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| 3 MAR 2004 at 7:25pm |
Lucien21Guild Master
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Status : Offline | Full Throttle now Sam and Max. Bastards > >
I was looking forward to this and I thought the development was nearly finished talk of a May release.
:'( It's a bad day for adventures. Just when things were looking up.
Dear Diary, My teenage angst bullsh*t now has a bodycount.
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| 3 MAR 2004 at 7:40pm |
JEIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Yep, this is pretty sad. But are you really shocked with this from the LucasArts of 2004?
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| 3 MAR 2004 at 7:43pm |
DREAMWEBSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | Really sad! I was expecting this game and any REAL adventure from Lucasarts; but definitely they aren't interested in making more of those games >
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| 3 MAR 2004 at 7:46pm |
AzarIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Eh, not surprising. Maybe it's for the better. It's been 10 years since the last one.. any sort of sequel would mostly be for nostalgia.
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| 3 MAR 2004 at 7:49pm |
| Deleted User | A couple of months ago, LucasArts hosted a web survey. It asked many questions about consumer tastes in games and humor. Many of the questions were about adventure games in general and specifically about S&M. It appeared that LucasArts was trying to tailor the content and the marketing of S&M2 accordingly.
I guess they weren't happy with the final results of the survey.
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| 3 MAR 2004 at 7:49pm |
Lucien21Guild Master
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Status : Offline | They can go back to shovelling the same old Star Wars crap they prbably have episode 3 rubbish in the pipeline for next year.
I can't believe they can release drivel like RTX Revolver and Wrath and cancel a game that was more or less finished. Surely it makes more business sense to try and recruperate some money back rather than write off the development cost.
I think they are wrong I think a Sam and Max 2 game would have sold really well. They are underestimating the market. The humour would have been a big selling point.
Dear Diary, My teenage angst bullsh*t now has a bodycount.
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| 3 MAR 2004 at 7:53pm |
SunspiralSpace Cadet
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Status : Online | NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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| 3 MAR 2004 at 8:17pm |
| Deleted User | LOL! I made a new thread on this... rofl... it expresses my anger accordingly. In other news, American McGee's Oz has been cancelled for similar reasons. No publisher...
Gits. >
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| 3 MAR 2004 at 8:20pm |
| Deleted User | Welllll....... since Alice wasn't an adventure game at all, but rather survival-horror/combat, I was expecting the same from Oz. I can't say I am the least bit disappointed in its temporary demise.
But S&M2... it makes me want to weep. :'(
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| 3 MAR 2004 at 8:30pm |
Armand1880Sorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/03/03/news_6090535.html
Here is the gamespot article
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| 3 MAR 2004 at 8:31pm |
| Deleted User | Well, I didn't post that for you in particular, you big ol' purist you, but for the huge amount of McGee fans on the forum.
I've been thinking that the sheer idea that they don't want to invest in it is more an indication of the sorry state of the videogames industry since the market got bigger. No risks, nothing new... I've been looking into the independent games developer scene here in the UK. You wouldn't believe how many of them have gone under this past year...
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| 3 MAR 2004 at 8:35pm |
apoCaIntergalactic Janitor
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hmm
i loved s&m 1 like most other games in that time lucas arts released...
but have u seen the trailer and the graphic demo ???
looked shoking!!!
i'm happy that this idiots didn't released that shit 'cause i think it would had been a big disappointment ...
apoC
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| 3 MAR 2004 at 8:38pm |
Lucien21Guild Master
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Status : Offline | If you read the report on MixandMojo they have commented on the fact that all of Lucasarts games that have failed have all been non-star wars games.
They know that if they slap Star Wars on the game it will sell even if it stinks. It's the easy return that most big companies are looking for.
Origional games don't get a look out. We have to rely on independants to get our adventures.
Adventures are not big business anymore.
Dear Diary, My teenage angst bullsh*t now has a bodycount.
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| 3 MAR 2004 at 8:44pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By apoCa (3 MAR 2004 8:35pm)
hmm
i loved s&m 1 like most other games in that time lucas arts released...
but have u seen the trailer and the graphic demo ???
looked shoking!!!
i'm happy that this idiots didn't released that shit 'cause i think it would had been a big disappointment ...
apoC
I haven't seen the graphic demo, but I did see the trailer and it looked great. I am pretty disappointed, and actually quite surprised. I thought the game was nearly finished.
