The Slowdown have posted a new retrospective editorial that discusses LucasArts and the company's sudden, if not surprising, move to the digital distribution space, noting that while the recent SCUMM releases - taking into account Aaron Giles' involvement - had a wildly successful launch, the Jedi Knight Collection was released with several glaring issues.
The article also speculates as to what possible effect these errors might have on the players' view and conception of the company, in turn bringing up and analysing the term of goodwill, and how it might relate to the company's celebrated - and chequered - past.
While the article especially focuses on Jim Ward's tenure in-between the years 2004-2008, it also relates to us some of the company's greatest achievements in citing examples from the book "Rogue Leaders" - also noting that during Ward's reign, antipathy, worry and fan resentment towards the company's apparent misdirection was at an all-time high.
Finally, the article discusses what we might expect from the company in the near future.
Nightdive Studios announced Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster and Sector had the opportunity to try the game in a demo and talk to the authors.
Played this a lot on PS1 as a kid, great to see another 90s boomer shooter being brought back by Nightdive!
Boomer shooter is a retarded take on calssic FPS, boomers were in the 50's, not 90's.
It released in the early 90s so boomers were in their 30 to 50s and were the ones buying these games for their genX kids. A retarded take would be saying someone born the year a game releases is the target audience.
@Brain, more like in their 50's onwards, gaming wasn't anywhere near as popular then as it is now, so the majority of people playing those games would have been Gen X.
Boomer shooter is retarded.
@NoFan I know what a baby boomer is, the fact that shooters from the 90's are called boomer shooters is retarded.
okay? not sure why you seem so pressed about the term boomer shooter, it's often used to describe shooters in that style from the 90s as I'm sure you're aware, being among the first iteration of more mainstream FPS games, don't see the need to get so worked up over it lol.
Boomer-shooter = Non-job-having, live-at-home, youtube-content-making, man-cave dwelling loser’s attempt to coin a term for classic and 90’s era FPS.
If you are calling old FPS Boomer-shooters, #1 you suck for being influenced by a ‘‘was never cool, grown-ass-man and cringe-inducing gaming edge-lord’. (This is correctable, there is still time!). #2 you need to get off youtube, watching middle aged men with no direction in life who make videos about games and their gaming “lifestyle” (aka no future).
Be a gamer, be smart and don’t follow lame ducks who swing Steven Segal levels of made up shit in attempt to be cool to a tween audience.
One man dares to rank every single Star Wars video game ever made. Yes, really.
YouTube's 'ackehallgren' has recreated the Rimmer's Rest from Star Wars Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight in Unreal Engine 4.
