Your profile picture sums up the world’s reaction to this perfectly.

Right. Must of slipped my mind. I usually think of Pure first when I think of BRS.

I guess not being born in time to enjoy the era of great Lucas Arts adventure games askew’s my view heavily about Lucas Arts. Coz in my time, all I ever saw LA did was Star Wars stuff and rarely anything else…

so Monkey Island what happens to that IP!??!

This is about way, way more than Star Wars. LucasArts is a legendary studio that hadn’t sunken to depths any lower than the rest of the modern industry, who didn’t do jack shit to deserve an ambush with a total shutdown. They weren’t to be counted out any more than anyone else, and you can believe they’d have been around for the foreseeable future were it not for Disney.

Let this serve as the greatest recent portent of what corporate acquisition can lead to in this industry; if they can ride in and close down LucasArts, nearly anything is possible. Those bastards have absolutely no fucking respect for this company, the people employed there or the work they’ve done. These people haven’t the slightest fucking clue. A legacy of decades of great, influential games, and a people’s lifeblood gone just to satisfy this timeless bullshit abstract that is the pursuit of diversification followed up by a great, heaping, schizophrenic helping of total conformation to what best tickles an executive’s fancy.

In other words, DON’T BUY SHIT JUST TO FUCK IT UP. You FUCKS.

OK fair enough I agree.

Does anyone speak English here anymore?

“Licensing the franchise out to other developers does not guarantee or increase the odds of getting good games.”

You didn’t. I’m just pointing out that it’s always a crapshoot whoever is making a game. There are no guarantees, and that also means that improved odds aren’t related to outsourcing.

You certainly imply it by acting like the inhouse development only ends in terrible games. Using shovelware as your example.

I can find countless shovelware titles that were outsourced too. Doesn’t mean that they’re all terrible.

Did I use the word guarantee anywhere?

Maybe, they should have kept doing internal development while the quality seemed to actually exist. O: Maybe that’s why they’ve been doing relatively poorly in the past. O:

Stupid.

Licensing the franchise out to other developers does not guarantee or increase the odds of getting good games. If it did, Aliens: Colonial Marines would be the best game ever. Other developers are equally capable of making garbage and of screwing up otherwise good concepts.

The example you used is an undeniably shitty game, but it’s a Kinect game. What were you expecting?