Oh great...Super-serious, overly sci-fi, "mature" star wars is the best star wars...

Hopefully they've got a decent writer and the setting will unshackle him from the absolutely fucking stupid bullshit that Star Wars has become.

@Rincewind: D:

@habibyjohnson: What is "overly sci-fi" in a series that starts off with laser swords and planet-cities?

But I want Republic Commando 2.

I hope it turns out better then Star Wars: Bounty Hunter.

@Rincewind said:

What if Prey 2 was actually this game.

I was thinking the same exact thing.

@Maitimo said:

Difficult to get excited over Star Wars anything these days

Yeah, I kind of agree. I love the better parts of the franchise, but I'm a bit weary with it all these days.

@Dustpan: YOU WILL NEVER KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO SEV MUHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAA

That sounds like my kind of game. I love the Bounty Hunters in Star Wars. Mark me interested.

Wasn't there already a Star Wars Bounty Hunter game? Or am I just remembering a generic sci fi bounty hunting game?

I would be totally up for a good Star Wars game. I can't emphasize enough the word "good" though.

@mrpandaman said:

@Rincewind said:

What if Prey 2 was actually this game.

I was thinking the same exact thing.

Same. Might've jumped brands to get it actually finished, or at least Lucasarts like "Oh shit let's pump this out before Prey 2 gets released because it'll never get released and we need a new SW game". The only problem with the 'brand switch' is the question of how easy it would be to change all those assets. Considering the adaptability of the SW universe, I could see it mostly being an issue with character models rather than environments.

Still. I'd... mostly be ok with that? Other than it being the unfortunate continuation of Star Wars' domination of the sci-fi genre, so long as I get to play something like what Prey 2 was going to be, I'm ok.

Lucas arts making more STAR WARS, am i suprised?

I wonder if there will be grenades rolling down a hill

Sturgeon's Law applies pretty well to Star Wars these days. I wonder if this will fall into the 90%.

You're kidding me, this is exactly what I have always wanted out of a Star Wars game. However, with how fucked up the universe has been lately, this better not disappoint me.

Now I'm curious... Was there ever a "mature" Star Wars game? I mean, are they just going to throw in a bunch of cursing and blood or something?

Wasn't Force Unleashed billed as a "mature" Star Wars game?

I was so excited for Force Unleashed as the definitive "kick-ass jedi" game that I'm in full on "Prove Me Wrong" mode when it comes to Star Wars* games. 
 
(* non-Lego)

@Mikemcn said:

I wanted it to be Battlefront 3, but at this point i'll take any star wars game that isn't garbage.

That's the trick. I'm cautiously optimistic but we've been burned by licensed trash so many times before.

@Bribo said:

I hope it's better than Star Wars 1312.

Oh, it will be. But just not as good as Star Wars 1314.

Needs more Kyle motherkriffing Katarn.

@MindBullet: I think the point is it's not lego or cartoon styled.

@Toxin066 said:

A Star Wars game with allegedly "no force powers" (from GI's article), featuring a unknown character? Why bother.

I'm hoping this game makes me eat that snark and that it turns out to be something good.

A Star Wars game with no Force powers and an unknown character is exactly the kind of Star Wars game that I want. So long as it's quality.

Sounds akin to Dark Forces to me. I came up on that late 80s-90s period of awesome SW games that were all about the agents, the cool tech that seemed borderline steampunk because of how beat to **** and handwelded everything looked, the greater universe outside of the "OMGLOOKITALITESABERPEWFORCEPUSHPEWLOLZ" hogwash.

Put a good team behind this and I'm onboard. Rookie One and Kyle Katarn>Revan and Starkiller

I would think that by now between the 8-32 bit star wars games on just about every console & the recent MMO that they've covered just about every gameplay angle of the mythos so the idea that this game "dives into a part of the Star Wars mythos that we've always known existed, but never had a chance to visit" is so beyond being plausible makes it somewhat hard to feel motivated for.

I mean maybe if you were a psychotic ewok bounty hunter in something styled like Boba Fett's armor as a time traveling 3rd person action adventure going into other sci-fi/fantasy universes & killing everyone then yeah maybe they haven't visited that yet but just about everything else has been done by now.

The LucasArts web site has bit more info than this.

Star Wars 1313

But LucasArts hasn't made a good game since 1998, so I have no plans to buy this game, unless something comes along to change my mind.

Well this is awkward...

@EchoEcho said:

A Star Wars game with no Force powers and an unknown character is exactly the kind of Star Wars game that I want. So long as it's quality.

It'll be the second mission before you have to steal the Death Star plans, rescue C-3P0 and discover you're actually Anakin's long lost brother and have to go to Dagobah to be trained by Yoda. Star Wars EU always has to tie into the movies somehow, and it's usually in the most ridiculous ways possible.

Yeah.. I think I'm over Star Wars at this point. After the immense disappointments of the Force Unleashed and Old Republic, it's hard to see how anyone could be excited for this.

Hey, if this is what gets us Prey 2, I'm OK with it being Star Wars. Could be interesting.

DASH RENDAR

@EastboundSpider said:

Lucas arts making more STAR WARS, am i suprised?

Actually, LucasArts developing any kind of video game in-house is kind of surprising at this point.

We'll see LucasArts. We'll see.

Unless being a bounty hunter lets me basically play the Privateer using Xwings and such I don't care.

@fox01313 said:

I mean maybe if you were a psychotic ewok bounty hunter in something styled like Boba Fett's armor as a time traveling 3rd person action adventure going into other sci-fi/fantasy universes & killing everyone then yeah maybe they haven't visited that yet but just about everything else has been done by now.

...how did you know?!

OFFICIAL INFORMATION LEAK

I am allowing myself to get hyped about this and I am equally prepared to be incredibly disappointed

Clint Hocking is the reason I might be interested in this. I absolutely adore Far Cry 2 and I really like what I've read in his blog - he's a clearly a thinker and want's to push things forward and I appreciate that. Clint Hocking was talking a lot about transmedia stuff around the time he resigned his last post - I'm really curious to see if that's going to be a big part of this game (although I probably wouldn't care about anything else other than the core game).

I hope this isn't a Boba Fett game and they go for something more original.

Joke's on you, Patrick. The main character's name is going to be Tommy Solo.

I hope this is good enough to make up for the 8 hours of my life I lost to Force Unleashed. What a POS that was.

@zanshin said:

The LucasArts web site has bit more info than this.

Star Wars 1313

But LucasArts hasn't made a good game since 1998, so I have no plans to buy this game, unless something comes along to change my mind.

Fucking what!? Battlefront, Republic Commando, Jedi Outcast, Jedi Academy and Mercs.

awesome this is exactly what I want out of the star wars universe.

The bounty hunter I was looking for? Please Patrick, tell me more.

I like the idea of it aiming for an adult audience. Let's just hope it's more accurate than Stormtroopers.

@Kevin_Cogneto: But did you really think it was going to be more STAR WARS?

@fragor87: I really feel like a bad person for knowing this but by the way the ships look it takes place no earlier than during the original trilogy if not later. Nerd out is now over.

@Toxin066 said:

A Star Wars game with allegedly "no force powers" (from GI's article), featuring a unknown character? Why bother.

I'm hoping this game makes me eat that snark and that it turns out to be something good.

Star Wars : Bounty Hunter for the PS2/GCN was actually a pretty good game. I sense this is like that only a lot darker.

Ten to one this game sees a minimum of two name changes before it sees release.

Just when I think ive had enough of the star wars universe, as soon as they make something good im back in.

When I heard the rumors i just asumed it was Episode 1 in 3d.