If they'll drop EA, they'll go with Blizzard or Activision because Disney is all about the money.
Who should Disney trust with Star Wars if they drop EA?
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Got curious and looked around to find a fan has made a mod around the conceptRavenbom said:
https://subsetgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=16819
God damn it, if Naughty Dog could take over Visceral's Star Wars game...Catfood220 said:
Activision, maybe, Blizzard, no.Vanilla ISIS said:
I mean, that would have poetic irony in that Blizzard once talked with LucasArts about making a Star Wars RTS before settling on StarCraft (which has taken its share of inspiration from Star Wars regardless), but Blizzard hasn't worked on a licenced game since Justice League Task Force in 1995. They're hardly going to start now.
This. But if I have to choose, here's the list of all of the devs I would trust in order of preference:Windcaler said:
Croteam
Larian Studios
id Software
IO Interactive
New World Interactive (Insurgency)
Cyan Worlds (Myst)
Frontier Developments (Elite Dangerous)
Telltale Games
CD Projekt Red
The only reason why CD Projekt Red is so low on the list is because I don't want them to put any nudity/cringy sex scenes in Star Wars. You may think differently, but feel free to leave a comment down below... In your ass.
Obsidian is questionable. Tyranny was truly something else but Obsidian also often have a tendency to make some baffling decisions during dev and sometimes their stuff is pretty buggy.KayeFaye said:
Raven's owned by Activision so they're sadly not a viable dev house anymore. And besides. I'm sure most if not all of the old devs are gone now.
Oh and Naughty Dog is owned by Sony who I'm also leery about.
Disney is the most protective mother you will ever see. Especially with their favorite (read: Money producing) children. They prevented Day Care Centers from displaying their images in Florida [https://www.snopes.com/disney/wdco/daycare.asp]. They want their brand to be pristine and under their control at all times. They think the only way they will be able to do that is making sure their rights go to limited groups.
I would be surprised if they would give rights to multiple people. But crazier things have happened.
I would be surprised if they would give rights to multiple people. But crazier things have happened.
For the longest period of time, I thought you guys were yelling at me to pay attention, and then saying that my ideas were questionable. And then sense came to me.Arnoxthe1 said:
Stop Jonesing around Obsidian and get to work making those amazing Star Wars games!ObsidianJones said:
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Hawki said:
This right here. If you look at all the Star Wars games, a lot of them came from different developers and they were better for it. Factor 5 with Rogue Squadron, Pandemic with Battlefront, Bioware with KOTOR, Petroglyph with Star Wars Empire at War, etc.Windcaler said:
Such a huge variety of games ranging from shooters to RPG to RTS and more. It was awesome! If there was one thing George Lucas definitely got right, it's that he was really good about letting all kinds of developers make Star Wars games. I would say that Disney should resurrect LucasArts or make their own equivalent studio and then do exactly what LucasArts did back in the day where LucasArts was a developer of Star Wars games, but also a publisher for other studios to make Star Wars games. By handing it off to EA exclusively (or any other single studio), it limits the number and variety of games that can get made.
I mean imagine what could happen if a company like say Bethesda was allowed to make a Fallout 4 style Star Wars game? Or if some other company made a Halo style Clone Wars game? What about an Assassin's Creed style bounty hunter game on Coruscant? Or a Need For Speed Underground 2 style podracing game? None of that could ever happen if one company has an exclusivity deal.
/threadSaelune said:
Obsidian is an obvious pick. But I'd kill for a turn based RPG like Divinity Original Sin 2 set in Star Wars universe. So Larian Studios would also be a good pick. Basically, I think that Disney shouldn't give exclusive rights to one studio. They should pick and choose different studios based on what the studio does best and then let them do what they do best.
CDPR would probably make a great open world story driven Star Wars game.
