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Saikoyu

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EA to take over Star Wars games
« on: 07 May 2013, 06:28 »

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I'm not looking forward to this.

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Re: EA to take over Star Wars games
« Reply #1 on: 07 May 2013, 06:31 »

What, they weren't already?
I almost couldn't tell, what with the last several not being quite up to snuff. :P
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Re: EA to take over Star Wars games
« Reply #2 on: 07 May 2013, 06:43 »

It's fine, SWTOR ended up great....  :roll:


Just no more Star Wars dancing games and we'll all be happy. Thank you.
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Re: EA to take over Star Wars games
« Reply #3 on: 07 May 2013, 07:01 »

Star Wars has been dead for a long time.

Those who have refused to accept that will now watch as the corpse is defiled for years on end. They will also pay for the privilege. If the franchise had any quality left in it, this would be tragic. It's not though.
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Re: EA to take over Star Wars games
« Reply #4 on: 07 May 2013, 11:44 »

I think I'll go load up my copy of Empire at War and cry a bit.
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Re: EA to take over Star Wars games
« Reply #5 on: 07 May 2013, 11:49 »

Star Wars has been dead for a long time.

Those who have refused to accept that will now watch as the corpse is defiled for years on end. They will also pay for the privilege. If the franchise had any quality left in it, this would be tragic. It's not though.

I really wish you weren't so right about this, Grae.  :(
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Re: EA to take over Star Wars games
« Reply #6 on: 07 May 2013, 12:57 »

DON'T WORRY GUYS, EA HAS NEVER FUCKED ANYTHING UP BEFORE
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Saikoyu

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Re: EA to take over Star Wars games
« Reply #7 on: 07 May 2013, 13:18 »

Star Wars has been dead for a long time.

Those who have refused to accept that will now watch as the corpse is defiled for years on end. They will also pay for the privilege. If the franchise had any quality left in it, this would be tragic. It's not though.

I don't think I'm that bitter-vet about it.  But yeah, near enough.  Personally, I'm done with most of the star wars franchise I think at this point.  I'll keep a finger in TOR as long as its in F2P, I'm not hard core enough to care about how "gimped" the F2P version is.  Might drop some money on it for one of those skiffs. 

I'll give any new movies a shot, Disney is 50 50 and I can wear sunglasses for the JJ-flare. 

I'm not blowing any more money in a forth Star Wars RPG, I already have three earlier versions, don't need another.  A bit sad that actually, I got my first RPG book because it was star wars when I was about 6 and had no clue what-so-ever what a role playing game was. 

And I'll quit hoping for a follow on X-wing game, nothing against EA specifically, but as far as I can tell, there hasn't been a decent space flight sim in years thanks to consoles and FPS being king. 
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Re: EA to take over Star Wars games
« Reply #8 on: 07 May 2013, 17:04 »

Please don't resurrect SW 1313, please don't resurrect SW 1313, please...

Seriously, as much as it pains me to see that project dead (it really does), I would rather prefer it to rest in peace than being financed by EA.
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Re: EA to take over Star Wars games
« Reply #9 on: 07 May 2013, 18:44 »

There hasn't been a good Star Wars game in about what, 15 years?

There hasn't been a good Star Wars movie in about what, 30 years?

This announcement should surprise no one.

I am looking forward to $200 'collectors edition' wookie game box granting you access to day one DLC such as different colored bandoleers for Chewbacca for $15 each, different vests for Han Solo for $20 each, and also cosmetic lightsaber DLC for $50 (for the red one).

Also game will end prematurely and the first big 'expansion' containing the original last third of the game will be available for a low, low price of fuck you EA you have no soul.

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Re: EA to take over Star Wars games
« Reply #10 on: 07 May 2013, 20:33 »

There hasn't been a good Star Wars game in about what, 15 years?

Knights of the Old Republic. The second one could have been good but they screwed that one up by releasing it for the Christmas rush with 25% of the content unreleased.
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Re: EA to take over Star Wars games
« Reply #11 on: 07 May 2013, 21:19 »

There hasn't been a good Star Wars game in about what, 15 years?

Knights of the Old Republic. The second one could have been good but they screwed that one up by releasing it for the Christmas rush with 25% of the content unreleased.

Hey, say what you will about it's bugs and missing content, but KOTOR 2 was a fantastic game when you got down to it's core. The writing was probably the best in any piece of Star Wars derived fiction around. And mod projects have since fixed pretty much every bug and restored most of the lost content, now.

On topic: That sucks. LucasArts has been a shadow of it's former self for a long time, now, but it still led to some good stuff every so often. I doubt we can expect the same from EA, exclusively.
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Re: EA to take over Star Wars games
« Reply #12 on: 07 May 2013, 21:26 »

There hasn't been a good Star Wars game in about what, 15 years?

Knights of the Old Republic. The second one could have been good but they screwed that one up by releasing it for the Christmas rush with 25% of the content unreleased.

Hey, say what you will about it's bugs and missing content, but KOTOR 2 was a fantastic game when you got down to it's core. The writing was probably the best in any piece of Star Wars derived fiction around. And mod projects have since fixed pretty much every bug and restored most of the lost content, now.

On topic: That sucks. LucasArts has been a shadow of it's former self for a long time, now, but it still led to some good stuff every so often. I doubt we can expect the same from EA, exclusively.
Wait, have they finished the HK factory + Voice Acting?! BECAUSE OH MY GOD THAT WOULD BE AMAZING. And yeah, the writing was pretty fucking ace. I really liked the way they turned the Force on its head.
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Re: EA to take over Star Wars games
« Reply #13 on: 07 May 2013, 21:28 »

There hasn't been a good Star Wars game in about what, 15 years?

Knights of the Old Republic. The second one could have been good but they screwed that one up by releasing it for the Christmas rush with 25% of the content unreleased.

Hey, say what you will about it's bugs and missing content, but KOTOR 2 was a fantastic game when you got down to it's core. The writing was probably the best in any piece of Star Wars derived fiction around. And mod projects have since fixed pretty much every bug and restored most of the lost content, now.

On topic: That sucks. LucasArts has been a shadow of it's former self for a long time, now, but it still led to some good stuff every so often. I doubt we can expect the same from EA, exclusively.
Wait, have they finished the HK factory + Voice Acting?! BECAUSE OH MY GOD THAT WOULD BE AMAZING. And yeah, the writing was pretty fucking ace. I really liked the way they turned the Force on its head.

Yep. They have. I think they even restored the missing planet, somehow? I'm not sure. I haven't played the latest version, but I understand they had some developer support.
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Re: EA to take over Star Wars games
« Reply #14 on: 07 May 2013, 21:31 »

Yeah, this new knowledge makes me not care about EA preparing to molest Star Wars' decaying corpse. I must go and download this shit. If I don't return, don't weep for me. Tears indicate that you are ready to be blasted, meatbags!
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