Y-Wings are the fat kids of the entire fleet. And, what, no A-Wings? How do you beat every mission in classic LucasArts X-Wing? With the A-Wing.

Lucasarts doesn't exist any more. Electronic fucking Arse holds the IP.

Don't hold your breath waiting for TIE Fighter. As far as the rest of the industry is concerned, the space sim genre is dead. Doubt Lucasarts would ever give up the IP to let it be crowdfunded.

I can attest, I worked at lucasarts around that time. for a game we were making, we had made a light saber color generator that let the player pick their own personal color. George sent an email to us that said we had to nix that and that there were only red for bad, green or blue for good and purple for Mace Windu. we had to kill the whole system and remove it from the game. it was a bummer for us, but I guess it kept things consistent so that's ok.

Deus Ex has some fantatstic stuff
The Unatco Theme is one of my favourites - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBzDv24IOYQ

Anything from the Machinarium soundtrack (by Thomas Dvorak) is brilliant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbXauJ4qTyc

And of course, Doom (1 & 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7efPcKJ4cOk

I have a soft spo for all the old lucasarts adventure titles. Grim Fandango in particular has a fantastic OST.

Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island, Full Throttle, The Dig, Loom, Dark Forces, Grim Fandango... Shit man. We have been missing LucasArts for a while. :~(

I remember being a little kid in 4th grade, I loved the Monkey Island soundtrack so much that I recorded the songs with my little boom box cassette recorder from the Tandy. That game was one of those magical sorts where as a little kid I fantasized about actually living in that game world.

Before Dark Forces came out I remember staring at previews in PC Gamer for months at a time. When it came out it was unbelievably AWESOME. Really special company, really special times. Will be forever in my mind with LOVE.

That said there is still hope. Telltale, which consists of former LucasArts employees has been doing a fantastic job of innovating upon adventure gaming; the future is still bright.

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>> ^braindonut:

I want a new Tie Fighter so bad... SO bad...
And none of this stupid arcade action. Joystick, keyboard... just like the old days, but new graphics.
I want this SO bad.


I still have my Wingman Extreme sitting high on a shelf, just waiting for a new PC Tie Fighter or MechWarrior. Single player campaigns/missions, LAN, no consolitis bullshit, FULLY configurable keyboard and controller assignments. I don't even care if it's purty. Just don't let LucasArts, Ubisoft, id, EA, Blizzard, or Microsoft anywhere near it.

This just makes me miss Tie Fighter the game even more...

Fucking Lucasarts /sad

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>> ^Fletch:

I usually like watching others play video games for some reason. This was horrible. What isn't mentioned in the description is that this is an alpha build of the game. Terrible framerates, graphics, and gameplay. No wonder LucasArts canceled it.


I do too these days. Alpha wasn't meant to have smooth FPS, nice graphics, etc.

There were a lot of recent LucasArts games that should not have been existed. :


The Evolution of Star Wars Games

>> ^Fletch:

I usually like watching others play video games for some reason. This was horrible. What isn't mentioned in the description is that this is an alpha build of the game. Terrible framerates, graphics, and gameplay. No wonder LucasArts canceled it.


I do too these days. Alpha wasn't meant to have smooth FPS, nice graphics, etc.

There were a lot of recent LucasArts games that should not have been existed.

I usually like watching others play video games for some reason. This was horrible. What isn't mentioned in the description is that this is an alpha build of the game. Terrible framerates, graphics, and gameplay. No wonder LucasArts canceled it.

>> ^Jinx:

I'm just really bored at the stagnate FPS genre atm. Hasn't been a good recent multiplayer FPS game recently apart from TF2, and that was a while back. Even then the focus is clearly on public play and the competitive community is small and dying out pretty quickly. Its sad that in this e-sports renaissance created by SC2 there is no FPS game to really step up and enter the limelight. The Arena style of Quake needs to make a comeback. Its so watchable as a spectator sport, and the skill the best players display is just astounding. Even watching these speedruns etc makes my jaw drop.
Instead we get boring Modern Yawnfair 12 - For Xbox360 and PS3! And yah, I'm a PC elitist. I watched some Halo3/Reach @ MLG and while it wasn't terrible, it was lightyears behind Quake. CS:GO is on the horizon, and I hope steam support that as much as they are pouring money into DotA2, but still, I prefer an FPS where you don't die in one pixelshot or from wallbanging spam.
/rant
Oh, and a new tribes is coming, but I was super turned off by their free2play model. If its anything like LoL I am not interested. I'd rather pay upfront and know I am on a equal footing than everybody else rather than sink limitless cash into making sure I can remain competitive.


