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General discussion (archive)When is LucasArts coming to GoG?(72 posts)(72 posts)
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Posted May 03, 2012
I guess we'll agree to disagree, but there is just no comparison between his more modern works and his old films. The old ones were pure genius. The new one made me embarassed just watching them.
Posted May 04, 2012
Obviously LucasArts games belong here. You know it, I know it and you can bet GoG knows it. I am convinced that there has already been contact between the two parties.

That LucasArts games aren't here yet, I guess, could be due to two reasons

1) Money. Maybe LucasArts doesn't consider it lucrative enough and they are only willing to allow GoG to sell their games for prices which GoG considers too high.

2) Rights. Maybe you need to do more than just get the permission of LucasArts to sell their games. Could be that the rights have been splintered and other parties are involved.

Whatever the case may be, I'm not worried. I'm sure they'll get here eventually, and there's plenty of stuff to play in the mean time.
Post edited May 04, 2012 by Spongeroberto
Posted May 04, 2012
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Spongeroberto: 1) Money. Maybe LucasArts doesn't consider it lucrative enough and they are only willing to allow GoG to sell their games for prices which GoG considers too high.
but the games aren't making LucasArts any money now. putting them on sale on GOG or another digital distributor would at least generate SOME money.

it's probably a legal thing. again.
Posted May 04, 2012
To anyone who thinks Lucasarts has not completely lost the plot, I just saw this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-BGYxHbfwU&feature=BFa&list=UUsgv2QHkT2ljEixyulzOnUQ

Watch at least the first little bit.
Posted May 04, 2012
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Fred_DM: but the games aren't making LucasArts any money now. putting them on sale on GOG or another digital distributor would at least generate SOME money.

it's probably a legal thing. again.
Unless they have plans (or the vaguest of ideas) of remastering their old titles in the future, either themselves or through other developers, as they did with the special editions of Monkey Island 1 and 2. In which case, the less competition make themselves better.

I would not hold my breath until that happens, anyway (hey, even Guybrush has its limits!).
Posted May 04, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YcjSLBca5-M#!
Posted May 04, 2012
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Spongeroberto: Obviously LucasArts games belong here. You know it, I know it and you can bet GoG knows it. I am convinced that there has already been contact between the two parties.

That LucasArts games aren't here yet, I guess, could be due to two reasons

1) Money. Maybe LucasArts doesn't consider it lucrative enough and they are only willing to allow GoG to sell their games for prices which GoG considers too high.

2) Rights. Maybe you need to do more than just get the permission of LucasArts to sell their games. Could be that the rights have been splintered and other parties are involved.

Whatever the case may be, I'm not worried. I'm sure they'll get here eventually, and there's plenty of stuff to play in the mean time.
Money I will buy as a plausable reason not to put their games on GOG but licensing is not as Lucas Arts owns the IP of every title they made save for Sam and Max which is owned by there creator Steve Purcell.
Posted May 04, 2012
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tejozaszaszas: I´m sorry but I do agree with PMK, the script from the las Indiana jones move and the new star wars trilogy were mediocre at best. And Lucasarts stopped beng an innovating company long time ago.
We'll have to agree to disagree, then.

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PMIK: To anyone who thinks Lucasarts has not completely lost the plot, I just saw this:
Because they made a Kinect Star Wars-themed game? Really?
Posted May 05, 2012
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Alexrd: Because they made a Kinect Star Wars-themed game? Really?
Wow you really are a Lucasarts fanboy.

If they made a Kinect Star Wars game that respected and continued the Star Wars universe (like the many awesome star wars games they have made) then I would have no problem.

If you think that having Star Wars characters dancing to pop music and then having really crappy scripted light saber duels is a good thing then we really have nothing more to talk about. Our differences of opinion are irreconcilable
Post edited May 05, 2012 by PMIK
Posted May 05, 2012
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PMIK: Wow you really are a Lucasarts fanboy.
Ad hominem? Why? Because I accept that people have different tastes? I don't like Kinect Star Wars. It's not for me. But that doesn't mean the audience it was meant for doesn't like it. Neither does it make a bad game because it uses Han Solo on a dancing mini-game.

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PMIK: If they made a Kinect Star Wars game that respected and continued the Star Wars universe (like the many awesome star wars games they have made) then I would have no problem.
This type of game can't respect Star Wars continuity. The same way a Star Wars-themed Monopoly game doesn't.

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PMIK: If you think that having Star Wars characters dancing to pop music and then having really crappy scripted light saber duels is a good thing then we really have nothing more to talk about. Our differences of opinion are irreconcilable
Are you so new to Star Wars to be surprised to see its characters used this way?
Post edited May 05, 2012 by Alexrd
Posted June 03, 2012
Does LucasArts realise its the 25th anniversary of the SCUMM engine this year?

What a perfect opportunity to capitalize at E3 and announce a re-release of all their games from the 90's on GOG, good publicity for both LA and GOG especially on a grand stage like E3.
Post edited June 03, 2012 by Rosstifer1712
Posted June 03, 2012
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PixelBoy: Back in the day, when CD-ROM was new technology, there wasn't Internet as we know it and no recordable CD-Rs (at least not for home use).



So for a little while, CD format in itself was a form of DRM, as there was no efficient way to copy and distribute all that content of the original CD.
Very few people would have the patience to load a full CD-ROM over a modem connection or from couple of hundred floppies.
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jpinsa: Yeah but back in the day, yoy would just borrow your friends copy of the game, install it and play it then return it. Essentially in a community of friends only 1 person would buy the game and 20 more would play it. Technically and according to the game's user agreement, it wasn't legal but that's how it happened whn we were kids.
Back in the day there was no such legal agreement crap. You just installed a game and played it. EULAs came later.

I just installed and played some Tie-Fighter. It would be nice to have those games on GOG but one can always get those on Ebay and run them in DOSBox.
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