Clone Wars Season 5 ends this weekend. Probably the last episode to air on Cartoon Network. Makes me wonder what CN is going to do now. With Clone Wars going away and the apparent cancellation of Green Lantern and Young Justice, and the long since dead ThunderCats reboot, they don't seem to have anything that can really draw anyone now except maybe Dragons: Riders of Berk.
Clone Wars Season 5 ends this weekend. Probably the last episode to air on Cartoon Network. Makes me wonder what CN is going to do now. With Clone Wars going away and the apparent cancellation of Green Lantern and Young Justice, and the long since dead ThunderCats reboot, they don't seem to have anything that can really draw anyone now except maybe Dragons: Riders of Berk.
I've never quite minded Requiem for a Dream. Yeah, it was overused for awhile (for good reason... conveys epic quite nicely) but I haven't heard it in years. The sound mixing on the trailer wasn't that good though. That and it was too long. Should have cut all the talking at the beginning and just used the actions shots with maybe one or two bits of dialogue spliced in between. Maybe I have no taste, but in my mind, trailers are meant to either be flashy and attention grabbing or subtle and intriguing.
I liked Young Justice but at some point lost interest. It had good animation, and I loved that Robin took inspiration from The Shadow....but it also had an awful Joker, and it's pretty hard to screw that up.
Thundercats was good, but I couldn't get really interested in it either.
Green Lantern could have been the best thing in existence and I would've given it a pass for the 3D animation. And the Guardians, my least favorite comics characters.
Turns out we don't have to wonder if Clone Wars will move on to Disney. Season 5's finale was not only the season, but the series finale. In retrospect, I couldn't have picked a better way to end the series.
Okay, LucasArts, seriously... What. The. ****?! So, not only Star Wars 1313 was shelved, but First Assault was shelved too (and, the info is that Disney had nothing to do with both projects being frozen).
LucasArts. Get your shit together. You haven't released anything good ever since the remakes of Monkey Island and greenlighting TellTale's ToMI (and the president who was responsible for that awesomeness was fired). And now you're shelving games that have the potential to be, gee, I don't know, good?!?!?!
LucasArts are basically unsure about what to do with these games thanks to the buyout from Disney, and they're unsure whether to go ahead with them or not. So if you want to blame anyone, blame the House of the Mouse.
I thought it was common knowledge that, whenever a new LucasArts president takes over, the pet projects of the previous president are immediately shelved indefinitely or outright cancelled. See Battlefront 3, all external development, and the endless lineup of canned adventure games.
Harmy very recently released v2.1 of "Star Wars" (aka. A New Hope) on AVCHD in his "Despecialized" theatrical restoration project. I have to say that it looks fantastic. (It's on Myspleen if anyone is interested.)
Pardon me if I fixate on Star Wars references for a while around here.
...Seriously, every Star Wars fan who remembers the OT from before the SE's should watch these.
Unless that means they're selling off LA's other licenses (since apparently they're only interested in Star Wars). Quick, TT, go spend some of that Walking Dead money!
I hope they do something with the licenses. In theory, if the entity to be known as Lucasarts becomes a "licensing model," then if a third party developer contacts them about licensing a game based on one of their properties, maybe they'll actually take the time to consider it. Or not, who knows. Maybe they'll have a sign on the door saying "Star Wars inquiries only"
Sucks that people had to be laid off but you wonder what they've even been doing there for the past couple of years.
True. It's sad in a nostalgic kind of way, but it's not like Lucasarts has been a good game company in a long time. This may actually prove to be good news. Or it may be the last nail in the coffin for some of those franchises.
Too bad about 1313, but that thing was dead the second the last president left. Tradition is that the new incoming leadership kills the projects of the outgoing leadership.
Edit: Actually, 1313 is not officially, truly, 110% dead yet. It might be saved if the Disney Overlords deems it worthy of being licensed out.
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Palpatine = Papaltine.
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Coincidence?
Clone Wars Season 5 ends this weekend. Probably the last episode to air on Cartoon Network. Makes me wonder what CN is going to do now. With Clone Wars going away and the apparent cancellation of Green Lantern and Young Justice, and the long since dead ThunderCats reboot, they don't seem to have anything that can really draw anyone now except maybe Dragons: Riders of Berk.
That's what I keep hearing, which makes it even more astounding that it's not going for another season.
Thundercats was good, but I couldn't get really interested in it either.
Green Lantern could have been the best thing in existence and I would've given it a pass for the 3D animation. And the Guardians, my least favorite comics characters.
http://firewireblog.com/2013/03/06/george-lucas-art-museum-is-coming-to-san-francisco/
Those always crack me up.
I snorted when I read that! XD
Wow, someone's in high spirits!
Turns out its all a thin white line.
Turns out we don't have to wonder if Clone Wars will move on to Disney. Season 5's finale was not only the season, but the series finale. In retrospect, I couldn't have picked a better way to end the series.
LucasArts. Get your shit together. You haven't released anything good ever since the remakes of Monkey Island and greenlighting TellTale's ToMI (and the president who was responsible for that awesomeness was fired). And now you're shelving games that have the potential to be, gee, I don't know, good?!?!?!
Sure, they released the Monkey Island SE's and licensed ToMI, but that's the exception for them, not the rule.
Pardon me if I fixate on Star Wars references for a while around here.
...Seriously, every Star Wars fan who remembers the OT from before the SE's should watch these.
Unless that means they're selling off LA's other licenses (since apparently they're only interested in Star Wars). Quick, TT, go spend some of that Walking Dead money!
Sucks that people had to be laid off but you wonder what they've even been doing there for the past couple of years.
What about the games currently in development? 1313? That First Strike thing? I was interested in those!
Well, shit.
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On the plus side, they may very well be open to other companies doing stuff with their various IPs now. More Monkey Island, anyone?
I was kinda curious about 1313 though.
Not from Telltale, apparently. Reading that, it feels like LucasArts just died twice in the past half hour
Edit: Actually, 1313 is not officially, truly, 110% dead yet. It might be saved if the Disney Overlords deems it worthy of being licensed out.