@Haggis: Too true.

Yes Grim Fandango,Full Throttle, and Monkey Island sequels please.

Tzero7

@Collision891: If it wasnt for Maniac Mansion, there would be no monkey island....I've been waiting for them to make a new one for a very long time, anyone else? Maniac Mansion is my favorite game of all time so PLEASE MAKE THIS GAME FOR TEH Wii!!!

Cornerb0y

@Cutedge: Yep, that's him. He then proceeded to release the next-generation Indy game on time and on budget... er... wait, no he didn't. This is also the guy who said LucasArts shouldn't do adventure games at least until 2015, because releasing sequels to masterpieces like Monkey Island or Grim Fandango wouldn't be original. Whereas, releasing Star Wars sequels apparently is original...

Haggis

HIRE RON GILBERT!

markusdragon

@Cell9song: We have yet to see Force Unleashed. While I'm not holding my breath, the previews look pretty freaking incredible.

AndrewDB

Wardgate?

joncoffee

Good.

The start of his tenure coincided with the demise of game quality coming out of Lucas Arts.

just sayin'...

Cell9song

@Collision891:
The great thing about Lucasarts at their peak in the 90's was innovation. Sure, they had sequels, but they also released great original IP's regularly. They never relied too much on an existing franchise (i.e. post-2000 Star Wars Lucasarts, EA - Madden, Sims).

SwapMeet

Damn is Force Unleashed gonna be THAT big of a bomb?

DankPanties

Grim Fandango, Full Throttle, Maniac Mansion??? give me a break

Monkey Island 5 all the way

Collision891

@evslin:

Grim Fandango was probably Lucasarts' last masterpiece.

SwapMeet

LucasArts games quit being fun somewhere around 1998.

evslin

@Leathersoup:
A Smuggler sim may be good for a single player game, but I was thinking a good follow-up to Alliance. Alliance's netcode was buggy as hell. Imagine 32-64 players, mix of fighters and capital ships all going at it. Capital Ships would be controlled by 1-3 players, fighters by single players. X-Wing and Tie Figher had excellent game balance with good counters. Bombers take out cap ships, fighters take out bombers, interceptors take out fighters. And don't even try making a good space sim out of Episodes I-III, it ain't going to happen.

Lucasarts pretty much abandoned the PC market to focus more on mainstream consoles, but with XBox Live, we may have another multiplayer Star Wars space sim in the future (if they had any sense).

SwapMeet

Good, maybe someone with the balls to publish adventure games will take control now.

Anemone

Ward is a good man

King Geedorah

It was the plans for 'Young Indiana Jones meets Young Boba Fett MMO' that made him decide, I'd bet...

ShinyNew

Wasn't this the same asshole who said games should not miss release dates and pushed to just release things on time instead of finished?

Cutedge

@SwapMeet:

Yeah I've been wondering why they stopped making those games. Lately I've been hankering for a good space sim. I'm wondering what would it be like if LucasArts made a space sim where you play a smuggler in the StarWars universe? Where you had to transport goods as well as smuggle stuff for people. Would be interesting. :)

Leathersoup

Forgive me for not caring that someone I've never heard of has quit their job.

crescentfresh

And so soon before unleashed came out .

globones

@ex_ea_slave: Ha, i had an instructor/prof like that a about a year ago. Except he would throw chairs as everyone was entering the room..

And he would power-sip from a water bottle we were sure was actually filled with Vodka. Kinda like taking shots..

JerrD74

Can we get new adventure games now?

blackadvent

Resignation announcement to be followed by news concerning the delay of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. What? It will happen, just wait. Everyone else is doing it.

Hiero Glyph

What do you mean no Maniac Mansion 3? I QUIT!!!!!

I bet thats what happened.

Cornerb0y

If LucasArts is firing people, they should consider giving the boot to George Lucas. I hear that guy's trouble.

legacyed

More Grim Fandango & Full Throttle please!

