The rumors were swirling, swirling! But they’re no longer rumors, now are they? I’m talking, of course, about LucasArts’ huge announcement that they just made: a whole bunch of their old games will be available on Steam beginning on Wednesday.
The games:
• Armed and Dangerous
• Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure
• LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventure
• LOOM
• Star Wars Battlefront II
• Star Wars Republic Commando
• Star Wars Starfighter
• The Dig
• Thrillville: Off the Rails
There will also be a special edition of Monkey Island coming to Steam and Xbox Live Arcade next week.
Reactions? (NeoGAF seems mixed.) I have played none of those games, but I’m not a PC gamer, so that’s to be expected.
Fate of Atlantis and Loom are both amazing games.
However I will also be purchasing Last Crusade and the Digg as they were both very enjoyable point and click adventures.
What I really want is this to turn into the rebirth of legit LucasArts adventure games. Frankly its nice that they are bringing back special editions and such but what I am more interested in is someone besides telltale making one of these games.
The Sam and Max series is fun and I am sure so will the Monkey Island series, but I want a brand new IP that will bring LucasArts back for real.
WHERE THE HELL IS YODA STORIES!!?!?
This is round 1 of releases. They really only released the largely popular titles. I think the games like yoda stories will come only after they realize how many people are ready to buy all these classic games again.
I mean I bet they never though you would profit off of Indiana Jones and the last Crusade 18 years later.
Soooo, that was the big announcement, aye LucasArts? Ah well. I LOVED The Dig back in the day. Always thought it would be great material for a big budget sci-fi flick.
Funny you should say that, Brent. The original concept for The Dig came from Steven Spielberg. I can’t remember what the exact story was…. Either Steve and George were too busy with other movies, or they didn’t feel the special effects technology at the time could do the story justice in live action, or they thought it would be too expensive…. So George let LucasArts make it into a game instead. :)
If you haven’t played Fate of Atlantis you shouldn’t be a games journalist. Simple as that.
the same applies to Loom
I could not agree more with the sentiments above.
Frankly I don’t trust anyone’s opinion on video games if they are not familiar with classic LucasArts point and click adventure games.