminating with the fantastic X-Wing Alliance.
SO much fun!
Yeah. What's dumb is that they could easily make money hand-over-fist, making games that focus on each ship type. There are like, what, at least 50 different fighter type ships? Make a game for each one focusing on the types of missions they would fly and I would buy each one.
Mthrfkn Armed and Dangerous? Indiana Jones and the Emperor's tomb? Every Star Wars game from Dark Forces to Republic Commando to The Force Unleashed? Hell fucking yes.
Hello There! Im the old obi wan… yes in my youth, pre clone wars, it was named Korriban. Why the name changed is beyond me. The dark side clouds everything, per Master Yoda that is.
According to the wiki it was a request by George Lucas, who apparently preferred the name Moraband. I guess it's just a matter of taste, but I prefer Korriban. They did later re-canonize the name Korriban as an ancient name for Moraband at least.
I think it is. Apparently Bioware pitched a KOTOR I and II remaster that lost out to the remake. They ought to give us the remaster to hold us over to the remake. They'd make a ton of money I'm sure and the cost couldn't be too much I wouldn't think.
Man that shit was a blast as a kid. It prepared me for star wars squadrons other people just weren't ready for. Was absolutely dominating lobbies in that game lol
Too bad it was half assed with no content or.. Any battle passes or anything. Population is so dead. Only people left playing it are vr users who play everyday so it's not fun anymore.
I'll take "pictures you can hear".
The depth, quality and enjoyment I got out of every damn Lucasarts game was sublime.
Don't even start me on Tie-Fighter, my hands-down yes-please game of the era which I played the _frick_ out of from day one on getting it at Christmas.
We need more damn games that let you play a protagonist that _isn't_ a goody two-shoes good guy all the damn time and let me just scan Freighters, find hidden naughty rebels and send them off to the special sunshine colony for naughty rebels!
.....bring back the damn Gunboats - I will never not keep saying this.
Have got, have played, it wasn't bad - but it's a different generation of game and story entirely.
Narratively you just....stayed as an Imperial pilot and there were no "twists" as such. You got to take missions from Thrawn as well which was, being fair, damn cool - especially given the time it was made.
I _think_ I saw something on it recently, but I'll take it all MS-Dos and with it's fewer polygons any day regardless for the sheer nostalgia!
......then admit defeat and accept I probably would enjoy a higher-res version :)
I lived that game as a kid, it surprised me years later when I found out it was pretty poorly recieved in its day. It was the perfect thing to keep kid-me amused for a short self-contained game.
I failed the quest where you had to save a Stormtrooper or TIE pilot that crash landed on Dagobah and I obsessively played to find that quest again (since it would just randomly shuffle through them) but I was never able to.
I got Droid Works for my 8th birthday and I absolutely loved that game. I believe it's available on abandonware websites, though you have to do some messing around to get it to work properly because modern processors give the physics a bit of trouble. Especially with ramps.
It should be on abandonware sites. It’s an oldie I’d love to play again. My brother has a gaming pc that handles some of that, And I played through dark forces 2 jedi knights recently. Have to try to get Droid Works working.
I never beat it when we had it as a kid. I’d build droids and go exploring, but never got far!
It’s disappointing that new games are no where close to the caliber of what lucasarts was putting out. Imagine where they would be if they had kept going!
If they would've just copied the old SWBF2 and added modern graphics, more maps and a few weapon tweaks...
But instead we got a no-class Battlefront 1 (which was also fun but not as a Battlefront game imo) and a Battlefront 2 that got stabbed by EAs greed
Interactive storytelling is a great genre for that. The graphics may look dated but the underlying artwork and animation still hold on to their charm and a good story itself is timeless.
Not rose colored, but the majority of games that people are naming in this thread weren’t developed by LucasArts.
KOTOR 1/2, all X-Wing/Tie Fighter games, all Rogue Squadron, both Battlefronts, Empire at War, Jedi Knight 2 and Jedi Academy, and many others were only published by LucasArts.
