The Source Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 What if another company besides Obsidian and Bioware gets to create KotOR 3? Lucas Arts themselves could try working on KotOR 3, or Petroglyph could get their chance. We keep looking at BioWare and Obsidian, and there are rumors that point to Obsidian. However, could another company be creating the next KotOR? Lucas Arts could decide to create the game inhouse. Obsidian is a nice starter company. However, one cannot ignore the magazine statements about not having enough time, and placing blame on Lucas Arts. Could this have caused Lucas Arts to go with another company? Why does it have to be Obsidian? Why could it not be 'Activision', or another gamming company? Microsoft? What do you think? Could Obsidian be using fans to generate support, so Lucas Arts has no choice but to give them the project? Is this unheard of? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Com Raven Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 Well, no one knows for sure that it is OE. However, lookng at your candidates: -Petroglyph: No way. They are made up of ex-Westwood emloyees, and as such are strategy experts. -LucasArts inhouse: Possible, but very unlikely. They have too much riding on the KotOR series to afford another Gladius good game, commercial failure). -Activision: Activision is a publisher, and doesn't really develop games as such. LEC wouldn't give its prize franchise away. -Microsoft: Same as Activision. It comes down to a proven developer of western rpgs; a field which has long since been dominated by BioWare, Obsidian/ Black isle and Bethesda (busy with Oblivion and Fallout3). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clone L68362 Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 I just wondered what a Blizzard KOTOR would be like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Kavar Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 I just wondered what a Blizzard KOTOR would be like. Or how about a Square-Enix kotor? Nobody said it had to be a western gaming company (Atleast I don't think so. o.O) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobQel-Droma Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 I don't really mind, as long as it sticks with the basic style of the other games and is a good story. In fact, it might not be bad if anothere company makes it. KOTOR and TSL were great games, and they both were a bit different in the gameplay. It might give the game a new feel, if you know what I mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkonium Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 If it were to happen, I'd like to see it done by either Lionhead(Fable, Black and White), or possibly Arenanet(Guild Wars). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Source Posted January 21, 2006 Author Share Posted January 21, 2006 I don't know the difference between what company is a publisher, and what company is a developer in the game industry. I don't think it would be illogical if another famous company was given the reigns to do another KotOR. Blizzard is a intresting company, and I loved their Diablo series. I have not played "World of WarCraft'. I think they make their character very small. If they tried to do something different, out side of stretegy games, I wouldn't mind seeing what they could do. However, I would worry about the size of characters and worlds... I wouldn't leave them out of the choices though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Com Raven Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 I think that it takes a bit more to get a good game than simply adding the successful name of "KotOR" with the name of an otherwise successful developer. I think I would stop my involvement on this site the very day Square Enix would announce hey are working on KotOR 3. While they might make good jrpgs and have a lot of fans, I couldn't imagine any worse choice for Knights than them. I for my part don't want to play a metro-sexual looking (sorry, but FF X and XII just went a bit to far in that area ) 10 year old kind out to save the galaxy in a series of random fights that you can't see on the map. Yes, this sounds very stereotypical; I guess you got the message that I don't want to see this collaboration happen! Lionhead is talented developer, no doubt. But somehow they always fall short of their lofty aims. After having been draw into the hype for both Black & White and Fable, and having consequently been disappointed by both (not that they were bad games; both were great, but too much promises were not fulfilled) I am growing wary of anything Molyneux promises. As for Arena.net; well, Guild Wars is a stellar achievement, no doubt. But seeing how they are totally multiplayer focused, I am not sure if a KotOR made by them would turn out great. But it would most likely have an incredible art direction And finaly Blizzard: call me biter, but i would prefer them to finally get the european WoW servers stable (it has only been a year...) before looking into anything else... Of course, there are just my opinions. Now to the facts: Square Enix, Blizzard and Aren.net are all out of the equation. SE is a publisher itself; they don't do contract work for anybody else. Same with Blizzard; they are a semi-publisher, and work with Vivendi. Arena.ne is in leage with NC Soft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndianaSolo Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 I'd rather a different company not get KOTOR3. It's got to be either Obsidian or Bioware, or IMO, it just won't have the KOTOR feel. Both have extensive knowledge of the setting and both understand the story. A third party coming in now might not "get" the story and the events that have transpired as well as Bioware or Obsidian would. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve-O Kreesh Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 Don't forget that some OE employees were with Bioware when Kotor was made. That kind of connection didn't make me nervous when TSL was in development at OE. They had people already familar with the first game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Source Posted January 21, 2006 Author Share Posted January 21, 2006 Don't forget that some OE employees were with Bioware when Kotor was made. That kind of connection didn't make me nervous when TSL was in development at OE. They had people already familar with the first game. I did not know this! Did you know that many of them created: 'Vampire The Masqurade: Bloodliines'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Com Raven Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 Huh? Vampire was created by Troika, and was just finished shortly prior to KotOR II... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Source Posted January 22, 2006 Author Share Posted January 22, 2006 Huh? Vampire was created by Troika, and was just finished shortly prior to KotOR II... Yeah! After they created "Vampire' some of the joined Obsidian. They didn't work on KotOR 2, but they ended up being hired over at OE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndianaSolo Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 Yeah! After they created "Vampire' some of the joined Obsidian. They didn't work on KotOR 2, but they ended up being hired over at OE. That's slightly incorrect. I believe some of them went over to Obsidian after Troika closed its doors, or went over when they (the employees of Troika) knew the end was coming. And I believe it was only one or two of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 What about EA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Com Raven Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 EA is of course (thankfully!) out of the equation as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Windu Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 So what if someone other than Obsidian or Bioware makes KotOR3? I remember being dissapointed that in TSL your character wouldn't be Revan, and that Bioware wasn't doing it, yet TSL turned out to be a good (if incomplete) game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JediMaster12 Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 I think I'll stick with the majority on expecting the devs to be Bioware or Obsidian. I may be placing blind faith in them but hey, they are familiar with the games and I think either one would be a suitable choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingerhs Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 if anybody does it, i honestly think it would be OE. Bioware did a great job with the first game, but if they had truely wanted the Kotor series to be their series, they would have done Kotor 2 instead of Jade Empire. lets face it: Bioware is getting so big now that they've been considering going public (becoming a publicly traded company through the stock exchange). if they had truely wanted to do any further Kotor games, they would've done Kotor 2. as far as anybody else doing Kotor 3, i'd put my money squarely on OE and be done with it. any other developer doing Kotor 3 just doesn't make a lot of sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Dakari Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 What about EA? Forgive me, but I suddenly invisioned the KotOR series being deminished into nothing more than a SW-based football game! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDJOHNNYMIKE Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 If EA got ahold of it you might see them smash battlefront and kotor together with BF2 software OE makes the most sense, switching companies the first time was probably in some part responsible for incompletions. If OE and BIO went bankrupt, my picks would be Valve, Bungie, or Ubisoft (just try and dispute their best work ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Com Raven Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 Well, all of those are very successful developers... But none of them has any experience wih rpgs, so I think I'll pass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth InSidious Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 You're all wrong. It's gonna be Interplay, for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JediMaster12 Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 So certain are you? Hmm? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Com Raven Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 Hey, who knows, maybe Interplay will develop another game some day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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