2013-04-05, 04:55 | Link #382 |
Takao Tsundere Cruiser
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Is Disney about to destroy the Star Wars Expanded Universe Altogether?
This keeps getting better ehh?
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2013-04-05, 11:37 | Link #384 |
Adeptus Animus
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Oh please, a lot of the EU is barely being held together by duct-ape as it is. New authors write, new things contradict the established canon, we work around and hammer until it the complete retcon is only a quirky alteration. Nothing's changed.
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2013-04-05, 12:36 | Link #385 | |
Logician and Romantic
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From the very beginning, the film universe had always trumped the EU. You change the side materials to suit the movies, not the other way around. It was the case before Disney, and it is still the case after Disney. No one is changing the rules on you here.
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2013-04-05, 13:03 | Link #386 |
Socially Inept
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I can see why this is bothering people. Heck I'm not too pleased to see them shutting down LucasArts if only for all those people losing their jobs when they thought they were making a soon to be great game.
That said I think in the long run any way you could get this franchise out of Lucas' hands is going to work out for the positive in the long run.
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2013-04-05, 13:42 | Link #387 | |
The Dark Knight
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2013-04-05, 13:45 | Link #388 |
Gamilas Falls
Join Date: Feb 2008
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Remember the original Disney responce to Star Wars? It was called "The Black Hole".
Disney's first PG rated film.
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2013-04-05, 13:47 | Link #389 | |
Not Enough Sleep
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Ewoks the musical
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2013-04-05, 20:02 | Link #391 | |
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And the EU does a pretty decent job of holding itself together until crap like The Clone Wars comes along with awful storylines that make no sense.
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2013-04-05, 22:49 | Link #392 | |
Hiding Under Your Bed
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With Disney tearing apart everything that they are, I don't care anymore. Tear apart the EU Disney. Making your own Star Wars reality won't change my having read all those stories and enjoyed all those plots.
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2013-04-06, 12:47 | Link #393 | |
Adeptus Animus
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EU's always had contradictions, and the EU has always found a way to make them fit. I don't think this will change. Last edited by Keroko; 2013-04-06 at 13:33. |
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2013-04-06, 20:41 | Link #394 | |
WE ARE.... PENN STATE....
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2013-04-07, 04:57 | Link #396 | |
Adeptus Animus
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See? Tweaking's easy. |
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2013-04-07, 15:00 | Link #397 |
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Why Cancelling Star Wars: 1313 Is Such a Good Thing:
"On Wednesday, Disney (NYSE: DIS) announced something of a surprise. They are shutting down LucasArts. LucasArts is the branch of George Lucas' company that develops video games. Over the years they have made dozens of games based on the Star Wars universe. But they also have developed other classic properties such as The Secret of Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle. But for the last couple of years the developer has been struggling. Four months into the happy marriage between Disney and Lucas, Disney thought it best to shut it down. 150 people were laid off. Games in development, like Star Wars: 1313, are being cancelled. Dinsey now plans on licensing LucasArts' video game properties out to third party developers." See: http://beta.fool.com/thequast/2013/0...gyholnk0000001 |
2013-04-07, 17:16 | Link #398 |
Adeptus Animus
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"EA has already developed Star Wars games before. They are the developer behind Star Wars: The Old Republic. "
.... I'm... not sure how serious to take this article. The author doesn't really seem to do any fact finding (claiming that EA developed SWTOR rather than Bioware), but anyone with even casual knowledge of the game industry knows EA is a publisher, not a developer. |
2013-04-07, 21:04 | Link #399 | |
Hiding Under Your Bed
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Other gaming sites (ie: Kotaku) are reporting that sources within Lucas Arts claim there is "almost no chance" of 1313 being licensed by someone else, which would suggest Disney really does want a clean slate where existing Star Wars projects are their baby, licensed or in house. I mean, if it was all about money, they would have simply moved Clone Wars to their own channel, as it was doing very well. But, they cancelled and laid most of them off (so it wasn't because they wanted the crew to animate a new cartoon). Seems more evidence they just want existing projects to be "their" projects. One might call it a cleaning of the house, regardless of whether it's trash or not.
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