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[Vertigo]

As a huge fan of LucasArts this brings not an unwelcome sense of closure. It's been hard to watch as they spent most of the past nearly-fifteen years on a downward spiral of poor games and frustrating hype—not unlike standing by as a loved one goes through the slow and tragic degradation of Alzheimer's, punctuated periodically with moments of such lucidity that one wonders if maybe the curve has sloped off, only to return the next morning to a drooling mannequin.

Fifteen? They still produced Jedi Knight 2 and Academy, and Grim Fandango during that time. They're widely considered to be classics now.

[Corvus T. Cosmonaut]

Fifteen? They still produced Jedi Knight 2 and Academy, and Grim Fandango during that time. They're widely considered to be classics now.

I said "most of the past nearly-fifteen years". Jedi Knight II and Academy were, notably, not developed by LucasArts. To be perfectly fair, most of the stuff LucasArts published during that span of time were not developed in-house, which is why the decision to close shop and stick to the publishing model makes sense.