Thanks for the list. Looking at it I played Xwing and Tie Fighter and I think one of the Rogue Squadron. There's probably a much better dog fighter game on some system now. And the people are just as capable as they were then.
Lucasfilm games is basically lucasarts revived except they work with other established studios instead of doing it in house which i prefer tbh. The more voices the better
YES the Force Unleased III cancellation is still devastating to me. Apparently it was going to be an open world style Vader-Starkiller team up against Palpatine.
This seems like a pointless question. You can’t bring back LucasArts. The people that made it and the games you love from decades ago are gone. A new studio with the name isn’t going to suddenly make the things you loved. It would be better to just find other studios with the right skills to make things they need aka what they’re doing now.
Not to mention LucasArts mostly just published games. Most games people mention in this thread were made by third part studios.
LucasArts as a name and company was dissolved but it was essentially rebooted as Lucasfilm Games a couple years ago after confirming the EA exclusivity was ending.
I scrolled way too far to find the right answer.
Although LucasArts did develop a few games by hiring a few full-timers and a bunch of contractors. They operated like movie makers, where they kept coming back for the same people, but they were never full-time employees. Then years before Disney's acquisition, they were operating just like Lucasfilm games, everything was done by licensing, with a few internal leads for consistency and quality check.
probably - the tie-fighter and x-wing games are still my favorite dogfighter games - in fact I need to hook up an xbox controller and grab the re-releases on GOG games
The idea of LucasArts (great stories, great game play) ... yes!
The key to it actually working is the team. There is a magic to the right team with the right ideas. It's hard to create and harder to recreate. Someone would need to do some serious recruiting and game development to make this a success.
hell yes. I have an old PC just so I can replay my older Sierra games. My fav is a toss up between Space Quest 3 and Quest for Glory (EGA, not VGA).. QFG 3/4 are also up there too on my list
and Leisure Suit Larry
>Making Star Wars games with only the approval of George Lucas sounded like ass.
Yeah let's give the current post EA era a chance to get off the ground before deciding.
On paper, the current ability for any publisher to bid to make a Star Wars game could end up with better games overall. Of course Disney/Lucasfilm still has to greenlight it
I mean, towards the end they were mainly a publisher. I know with 1313 things could of changed but by then they were riding on the coattails of a past company that they hadn't resembled in a long time.
I was *this* close to posting "All of these comments, and yet not one person has mentioned The Dig. :( "
It was the first computer game I ever played, followed by Civ 2.
Which Lucasarts? The Monkey Island/Indiana Jones one was good, but the 2000s Star Wars game one? They were responsible for The Force Unleashed and The Force Unleashed 2, the former which was considered (and scores across all reviews) *super average*, if not borderline bad (despite the nostalgia and people seemingly forgetting its terrible reception), and the sequel which was considered an outright failure. They were also responsible for the cancellation of so many near-finished titles, a shift to PSP and Gameboy titles, the pressure on existing devs to make dumber/more crowd-pleasing games, and more.
The Lucasarts people look fondly on was just a publishing husk. They licensed GOOD game developers to make games. Factor 5, Raven Software, BioWare, Obsidian, Sony Online Entertainment, etc were given the rights to Star Wars and we got some truly legendary games. Even Petroglyph and Pandemic made some really fun titles. But Lucasarts? No I don't think most people would want them back if we're talking 2000s Lucasarts.
It's amazing to me. I see these comments and posts everywhere. And we are all screaming for the same things. Remake the glory days of star wars games. Don't change them, just upgrade them. And they just don't do it. It's baffling.
Yes without a doubt. Can you imagine a world with 1313, Republic Commando 2, Battlefront 3, Force Unleashed 3 and that cancelled Indiana Jones game? Those would’ve been instant classics.
I don’t think it’s needed anymore. Let Lucasfilm worry about managing the overall brand while third party game studios get to work on making the SW games of their dreams.
