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LucasArts and BioWare to Develop New Star Wars RPG
Ant was the first of a number of folks to write about the press release that came out from LucasArts and Bioware. Bioware, you probably remember, has done Icewind Dale and Baldur's Gate with their Infinity Engine. Pretty cool stuff - the setting of the game is going to be prior to the Star Wars movies. I don't know whether that means prior to Episode I or Episode IV, but the real-world ship date is supposed to be 2002. So, donna hold your breath.
Will the game use the AD&D rules like Icewind Dale, Baldur's Gate, etc.? That would be extremely cool if it does. I want a +2 Lightsaber!
-Antipop
As such, if indeed BioWare is responsible for a SW RPG, I would be willing to bet that it will make Lucas' own storytelling endeavors suck in comparison. Screw SW Ep. 2... THIS is the SW fix we have been waiting for.
Plus, we can hope they put Jar Jar in the game, cause in that case, we'll probably be able to chop his head off and cackle in glee.
Well, they sure have enough time to work on it... Hopefully they'll work on the Mac/"other" OS ports concurrently. It'd be nice if they were all released at the same time.
Hopefully they'll take a lot of the story/lore from the Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game books... those were very cool, and were excellent reading.
The Tales Of The Jedi stories were cool, I liked the comics... that will make for some excellent game play.
A Star Wars timeline
Read David Brin's Uplift books to see how something like this might work.
Freedom: "I won't!"
If you read the other posts, you might have noticed the wise person stating Lucas Arts' deal with Verant was to create a MMORPG - like Everquest. This deal is with BioWare - the folks who produced Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale.
Um... I'm sorry you don't like EQ, and you had bad experiences with their Guides / GMs. I've had nothing but good interaction between them. And frankly, I think EQ is one of the best games out there. Lucas Arts - and probably George Lucas - agrees with me enough that they are allowing Verant to develop under the rather closely guarded Star Wars liscense.
As for 'ruining his good name', I guess you don't remember Episode I, or the tens of thousands dissapointed Star Wars fans.
-lw
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Rumor has it that John Romero is helping with the story line. Apparently, Jar Jar starts out as a member of your party, and if he dies, you lose the game.
The cake is a pie
Don't you actually read the articles you post about? It spells out as clear as day that the new game will be set before Episode 1.
/. -- lack of attention from the senior people. You can't expect quality journalism from your staff if you don't even take the time to do it yourself. :(
I would expect this sort of goof from a junior staffer, not one of the senior people. Shame on you! I don't think it's too much to ask that you read and really understand an article before you post a synopsis/blurb about it.
This isn't a major crime, but it is sloppy as hell and symptomatic of what is ailing
Paying $10 a month to log on to over-taxed and buggy servers is a joke as it is, but then when they finally made a tiny expansion to the game world like they promised back during the initial release, they had the gall to charge their regular customers, who already shelled out $60 plus monthly fees for what is really just a MUD with pictures.
Screw EQ. Go Worldforge team!
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
OK, your party of six characters (the Jedi, the Wookiee, the Smuggler, the Princess, the Yappy Droid, and the Short Droid) walks into a 10" x 10" room. In the room are six Stormtroopers. Roll for initiative.
Ten minutes later...
Through clever strategy and a great deal of space-bar-pausing, you have defeated the Stormtroopers. After searching the bodies, you find a Blaster +1, a Green Key, and 87 gold pieces. Your party turns the corner and are surprised by two Wampas. Roll for initiative.
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Jeez.. aside from the last 2 paragraphs, the whole thing was ripped almost directly from a real review of Episode I by an extremely conservative religious group.
I'm not sure where the rest of it came from, or if he just made it up, but since this is obviously either an attempt at humor or an attempt at trolling, we should all just read it, and either snicker or shake our heads and be on our way.
It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds. - Captain Hammer
..perhaps the Neverwinter Nights -engine.
If so, the chances of a Linuxport would be rather
high, as Neverwinter Nights is developed for Linux as well as windows.
It has always seemed to me that a lot of work go
to waste creating 3d-engines. Only a few gets
reused.
I forgive you for being confused, Siggy.
I am not an idiot. Please use my name to email me.
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Ummm, Ant asks: "the setting of the game is going to be prior to the Star Wars movies. I don't know whether that means prior to Episode I or Episode IV". Its not hard, Ant. According to the press release that you linked to:
LucasArts and BioWare are creating an entirely original storyline set some four thousand years before Star Wars: Episode I.
I think that answers your question.
Is it really too much to expect people who submit stories to actually read the links they are submitting? I guess it is...
Sailing over the event horizon
The press release states that the game will take place some 4,000 years before Episode 1, in an era dominated by Jedi vs. Sith warfare.
This Gamespot report also has some more info, and Bioware has stated that it will use a modified version of the Neverwinter Nights engine.
The MMORPG that Verant is developing is certain to be very different from Bioware's game. They'll probably be about as different as... Everquest and Baldur's Gate.
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