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Visceral / EA Vancouver Star Wars game may be cancelled
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blackjon24
Member
No please
lol I forgot about that. I completely take it back
TheSadRanger
Banned
Give it to Activision, Raven Software is still around (They're stuck making CoD multiplayer forever). There's a few people left that worked on Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy last I heard. Get them involved and make a spiritual successor to Jedi Outcast which still has people playing MP to this day.
M0G
Member
Please give the license to somebody that's hungry to make a name for themselves. Somebody that isn't just looking at every aspect in terms of numbers and hooking an audience into an ongoing "service". No license exclusivity hell let's go back to the old old days when upstarts and smalltime developers could get hold of a license if they had an idea to pitch. Otherwise don't even consider letting companies with toxic reputations have sole access to such a beloved franchise. Sod it though, Star Wars is pretty much dead to me at this point with the BS that is going on with the films too atm.
Angry_Megalodon
Member
Disney chose the right partner to bury the Star Wars saga.
Halo is Back
Member
I think a lot of people are also forgetting that Lucas Atrs was doing jack shit with the Star Wars license in the last decade of its life. We just need new young blood in the Star Wars license.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Oh yes they were, it slowed down around the time of the sale (which usually takes up to a year or more in planning and back and forth with such an acquisition), so naturally they are not going to invest in heavy new projects if it were in the contract phase that it was to get the ax after.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LucasArts_games
The completion of the sale to Disney was in 2012.
BlackOlivesMatter
Banned
Just do a sequel or remaster for Rebellion or gtfo please
VertigoOA
Banned
Yep. Lucasarts was always hard at work.
People forget how important lucasarts was to the gaming industry. While not as important or lucasfilm or ILM it certainly had its own contributions.
Fuck man...
prag16
Banned
I'm still salty that the allegedly-nearly-completed Rogue Squadron Trilogy pack for Wii never got released. God I hope that leaks online some day (assuming it's in a reasonably playable state). I never set up a USB loader of any kind on my homebrew'd Wii, but this would be reason to.
Yeah, was gonna say this. They hadn't done "jack shit" with it in the decade prior to 2012. Things definitely did slow down but there were some good games released in that Window, and what we've gotten since (two Battlefront games and a mobile game) is embarrassing. Incredibly huge missed opportunity.
Africa's Toto
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M0G
Member
Having just looked at their Wikipedia page, I didn't realise that Turrican was them or that they'd re-acquired the Turrican IP. Now a new Turrican game would be something... But yeah they are 100% the guys you'd talk to if you weren't relying solely on EA to produce a quality Star Wars game.
Luffytubby
Member
Ughhh. EA, you fools!
DeleteriousObnoxious
Member
Didn't want it anyway so nothing lost, not after visceral was kicked out of the project.
prag16
Banned
I hate EA almost as much as I hate sand.
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
Poor writing, maybe. But Agenda driven writing definitly happened at ND by their own admission during Uncharted 4. (For example changing the gender of Nate's kid) And they are proud of it.
Now how important that is for you is your thing.
M0G
Member
With the pansexual Lando thing, that was quite subtle and you can either appreciate it, ignore it or laugh. I wouldn't have noticed it except it was mentioned in an interview. "Oh yeah well Lando would fuck a robot if given half a chance" was basically it. When there's no song & dance or it's left open to interpretation that's one thing, it's when you smack it into the audience's face with a hammer that it becomes divisive.
What irks me about this is EA just sits on it and resources into creating new IPs that nobody really expected or asked for. Anthem for example... Why not set that in the Star Wars universe and make it about a rogue band of Mandalorian mercenaries on a quest to uncover a relic from the KOTOR era. The game would still be criticised left right and centre for being a Destiny clone and always online etc, but a lot of Star Wars fans would be thrilled to play a co-op shooter set in the Star Wars universe.
What irks me about this is EA just sits on it and resources into creating new IPs that nobody really expected or asked for. Anthem for example... Why not set that in the Star Wars universe and make it about a rogue band of Mandalorian mercenaries on a quest to uncover a relic from the KOTOR era. The game would still be criticised left right and centre for being a Destiny clone and always online etc, but a lot of Star Wars fans would be thrilled to play a co-op shooter set in the Star Wars universe.
Luffytubby
Member
I'd make a GaaS Warframe/Division/Destiny style online game that combines the storytelling, setting and RPG elements of KOTOR with the combat of Jedi Knight. Real Time action fast paced smooth lightsaber action. Fight in 100 player battle on various planets with Jedi pitted against Sith. Make your own detailed character. Build your own fighting style by choosing two unique force powers, a unique lightsaber form, lightsaber type, and choose special secondary abilities (pummel hits, kicks, power dash, backflips, etc) to round out your character.
With a long term progression system where you level up and have tens of thousands of unique cosmetics for your character to unlock for every kind of activity in the game. Hire top tier development studious to make stand alone single player campaigns where you play as different characters set in the old republic universe. Charge 40-50 dollars for a 10-15 hour single player story campaign, with cosmetic unlocks for your multiplayer character.
Round out the gameplay with a tight balanced combat system, spectator and esport friendly. make user submitted content system so people can submit their own maps, weapons and items to be put in the game.
With a long term progression system where you level up and have tens of thousands of unique cosmetics for your character to unlock for every kind of activity in the game. Hire top tier development studious to make stand alone single player campaigns where you play as different characters set in the old republic universe. Charge 40-50 dollars for a 10-15 hour single player story campaign, with cosmetic unlocks for your multiplayer character.
Round out the gameplay with a tight balanced combat system, spectator and esport friendly. make user submitted content system so people can submit their own maps, weapons and items to be put in the game.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
iconmaster
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Fuz
Banned
Oh boy. I didn't knew about this.No please
Embarassing.
Were they shamed as they deserved at the time?
DoctorEkkoUK
Member
So how long has it been since EA got the SW rights and we have basically had 2 lacklustre multiplayer FPS games. The Games were always some of the best EU experiences I seriously think the lack of engaging and story driven SW games in the last few years has hurt Disneys efforts to build a loved extended universe to the new era.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
2013 and until 2023 if Disney doesn't act a fool and renew it with them.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
I've tweeted that for years with it going unanswered by the Developers, and then PC fans trying to "educate me" as to why it wouldn't work on consoles, lol.
It's definitely a missed opportunity on EA's part.
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Hendrick's
If only my penis was as big as my GamerScore!
Seems like EA is probably not loving the deal they made and instead of dealing with Disney, would rather just do nothing.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
What I find fascinating about these types of deals, is that they usually carry a set amount of games having to be made... this deal seems unorthadox where like you said, they don't have to do shit.
It's frustrating watching them c-block the entire industry from this IP, and they aren't producing much of anything in the process.
We don't even get the LEGO games anymore from TT Fusion and I suspect it is due to this.
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