Yeah if only his meddling ruined the live action films only, sadly like a cancer on the whole franchise it also has ruined the EU.
I guess i could except ruined prequels, bad specail editions, ruined EU if George would just release the originals in at least dvd standard form, you know using the full resolution of the format in anamorphic no bad dvnr, remixed from the six tracks in 5.1 like the indy trilogy was, geez if only star wars got the same treatment as that release which was pretty bare bones.
Their games division pretty much shut down permanently and all games are being made by other companies and released through lucasarts, but seeing as there was no quality control for a very long time and they kept putting out tons of games that were basically shovelware, i'm not surprised. There so called return that was delayed forever force unleashed was the biggest disappointment after they hyped it til you thought it would be they best game ever made. Also unbelievable lack of imagination was shown in all their recent games.
Knights of the old republic does not count because it was made by bioware, neither do the lego games because they were made by Travelers tales. Knights of the old republic II was obsidian, and i believe battlefront II was pandemic studios. The games they made indiana jones and the staff of kings absolute shit, force unleashed mediocre hack and slash game that gets old after playing it for twenty minutes unless you spent 40 bucks on it for the cutcenes and voice acting. It was an insult to even compare this game to god of war because the gameplay in force unleashed is basically non existent, but it is one of the distinguishing features of god of war.
The quality control at Del Rey also went straight out the window as long as they print star wars on a book cover they figure it will sell, and as long as the books are best sellers because of the sheep buying them they won't change anything.
Clone wars tv show boring and uninspired, movie was one of the very worst films in 2008 next to Crystal Skull. There is not a thing Lucas can touch that won't turn to shit like the opposite of the midus touch. The live action tv show will suck, i would be absolutely surprised if red tails does not suck, but at this point i feel as though it would pardon the expression "take an act of god" for anything he does to be good.
What was the last movie he was attached to that was remotely good in any way? Answer 1989's The Last Crusade, and i would give most of that credit to Spielberg, composer j. Williams and the screenwriter Jeffrey Boam.
He should just have stayed an executive producer,and should have even given up the story telling role as he can't even do that anymore. The last good film he directed was 1977 star wars, before that american graffiti and before that thx 1138. When he retired after '77 he should have stayed retired, it did not hurt empire strikes back and return of the jedi that he did not direct them. If he had to direct again at all he should have stuck with his plan of shooting episode 1 as a director and handed off II and III to other directors and writers like he did in the 70's and 80's.