Hawki said:
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Hawki said:
Cast another vote here. The whole idea of an exclusivity deal was always completely and utterly stupid, all it did was ensure that Disney ended up with far less money licensing it out and much less great or even decent games, even if Disney had a brain and given the IP exclusively to someone who might actually make good use out of it rather than an obvious turdblossom from EA. Sure, it's going to result in mountains of terrible Star Wars games but that's always was the case before and they just got weeded out while we still had plenty of decent to excellent games to work off of. I would gladly pay the price of mountain of crap Star Wars games for a mountain of decent to great Star Wars games.Jingle Fett said:
I have been wanting a Star Wars open world along the same lines as what Bethesda makes for a long long time and even had quite a few ideas for how it could work. If that every actually happened I would LOSE MY SHIT and provided they learned their lesson and drop that stupid paid mod crap they've been doing lately soon and for good all is forgiven.Avnger said:
Which is why it's probably best if either get permission or to use the Star Wars IP or it becomes available for everybody to license to make a game in the style of the CDPR's Witcher or Bethesda's Fallout/Elder Scrolls that the game has nothing to do with any of the movies, just have it take place at an indeterminate and vague time that barely if at all has bearing on any of the events of the movies in any real way and let the player try to figure out when it might be happening. This way they can make a complete and competently made game over the course of a few years instead of a year or two to rush it out to coincide with a particular movie release. Besides, since Disney plans to be making Star Wars movies of some sort just about every year they can just make that vague time game and whenever it's near finished spend a year inserting elements from whatever movie they happen to be releasing at the time if Disney really wants them to release something at the same time as one of their movies.Seth Carter said:
Exactly, I fully support this. SWTOR could have been a positively AMAZING single player experience and it's story is actually pretty good, it's just so bogged down by the awful MMO gameplay conventions that it ends up being passable at best. If they were to make it single player and alter the gameplay especially the combat system to something much faster and more dynamic, preferably a full Action RPG it would be pretty freaking awesome.Samtemdo8 said:
I think the notion of different developers for different games in the Star Wars universe is their best bet. I would think Disney would be more leery about putting all their eggs in one basket again. An Old Republic Jedi lightsaber spectacle brawler by Platinum Games? Why not? A tactical RPG by Firaxis? CD Projekt Red on an open world RPG? Naughty Dog on an adventure game? Put the right games in the right hands and Star Wars games will both spin money while keeping the license squeaky clean.
Amnesia Games on a game where you have to evade Stormtroopers, Sith and eventually Darth Vader as you try to smuggle out the Death Star plans....
Amnesia Games on a game where you have to evade Stormtroopers, Sith and eventually Darth Vader as you try to smuggle out the Death Star plans....
Isn't that all they were doing for the years between them letting all the creative people go and getting shuttered?Saelune said:
With the question being specifically about publisher and not developer, why not just publish the games themselves? Its not like Disney doesn't have the capital to hire a few folks to open up a 'Disney Games' publisher. Then they could hire whatever dev they wanted to make whatever game they would like. Or they could buy up a dev to make "in-house" releases, and demand that the games include lootboxes and all kinds of "games as a service" moneymaking schemes. Then when the game is done they could fire everyone and close down the dev...
"(sniff) they grow up so fast don't they."
"(sniff) they grow up so fast don't they."
I know you were being sarcastic there, but you kind of made my point. I think most people would like to play a Star Wars game with a feel similar to the Star Wars films and making games with a cinematic feel is kinda Naughty Dogs wheelhouse.Yoshi178 said:
Plus they would probably make a fun multilayer mode where you got to play as a fat Darth Vader.
I can get behind this. Perhaps Disney shouldn't put all its eggs in one basket. Perhaps they should license the Star Wars IP to many developers, both small and large, both big names and promising newbies.erttheking said:
Will that result in nothing but quality games? Probably not, but if the Games Workshop case is any indication, that's kind of ok. I mean, Star Wars has had decades worth of shitty tie-in products and it hasn't gotten any less popular. I'm sure it can endure a few more stinkers and those will be quickly forgotten.
If we get a few good to great games out of it, perhaps that's worth it.
Not sure what your point is. I never said the games should follow the plot of the films or have any of the characters from the films.Yoshi178 said:
This is gonna sound weird but Capcom. They've worked with Disney in the past. Granted it was for games based off of kids shows but they were better than they had any right to be. Capcom has built trust with Disney and even something like that Wayforward Mummy game but with Stormtroopers would be great.
None of them. The Star Wars IP should be like Warhammer. Let Disney hand it out piecemeal to developers so they can try new stuff, at their own pace. If you give it to a single studio/company you won't get the breath of choice old Lucasarts had. Do you think Ubisoft would ever make Shadows of the Empire? Do you think EA would ever make Empire at War? Do you think CD Project Red would ever make TIE Fighter?
Games Workshop's strategy may have given us really bad games. But it also gave us Battlefleet Gothic, Blood Bowl, Deathwing, Vermintide, Mordheim (I don't particularly like the game, but it works, and plenty of people like it), Total Warhammer 1/2.
Do that with Star Wars. Then you'll get games worth half a damn.
Games Workshop's strategy may have given us really bad games. But it also gave us Battlefleet Gothic, Blood Bowl, Deathwing, Vermintide, Mordheim (I don't particularly like the game, but it works, and plenty of people like it), Total Warhammer 1/2.
Do that with Star Wars. Then you'll get games worth half a damn.