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1UP: Is Obsidian looking at any other their past franchises to pick up, or do you have a full plate right now?

 

Urquhart: Right now we're pretty full-plate, but KOTOR II is about to wrap up, so we're looking for something else. There've been some big changes at LucasArts recently, so right now we're kind of in a state of flux over whether we'll work with them some more or not. Certainly we'd love to do a KOTOR III if they were interested in one. We've also been trying to talk LucasArts into the idea of making a Knights of the New Republic. That would be really cool; you could have cameos and everything. It's only been a year, essentially, between the two KOTORs, and I think it'll be important to do something new with the series......

 

 

....... I'd kind of like to do something set in the near future, too; a hardcore RPG set in the near future.

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No after the movies.

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1UP: Is Obsidian looking at any other their past franchises to pick up, or do you have a full plate right now?

 

Urquhart: Right now we're pretty full-plate, but KOTOR II is about to wrap up, so we're looking for something else. There've been some big changes at LucasArts recently, so right now we're kind of in a state of flux over whether we'll work with them some more or not. Certainly we'd love to do a KOTOR III if they were interested in one. We've also been trying to talk LucasArts into the idea of making a Knights of the New Republic. That would be really cool; you could have cameos and everything. It's only been a year, essentially, between the two KOTORs, and I think it'll be important to do something new with the series......

 

 

....... I'd kind of like to do something set in the near future, too; a hardcore RPG set in the near future.

 

Great. More freaking sequals.

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1UP: Is Obsidian looking at any other their past franchises to pick up, or do you have a full plate right now?

 

Urquhart: Right now we're pretty full-plate, but KOTOR II is about to wrap up, so we're looking for something else. There've been some big changes at LucasArts recently, so right now we're kind of in a state of flux over whether we'll work with them some more or not. Certainly we'd love to do a KOTOR III if they were interested in one. We've also been trying to talk LucasArts into the idea of making a Knights of the New Republic. That would be really cool; you could have cameos and everything. It's only been a year, essentially, between the two KOTORs, and I think it'll be important to do something new with the series......

 

 

....... I'd kind of like to do something set in the near future, too; a hardcore RPG set in the near future.

 

Weren't the Jedi Knight (and Dark forces)-series enough?

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1UP: Is Obsidian looking at any other their past franchises to pick up, or do you have a full plate right now?

 

Urquhart: Right now we're pretty full-plate, but KOTOR II is about to wrap up, so we're looking for something else. There've been some big changes at LucasArts recently, so right now we're kind of in a state of flux over whether we'll work with them some more or not. Certainly we'd love to do a KOTOR III if they were interested in one. We've also been trying to talk LucasArts into the idea of making a Knights of the New Republic. That would be really cool; you could have cameos and everything. It's only been a year, essentially, between the two KOTORs, and I think it'll be important to do something new with the series......

 

 

....... I'd kind of like to do something set in the near future, too; a ######## RPG set in the near future.

 

 

 

Weren't the Jedi Knight (and Dark forces)-series enough?

 

 

Nah, that was a shoot 'em up and hack n slash game. A game set in the near future with more story would be welcome.

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Hmmm Knights of the new republic, is that supposed to be set when the movies do?

 

There is no Republic during the movies. I'm assuming he means set at the New Jedi Order novels which means it's set 25 years after the movies.

 

If Lucasarts has any shred of decency they will NOT create a game in that time period. <_<

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Hmmm Knights of the new republic, is that supposed to be set when the movies do?

 

There is no Republic during the movies. I'm assuming he means set at the New Jedi Order novels which means it's set 25 years after the movies.

 

If Lucasarts has any shred of decency they will NOT create a game in that time period. <_<

 

why not?

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Hmmm Knights of the new republic, is that supposed to be set when the movies do?

 

There is no Republic during the movies. I'm assuming he means set at the New Jedi Order novels which means it's set 25 years after the movies.

 

If Lucasarts has any shred of decency they will NOT create a game in that time period. <_<

 

why not?

 

Because the NJO series = horse ****. Making a game in that time period is supporting it, which means Lucasarts must have some really drugged up employees........ :)

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The Old Republic Timeline offers a LOT more variety than what happened after the movies. It's going to be a lot more constricted having to follow up the events of the movie, whereas 4000 years of buffer room before Episode I will grant the devs and story far greater freedom. I REALLY don't wanna see a New Republic Knights.

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Because the NJO series = horse ****. Making a game in that time period is supporting it, which means Lucasarts must have some really drugged up employees........ :)

 

 

Maybe to you... but not all peple felt like you or belive that no game should be made after ROJ movie........

 

Like I said not all EU books were good....infact alot of them were bad or worse than JKO series.....

 

So again there is alot of room to expand and improve in this time frame..... An Rpg would do justice here and not twitch games......

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The SW community is extremely divided when it comes to post-RotJ books and more specifically the NJO. I would really like to see a post-RotJ Knights. However, I would only be interested if either:

 

a - The game takes place in the timeframe used in the EU (20-25 after RotJ) but DOES NOT follow the Yuuzhan Vong storyline. Personally I can't stand that series more than any other EU series out there.

 

or

 

b - The game is set 1,000 to 4,000 years after RotJ when the Jedi are again numerous, there is the freedom to reinvent the SW universe (Like KotOR did), we can see descendants from the movie characters and still no Vong.

 

If the game is set up after the Vong story I (and many other SW gamers) won't even look at it.

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1UP: Is Obsidian looking at any other their past franchises to pick up, or do you have a full plate right now?

 

Urquhart: Right now we're pretty full-plate, but KOTOR II is about to wrap up, so we're looking for something else. There've been some big changes at LucasArts recently, so right now we're kind of in a state of flux over whether we'll work with them some more or not. Certainly we'd love to do a KOTOR III if they were interested in one. We've also been trying to talk LucasArts into the idea of making a Knights of the New Republic. That would be really cool; you could have cameos and everything. It's only been a year, essentially, between the two KOTORs, and I think it'll be important to do something new with the series......

 

 

....... I'd kind of like to do something set in the near future, too; a hardcore RPG set in the near future.

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Something tells me that 4000 years after RotJ, the galaxy would be very similar to the Old Republic. The New Republic would grow, the empire would slowly errode away, and the Jedi would rise. To be quite frank, I wouldn't see a large difference between such a game and classic KotOR except for different ship designs.

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1UP: Is Obsidian looking at any other their past franchises to pick up, or do you have a full plate right now?

 

Urquhart: Right now we're pretty full-plate, but KOTOR II is about to wrap up, so we're looking for something else. There've been some big changes at LucasArts recently, so right now we're kind of in a state of flux over whether we'll work with them some more or not. Certainly we'd love to do a KOTOR III if they were interested in one. We've also been trying to talk LucasArts into the idea of making a Knights of the New Republic. That would be really cool; you could have cameos and everything. It's only been a year, essentially, between the two KOTORs, and I think it'll be important to do something new with the series......

 

 

....... I'd kind of like to do something set in the near future, too; a hardcore RPG set in the near future.

 

Contrary to a few people in this thread, I'd welcome a game set in the post-RotJ era.

 

For those of you who didn't like the NJO, that won't affect the game or storyline in the least. The NJO will effect the story just as much as the Clone Wars novels are affecting KOTOR. In other words, they aren't.

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Actually this game could prove to have a great story, It could take place on Yavin 4 amongst other planets where Luke skywalker trains Kyp Durron and when Exar Kun came back as Spirit and corrupted the jedi which brought dark jedi back into the problem, I foudn this info from the SW databank.

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