-EDGE-

Is he the guy that killed the Lucas Arts I loved and cherished in my childhood? Because if so, then fuck'm. That's what you get for putting a suit at the top.

Wait... my bad. Became president in 2004, well after LA's downward spiral. I wish him the best of luck, then. Now, who's the douchebag that was actually responsible, then? Heads should roll.

JustThisGuy

maybe we can get some Adventure games coming from Lucas Arts now.

taftsearlobe23

Isn't this the guy everyone at Lucas Arts despised because he was a prick? I think he was the one famous for yelling and throwing water bottles in meetings, but I could be thinking of somebody else.

ex_ea_slave

Wow.

Ward, if you read this, I hope whatever you left LA for was worth it. I hope you find happiness in whatever you pursue.

Now, the question is .. what was the reason he left? :(

AndrewDB

Jorb opening! I know its tough working for Lucas...he only reward the actors. The employees get so much less.

Ok. So where is my response to the applications I filled out at the Presidio???

SigmundTheSeaMonster

Where is my Star Wars Empire at War patch, LucasArts?

Foxstar Sixtail

Maybe they'll put a creative guy(gal?) at the helm, one with a background in actual game design.

*Sigh* Sweet dreams.

Moonshadow101

He always seemed like a cool enough guy. Hope everything goes well for the chap

kidko

Well, good luck to him, I guess.

Car2oon

And why can't we get a decent X-Wing/Tie Fighter successor???? Galaxies ain't it.

SwapMeet

That was out of the left field...

giantenemycrab

Once upon a time, Lucasarts was synonymous with innovative, quality gameplay. Now it's just Star Wars-licensed crapola. Yah, it sells games, but you should funnel some of the $tar War$ money into other ventures.

SwapMeet

So can we get adventure games again? Please? Pretty please?

bookwo3107

Attention new LucasArts president: You can make more than Star Wars games. Furthermore, a sequel to Gladius would be a nice place to start.

smitty1123

Ruh-Roooh

NowJacker

He should have left after the Battlefront 2 PC fiasco. I even mailed the game to him with a letter explaining my severe disappointment in their lack of quality and testing. I never heard back.

Lucasarts is garbage.

dle

I lost my interest of LA games since 2004 now I know why. I want Outlaws, FullThrottle(still have FT:HoW trailer), more X-wing/Tie Fighter games and more FPS like DF2:JK.

XidZen

@JerrD74: What school was this?

lifire

Well I think I think he was at least responsible for righting the ship at Lucasarts which was sinking so it's not a good thing to seem him go.

Lucasarts even tried it's hand at some new IP's rather then going after the same old franchises but even then they tried to exercise some quality control compared to past management.

Swapmeet - Lucasarts will never make those kinds of games it is most known for [space sims/adventures] again, there are no internal development studios at Lucasarts any more it is a publisher and IP licensee. The devs responsible for those old games have either left the industry or moved on to other companies.

Not to mention there is little profit in the space sim genre these days. Still I would kill for a Tie Figther re-make on Xbox 360 with multi-player support, I can dream at least.

Red-Herring

To Do:
Full Throttle sequel
The Dig sequel
Indiana Jones sequel
Grim Fandango sequel

unmarkedone

Is this the guy to blame for the annihilation of SWG?

yonderTheGreat

Actually, I'm very glad he left. I haven't bought a Lucasarts game in over 10 years... and I used to buy MANY (I probably have about 30 of their games). Probably due to him is why Lucasarts lost the uniqueness they brought to the industry. None of they guys who made Lucasarts what it is (or was) are even with the company anymore.. Schaffer, Holland, ect... probably due of that asshat, good riddance.

zzt711

Hope Howard Roffman will comes back to adventure games... like the sweet old time... :-<

shadow_judge

About time, LucasArts started going downhill in the creativity department and stopped creating true classics since he became their marketing tzar in the 90's.

Good ridance

Briosafreak