New Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Game Reportedly Real

I’m guessing Spiders. They’re basically BioWare of old and I’d quite like to see their take on the series. I’d have said Larian but they have their hands full with BG3. Obsidian is actually a possibility given Indy is an Xbox exclusive too.

I want Jedi Academy.

I just want to play KoTOR 1 + 2 again - preferably on my Switch but there's literally zero chance of that (and no, I'm not playing it on my phone)

They haven't touched the old republic era yet have they? So shouldnt really need retooling for canon. That statement itself worries me if it lets KK get her hands on it.

My guess is it’s a japanese developer, like Square-Enix or Capcom.

remasters of the first two, with all the content that was cut for the second. (reading article looks like its the first two redone too fit in with cannon, which doesnt sound good, why not just leave them alone, its thousands of years before movies so cant see how it will effect it that much)

also HK-47 better be in the new game

@jack22

you do know it is out on the ps4 has been for months

@MemSec Why? That doesn't fit at all with what is said in the article. Bad guess.

@nessisonett Spider would be great, they can take what they've learnt from Greedfall and Technomancer and make a really great story. Hopefully with equally great combat.

@Starkei
Where in the article exactly is something written that makes this unlikely? Disney has a relationship with SE (Avengers), which they botched but still, the deal could have been made before that. My guess is as good as any.

In this day and age, I'd expect a remake of previous games. It could be the exact same story but made officially canon again

I hope it's a kotor remake that's made like ff7 remake, that would be nice

Please be Kojima

Remember the first two as being so far ahead of any other games I'd played storytelling wise. Just loved them. It's been a very long time, I can't remember if it was the first or second even, but the relationship you could end up having with the brunette was maybe my favorite relationship in a video game of all time. If I remember correctly, it had a dark and bittersweet ending to it, and maybe it was because I was so much closer to puberty at the time, it just hit me like a ton of bricks.

Here's to them being respectful of the source material!

@nessisonett
Spiders might be a good guess. They seem poised on the cusp of greatness, so if it's them, I'd like to see them get there.

My initial hope was Obsidian, too, but I think they're all wrapped up working on sort of a Skyrim clone, can't think of the name offhand. It looked promising in recent vid. though.

@LordSteev God I hope it's not Spiders. Greedfall was slightly above average but got very tedious ( yes I completed it as a magic user ) whilst The Technomancer was atrocious !
I suppose they could make a decent game but KOTOR needs to be stellar. They'd need a huge budget

Oh and if you're all desiring to play a new KOTOR, download The Old Republic on PC - you've basically got 10 different stories if you play as each class. It's free to play, the grind has gone and you don't need a top spec PC to play it. It's fantastic

Urgh, not this tripe again. There are plenty of other eras, concepts or remakes that deserve focus before we're forced to scrape the bottom of this particular barrel.

At least they're still making Jedi: Fallen Order II.

@KingPev
Yea, there'd be a lotta 'if's' there, for sure. IF they've learned from past games, IF they had a fat budget, IF they weren't rushed, etc.

I'd like to see a team as qualified as Naughty Dog do it, but from the sounds of the article, they've fobbed it off on a name we might not recognize. It deserves a hell of a lot better.

Has to be the 2nd game bluepoint was making. I'd say a remake of the first one. Who better? They have remake talent through their blood.

Ubisoft is probably going to reskin Beyond Good & Evil 2 as a Star Wars game at this point.

Please be Rockstar Games.

@Octane That's an alarmingly good prediction. Especially after they had an anthropomorphic ape fix Kylo Ren's helmet in The Rise of Skywalker. Place your bets, folks!

@ApostateMage Who?

Guys, it's supposedly a developer who isn't a household name. That rules all out nearly every studio mentioned here.

Very much so. I love both Kotor games. To me the ideal candidate is of course Obsidian, since i love Sith Lords the most. But apparently it's someone new and not very famous. The news are thrilling, none the less.

