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Blink twice if there is a multiplayer game in development that matches the lightsaber combat of Jedi Academy.
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A dearth of Star Wars games.
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Blink twice if there is a multiplayer game in development that matches the lightsaber combat of Jedi Academy.
Proof is always in the pudding and actions always speak louder than words. I'm confident for the future, but do understand your concerns / points.
Nice try, I always wear my eye patches before coming here.
If Disney wants AAA quality (and it seems like they do) you need an AAA studio that has 3-4 years to spare to make a game for you. Or a big publisher that's willing to not developp their own big IP's in favor of a Star Wars game. How many of these studios/publishers are around? Besides EA.
People mentioned CDPR but that would also mean no witcher and no cyberpunk for the next 4 years (at least).
Ubisoft, Avalanche, Square Enix could find studio too, Sony, Microsoft...
I don't think they'd go for exclusives.
If we are talking only one game UBI or square probably could, but especially UBI doesn't seem too hot on liscenced games
I just went back to play stuff like the SW Lego games, Republic Commando, Kotor (1), Force Unleashed etc. to get my SW gaming fix.
Played some Battlefront 2015 as well once they put it in the Origin Access vault but didn't really enjoy my time with it except for Fighter Squadron. Now I'm waiting until Battlefront II hits Access so I can finally play the campaign even if it doesn't seem to be that good (enjoyed the Inferno Squad novel, though)
It's a tragedy.
Played some Battlefront 2015 as well once they put it in the Origin Access vault but didn't really enjoy my time with it except for Fighter Squadron. Now I'm waiting until Battlefront II hits Access so I can finally play the campaign even if it doesn't seem to be that good (enjoyed the Inferno Squad novel, though)
It's a tragedy.
I would have played the shit out of this. Rebel Galaxy was amazing as well.
What we really have is a dearth of Star Wars strategy games, which is where the licence really belongs, but that's partly due to the EA fleet of development studios having no notable strategy output of any sort. I miss the days when we could expect the likes of Empire at War or Galactic Battlegrounds, and would sooner take a game from Paradox, Stardock, or Firaxis over any so-called AAA immersive Force-and-lightsaber power fantasy.
I couldn't agree more. This isn't a knock against the new Spider-Man, but it's manifestly unhealthy for the industry to see no middle ground whatsoever in their vision for licensed games between mobile shovelware and Spider-Man (or for that matter, the revived Battlefront, although maybe even they've come to realize that isn't an example to follow). Not that any Star Wars game was ever the cream of the crop in its own genre (except for maybe Racer and KOTOR), but at least there was a specificity and ambition to the games across all genres that envisioned a broader audience than a mass-market entry-level crowd, easily impressed by expensive tech, easily rooked by microtransactions.
Not every non-mobile Star Wars game needs to be an industry blockbuster in its own right, and the assumption that they all do just funnels them into a lowest common denominator, design-wise, every time. But you just know in that every high-level meeting from now on about how to manage a mega-licence, the people in charge will all pull out slides with the numbers for Spider-Man and dream about how to chase it without ever considering that maybe, this industry is diverse enough to support another way.
I couldn't agree more. This isn't a knock against the new Spider-Man, but it's manifestly unhealthy for the industry to see no middle ground whatsoever in their vision for licensed games between mobile shovelware and Spider-Man (or for that matter, the revived Battlefront, although maybe even they've come to realize that isn't an example to follow). Not that any Star Wars game was ever the cream of the crop in its own genre (except for maybe Racer and KOTOR), but at least there was a specificity and ambition to the games across all genres that envisioned a broader audience than a mass-market entry-level crowd, easily impressed by expensive tech, easily rooked by microtransactions.
Not every non-mobile Star Wars game needs to be an industry blockbuster in its own right, and the assumption that they all do just funnels them into a lowest common denominator, design-wise, every time. But you just know in that every high-level meeting from now on about how to manage a mega-licence, the people in charge will all pull out slides with the numbers for Spider-Man and dream about how to chase it without ever considering that maybe, this industry is diverse enough to support another way.
As much as I love Star Wars (much less so now after the recent movies), i just can't really get excited over more Star Wars games.
Yes, the universe is rich, but i'm kinda bored of it.
Plus, in the entertainment media industries as a whole, as the scope and scale of budgetary investment in projects baloon, the studios creating them become more and more risk averse and thus tend more and more towards known, licensed properties.
In gaming, this is becoming more and more the case, whereas I'd prefer more and more creative freedom given to dev studios to explore new IP and new words and universes of their own making. E.g. as much as I loved the KOTOR games, i'm much happier with Bioware working on ME games or Anthem.
AAA developers should create and pursue their own creative visions, rather than be hamstrung by narrative limitations imposed on them by external license owners.
We as gamers shouldn't be wishing for CD Project Red to make a Star Wars game, for example, but should rather be excited for and actively supporting their works on their own projects that give them so much more creative freedom.
I'm firm in this belief.
Yes, the universe is rich, but i'm kinda bored of it.
Plus, in the entertainment media industries as a whole, as the scope and scale of budgetary investment in projects baloon, the studios creating them become more and more risk averse and thus tend more and more towards known, licensed properties.
