I don't know its not like Lucasarts didn't do any of that. Hell the only reason to own a Nintendo console for me was their Star Wars game, whichever that happened to be at the time. Jedi Knight was always a PC game, and so were the star fighter sims. Very few of their games actually managed to cross systems.
As for DICE, the only reason I'm interested in them is if they actually decide to make Battlefront 3. I don't care about Battlefront, it's always been a Battlefield rip off to me, but if they do it then it's not a ripoff anymore, and I think they could do great things with it. Of course knowing my luck they'll probably make a new Rallisport based on Tatooine or something instead.
Bioware probably is just more The Old Republic. No idea what Visceral would do. Maybe let you play as Darth Vader in Dead Space 3.
Selling Star Wars to Disney is the worst thing Lucas has ever done, and I've seen Crystal Skull.
"I've watched while the maggots have defiled the earth. They have
built their castles and had their wars. I cannot stand by idly any longer." - Otogi 2
the problem isn't the developers, its the EA exclusivity deal
it looks great on paper for the companies and shareholders, but I think EA's days of trying to turn their image around are gone with that CEO that resigned a month ago... I mean, this IP went to the company that somehow managed to royally fuck up sim city beyond an apology (granted it was about 50/50 maxis/EA), and while they do put a lot of money behind their titles it doesn't necessarily mean they'll wind up being any good (again, see: sim city 2013) or cheap to play -- it's pretty much a lock that any non-ToR SW games they do will have DLC down the throat and out the ass at unreasonable-for-the-content prices
vv I don't know I never played them
Last edited by cka; 07 May 2013 at 12:19 AM.
Eh. EA will make a pile of serviceable games with the Star Wars name on them, nowhere near as good as the review scores indicate but certainly not terrible either. They'll fill up some space on the retail rack and be $20 6 months after release. This news is too bland and uninteresting to be either good or bad.
James
I'm pretty surprised. I thought for sure Disney's next move was to buy one of the major players in the videogame industry (maybe even Nintendo - if anybody can afford them it's Disney) and then hand Star Wars and Marvel (and the Hasbro properties if that rumor pans out) off to them.
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