@LiamCroft
Fine, you win.
Second prediction: Beamdog studio, who made the remakes of Baldur’s Gate 1&2 and Planescape: Torment.

What ever happened to Black Isle?

I don’t see how the dev can be all that surprising at all to be honest, surely there isn’t a licence as expensive as Star Wars? Not sure how all that works but I’d say the fact that EA, now Ubisoft are the two main users of the license for games so far then I’d make an educated guess any publisher needs to be a power house.

@LordSteev You know, that developer that makes top notch games about stealing cars, cowboys, highschool ruffians, New York gangs and even ping pong.

@ApostateMage Oh yea! Might of heard of them....

How about Yellow Brick Games or Archetype Entertainment, both fairly new studios with ex-Bioware staff looking to make games in this genre.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-01-31-ex-bioware-vets-working-on-story-driven-sci-fi-game-at-new-wizards-of-the-coast-studio

https://www.yellowbrickgames.ca/

I've never played the originals but only heard good things so I'm curious to see how this turns out.

I've never played either game so would welcome a remaster/remake/re-imagining/re re rewind-bo-selecta of them.

@GhostInAJar not really. The licence deal has expired and that's why lucas film games has been re established. A lot of people get the impression disney and lucas film games were not at all happy with eas use of the license so maybe they have offered it to a smaller studio knowing it will get the love it deserves not just a microtransaction storefront

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is probably the trickiest game in existence to make a sequel/reboot/etc. for reasons like:
1 - The combat mechanics are obsolete.
2 - There are 2 games, plus an MMO in the franchise filled with lore that is non-canon.
3 - The most interesting part of the game is Revan´s journey and it is very well told in the original game, so I think it doesn´t make sense to make a reboot to re-tell that story.
4 - It is very hard to figure out the timelapse between the original game+sequels and a new game.
5 - The fanbase is very loyal but sparse and maybe hard to reach.
6 - In a new game, will the player play as Revan or as another character?
7 - If the player plays as another character, how to make it as interesting and relevant as Revan?

If I were the one making the game I probably would throw away everything made after the original game (sequel, MMO, etc.) and summarise its storyline at the beginning of the game in a Star Wars opening crawl like format or in the game prolog (making it canon) and go from there. Also, they should do what every sequel refused to do: Creating and delivering a dignified ending for Revan's journey.

Regarding the studio making it, how about Rock Pocket Games, the creators of Moons of Madness?

I am ecstatic for this. The originals were definitely my favourite games of all time, and indeed of any star wars games. I was gutted when I heard of the move to make the old Republic and experienced how limp it was because again it was another chase for MMORPGs at the expense of a true RPG for solo players. It is as if game studios forget that many RPGs were made for the recluse, for those who don't want to be sucked into combo deals but prefer to enjoy a rich narrative (unless they actively opt for multiplayer modes, as in halo when you wish to decimate your friends, or the many trolls online). The likes of fallout, the elder scrolls, vampyr, the witcher and other RPGs seems to be on the decline and its a a sad story. I've been a fan of games since I was a kid and it's quite disheartening to see now returning to it to re-connect with my old self whilst working in a heavy research career, there is so little left of the real substance in the old games. I have of course played all the oldies for nostalgia and naturally they don't all feel the same. In any event - nostalgic monologue aside - I for one am very excited for this. I hope this and Beyond Good and Evil 3 do justice to the originals and only serve to add even more depth in story and plenty of high-graphic rendered worlds adorned with a plethora of stories.

Not a big Star Wars fan but I was always curious abou Kotor 2, I may try out the gog version.

@Boon520 Your opinion isn’t controversial, I’d say that’s what most Star Wars fans enjoy...although I disagree about Mando

@MemSec The developer is "not a household name most people are aware of".

That bit. SE is one of the biggest developers on earth.

@Starkei
I wouldn’t call them a household name for Star Wars, but sure, fair enough. I stand corrected. Still, one can dream...