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The Future of Star Wars Gaming
Reuters has an interview with LucasArts President Jim Ward up, and it goes into a good deal of depth about the present and future of Star Wars gaming. He suggests that Jump to Lightspeed is doing well commercially, mentions that there will be a Star Wars RTS in the next year or two, and again comfirms that there will be new Star Wars properties on TV. From the article: " We will have new live-action and animated TV shows over the next few years, and I think there's a bright future there for games based on these new properties as well as original Star Wars games like a new real-time strategy PC game that Petroglyph is developing for next year."
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New and original ideas surrender, film at 11
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3. profit!!!
I'm serious. SOE is a pox upon the star wars license.
I've played a good number of Star Wars games over the years, from X-Wing to Dark Forces to Jedi Knight. There have been some great ones and some not-so-great ones. The best are the ones where you're given a role within the Star Wars universe... Jedi Knight 2 is still one of my favorite games because it was the first time since I was a kid (make-believe... before I had a computer, you know?) that I felt immersed in a game. Instead of just playing a game, I was really feeling involved. That was the fun part. Not a lot of games can do that for me nowadays.
They get a good developer for the next SW Game. Battlefront was good . . . for the first ten minutes. Then it just got so repetitive it wasn't funny. Not to mention the fact of the numerous bugs in multiplayer.
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
That round board game Chewie and C3P0 are playing in a new hope. To hell with the RTS, FPS, MMORPG, and whatever else I forgot.
there will be a Star Wars RTS in the next year or two
There already was a Star Wars RTS game, and it felt very clunky and unfinished.
Maybe the game they mentioned will actually be the finished version of the game released years ago?
Murphy was an optimist.
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That they're taking SWG away from Sony Online Entertainment and giving it to someone competent enough to create a playable game instead of a big 3D chat room where you have the ability to simulate killing ugly giraffe things if you want?
Star Wars games are like Russian Roulette with 5 bullets; You may get a lucky and get a good game, say SW: Knights of the Old Republic or Rogue Squadron; but most of the time you will get the bullet, AKA Star Wars Battlefront or SW: Rebel Assault I and II
but I have high hopes for KOTOR 2 coming out..
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Just sell me Tie Fighter (hell, even X-Wing) again, but with a graphics engine that takes advantage of modern graphics cards. Come on LucasArts, you've done it twice already. It's in the spirit of the multiple re-releases of the movies anyway.
That being said, Mercenaries could have potential, assuming it really is free-form like GTA. The Mechwarrior: Mercenaries games were almost exactly the same as the regular versions, except your inventory had prices listed in it. Did Mechwarrior 4:Mercs even have that much? I don't remember now.
Do it again, but do it right this time!
I liked the concept of the game, but when playing it there was no real strategy element to it. You could "command" your troops, but they wouldn't listen or do what you told them to.
Here's what to do LucasArts: Go get a copy of Battlezone II: combat commander. Replace humans/scions with rebels/imperials, and you've got a winner.
Oh, and you need much bigger maps if you're going to include vehicles like X-Wings or Tie fighters. Every two seconds you run into the imaginary wall at the end of the map. While you're at it, you might want to think of actually giving the player a reason to get into an X-Wing (ie; some sort of aerial battle)
Battlefront so could have been the game I've been waiting for since I realized Activision are too pinheaded to make another Battlezone title.
Oh yeah, more flight/shooter games. More Rogue Squadron (take out that run around on the ground crap), and more Starfighter titles. Make the quality of the Starfighter titles match the quality of the Rogue titles, too.
There's no reason to have made Jedi Starfighter suck just to match the suckiness of the prequel films.
Star Wars is such fertile grounds for really good video game ideas. So why don't you actually execute some of them, start to finish. Star Wars games are perpetually "almost" good, it seems.
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A good SW MMORPG will be nearly impossible just because of this dilemma.
Murphy was an optimist.
LucasArts? Worst Game Maker? Huh?
LucasArts' recent offerings have been improving. Jedi Academy and Jedi Outcast were fine games (though Academy had a marvelously short single player game). Battlefront is an excellent game. Star Wars Episode 3: The Game looks incredible.
LA is certainly not the worst game maker. Not the best, definitely, but certainly nowhere near worst.
"We will have new live-action and animated TV shows over the next few years."
New Fan: How did the original trilogy die?
