Disney and EA announce multi-year Star Wars deal

[Ulminati]

Tie Fighter, XWing Alliance, Dark Forces, Mysteries of the Sith.

If feeling desperate - Jedi Academy, KotOR 2, Rebellion, X-wing.
If feeling REALLY desperate - Jedi Knight, Jedi Outcast, KotOR 1.

Rest of the star wars games were pretty forgettable.

So yeah. Only 4-11 star wars games worth wasting your time on.

 

[Keshik]

Wouldn't class Rebellion or X-Wing under desperate myself - the former is an acquired taste but I did like how they handled intel in the game. Still wish I had actually passed that X-Wing training simulator.

As for EA touching this, can't really generate much concern at this point to be honest.

 

[DemonKing]

I guess KOTOR 3 is go then, plus the inevitable Battlefield Star Wars. That leaves Visceral to do the 3rd Person actioneer/lightsabre simulator? I'd rather more stuff set around the time of the OT but I guess we can fully expect stuff to tie in to the new Disney movies.

Sadly I can't imagine any spaceflight simulators aka Tie Fighter coming out of this deal (although inevitably X-wings will be tacked onto BFSW). Also not sure if EA still have the chops to produce a half decent RTS either.

There have been some decent (and even great) SW games produced in the past but not for at least 8 years by my count. I guess EA can't do any worse than Lucasarts was doing.

 

[Kirtai]

I guess EA can't do any worse than Lucasarts was doing.

I'm going to make a note of this prediction.

 

[Darth Slaughter]

Tie Fighter, XWing Alliance, Dark Forces, Mysteries of the Sith.

If feeling desperate - Jedi Academy, KotOR 2, Rebellion, X-wing.
If feeling REALLY desperate - Jedi Knight, Jedi Outcast, KotOR 1.

Rest of the star wars games were pretty forgettable.

So yeah. Only 4-11 star wars games worth wasting your time on.

republic commando. A popamole, corridor FPS, at least without lightsabers.

 

[pakoito]

Tie Fighter, XWing Alliance, Dark Forces, Mysteries of the Sith.

If feeling desperate - Jedi Academy, KotOR 2, Rebellion, X-wing.
If feeling REALLY desperate - Jedi Knight, Jedi Outcast, KotOR 1.

Rest of the star wars games were pretty forgettable.

So yeah. Only 4-11 star wars games worth wasting your time on.

republic commando. A popamole, corridor FPS, at least without lightsabers.

Wasn't Battlefront 2 better?

 

[Darth Slaughter]

No. BF2 was multiplayer.

 

[Ulminati]

republic commando. A popamole, corridor FPS

Like I said. Rest were pretty forgettable.

 

[circ]

Tie Fighter, XWing Alliance, Dark Forces, Mysteries of the Sith.

If feeling desperate - Jedi Academy, KotOR 2, Rebellion, X-wing.
If feeling REALLY desperate - Jedi Knight, Jedi Outcast, KotOR 1.

Rest of the star wars games were pretty forgettable.

So yeah. Only 4-11 star wars games worth wasting your time on.

Empire at War is playable IMO. Space battles look nice, land not so much.

Also, back when the new trilogy came out Lucas was whoring out the brand for movie tie-in games, and most of those were crap. Podracer though was fine, that I remember.
So these are probably just tie-ins.

 

[Darth Slaughter]

republic commando. A popamole, corridor FPS

Like I said. Rest were pretty forgettable.

Oh, I think it could fit in your "really desperate" category.

 

[DemonKing]

I guess EA can't do any worse than Lucasarts was doing.

I'm going to make a note of this prediction.

Feel free - I feel reasonably confident of this prediction although that's not to say that I expect miracles (ie another Tie Fighter, Dark Forces II or KOTOR).

 

[tuluse]

Tie Fighter, XWing Alliance, Dark Forces, Mysteries of the Sith.

If feeling desperate - Jedi Academy, KotOR 2, Rebellion, X-wing.
If feeling REALLY desperate - Jedi Knight, Jedi Outcast, KotOR 1.

Rest of the star wars games were pretty forgettable.

So yeah. Only 4-11 star wars games worth wasting your time on.

Rebellion is cool. Especially for it's time.

 

[tadhg]

While Arcadey, I liked Rogue Leader on the Gamecube.

 

[Kirtai]

I guess EA can't do any worse than Lucasarts was doing.

I'm going to make a note of this prediction.

Feel free - I feel reasonably confident of this prediction although that's not to say that I expect miracles (ie another Tie Fighter, Dark Forces II or KOTOR).

Well, it's more that I'm expecting them to do dark miracles, with games that make the worst of Lucasarts looks like marvels of the gamemakers craft. I hope I'm wrong.

 

[Sunsetspawn]

I guess EA can't do any worse than Lucasarts was doing.

I'm going to make a note of this prediction.

That might be one of them funny sig quotes in a few years.

 

[Volourn]

"Horrible news. Just plain horrible. Hopefully Bioware can help get Obsidian to make RPG they were trying to pitch? This is making me nervous."

I doubt it. Obsidian's main connection to BIo was the docs so now with the docs gone nobody in power at BIIO/EA likely gives a shit about the long ties between Obsidian foudners and Bioware founders.

Alas, this means no more piggybacking for sequel crumbs.

NO MOREEE RIDES, OBSIDIAN, NO MORE FREE RIDES!!!

 

[Crooked Bee]

Cool, another utterly terrible Bioware RPG upcoming. On the bright side, it's definitely going to bring a lot of lulz so I approve of this shit.

 

[dibens]

A Bioware movie tie-in rpg. It will be glorious!


Of course they can go Batman Arkham route, but they probably won't, because you know, jews.

 

[bonescraper]

Somebody forgot Shadows of the Empire. That game was the tits back in the day.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

I expect at least one good game (from DICE) coming out of this deal. That's still better than Disney keeping everything in-house. It was a smart move to dissolve LA's dev force because they only created suck.

 

[Jaesun]

They moved the old Mass Effect team to work on some MYSTARY project. Perhaps this is what they are working on then....

So how do you do cover shooting with a Light Saber?

 

[Kirtai]

They moved the old Mass Effect team to work on some MYSTARY project. Perhaps this is what they are working on then....

So how do you do cover shooting with a Light Saber?

Press X to crouch behind the sabre and watch the game play itself deflect shots for you.

 

[circ]

Mass Effect is pretty much a Star Wars game already with bionics being a cheap force rip-off. You barely have to touch the assets even with the way the franchise has ended up now. Maybe throw in a Millennium Falcon shoot em up segment like in Jade Empire.

Ok I want you to give the asari some new colors. And um hey, can you write some shit about how Twi'leks lost their tentacle thingies and now look like asari? Super.
Hmm ok make the what are the mole guys called? Yeah like that Stanley guy. Uhuh. Yeah make them jawas. They gotta wear suits off Tatooine. That'll work.
What can we do with that guy Garrus' race? Oh hey, let's make it a little more leathery here... Yeah, that's kinda like Vong no? I like it.

 

[Infinitron]

Mass Effect is pretty much a Star Wars game already

Not really. Star Wars was based on 1940s comics and serials. Mass Effect is inspired by 80s science fiction literature such as Frederick Pohl's Gateway. It's a totally different feel.

 

[Turjan]

Even Bioware will be hard-pressed to do worse to Star Wars than what has already been done

Jar-jar Binks romance?

Just imagine those awesome French kisses...