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How the Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster devs Nightdive Studios enhanced the classic FPS (blog.playstation.com)
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[–] TommySoda 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Why am I seeing so many remastered Star Wars games coming out? First Battlefront 1 & 2 and now this? I mean, I'm not mad and definitely excited. Just confused because I thought EA and Disney had exclusive rights when it came to the Star Wars games, or was I wrong?

Also do Dark Forces 2 next that game is my jam.

[–] Akagigahara 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Iirc EA lost the exclusive game rights after Battlefront 2 (2017).

That's also why Ubisoft is making an open-world star wars game

[–] TommySoda 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I hate EA as much as the next guy... But I think I'd rather have them make a Star Wars game over Ubisoft

[–] MurrayL 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

EA are still making Star Wars games (like Fallen Order); the loss of exclusivity just means other studios are finally allowed to make things too. Everybody wins!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

More specifically disney didnt renew thd deal, and the deal runs out here soon.

[–] warmaster 4 points 11 months ago

Higher profit on low investment + moderate returns, makes sense to ship them non stop. Higher investment projects could mean more profit but it also means higher risks.

[–] CptEnder 3 points 11 months ago

SW JK: DFII was my first online multiplayer experience. I remember the first map I found, was a big pit thing that had a castle like entrance at the bottom of the pit that I think turned into a casino. Great times trying to figure out how to play that on my dad's work Sony Viao laptop with DSL.

[–] tabris 5 points 11 months ago

Do the X-Wing/TIE Fighter games next!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I hope they do Dark Forces 2 as well. Although the fan enhancements are already great. And it's hard to do, since the original source code is supposedly lost. And the apparently the engine has some weird quirks that are hard to replicate in a modern engine.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There's an open source reimplementation of the Sith Engine that'd make a good base. Like KeeperFX, the project gradually reimplements every engine function while falling back to the original executable for any that haven't been converted yet, and is sitting at nearly 100℅ complete for everything other than the rasterizer, which is apparently a mess to untangle.

[–] MurrayL 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

True, but if Nightdive get a deal to do it, I guarantee they'll use KEX like they have for all their other ports.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Right. I meant in regards to the original source code being lost, the hard work of reverse engineering it has already been done. That should make a potential port less of a nightmare for the team.

[–] Zahille7 2 points 11 months ago

Hnnng, please remake the entire Dark Forces/Jedi Knight series!

I would kill for a remaster of Jedi Outcast/Jedi Academy with more modern graphics and sound, but with the same fantastic lightsaber mechanics.