KOTOR Kinghts of the Old Republic (Remake)

Not sure if it is true but many outlets are reporting it. So hopefully. 🙂

Could be many reasons
1. They don't have time for it with other projects
2. They would rather focus on their own IP
3. Disney found someone else they think would be better for the project

Kind of hard to imagine it strictly being #3 given the success of the original KOTOR, although maybe they don't like how SWTOR is being handled. Or Disney wants the KOTOR game to be very different than the original.

#1 and 2 seem reasonable to me. BioWare has DA4 for 2022/2023 and ME5 after that, plus Anthem 2.0. Not sure where they'd find the room for this. 

Since we have kept hearing about a new Knights of the Old Republic game for years my skeptical hat is going to stay on. Just because one place that quotes another article which quotes another article which quotes a Reddit post doesn't seem like solid confirmation.  Not to mention the public release that Massive is making a Star Wars game which I am pretty sure is going to be about as much fun as Anthem for me.

Personally I am a little more disappointed its not Obsidian being tapped to make it over BioWare. I preferred Knights of the Old Republic 2 more then the first game until they had to start massively cutting content to get the game released.

It would be great to have a new KOTOR game. I will wait to hear which studio is making it and what type of game they are making before getting excited, though.

The rumor is that Aspyr is making this. Still not sure if it is a remake or a new game though. They did the mobile versions of Kotor / Kotor 2 and apparently have been hiring a bunch of ex-BioWare people including Courtney Woods as Lead Writer.

Jason Schreier seems to confirm this in this thread:
www.resetera.com/threads/aspyr-media-is-working-on-an-aaa-70-million-title-kotor.372402/

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.