Prophecy2k
Veteran
I did not intend to question your opinion I only questioned the idea that (even others over the years repeat) "Star Wars game" can only = "Jedi Superman Celebrity"
I used to think just like you do in the sense of only thinking that holding a lightsaber would be the only thing I wanted to do if a Star Wars franchise videogame so I understand you.
I also played the Republic Commando demo on PC...(the game was only on xbox 1/PC) and really did not get exited or even initially like the idea of playing some clone trooper, however the demo did not really do justice to the commanding or managing aspect of the gameplay and in my case it was a thing about 2004/2005 having played Doom 3 retail for PC and still having the impulse to want to buy another game and I already had Jedi Knight II and I and later Academy so it was kind of like an impulse buy for me... I do understand why the game must have failed initially... or maybe it had something to do with being released in 2005 right when Xbox 360 and the next gen consoles were coming and how Xbox 1 at the time was predominantly Halo only. I also did not think that the game was that special with its huge flaws but the reason for this thread was because of all the raving over how FPSs make so much money this current gen and how many other game devs have turned to jumping into the FPS bandwagon, I couldn't help but notice that in the majority of these "popular cash cow FPS" you play as some nameless nobody but somehow badass dudebro that Republic Commando nor the idea of a series of serious SW FPSs even got considered.
Battlefront series was not a true FPS series. Not even a FPS-lite, it was a third person/first person hybrid with loose controls not precise enough to qualify as true arcady controls or FPS material and it really tried to do too much with too many limits.
I understand your point about publishers feeding the focus group mentality of gamer/fans/star wars fans and turning around and devoting an entire current console generation to making The Force Unleashed something that was eaten up and forgiven initially.
However I really do not believe you or that game devs/pubs would believe a game like that, specifically talking about a Republic Commando (and note that game is not laid out like other Star Wars games) type or sequel would sell in the current gen (also keep in mind I originally wanted to make this thread years ago but well did it now lol what timing).
As for Halo did this, or that or that 323 decided to use on lazer weapon..., that is hard to swallow, that game franchise's fans are very forgiving however the game series always established since 2001 that humans had mostly bullet weapons while aliens had plasma and lazers.
Resistance, having played that game and enjoyed it, I feel it was more of unfair fanboy war hype... gamers calling it a "WWII shooter" at one time at another calling it a "halo wannabe" or "why ____ Halo this ____" I heard them all way back then.
However in Republic Commando the devs did make the Trandoshan weapons bullet based because they wanted an excuse to have a shot gun in there... its just that that series never got to evolve on more powerfull hardware and 3d engine... or game dev experience.
It really seems to be more of bad business decisions.
This industry is unfortunately rife with bad business decisions, and with a franchise as huge and as potentially profitable as Star Wars by combining it with the FPS genre you would inevitably have created a recipe for disaster. There's no publisher that would take on the Star Wars licence and allow a developer to have sufficient creative freedom to actually create a great Star Wars FPS game with it. The dev would get abused by silly demands from marketing departments, focus testing and perhaps George Lucas himself.
I'm not confident we'll ever get another excellent Starwars game like Kotor 1&2, or even a good one like the Battlefront games. Publisher/Developer/IP owner politics will ensure it remains in developement hell, and will provide sufficient antagonism to the creative process that the game even if it does get released will most likely be awful.