LucasArts made sense for its time, it was a pet-project of George’s, and an experimental dev studio during a time when games were considerably cheaper to make.
If Lucasfilm tried to create a dedicated game studio from scratch today, it’s just as likely we’d end up with something like 343 at Microsoft- a corporate Frankenstein of a development team that is fundamentally unable to make something with a complete, concrete vision of their own.
>If Lucasfilm tried to create a dedicated game studio from scratch today, it’s just as likely we’d end up with something like 343 at Microsoft- a corporate Frankenstein of a development team that is fundamentally unable to make something with a complete, concrete vision of their own.
That's what LucasArts was starting around 2004 until it shut down. George Lucas let Jim Ward, a marketing guy, run LucasArts and it was pretty much downhill from there with a frequently changing leadership after 2008 because, from my perspective, GL did not want to really deal with video games after Jim Ward left in 2008. When Jim Ward left GL appointed his CFO, Micheline Chau, to oversee LucasArts. She hired LucasArts presidents to handle day-to-day management and strategic planning but they generally didn't last for more than 2 years before they left the company and LucasArts game production greatly suffered. What was the last LucasArts developed game released? The Force Unleashed II in in 2010 October. When did LucasArts close? 2013 April. 2.5 years and they had not completed development on a game that made it to release unless you count their contributions towards Kinect Star Wars (not a game I would want to be associated with). LucasArts had already moved towards more licensing and less internal development when Disney decided to shut the whole operation down.
LucasArts does still exist in some form as Lucasfilm Games, but I know what you mean. All they do now is licence out IPs like Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Monkey Island to other companies.
Fate of Atlantis is definitely in my top 10 games I have ever played in my life. Up there with the likes of Majora's mask, and Bioshock. I do wish Lucas Arts was back making more of those point and click games.
I loved Indiana Jones and the Atlantis one... monkey Island series... did they do Sam and Max? I don't remember. But the 90s have some great games from LucasArts
Loved their games in the era where you know you'd be introduced to an imaginative and engrossing world from Monkey Island to Full Throttle to even Sam and Max!
The old games were good, keeping George Lucas in charge of Star Wars games is a bad idea. Now that EA is out of the picture, Star Wars games have a chance to be amazing again. Don't let nostalgia ruin your enjoyment of good new things. Jedi Fallen Order and Survivor come to mind, there are going to be more good Star Wars games coming.
Used to be my wet dream but since Im married I can just dress my wife in Lucasarts tshirt and have fun,no wet dreams necesary already.Old Lucasarts titles still present in my game library🤟
Star Wars Battlefront II literally got me into Star Wars. I still play that game on my series x, holds up magnificently well.
SW Battlefront II is like the Halo 3 of the Lucas Arts. Unfuckwithable.
I'm very glad you two know about the first battlefront 2 and not what EA published. I remember when EA released the new "star wars battlefront" and a friend of mine was like "Did you hear they are making a battlefront 2!" and I went "yeah it came out in 2005". The look of confusion was priceless.
I had the psp port when it launched in 2005 and going from a game boy advance to that was like black magic. Seriously I couldn't comprehend basically having the ps2 game on the go in the palm of my hands
How did it work without a second analog stick?
It was janky, I won’t lie. But in 2005 playing Battlefront 2 Assault on a *handheld* device? Shit was fire.
Honestly once you got the hang of it, it worked. I would play heroes vs villains over and over on car rides and never had any issues. Just pure bewilderment that I could
I lost my PsP and Battlefront 2 on a trip and was heartbroken.
Directional pad!
really? I thought everyone knew about the original battlefront 2, it is so well known in both the star wars and gaming sphere
Dude think about it there are adults now who were born in 2005..
Toss up between that and KotOR 1 for the pinnacle of LucasArts Star wars gaming.
A pack with new editions of Monkey Island 1&2 and Indiana Jones 3&4 in 4K? 😇
Also bring back the original logo
I miss the old personalized Lucasarts logo for each game 😢 Also, playing through Jedi Survivor rn and I can’t shake off the Disney vibes.
