Poll: EA is rethinking how games treat the Star Wars universe

[the7ofswords]

Your (sic) are slicing people in half, there will be blood on everything.

Despite the small splash of blood in the original Star Wars cantina scene, blood makes no sense here, as the extremely hot blade of a lightsaber should cauterize the wounds as you create them. Fleshy pieces everywhere? Yes. But not a lot of blood.

 

[deathbydeath]

Why isn't there an option to just dump Star Wars and do something new already? Seriously, we can stop now.

Although if capitalism refuses that option, then just hire Chris Avellone. He makes everything interesting.

 

[ZZoMBiE13]

I sure hope it's Sim-Coruscant. And even though that's a planet covered by cities stacked on top of cities, let's hope they keep the plot size to a nice Borg-like square plot and only one arbitrary access point to fly the speeders in. I mean it's not like that could ever bite the games design in the butt or anything, right?

And of course, we need to fill it with Microtransactions. I'm hoping they give it the Plants Vs. Zombies 2 treatment of making me either pay more for each level OR grinding the same levels mercilessly over and over to unlock content. Of course they'll still need to charge $60 or I won't think it's an item of value to begin with.

And it better force me to use Origin, just in case I might think about stealing the product I paid for. It's a SiM-MO after all.

 

[Diddy_Mao]

I've still got of a lack of give-a-shit concerning Star Wars at the moment but I'll certainly tell you the stuff that used to chap my ass about the previous Star Wars games we used to get.


#1. The Battle of Hoth: Yeah I know it's pretty much the only OT starting point by which you can introduce a hero character who is part of the Rebellion but not actually on camera. After the billionth time I wrapped a tow line around an Imperial walker's legs I just couldn't stand the setting anymore. If you have to use this as a starting point maybe give me something to do that isn't part of the land speeder defense.

#2. It's raining Jedi!: Unless the timeline of your game takes place in the Old Republic or PT eras quit introducing random Jedi who were totally important to the plot of the story but you just never saw all the awesome shit they did because they always left the scene 15 minutes before Luke and Leia showed up. I get that the Jedi are the iconic mascots of the Star Wars universe and everyone wants to play one, but once these previously unknown Jedi reach the double digits it starts to water down the idea of the Jedi purge and the fact that Luke is the last hope for the Order.

#3. It's a big Universe: Like I mentioned before, having characters intersect with the established plots just waters down your own narrative and diminishes the existing ones. Not every heroic story set in the Star Wars universe has to happen just to the left of the events in the movies. It's a big Universe, surely there's other shit going on out there.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

TIE Fighter! I still play it whenever I get a hankering to blow up some rebel scum! TIE Defenders rule! I haven't found any space fighter sim as fun or entertaining since then. I felt like a traitor playing X-Wing.

You only like the Tie Defender because you never managed to fly the Avenger right. That was the best mission in the game, where you prove that the Tie Advanced was every bit as capable as the flying death machine Defender.

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

Says it all. Rethinking? Just bring out a good game based on the license that respects the license and the fans and isnt a crappy cash grab piece of shit. Give this to developers that WANT to make a game based on a franchise they LOVE. Not a developer that states they will make it on the cheap.

 

[suitepee7]

well, most of them tbh xD

i would love a new bounty hunter, rogue squadron, TIE fighter and KotOR, and i would have loved to play 1313

 

[Easton Dark]

Wouldn't the intense heat of the lightsaber cauterize the wound though?

Your (sic) are slicing people in half, there will be blood on everything.

Despite the small splash of blood in the original Star Wars cantina scene, blood makes no sense here, as the extremely hot blade of a lightsaber should cauterize the wounds as you create them. Fleshy pieces everywhere? Yes. But not a lot of blood.

Instant cauterization.

The very concept should have you shaking your head, especially since you mention the cantina scene where it doesn't happen.

It's all to make it a family friendly franchise. It flip flops too, by all rights of instant cauterization, Qui-gon Jin would have totally survived. He got stabbed in the stomach, not an immediate death sentence unless you bleed out. Oh but Darth Maul makes it even though he got cut in half.

But you know, lightsabers also made Obi-Wan just immediately vanish once he got hit, so maybe it's magic.

 

[the7ofswords]

Wouldn't the intense heat of the lightsaber cauterize the wound though?

Your (sic) are slicing people in half, there will be blood on everything.

Despite the small splash of blood in the original Star Wars cantina scene, blood makes no sense here, as the extremely hot blade of a lightsaber should cauterize the wounds as you create them. Fleshy pieces everywhere? Yes. But not a lot of blood.

Instant cauterization.

The very concept should have you shaking your head, especially since you mention the cantina scene where it doesn't happen.

