LucasArts, BioWare unveiling new game Oct. 21

by Alexander Sliwinski on Oct 7th 2008 6:00PM

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On October 21, at around 2PM Pacific, BioWare and LucasArts will finally reveal whatever the heck they've been working on, as evidenced by Massively's invitation to the event. More than a few signs point the way to the project being an MMO based on Knights of the Old Republic. Massively speculates that the title of the game could be Star Wars: The Old Republic.

We'll definitely be at the event and you can check out the other side of the invitation after the break (location details covered to prevent LucasArts and BioWare from force choking us).

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Reader Comments (89)

Please don't be an mmo please!

They invited Massively... c'mon now, use your head.

I really want this game to be good but I'm just too skeptical that it will be. This is odd considering I've seen absolutely nothing about it.

Hopefully no one will be there at the release of the game because they will be playing Fable 2!

What?

Same release date...

He said "at the release of the game", which would mean this game, the one that the article is about... and that doesn't make sense. Besides that, he's saying that he hopes noone shows up for the announcement. Why?

I wish that they'd just announce a new KOTOR. I really don't care for an MMORPG that requires dedication of life to enjoy..

It's too bad there isn't already an MMO for Star Wars fans. Oh wait...

Isn't that basically all games? Though not to such a scale as MMO's.

In all fairness, SWG is god awful. I really can't blame them for trying to open another game.

SWG was okay when Jedi was something you EARN. I mean, who looks at the class selection and decides "I like commandos WAY better than Jedi!" I ended up playing it just for the space combat, then got FFXI anyway.

Urgh, please let it not be more milking of the Star Wars cash-cow. =|

what other cow does LucasArts have to milk?

Big Sky Trooper?

(Please oh Please let it be a BST MMO!!!!!)

Howard the Duck.

If George Lucas has no part in making this game, it should be good.

Fuck yeh Howard The Duck, that was one of my favourite movies growing up and then I found out the world hated it when I was older. I still think its awesome.

Well, an Indiana Jones MMO wouldn't work as well. What with the aliens. God, I feel like equipping my car with a flux capacitor and killing Lucas BEFORE he made that movie.

(I'll forgive SW Episodes 1-3, but only because of Ewan McGregor, Samuel Jackson, and Christopher Lee.)

That artwork looks Diabloesque.

Ironically, Diablo III doesn't.

Zing!

Imagine the internets if this was announced as a Wii game! The internets would be teh dead! (And i would be stoked)

And then you would remember how poor of an experience online gaming is on the Wii and you would shed a tear of sorrow. : (

Yeah, it's about time someone made a decent online game to bring the Wii up to 360/Ps3 standards. I've got quite a few online games, but hardly anyone plays online.

Uhh...games don't make an online experience better, the overall infrastructure has to already be in place and it's not in the wii. Not even close.

Again if you wanted to play these types of games you should have bought a real system.

ahh, but any and all Wii developers are free to abandon Nintendo's shitty system so long as they have the funds to go it alone

Hence EA's online Wii games using EA Gamer Nation in its code-free glory.

I think I just pee'd a little...

Finally. An Indiana Jones RPG!

I would love it if it turned out to me mass effect 2...

I would too but it's not because Bioware doesn't need Lucasarts for the Mass Effect franchise. That's why everyone thinks it's Kotor, and hopefully not an MMO

Crossing fingers....

Come on Monkey Island MMO.

MI5 maybe?

It's not going to be, but that would be the best twist ever: everyone is so sure it's this MMO, and suddenly it's MI5.

You are correct, I swear I can see LeChuck's beard under that robe.

I have this hope that the game will be good, but there's a little voice telling me that an MMO will ruin the universe.

I agree with the voice.

KOTOR was one of the best games I played last generation. I enjoyed the second iteration to an extent, but Bioware did it right.

I will be highly, highly disappointed when they announce the new KOTOR as an MMORPG. I have a family - I have a life. I can barely sneak in time to play what little I do. I can't take on a game that is akin to a second job.

Boo Bioware... boo.

While I think its very likely to be an MMO set in the Old Republic, I don't think this ruins the chance of any more true KOTOR sequels/prequels/whatever. Also I'm really hoping that Bioware keeps to its story telling goodness even if it is an MMO, I don't see why they couldn't really.

I'm going to play a blue-skinned lesbian...

In a MMO? I wouldn't.

Somehow, I don't feel you'd be alone in your choice...

nightelf?

I suppose if I were to ever get into an MMO, Im sure a starwars one developed by bioware would be the one I would get into.

Those were my thoughts as well.

I hear you.

I was thinking the same thing. But with an MMO, comes a monthly subscription fee. And a subscription fee requires a commitment to that game. And with the rate of quality game releases these days, I don't think I can make that commitment. It's a big fishbowl, and sometimes you just want to swim with another fish for a while.

@AwesomeTown:

You can cancel anytime. Can you seriously not handle a one-month/$15 commitment? You have to be at least that committed to work a job or get married! :-)

I honestly don't care what they announce, as a Bioware whore I must get it and ravage it for everything that it is worth. I even bought the Sonic game and enjoy it, that's how much of a Bioware whore I am!

yeah... if the wait is over for a "good" lucas arts videogame.

thats right... name one.

Well, since Bioware is the developer and Lucas Arts is just the publishers, I don't think there's much to fear. Plus, Lucas Arts have only been sucking lately as the Jedi Knights games, the X-wing games, etc were awesome.

Does Republic Commando count? Because that was Lucasarts, and it was freaking awesome. One of the best Star Wars titles I've played, KotOR included, and the best squad-based game I've played.

KOTOR, Republic Commando, Battlefront 1 and 2, KOTOR 2, Star Wars Bounty Hunter, Empire at War, Revenge of the Sith, Jedi Knight series, Dark Forces

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