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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #40 on: October 29, 2014, 09:30:17 pm »
20+ disney classics coming from GOG.  Will be keeping my eye on this.

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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #41 on: January 31, 2015, 10:32:51 am »
Grim Fandango Remastered available on Steam now :wave

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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #42 on: December 5, 2015, 06:49:58 pm »
Full throttle will be remastered by Lucasarts alum Tim Schafer's Doublefine

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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #43 on: March 8, 2016, 11:48:40 am »
Day of the Tentacle Remastered will be coming to PC, PS4 and PS Vita on March 22nd

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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #44 on: March 8, 2016, 12:00:42 pm »
They should make a jedi game with the Arkham Asylum combat system.

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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #45 on: March 8, 2016, 05:12:30 pm »
Day of the Tentacle Remastered will be coming to PC, PS4 and PS Vita on March 22nd

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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #46 on: March 8, 2016, 07:44:16 pm »
Day of the Tentacle Remastered will be coming to PC, PS4 and PS Vita on March 22nd

Yes and yes and hell yes!

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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #47 on: March 23, 2016, 02:58:03 pm »
Day of the Tentacle Remastered will be coming to PC, PS4 and PS Vita on March 22nd

Out now. Currently downloading on my PS4 now. Should be ready when I get home

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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #48 on: April 4, 2022, 04:41:38 pm »
Look behind you! A three-headed monkey!!!

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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #49 on: April 4, 2022, 06:00:50 pm »
Holy shit!
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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #50 on: April 4, 2022, 06:14:33 pm »
Big freaking news. What a time to be alive!

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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #51 on: April 9, 2022, 11:36:01 am »
That's made me quite excited :) Thimbleweed Park is on my radar to pick up as well.
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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #52 on: April 10, 2022, 10:26:29 am »
That's made me quite excited :) Thimbleweed Park is on my radar to pick up as well.
Do it after the match tonight, mate. You will not be disappointed.

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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #53 on: April 11, 2022, 08:26:58 pm »
Do it after the match tonight, mate. You will not be disappointed.

Gonna get it as an Easter present for myself :)
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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #54 on: May 2, 2022, 07:49:30 pm »
Really interesting (and long) interview with Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman.

https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/ron-gilbert-dave-grossman-return-to-monkey-island

Unfortunately with the internet the way it is, a vocal minority has lost their shit over why it doesn't have the 'pixel art' style of the early 1990's games. Which is a real shame.

If I wanted Monkey island 1 and 2 I'd just run SCUMMVM and go to town.

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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #55 on: June 28, 2022, 10:13:52 pm »
Its a really different take on the art style

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I can't decide if I like it or not. Has more of the Devolver Digital style than a lucasarts style. But loads of small cameos in that video to have my attention.

Always going to be a hard line to tread. Too far one way it might as well be a lazy retro fan game. Too far the other way and you lose out on what made those games so good in the first place.

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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #56 on: June 30, 2022, 09:20:17 am »
I’m unsure too. I had hoped for something looking like Thimbleweed Park. All in all, I’m just happy we’re getting a brand new game! There is so much vitriol about the graphics on various social media platforms (not in here, of course)  and it’s disappointing. You would think that the MI community would react maturely and welcoming after all these years.
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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #57 on: July 14, 2022, 06:33:05 am »
Can’t believe they’re doing another Monkey Island game! Love it, what a genius series that is.

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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #58 on: August 23, 2022, 08:42:38 pm »
19th September release date which happens to be International Speak like a Pirate day


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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #59 on: August 23, 2022, 09:07:40 pm »
Do it after the match tonight, mate. You will not be disappointed.

I finished it a few weeks ago and liked it initially but found it getting more and more annoying as the game wore on, and I was running around for ages sometimes not knowing what to do. I don't know if it was having to be multiple characters that I couldn't get to grips with but it eventually started to drag. Still, I enjoyed playing as Ransom :)

Hopefully Monkey Island will just be playing as Guybrush.
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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #60 on: September 19, 2022, 02:50:22 pm »
Today's the day

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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #61 on: September 19, 2022, 03:35:35 pm »
Was looking forward to having a go this bank holiday but you have to wait until 5.00pm today to play it :(
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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #62 on: September 20, 2022, 06:00:50 pm »
Return to Monkey Island is great.

Was not sold on the new art style like most at first but you soon forget about it, Wouldn’t mind seeing the first 2 games updated with the same style.

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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #63 on: September 24, 2022, 10:29:50 am »
Need some help here. My processor is too old to run this (Intel Core i5 6300HQ). Is it still worth a try or would you rather get it for the Switch instead? I would appreciate some answers here, dying to play this game

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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #64 on: November 2, 2022, 09:00:55 am »
Return to Monkey Island coming to ps5 (I assume Xbox too?) on November 8th!

Saves me trying to borrow a switch from someone

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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #65 on: November 2, 2022, 09:52:53 am »
Return to Monkey Island coming to ps5 (I assume Xbox too?) on November 8th!