In gaming, this is becoming more and more the case, whereas I'd prefer more and more creative freedom given to dev studios to explore new IP and new words and universes of their own making. E.g. as much as I loved the KOTOR games, i'm much happier with Bioware working on ME games or Anthem.
AAA developers should create and pursue their own creative visions, rather than be hamstrung by narrative limitations imposed on them by external license owners.
We as gamers shouldn't be wishing for CD Project Red to make a Star Wars game, for example, but should rather be excited for and actively supporting their works on their own projects that give them so much more creative freedom.
I'm firm in this belief.
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Oh wow. Cleaned up with a few more frames of animation, a little more leniency with regards to aiming and dodging for modern tastes and platforms you can see. Music and SFX with higher quality samples. It'd be beautiful.
Get the programmers to transfer the logic to Unity, or some other middleware and let the artists have a field day. Similar to what they did Wonderboy and the Dragon's Trap.
How many games do you want!? I don't think I can handle 2 Star Wars films and 2 or more games every year.
Likewise I'm concerned about the floodgates having been opened for Marvel games.
I mean choice is good, but how long can I can until I'm sick or Superheroes and Star Wars in general?
Likewise I'm concerned about the floodgates having been opened for Marvel games.
I mean choice is good, but how long can I can until I'm sick or Superheroes and Star Wars in general?
Give it to Obsidian Entertainment + time + money
and then, wait 5 years to the mod community iron the bugs
and then, wait 5 years to the mod community iron the bugs
They are currently working on Avatar game so they would probably went for SW too.
So EA is going to jump onto the Multiplayer Pirate bandwagon? But with Space Pirates in the Star Wars Universe?
Galaxy of Thieves: A Star Wars
EA are greedy scum who never deserved the Star Wars license even though they have a good AAA pipeline for games.
Having said that I hope Respawn can churn out something decent that's not riddled with loot boxes and mtx.
Having said that I hope Respawn can churn out something decent that's not riddled with loot boxes and mtx.
If they cancel now you wont see any Starwars game for atleast 4 years.. I am also not sure who would really do anything worth it either, Ubisoft? Activison?...
Personally I think Disney should have jumped back into the games industry.. opened some studios again to focus on their franchises.
Really wished a new pod racing game would have came out......would be a little quicker on the dev side.....you would think. I'm talking the original one on PC and N64 that had you buying upgrades in the career mode.....not the terrible one on PS2.
I have faith in fallen order though, team released one of the best shooters this generation and the writing for the story was very well done.
I have faith in fallen order though, team released one of the best shooters this generation and the writing for the story was very well done.
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Is Vince Zampella the protagonist? All I saw was him in that gameplay trailer...
A Super Star Wars Trilogy... Special Edition, you might say. :D
Oh, is that why they cancelled Hennig's AAA game for being "too linear"?
Exactly.They should decide on case by case basis,or follow what their own subsidiary Marvel did.
If they give license to one single company i think Ubisoft,unlike EA,could make some really great stuff and they have experience with licensed ip.
Restricting a license like that, to one company, nay one studio in reality, who makes one type of game. Was a ridiculous mistake.
Yes I know they're making more now, but they were so tentative to start, and it's still not as much and as varied as people actually want.
Yes I know they're making more now, but they were so tentative to start, and it's still not as much and as varied as people actually want.
It's a damn shame when you consider the number of Star Wars games in the 6th gen, from Action RPGS to Racers to FPS to third person adventures to space shooters.
Well yea, but it's been over 5 years already since they started, and we've only got a Battlefront multiplayer shooter with SW skins.
When's the hard date release of the next EA SW game?
Making 1-2 "meticulously crafted" AAA games over the course of 10 years is a poor goal, tbh
Been here a while, and back in the old place too. How's it going?
Forget Star Wars, I'm hoping your avatar is a sign you've licensed Dredd from Rebellion and Criterion are going to give me the freeform Supersurf game I've always craved.
This is not directed towards Star Wars specifically but I heard or read them (CD Projekt) saying that they are not interested in doing third party games because they want to have full control and creative freedom. They may be interested in doing games such as Star Wars etc but unless they own the IP it won't happen.
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Afraid it's not. I've used this for a while and not got around to switching it around. If someone out there wants to make a Dredd game, then I'd be totally up for it. With an accompanying Netflix series too.
We ended up with a game that looks far cooler than that honestly so maybe we should be thankful.
I fully agree.
I remember when Bobby Kotick from Activision said years ago,before Lucas sold to Disney,that for 3rd party publishers working on licensed Star Wars ip is very expensive and uncertain.License is ,of course,very very expensive,if thing flops Lucas doesn't make any loss but if it becomes very profitable-most of the profits goes to Lucas as license fee.
What's your function exactly in EA?
And how is Origin Access Premier doing so far?
I have no idea what about EA won Disney over. Their most profitable franchises have nothing that can carry over to Star Wars at all. They must have just looked at their FUT and Sims profits and just assumed they could do the same for Star Wars despite none of those games' teams coming anywhere near the franchise
Hell yeah, now we're talking
Hell yeah, now we're talking
Why on earth did Disney give the sole licence to EA of all people.
Its asking for a boatload of trouble.
Its asking for a boatload of trouble.