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Jedi: Fallen Order feels like EA's last chance to prove it deserves Star Wars
- Thread starter Theorry
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I hope Fallen Order is good, but i also hope EA never gets exclusive license to Star Wars ever again
Star Wars should never be an exclusive license to one publisher - there are so many gems from SW games past. Nobody in their right mind would make an RTS or 4X strategy game today. But someone should and I can understand that EA won't - but someone should.
EA can fuck off in general and it's a pity that SW is stuck with them for the next half decade.
EA can fuck off in general and it's a pity that SW is stuck with them for the next half decade.
I don't know about ea and star wars in general. I don't like ea and I think star wars is over-venerated, but I will say I think JFO is going to be a good game. I have high hopes.
The problem with this approach is that Fallen Order is anything but an EA game. They got it when they've bought Respawn and it shows in basically everything - the engine not being Frostbite, the game not being GAAS and/or multiplayer shooter, etc. If it will turn out to be great then it would hardly be a sign of EA proving that they deserve Star Wars and will in fact be somewhat the opposite of that.
Not sure where this line that Disney is deeply unhappy with the Star Wars license use by EA. Both Battlefront 1 & 2 sold over 20 million units and probably made a ton of cash in MTX.
Jedi Fallen order may even be the harder sell, as good as it is.
I'm also not sure why there's so much hand-wringing about Star Wars 1313 being cancelled. I'll bet there'd be tears still being shed today if Anthem was canceled before release.
Jedi Fallen order may even be the harder sell, as good as it is.
I'm also not sure why there's so much hand-wringing about Star Wars 1313 being cancelled. I'll bet there'd be tears still being shed today if Anthem was canceled before release.
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Think Respawn just has more freedom then other EA studios bit like the new MS studios now. Offcourse they are owned and can use IP stuff but have freedom in what to make.
They never did and never will. Regardless of how well Fallen Order does. Given how this gen played out, the IP would have been better off in Ubisoft's hands, or just licensed out on a per game basis.
Honestly, in the back of my mind I'm wondering if the darkest timeline is that when this contract expires, Disney does another exclusive licensing agreement, it goes to another GaaS-focused mega publisher, and they manage to actually handle it worse than EA did. Suddenly, we're nostalgic for EA's management of the IP.
Sure hope not - the current Marvel approach would seem to make the most sense, but money talks.
That all being said, I'm hopeful for Fallen Order (regardless of what it may or may not prove about EA), and am looking forward to Friday.
They have "more freedom" because EA hasn't taken it away from them. Yet.
Battlefront 2 is kind of great and has been for quite some time with all the changes and updates that have been made without charging a dime for the new content.
I've said it before but Disney should have kept Lucasarts as a central licensing hub where publishers/developers of all shapes and sizes could pitch game concepts and potentially get their projects approved while a team at Lucasarts ensured that cannon and continuity were kept in check.
There's so much potential with SW games and regulating all that to one publisher was short-sighted and unfortunate.
Then again, Disney has also been very hands-off with their Marvel games. They seem to have little interest in the medium after their own internal game division failed years ago.
It's crazy to think that the two biggest film franchises in existence have received so few games over the last several years, yet here we are.
There's so much potential with SW games and regulating all that to one publisher was short-sighted and unfortunate.
Then again, Disney has also been very hands-off with their Marvel games. They seem to have little interest in the medium after their own internal game division failed years ago.
It's crazy to think that the two biggest film franchises in existence have received so few games over the last several years, yet here we are.
Respaw deserves this chance. EA..... don't think so....
Dice really manages to capture the essence and feel of the star Wars universe, but the direction of both Battlefront was.... terrible at best. And you can see the same direction towards the latest Battlefield entries.
This is insane and a common ground for EA Games. I'll support Rewpawn... but please, take the Star Wars license out of EA.
Dice really manages to capture the essence and feel of the star Wars universe, but the direction of both Battlefront was.... terrible at best. And you can see the same direction towards the latest Battlefield entries.
This is insane and a common ground for EA Games. I'll support Rewpawn... but please, take the Star Wars license out of EA.
I like the gameplay I've seen so far, but I'm still not sure I'm interested in the story and characters. Hopefully it's good, watching Mandalorian actually want me a good star wars bounty hunter game. That 1st episode felt a lot like video games complete with loot and armor crafting, lol
If you include mobile they have released several more games than just 2 Battlefronts. One of which I know was doing very well at least a couple years ago
i dunno a bunch of mediocre games match up pretty well with the mediocre movies
if fallen order is good it might mean the star wars license doesn't deserve EA
if fallen order is good it might mean the star wars license doesn't deserve EA
Those changes only came after they got caught trying to pull a fast one. Let's not forget that
Respawn will most definitely deliver but goddamn was the exclusivity deal goddamned atrocious handing it to an incompetent publisher like EA.
Yeah, this is 100 percent an attempt to make a game that gets over an 85 on Metacritic so Disney doesn't pull the license -- if given their druthers, this is not the kind of game EA would be making.
Their Star Wars games have been really good so far. Hopefully Fallen Order follows suit. They deserve the license.
I'd love for there to be a scenario where Disney has a video game publishing division - and any developer/publisher can bring an idea to them, get funding to make a sort of extended concept demo, then further money to complete the game - then Disney publishes these games for release.
It'd allow every developer from Respawn to House House to bring an idea for a Star Wars game to Disney, and we'd probably get some really cool shit.
It'd allow every developer from Respawn to House House to bring an idea for a Star Wars game to Disney, and we'd probably get some really cool shit.
They could call it LucasArts or something, in honor of the creator himself!
Let's be honest, they never made a BAD Star Wars game. The problem is the slow output of games, the mismanagement and the greed. Battlefront 2 despite loot boxes is my second favorite Star Wars game.
The most stupid thing is that it de facto exclude star wars games on Nintendo hardware. So, yeah, this deal is trash imo.
As usual when it comes to this topic, peoples perception is pretty far from reality.
Funny seeing the "Respawn is not EA crowd" though, cmon, thats some nonsense.
Funny seeing the "Respawn is not EA crowd" though, cmon, thats some nonsense.
We really can't say he's a bad protagonist yet. Why do some people here have such a hate boner for Cal lol
My favorite space samurai in Star Wars is Asajj Ventress all down to her immaculate character design, and I like Starkiller because he has a cool and intimidating look to him
Cal looks like an herb. Why would I be excited for a dude who looks like a fuckin' herb.
