Actually, this has more of a feel of a LucasArts game for 386 or a very high-quality Commodore 64 game, but I guess I'm being too picky.

Actually, the animation style (and video quality) reminds me most of LucasArts adventure games like Full Throttle and Monkey Island 3.

I bought the Monkey Island 1 special edition the day it came out - this series (and LucasArts adventures in general) were my absolute favorite games as a kid (and today). I didn't know this had come out, thanks for posting!

>> ^mgittle:

>> ^Deano:
>> ^dannym3141:
Personally i never have, but i could throw a stone at my university and hit 7 people with the same stone who would tell you "i only do it to try out the game, if it's good i buy it, but i'm sick of being cheated out of my money"


"Cheated"? I never understood this incredible sense of entitlement to excuse not paying for games.

When demos of games don't exist and the majority of previews come from sites like IGN and gamespot...AND don't say anything negative about games, can you really blame people for wanting to try before they spend $50+? Everyone's been burned at some point by buying some shit ass console port made by a company that used to make fantastic stuff. For example, Lucasarts made X-Wing, Tie Fighter, and the Dark Forces series for PC, but also made The Force Unleashed, which is one of the worst pieces of saleable software ever made and one of the worst console to PC ports to date. There was no demo.
Since when is demanding a decent product a "sense of entitlement" for a consumer?


Mentioning X-wing and Tie fighter in one comment gets an automatic upvote from Kalle... here you are

>> ^Deano:

>> ^dannym3141:
Personally i never have, but i could throw a stone at my university and hit 7 people with the same stone who would tell you "i only do it to try out the game, if it's good i buy it, but i'm sick of being cheated out of my money"


"Cheated"? I never understood this incredible sense of entitlement to excuse not paying for games.


When demos of games don't exist and the majority of previews come from sites like IGN and gamespot...AND don't say anything negative about games, can you really blame people for wanting to try before they spend $50+? Everyone's been burned at some point by buying some shit ass console port made by a company that used to make fantastic stuff. For example, Lucasarts made X-Wing, Tie Fighter, and the Dark Forces series for PC, but also made The Force Unleashed, which is one of the worst pieces of saleable software ever made and one of the worst console to PC ports to date. There was no demo.

Since when is demanding a decent product a "sense of entitlement" for a consumer?

Man... Lucasarts used to make kick-ass shit left and right. Now they have been reduced to milking the same starwars bullshit over and over and over... It's like they have a department devoted to "yet another hoth level."

I should probably thank them for my early exposure to adventure games with Kings Quest and Space Quest. We never got away with Leisure Suit Larry at school though

I think the LucasArts games overtook Sierra though when it came to point and click... in particular Sam n Max Hit the Road was I thought a stellar game at the time.

reminds me of Knytt.

But i thought it was just a music video using 16-bit graphics and lucasarts-style action verbs for fun. I don't see much gameplay here, but it might work. Knytt sure does, despite being very slow and quiet.

Someone played way too much Gradius, Outrun, Last Resort and LucasArts adventure games.

*takes out his geek card*

If I had to guess what would closely emulate this as a real system, it would be this one.

I've always been a PC gamer too, but I've played a lot less since I started sifting. Go figure. I thoroughly enjoy the Half-Life series including Portal, but in my heart I'll always be a point-and-click adventure gamer. I've played most of what LucasArts published back when they were good, such as Full Throttle, The Dig and every Monkey Island game. I'm excited about the new Monkey Island game that's coming up, and the remake of the first game. And Grim Fandango is obviously a huge favourite, as you can tell from my avatar.

The last decade has been a sad period for the adventure genre, but Telltale Games has some good stuff going now, i.e. with the new Sam&Max episodes. I also loved The Longest Journey and its sequel Dreamfall, and am eagerly awaiting a new sequel. (Do you hear that, Funcom?) I'm a sucker for good storytelling, so I might expand my horizon to Mass Effect, which I've heard good stuff about.

Another good adventure game that I think has been overlooked is the Bladerunner game from 1997. It captures the mood from the movie brilliantly, and was very replayable due to the non-linear storyline.

A few years ago I bought a PS2 solely to be able to play Guitar Hero, and I got to be rather good at it. But I haven't played it since GH3 now, and I am a bit rusty. After I bought the console my flatmate pressured me into trying Final Fantasy 10, and I enjoyed it for a while until the grinding part became too pronounced. I might continue it some day though. I also bought Bioshock when it came out, but I haven't gotten very far, as I found the character building stuff annoying. I have promised myself to play through it, though.

Other highlights from my gaming career: Diablo 2 and the expansion, the single player campaign of Starcraft and the expansion, Jedi Knight (aka Dark Forces II) and its sequels, Tie Fighter, Carmageddon, Interstate '76, and Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven.

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^I made it out of poster board for my Sift viral video - but in the end didn't use it - and went for the awesome LucasArts/Weta digital effects instead.

Of course both the digital and paper tool bar are the old YouTube version. I may have to "re-imagineer" the video with the new bar. Kind of like when Burton redid Planet of the Apes - only with more strangely hot chimp ladies.

Awhile back LucasArts basically stated that there would never be a PC port of the game. Not for piracy reasons, but because they didn't want to scale the game for the various configs available to PC users.

http://www.videogamer.com/xbox360/star_wars_the_force_unleashed/preview-921.html

http://kotaku.com/389776/force-unleashed-not-coming-to-pc-and-this-is-the-best-excuse-lucasarts-could-come-up-with

Yes.
From wiki:

"Matt Sloan is the voice of Darth Vader in LucasArts' Empire at War: Forces of Corruption[2][3] and LucasArts' The Force Unleashed. Despite for Sloan being a local comedian and voice actor, LucasArts were impressed by his Darth Vader impression.
"

Indeed. This is from the heyday of LucasArts. That is before they decided to milk the Star Wars cow for all its worth and they had loads of clever people working there.

God I wish Pixar would make a movie of this

Some of my favorites, old and new:

Console:
Zelda series
Final Fantasy series (VI remains my favorite to this day)
Dragon Warrior
Metal Gear Solid
God of War/2
Punch Out/Super Punch Out)
Metroid (the old classic 2d side-styles, not the 1st person view)
Gran Turismo
Shadow of the Colossus

PC:
Outlaws (Old West FPS from Lucasarts)
Diablo 2
No One Lives Forever
Oblivion
Sim City
Half-Life series (Portal included!)
Wing Commander 3 (yay, Mark Hamill found work!)
Alone in the Dark
Out of This world
Age of Empires series