A brand new report on a lawsuit over canceled DLC for Aspyr’s Star Wars: Knights of the Outdated Republic 2 remaster has revealed some a lot larger particulars concerning the KOTOR remake and what Lucasfilm Video games has deliberate afterward. It appears a full remake of KOTOR 2 can be within the planning phases, full with an array of fixes for the sport’s unique, infamously unfinished ending.
That is in accordance with Lucasfilm Video games VP Douglas Reilly, who spoke concerning the undertaking as a part of a deposition over the lacking DLC this previous March. Reilly’s feedback have simply surfaced in a brand new Recreation File report, the place he discusses “Juliet,” the codename for the KOTOR 2 remake.
“Juliet was the code title for a undertaking the place we have been going to do a full remake of KOTOR II with fashionable artwork, fashionable gameplay, , hold the story and the characters and the final—the final content material of KOTOR II, however remake it for contemporary {hardware} and fashionable machines with up to date graphics and all these type of issues,” Reilly defined. “It was one thing we have been discussing with Aspyr.”
Notably, the official web site for Mad Head Video games says that the studio has one other “unannounced AAA recreation primarily based on a well-known and beloved IP” within the works, and a KOTOR remake will surely qualify there. There have additionally been stirrings not too long ago about an Outdated Republic-flavored recreation being revealed quickly, and whereas these rumors haven’t been substantiated, the upcoming Recreation Awards on December 11 can be an ideal venue for the KOTOR remake to reemerge.
Such an announcement can be much more thrilling if a remake of the sequel have been to observe. KOTOR 2 launched in 2004 with an ending that many gamers – myself included – felt on the time was anticlimactic and unsatisfying. Quickly after the sport hit PC, modders found proof within the recreation recordsdata suggesting that a lot of the ending’s content material, and another components of the sport, have been lower earlier than launch, seemingly on account of time constraints placed on developer Obsidian.
After years of labor, followers finally launched the Restored Content material Modification, which implements most of the story components and different options the unique devs lower from the sport. When Aspyr launched a KOTOR 2 remaster for Swap in 2022, it had plans to additionally launch the RCM undertaking as DLC – the primary time console gamers would ever get the prospect to play it. That DLC launch was finally canceled, prompting a false promoting lawsuit in opposition to Aspyr.
The small print of that lawsuit are the first topic of the brand new Recreation File report, however briefly, it appears the DLC was canceled as a result of Disney‘s legal professionals bought chilly toes about their skill to totally safe the rights to the modders’ work.
Even with the disruption to the KOTOR 1 remake’s improvement, the undertaking “continues to be technically on the street map,” in accordance with Reilly, and it will not be topic to the identical authorized points that killed the restored content material DLC. “The plan was we might remake the content material that was within the RCM because it pertains to Star Wars in that Juliet undertaking,” Reilly mentioned. Here is hoping that plan stays intact.
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