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LucasArts may resurrect adventure games
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While LucasArts may be trying its best to promote its new Star Wars games, as well as future warfare title Fracture, there’s a whole generation of gamers who fondly remember the twinkling LucasArts logo appearing as a precursor to a Monkey Island or Indiana Jones game. It’s now been five years since LucasArts laid off its adventure game division, but the company has revealed that it could be rethinking this move.
In an interview with EuroGamer, LucasArts’ PR manager, Chris Norris, said: ‘I would love to see new adventure games coming out. A lot of people will say they feel like the adventure game genre is dead. I don't think it is.’ As well as this, assistant producer on Fracture, Jeffrey Gullett, told the site that ‘We've got a lot of pride in our heritage and it's definitely something we're still leaving open.’
The pair also admitted that they get asked about a potential adventure game revival a lot, showing that it’s often a hot topic in interviews. However, Norris also said: ‘The decision is taken at a pay grade higher than ours,’ and went on to suggest that today’s games were just a progression of adventure games, saying ‘I think we're still making adventure games but they're a little bit different than before with survival horror games and the like.’
However, Monkey Island’s designer Ron Gilbert, disagrees on his Grumpy Gamer blog, saying: ‘Some people will tell you that Adventure Games aren't really dead, they have just morphed into other forms, or that other genres have absorbed Adventure Games. If this is true, they've done a pretty bad job of it.’ Gilbert is currently the creative director at Hothead games, which developed the recently launched Penny Arcade adventure game, On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness.
Is there a gap in the market for a new LucasArts adventure game? Let us know your thoughts.
Via EuroGamer
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oh I remember playing these games when I got my first 486dx2, they are awsome!!! I later got the SCUMVM emulator on my PSP and have them all again so they are far from dead. Would be great to see a port on the WII or something :P
Comment by maximus07 at 2:03pm 4th June 2008
I remember playing Grim Fandango, was one of the first games i ever bought bring em back i say!
Comment by dr4ygon at 12:38pm 3rd June 2008
I've started playing Monkey Island 1 again through Scummvm! It may look old but its still really funny and really cleverly done. I think there is a market for these games now, but without a good story and bucketloads of humour there's no point.
Comment by gavomatic57 at 9:36am 3rd June 2008
The genre would be difficult to resurrect. Patience is at an all-time low, and these puzzles could be very trying at the best of times. I remember many times becoming stuck in a game and resorting to wandering around the entire map testing every item in my pack against every hookpoint in the gameworld. I can't see people having the patience to do this anymore. I would suggest that the natural successor to these have been the Bioware-style RPG games such as Knights of the Old Republic. I think it would be feasible to resurrect games such as Grim Fandango and Monkey Island in a RPG format.
Comment by RickA at 8:50am 3rd June 2008
Dude you dont know how wrong you are. First of all you might have to buy a new console every three years not one. In that time you've probably had two PC upgrades if you want to play the latest PC games the way they were designed to be played. Are you telling me you are happy to turn off the eye candy to play the latest games? Consoles have the widest user base my friend as there is no resolution to worry about, no AA and AF to set, no upgrades to make Crysis run, etc Its a console and a game which work together right out of the box - certainly not what you suggest that you have to buy a new console every year to play the latest game. Ironically that is certainly the way of the PC though! P.S. I'm not pro-console, I have both.
Comment by pveater at 7:47am 3rd June 2008
11 Floppys on an Amiga 500 was my memory of monkey island spent more time swapping discs than playing ... but still one of the best games of today. When I moved house I found a stash of discs that i had a little play around with ... beneath a steel sky , the dig , grim fandango , full throttle , indiana jones fate of atlantis etc... if they could update the graphics a little these games would sell again ... or sequels ... sequels would be good.... I have the whole season 1 of sam and max ... although have yet to play them they were defo good games in their day ... maniac mansion ... day of the tentacle another two that come to mind .. I would buy the sequels to any of the above...
Comment by akoli at 4:10am 3rd June 2008
The only game other than an adventure I'd say did well in dialogue is probably planescape: torment... and just maybe portal... but that was a bit one sided
Comment by NewParadigm at 9:36pm 2nd June 2008
So many fond memories of Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, Leisure suit Larry, Indiana Jones. I miss them all and I for one will be very happy if they resurrect the adventure games of yore. =)
Comment by onnie at 8:36pm 2nd June 2008
Monkey Island is a 5 game series, and it's a whole big fantasy where a kid gets separated from his family at a theme park then his brother Chuckie tries to bring him back. Whoops! Did I spoil something there? :P But of course there are going to be more games.
Comment by TWeaKoR at 5:30pm 2nd June 2008
Well I will go so far as to say Lucas Arts was built by the PC game player, starting with such titles as X-Wing and Tie Fighter, but look how they treat the PC now. If they are going offer the same level of support they offer on star wars EAW and FOC which in a nut shell is bugger all, I don’t see any reason they should bother. They are bringing out a new battlefront game, but on the PC ‘NO’ psp only. PC owners have been playing the battlefront games online for years and do they get any rewards for being dedicated players, again NO. The PC is such a versatile machine which you can select the game display spec pending machine spec, meaning it has a far wider user base than buying a new games console every other year to play the new games on. If you want to play a new game on a PC set the display spec at lower, but on a console sorry got to buy a new one. So unless they are going to offer top rate support for any new PC games, its waste of time buying them.
Comment by don_jarr1 at 5:33pm 2nd June 2008
HAHA I loved Grim Fandango, I'd love another similar adventure game.
Comment by DC187x64 at 4:49pm 2nd June 2008
Sorry, Custom PC comments are now closed.
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