Had arrived April 1st, we all thought it was the classic fish. The communication of the decision to close the offices of Disney LucasArt is unfortunately not a joke and this choice is not only the company leave home several workers but makes the point on one of the software company that wrote several pages of the History of Videogames.
We stress that this is not a goodbye but a see you as Disney said that the choice could be temporary . In fact, we will never know if the plans for our Mickey Mouse will never be second thoughts.
Founded by George Lucas, LucasArts was created in 1982 and began a collaboration with Atari, distributing in fact two titles Ballblazer and Rescue on Fractalus .From this point begins the climb to the success of the working group, which thanks toManiac Mansion, Zac McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and especially The Secret of Monkey Island title with which he managed to find its way success.
Can not forget those glorious years , at which time we faced adventure games can range between a seriousness almost dark in the most colorful and humorous adventures sbeffeggianti. How many times have we died during the fisticuffs between Indy and the Nazi guards in the castle? Or drowned in the pool of the villa of Manic Mansion? But above all, how many laughs we tore the bread of Zack McKraken that destroys the sidewalk as if it were a shot of Mark Lenders ?
Of course, the very quintessence was then enhanced thanks to the desire to become a pirate blond Guybrush Threepwood (amazing I still remember how to spell it), which quickly won our hearts in flying stunts with the Capuchin Brothers and insults during clashes with the sword . How many nights we lost in an attempt to reach Monkey Island on board the damn ship with those three bloody mutiny?
Let's face it, we had fun. And a lot, especially when the next day at school the few nerds like us who had Monkey Island confronted in order to understand how to solve the puzzles.Those four disks for Amiga 500 do not ever forget, as those eleven of The Secret of Monkey Island 2: Le Chuck's Revenge and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. I remember like it was yesterday the hours spent with my mother in trying to solve the devious puzzles, really hard for that my tender age.
Day of Tentacle, Sam & Max: Hit on the Road, Loom, Day of Tentacle, Full Throttle, The Curse of Monkey Island and especially The Dig we have addressed all in one go, then landing on the screens of Grim Fandango , first title which dismissed the motion SCUMM engine in favor of 3D polygonal models at depths in two dimensions .
Meanwhile spent almost twenty years, at which time arrives on the shelves Escape from Monkey Island , the only episode that did not fully convinced, perhaps because of the 3D graphics and some puzzles really meaningless. Lucasarts would also have had to develop the next chapters of Sam & Max and Full Throttle but the projects did not go through.
It then jumps to 2009, when he accepted the LucasArts collaboration with TellTale, who gave birth to Tales of Monkey Island , dusting off the brand completely dormant for years.
But it was not only Lucasarts adventure game . The company is also interested in securities military background as PHM Pegasus and Strike Fleet , then moved toBattlehawks 1942 , followed by Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain and ending the trilogy with Secret Weapon of the Luftwaffe . The dialog war ended in 1991.
The vein of armed conflicts Lucasarts but did not stop. The software company has contributed to the development of the shooter genre thanks to all the games based on Star Wars . I remember like it was yesterday the way back in 1995, when I found the real alternative to Doom. I'm obviously talking about Star Wars: Dark Forces , a brand that also saw a sequel can take advantage of 3D graphics cards only two years later. Star Wars: Dark Forces I I was embellished with a real expansion Mysteries of the Sith , followed then by Jedi Outcast in 2002.
My fantasies became reality at last . Firing the laser guns in first person, albeit digital, having seen countless times the epic Star Wars was an amazing feeling, and that sound like the original was too galvanizing. Environments then remembered very closely what we saw at the cinema, even if it were a sea of colored pixels. actually at the time the claims were not as there was enough and actually see something that had C-3P8 and his trusty companion R2-D2 , the imagination would do the rest .
From this point Lucasarts decided to concentrate its efforts in the development of games based on the universe of Star Wars . The role-playing game Knights of the Old Republic (Kotor to his friends) was created in collaboration with BioWare and it was a real success. Three-dimensional environments, narrative techniques to scream and all components of the classic RPG Kotor turned into a success, that the same programmers tried to replicate with Knights of the Old Republic: The Sith Lords , for the occasion by inserting a good story and voice acting perfectly ricreato.L 'adventure, however, was criticized because of a host of additional features cut so as to distribute the game as soon as possible.
As a good nerd I would not have been able to lose the period MMORPG thanks to the creation of Star Wars: Galaxies but I admit that I had a great time with Star Wars: Battlefront . Purchased on the Xbox, the shooter was able to attract players in clashes in network incredible. Even the same Battlefront II has enthralled many users especially with new battles and the introduction of a player Jedi.
The pinnacle of success in recent years has been achieved by mercenaries , a product created in collaboration with Pandemic Studios, released in 2005.
With the advent of Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Wii, LucasArt tried the way of high definition. Thanks to the graphics engine Digital Molecular Matter and Euphoria routine management of IA developers created Star Wars: The Force Unleashedand Star Wars: The Force Unleashed I.
Lucasarts but falls under the blows of the economic crisis and, as mentioned above, is to delete projects dedicated to follow Sam and Max and Full Throttle. Later was acquired by Disney and then be closed only yesterday, the third day of April 2013.
The company unfortunately had to deal with a reality that is developing, in which the production costs of the games have risen in clout. At the same time gamers changed direction and left the two-dimensional graphic adventures in respect of work technically pumped.
The decision to move the focus on the shooter was certainly apt, but in a time when titles such as Halo, Socom, Killzone, Rainbox Six spradroneggiavano and the like, be a space between public statements was not so easy.
Lucasarts has however shown his true ability in ancestral adventure games now, thanks to the plots prepared for the occasion, which have really touched the heart of every gamer who has faced. Let's face it, that chicken with a pulley in the middle we really want to own it.
We just have to say goodbye to Lucasarts, with the nostalgia with which he says goodbye to a friend who is leaving for distant shores.
Lucasarts goodbye, goodbye indeed.
PS
Council for gamers who do not know the brand The Secret of Monkey Island. Apart from the five dutiful minutes of shame behind the whiteboard class used the history of the video game, forget about motion engine and incredible frantic action for a moment. Download the game and close combat at least once, you will be truly amazed by a production that almost thirty years later is able to capture the audience with the verve of its characters and the story told.
Then extend the advice to other adventure games of LucasArt and have the courage to face a series of adventures that have been able to dream the boys at the time, who still remember precisely every puzzle with its solution, proposed.
PS2
Some of you have raised Maggie in The Dig? I never had the courage to betray his will and I missed the alternate ending.
PS 3
As requested by our member Sergio fact we list the names of the titles listed in the various screenshots.
- The Secret of Monkey Island
- The Dig
- Grim Fandango
- Star Wars: Battlefront
- Knight of the Old Republic
- Sam & Max
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