Obsidian is Pitching a New Star Wars Game

[Genocidicles]

and EA's micro-transaction ends up horribly backfiring and is easily circumvented.

What is this? That sounds like amazing news!

 

[Orks da best]

If their placing it at that period would it be called Star Wars: The Fall of the Old Republic?

Also I want this to be made! This will make so many people happy and disney and obs. rich!

 

[The Bandit]

I always love it when people dock KOTOR II's story with shit like "It was so predictable! The lady was OBVIOUSLY evil!" If you make that kind of statement, you completely missed the entire point of the game.

 

[MrBrightside919]

Ask the average PC gamer what their favorite Star Wars game is and there's a good chance they'll name drop Obsidian's excellent Star Wars: Knights of the old Republic II: The Sith Lords.

Really? I was under the impression most people considered the original to be much better, and the review scores certainly seem to support that. The sequel was a great game, and I honestly didn't notice a single bug when playing it, but it just wasn't as good as the first (other than the graphics which were of course a lot better).

That said, I would love to see them make another one.

Captcha: Beautiful friendship. Oh yes.

I asked the same question when I saw it said KOTOR 2 and not the original...

I remember KOTOR 2 having that Obsidian quality bug control, not that they ever ruined the game. Plus, the game pretty much fell apart by the end. It was a good game and i'd still play it today over a lot of other RPGs that come out today, but it's no where near as good as the original KOTOR...

 

[Quazimofo]

I always love it when people dock KOTOR II's story with shit like "It was so predictable! The lady was OBVIOUSLY evil!" If you make that kind of statement, you completely missed the entire point of the game.

Yeah, perhaps; however the point would be easier to discern if the game was friggin' finished. I can remember at least a half dozen places where it was rather obviously unfinished. (Unfinished quest lines- HO!)

That's my only real complaint with the game, it just felt... unfinished. Like it was supposed to be better, but it just wasn't done yet.

 

[NecrolordGR]

Am I really the only one who's noticed that there's a REALLY weird smiling mouth hastily photoshopped into that image? Seriously? How can no one see that?

 

[Norrdicus]

Although I'm worried they might have a bit too much on their plate, what with them working on The stick of Truth, Project Eternity and the spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment. Plus they're helping with Wasteland 2.

Actually, Obsidian has very little to do with the Torment: Tides of Numenera since the lead designer is one of the other PS:T writers now working for inXile, and Obsidian's involvement with Wasteland 2 has almost ended, at least it has on Chris Avellone's part.

 

[lolmynamewastaken]

so i really liked the first one (apart from that bastard darth malak who according to the internet is like the most disappointing boss in the history of the world for being easy but is like one of only 2 bosses i have ever given up on for being just fucking obnoxiously hard. the shithouse) but couldn't be arsed with the second one at all... nothing ever seemed to happen... just me?

 

[Infernai]

Provided this goes through i have one very basic request to Disney/Lucasarts and one alone....*Ahem*

Please, please, please, please, PLEASE! By the will of the force: Let them finish the damned game. I don't think we need another Kotor 2 scenario (Head company forcing them to cut half the game out and release it unfinished.). I realise the restoration mod helped get around this...eventually, but i think it's best if they just have the time to finish the bloody story this time doncha think?

It wasn't like that. At all. It went like this:
Feargus wanted some extra time to develop some new stuff for the game. He got the confirmation from a LucasArts man, but they didn't sign the prolongation and the man has apparently forgotten about the whole thing. So when the release date came along, the game wasn't finished.
Plus, Obsidian were fooling around for first months instead of developing the game.

Really? Huh....well, i had heard originally that it was because Lucasarts wouldn't give them time to finish due to wanting a christmas release but, well, if this is the case then i guess there was more to it.

Thanks for correcting me.

 

[schmulki]

Favorite Star Wars game? Oh, the Arcade game replaying all the big events of the original trilogy with the joystick? No, not that one? How about Shadows of the Empire, one of the best N64 games and a great translation of a wonderful book. No, not that? How about Battlefront, a great multiplayer experience letting me live out what feels like a real war across different places in different roles? No, not that, either?

Oh, we're talking about a piss-poor RPG more focused on BS dialog choices than anything else? OK, wake me when they're making a game I should care about.

 

[Happiness Assassin]

The thing is there are actually a surprising large number of crap games set in between episodes 3 and 4, so I will just withhold judgment.

 

[TaboriHK]

The last Star Wars game they made was rushed, broken, chopped down, and the ending was a jumbled mess, and it was still one of my favorite games I've ever played. So I hope they get another crack at the series.

 

[Radoh]

I suppose that's a good thing maybe.
My copy never worked, and the only way to make it work was to DISABLE ALL SOUND, and the way the game got stupid broken partway through with the unstoppable technique of "spam force push until everything is paste against the walls" ruined the gameplay, but if they made a new one I guess that would be gravy.

 

[Talvrae]

Hope if they do they release the game finished

 

[mattttherman3]

Gooooooooooooooooood, gooooood, goooooood! Hopefully it will end with the death of the main character, and hopefully they don't clone him for a cash grab.

 

[Reincarnatedwolfgod]

Arguably? no kotor 2 is the best. Kreia is the best written character in the whole star wars univese that i have seen. that alone
that being said you must first download the restored content restoration patch due to the game being rushed out and released in an incomplete state. also download the restored planet M4-78. i have not tried that planet yet but it so i can't say how good it but free restored content.

 

[Callate]

Ask the average PC gamer what their favorite Star Wars game is and there's a good chance they'll name drop Obsidian's excellent Star Wars: Knights of the old Republic II: The Sith Lords.

Ahhhh, no. I've got to chip in one more voice here and say, no, that's just not the case. They'll bring up the original KotOR, not TSL. While reviews never tell the whole story, I have to point out that on Metacritic the PC/XBox versions of KotOR rate at 93 and 94 respectively, while TSL comes in at 85 and 86. On Amazon- where the reviews are done by consumers rather than professionals- KotOR gets four and a half stars on PC vs. four even for TSL- and notably the bundle that features both games gets three and a half.

TSL is about two-thirds to three quarters of a very good game, and a remaining one-quarter to one-third that is a rush job of cut-and-paste rooms and enemies and reams of expository dialogue. It's a shining example of wasted potential, from the tacked-on and unnecessary crafting system to the peculiar and immersion-breaking Influence system. I'm sorry, but I think if you really asked the average gamer, you'd find that most people have far rosier memories of the original than the sequel, barring the influence of later-day Bioware resentment.

None of this is to say that I wouldn't love to see Obsidian working with the franchise again; between their experience (and learning from past mistakes) and the possibility of new, humbler management overseeing the process, I think there's the possibility of a very good game, there.

Just don't let them monkeywrench themselves by trying to throw an excessive amount of the increasingly popular "moral grey" into the mix. Guys, it's a world where there is literally a dark side and a light side; clue in.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

Great news if you ask me. I really loved KotOR 2 and Obsidian know their shtick regarding storytelling.

 

[Estarc]

I thought I didn't have it in me to get excited over games any more. I was wrong, and I am o happy about that!~The surge of excitement and anticipation I had over this idea was surprising to me. I would pre-order this game at the earliest possibility if it became a thing, despite the amount of times I have been burned because of it. I dunno if that makes me an idiot or not, lol.

Hope this happens.

 

[deathbeforedecaf]

I liked KOTOR II:TSL a lot, but its not half the game Jedi Knight II:Jedi Outcast was. I actually felt like i was IN STARWARS when i played it. RPG gameplay just doesn't feel right to me when i have a lightsaber in hand.