Bye bye Visceral Games

[Paul_cze]

@krayzkrok

At this rate, maybe THQ Nordic could soon pick it up at a bargain price and push a TIE Fighter sequel into development!

Hah, I’d be onboard with that.

EA is dumpster fire.

[JonRowe]

@MrTibbs

To EA’s credit, those people said, the publisher did not lay anyone off as part of this transition.

That is great news, at least.

[BrianRubin]

@krayzkrok

At this rate, maybe THQ Nordic could soon pick it up at a bargain price and push a TIE Fighter sequel into development!

Oh yes, yes please.

[kerzain]

@JD

Somewhat related…

EA Cancels Open-World Star Wars Game

Something else somewhat related. @Gary_Whitta sat down to talk about his thoughts on EA’s handling of Star Wars recently.

'Rogue One' Writer Rips Into EA Over Cancelled 'Star Wars' Game, "It Would...

Earlier in the week, news broke that yet another Star Wars game has bit the dust and the reaction to EA's cancellation immediately stirred up community ire among gamers. While EA issued a weirdly evasive statement to the recent reports, Rogue One writer Gary Whitta didn't mince words when he ripped the publisher a new one.

When asked about his thoughts on the matter, Whitta responded “It has been catastrophically mismanaged. If I were Disney, I’d be fucking furious. I saw a bunch of that game, and it looked terrific. It would have been Star Wars Uncharted .”

The article is basically reporting on this video.

Another Cancelled Star Wars Game - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.16.19

[Mysterial]

Well, “it looks good in small parts” describes lots of games that still have year(s) in development to go.

The primary point is still true, though. EA has absolutely pissed away that license. Star Wars is one of the few franchises were you can basically just clone a bunch of existing games with Star Wars skins over top and sell 10 million copies each, and EA can’t even do that right.

[Rock8man]

EA’s decisions regarding this studio and this game sound truly baffling.

Cancelled Star Wars Ragtag game details surface

“The timing was weird,” Mumbach told the MinnMaxShow. "The sequence of events was like - ‘hey, we have a studio with their own engine who make really high quality single-player games - the Dead Space series - and we’re going to take that studio, move them to Frostbite and have them make a Battlefield game’. OK, I’m fine with that. I stayed there and worked on that.

"But we had a lot of people at the studio who were experts on narrative and single-player games and those people left. And that’s fine - some of them went to Crystal Dynamics and worked on the Avengers game. That kind of stuff happens. Then we went and hired a bunch of multiplayer first-person shooter experts to help us with Hardline. Cool. So to ship Hardline and go ‘hey you guys are now going to make a single-player third-person [game]…’ That’s the thing which is hard for me to get over.

“Who’s making this plan? There is no plan, obviously. We were experts at this [genre of] game two years ago and then we re-made our studio. And it was hard. And we pulled it off. And then it was like ‘go back to what you guys did before’. And we were like ‘well those guys who were good at what we did before left’.”

[BrianRubin]

Man that article was infuriating to read. I did lead me to the interviewee’s upcoming game, which looks GREAT.

Airborne Kingdom - Take a fantastical journey, fly the desert and build your...

[Rock8man]

That does look great. And I’ve never heard of a game trying to blend city management and exploration before. That’s crazy talk! But in this case, they’re cities in the sky that are going exploring, so it makes sense, kind of.

[Giles_Habibula]

I stole this from that article’s comment section, and while I’m sure it must be old, it’s fun!

Star Wars Name Generator

First name:
First 3 letters of your last name
plus First 2 letters of your first name

Last name:
First 2 letters of your mother’s maiden name
plus First 3 letters of the town you were born in

My Star Wars name is:
Lahma Bubre

[cicobuff]

My Star Wars name is:
Chule Ngsin

Pleased to meet you. (Don’t ask me how to pronounce my name.)

[tomchick]

That Star Wars name generator is a trap! It lets hackers reverse engineer your Star Wars name to figure out your email password!

-Chiom Leirv

[LeeAbe]

It looks like someone made a game out of the Game of Thrones intro. Would it kill Epic to post more about games than a small marketing line and some screenshots?

[CraigM]

While Chiom may sound better, don’t think you fooled me Chito!

Milca Evhin

[tomchick]

@CraigM

While Chiom may sound better, don’t think you fooled me Chito!

Oops. Yeah, it would be Chito, wouldn’t it? Ugh. Welp, now my Star Wars name is officially dumb.

Thanks, Obama!

-Chito Leirv

[Giles_Habibula]

You totally dropped your entire bowl of Cheetos, man.

[Telefrog]

Meet Diani Chhoo, spaceship washer.

[kerzain]

Dude, please don’t wash your space ships, you’ll ruin the natural patina.

[divedivedive]

Well crap, apparently I got Ambgr Lyrus, which at first sounded cool until I realized it probably sounds like Hamburger Virus.

[kerzain]

Similar to the proper pronunciation for GIF, the g is silent.

[ArmandoPenblade]

Pinra Liham is kinda lame tbh, but at least it’s fairly pronounceable!