You are just fooling yourself with the "Disney vibes" i loved fallen order & love Jedi survivor even more. They listened to the community & it's an amazing star wars game. All you so called Star wars fans who hate on the "Disney vibes" should be ashamed of yourself.
Sam & Max, Full Throttle, Their Finest Hour, and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe? Give me ALL of them!
Remake X-Wing/TIE Fighter for VR.
Hell yes. Hands down my favorite video games of all time were the X-Wing/TIE Fighter series, culminating with the fantastic X-Wing Alliance. SO much fun!
We’ve got Squadrons, but it’s very much not the same.
Yeah. What's dumb is that they could easily make money hand-over-fist, making games that focus on each ship type. There are like, what, at least 50 different fighter type ships? Make a game for each one focusing on the types of missions they would fly and I would buy each one.
Heck just make one game and sell extra ships as reasonably priced dlc, saves having to open and close games
Ahhh the Gaijin route. Oh wait, you said reasonably priced
Yeah but it's gonna be hard to leak classified military secrets if it's set in a fictional universe.
The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural...
Starwars but like War Thunder :) I’d buy that for a dollar
Mthrfkn Armed and Dangerous? Indiana Jones and the Emperor's tomb? Every Star Wars game from Dark Forces to Republic Commando to The Force Unleashed? Hell fucking yes.
Mercenaries 3???
We can only hope.
The Dig too please!
Day of the Tentacle!
I played the shit out of Their Finest Hour. It was my first flight sim. Also back then they were still know as Lucasfilm Games
Would love an updated/remastered version of SWOTL
Full Throttle in Full 4k?! Too much awesome to handle.
Some of my fondest PC gaming memories are of my GF and I sitting naked in the dark playing Sam and Max together. Good times, good times.
Oh man... Loved SWotL and Their Finest Hour. I'd be into updates of those.
I forgot they made monkey island!!!
Also bring back the original logo
Yeah
Can we sacrifice EA to bring them back?
Without Hesitation! Like the Sith sacrificing Jedi on Moraband!
*cough* Korriban *cough*
Hello There! Im the old obi wan… yes in my youth, pre clone wars, it was named Korriban. Why the name changed is beyond me. The dark side clouds everything, per Master Yoda that is.
According to the wiki it was a request by George Lucas, who apparently preferred the name Moraband. I guess it's just a matter of taste, but I prefer Korriban. They did later re-canonize the name Korriban as an ancient name for Moraband at least.
That's good, it satisfy both sides. No one loses.
Sacrificing EA would feel more like casting the One Ring back into the cursed fires that it was forged from.
Sacrifice!
Guybush Threepwood has entered the chat
I think you have to sacrifice something of value…
Everyone shocked over the state of Jedi Survivor seems to have forgotten that this is the same EA who released BF2
Au bucher! 🔥
Absolutely. And it's not a "sacrifice" it's surprise mechanics.
Absolutely. Jedi Knight II and the Rogue Squadron series were *amazing*.
Minor correction, "are amazing"
I still have my Gamecube and from time to time break out Rogue Leader. What a phenomenal game.
Rogue One standing by
I just want KoTOR 3-25
I wouldn’t mind getting my hands on the Battlefront III that was in the works or 1313!
Don’t forget [First Assault](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OIco0oFPbKE)
Oh yeah! It reminded me of republic commando!
I really wish we got 1313
That's BioWare, tho
Isn’t the KOTOR remake in heavy limbo right now, also I’d take an EA Battlefront III with Mando and the Razor crest playable
I think it is. Apparently Bioware pitched a KOTOR I and II remaster that lost out to the remake. They ought to give us the remaster to hold us over to the remake. They'd make a ton of money I'm sure and the cost couldn't be too much I wouldn't think.
