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Sam & Max Sequel Canceled
Pluvius writes "A terse press release from LucasArts, the creator of classic adventure games such as Grim Fandango and the Monkey Island series, reveals that development on Sam & Max: Freelance Police, the planned sequel to Sam & Max Hit the Road, has stopped. Says LucasArts exec Mike Nelson, 'After careful evaluation of current market place realities and underlying economic considerations, we've decided that this was not the appropriate time to launch a graphic adventure on the PC.'" The International House Of Mojo fansite has some editorial comments [original URL] on this move, the second Sam & Max game cancellation in recent years, lamenting: "LucasArts has made a gigantic mistake."
You just know Tom Servo and Crow are going to kick his ass for cancelling something actually funny.
Me and everyone else I know who played the original were waiting for this with wallets drawn and baited breath. Even though we mostly disagreed with some of their design decisions, we were still prepared to buy the game.
Silly lucasarts. Well, I'm off to write them a letter I suggest you do the same.
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Sam & Max would be my candidate for best adventure game of all time. I think a sequel would do well. I know a bunch of friends who were waiting for this one.
Maybe they could cut costs by releasing it as a console game instead?
Jon Acheson
All opinions expressed herein are my own, and not those of my employers, who are appalled.
A lot of people won't agree with me, but the recent graphic adventure games coming from Lucas Arts have been mediocre at best. I don't know if it was their move to 3d or what, but it seems TAXING to get through a game. They seem too easy and lack any fun, after you get through the "introduction phase".
I don't think the market is unwilling to accept another graphic adventure, but rather, unwilling to put up with a boring game.
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
After careful evaluation of current market place realities and underlying economic considerations, we've decided that this was not the appropriate time to launch a graphic adventure on the PC.
Read: "George thinks he'll make enough money off of Episode III and the upcoming Star Wars DVD Set. We'll reconsider when he doesn't have pizza grease dribbling down his shirt."
Trolling is a art,
....looking forward to another inane copy protection scheme where I could play dress up with Sam and Max.
i don't think that was healthy for me at that age.
*kicks off high heels*
-m.
LucasArts is making a huge blunder in canceling this project. Is there no way to convince them that what they are doing is a mistake?
LucasArts cancelled something because it wasn't the right time to milk the most amount of money out of everyone? I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you.
LucasArts also cancelled the sequel to their first Full Throttle game: "Full Throttle: Hell on Wheels", which pissed me off. I was looking forward to that one.
Anymore, if the publisher is LucasArts, I end up thinking, "Nomatter when I buy it, I can guarantee I'm getting soaked. Nevermind."
Damn! I was really looking forward to this.
Sam and Max Hit The Road was a great adventure, with excellent writing and production. It's too bad we'll miss out on a sequel so that another Pod Racer game or somesuch will see the light of day, and our beloved Max won't have a chance to disembowel anyone for our entertainment pleasure.
"Wait a minute...some kid on Slashdot said he and a bunch of his friends wanted to play this game! Who cares what our high-priced marketing team said...let's go ahead and develop the game!"
not the appropriate time to launch a graphic adventure on the PC
Instead, we plan on releasing a text adventure game for the XBox to really confuse some folks. We're sure you'll love the instuction manual on how to type text using your game pad.
People may not play these type of games because they don't exist anymore. People perhaps aren't playing adventure games like Full Throttle that are years old but they also aren't playing FPSs that are years old (let me boot up DOOM II again).
It's a chicken and egg situation. People aren't buying because these games don't exist any more due to the shift in popularity (but mostly hype) to FPSs, RPGs, and sports titles. But knowing that many gamers are older and enjoy games that harken back to earlier times, this game could have been a hit. Could have, but now won't since *POOF* it doesn't exist any more.
God Bless America. Why? Did it sneeze?
I'm looking forward to the Sam 'n' Max RPG, Freelance Police of the Old Republic.
Here's a suggestion for Lucas:
Sam & Max Visit Monkey Island.
Now THERE'S a game I would buy!
My dream game would be Lucas & Sierra teaming up and releasing a new Kings Quest series. Hey, if banks can merge why not Video Game makers? (Oh wait, they are merging, just not the right talent I guess.)