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| 3 MAR 2004 at 8:56pm |
GreatPumpkinSpace Cadet
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Status : Online | > > > > > > > > > >
My reaction to S&M2's cancellation is mixed as was my reaction to its creation. Obviously it would never have lived up to S&MHTR and they probably should have used a new property in the first place. But now that we've waited for a couple of years for it and the game is 95% done?!? > Sigh.
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| 3 MAR 2004 at 9:27pm |
sennebecGuild Master
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Status : Offline | to bj and monkey...
a deathlike pall has descended upon our house and mourning has begun for the untimely deaths of two highly anticipated games... :'(
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| 3 MAR 2004 at 10:11pm |
Igor ArtemovSpace Cadet
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Status : Online | Lucas Arts and Mike Nelson speccially are just a bunch of idiots > F..k LA! > >
Killing Time
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| 3 MAR 2004 at 10:18pm |
AndromusGuild Master
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I was afraid of this, after Full Throttle was canned... :'(
I don't usually swear, but if I were inclined to do so, now would be about the best time in a long time. >
The cancellation of Full Throttle didn't bother me this much -- it looked like it was going to be about half action anyway, and while disappointing to see cancelled, I more or less shrugged it off.
But Sam & Max looked different to me, at least from the little I had seen so far. This was was one of my most anticipated adventures this year --- gone.
Any regard I have of Lucasarts out of respect for their legacy of adventure gaming is nearly gone. I'm not sure I care about Monkey Island 5 now -- It'll probably get yanked away from us as well. > :-/ :'(
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| 3 MAR 2004 at 10:24pm |
PamelaSpace Cadet
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Status : Online | This is very disappointing, I cannot believe the stupidity to say that they don't want to market an adventure game during this point in time because the sales wouldn't be there. Adventure games are definately making a rise in sales and as long as the game was done well it would have sold
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| 3 MAR 2004 at 10:29pm |
NeoleSpace Cadet
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Status : Online | *sob*
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| 3 MAR 2004 at 10:34pm |
niniendowarriorIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Yet again, the opportunities for adventure games to rise from the ashes has slipped.
It is indeed a sad day, first Myst Online (I think), then S&M 2.
Someone did mention about great games selling well, it isn't always the case. But the probability of selling a lot should be much higher than crap games such as Big Rigs.
How will the adventure genre be revitalized if game companies keep cancelling their products?
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| 3 MAR 2004 at 10:54pm |
Erwin_BrPrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | While the trailer and the first screenshots didn't look as good as I hoped, the content that was recently shown in various maganzines and on various websites was, in my opinion, fantastic!
Add to that the fact that this was going to be a point and click adventure game.
Needless to say I'm very, very sad about this.
It baffles me that they canned a game that got so much positive media coverage, even in magazines that ussually don't spend much attention to the adventure genre.
It baffles me even more that LucasArts still hasn't got a ceo after Simon Jeffery left and that some temporary finance idiots with no finger on the pulse are allowed to make such devastating decisions!
I mourn...
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Let's bring out some more Star Wars crap then. :'(
--Erwin
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| 3 MAR 2004 at 11:10pm |
GayleSchattenjger
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Status : Online | I am very sad. I never played the first one and would read the threads you guys would post and so I was really looking forward to S&M 2.
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| 3 MAR 2004 at 11:21pm |
KsandraSchattenjger
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Status : Online | Damn them! Damn them all to hell! >
Originally Posted By Lucien21 (3 MAR 2004 8:38pm)
If you read the report on MixandMojo they have commented on the fact that all of Lucasarts games that have failed have all been non-star wars games.
They know that if they slap Star Wars on the game it will sell even if it stinks. It's the easy return that most big companies are looking for.
Huh. Maybe they should have called it Star Wars: Vader vs. the Freelance Police or something like that.
This is what the editor of Adventure Gamers has to say about it - he suggests that everyone email the LucasArts PR department to tell them what we think about this. No doubt there'll soon be a petition up at petitiononline.com as well.
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