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Sam and Max 2 to Remain Cancelled

Posted by Zonk on Monday January 31, 2005 @05:23AM from the dangit dept.

Doomstalk writes "In the last couple of months, rumors on the possible resurrection of LucasArts' Sam and Max: Freelance Police grew in gaming circles. The rumors mentioned a new, mysterious games publisher called Bad Brain that was willing to raise money in order to buy the rights to an unnamed adventure game from LucasArts. Many thought this was too good to be true. Unfortunately, they were proven right, as Bad Brain revealed the news that negotiations with LucasArts over the rights to Sam and Max 2 have been discontinued."

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I left with King's Quest 6 by BTWR · 2005-01-31 05:35 · Score: 2, Insightful

King's Quest 6 was the last great adventure game I truly loved. I tried 7 and 8, never liked them much. Quest for Glory 5 didn't interest me after a few minutes. Those old Lucasarts adventures were awesome (Indy Atlantis, The Dig, Full Throttle, etc).
R.I.P. adventures...
just call them fax and bam. by gl4ss · 2005-01-31 05:37 · Score: 2, Insightful

and get over it.

if you need the licensed characters you didn't have any jokes to start with anyways.

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Re:Cue the standard /. replies... by TRACK-YOUR-POSITION · 2005-01-31 10:45 · Score: 2, Insightful

I'm not sure if Beyond Good and Evil should be counted with those other ones--gameplay wise, it probably has more similarities with Zelda: Wind Waker.
I don't think it's that adventure games have died, it's that the audience for them has shifted to story-centric RPGs or action/adventure games. Given the growth of networked games (massively multiplayer or otherwise), we may eventually consider them all to be the same genre--single-player story-based games.