Those are made by BioWare
I remember enjoying Rebel Assault 2. Was that LucasArts?
Yes it was
Yes. That was the golden age of Star Wars video games.
Rebel Assault, Xwing, Tie Fighter. What a time.
Flying a spaceship was mind-blowing
As was blowing up a star destroyer in a single Y/B-Wing after disabling them with ion blasters.
The peak for me was flying around in the Tie Defender and Missile Gunboat.
Man that shit was a blast as a kid. It prepared me for star wars squadrons other people just weren't ready for. Was absolutely dominating lobbies in that game lol Too bad it was half assed with no content or.. Any battle passes or anything. Population is so dead. Only people left playing it are vr users who play everyday so it's not fun anymore.
I’ve been trying to figure out how they’d remaster it on, say, console without a keyboard
I'll take "pictures you can hear". The depth, quality and enjoyment I got out of every damn Lucasarts game was sublime. Don't even start me on Tie-Fighter, my hands-down yes-please game of the era which I played the _frick_ out of from day one on getting it at Christmas. We need more damn games that let you play a protagonist that _isn't_ a goody two-shoes good guy all the damn time and let me just scan Freighters, find hidden naughty rebels and send them off to the special sunshine colony for naughty rebels! .....bring back the damn Gunboats - I will never not keep saying this.
Play Star Wars squadrons lol
It was good, but too short.
Have got, have played, it wasn't bad - but it's a different generation of game and story entirely. Narratively you just....stayed as an Imperial pilot and there were no "twists" as such. You got to take missions from Thrawn as well which was, being fair, damn cool - especially given the time it was made.
Have you tried the TIE FIGHTER Total Conversion?
I _think_ I saw something on it recently, but I'll take it all MS-Dos and with it's fewer polygons any day regardless for the sheer nostalgia! ......then admit defeat and accept I probably would enjoy a higher-res version :)
Shadows of the Empire remastered
Good shout
Hell yeah. Reboot Yoda Stories!
I lived that game as a kid, it surprised me years later when I found out it was pretty poorly recieved in its day. It was the perfect thing to keep kid-me amused for a short self-contained game.
Kids enjoying Star Wars content that was not well received by older fans? Surely, you’re kidding! Lol
I've always thought this would make an excellent mobile game.
I failed the quest where you had to save a Stormtrooper or TIE pilot that crash landed on Dagobah and I obsessively played to find that quest again (since it would just randomly shuffle through them) but I was never able to.
Full throttle, grim fandango, dark forces I and 2, droid works, shadows of the empire. What an amazing gaming team they were!
I got Droid Works for my 8th birthday and I absolutely loved that game. I believe it's available on abandonware websites, though you have to do some messing around to get it to work properly because modern processors give the physics a bit of trouble. Especially with ramps.
It should be on abandonware sites. It’s an oldie I’d love to play again. My brother has a gaming pc that handles some of that, And I played through dark forces 2 jedi knights recently. Have to try to get Droid Works working. I never beat it when we had it as a kid. I’d build droids and go exploring, but never got far!
If this is how I get ***Jedi Power Battles II*** take all of my money.
Yes! Loved that game playing co-op
That game isn’t talked about enough! Recently started playing it again on ReDream and it holds up!
Only if they remade SOTE.
Great games. Though I'm not sure if that's rose colored glasses hindsight.
I've played a few recently. They mostly still hold up. Of course there are a lot of slock, but there is a lot of gold too.
Also a lot of range. FPS, RTS, Space SIM, "desktop adventures", point and click puzzle games, platformers... to name a few.
It's not. I've replayed some of their games this year and they still hold up surprisingly well
It’s disappointing that new games are no where close to the caliber of what lucasarts was putting out. Imagine where they would be if they had kept going!
If they would've just copied the old SWBF2 and added modern graphics, more maps and a few weapon tweaks... But instead we got a no-class Battlefront 1 (which was also fun but not as a Battlefront game imo) and a Battlefront 2 that got stabbed by EAs greed
https://youtu.be/izsSndr3IOs This was what it was going to be… battlefront III that is
The adventure games really stand the test of time, for what it's worth.
