[LucasArts] planning to create an open-world RPG

Victory63 · August 2011

According to a job listing on LucasFilms official recruiting site, LucasArts is planning to develop an open-world RPG game.
https://www.lucasfilm.apply2jobs.com/ProfExt/index.cfm?fuseaction=mExternal.showJob&RID=3575

This could mean a number of things.
Possibly a Fallout/Elder Scrolls like Star Wars?
A Fallout/Elder Scrolls like oiginal IP?

What are your predictions?

Kadoken · August 2011

Dark Forces 5: Jedi Knight 4: Jedi Outcast 3: Jedi Academy 2: Jedi Open world. Want.

Hahnsoo1 · August 2011

Grim Fandango...

a man can dream, right? *sad face*

Morkath · August 2011

Ewok Breeding Simulator;

Travel the globe in search of the rare purple haired ewok. If you mate it with the green haired ewok you get the mythical golden ewok.

Or Gungan Warrior, relive the battle of naboo as a brave gungan warrior.

MrVyngaard · August 2011

Young Anakin Explores Tattooine: toddle unrestrained as a small boy through the wastes of the Dune Sea, hold the hand of Tuskens in real time as they sing and dance, and duel junk dealer's apprentices across the entire planet with an all new interactive dice game battle system.

SightTDW · August 2011

This is great. Maybe to raise money for the project they can sell some IPs to companies that will use them.

Just sayin'.

Shadowfire · August 2011

Loom Quest.

Alternatively, The Dig Online.

SightTDW · August 2011

Indiana Jones and the Facebook Social Game

..marketing can figure out the title, but tell Lucas I want to start getting checks for this by Monday.

-SPI- · August 2011

I guess they ran out of games and developers to cancel/shutdown/fire. Time to hire some more and get some things going they can later destroy!

SmokeStacks · August 2011

Victory63 wrote:

Possibly a Fallout/Elder Scrolls like Star Wars?

All of my dicks, etc.

A The Dig RPG would be weird but awesome.

Oh god... gimme an Outlaws open world RPG please.

lowlylowlycook · August 2011

So first there was X-Wing.

Then their was Tie Fighter.

Now there will be Millinium Falcon, i.e. an Elite/Privateer like game.

Zxerol · August 2011

lowlylowlycook wrote:

So first there was X-Wing.

Then their was Tie Fighter.

Now there will be Millinium Falcon, i.e. an Elite/Privateer like game.

Make this man Pope.

Drez · August 2011

Clearly, this will be a Ballblazer MMORPG.

cooljammer00 · August 2011

What's an IP Lucasarts can diddle? Do they still have anything with Star Wars in it?

Vegan · August 2011

-SPI- wrote:

I guess they ran out of games and developers to cancel/shutdown/fire. Time to hire some more and get some things going they can later destroy!

Heh, you beat me to it.

You, too, can get a job with Lucasarts and then be shitcanned when the game goes gold!

Mulletude · August 2011

You guys all know this will be some lame ass Clone Wars shit. We will never get what we really want...A new Tie Fighter game...Like a real one. Not one of those Rogue Squadron things.

Suriko · August 2011

Open world RPG set on Coruscant. You play a fully customisable non-force-using character, with career paths ranging from a gun-for-hire lubricating the wheels of diplomacy to a politician that must build and use an extensive network of contacts and political allies to get your way. As the Republic begins to eat itself from the inside out, you must try your best to save it, by word or by gun.

Star Wars: Politics: The Game. Coming out never/never/never at nowhere near you.

Gaslight · August 2011

lowlylowlycook wrote:

So first there was X-Wing.

Then their was Tie Fighter.

Now there will be Millinium Falcon, i.e. an Elite/Privateer like game.

I can't stop shaking.

Henroid · August 2011

As much as I'd love a Star Wars game set to the tune of Bethesda action RPGs, goddamn TOR is on its way and that might be overkill. In fact, it might directly fuck with TOR since TOR's big pitch is "MASSIVE STORY IN MMOs!" So if they do a Bethesda-style RPG, all of a sudden people wanting an in-depth Star Wars RPG world can go do that.

'Course, you can still have both if this new game LucasArts is doing has little to no Force using. Dark Forces and Republic Commando remain among their best FPS games specifically because of that.

Henroid · August 2011

Also, I'll say it:

Full Throttle.

Mulletude · August 2011

Republic Commando ended up being so great...Than when you really thought shit was ramping up the game was over. It deserved an immediate sequel or just simply a longer campaign.

PMAvers · August 2011

World of Monkey Island.

Maddoc · August 2011

PMAvers wrote:

World of Loom

Docken · August 2011

Zxerol wrote:

lowlylowlycook wrote:

So first there was X-Wing.

Then their was Tie Fighter.

Now there will be Millinium Falcon, i.e. an Elite/Privateer like game.

Make this man Pope.

No. Pope is not good enough.

Make this man HYPER POPE.

Henroid · August 2011

Mulletude wrote:

Republic Commando ended up being so great...Than when you really thought shit was ramping up the game was over. It deserved an immediate sequel or just simply a longer campaign.

It was a fluke hit.