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MMORPG's are really hot right now, and we are busy dumping money into SWG. Yeah, we know that there isn't a lot of room in the MMORPG market, not nearly as much room as in the traditional game market, but we have marketting droids to please. We are clueless and think cartoon games are out. Peace out, consumer slugs.
disclaimer: I didn't read the article. I have never played S&M (the video game anyway). Big fan of Monkey Island series though.
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Something like this doesn't really *need* 3D graphics though. Would The Simpsons be any better if they got Mainframe to do the animation?
If the focal selling point of a game is that it's in 3D, then that game shouldn't be made. Gameplay and entertainment value are why games should be made.
Our server is far too weak to be linked twice from a Slashdot post, but thanks :) Here's what the update said which is now unreadable due to you guys owning our server:
LucasArts Cancels Sam & Max Freelance Police, Resigns Self to Mediocrity
Yep, they've done it. LucasArts has just announced that they've stopped work on Sam & Max 2, saying "After careful evaluation of current market place realities and underlying economic considerations, we've decided that this was not the appropriate time to launch a graphic adventure on the PC."
Don't believe that its possible? Here's the official announcement from LucasArts.com. Our best wishes go out to everyone on the Sam & Max 2 team, who are apprently all still going to be kept on at LucasArts.
To us, the decision seems completely absurd, and not just because "we love adventure games," or something. Surely Sam & Max's production was plagued with troubles, but from the sounds of it so is every game project. Everything that came out about Sam & Max seemed golden. The press was drooling over the game. It looked like they had a sequel going on that, unlike some other recent sequels, was actually going ot get it right. But now, out of the blue, its gone. Which really really makes all of us wonder...
"What the Hell is Wrong With LucasArts?"
an editorial by the staff of Mixnmojo
LucasArts has made a gigantic mistake.
There, we've said it. Everyone else is already thinking it, and other people have probably already said it, but now we've said it too. The official Mixnmojo stance on Sam & Max 2 being cancelled is that LucasArts has seriously screwed up, just about as much as possible.
Production has stopped on the last original game --and the only game really-- anyone around here was genuinely interested in seeing. Cancelled. Why? From the sounds of it, the people in the Sales department spent the last three months winding themselves up about how impossible it would be for them to sell a quirky adventure game, eventually just snapped, and cancelled the title. Is that screwed up? Yes, that is screwed up.
LucasArts has made a lot of really bad moves in the last year. RTX Red Rock was allowed to ship. It tanked hard. Who really thought RTX would be marketable, would sell well, would really catch the attention of gamers? Full Throttle 2, despite a constant stream of negative to lukewarm receptions from magazines and fans, was allowed to live on in production far longer than anyone really wanted.
Armed & Dangerous, one of the few truly original gems LucasArts has dealt with in the last five or six years, was rushed out early by the suits, in hopes of grabbing some Christmas shoppers. This was decided despite Christmas being notorious for huge A-list titles like Lord of the Rings hogging the coverage and hype, and for mothers who know nothing about games being the ones doing the shopping. Not surprisingly, Armed & Dangerous had a poor holiday season. Who knows what might have happened if they'd let Planet Moon refine the game for a few months, and released A&D it in the nearly empty February, after everyone had exhausted their Christmas games and was looking for something new?
Recently, they shipped Wrath Unleashed. For more on Wrath, see RTX a few paragraphs up. And finally, today we receive word that Sam & Max Freelance Police has been axed.
Notice a trend here? Correct. Not one of the recent LucasArts bungles mentioned above contained the two magic words, Star Wars. If you give the suits at LucasArts a Star Wars game, they can sell it. Why? Because they don't have to try! No cleverness is needed. That's not to say it doesn't take any work, but for the most part you just need to get the screenshots out, buy a few ads on Gamespot, and tell the press "yep, it's
this was not the appropriate time to launch a graphic adventure on the PC.
If not this, then what?!?
The genre is dying. And not as much because of less players, but because of less titles released. Young players don't know the tastes, humor, puzzles of Monkey Island style games, they would love them if they saw them - with gfx reaching nowadays standards (at least resolution), but there's no such games. The market is dying.
One thing that could save it would be a few daring, great titles that would shake the game world, attract people, revive the genre, bring profit to the authors. S&M could be one of them.
But it seems, it won't be the case. The time may be actually not appropriate - too late. And it won't be appropriate ever - the genre will die, because "nobody produces because nobody would buy", "nobody buys because nobody knows", "nobody knows because nobody sells or produces".
