Circa Posted Monday at 08:57 PM Share Posted Monday at 08:57 PM Or as many people will call it: the return of LucasArts under a new name. Source: StarWars.com They announced this sort of "rebrand" today as the main IP behind all Star Wars and other Lucasfilm properties going forward. Of course, this doesn't necessary mean that they will be publishing their own games again, but this does mean they could be planning to license out more games beyond just EA's contract. We already see that in the case of the Lego Star Wars games. This could be a very good start in the right direction. Notice how they gave a very short glimpse at Jedi Academy at the end of their sizzle reel. I think that was just to highlight the recent re-release on Nintendo Switch and PS4 and it's one of the biggest fan-favorites, but it's still interesting they bothered at all. They also had a lot of KOTOR characters shown in the Galaxy of Heroes spot, which is also an interesting choice. Aldro Koon, Lancelot, fullkevlar and 1 other like this Link to post
Apprentice Posted Tuesday at 10:47 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 10:47 PM They should've never dismantled LucasArts to begin with and I certainly hope this iteration will make non-Star Wars games as well. The old LucasArts has given us Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle, to name a few and I certainly hope we'll be treated on more . . . Link to post
Circa Posted Wednesday at 04:36 AM Author Share Posted Wednesday at 04:36 AM 5 hours ago, Apprentice said: They should've never dismantled LucasArts to begin with and I certainly hope this iteration will make non-Star Wars games as well. The old LucasArts has given us Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle, to name a few and I certainly hope we'll be treated on more . . . Well they just announced a new Indiana Jones game being developed by Bethesda’s studio Machine Games. So it’s looking likely we will be getting even more. SomaZ likes this Link to post
Apprentice Posted Wednesday at 10:12 AM Share Posted Wednesday at 10:12 AM O dear . . . With MachineGames's latest installments in the Wolfenstein franchise and Todd Howard's "it just works", I am certainly not that optimistic . . . Link to post
Circa Posted Wednesday at 05:19 PM Author Share Posted Wednesday at 05:19 PM They just announced a new non-EA game, an open world Star Wars game, developed by Ubisoft’s Massive Entertainment (The Division). Extremely excited! Ubisoft isn’t perfect, but I think Massive is probably one of their best studios in terms of game vision, ability, and dedication. Link to post
Stoiss Posted Wednesday at 11:52 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 11:52 PM 6 hours ago, Circa said: They just announced a new non-EA game, an open world Star Wars game, developed by Ubisoft’s Massive Entertainment (The Division). Extremely excited! Ubisoft isn’t perfect, but I think Massive is probably one of their best studios in terms of game vision, ability, and dedication. as long as they keep there time saves for them self, and out of there game, and don't force there player base to grind their ass off to get some martial to buy some gear sets or force to buy it through micro transactions that is cut content like they have done with the last 3 assassin's creed games and breakpoint for that matter with scummy micro transactions. im fine with that Ubisoft gets a chance to make a star wars game. but remember Ubisoft is no different from how EA is when it comes to micro transactions. as long its just skins im fine with it, but they have just not proved that they could do a live service game or a single player game without micro transactions in the scummy way they do it. but this is just my opinion on it. so lets hope Disney still have the voice to keep this in tact so it dosnt end up like Battlefront 2 ended 🙂 Link to post
Circa Posted Thursday at 12:17 AM Author Share Posted Thursday at 12:17 AM Article about a lot this, and basically states the exclusivity deal with EA is now over, though they will still be making Star Wars games. https://www.starwars.com/news/lucasfilm-games-interview Link to post
Bubbles Posted Thursday at 08:53 PM Share Posted Thursday at 08:53 PM Fantastic. Hopefully now that EA has some competition that will give them a bit of a kick up the ass. Link to post
Apprentice Posted Friday at 10:26 PM Share Posted Friday at 10:26 PM On 1/14/2021 at 9:53 PM, Bubbles said: Hopefully now that EA has some competition that will give them a bit of a kick up the ass. 😁 Link to post
Bubbles Posted Friday at 11:51 PM Share Posted Friday at 11:51 PM I dont think it is wishful. The guys making it are the same guys who made the division 1 and 2 games. They are using the same game engine as well Snowdrop engine. Im hoping it will just be like the division 2 in the star wars universe. Like you can team up with a squad in an open world and just explore and do quests. Be a bit like Kotor online. I imagine that would have many opportunities for clans to thrive as well. The biggest issue is Jedi though. It is always a struggling implenting Jedi with other classes without them breaking the game. I think the only game that has ever done that right is Star Wars Galaxies pre nerf. You could argue swtor did it right but the problem with swtor is that everyone is basically a jedi. Which detracts from the feeling the being a jedi/sith is special. Also the game is balanced so a trooper could kill a jedi in a 1v1 which is just not right. Idk thats my rambling. Link to post
Apprentice Posted 21 hours ago Share Posted 21 hours ago You make an interesting argument, however I look at other aspects other then 'what it can become'. If there is one thing that has plagued us players in the last five or six years, is the amount of controversy surrounding the release(s) of major AAA title(s). In the last five or six years, there has not been a release that was botched up in one way or another. Either the end-result was filled with bugs in such way that the title was clearly not ready to be released at that particular moment (Cyberpunk 2077, Fallout 76) or received a lot backlash due to its micro-transactions implementation, making it a pay-2-win game (Battlefront II) and if that doesn't "happen", you can have the problem that the authentication servers are all flattened due to overload (Assassin's Creed Unity IIRC). This unfortunately cannot should not be ignored by us and unfortunately, it will happen again with the new announced Star Wars titles even if they are not published by EA. Game developers can and will get away with this because of a) there is no consumer regulations regarding this and b) people will continue to pre-order the game, making a steady revenue for the developers to do as they please. This is one of the major reasons why I don't buy full priced games anymore, I'm not going to spend 60 dollars in order to publicly beta-test a triple-A game and that is my rambling . . . 😉 Link to post
Bubbles Posted 20 hours ago Share Posted 20 hours ago 100% right. I never preorder. I have a bit of hope though. Mainly because Ubisoft will want that exclusivity contract. EA has lost Disney's trust a bit. If I was Ubisoft I'd make sure to knock the ball out of the park with this game. Star wars games are a huge money maker. So either way now EA has competition, hopefully the games will get a lot better. Link to post
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