EA Selected for Multi-Year Agreement for Future of Star Wars Games

[Carbon27]

Didn't EA get named "worst company"?


Josh nice profile picture

If they didn't they should

Thanks

[Shazam]

I'm not really too excited to hear this news, but I'm trying to stay optimistic for SWBF3. Even if SWBF3 sucks, there are always those few gamers who want to try the earlier versions of a game after playing a later version. Hopefully we can get some more active players on SWBF1.

Yeah, like the NHL series, which may be more realistic, but to shoot they dang puck you practically have to do...        Y+X+Right hat left+click down right hat release right hat hit x

Totally ruins the game

Yeah, I play FIFA on Xbox sometimes, and it's so complicated just to do simple tricks. It makes playing online really aggrivating because most of the people on there are really good and I can't even do the simple things. 

[Gold Man]

I'm not really too excited to hear this news, but I'm trying to stay optimistic for SWBF3. Even if SWBF3 sucks, there are always those few gamers who want to try the earlier versions of a game after playing a later version. Hopefully we can get some more active players on SWBF1.

Yeah, I play FIFA on Xbox sometimes, and it's so complicated just to do simple tricks. It makes playing online really aggrivating because most of the people on there are really good and I can't even do the simple things. 

I'm with ya Shazam. Im not too thrilled about this whole ordeal, but I am hoping that we can get SWBF3 out of this. And even if it does suck, it may get other players to see how the first 2 were. Indeed, hope for more people to come here and learn how to play SWBF1!

As for sports games, you can never make it realistic. If you want it realistic, you put first-person/third-person perspective for each player, and you can have the ability to swap between players (or you control who has the object). That, and if you want for more realism, you make it for Kinect or PSMove or Wii, some console system that has motion controls.

That's pretty much as real as you could possibly make a sports game, I don't see why nobody's thought of using this formula at all!

[Shazam]

As for sports games, you can never make it realistic. If you want it realistic, you put first-person/third-person perspective for each player, and you can have the ability to swap between players (or you control who has the object). That, and if you want for more realism, you make it for Kinect or PSMove or Wii, some console system that has motion controls.

That's pretty much as real as you could possibly make a sports game, I don't see why nobody's thought of using this formula at all!

Umm... GM, they have. 

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[Carbon27]

My friend randomly showed this to me on FB, what luck!

https://www.facebook.com/ajax/messaging/attachment.php?attach_id=31acadf1859db83d6d3e8c2689a8b162&mid=mid.1367890062140%3A42da0ed19b8270a213&hash=AQB0VqZN0B4kM3of ok weird, but it works...

[Gold Man]

Umm... GM, they have. 

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Ah, right. Still though, it's been nearly 3 years since Kinect's release, I would've expected the 2K series to move on to this motion control stuff and go with Kinect's formula.

On a side note, 700th post for me!

[tirpider]

The last game I remember enjoying from Electronic Arts was The Bard's Tale on my old Commodore 128.

- edit (I had it on floppy, not cassette)


It looks like a lot of Minecraft in my future...

[Unit 33]

From Kotaku-
http://kotaku.com/ea-buying-star-wars-might-not-be-all-bad-493214555

But is it all bad? Not at all. In some ways it's the best outcome we could have hoped for in, given the realities of big business, a fairly awful (read: lesser of two evils) situation. Here's why.

Disney was never going to break this up. As the owners of Star Wars, Disney was never going to offer the rights off individually to various publishers on a per game basis. It was only ever going to sign a bulk deal like this, lock somebody in for the long haul, and given the popularity of Star Wars, only a handful of publishers would have been able to afford it. Maybe even two. The other being Activision. Would you have preferred that?

These are good teams. EA is a terrible publisher, and for the most part, I'll agree with people who mistrust them and straight up dislike them. But at the same time, the specific studios named to be working on Star Wars games today have some of the best track records in the business in spite of that. There could be a lot worse developers out there working on new Star Wars games than the companies behind the various Battlefield games and Dead Space. Indeed, put it that way and it almost seems like a best-case scenario. Almost.