I realize I'm necroing a 2 week old video thread, but, there are some things that nobody bothered to say.

Jinx: Many of these F2P games are not Pay2Win. You simply pay for variety/speed of unlocks. Nothing you can pay for with cash can make you do more damage, move faster, etc. The only things in LoL that absolutely require actual cash are character skins and extra rune pages. Everything else can be unlocked with the same points even the richest person has to earn by playing matches. Can you spend $1-200 and unlock every character? Yes. Do you have to...is it worth it? No. Just play with the free rotated characters each week. Personally, I'm sick of paying up front for shitty games or games I don't play that often.


@EvilDeathBee The difference is, many of the companies that used to produce the best stuff now produce mass market crap and many of the great companies were bought out and/or ruined by EA/Activision. Westwood Studios...gone. Lucasarts is plagued by the same mass market bullshit problems as the newer movie trilogy. id hasn't made a good shooter since before Doom 3, and Rage is the latest crap they've spewed out. You can find videos of Carmack saying they're being held back by console graphics/memory considerations. Luckily we have Blizzard and Valve still, though Blizzard is now Activision Blizzard, and is making console Diablo 3 and has added friggin Facebook to Battle net. GG. Valve seems to want to make hats, ignore HL2:Ep3 while splitting the already-split MOBA community by releasing DOTA2, which nobody really asked for given that HoN and LoL are rather popular. But, at least Valve and Blizz put out quality PC games. BF3 now has the useless Origin, which is nothing but a business move and provides zero benefit to gamers.

Games used to be art. Now they're all about money.

@Hawkinson "A few thousand"? Doom 2 sold like 2 million back before PC gaming was at all popular. Quake 2 sold 1-1.5 million also. I couldn't find Q1 numbers but I'd guess they're similar. You're also forgetting that Doom 2 was distributed as shareware, and I've seen estimates that 15 million played it. Give google a try next time you want to pull statistics out of your ass

>> ^quantumushroom:

Neat, but you can't polish a turd.


I hate to say this Mr. Mushroom, but mythbusters have actually proven that you can make turds shine!

http://videosift.com/video/You-can-t-Polishing-a-Turd-Mythbusters-say-otherwise

but on topic, you are right, it seems awkward for Lucasarts to go and try to fix this scene, but at least it is more credible than the Episode 1 puppet that was actually a downgrade from the Empire strikes back yoda...

Just finished the single player. Here are my pros and cons:

Pros:
- Some really head scratching puzzles.
- Very humorous, thanks to Merchant and Simmons. The last game that I played that was this funny was a Lucasarts adventure title more than 15 years ago.
- Some really nice additions to the mechanics of the game. I'm surprised that the floating energy spheres didn't make an appearance, as well as some of the other older mechanics, but then again, that let us focus on the new stuff to play with so fair enough.
-decent enough back story

Cons:
- the whole Potato game promotion/tie-in for all the reasons everyone's already complained about
- sad to see Valve is going the DLC route. On one hand I'm glad it's just cosmetic stuff and doesn't enhance the gameplay; on the other, what does this spell for future games like HL3 and L4D3? Fucking horse armor.
- I didn't care for the ending as much, but in keeping with making this thread spoiler-free, I won't go into it here. Maybe later, after everyone's gotten through it.
- by the end of the game, I was really surprised that Valve only did x amount of stuff with the new gameplay mechanics. I'm really looking forward to seeing what the community comes up with. However, I haven't heard whether or not an SDK will be released. I fear that Valve may follow suit with all the game companies and start holding back tools, just to nickel and dime with DLC. I certainly hope not.