Viscountalpha · August 2011

Drez wrote:

Clearly, this will be a Ballblazer MMORPG.

I wonder how many younger gamers will get this reference.

I wish something crazy like that would exist though.

InHuman · August 2011

Gladius MMO pleeaassseeee

SmokeStacks · August 2011

Suriko wrote:

Open world RPG set on Coruscant. You play a fully customisable non-force-using character, with career paths ranging from a gun-for-hire lubricating the wheels of diplomacy to a politician that must build and use an extensive network of contacts and political allies to get your way. As the Republic begins to eat itself from the inside out, you must try your best to save it, by word or by gun.

Star Wars: Politics: The Game. Coming out never/never/never at nowhere near you.

I'd pay cash money for a game that took place in the Coruscant underground. Having to deal with gangs, mutated cannibals, feral droids, random thugs, crime lords, granite slugs, mutants, monsters, and who knows what else is lurking down there, a place that has been sealed off with Imperial Blast Doors for thousands of years, where natural light hasn't existed in tens of thousands of years or more, and all of it lying miles below the city's surface.

Imagine a modern day Ultima Underworld with vague Star Wars references, and you'll get the idea.

The developers could work on something that wasn't "Star Wars" (as in, Jedis and spaceships and and whatever is going on in whatever clone wars series is doing well right now), but marketing can still sell it as a Star Wars game. Everybody wins.

Spoit · August 2011

Henroid wrote:

Mulletude wrote:

Republic Commando ended up being so great...Than when you really thought shit was ramping up the game was over. It deserved an immediate sequel or just simply a longer campaign.

It was a fluke hit.

They've also had like 2 or 3 complete staff turnovers since then. Don't really have that much confidence in their in house developers, especially since they somehow managed to make TFU2 worse than 1

Hahnsoo1 · August 2011

lowlylowlycook wrote:

So first there was X-Wing.

Then their was Tie Fighter.

Now there will be Millinium Falcon, i.e. an Elite/Privateer like game.

We already had X-Wing Alliance, which allowed you to fly the Millennium Falcon in the final missions. Obviously, the next step is Super Star Destroyer, followed by Death Star. The latter is the "open world" game, in which you fly out to various pastoral worlds like Alderaan and open them up. Violently.

Zxerol · August 2011

Viscountalpha wrote:

Drez wrote:

Clearly, this will be a Ballblazer MMORPG.

I wonder how many younger gamers will get this reference.

I wish something crazy like that would exist though.

With all the Star Wars shit they put out, you tend to forget that LA actually has other properties that don't involve glowy light swords and space wizards.

Jam Warrior · August 2011

I was briefly excited before I remembered that everything I used to care about from LA has long since been abandoned for MOARSTARWARZ.

Thankfully Telltale picked up the ball they dropped and have had massive success with it, so there is possibly some justice in the universe.

Lanrutcon · August 2011

Morkath wrote:

Ewok Breeding Simulator;

Travel the globe in search of the rare purple haired ewok. If you mate it with the green haired ewok you get the mythical golden ewok.

Or Gungan Warrior, relive the battle of naboo as a brave gungan warrior.

Thread over. Go back to your homes and await the coming of digital Ewok sex.

Aegeri · August 2011

Spoit wrote:

Henroid wrote:

Mulletude wrote:

Republic Commando ended up being so great...Than when you really thought shit was ramping up the game was over. It deserved an immediate sequel or just simply a longer campaign.

It was a fluke hit.

They've also had like 2 or 3 complete staff turnovers since then. Don't really have that much confidence in their in house developers, especially since they somehow managed to make TFU2 worse than 1

Truly, if they ever managed to do something that amazed me it was that accomplishment. TFU was already terrible, making a worse sequel was just amazing.

I bet it still sold shitloads though, despite being awful.

The idea of a privateer like Star Wars game makes me so happy. This means it would never happen.

Victory63 · August 2011

Aegeri wrote:

The idea of a privateer like Star Wars game makes me so happy. This means it would never happen.

Probably not the same but around 2004 - 2005, LucasArts were planning to develop a Star Wars smuggler game.
Players would take the role of a smuggler and travel between planets trading items and evading Imperial forces.
The project only went as far as concept art until it was cancelled. However some concept art along with the cancelled
Wookiee game "Rebel Warrior" were reused for "The Force Unleashed".

acidlacedpenguin · August 2011

Open world or open island? monkey island.

anyway it's definitely star wars of some sort.

Drake · August 2011

An open world Bounty Hunting game in the Star Wars universe would be pretty amazing. I'd love the hell out of a game based on Boba Fett's ascent to the top of the bounty hunter dog-pile. Especially if it had this kind of tone to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAU_PCEVMyY

Dirtmuncher · August 2011

Lucasarts proudly presents: ATOL

An action-rpg set on an island.
Level up your stranded hero.
Put points into the swimming skill-tree and watch your hero stroke for hours on end.

Henroid · August 2011

Dirtmuncher wrote:

Lucasarts proudly presents: Star Tropics

An action-rpg set on an island.
Level up your stranded hero.
Put points into the yo-yo skill-tree and watch your hero be unable to swim for hours on end.

Penny Arcade

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