Ahhhhhhh jesus... I thought this game was shaping up nicely (unlike their full throttle sequel)... damn

What! No whack-a rat!?

Aaaand a big "up-yours" to LucasArts. How they have fallen.

~Steve

"After careful evaluation of current market place realities and underlying economic considerations, we've decided that this was not the appropriate time to launch a graphic adventure on the PC" = The Adventure market is dead and we don't want to do anything to help revive it.

This is really sad. Not because I'm a fan of the series, rather the industry needs new ideas and to help stimulate genres that are not doing as well. Other than Syberia II and The Longest Journey 2 (aka Dreamland), the Adventure genre really needs more attention.

I'm sure most "old school" gamers here grew up on those Sierra classics like the Space Quest series, Quest for Glory, and King's Quest. Even LucasArts played a part with the Monkey Island and Indiana Jones series.

I wish a developer with a good track record and who is relatively secure, would make more adventure games... even if it won't make a ton of money.

Alex
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Spatial Fear
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http://www.planetunreal.com/le/sf/

At least now they can't botch it up

Great way to secure themselves

hmm if I owned stock in this company I'd be selling it right about now...

"After careful evaluation of current market place realities and underlying economic considerations, we've decided that this was not the appropriate time to launch a graphic adventure on the PC"

Isn't that basically saying, "the game sucks, no one will buy it."

*sigh*
i think it would have filled a void that there has been in pc games for quite a while, a decent adventure game...
as opposed to the linear plot line, no thought process, games on the shelves

Good Sam and Max sucks anyway. Same with full throttle

GOD DAMN MOTHERFUCKIN' LUCASARTS!!!!


AAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!

fuck fuck fuck...

Alright, who's up for firebombin'? We'll start at LA, and then we'll move over to Interplay, and round out the evening over at EA...

http://www.kmfdm.net/

Yeah, Sierra and LucasArts used to be the kings of the adventure genre... Really sad to see this game cancelled, as there are enough recent "serious" adventure games out there (Syberia II, The Longest Journey 2, Broken Sword 3). I was really looking forward to a comical adventure game

They even had the two original Sam & Max designers working on this one... Ahhhh!

I am not a big fan of adventure games, but I do remember the humor in the original game when watching a friend play it. Even the sequel trailer was funny. This stinks.

Ant @ The Ant Farm: http://antfarm.ma.cx

"After careful evaluation of current market place realities and underlying economic considerations, we've decided that this was not the appropriate time to launch a graphic adventure on the PC"

Translation: We just realised that this game has nothing to do with Star Wars. So it dies. But we'll have plenty of crapy titles based on Episode III!


Parallax Abstraction
Technical Consultant & Future Microplay Owner
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Translation: We just realised that this game has nothing to do with Star Wars. So it dies. But we'll have plenty of crapy titles based on Episode III!

Yeah, and no doubt we'll get "Jar-Jar's Big Graphical Adventure" in another 9 months...

Those fuckers...

http://www.kmfdm.net/

AGUIHAKGHAKGHA:GJAHGJAG:LKAJGA
I'm going to firebomb their financial offices.

Why fucking bother giving the go ahead for these projects in the first place? Fuckin dumbasses.

Whack a rat, pulling objects out of Max. Welcome to the "If we can't covert it on console we won't make it" age.
This comment was edited on Mar 3, 14:53.

Well I'm certainly not happy about this... But hey! At least we still have Magna Cum Laude or whatever in the works! I'd rather see Larry (or his nephew in this case) than ol' Maxy.

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Agreed why even create these games to begin with. Who does the freaking research prior to development that say whether or not a game will make it or not. It really shows their incompetence.

LA manager: "Hey programmer guy that looks intresting, whatcha workin on?"

Programmer: "Well its this game called Sam and Max where you do crazy imaginative things, very different to the current stuff out there?"

LA: "Imaginative hmm.. and can we port it to a console?"

Prog: "Well not realy.."

LA: "GET BACK TO WORK ON DULL GENERIC CONSOLE STAR WARS CLONE GAME!"

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Agreed why even create these games to begin with. Who does the freaking research prior to development that say whether or not a game will make it or not. It really shows their incompetence.

You obviously have no clue how development works, and I don't feel like explaining it. Somebody else step up?

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“The closer you get to being a pro, the closer you can get to the client. The knife, for example, is the last thing you learn. Ok?"