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Edited by Sick Perv:
2/9/2013 3:01:05 AM
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The Death of Star Wars games as we know it.
As we all know (or should know by now) Disney has purchased Lucasfilms, and thus the Star Wars brand belongs to them. But we're not here to discuss that. We're here to discuss what else Disney reeled in from Lucas.
You see Disney now also owns LucasArts, the video game company created for Lucasfillms. Now the Star Wars games might have for the most part sucked this generation, but last generation they were spectacular. Who can forget games such as Knights of the Old Republic, and Battlefront? And Of course there was also Jedi Academy and Republic Commando.
I had hoped this generation would be a dry spell, and the upcoming one would be filled with great Star Wars games yet again. However with Disney now owning LucasArts this looks less likely. It seems Disney wants to focus more on mobile games. “We’re likely to focus more on social and mobile than we are on console,” said Disney CEO Robert Iger during a conference call.
Yikes.
Looks like we're in for another slew of terrible Star Wars games.
But there is some light at the end of the tunnel, my friends. Disney is at least considering letting other developers use the Star Wars license. "We’ll look opportunistically at console, most likely in licensing rather than publishing."
Well at least we can look forward to Star Wars 1313, as that game was being developed before the Disney takeover.
Source: [url]http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/10/30/disney-acquires-all-of-lucasfilm-including-lucasarts/[/url]
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We still have Star Wars: First Assault to look forward to
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Republic Commando 2 or disney dies.
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2 RepliesWell LucasArts has been dead for 7 years now, so nothing different. Besides, I see Disney licensing out the Star Wars IP. They want to milk the crap out of Star Wars and when they realize the success of the Battlefront IP they will hire a developer to make BF3. I expect to see Disney to have a line up of games ready to launch with the new trilogy. Hopefully, they throw money at some of the old (successful) Star Wars franchises.
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The Starfighter and Rouge Squadron games from the Gamecube and old xbox weren't bad either.
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3 RepliesMobile games..... who even buys those?
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1313 has a chance to redeem Star Wars games...but still, I'd take a SWBF3 or RC2 over it any day of the week.
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5 RepliesObsidian have recently pitched a new Star Wars RPG set between Episodes 3 and 4.
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1 Reply...so I guess this means battlefront 3 and The Force Unleashed 3 are screwed right?
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Edited by BerzerkCommando: 2/9/2013 11:38:42 AM[quote]Well at least we can look forward to Star Wars 1313, as that game was being developed before the Disney takeover.[/quote] LOL. I can't wait to dance some more. I'm not looking forward to any new Star Wars game after 2005. After looking back on their previous games this is probably going to be another disappointing game.
