LucasArts, BioWare Announce Partnership

Given the swirling rumours of a KOTOR MMOG, it should come as no surprise that BioWare and Lucasarts have announced they're teaming up for a project. They don't give any really concrete details, other than to say it is 'a ground-breaking interactive entertainment product'. They've also "launched a cobranded Web site, www.LucasArtsBioWare.com. 'Through our previous collaborations, we know that BioWare has an impressive ability to blend gripping stories with technological advancements, and we believe that our upcoming product will deliver an experience that will span the traditional boundaries of video game entertainment,' LucasArts president Jim Ward said in a statement. "

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Re:KotOR2

[Enderandrew]

Obsidian was given a year to make a full title, and then LucasArts went out of business and shipped KOTOR:2 even 3 months earlier than planned. Most people don't seem to know this, but LucasArts completley closed their offices and fired most of their staff. The new LucasArts works out of the ILM offices. LucasArts also just lopped the ending off the game at the last minute. Many files from the ending were still on the disc, and Team Gizka is "fixing" the game to restore the lost portions of the game, which include various quests, dialoges, etc. from the whole game. There was also a full planet cut from the game, which is still heavily hinted at in the shipped version of the game.

The Obsidian devs have a great track record of past titles, many of which used Bioware engines, and greatly improved on them. Some argue that Planescape: Torment is the single greatest PC title of any genre, ever. So don't go insulting arguably the greatest PC RPG devs on the planet.

After you've worked on titles like Planescape and Fallout, then you can critique.