KOTOR Remake by Aspyr Media? Courtney Woods as Lead Writer.

A company known for porting games is making a AAA game. Somewhat not feeling it.

And going by what I'm reading, people are really jumping the gun on that game being a remake of KoTOR too (note that not a remake of KoTOR is different than it's not a Star Wars game).

Courtney Woods is ex-Bioware for people interested in those sort of things, mostly worked on SWTOR.

There were rumors of this about a year ago (https://www.cinelinx.com/news/knights-of-the-old-republic-remake-might-be-back-in-the-cards-exclusive/) with some confusion over whether it was a sequel or a remake. Seems like this is probably the same thing.

I'd rather a brand new game than some kind of remake or reimagining, but the games are old enough that wouldn't be too bad either. I hope we learn more soon.

As far as I'm concerned, Jason only confirmed that Aspyr is the other studio making a Star Wars game beside Ubisoft Massive that was mentioned a few weeks ago. He used "the KoTOR studio" to refer to it once, but I feel that was mostly to go with his entire twitter feed only talking about a KoTOR remake for 2 years straight every time none-EA Star Wars game rumors are brought up.

Last year, he didn't even want to talk about the KoTOR remake rumors because he wasn't certain it was a remake. I don't think that actually changed. Just like people jumped into "KoTOR remake" when the Luminous Project leaked. The reason: someone somewhere said the Luminous Project was set in the Old Republic. LucasArts as since renamed that period (200 years before movies) the High Republic to avoid the confusion.

Then you add the rest of the rumor that claim it supposedly merged both KoTOR's plot. How does that even work? The only thing that links both plots is that Tenebrae is there in the background manipulating shit and you don't even learn that in either of the games. It's something you learn in a novel made for SWTOR and in SWTOR. Oh and apparently there is a movie or TV series too.

The entire rumor set sound like it's part of the High Republic project which fit with the movie/TV series + other medias rumors. Or people are confusing the whole together, but going by Disney has been managing the brand, it being part of the High Republic makes sense.

This sort of confuses me.

So there is a straight upscale being worked on and a remake in the works. The remake is supposed to include changes in line with the newer films.

What exactly would they need to include in KOTOR to make it fit in with the new Disney canon? I've only seen the newer movies each once but don't recall anything that would really need to be included in KOTOR, which takes place long before the movies, to make it fit in.

The only thing that I can see this doing is returning KOTOR I and II back to canon since they are released under Disney.

There is an update here: www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-04-21-star-wars-knights-of-the-old-republic-remake-developed-by-aspyr

I'm not happy if they try to make it closer to canon, because that means no female Revan. This game was the first game where I was able to play as a female and that choice was acknowledged and I had a different experience playing than my husband because of it. It is the reason I came to BW boards in the first place oh so many years ago. If they take out the ability to choose a female, I have no interest.

Remaking one of Bioware's greatest games?

Yeah, I sense a great disturbance in the Force.

Part of me hopes that the backlash that the recent sequel trilogy received will force Disney to be more careful when it comes to their story and lore decisions for future games/movies. I would not mind if Disney made some some small changes to make it fit with canon better, but the core of the story, themes and characters should remain intact. That's what makes it KOTOR in the first place.

I'm also curious about the potential announcement timing for this remake. Given that the rumors of development first started circulating in January 2020, I wonder if a reveal on May 4th (Star Wars Day) or at E3 this year would be realistic.

Given the High Republic and it's reception, I wouldn't bet on it.

In which case I'll not only not get it, I'll actively discourage others as well.

At first I thought Revan would be appearing as a holographic form in the new remake, and I got very concerned haha. Would be nice if he got a cameo in the new Acolyte TV show!

As far as canonizing Revan's gender and appearance goes, I am torn. On the one hand, KOTOR is an RPG, and everyone should be free to wish that their choices for Revan and the story get reflected as much as possible.

On the other hand, Revan has been designated in old canon (legends) as a man with a long flow since the mid 2000's, via books and eventually SWTOR. This has been his image since then, and Revan has continued to remain a popular character during this time. I doubt Disney would want to mess with what fans are already used to.

From a practical point of view as well, it would be impossible to give Revan anything more than cameos if we had to leave his gender ambiguous. I am personally fine with Revan's appearance and voice in SWTOR. If I had the choice between ambiguous Revan who does not appear in any content besides the remake, or a canonized Revan who could feature more prominently in TV, movies or games, I would opt for the canonized option. Even if the decision was between an ambiguous Revan or a canon female Revan, I would prefer the canon option, even though that's not my preferred option, just so that there is certainty and continuity between the shows or films she would appear in.

I agree that canonizing is the option that would allow Disney to profit the most, but it would impossible to feature Revan's character in-depth in any other medium without canonizing him in the first place.

*looks at the sequel trilogy*  Ummmmm...

I'm not the only one!

As for SWTOR , it was always its own canons. Yes with a "s". Base game had all class stories happening in the same universe, but after that only one "class" advanced per faction and since Ossus Republic and Imperial are in parallel universes as the events can't happens at the same time.