Saves me trying to borrow a switch from someone

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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #66 on: January 9, 2023, 08:14:42 am »
Finished Return to Monkey Island last night.
Lots of fun and full of nostalgia

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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #67 on: June 11, 2023, 07:48:22 pm »
It's sticking around.

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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #68 on: June 11, 2023, 09:40:50 pm »
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'Star Wars Outlaws: World Premiere Trailer':-

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The blurb...

'Watch the World Premiere trailer of Star Wars Outlaws. Introducing scoundrel Kay Vess in the first-ever open world Star Wars game. Coming 2024.
 
Experience the first-ever open world Star Wars game, set between the events of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Explore distinct planets across the galaxy, both iconic and new. Risk it all as Kay Vess, an emerging scoundrel seeking freedom and the means to start a new life, along with her companion Nix. Fight, steal, and outwit your way through the galaxy’s crime syndicates as you join the galaxy’s most wanted.'


'Star Wars Outlaws, the first-ever open-world Star Wars game, is coming to Xbox Series X|S, PS5, and PC in 2024.' - www.starwarsoutlaws.com

Apparently, there is a gameplay trailer or gameplay video out for this due sometime on Monday.

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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #69 on: June 12, 2023, 10:16:36 pm »

'Star Wars Outlaws: Official Gameplay Walkthrough | Ubisoft Forward' - 10 minute video from Ubisoft:-

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'Star Wars Outlaws: Gameplay Breakdown By the Developers' - 12 minute Gamespot video with game developer commentary (gives more background & detail):-

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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #70 on: June 13, 2023, 07:35:27 am »
Super.

I've come to realise that I need lots of things to do in a game now - maps to explore, secrets to find, so on, all at my own pace. I bought SW Battlefront 2 the other month, just to play through the single player campaign, and it was so boring I struggled to get through it. Squadrons I gave up on completely. Everything was just so on rails and overly scripted, I was just waiting for the next map marker to appear, just to run/fly towards it, shoot at a dozen things, then wait for the next marker etc. Fallen Order scratched that itch and I'm keen to get on the sequel, just think that I need a new PC at this point as I'm still on a 7th gen i7 with GTX 1070.

So something truly open-world will probably really draw me in if it's done well, at first I thought it might more like an RPG but seems more likely to be a GTA-style caper-em-up (if that's a thing).
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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #71 on: June 13, 2023, 06:20:44 pm »
'Watch the World Premiere trailer of Star Wars Outlaws. Introducing scoundrel Kay Vess in the first-ever open world Star Wars game. Coming 2024.
Cheers mate. That looks right up my alley.

The original Star Wars was the second film I ever saw that the cinema (the first was The Rescuers. I was five). The first three films are unmatched. I've fallen asleep through some of the rest, felt I'd seen it before due to referencing the originals or just not bothered.

That this game is set during the time before trade federations and Mitochondrion nonsense which is perfect. The gameplay trailer shows a perfectly scruffy Star Wars universe the way it should be. There's action in Imperial ships/bases by the looks of things too.


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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #72 on: June 13, 2023, 06:23:08 pm »
Squadrons I gave up on completely
Same here. I really wanted to love it. Played it once.

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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #73 on: June 14, 2023, 06:40:30 am »
Same here. I really wanted to love it. Played it once.

It's just narratively so bizarre, in that it warps you from one side of the campaign to the other as it goes. I couldn't get into the stories at all because they were being presented side-by-side equally. It would have been far better to just have 2 shorter solo campaigns, one as the Rebels & one as the Empire. Same story but the part you play in the other is replaced by a named ace pilot - maybe Keyan Farlander & Maarek Stele. And then each ends in the same one on one dogfight with you playing either role depending on the campaign.
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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #74 on: June 20, 2023, 09:50:48 pm »

This Outlaws game does look promising.

I know what you both mean about some of the other previous games. I still hope for a modern re-do of the old X-Wing PC games - or old Rogue Squadron series on the GameCube!) or even a simple update of 'Star Wars Acrade' - www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiswEP7-z-A ;D
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Re: So, Disney are closing LucasArts.
« Reply #75 on: June 22, 2023, 03:12:16 pm »
I still hope for a modern re-do of the old X-Wing PC games

I think Squadrons is good as we're ever going to get, officially. The era of the true Flight Sim as a major game release is in the past (even if Microsoft keep theirs going).

In heavily related news (regarding TIE Fighter Total Conversion) I do now have my flight stick recovered from my old address and have spent some time mapping preferred buttons in the in-game flight simulator. This weekend I'll be kicking off the Reimagined campaigns... I remember giving the Dimok & Ripoblus a seeing to back in the 90s, time to slap them down again in a new storyline.

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Sadly I don't think similar projects are at the same level for the other 90s games. TIE Fighter just always had the more dedicated fan base.
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