Lucas Arts games... Best Console Games and/or PC lists...

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I was recently playing well am now in the middle of Zombies Ate Your Neighbors for the SNES.  Didn't realize it was Lucas Arts as the publisher.  Don't know who actually was the developing company.

So  Putting it out there for others to comment...

Best Lucas Arts console games...

Best Lucas Arts PC games....

Worst Lucas Arts games in general...

I had fun w
Nes - Maniac Mansion
Snes - Star Wars Trilogy (3 x games)
PSP - Force Unleashed
N64 - Shadows of the Empire

Combines Console / PC - Battlefront games

PC - Maniac Mansion Day of the Tentacle
PC - Full Throttle (wish the sequel didn't hit the trash can)
PC - Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
PC - Forces Unleased 1 & 2
PC - Sam & Max (original)
Pc - Grim Fandango

Comments

  • NirvanaNirvana
    I'm rather fond of the Jedi Knight games, myself.
  • likestoplayinpuddleslikestoplayinpuddles
    wasn't jedi knight dark forces 2? technically.
  • TanookiTanooki
    Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis by far is their best SCUMM engine game (all those point in clicks of Maniac Mansion up through the end of them doing those things.) The story in this game is truly epic (the talkie cd version seals the deal) as it's on the level of a lost Indy movie. Branching paths, lots of good puzzles and action, amazing locations and an amazing audio/visual package as well. Technically thanks to Wii it could be considered a console game too as it was a 2in1 package with 'Staff of Kings' but that's kind of unfair though that game is great too and got a bad wrap from pissed off HD fanboys who got pissed off their version was canceled. Secondarily though their Tie Fighter game and addons and the XWing one before it were their best action titles period (the 3D remastering of that pair of games all in one big disc a piece was phenomenal.) Beyond that Sam and Max deserves a huge nod as well!



    Console wise...toughie really but I'd be hard up not to give it again to Indy with the Indiana Jones and his Greatest Adventures package. Unlike Super Star Wars titles, they got all 3 movies into one larger cart with a ton of stages and difficulty options. It's a fantastic platform action game which has a few mode7 kickass areas in it such as the ToD mining car area and then Last Crusade's dogfight off the zeppelin. Amazing visuals including high color stills of the movies, sound effects and music are amazing symphonic stuff, and the controls really do make the game play package complete. Those Star Wars games are as nice but you need 3 games to get the same value as Indy in one. Maniac Mansion though deserves a special notice on the NES as it's a very strong conversion.
  • AustinAustin
    On consoles, it was all about Zombies Ate My Neighbors.. Although I have a feeling Konami was the main developer on that one, just using a Lucasarts license. Whatever, it's awesome.



    Also, I played the hell out of Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. Couldn't get into the other two though.



    Tried to really like Shadows of the Empire (It seemed really, really good), but it's too choppy for me to get into today. I knew I should have bought it on the PC back in the day..
  • sadikyosadikyo
    Grim Fandango all the way!!!! It is such a great game, yet a lot of people haven't played it. There was just something about it -- the style, the characters, everything, that I really loved. It was probably the first PC adventure game that I played from start to finish, and it really got me into the genre.



    Most of the classic LucasArts games are pretty good, however, so I would recommend almost all of them.
  • likestoplayinpuddleslikestoplayinpuddles
    i wanna get a legit copy of grim. it's prolly close to the highest priced one that i saw complete in box (big box ver not dvd case 3rd release).



    as far as atari goes they had there time n place. n i can't really play them for that long. like ewok (i believe it's like 25 for the cart n 1,500-1,750 for the proto), empire... (decent), the game fighting that floating ball in the mill falcon (bad)
  • SamSpadeSamSpade
    Indiana Jones and the Emperor's tomb was one of my favorite games on the old X Box. The controls were spot on ans the graphics were really decent. It's one of my favorite Indiana Jones games by far and it was a totally underrated gem when it came out. Give it a shot if you have an inclination to dust off the old black box.
  • arch_8ngelarch_8ngel
    SCUMM engine stuff was all generally solid, though I never owned any of them as a kid.



    Dark Forces was definitely one of my favorites, as a kid. Taking the mechanics of Doom and setting it in a more fleshed out setting was tons of fun, and it had a pretty solid level of challenge, as well.



    Shadows of the Empire had a nice blend of game play that gave the game the true Star Wars movie treatment.



    The Indiana Jones game on the PS2 (Emperor's Tomb, I think), was also pretty great until the end. It captured the flavor of the early movies, and had plenty of Nazi's to kill.



  • SamSpadeSamSpade
    Originally posted by: arch_8ngel

    SCUMM engine stuff was all generally solid, though I never owned any of them as a kid.

    Dark Forces was definitely one of my favorites, as a kid. Taking the mechanics of Doom and setting it in a more fleshed out setting was tons of fun, and it had a pretty solid level of challenge, as well.

    Shadows of the Empire had a nice blend of game play that gave the game the true Star Wars movie treatment.

    The Indiana Jones game on the PS2 (Emperor's Tomb, I think), was also pretty great until the end. It captured the flavor of the early movies, and had plenty of Nazi's to kill.


    Yeah, that's the one I just mentioned. I wanna go play it now.

  • TanookiTanooki
    I had that Indy on the PC and it was awful, didn't have either of those systems(xb ever, ps2 at the time) so I lost out there.



    Trust me you got to play Indy Fate of Atlantis, if you thought that one captured the Indy feel, that game does it all the better. Crazy puzzles, amazing locations from South America, Europe, Azores, and more...strange items, lots of nazis to avoid or get into raging fist fights with.



    While we're on Indy though I feel bad for giving it the snub like so many jaded anti-Wii game reviewing jack wagons did with Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings for Wii. This game is simply phenomenal. And it has Nazi's to gun down, whip, trip, drop things on and throw over cliffs...run over too. The wii elements oddly work fantastic from doing all sorts of genius whip motions and moving of traps and gears to get around spots...even parts of games give nods to the movies like you (in ToD to compare) can wedge a skull into a gear to stop a trap. The wii visuals and audio are fantastic, huge locations inside and out in various parts of the world from North and South America and beyond. The dude doing the voice is the guy who did the older Indy games as well going back to Fate of Atlantis. I really find it insulting how so many reviews from multi-system sites ripped it to pieces and always seemed to chime some bitter shit about being in SD and the HD games being canned...damn children, and now it's a $20 game. Even if you want to believe their bullshit for $20 you also get Fate of Atlantis so it's 2 games for $20(10/pc.)
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