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Lucasfilm declares all Star Wars games non-canon

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All Star Wars games, comics, novels and other expanded media have been designated non-canon by Lucasfilm.

In a newly published statement on the matter, Lucasfilm makes it unequivocal that there are only seven products in the Star Wars universe that should be considered canon; the six films, along with The Clone Wars TV show.
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It means that the dozens of Star Wars games and their stories are not considered integral to the overall plot. Games such as BioWare's seminal Knights of the Old Republic, along with LucasArts' own The Force Unleashed, are categorically disconnected to the films.

"While Lucasfilm always strived to keep the stories created for the expanded universe consistent with our film and television content as well as internally consistent, Lucas always made it clear that he was not beholden to the EU. He set the films he created as the canon," reads an official blog post on the matter.

"This includes the six Star Wars episodes, and the many hours of content he developed and produced in The Clone Wars. These stories are the immovable objects of Star Wars history, the characters and events to which all other tales must align."
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However, the corporation has pledged to draw a line under the matter, claiming that future expanded media will be better integrated with the future films. That could include the upcoming games in development across EA.

"Now, with an exciting future filled with new cinematic instalments of Star Wars, all aspects of Star Wars storytelling moving forward will be connected," the corporation said.

"Under Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy's direction, the company for the first time ever has formed a story group to oversee and coordinate all Star Wars creative development."

Kennedy said the company has "an unprecedented slate of new Star Wars entertainment on the horizon".
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http://www.computerandvideogames.com/460842/lucasfilm-declares-all-star-wars-games-non-canon/
 
Considering the Jedi Knight games were better than 90% of things produced in the Star Wars universe I'm disappointed. Kyle Katarn should be canon.
 
Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2 and the Jedi Knight series are better than anything George 'toy boy' Lucas has made post Empire Strikes Back.
 
Kotor 2's story was better than pretty much everything in the movies, but it was already made non-canon by Bioware so no real loss.
 
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Fuck you Lucasfilm. To me Dark Forces is canon.

If there is something that isn't canon, then it's those bad 3 prequel movies and the Special Edition versions of the actual 3 Star Wars movies. It seems as if Lucas is trolling us.
 
The best part about this was seeing a bunch of people crying that all their books were no longer "worth anything" and wondering if they could sue someone over it.
 
Gez said:
Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2 and the Jedi Knight series are better than anything George 'toy boy' Lucas has made post Empire Strikes Back.
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Ain't that the goddamn truth.

Now my favourite character in all of video games and star wars is no longer canon (Kreia).
 
Who cares what they say? KOTOR 1 and 2 are still better than anything that has come out of the Star wars franchise for the past few decades and the foreseeable future.

Watch as Disney milks this franchise 'till there's nothing left.
 
Chindogg said:
Yup Thrawn is no longer canon. RIP Thrawn.

However there is a rumor that Kyle Katarn is in Star Wars Rebels, so there's hope that some comic and game characters can slip in that way.
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And Mara Jade too. :( What about the upcoming Star Wars: Rebels on Disney XD? Will that not be canon now?
 
Kotor is better then the entire new trilogy

ffs Lucas

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Shadows of The Empire :(

As a person who enjoyed EU way more than any of the movies, I'm really sad.

On the other hand, it had to be done... I guess?
 
Well, I guess there was not really any way it made logical sense anyway, but I guess Star Tours is also now non-canon.
 
Chindogg said:
Yup Thrawn is no longer canon. RIP Thrawn.

However there is a rumor that Kyle Katarn is in Star Wars Rebels, so there's hope that some comic and game characters can slip in that way.
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I think I read that no EU characters will be used in the upcoming films and events.
 
Well, I think that I get to decide what I think exists in the so-called universe. If he can make Jar-Jar Binks and midichlorians canon, then I can believe that Starkiller and KOTOR exist too. What about The Old Republic? Didn't Bioware make new planets with the assistance of Lucas??
 
So kotor, thrawn aren't canon but clone ware and prequels are. What a world :(

Hell wasn't the whole selling point of Force Unleashed that it was canon?

Gez said:
Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2 and the Jedi Knight series are better than anything George 'toy boy' Lucas has made post Empire Strikes Back.
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God damn right.
 
Who cares, Star Wars is basically just the most commercial and exploitative product/fictional universe out there. It's the zenith of cultural capitalism.
 
This gives Disney the justification to incorporate rubber banding as a new force power into the Star Wars universe in time for DICE's instalment of battlefront.

'It's not a network issue, it's a new Dark Side power'
 
krypt0nian said:
It's a fictional universe. The reader decides what stories have importance. Everything is fine.
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Yeah and I imagine Star Wars fans are so numerous that they are already split into certain camps, so this just means there will be more.

I'm not surprised and don't see this as a big deal.
 
BY2K said:
Wait, comics and novels, too!?
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They want to start over so they're not beholden to established plot lines when writing episode VII. Which is understandable, but it's also kind of dumb because KotOR I & II have much better plotlines than any of the films since 1983.
 
Triggerhappytel said:
They want to start over so they're not beholden to established plot lines when writing episode VII. Which is understandable, but it's also kind of dumb because KotOR I & II have much better plotlines than any of the films since 1983.
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Doesn't kotor play like some thousands years before the actual films?
 
was this ever different? I heard the phrase "only the movies (and their novels) are canon" about 15 years ago for the first time. now 3 more movies and a tv show are added.

but everything else was never canon.
 
Most of the expanded universe lore is canonized fan-fiction anyway lol.

I am telling you right now that one day Disney will reboot this franchise and everything shall be one big clusterfuck.
 
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