Smuggler Archive

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maxtheusher wrote:

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MISTagent01 wrote:

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01201986 wrote:

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ValiantHalibut wrote:
I don't know - given the very dry games that LA has been making lately and the painfully conservative decisions (fare thee well Sam, Max and ... uhm... Full Throttle Guy) I would be worried about someone from that organization taking on a bigger role in SWG.

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meh, I thought Battlefront was pretty good, I hear Republic Commando is good, and then you have games like the Dark Forces and Jedi Knight games, not to mention KOTOR 1 & 2. the revenge of the sith game also looks good. LA had a hand in the publishing of all of those, so maybe they could do something good with this game as well.

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Fixed for accuracy, they didn't actually make those games, only released them under the LA label.

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Full Throttle Guy's name is Ben

And I believe LA stopped caring about their longtime fans somwhere between 1998 and 1999. That should be the approximate date for that occurrence. I also believe that's about the time when the old adventure gaming team left to form their own company, but I could be mistaken.

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Ben! Ah yeah, that was it. I loved that game.

It seems as though a lot of the recent decisions regarding games (pushing out a sequal too soon - KOTOR 2 - creating derivative gameing experiences with Star War characters - Battlefront, Republic Commando - generic cash-in titles - the plethora of Episode I/II games) have been based on fiscal concerns rather then artistic ones. It's not to say that the games are bad, rather they're generally quite reasonable examples of tried-and-true genre mechanics. Coming from the "throw it outside! There's only strangers out there! -BOOM! -Oooh, do you think there was anybody on that bus? -No one we know or care about!" people, that stagnation is quite annoying.

It's almost as though Lucas Arts is waiting for an old-school gamer to bust his way out of a dumpster and set things right.... Anybody have any bunnies?