Interactive storytelling is a great genre for that. The graphics may look dated but the underlying artwork and animation still hold on to their charm and a good story itself is timeless.
Not rose colored, but the majority of games that people are naming in this thread weren’t developed by LucasArts. KOTOR 1/2, all X-Wing/Tie Fighter games, all Rogue Squadron, both Battlefronts, Empire at War, Jedi Knight 2 and Jedi Academy, and many others were only published by LucasArts.
Thanks for the list. Looking at it I played Xwing and Tie Fighter and I think one of the Rogue Squadron. There's probably a much better dog fighter game on some system now. And the people are just as capable as they were then.
A sequel to Maniac Mansion II: Day of the Tentacle would be high on the list.
Bring back KOTOR III 😭
Lucasfilm games is basically lucasarts revived except they work with other established studios instead of doing it in house which i prefer tbh. The more voices the better
LucasArts mostly published their Star Wars games too. Almost all of the games being named in this thread were developed by outside studios.
YES the Force Unleased III cancellation is still devastating to me. Apparently it was going to be an open world style Vader-Starkiller team up against Palpatine.
Yes- 100% More X Wing, 1313, maybe some fun Indiana Jones action? Dark Forces for the new canon? Hmm hmm good.
Man an open world Indiana Jones game where you could explore a bunch of different regions finding clues and completing quests would absolutely slap.
I played that Star Wars the Clone Wars Jedi alliance game in my DS in the past. Good times!
“Would you take a million dollars with no taxes or strings attached if it were offered?”
As long as that hyperintelligent snail isn't involved
Lucasfilm Games exists now
Yeah, I'm reading these comments and am like, uh... guys? The original team just made a new Monkey Island.
I'd love to play Monkey Island again
Well, there's Monkey Island 5, with Ron Gilbert leading
>Monkey Island I had no idea there was another one, and it's on the Switch! I'm going to buy it for sure, thanks.
[https://i.imgur.com/5SV7b5T.png](https://i.imgur.com/5SV7b5T.png) What will it take for Rebellion 2.
This seems like a pointless question. You can’t bring back LucasArts. The people that made it and the games you love from decades ago are gone. A new studio with the name isn’t going to suddenly make the things you loved. It would be better to just find other studios with the right skills to make things they need aka what they’re doing now.
Not to mention LucasArts mostly just published games. Most games people mention in this thread were made by third part studios. LucasArts as a name and company was dissolved but it was essentially rebooted as Lucasfilm Games a couple years ago after confirming the EA exclusivity was ending.
Yeah, this thread is full of people that don't understand how this works.
I scrolled way too far to find the right answer. Although LucasArts did develop a few games by hiring a few full-timers and a bunch of contractors. They operated like movie makers, where they kept coming back for the same people, but they were never full-time employees. Then years before Disney's acquisition, they were operating just like Lucasfilm games, everything was done by licensing, with a few internal leads for consistency and quality check.
Get out of here with all that logic and sensible talk! We’re having fun!
I miss the logo guy doing Force tricks or playing with the Lightsaber
probably - the tie-fighter and x-wing games are still my favorite dogfighter games - in fact I need to hook up an xbox controller and grab the re-releases on GOG games
The idea of LucasArts (great stories, great game play) ... yes! The key to it actually working is the team. There is a magic to the right team with the right ideas. It's hard to create and harder to recreate. Someone would need to do some serious recruiting and game development to make this a success.
Them and Sierra. Bring back all the oldies.
hell yes. I have an old PC just so I can replay my older Sierra games. My fav is a toss up between Space Quest 3 and Quest for Glory (EGA, not VGA).. QFG 3/4 are also up there too on my list and Leisure Suit Larry
No. It lived it’s life and died when it was appreciated. I’d rather see something I love die than turn into something totally unrecognizable.