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The days of PC specific titles are gone. With three, count 'em, three home consoles out there, any game that can't be ported (and be profitable) to at least one of the home consoles is gonna be canned. Yeah, you probably could use a controller to play a graphic adventure instead of a mouse, but I'm sure it would get tedious after a while.
Um, yes. The current market is flooded with adventures.
> underlying economic considerations,
LucasArts is nearly broke and it costs a wagons full of money to develop a current adventure, featuring stunning 2D-graphics and top-of-the-edge anti-aliased text-to-screen synthesisation and multi-single-player no-network support.
"Between strong and weak, between rich and poor [...], it is freedom which oppresses and the law which sets free"
That's because Full Throttle was also cancelled a while ago.
Mailtos (from the article):
Randy Breen - Vice President of Development
Mary Bihr - Vice President of Global Publishing
Michael Nelson - Acting President
They passed up doing a Sam and Max game, but they are willing to beat the Star Wars franchise into the ground?
Who do they think they are? Disney?
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Grim Fandango was one of the best adventures ever done. It had great graphics, great voices, tough but solvable (for the most part, anyway :)) puzzles, incredible creativity, and a truly superb storyline.
It also sold dismally. LucasArts lost their shirt on GF. And that was BEFORE the huge slump in per-title PC sales.
It's possible that gamers really are 'hungry for' this kind of title, but given how most titles are selling these days, that's an awfully big risk to take. They've been burned badly a number of times in providing exactly what gamers are asking for. We may want these things, but apparently there aren't enough of us that want them to make the projects profitable. LucasArts is literally cutting their losses.
It's a shame... I imagine for this kind of game to really see a renaissance, it'll have to be developed in a low-cost country, which would allow them to sell, say, 25K copies and still be profitable.
The code written to date is being sold and folded into the Duke Nukem Forever.
"Where do you keep that gun, Max?"
"None of your damned business, Sam."
.. for whatever crappy Star Wars Game they're putting out next. The last good game Lucasarts made was Escape from Monkey Island, and they haven't done a decent Star Wars game in years (KOTOR was a Bioware game), continuing to shoehorn Star Wars into every damn genre, not giving a toss about quality. Still, I suppose they're in synch with the goals of George himself. I can't honestly say this was a surprise, after Full Throttle 2 was cancelled. Lucasarts has such great properties, yet they keep messing them up. I honestly can't think of any business strategy that would explain that.
But Al Lowe is not involved.
There IS NO SEQUEL.
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This is quite sad.... When you get right down to it, advernture games created solid customer bases for both Sierra On-Line and Lucasarts that provided enough support for those companies to experiment and often succeed with FPS and console games. The problem with those sit-down-and-play games is that they are much worse at building customer loyalty. The largest draw that Sierra had, with Half-Life, has been stolen by the overambitious developers at Valve. While a number of Star Wars games are quite good, they've not helped LucasArts in customer loyalty since failing to follow up X-Wing Alliance.... I know of tons of people who would love the X-Wing concept to get a massive update for today's PC hardware.
I do see one bit of logic in what LucasArts is doing, and it's because they probably don't believe that the new game would surpass the original. Just look at the Monkey Island 1 and 2 compared to the rest of the series. However, I believe those flopped largely because of the teams and writers.... Whereas with this Sam & Max, I believe that Michael Stemmle and Steve Purcell were involved in some way.
The graphical adventure on the PC isn't quite dead... not yet.
:)
Perhaps commercially it is - but look how long the text adventure has been dead, and that's got a thriving fan/development community producing some outstanding stuff.. (To learn more about that google around for "Interactive Fiction", "Inform" or "TADS")
And as for graphical adventures - there's some really neat free graphical adventure development systems (SLUDGE Adventure Game Studio) - and of course, if you just want to play the games, there's plenty of those two, including some very polished efforts, such as Out of Order
In short, don't wait for Lucasarts to make the next great adventure - get stuck in and do it yourself!
Curiosity was framed. Ignorance killed the cat.
that the wine has taken effect.
Why aren't there any adventure games made anymore? RPG's just aren't the same. I managed to satisfy my need for new games for a while by playing the old ones I'd never managed to get to, but that field is getting a little thin. I've got Beneath a Steel Sky and Simon the Sorcerer to finish, and I discovered a surprisingly well-done port of Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars for the GBA, of all things, that I am now working on. but I've pretty much exhausted Sierra and Lucasarts' backcatalogs.