Oldi-Fan: An old director, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Empire edit and destroy the original trilogy. He betrayed and murdered your trilogy.
People in Soviet Russia, however, appear to be afflicted with amusing juxtapositions of the aforementioned situation
Actually, I know a lot of people (my friends and myself included) that enjoy the Star Wars games and are not by any stretch Star Wars fans.
I've always enjoyed Jedi Knight 2 and Jedi Academy, based not only on the fact I get to chop shit up with a lightsabre but also that the game itself isn't too bad.
Recently my boss and I started to play SW:Battleground. It's basically Battlefield 1942 with SW skins, but we still had a good time with all the different armies you can play as.
On a personal note, I think EA games churns out the most shit and should be endowed with such a title of Worst Game Maker.
No. Next question.
Even in its early days, it was pretty good. "Outlaws" was far and away the most fun solo shooter (with the best story behind it) I ever played prior to HALO.
Jedi Knight was also a blast, and X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter was brilliant.
I have not bothered with SWG, because it takes a lot to get me excited about a level-treadmil MMORPG these days, but I still regard LA as one of the best game makers out there.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
Already been done.
"Size matters not. Judge me by my size, do you?"
"Aren't you a little short for a Stormtrooper?"
"You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!"
"Get in there, you big furry oaf! I don't care what you smell!"
And worst of all:
"Your feelings for them are strong. Especially for... sister."
Just update it. Make it networked multiplayer and updated graphics. The entire series was great. There have been serious lacking for good games in the simulation/action genre for the last few years. The reason people got away from them was because multiplayer took off.
All the old simulator series should be looked at again, now that broadband networking and several years of networking programming in gamming have solved many of the multiplayer networking game problems, simulator's should be playable now (as that was mostly the reason why people didn't play them online, when you can stand there and shoot the enemy and him not take damage frustrated people to no end, which led to players leaving most of this genre). Its time to return...
We were all warned a long time ago that MS products sucked, remember the Magic 8 Ball said, "Outlook not so good"
TIE Fighter was the first PC game that really pulled me in. I'd have no idea how much time I've spent flying in the Imperial Navy. The real high points were in college when I'd take it into a deserted classroom, plug in my joystick, and play it using the video projector sitting as close to the screen as I possible without blocking the projection.
X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter was pretty bad. Really had a "Let's see how we can cram in multi-player" feel to it. Followed by a, "Single-player? Who is going to do that?" feel.
X-Wing Alliance was a bit better, but I get the feeling that many times the designers were thinking, "This mission seems a bit light, not enough to it. I know! Six more waves of enemy fighters! That should do it."
Rogue Squadron was pretty good, but definitely a lightweight game. No power management, no limit on blaster ammo, no sim elements at all. Of course, it was originally a console game, so that's to be expected. I haven't played Jedi Starfighter, but I'm guessing it's more like Rogue Squadron than X-Wing.
I'd love to see a decent game in the X-Wing series made. Done right, it would be really good. (Last time I looked, TIE Fighter was still in PCGamer's top 5 all-time greatest.) They could even pull the storyline from the X-Wing book series, which was inspired by the original game. (Some of the only really good Star Wars novels, IMO)
Redundancy is good And also good.
Since lucasarts abandoned their best genre, adventure games, I see no reason to buy their crap anymore. Most of it is simply rehashed experiences that Ive already played, but now with BETTAR GRAPHIX WOO.
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Give me a break.
Release Sam and Max 2, or a new Monkey Island, or tie fighter 2 (the first was just so damn good) and maybe MAYBE I'll give you another look.
Im still bitter about the whole sam and max thing. I was so looking forward to that
no
I want to:
- Jack X-wings.
- Go tagging around Mos Isley.
- Pimp out droid hos.
- Sell midichlori-crack to children.
- Pop caps into ewok ass.
- Collect a bevy of Sith Dominas who will rape Jar Jar repeatedly in the ass with strap-on light sabers.
- Two words: Yoda tossing.
- Have non-consensual sex with the space princess or reasonably priced sex slave of my choice.
- Roll everything I see up into a big Katamari ball, and bounce it off young Anakin's head.
- Four words: My fist, Jedi face.
- And, oh, I dunno... sex and stuff.
--- Ban humanity.
What about a new game based off of GTA3? Think about it, Star Wars is the best galaxy ever to be a badass in...
If only GL would go for something like that