Where does Starwars go now?

Starwars is in an odd position. It's both went into the shitter, yet somehow being redeemed at the same time, very much like a man who deeply dislikes sand.

EA managed to miraculously salvage their car-crash by "making a game" that wasn't a "scam" wrapped around a "game", while at the same time The Mandalorian is keeping Starwars credible after the misadventures of Mary Sue came to a disastrous end as blew up Mumm Ra The Ever Living.

Where do we go from here my friends? Should EA keep shitting out Fallen Order sequels until that well is ...well... and truly poisoned?

To the fracking Old Republic. Make that shit canon!

• Give me Knights of the Old Republic 3
• Pump some life into Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO or make another Star Wars MMO

As far as Star Wars as most people know it (Episode 1 through 9):

• Make Tie Fighter 2; there is plenty of interest in flight sims to make it profitable.
• Make X-Wing 2: see above
• Make a stealth game based on the Rebels show where you sneak around, loot supplies, and stealthily take down Imperials and other baddies.
• Total War: Star Wars. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck I'd get 500 hours out of that easy.
• Star Wars turn-based tactics game a la XCOM
• Star Wars real-time tactics ala Ground Control, World in Conflict, etc.
• Make another Dark Forces FPS for pete's sake. Kyle Katarn deserves to be canon!
• Ride on the coattails of The Mandalorian and make a bounty hunter game. Hell you can make it like Hitman where you get "contracts" and go after people, except instead of sneaking around you light them on fire and shoot rockets and cable-lassos and all kinds of gadgetry at them.
• A Star Wars RPG in the vein of Divinity: Original Sin. The rules would translate so insanely well it's not even funny. All kinds of classes to play, alignments to dabble in (Dark, Light, and Grey alignment), well-written main quest with good side quests, travel to various planets and explore, and so on.

There is so so so so so much stuff to be done with Star Wars, either as fresh IP's or reimagings of previous games, it's ridiculous. Swear to god, EA getting the Star Wars license was the worst thing that could happen to the franchise after Kennedy being put in charge of Lucasarts.

They have a license to print money and make a great product at the same time (a win-win if I've ever seen it), but somehow they just end up making mediocre games (Fallen Order excluded).

Far corner of the galaxy, where the story can be more self-contained.

They should go back to the time when the Sith were more prevalent, like even before the Kotor days.

Other than KOTOR, which I don't think is ever going to happen, there's a lot of potential for Star Wars games, but I don't think EA is ever going to properly capitalize on the IP. They're just at such odds with what their fans actually want, and it's been persistent since the end of last gen.

Personally, my dream project is a game where you play as Darth Vader in the aftermath of Revenge of the Sith and have a story about Darth Vader coming into his own, the same way the Kylo Ren story was originally set up. A villain story where you play as the most notorious antagonist in film history (fight me) would be so badass. (sidebar, didn't one of the Disney XD cartoons essentially tell this story, though? I never watched them, so I'm not sure)

Let me play as baby Yoda, developing my skills and powers over time. That shit would be awesome.

The Mandalorian is the only thing keeping Star Wars relevant atm, and the coming Obi Wan series should be legit as well.

Not sure what they should do in the game genre...they never quite meet expectation.

The garbage bin

Fallen Order should prove to EA that Star Wars benefits from a multi-faceted approach to game development and genres. Stop trying to shove MTs into everything, and address what gamers want.

Apparently Revan was made canon via Disney, with a reference in Ep IX with a Legion being named after him. Hopefully this forces EA to build upon that shit, because KotOR is just stupidly good.

Funny you mention Dead Space... I was thinking it would be cool if EA had Respawn revive the series.

would like to see Force Unleashed 3. Same concept as the first 2 , just good.

After the last movie, I don't have the energy to give a shit about where Star Wars goes anymore. If they make something good out of it, that's great. I'm always up for a fun SW game if it happens. But I'd think I'd be a lot happier person if I stopped riding the hype trails for this franchise that seems to let me down more often than not.

New Dune movie incoming, assuming they don't mess it up we could (at least potentially) see an influx of games from them.

That would be great, it's a cooler universe than Star Wars, bat shit insane.

Dude turns into a worm god.

I'd rather the old republic remained out of Disney's crosshairs after seeing the disgusting work they did on the recent movies. I can picture them making Revan "gender fluid" or some other "non binary" crap hoping to score social points. Disney killed Star Wars in my opinion. Play SWTOR if you want a continuation of KOTOR.

Jedi Fallen Order sold well from what I heard and got lots of praises s the best well written Star Wars in a long time, it put episode 9 to shame. It's also been reported Respawn is hiring people for a Jedi Fallen Order sequel so we'll be getting a second game soon.

It's a great game when I played it on PC. But it needed more, more side-quest, a living city or market where you can go and relax without rushing the story. More things to do. When the game is done, it's done. I did however replay it 3 times already, best Star Wars SP game in a very long time since Force Unleashed 2.

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What about Jedi: Fallen Order?

A huge hit and everyone is talking about it.

Yes it has, but I don't think to the extent that if you think Star Wars, JFO comes immediately to mind...maybe if you're a gamer it would, but to the general public it is probably just that new Star Wars game that's supposed to be good.

Not seeing the internet flooded with memes of characters from JFO, unlike Baby Yoda who is everywhere.

And yes I'm a Baby Yoda fan.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.polygon.com/platform/amp/star-wars/2019/11/25/20978320/the-mandalorian-video-game-comparison-disney-plus-fetch-quest-armor-upgrade

The Mandalorian is essentially already a video game. Might as well give Respawn the oppertunity to make it in a video game...