:P Sure, I buy a lot of other games, but these would be instant sales, with no hesitation. Hell, they'd get at least one free sale with crap as long as they stuck "Space Quest" on it.
I guess my old-timer market is getting dried up, and nobody wants to make games for me now that I have the money to buy them.
Why do they think people don't like adventures? Did no one pay attention to Myst?
Anyway, anybody got any obscure adventure game suggestions that I might not have played?
This is a huge disappointment, my favorite games have always been adventure games and the Lucasarts ones have always been the cream of the crop. To see this genre fail and falter wounds me. Doubly so, to see the razor sharp barbed wit of Steve Purcell swept under the carpet yet again. Sam & Max is the funniest comic/cartoon/game I've ever read/watched/played and I was waiting, wallet all a-quiver, to buy this one when it hit. Based on the latest stream of crap pouring from the Lucas media group's outlets, I can only presume George has fallen to the Dark Side, and is even now hatching a plan to slip Ewoks into Ep3.
I don't like this heavy trend Lucasarts has made towards console-based game design and development only. Some games were meant to be PC-only - the goofy controls in the latest Monkey Island installment should prove that. Mouse/kb > gamepad for these kind of games. And don't even get me started on FPS and RTS, both are tailor-made for mice. But going for the largest market is the corporately correct thing to do, so I guess us PC gamers will shiver in the cold winter of sterile gaming, brewing up our own indie adventure games like peasants boiling shoes for soup.
At least Syberia seems to have survived to breed another, even if it had to sell it's soul to the art world to do so. I personally found the game beautiful, aesthetically pleasing, and mind-numbingly boring. A sequel I think of with much the same enthusiasm I would have for a new coffee-table book of log-cabin paintings.
Bring back adventure games! Interactive Storytelling is not dead, it's just been forgotten in the back of the Entertainment Media toy chest, along with Reading Books and Playing Board Games. Email Lucasarts(webjedi@lucasarts.com) and rage against the dying of this light with me. Or just flame them. Or whatever, just make a stir to help make this country safe for domesticated animal crimefighters to thrive in once again.
"Not all who wander are lost" -- JRR Tolkien
It's very much like producing an animated movie, except that you also have to script everything, and put in funny descriptions should the player choose to try the rasp on everything he can see...
And enormous task.
If you google for "grim fandango belt problem" there are a couple of pages that address the difficulty. Here is one that might help ya.
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If it is such a "huge mistake" to cancel this game, why doesn't lucasarts simply "outsource" the rights to make the sequel? In this plan, company X would make the game, sell it, and lucasarts would get %15 profit for doing NOTHING! They can't lose! Plus, they could always have an "up-front" $100,000 licensing fee or something. And also they could stipulate that it is a one-time deal, that they still own 100% of the rights to the game after this one is made.
If Dreamfall is cancelled, then I will seriously flip. Dreamfall is the sequel to The Longest Journey, one of the best adventure games ever. ;)
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Sam & Max fan-GA, anyone?
Now you just need some good artists, writers and voice actors. (Well, there still is the trivial problem of copyrighted characters...)
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
When I was working at LucasArts, I bitched about the same thing. My last full project was Monkey 4 and I still laugh heartily when I play that game.
Grim was fantastically received by the critics, but didn't sell very well.
This is the problem LEC always claims is keeping them from making adventure games: fantastic critical acclaim, little monetary recovery.
Personally, I don't understand it, apart from knowing that an adventure game is probably not likely to sell as many copies as KotoR, but it's still worthwhile.
I wish Sierra Online was still making Al Lowe adventures and the like.
Jory
It's always a good time to release a good game.
I strongly disagree. A lot of good games get BURIED at Christmas time when the market is too saturated with new releases, and you can also kill a game by releasing it too closely to a similar product.
Mythica recently got cancelled for the same reasons. Probably nothing wrong with it, just that there are too many MMORPGs. It may have been the best game ever, but UO, EQ and AC got there first, and the risk of getting buried underneath them was too great.
The PC adventure market is mostly dead. No reason to go into reasons why, but who in their right mind would fund a game in a dead market? Sometimes a game comes along that can surprise everybody, but not that often.
