And if Jason Schreier reports something, that's about as close to fact as you're going to get in this industry, so we think you can trust this news about KOTOR.Īs Schreier writes: Last Thursday, Embracer said in a financial report that one of its big titles, known within the industry as a triple-A game, had switched developers but did not identify the game. I guess if it comes down to it, I can just play the original KOTOR for the seventh time.Knights of the Old Republic Moves To Saber InteractiveĪs reported by Jason Schreier, the Embracer Group have relinquished the Texas-based studio Aspyr of their responsibilities, and are giving leadership of the project to another of their studios based in Eastern-Europe, Saber Interactive. I thought maybe Star Wars Eclipse would be an alternative, but it looks to be failing as well. I do fear that the remake in my head is better than any real life remake could ever be, though it would be hard to mess it up given the source material is already there. Everything I think the game could be is purely speculation – there has been nothing from the developers apart from a single trailer. Selfishly, I am praying this is not true, if only because I want to be able to hit on Bastilla with better graphics and a revamped combat system. Rumours, spurred by the game’s move to the hands of a different studio – albeit one that had already been working on the game – say KOTOR might be in development hell, never to see the light of day. I’m also sick of playing the game over with the existing graphics because good lord, they did not hold up well to the test of time. After all, what’s the point of a remake if you don’t update it? (Make bisexual Bastilla canon immediately, I beg). I’ve been dying to see how the KOTOR remake would approach the characters in the present day, now that the political environment is drastically different and LGBTQ characters are no longer a rarity. KOTOR, and Juhani in particular, is widely considered to be medium-defining when it comes to representing queer characters in a positive, nuanced light, where their sexuality is far from the defining thing about their character. Most mainstream games didn’t have queer characters, let alone complex, interesting, and romanceable ones. I also didn’t know that she would be one of the only lesbian characters I would see in a video game for a long, long time. Related: Star Wars: Eclipse Will Collapse Under Its Own Weightīecause Juhani is canonically a lesbian! I’m not sure I had any idea what a lesbian was at age ten, so I didn’t realise how big a deal this was. “Wait,” he said, leaning towards my television for a better look. Towards the end, when Juhani confessed her feelings for me, he turned pale. My neighbour was standing over my shoulder, scolding me for making the wrong choices and making me reload saved games so I could get the “best possible ending”, whatever that means in the context of KOTOR to him. But every time I meet Juhani, I remember playing the game for the first time. Because I always pick the female character, I end up flirting with Carth Onasi a little, which is fine. At least two of those times were in the last few years, fuelled by pure nostalgia. In my lifetime, I’ve played KOTOR probably six times, maybe more.
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