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How LucasArts Fell Apart

»kotaku.com/how-lucasarts-fell-ap···01731043

A GREAT piece by Kotaku.

The TL:DR version is that management was so utterly incompetent, they destroyed both the reputation of goodwill LucasArt had AND they also killed creativity.

This piece has also confirmed what I always thought: Lucas art is a terrible director. All this man has is a creative imagination. The original trilogy, considered classics, had their scripts re-written almost entirely (by Lucas' ex-wife) and he didn't direct alone, nor had Lucas direct and complete control for the prequels.

He did for the sequels, and we all know how that turned out. Some of the worse dialog written for film appear in these movies.

Lucas and other incompetent managers ruined a company that was once respected on the same level as Bioware pre-EA acquisition, Bethesda, etc.

The good news is that crowdfunding has sort of bypassed these idiotic people by allowing fans to put money into the hands of devs who actually know what they're doing and talking about.

Can you imagine working on a game for two years, then have triple-chin-asshole Lucas walk in the building and declare we're scrubbing it all or we're changing the game so dramatically we need to make extensive changes in all departments, without ever consulting anyone?

Lucas is regarded as some visionary by so many clueless people. The original movies happened through a LOT of collaboration, whereas the new movies were 100% under Lucas' supervision, and I do mean 100%. If you watch the behind the scenes stuff on the DVD, you'll have plenty of proof.

Mark Hamill once said about all the criticism the movies received that it had no place because the movies turned out exactly like Lucas wanted. He said the series was his, the franchise was his, and every second of the sequels are as they are because this is how he imagined it, and people would have to find a way to deal with it.

Well, now LucasArt is dead and Disney has Star Wars in it hands. I bet if you told that to the legions of fans in 1983 when Jedi came out, they'd laugh their ass off.

Maybe his new tranny wife can help him spend all those billions he made by not being a good director.
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»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Lu···ts_games

I remember back in the day playing the classic games that were a blast to play. Star Wars X-Wing and Tie Fighter were two of my all time favorites. Then you have the early Jedi Knight games which were a blast. The last good game they came out with was Star Wars KOTOR. After that, things just started going downhill.

I am glad to see Lucas sell the Star Wars franchise to Disney. That was a great move. Now, we will see new Star Wars movies every year instead of having to wait years or never seeing any. I would love to see a Boba Fett movie too.

As for Lucasarts, I hope to see better quality games come out from them. As you said, they need to get rid of the crappy management and start over. They have a ton of games they could make, and I hope to see them rise from the ashes in the future.

This article just reaffirms my belief that you can have the best content, and still fail when it comes to making games if you don't have the right people. The Star Wars games used to sell themselves, and now they are a laughing stock.
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Personally, I'd love to see a single player Star Wars game, based off the same type gameplay and open world setting like Batman Arkham City. Now that would be badass.

It'll probably never happen though.

Nice article.

I remember reading about this game and the pundits suspected it would be a mature game. While a GTA V style mature game in the Star Wars universe sounds great, I just don't see that happening. GTA V is clearly not a PG-13 related game. Star Wars has a brand to protect, and I wish they would lift that a bit to make it more mature, but it doesn't surprise me why they won't make it more mature.

Still, they could have made a GTA V style game without the maturity issue. That would have been awesome. Why the dork manager stepped in and at least didn't push to get this game done is shocking.
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a Star Wars themed GTA style game, That would have been awesome if done right. And by done right I mean giving most if not all of the city planet to roam. From the Seedy depths to the cleanest spires. (Naturally 7 stars would be them sending the Jedi after you LOL)
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Your right she doesn't in that pic. I was just being jealous and bitter.
He is a damn lucky guy to have been in that position to get all those creative people together to create his works.
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SWTOR is dead to me, anyway.

It was the last straw.

The Lucas hate is strong with this one. Star Wars came from the mind of George Lucas. One of the greatest fantasy worlds ever. You're a hater. That's all.

At worse I'm an informed hater, which is always better than a blind fanboy.

as the article states, in the OP, Lucas didn't seem to understand how anything, other than a movie, was made. His constant reworks and lack of honesty in the people around him were the downfall of said company.

So let me get this straight, the original trilogy, which everyone loved, and games such as x-wing vs tie fighter, jedi knight and such which people considered good shows that Lucas didn't know anything. The prequel such as much I didn't like was like the original trilogy, it was made for kids. The biggest thing with Star Wars is we all grew up and we wanted something more serious and Lucas was still making things for kids.