The biggest problem with single player games is piracy. It's just too easy to get a copy from a friend. No amount of CD keys, game-manual copy protection, or anti-burning technologies will ever work.
With multiplayer games, at least the CD-key is checked against a database of CD-keys before the player can play online. I have no doubt this is why Blizzard's battle.net and Half Life's WON systems have been so successful.
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Mr. GF Lucas has about as much hands-on affiliation with LucasArts as does GW Bush with the rest of humanity.
At least when I worked at LEC, George came to visit once in my 2 years...and that was to a company meeting at the nearby Civic Center.
Jory
we've decided that this was not the appropriate time to launch a graphic adventure on the PC Translation: since it's not an FPS, kiddies won't buy it. It's witty, wry, and downright FUNNY. Quick! Yank it! A sad, sad, sign of the times. I played with GLEE the original Sam&Max game ... I guess we've come too far to go back to games being intellectually immersive (RAMA, S&M, etc). :(
Sorry, but unless they have their own marketing data to back this up, it's just the opinion of someone who wanted a Sam and Max game.
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As others have stated Al Lowe isn't working on the new Larry game; however, that doesn't mean it won't be good. Don't condem it before it's out people.
As for SpaceQuest, Sierra had 7 going back in the day but cancelled it. Also they had 7 being developed again but the studio working on it said it was cancelled last month. You can read about it here: http://wiw.org/~jess/sq7.html
If you want to play some of the old Sierra games maybe of the VGA ones won't work properly on modern PCs due to timing issues. Here is a website with patches for the games: http://geocities.com/belzorash/
MobyGames, the reference site for everyone, either involved in the game industry, or just in love with games, has its Top Rated Games: All Time Best list, based on game rankings by registered users :
1 Grim Fandango 4.19 (234 votes)
I'm really impressed by the cluelessness of LucasArts' management.2 Curse of Monkey Island, The 4.14 (168 votes)
3 Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge 4.13 (203 votes)
4 Planescape: Torment 4.12 (189 votes)
5 Day of the Tentacle 4.11 (191 votes)
6 Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis 4.10 (231 votes)
7 Secret of Monkey Island, The 4.09 (285 votes)
8 Super Mario 64 4.08 (67 votes)
9 Fallout 4.08 (230 votes)
10 Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, The 4.07 (64 votes)
Thank you for the addresses. Here is the letter I sent:
To whom it may concern,
As a fan of the original San & Max game, I have looked forward to a sequel for many years. I read the announcement of a planned sequel last year with great excitement. I was disappointed earlier this year when the cancellation of the Full Throttle sequel was announced, but the same announcement seemed to indicate that the cancellation would allow Lucas Arts to concentrate more on its other products, and Sam & Max was mentioned specifically, so I remained silent, and continued to anticipate the Sam & Max sequel.
However, with the latest announcement, it appears that Lucas Arts has lost its desire to innovate, and would rather stick to the same FPS and MMORPG drivel that marks the current industry. Lucas Arts won many a loyal follower, and significant acclaim, for its adventure games. The list of these games is like reading a top ten list for this category. Even Loom was brilliant, though certainly not destined to be an enduring classic. Whoever has decided this gaming genre is dead hasn't been listening to the fans. I can't even count the number of times that RPGs have been declared dead, only to be revived by one game that introduces a whole new generation to their ranks. In fact, Everquest, by far one of the most successful games today - and for the past 3 or so years, is at its core an RPG (hence the "RPG" in "MMORPG"), simply updated and improved with newer technology.
Adventure games have not lost their place in the world. It only takes one company with vision and talent to restore them to the stage - to lead the charge the same way that Command and Conquer started the massive success of RTS games (even though the previous Dune title all but flopped). Your die hard fans had hoped that LucasArts would demonstrate its brilliance and step up to the plate, but apparently mining the Star Wars franchise is all that we can expect from you. Though I am truly disappointed in this step away from leadership and innovation your company has taken, I still hold hope that when the Star Wars franchise has been adequately milked, your management will once again allow the creative talent of your developers to shine, and light the way - no, LEAD the way - into a new golden age of story driven gaming.
