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Aspyr is known for Star Wars ports on Mac/Mobile and Switch.
Aspyr is known for Star Wars ports on Mac/Mobile and Switch.
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Aspyr Media is working on an AAA $70 million title (KOTOR?)
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Much like Bluepoint, they would make the best candidate to reimagine KOTOR since they did the ports.
If the rumors are to be believed, somebody, we don't know who, is working on a KOTOR reimagining. So, at the very least, this seems plausible.
LOL there's quite a difference between porting existing games and making a new one from scratch...
Sure, but perhaps they're not making a new one but instead just putting a new coat of polish on the first game a la Bluepoint's SotC/Demon's Souls remakes.
Check out their job listings.
www.aspyr.com
They are 100% making an original game, not a remaster. Hiring combat, level, and cinematic designers. All signs point to KOTOR from the insider hinting to the Bioware hires.
Aspyr Media
Hi, We're Aspyr, a leading entertainment publisher that creates, packages and delivers fun to millions around the world. Hailing from Austin, Texas, Aspyr strives relentlessly to ensure a quality experience for our industry partners and our players.
www.aspyr.com
Saw similar theories on reddit. I can believe it, especially if they're going after Bioware Austin people.
I still hope it's not just another remake ... give me a new game instead. Zero interest in replaying the same story with the same characters.
Check out their job listings.
They are 100% making an original game, not a remaster. Hiring combat, level, and cinematic designers. All signs point to KOTOR from the insider hinting to the Bioware hires.Aspyr Media
Hi, We're Aspyr, a leading entertainment publisher that creates, packages and delivers fun to millions around the world. Hailing from Austin, Texas, Aspyr strives relentlessly to ensure a quality experience for our industry partners and our players.
Could you link me to this insider's comments?
Check out their job listings.
They are 100% making an original game, not a remaster. Hiring combat, level, and cinematic designers. All signs point to KOTOR from the insider hinting to the Bioware hires.Aspyr Media
Hi, We're Aspyr, a leading entertainment publisher that creates, packages and delivers fun to millions around the world. Hailing from Austin, Texas, Aspyr strives relentlessly to ensure a quality experience for our industry partners and our players.
Hiring combat, level and cinematic designers is not proof that they're not working on remaster, you need all those roles if you re-do or even tinker with the original stuff. If insider leaks say it's not a remaster then sure, but the hires don't mean anything one way or the other.
I doubt it'll be a remake given Lucasarts wanting all media to fit into its new timeline; it'd likely be a reboot. If they do use the same setting and characters, it's going to be reworked to fit the new canon.
Yeah, but probably with the same big story twists and general similarities to the original which is already an interest killer for me.
Aspyr is one of the giants of game porting:
List of games ported by Aspyr - Wikipedia
It has to be Kotor.
At the very least it seems to be a RPG:
That's from the Senior Cinematic Designer vacancy.
At the very least it seems to be a RPG:
That's from the Senior Cinematic Designer vacancy.
I had no idea they did so much.Aspyr is one of the giants of game porting:
List of games ported by Aspyr - Wikipedia
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AAA KOTOR with only 70million? Can you imagine how botched up it will be?
Let's be real, make it proper and go with CRPG route, something like Wasteland 3 and Baldur's Gate 3.
Let's be real, make it proper and go with CRPG route, something like Wasteland 3 and Baldur's Gate 3.
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Jason "confirmed" and EMBRACER revealed that this game is "licensed" so yes
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Tw3 was $81 including marketing and Poland is way cheaper than Austin.
Still seems like kind of a stretch but we'll see. It would be dope.
That was pre 2015, in Poland, with underpaid devs and intensive crunch. Come on now.
Yeah, but this is Star Wars we're talking about here, of course the budget would be far larger in comparison.
I wonder if this is the case, how much will be changed and/or updated in the remake. I am assuming the combat will be updated for sure but how much of the story is different, player choices, loot, etc.
One of their hires was Courtney Woods as Lead Writer. She was a writer on Dragon Age Inquisition, Mass Effect Andromeda, and SWTOR. They wouldn't have a Lead Writer for a remaster.
Just happy that it exists. Puts an end to the years of hoping we'd see something else in the KOTOR universe.
I honestly don't care if it's a remake, reboot, spiritual sequel, sequel, or High Republic pseudo sequel, I just want something.
Hope we see it soon.
I honestly don't care if it's a remake, reboot, spiritual sequel, sequel, or High Republic pseudo sequel, I just want something.
Hope we see it soon.
They've already hired a good number of animators + cinematic people from Bioware Austin over the past couple of years.
Based on what we've headed through rumors, this game will be a reimagining of the original two games put together. You'd definitely need a lead writer for that.
My pet theory is that part of this reimagining is that the game will shift into being set in the High Republic, so that it will maintain and be a part of the new canon.
Not excited about all this high order shit. I hope that isn't reality and it's still old republic. It's part of the dang acronym!!!