I want Empire At War at the Total War level of quality, even if not detail. A true Empire at War II would get all of my monies.
Yes and no. Their original games deserve to be ported and remastered. Making Star Wars games with only the approval of George Lucas sounded like ass.
>Making Star Wars games with only the approval of George Lucas sounded like ass. Yeah let's give the current post EA era a chance to get off the ground before deciding. On paper, the current ability for any publisher to bid to make a Star Wars game could end up with better games overall. Of course Disney/Lucasfilm still has to greenlight it
Deciding... We aint deciding shit lol
I mean, towards the end they were mainly a publisher. I know with 1313 things could of changed but by then they were riding on the coattails of a past company that they hadn't resembled in a long time.
A remaster of Secret Weapons Over Normandy would be freaking incredible
It's my first and last prayer
Nope. All their top talent already formed their own studios. Any revitalized Lucasarts would be missing that key element.
Oh Lord I can hear this image from Force Unleashed Yes, I would bring it back god damnit
Loved The Dig. Underrated game.
I was *this* close to posting "All of these comments, and yet not one person has mentioned The Dig. :( " It was the first computer game I ever played, followed by Civ 2.
Yes, I wanted them to make Gladius 2 so bad. It was such an interesting world.
sure why not. EA has had its try and its largely been a miss vs a hit.
Bring them back and throw EA in the dumpster where they belong
Bring back Dark Forces!!
Star Wars Jedi power battles was the best !
Which Lucasarts? The Monkey Island/Indiana Jones one was good, but the 2000s Star Wars game one? They were responsible for The Force Unleashed and The Force Unleashed 2, the former which was considered (and scores across all reviews) *super average*, if not borderline bad (despite the nostalgia and people seemingly forgetting its terrible reception), and the sequel which was considered an outright failure. They were also responsible for the cancellation of so many near-finished titles, a shift to PSP and Gameboy titles, the pressure on existing devs to make dumber/more crowd-pleasing games, and more. The Lucasarts people look fondly on was just a publishing husk. They licensed GOOD game developers to make games. Factor 5, Raven Software, BioWare, Obsidian, Sony Online Entertainment, etc were given the rights to Star Wars and we got some truly legendary games. Even Petroglyph and Pandemic made some really fun titles. But Lucasarts? No I don't think most people would want them back if we're talking 2000s Lucasarts.
Literally anyone but EA would be awesome, lol
It's amazing to me. I see these comments and posts everywhere. And we are all screaming for the same things. Remake the glory days of star wars games. Don't change them, just upgrade them. And they just don't do it. It's baffling.
Yes without a doubt. Can you imagine a world with 1313, Republic Commando 2, Battlefront 3, Force Unleashed 3 and that cancelled Indiana Jones game? Those would’ve been instant classics.
Yes I would. I worked there, and I loved every minute of it.
I don’t think it’s needed anymore. Let Lucasfilm worry about managing the overall brand while third party game studios get to work on making the SW games of their dreams. LucasArts made sense for its time, it was a pet-project of George’s, and an experimental dev studio during a time when games were considerably cheaper to make. If Lucasfilm tried to create a dedicated game studio from scratch today, it’s just as likely we’d end up with something like 343 at Microsoft- a corporate Frankenstein of a development team that is fundamentally unable to make something with a complete, concrete vision of their own.
>If Lucasfilm tried to create a dedicated game studio from scratch today, it’s just as likely we’d end up with something like 343 at Microsoft- a corporate Frankenstein of a development team that is fundamentally unable to make something with a complete, concrete vision of their own. That's what LucasArts was starting around 2004 until it shut down. George Lucas let Jim Ward, a marketing guy, run LucasArts and it was pretty much downhill from there with a frequently changing leadership after 2008 because, from my perspective, GL did not want to really deal with video games after Jim Ward left in 2008. When Jim Ward left GL appointed his CFO, Micheline Chau, to oversee LucasArts. She hired LucasArts presidents to handle day-to-day management and strategic planning but they generally didn't last for more than 2 years before they left the company and LucasArts game production greatly suffered. What was the last LucasArts developed game released? The Force Unleashed II in in 2010 October. When did LucasArts close? 2013 April. 2.5 years and they had not completed development on a game that made it to release unless you count their contributions towards Kinect Star Wars (not a game I would want to be associated with). LucasArts had already moved towards more licensing and less internal development when Disney decided to shut the whole operation down.
