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Post by Jambowayoh on Aug 18, 2022 16:55:43 GMT
You think? They do have a lot of studios I wonder who's got the keys now. Hopefully a studio with some proper experience, I still can't believe it wasn't given to Aspyr in the first place. Yeah. Just because they're capable of releasing some barebones ports of the older games doesn't mean they're suited for a full blown remake. But I guess (?) Embracer didn't have a studio capable of handling it otherwise? It would be quite a bang to announce first project you put your newly acquired studio on is fuckin' Star Wars though. Maybe wishful thinking on my part. As for the EA stuff, Battlefront is the only series they put out I didn't like, but that's because I don't enjoy Battlefield either, and it's basically just that on Hoth. Jedi Fallen Order was excellent, and Squadrons was fun. So they were 50:50 with the license by my estimation. Ah no, I had a typo in my post. I meant that I was surprised that Aspyr were given the project first place because they were only known for ports. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2022 16:56:43 GMT
Yeah, I understood. That's why I started with "yeah" in agreement.
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Post by Vandelay on Aug 18, 2022 16:57:35 GMT
Squadrons is definitely great (although could do with a bit more content). And, I really liked Fallen Order as well, albeit with caveats.
Didn't play BF1, but 2 was a fun flashy game, but I wouldn't say it was great. It's Battlefield-lite with a Star Wars skin and some comedy hero characters. The single player was really dull too.
So that is four games in an almost 10 year period, two of which I would say most people would agree with my thoughts on them not being that great. Compared to what we had in the 90s and 00s, I think drought is relatively the right word.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Aug 18, 2022 17:04:32 GMT
So let's see we have the Jedi sequel apparently releasing around March next year according to leaks, we've got the Ubisoft star wars game. Anything else? I've haven't put the Quantic Dream game on the list as it's essentially vaporware currently because they can't get people to fill the roles as it's a dumpster fire of dev to work for apparently.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Aug 20, 2022 10:49:22 GMT
Methinks even 2025 is pushing it. What a clusterfuck.
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Post by simple on Aug 20, 2022 11:39:24 GMT
The missions in Squadrons were fun but its a shame that the stuff in between was so barebones. Either just make them cutscenes or actually put some content in there, the whole point and click static exploration thing was what Wing Commander 3 was doing back in the 90s and it had more content then.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Aug 23, 2022 12:48:19 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2022 14:32:45 GMT
Weren't they the ones working on the Witcher III current gen patch?
and also errr... haven't they been massively affected by the Ukraine/Russia war?
Hmm.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Aug 23, 2022 17:12:06 GMT
Weren't they the ones working on the Witcher III current gen patch? and also errr... haven't they been massively affected by the Ukraine/Russia war? Hmm. That was the Russian branch of Sabre Interactive. As far as I know they have a lot of satellite studios as the main studio is in America. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2022 17:15:35 GMT
Ahh, I thought they were just flat out a Russian studio. Although the report being that it got moved to "one of their Eastern European studios" makes my concerns still valid.
I hope everyone at Saber is safe. Probably more important things to worry about than fixing Aspyr's mess at the moment.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Aug 23, 2022 17:22:40 GMT
Ahh, I thought they were just flat out a Russian studio. Although the report being that it got moved to "one of their Eastern European studios" makes my concerns still valid. I hope everyone at Saber is safe. Probably more important things to worry about than fixing Aspyr's mess at the moment. You know that the whole of Eastern Europe is not at war right? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2022 17:29:52 GMT
Yes, but "Eastern Europe" is such a vague term, I don't know where this game has been moved to.
I'm just saying.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Aug 23, 2022 17:35:34 GMT
Yes, but "Eastern Europe" is such a vague term, I don't know where this game has been moved to. I'm just saying. Ok, but I mean but it's a big area just like Western Europe is a big area and I doubt they'd give it to a studio in a difficult place. Just saying. |
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Post by baihu1983 on May 22, 2023 17:31:39 GMT
Sounds like this is in real trouble/dead.
Reports that development has been paused indefinitely.
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Post by Lizard on May 22, 2023 21:52:07 GMT
Hopefully going to do the second one instead
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Post by britesparc on May 22, 2023 23:35:52 GMT
Just give me a 4K remaster of the original, with achievements 😉
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Post by Blue_Mike on May 23, 2023 0:30:16 GMT
As much as I'd like to play the original again, I feel kind of Revan-ed out after the way the character was mishandled in The Old Republic.
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Post by britesparc on May 23, 2023 6:31:33 GMT
I never played TOR so I'm cool. Just wanna play the original game again but for it to look a little nicer on my new telly.
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 23, 2023 8:03:38 GMT
There are some pretty decent texture / model mods that can be combined with reshade to make the original look a lot better, but (a) that's on PC only, and (b) there doesn't seem to be an 'all-in-one' mod so it looks like a big faff to find, download and install them all correctly.
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Post by skalpadda on May 23, 2023 10:08:09 GMT
The style is cartoonish enough that I haven't been bothered at all by the low poly count and old textures when I've replayed it (and I replay them every couple of years). As long as a game can be made to run at 1080 I don't generally care about graphics though, as long as I'm enjoying it
Last time I used a couple of mods that drastically improve distant terrain and skyboxes, which was nice.
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 23, 2023 10:16:24 GMT
I remember there being some UI annoyances as well, but I dunno if anyone ever made a mod to fix those.
I also have a memory of the combat always involving everyone throwing all their grenades in the first millisecond, but I don't know if that's true.
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Post by skalpadda on May 23, 2023 12:19:57 GMT
Yeah it got stretchy and/or tiny with widescreen resolutions, and some stuff didn't work, but there are mods to fix it. I'm pretty sure the updated Steam version comes with fixes for that stuff out of the box.
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Post by Blue_Mike on May 23, 2023 12:28:17 GMT
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 23, 2023 12:44:38 GMT
I meant more that there were UI annoyances in the original design, like everything being in tiny boxes in the middle of the screen, instead of using all the real estate available. For inventory and character screens etc...
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Post by skalpadda on May 23, 2023 13:05:01 GMT
Dunno, the game was mainly made to be played at SVGA or XGA resolutions and the UI didn't scale up well (KotOR 1 & 2 also used different ways of drawing it despite being on the same engine, with KotOR 2 not scaling at all, IIRC). I can't recall having any issues with it back in the day, and I find it good enough with mods these days.
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Post by baihu1983 on Sept 29, 2023 7:39:04 GMT
I would say this is dead. All videos on official channels and tweets have been deleted.
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Post by Tuffty on Sept 29, 2023 8:10:17 GMT
Oh it's super dead now
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Post by dfunked on Sept 29, 2023 8:10:32 GMT
Didn't realise it was still alive enough to be considered dead now. I'd lost all hope for it yonks ago.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 29, 2023 8:11:35 GMT
Seeing as it's an Embracer Group project...yeah, I can definitely see it being shit canned.
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Post by baihu1983 on Sept 29, 2023 9:38:55 GMT
Give it to Obsidian and let them do KOTOR2 as well.
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