Sure, it's harder to create a market, but the created market is also less crowded with competition. And, just by looking at the reaction to this announcement, I have a feeling that you will be receiving a large number of emails expressing disappointment. It is unlikely that you will "un-cancel" a game, even if it can be conclusively demonstrated that the cancellation was a patently bad idea, but I should hope that in a few years, when Lucas Arts is again looking to explore something outside the Star Wars franchise, that Sam & Max will be reconsidered, and the massively under-represented adventure gaming genre can again be catapulted to the glory it deserves. If you still fail to see the importance of this market, there are numerous studies that show that more and more women are starting to play computer games, and so many of the genres that may have fallen from favor can certainly enjoy a new life fueled by this whole new market segment. And since the Adventure genre will stand on its own, just from the older players that still yearn for new and GOOD games of this type, it seems to me that it would be a low risk platform for capturing the female audience.
Thank you for your time in listening to my complaint, and I hope that it inspires you to re-evaluate the direction Lucas Arts has taken regarding this genre.
Oh, was that my outside voice?
LucasArts also recently cancelled Full Throttle 2 . (Although good luck confirming it through official channels thanks to an incompetant web site at LucasArts.)
LucasArts has consistently shipped some of the best adventure games ever. The worst adventure games from LucasArts are still fun. They sell at least tolerably well. The most recent Monkey Island game did, I understand, quite well when ported to the PS2, even though it had been available on PC for a year or two at that point. Full Throttle and Sam & Max Hit the Road are two of the most creative adventure games ever; I know I wasn't the only person eagerly anticipating the sequels. (Sequels suck in general, yes, but LucasArts has proven that it's possible to buck the trend by releasing 4 great Monkey Island games.) Adventure gamers have gone from being able to look forward to two great games to zero. Feh. At least we can look forward to Dreamfall and Syberia 2 .
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That's right. PUSSY.
These big-shit "executives" are such hot shit when they are laying off the division, or stuffing their pockets with a bonus, or making the "big presentation" in a phone commercial, with their wire rimmed glasses glinting in the flourescence.
But when it comes time to take a real risk, they fold like a pair of threes.
Business, as usual, is totally ass-backwards. The tiny companies, with little capital and even less time, are the ones who are REQUIRED to take risks, because the bloated, fat-assed pussy-staffed corporations won't. Business would NEVER move forward if it weren't for small business and entrepreneurs.
The big companies should be financing the risks, because they can AFFORD TO. That's what CAPITAL IS FOR. But no. Better to hoard the capital and starve the market for better ideas.
Guys who put up their shingle and bet it all on one product are the guys with the huevos to get the job done. Not some buffed-shoes, blow-dryed, acronym-dropping fuck who can't make a fucking decision unless there is someone to blame if it goes wrong.
So, instead of just putting the cards down and CALLING THE FUCKING BET, some bullshit committee has to turn this near sure thing into some half-assed editorial about graphic adventures on the PC.
Well guess what, uppity-fuck. Graphic adventures could buy and sell most other genres four times before Corn Flakes. The second-best selling PC game of all time is a graphic adventure, with over SIX MILLION UNIT SALES. This horseshit attitude is what tried to cancel the Sims and what delayed Everquest for three years while management built a little gazebo of "not my fault" around their ever-widening pock-marked asses. Of course, they were first in line to stuff their pockets when the tall dollars arrived.
They said the Sims wouldn't work. They said Everquest wouldn't work. They said Star Wars would fail. Again and again and again some "executive" says "it'll never work."
Well they were WRONG.
This kind of thing makes me shoe-puking sick.
Business isn't willing to pay for products, innovation and careers, so we get brands, mortgage commercials and layoffs.
If you want to help save Sam and Max 2 (if it's even possible at this point) or just let LucasArts know how big of a mistake they made, so it won't happen again next time:
Sign the online petition at PetitionOnline. http://www.petitiononline.com/LACOSAM/petition.htm l
Also, send e-mail to LucasArts!
pr@lucasarts.comwebjedi@lucasarts.com
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If you've never played the first one and never will... why not read the game read the game?
Tim Schafer (Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango) - Working on Psychonauts (Xbox) at Doublefine Entertainment
Hal Barwood (Fate of Atlantis) - making terrible games at Lucasarts (most recently RTX Red Rock)
Michael Stemmle (Sam and Max) - Project leader on the now-canceled sequel; previously co-designed Escape from Monkey Island
Sean Clark (Sam and Max, The Dig) - Project leader on the now-canceled Full Throttle 2; co-designed Escape from Monkey Island