LucasArts: 'Several world exclusive announcements' at Comic-Con

by Jem Alexander on Jul 15th 2009 7:30PM

LucasArts has re-entered our hearts this week thanks to the company's Monkey Island and retro shenanigans. In fact, we'd almost completely forgotten that it created all those Star Wars games. But it has -- with one very special upcoming title in the works. Star Wars: The Old Republic may not be the only Star Wars title in production though, if a recent announcement email regarding the company's San Diego Comic-Con schedule is to be believed.

The email states that "there will be several world exclusive announcements at the Star Wars Spectacular keynote." Whether these are new game announcements or something new regarding The Old Republic, we've no idea, but we'll definitely be in attendance to see what's on offer. Best case scenario? Special edition remakes -- Secret of Monkey Island style -- of X-Wing and TIE Fighter. Do want.

Tags: comic-con, comic-con-2009, lucasarts, star-wars, star-wars-the-old-republic

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If there is a God, It will be " Star Wars: Battlefront 3"

or Jedi Knights IV

agreed with marlan. and we NEED at least 32 player online. and 4 player local.

pretty much star wars themed warhawk minus the rampant spawn killing. and ships that can go into space...

4 player local? I can see a TV screen getting really cluttered with all the activity a typical Battlefront game usually has. Two player is probably enough for a game like this.

i would agree if it was back in 2005, but with current gen consoles, most people have HDTVs, and most of them are pretty big. big enough for 4 player local.

A re-make of Tie Fighter? I would probably kill for that. So much childhood wasted on that game.

the adventures of darth maul

They did that already, they were directx windows games. How people quickly forget that both were remade already using the XvT engine.

I don't think a the updated graphics engine that came out in 1995(?) is what people are wanting. That's probably the version most of us have. I know its what I have. That game is hard enough to get running on xp and vista, don't even bother with windows 7. And yes I would also kill to get a modern version of these games.

WORLD EXXXXXCLUSIVEEEEE!!!!!11!!!!

Geoff Keighley eat your heart out.

I'd like to get excited by this news, really I would....but it's LucasArts

Isn't that the company that somehow decide to remake Monkey Island, give us a NEW Monkey Island, and put a massive chunk of their software catalog on steam for chicken scratch all within the last month?

Yeah... nothing to get excited about here. Piss off.

Yes the same company who is re-releasing all their OLD games like Square Enix.

Re-releasing a lot of their old games for next to nothing that are fully compatible with new hardware without dicking around. I don't think it's comparable.

Lucas Arts rereleasing long-forgotten classics for $10 isn't even in the ballpark of Square-Enix releasing the exact same games everyone has played already for $30 and $40.

You're missing the point. Re-releasing old games doesn't mean anything when you can't make anything new and decent.

New? As in that "NEW Monkey Island" game Telltale Games developed in cooperation with Lucas Arts?

You are trying so hard but keep falling short. At least you're determined...

I said new AND decent. And being the key word there.

and it'll be MORE than decent, judging by telltale's awesomeness.

How about new AND good? "Good" is generally considered better than "decent" isn't it? Because that's exactly what Tales of Monkey Island is, "good."

You must be confused with another game, cause it's not good. I'd use awful, but I'm in a good mood so I'll go with mediocre.

Coming from someone who hates Team ICO games with a passion, I guess that's a compliment.

Woah I don't hate them with a passion, I save my hate for things like Halo and casual games. I just disliked them cause they tend to put art ahead of gameplay.

how do you know it's awful? hmm? your tmac sense again?

Yup, but only mediocre. Awful is for things that I think will be truly bad, like Two Worlds and The Conduit (right with both of those btw :P)

"I'd use awful, but I'm in a good mood so I'll go with mediocre."

you said awful.

Revising your paper, I see. The Conduit was far from "awful" and way to go on that Two Worlds prediction! Can I get a round of applause for tmac being able to tell us that a game is bad almost 2 years after its release? Truly, Pachter has a successor and his name is tmac!

I said two worlds was going to be awful since the first gameplay videos were released.

The Conduit is just....beyond awful. Seriously, I tried to warn people not to get excited for it since HVS has never made a good game. I even gave them proof of it, but they didn't listen. So everyone who was disappointed with it, you have no one to blame but yourselves.

Sorry tmac, but I have a really hard time believing that you've played the Conduit. You know the drill: pics or it didn't happen. If you didn't play it, then you don't know whether it's awful or not.

There's the problem. I can't spend money on a game that I know is awful, whether it's by buying it new/used or renting it, that would just be dumb. Maybe when I get gamefly and after I get a Wii during x-mas.

It'll still be really hard for me to play it, since I play 360/ps3 FPS.

Sorry, pal, but your opinion is uninformed and as such holds no value.

It's not uninformed when I know all about the game and have seen the countless scores ranging from mediocre to terrible, and I even predicted it would get these bad scores (actually got worse than I expected, saw some 4s and 5s in there).

I laugh at everyone who says you don't know anything about a game unless you play it. That's beyond ridiculous, as you can know all about a game and what it's like just by following it. What's the one thing I and many others said leading up to the game? That its only redeeming quality was controls. What's the verdict in all the reviews? *gasp* Controls! Everything else was trashed.

That's right, Tmac. Go on ahead and warm people about playing a game everyone likes. pshalorocks

People don't like the conduit silly. Well, Wii fanboys might...but they obviously haven't played a real FPS so of course they would like this.

I'd love to see a real sequel to jedi knight. One that doesn't involve a shitty story and even shittier voice acting. Jedi Outcast's lightsaber gameplay was untouchable, but everything else in that game was garbage.

Unfortunately cinema-games are dead and buried... even wing commander which once championed it stopped after wing commander prophecy bombed -- the last WC release is an awful 2d arcade shooter on xbox live. Sigh. I *loved* the cutscenes in Dark Forces 2, I thought it was a taste of what the prequel movies were going to be like, but alas...

You mean like the new Red Alert game?

Hopefully it includes the Trilogy remake of Rogue Squadron for Wii. Word out of Factor 5 Germany still indicates "multiple" unannounced Wii projects still set for 2009, and we know from here http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/08/rumor-enhanced-rogue-squadron-trilogy-due-on-wii/
that it was in the works at some point. Rumors point in that direction.

Also Battlefront III, but that thing's been in development hell for some time, up to the point where rumor had it that the PS3 and 360 versions had been scrapped entirely

http://knowyourmeme.com/i/358/original/Lolwut9000.png

I'd hope for new games over remakes personally, but I'm not a Wii owner so I guess I just don't get it.

@ ArchiGamer: the celebration of the meme is peripheral to the celebration of my comment-count milestone

@tmac: i've played the hell out of the others, but a trilogy remake would be 1/3 new to me, given that i never played the original N64 game.

i meant @ sly. Why the hell did i think you were Archigamer?

yeah, i know it was referring to your comment count. i just wanted to post that picture, but i never got a chance to post it and still be relevant. and i used to love the rogue squadron games. i remember me and my friends would play it whenever i used to go to their houses. it was great.

oh, and the N64 one was great, but it was hard as hell on some levels.

In a perfect world, Lucasarts would announce BF 3 and The Force Unleashed 2. However, since reality is imperfect, they will likely bore us with details on the clone wars series.......otherwise known as the death of everything I loved.

a game based on clone wars the tv show would suck, but a decent shooter set during that period would be great. come to think of it, have there been any star wars FPSes? if they do it right, they could make a GREAT FPS set in the clone wars.

Sly, there was Star Wars: Republic Commando
looked good, and the demo played well

i had a feeling someone would mention republic commando. that's why i said FPS.

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