It's all to make it a family friendly franchise. It flip flops too, by all rights of instant cauterization, Qui-gon Jin would have totally survived. He got stabbed in the stomach, not an immediate death sentence unless you bleed out. Oh but Darth Maul makes it even though he got cut in half.

But you know, lightsabers also made Obi-Wan just immediately vanish once he got hit, so maybe it's magic.

Yeah ... that's why I said "Despite the small splash of blood ..." ?because I see that one instance as an error. (In a film that while great, was still full of errors.) They used these things to melt starship bulkheads, so I think it's safe to say the blades are phenomenally hot, and would instantly cut & burn anything with which they come into contact. This, of course, raises the question of how any human being can stand within ten yards of the thing, much less hold it by a handle anywhere near their body. Also, shouldn't the clothes of anyone coming near an activated lightsaber burst into flames?

That's the thing, though ... Star Wars isn't science fiction. It's space fantasy. So much of it makes no sense on a scientific level. So why bother with phony "realism" like gore all over the place, when it can easily be hand-waved with the "cauterization" argument and be done with it? (And what's with the desire for excess gore?)

The lightsaber didn't make Obi-Wan vanish. That was the power of the Force. Obi-Wan was prepared for that?he even hinted at the fact to Darth Vader.

Also, Qui-Gon and Maul both died in that sequence the last time I saw The Phantom Menace. What movie were you watching?

 

[Chemical Alia]

I blame TIE Fighter for handicapping me to inverted y-axis so long ago, and I've been longing for a new game like that ever since (especially if you can play on the Imperial side).

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

Jedi Knight. But EA should really outsource development of Star Wars game and have their studios focus on other games.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

I blame TIE Fighter for handicapping me to inverted y-axis so long ago, and I've been longing for a new game like that ever since (especially if you can play on the Imperial side).

You too, huh? People think I'm weird for playing inverted. I think they had a deprived childhood XD

And yeah, bring back the flight sims. It doesn't have to be Tie Fighter, a new X-Wing game would be just fine, but bring them back. For that matter EA owns Wing Commander. Wing Commander 6 would be kind of nice, too.

 

[Easton Dark]

Also, Qui-Gon and Maul both died in that sequence the last time I saw The Phantom Menace. What movie were you watching?

Maul didn't die, do the research. He comes back for vengeance later on, with robo legs.

And I agree with space fantasy. There's no way things could work like this based on what we know of the universe (which Star Wars is set in, just a different galaxy). You actually see so few humanoids killed with lightsabers too, it's pretty much droids. I would also like an explanation, however, to how blasters kill people when you never see their armor get penetrated.

 

[Tanis]

I'd LOVE to see another Dark Forces or X-Wing vs Tie-Fighter.

 

[Oroboros]

As much as I like the Kotor games, the series really got killed with that TOR mess, I can't see a potential third game retconning that mess away and giving the series a proper sendoff. Instead I'd rather see a new Jedi Knight game (perhaps even a Jedi Academy game!) or a new Empire at War.

 

[J Tyran]

1313 with Mass Effect 3 combat mechanics would be awesome and they could fill it with shinys to make it jaw dropping.

 

[N_of_the_dead]

Also, Qui-Gon and Maul both died in that sequence the last time I saw The Phantom Menace. What movie were you watching?

Maul didn't die, do the research. He comes back for vengeance later on, with robo legs.

You're counting that crappy lore ruining tv series as canon? Wait is that show canon now it ruined so much to make it more appealing to kids (I mean laser bows...really?)?

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I would like Jedi Academy most but i feel now they would just make it forced unleashed which got kind of dull fast

Would love to see kotor again but swtor kind of ruined it but the same style in a different time period in the star wars universe might be fun as long as they avoided already existing chars and events

 

[Easton Dark]

Also, Qui-Gon and Maul both died in that sequence the last time I saw The Phantom Menace. What movie were you watching?

Maul didn't die, do the research. He comes back for vengeance later on, with robo legs.

You're counting that crappy lore ruining tv series as canon? Wait is that show canon now it ruined so much to make it more appealing to kids (I mean laser bows...really?)?

Yeah. I thought it was pretty ok, and would watch a marathon of it if it was on anything anymore. Although I liked the movie they did to start it off and most people who talk about it say it's terrible.

 

[Able Seaman Staines]

I am laughing SO hard right now. Star Wars, the simultaneously most beloved and most abused franchise is being handed over to EA the notorious game rapist. I want EA to produce a game centered around the Gungan culture that makes Jarjar Binks the central character and where you can buy midichlorian injections to enhance your force powers like in WoW. I also want it to have crossovers with the AVP and Star Trek universes.