Fallen order is a mediocre game in star wars skin.

Fallen order doesn't do anything particularly well, and there are tons of games that do everything it tries to do better

How about no more sequels to a half-assed game that is wagon-hopping a trendy genre.

Fallen Order was a good change of pace for EA, but it's not a good game, and soulsborne saturation will be the downfall of the genre. It's not something that can be monetized like competitive shooters, so the only way they can keep making money (and you know EA is really good at that) is to just pump the series with DLC and sequels.

Fallen Order will suffer the same fate as Mass Effect if EA keeps riding it.

Uh, in a galaxy far, far away...

Maybe go on some sort of Trek

I think both games and movies should experiment with more genres. EA is a big company with studios that could make rpgs, strategy, racing and any other type of games. Freaking do that.

Same with the movies. They're going to be making them till the end of time, gotta to keepthings fresh somehow.

-How about a psychological thriller following someone with latent force powers being tormented by the dark side.

-War epic during or pre Old Republic era with large-scale Jedi on Sith battles.

-Buddy cop comedy anout an officer and their droid assistant in Prequel era Corisant.

-Rian Jonson just made a pretty good whodoneit. Have him make one in the Star Wars universe.

Most of these wouldn't need $200 million budgets, but would still do alright just from the name. Even Solo brought in $400 million, and no one was asking for that movie.

@judaspete: I like the way you think

I would give both testicles for this...

I want to see a Mandalorian game like the Arkham series developed by Rocksteady, or a game like TLOU developed by ND that follows the rise of a Jedi.

it will be run into the ground just like marvel.

**** if I know. After some more milking until completely dry, my guess is that it will fade in a few years. I would personally like if they stopped beating the dead horse already, but there's still money to milk.

Who knows, it might get another surge of popularity with The Mandalorian and Jedi: Fallen Order and prosper again. But the people who now own Star Wars fucking suck at Star Wars. I'd rather see it dead.

Thanks.

Ha! The Game of Thrones guys would have been perfect for this. Even after season 8 fell a little flat, I was still disappointed when their trilogy got canceled.

Star Wars is like the Call of Duty of movie franchises. Pump one out every year even if they are garbage so they can milk the fans. Only Star Wars game I would care for would be Kotor 3 and the developer who made it is a shell of its former self, so I don't see it happening.

So like all media. That's the point otherwise what's the point?

@iambatman7986: How would you feel about the Divinity team making a new KotOR after they finish Baulder's Gate 3?

Speaking of wishful thinking, let Obsidian do it.

I'm sorry but i couldn't care any less for a new KotoR game ... is just not my cup of tea ... at least not for Star Wars.

What i really want is another Rogue Squadron, well it doesn't matter if is not Rogue Squadron, i just want another great space battle game in the Star Wars Universe, that's one of my favorite things in the franchise but sadly, is also one of the least explored ones.

As a franchise, Star Wars is dead. There is no redeeming the movies with people like Kathleen Kennedy and Rian Johnson being promised another trilogy. Worst of all, the next trilogy starts in less than 2 years and is going to alternate every 2 years after.

That’s not enough time betwee. trilogies to let the stench dry out from The Last Jedi.

Yes, The Mandolorian is a huge success because the guys behind the marvel movies were in charge and made something truly Star Wars.

As for the rest, it’s hard to bring back the success Star Wars once had when George Lucas/Disney killed of the extended universe and said none of it was canon. That was a huge blow that we still have not recovered from.

Disney needs to admit they screwed up, fire Rian Johnson and Kathleen Kennedy and shelve the Star Wars movies for 10 years.

Keep the TV shows, games, cartoons and comics going until a new generation is ready to be introduced to Star Wars movies.

Make Jedis rare and mythical again.

Mandalorian game made by Dice or Respawn, Mandalorian season 2, Rian Johnson trilogy that goes in a 100% different direction than before and I am SW happy.

@uninspiredcup:

SW Fallen Order (canon story) was a good seller.

https://www.engadget.com/2019/11/26/star-wars-jedi-fallen-order-two-week-sales/

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order' broke multiple sales records for EA

Mandolorian's show runners (e.g. Dave Filoni, Christopher Lee Yost) has brought in George Lucas.

George Lucas has stated Dave Filoni is "like a son to him".

Christopher Lee Yost (born February 21, 1973) is an American film, animation, and comic book writer best known as the head writer of the Marvel Comics animated series The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes and co-writer (with his frequent collaborator Craig Kyle) of the comic book series X-23: Innocence Lost, X-23: Target X, New X-Men, X-Force, and Scarlet Spider (volume 2). Yost was a member of the Marvel Writers Program and has worked as a screenwriter for Marvel Studios' Marvel Cinematic Universe with Thor: The Dark World (2013) and Thor: Ragnarok (2017).

Turn-based tactics games based on the Clone Wars.

You lead a group of special Clone Trooper forces with Jedi detachment and undertake recon/assassination/search and destroy etc.

You operate behind the lines and have to manage resources as well as working for factions that gives you benefits or opens up more missions. Maybe you can recruit smugglers, assassins, marksman, engineers, informants etc etc.

That would be a game id play for hundreds of hours.

Give me an Imperial Commando Game!

Lucasfilm is apparently restrictive on Jedi being in the video games, see front page of GS for the story, so Imperial Commando would be perfect.