This is the thread for LucasArts alumni/DoubleFine/Telltale games: Psychonauts, Costume Quest, Brutal Legend, Deathspank, Sam and Max, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_xJqkzngBI

RIP totally me-formative games company that I haven't bought anything by in years

if that sounds glib then this sucks and also I read this news 5 minutes before I got to the Iain Banks thread, it's been a bad 5 minutes

RIP LucasArts, for real

yeah i know their best days were behind them but man those were the best days

it seems to me like this might be good news? they weren't doing anything w/ most of their adventure IPs, or making any great adventure games - so why not license some of that stuff out? maybe telltale will get to develop more properties? or do i misunderstand how this works?

That could be something good to come out of this, if Disney allows third-party licensing of their non-Star Wars properties. I think it's more symbolic, though. I don't think Sierra On-Line really got a proper burial, even as it continued to live on.

RIP best games ever but yeah the last amazing game was over 15 years ago.

curse of monkey island was so good that it may have killed the computer adventure game genre -- one reason warcraft adventures was canceled was because it didn't compare.

kind of interesting that Steve Purcell started at Lucasfilm Games and ended up at Pixar, and now they're both owned by Disney.

I like that Steve Purcell is still out there, still posting amusing drawings to his Facebook.

Also, Raven Software released the sourcecode to Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy.

kind of interesting that Steve Purcell started at Lucasfilm Games and ended up at Pixar, and now they're both owned by Disney.

started at Fishwrap iirc, Moncuse popped up w/ new FP in Dark Horse Presents last month

Pay what you want DoubleFine humble bundle on now. So tempted to shell out the $35 and get the new adventure, but I'm far too skint. I might be really fuckin' cheap and pay a ha'penny for Costume Quest and Stacking instead. http://www.humblebundle.com/

Pay a buck just so you can get the Steam keys

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2013/08/20/fables-preview/

high hopes for that one; i own the first ten books of Fables. Should translate well.

he's not as bad as Orson Scott Card but...

telltale announced a game of thrones adventure game. anyone played the fables one yet?

i have. it's pretty lackluster. all the human elements that drove walking dead are sapped with the fairytale stuff. maybe i'm just too familiar with the comic but the exposition is tiresome

i would kinda like to try it but... eh, fuck bill willingham

weirder announcement is definitely the Borderlands game

Note, Broken Age Act 1 keys are available if you kickstarted - should be in your email and redeemable via Humble Bundle store.

Isn't released until the 28th, though. Darnit!

I keep forgetting my steam password

Finally bothered to try Costume Quest in the spirit of the season; SO CHARM.

Need to try the sequel

i loved the first one... and that was the last double fine game i was into
in seeing this thread I remembered a dream i had a few nights ago where i was part of a military caravan going up a road surrounded by a vinery - some sort of mix of the vegetable garden hill climb from the film "Letter to Momo" and the storming of Normandy - and no one knew where we were going when it occurred to me that I had to explain to everyone we were going to DOUBLE FINE HEADQUARTERS
don't remember how that played out

heavy hints that GOG are going to announce LucasArts PC games in a couple of days time

whoo!

whoo x2
lol forks

As expected GOG are going to have LucasArts games - 30 of them apparently! 6 tomorrow, rest to come later.

the first six

Star Wars X-Wing Special Edition
Star Wars TIE Fighter Special Edition
Sam & Max Hit the Road
The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic

hi dere my high school life

Much more excited than I expected to be about X Wing and Tie Fighter.

MAKE THOSE GAMES COME ON MY XBOX YE MIGHTY

Hopefully they DOSBox the '93/'94 versions for Mac - that had the better iMuse soundtrack anyway

tie fighter is prob in my top 3 all time

Gog lets you choose versions of XW and TF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW8W42FXze8

That has really got the feel of Psychonauts. The music definitely helps.

yeah, Peter McConnell always gonna have a place in my heart from the LucasArts days

Broken Age has finally been released. Remember that kickstarter? that seemed to have huge backer money, before Exploding Uno came along? The documentary is probably more notable than the game. It shows how Schafer never makes budget or time concessions, hoping that the game will be a perrennial seller that revolutionizes gaming business.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIhLvue17Sd7F6pU2ByRRb0igiI-WKk3D

Didn't realize the Maniac Mansion thread was in ILM. I guess this is next most appropriate thread:

So the remastered Day Of The Tentacle is out for PC, PS4 and Vita now. Which is supposed to be great but which I've never played, so I'm mostly just excited about playing the embedded Maniac Mansion for the first time in ages.

― I am very inteligent and dicipline boy (Old Lunch), Friday, April 1, 2016 11:44 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Haven't played the remaster but the original DOTT was basically my favourite adventure game, probably my favourite game. I replayed it again recentlyish and I admit the whole point+click adventure thing is a little more frustratingly hunt-the-pixel/trial-and-"I don't wanna" than I'm used to these days but it still stands up pretty well once you get over that, I think. Have fun!

(I may have said this about some other Lucasarts adventure in my ILXing time because Grim Fandango and Monkey Island are up there too)

Any other Thimbleweed Park backers on here?

― a passing spacecadet, Friday, April 1, 2016 1:39 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

DOTT is a wonderful game.

I like to root for Psychonauts as a cult classic in the making, even though I didn't enjoy it quite as much as I wanted to. I also read so many people who say, "I know this is a classic, I'll play it someday" - and then they don't.
― save the robot (save the robot), Friday, 8 September 2006 17:21 (9 years ago)

Hmm, this is me! I loved Lucasarts, loved the sound of this game, kept saying I would play it - and I still haven't. I even got it cheap in some bundle a while ago and it still sits unplayed in my Steam queue.

Also, re DotT, still after all these years it will strike me from time to time that I am walking in a slightly Laverne-like manner, or making a Laverne-like face, and I'll crack up. <3 Laverne

...OK, Psychonauts downloaded, I'm going in!

i should play it too. i actually have it installed and i still haven't touched it. i'll try to remedy that.

In the same boat re: Psychonauts. We should all play together!

psychonauts advice: don't watch the intro movie right away. it's like half an hour long and not that good. play past the warzone area at least, then start a new game to watch the intro.

some of the early levels are kinda nbd, but the mid to late levels are so awesome

it's really a rare example where it really IS worth slogging through the mediocre 5-hour tutorial to get to the wackadoo stuff in the second half of the game

I'm having fun but I don't think I've ever had the 3d-jumping-puzzle skills required for this game