Lucasarts signs multi-year deal with Epic to use Unreal Engine 3

[Kabob]

Just saw this tweeted.

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[Liet]

So the games will still stink, but they'll look better. Great.

 

[Texashiker]

Maybe something that looks like Boderlands or Duke Nukem Forever, but in the Star Wars Universe?

 

[shortylickens]

KOTOR 3 FOR THE WIN!!!

:awe:

 

[crownjules]

Probably just more The Force Unleashed titles.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Probably just more The Force Unleashed titles.

I really hope they let that series die. Shouldn't have ever made a sequel.

Maybe a Star Wars game *gasp* without lightsabers and jedi?

 

[Liet]

Maybe a Star Wars game *gasp* without lightsabers and jedi?

You mean like Tie Fighter? Naw man, that game stunk. It was universally hated by all gamers, unlike Force Unleashed, which is hailed as a masterpiece.

Fucking dumb Lucasarts.

 

[smackababy]

As much as I love Star Wars, LucasArts needs to just give up on making games. Unless, of course, they remake Jedi Academy with better graphics (and hopefully not fat characters - yes I am looking at you Epic).

 

[mmntech]

LucasArts shot themselves in the foot when they cancelled Sam & Max: Freelance Police. All their best inside devs ran off to Telltale. TIE Fighter and KOTOR aside, their best games had nothing to do with Star Wars. Grim Fandango is still a masterpiece.

 

[Red Hawk]

Battlefront 3?

 

[ImpulsE69]

They need to make a simtower type game where you compete against others to get your deathstar built before the resistance blows you up. Win.

 

[Liet]

TIE Fighter and KOTOR aside, their best games had nothing to do with Star Wars. Grim Fandango is still a masterpiece.

Man, despite having some of the soundtrack mp3s on my mp3 player, I never played it but always wanted to. Yet another game to go on "The List"... 🙂

 

[zerocool84]

As much as I love Star Wars, LucasArts needs to just give up on making games. Unless, of course, they remake Jedi Academy with better graphics (and hopefully not fat characters - yes I am looking at you Epic).

LucasArts give up on making games??? Umm no. Sure they've made some crappy games but they've always made some good games.

 

[Patterner]

LucasArts shot themselves in the foot when they cancelled Sam & Max: Freelance Police. All their best inside devs ran off to Telltale. TIE Fighter and KOTOR aside, their best games had nothing to do with Star Wars. Grim Fandango is still a masterpiece.

Loom. That is all.

 

[Kabob]

Grim Fandango!

I'd love for them to pick up the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight series again, they left it off at a good place, I'd buy a newer updated version.

 

[Bateluer]

They need to make a simtower type game where you compete against others to get your deathstar built before the resistance blows you up. Win.

Honestly, I am somewhat surprised we don't see flight sim Star Wars games every couple years. Seems like there's a market for two types of SW games, Jedi/Force/Lightsabers and Large Space Battles with Lots of Fighters.

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

Star Wars twitch based MMO. Like, Jumpgate(for space combat) + Planetside(for ground combat).

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Wonderful. Now another series of games can look exactly the same as another 50 series of games.

Unreal can produce good things when developers try, most 90% of Developers go with the ugly default Unreal Look.

 

[Kromis]

Republic Commando 2 pleaseee

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Meh, LucasArts jumped the shark with Rebellion.

 

[conorvansmack]

Republic Commando 2 pleaseee

That would be sweet, along with a continuation of the Jedi Knight series.

 

[coloumb]

star wars twitch based mmo. Like, jumpgate(for space combat) + planetside(for ground combat).

swg jtl? 😉

 

[OptimumSlinky]

I miss TIE Fighter. And X-Wing. Even X-Wing vs TIE Fighter! Those were great f#cking games.

I miss the original Colony Wars on PSX too. That game was BADASS, even if it's sequel all blew chunks.

I nearly blew my load on the Long Night of Solace mission in Halo: Reach. I love space combat sims. WTF happened to the genre?!

 

[Borealis7]

Monkey Island Jedi Academy Strikes Back?

 

[Monster_Munch]

Wonderful. Now another series of games can look exactly the same as another 50 series of games.

Unreal can produce good things when developers try, most 90% of Developers go with the ugly default Unreal Look.

Bioshock, Arkham Asylum, Mass Effect - most of the big name Unreal engine games look pretty good. It's only Epic themselves that make generic fat space marine games.