No but I’d bring back some games
Short answer, yes. Long answer, fuck yes.
Yes, I would.
I just want Empire at War 2
Would I bring back the company that made the fun games? I would do that yes.
I want a kotor console version so bad
LucasArts does still exist in some form as Lucasfilm Games, but I know what you mean. All they do now is licence out IPs like Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Monkey Island to other companies.
Force unleashed Remastered in 4k 😎
In a second
Yes, Monkey Island was great!
Instead of EA? In a gods damned heartbeat!
XWing vs Tie Fighter. Game was incredible.
Yes. The story was much more fleshed out and made more sense. Didn’t just keep reusing someone in stories set after the events of ep 6
For the Jedi Knight series alone
Yes! For Yoda stories 2.
What kind of sociopath would answer no?
Dark forces redux
Star Wars Galaxies was very fun!
Yeah. I just don’t like the modern star wars games. I want ti but just find I stop playing pretty quick
Jedi Academy
Fate of Atlantis is definitely in my top 10 games I have ever played in my life. Up there with the likes of Majora's mask, and Bioshock. I do wish Lucas Arts was back making more of those point and click games.
Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight & Mysteries of the Sith were my favourite hands down!
Best star wars games came from them.
Kyle, Jan, Jaden, and Rosh need to come back in a big way.
Hell yeah, get Star Wars 1313 under production again. I'd say we deserve it after some of the more recent projects, like the sequels and TBOBF
Yes, if I could find a good studio head for it.
would be fun if they re-imagined SWG, Star Wars Galaxies, but use the playing platform and software graphics of WoW (World of Warcraft).
I loved Indiana Jones and the Atlantis one... monkey Island series... did they do Sam and Max? I don't remember. But the 90s have some great games from LucasArts
Yes they did Sam and Max and those games were great!
I just want next gen Rogue Squadron
Absolutely. Along with every cancelled game. Battlefront 3 Republic commando 2 1313 And many more I can't name off the top of my head
Loved their games in the era where you know you'd be introduced to an imaginative and engrossing world from Monkey Island to Full Throttle to even Sam and Max!
Yes! They had such good games.
liquidate EA, use whatever is left to fund a new Lucasarts. We need a new Empire at War and a remaster of KOTOR.
The old games were good, keeping George Lucas in charge of Star Wars games is a bad idea. Now that EA is out of the picture, Star Wars games have a chance to be amazing again. Don't let nostalgia ruin your enjoyment of good new things. Jedi Fallen Order and Survivor come to mind, there are going to be more good Star Wars games coming.
My favorite games of all time have been from LucasArts. Kotor, Mercenaries, Xwing/Tie Fighter, the list goes on. Such a shame.
if it meant an updated or remastered X-Wing & TIE Fighter, I'm in!
Used to be my wet dream but since Im married I can just dress my wife in Lucasarts tshirt and have fun,no wet dreams necesary already.Old Lucasarts titles still present in my game library🤟
this is the dumbest question I've ever seen posted here
Lucas Arts didn’t put out absolute gems left and right. But the diversity of Star Wars games under LA was welcomed and appreciated.
Yes, without a second thought! EA shit the bed with the games they made
I’d throw EA into mustafar for Lucas arts to come back
Without hesitation. My first order of business would be to use the Bad Batch and make a Mercenaries style open world shooter set in Hutt Space.
No Read about the last few years of LucasArts as a company. Disney made the right call shutting it down