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I’m a die hard Sierra fanatic, so I don’t feel too bad posting this here, but I had to mention to the fellow gaming community that Sam and Max 2, from Lucas Arts.. almost at completion, has been cancelled.
Link: http://lucasarts.com/press/releases/85.html(http://lucasarts.com/press/releases/85.html)
I’m pretty angry about it – been looking foward to this game for a year now. Part of the reason I wanted to post this was to inform any fellow users that might have had their hopes up on this game, and at the same time ask Ken what he thought about this, and maybe give us some insight about economic times (as the press release mentioned) effecting a game that was about 90% complete, and what his suspicions might be about the future of Sam and Max, and of Lucas Arts and the adventure era.
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(Re: Sam and Max 2 Cancelled – Ken Comments?) To give Ken a bit more knowledge of the situation in case you don’t know… LucasArts also cancelled their Full Throttle sequel. This is another of LucasArts’ classic, original adventure games.
The Full Throttle sequel was not meeting with good reactions from the fans though. S+M, on the other hand, from only a couple of screenshots, was very well received.
And now, it’s been substantiated that LucasArts is working on a fifth Monkey Island game, another of their popular original classic adventure games. I don’t doubt that this game too will be canned in good time.
The LA press statement on the cancellation of S+M was absolutely ridiculous. It was basically a one-liner from some PR guy that demonstrated a complete incompetence and lack of understanding of the classic LucasArts fan base that is out there.
LucasArts, just as Sierra, has stopped selling their early games (though they did sell them for much longer after the fact than Sierra did (which was not at all), mostly in collections, after the fact meaning for Sierra when Sierra was sold, and for LucasArts when they stopped making adventure games). Now, as has been commented on elsewhere, LucasArts is all about Star Wars and pretty much nothing else. This is very sad.
By the way Brad, where did you read that S+M was almost at completion? I doubt that was the case. -
(re: Sam and Max 2 Cancelled – Ken Comments?)
With Sam and Max 2 I figure it went like this: they would have been able to finish development in a few months as scheduled at no great cost and the game would have been profitable. However, Star Wars games, even bad ones, are more profitable. From a short-term financial perspective Lucasarts made the right decision in shifting all of that labor over to a more profitable Star Wars game (which is what I assume happened – nobody was laid off). Obviously though the fan backlash has been huge…we’ll see how much longer people will keep buying any crap Star Wars game.
I’m actually a bit upset that Lucasarts published Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, which got and still gets rave reviews. I’m going to wind up buying it soon, and wish it wasn’t them who put it out (development wasn’t done by them though).
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(re: Sam and Max 2 Cancelled – Ken Comments?)
Hey there Sierra Fans!!!
Lucas needs some help – can we lend a hand???
There’s a Sam -N- Max petition here if you’re interested:
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