g1orkatsos said:
I don't really see what all the big fuss is about this news. LucasArts has been pretty much dead this last console generation. The only really noteworthy stuff they made were the 2 Force Unleashed games. 1st on was okish, second one was crap, and pretty much killed that series.
A faaaaar cry from their glory days in the 90ies where they were making classic adventure games, one after another.
They were on life support for a long time and simply someone finally decided to pull the plug out.
What bugs me more than anything is Disney's overall handling of the Star Wars property than any one particular thing.
For instance, why did Disney cancel Battlefront III even though it was
already completed? That makes so little sense and is such a lose-lose scenario that I can't even fathom it.
Disney also canceled the 3-D re-releases. While I'm not going to miss Ep. II and III, I really wanted a 3-D re-release of the OT.
Then they canceled Clone Wars and Detours -- again, not that big in and of itself, but it all starts to stack up.
Disney promised us great things when they took over the Star Wars brand. Right now, though, all they're doing is canceling everything under the sun. When are they going to start
giving us cool stuff?
When Lucas sold the company, he said that one of the big selling points that he used to Disney was that there were
already multiple production outlets. Whatever Disney wanted to do -- movies, comic books, video games, novels, animated TV -- there was already a division of the company set up to do that for Disney. Those branches just needed to be pointed in the right direction. But the Mouse House, it seems, has no interest in doing anything except layoffs, layoffs, layoffs.
If Disney didn't like the direction that LucasArts has been taking over the past few years, why not install someone new in charge and have them make the kinds of games that Disney wants, rather than just firing everyone?
And I understand it takes a while to get the new things up to speed, but not releasing Battlefront III and not finishing the episodes of Clone Wars that were already close to completion -- that just makes no sense to me.
OK, rant over for now.