Defragged wrote:

> Drinian wrote:
>> Hey now, LucasArts is the videogame division of the company, that created
>> such classics as Monkey Island, Loom, and (yes) TIE Fighter. Don't argue,
>> or I'll challenge you to a round of insult sword-fighting.
> 
> Just out of curiosity, what are your views on the recent cancelling of
> Sam 'n' Max Freelance Police?
> 
> Of course, if your answer will lose you your job then feel free to
> ignore this request ;-)

Well, they don't have this email, so no problem... not to mention they
haven't hired me *yet*... here's to hoping :)

I've never played the original Sam n Max, unfortunately. Sometime hopefully
I'll be able to get a copy at a reasonable price and use that SCUMM
emulator, whatever it's called, to play it.

But this was a huge mistake for Lucasarts, I think, and might herald the end
of the adventure-games segment of the industry if it's not already dead.
Lucasarts is one of the only companies still developing new adventure games
(the cancelled Full Throttle 2, the cancelled SnM 2, the rumored Monkey
Island 5), but I guess they don't want to take the risk of actually
releasing innovative games now. As someone on Slashdot pointed out, they
could update the graphics on TIE Fighter and I would buy it, not to mention
a pack of all their old adventure games in a format playable by a modern
PC. To a certain extent they're a very different company than they used to
be... maybe they got too big.

As for me, I still have most of Monkey Islands 3 and 4 to play through,
having bought them both years ago and never gotten to them, so I still have
Lucasarts adventure games that are "new to me" to look forward to. But,
bottom line: if SnM 2 was funny and well-done, it would have turned a
profit, regardless of the lack of familiarity most of the younger gamers
have with adventure games.

Hmm, now that I think about it, I should have started my cover letter to
them "my name is Guybrush Threepwood, and I'm a mighty software developer!"
-- 
Drinian: http://slashdot.org/~sailracer6/journal/