[General Discussion] Most Wanted 2009. Worms 2 Armageddon or GTFO

I'm on the out with forthcoming video game news so I can only profess to being interested in two things:

1.) Forthcoming Indiana Jones Game
2.) DLC for Left 4 Dead

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by OmagnusPrime

Also, LeHah: that forthcoming Indiana Jones game has been forthcoming for about 4 years or so no, I wouldn't be holding my breath for a 2009 release. But then again, you never know.

I have it on very good authority its still in the chute, despite Lucasarts cuts.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Just got an email - the nextgen Indiana Jones has been offically canned.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by OmagnusPrime

I wish I could say I was surprised, but I'm not. Though amusingly, I swear I saw some news either today or a few days ago from LucasArts saying they were commited to a next-gen Indy game. Oops.

The plan was to start with a small unit of programmers and then shift people from the Force Unleashed team when that game was finished. Crystal Skull stuff sold badly (because people are dumbasses) and Lucasarts decided to take less of a chance and put more people on TFU2, which requires far less in way of manpower and preproduction.

(Lucas also killed Battlefront and the Lego line a few weeks back. That just leaves Force Unleashed 2 and the KoTOR online game in development, AFAIK.)

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by OmagnusPrime

Given the Indy game could quite easily avoid the issue a lot of people seemed to cite with Crystal Skull (old Indy) I really don't see why it was all that risky.

I don't think Indy's age was the problem with the movie (frankly, there was no discerning problem with the movie - it was one of the biggest films of 2008 by a pretty wide margin, and the people who argued against it were the lowest form of life possible - internet reviewers) but the fact that the surrounding material sold very badly. Stuff like board games and Halloween costumes and action figures didn't fly off the shelves; look at The Phantom Menace - the movie was ripped to shreds by everyone but the toys sold really well none-the-less.

This last game was slated to come out around the time of the film, but ended up getting dicked in much the same manner as the Superman Returns game.

I was speaking idiomatically.