Think about those studios. They have specialities. If DICE don't end up making some kind of Battlefront replacement, using their Battlefield experience, I'd be very surprised. Or, if not that, then at least a decent shooter from the Bad Company team. Ditto for Visceral; we've had loads of quality Star Wars games over the years, but a quality survival horror experience hasn't been one of them. The benefit of the deal being such a big one looks to me like Disney is seeking to cover multiple bases with multiple projects catering to different genres and markets. So we'll get a shooter, yes, but other games like RPGs and horror games as well, hopefully.
It's not like Star Wars games have been setting people's pants on fire lately. When was the last time you played a truly great Star Wars game? Force Unleashed was OK. Republic Commando was pretty good. Before that, well. It's been a very long time. How is EA getting the rights to these games any worse than the situation we had previously, where Lucasarts sat on the license and either farmed it out for shovelware or released shoddy sequels?

These aren't kids games. They're not Facebook games. Disney will be handling the lighter stuff on their own. This deal is specifically for "core" games, the kind you'll play on an Xbox, a PlayStation or PC. Since that's a section of the market Lucasarts mostly ignored over the last decade - and since it's likely the section of the market you belong to - that's good to hear.
Of course, I'm a hopeless optimist. I always hear about deals like this and hope for the best because, well, that's how my mother raised me. I'll grant you, though, that there are also potential pitfalls ahead.

DRM. Always-online. DLC. Rushed annual releases. Ceaseless microtransactions. In-game advertising. You know, the bad stuff people associate EA with. The company has surely learned valuable lessons from recent disasters surrounding SimCity and Medal of Honor, but you can never be sure. If we start seeing Lightsabers® powered by Energizer™, it's time to bail.

BioWare. Five years ago, news BioWare were working on a new Star Wars game would have made fans go bananas. But the BioWare of 2013 isn't the BioWare of Knights of the Old Republic. The company is spread - perhaps too thinly - over multiple teams, all of which have had a few black marks against their name lately, from Mass Effect 3's ending to Dragon Age 2's step backwards to Old Republic's colossal waste of resources. That makes going bananas a less immediate inclination.
Movies. It's easy to get carried away and start hoping for strong new takes on the Star Wars universe, or true continuations of series like KOTOR, but at the same time, there are new Star Wars movies coming. Lots of them. For every decent/good/awesome game we get, we're just as likely to get a movie tie-in.

Call me naive, call me a hopeless optimist, but as someone who's played a ton of Battlefield and Dead Space over the last few years, and who has yearned for someone to stand up and start making serious Star Wars games again in the absence of any real drive or ambition from Lucasarts, I'm quietly pleased - if not ecstatic - with today's news.

[{PLA}gdh92]

I dislike a lot of EAs business practices (I know I'm a hypocrite because I play SWTOR) but they do have some talented developers so hopefully we can have some good games. At least Disney has licenced out the games to a console/pc based publisher.

[SleepKiller]

After thinking it through and discussing it some more. I have decided to adopt the optimistic view.

Also after reading the official statement http://www.ea.com/news/ea-and-disney-team-up-on-new-star-wars-games?intcmp=EACom_EADisneyagreement_latest_0513. I noticed these things,

A. They do have the rights to mobile games as well.
B. At the end of it they asked people to send in what ideas they wanted. Anyone care to take a guess at what people are asking for?

[Carbon27]

I think WE should make a big list of what SWBF3 should be, no?

[Led]

I think WE should make a big list of what SWBF3 should be, no?

There have been these kinds of lists for SWBF3 ever since SWBF1 came out.   

At this point, a product that is actually available for sale is the only thing I am interested in, and then again, maybe not all that much interested in at this point 

[Droideka]

I dislike a lot of EAs business practices (I know I'm a hypocrite because I play SWTOR) but they do have some talented developers so hopefully we can have some good games. At least Disney has licenced out the games to a console/pc based publisher.

Honestly, like kotaku said, they can't be any worse than Lucasarts. Lucasarts pulled the rushed deadline crap with KOTOR 2 just like EA has.

Also, I don't know if Visceral is going to do a survival horror game, but they do make games with amazing and grim environments, which leads me to believe they might try a 1313 type of project, showing the grim underbelly of the star wars universe. That could be cool.

[RepComm]

Ah, right. Still though, it's been nearly 3 years since Kinect's release, I would've expected the 2K series to move on to this motion control stuff and go with Kinect's formula.

On a side note, 700th post for me!

Again, Seriously? :-P
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I kinda liked the 2K serious, but it would be nice to see them advance in tech =0

And at this point, I'm just glad SW games are still being made. . .

[{PLA} Van STING]

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/04/18/america-has-voted-3-of-the-worst-companies-in-exis.aspx

Hopefully we don't have to pay for online.