KOTOR Kinghts of the Old Republic (Remake)

Oh I hated this in both games. Nothing worse than inputting your commands while the game is paused, then unpausing and the companions ignore your inputs and just run up on the enemy. Like Carth running up on melee fighters to shoot them. Or giving Kreia the Jedi Support behavior and she runs up on the enemy.

For me remaster = preorder
remake = wait for release + spoiler review and decide then

Very disappointing news.

Yeah - unfortunate. Twice now this type of thing has happened to games I was looking forward to.

First Bloodlines 2, and now this. At least Bloodlines 2 is still actively being developed, though - so that's something.

Remakes will always have this issue, I suppose, won't they?

Everyone has a different view on what the 'original thing' means to them and to people generally and another view as to how to honour that.  And sometimes another view on whether or not it should be honoured.

I think at this point all the involved parties (LucasFilm, Embracer, Sony) will have to determine whether cancellation will be more or less expensive than continued development. I hope they can turn it around and make something great, but with Aspyr as the developer that was always a bit doubtful.

While I'd like to have a KOTOR that runs on modern platforms, I think it's best if the game rests in peace if they felt the need to "improve" the story

I guess it will depend on exactly what the issue(s) were.  Art Director and Design Director were the ones fired.  Without knowing anything else about it, that suggests that the problems may have been visual/aesthetic in nature.  But that seems incredibly knee-jerk if it is the case.  Of all the things that go in to a game, I'd have thought the visuals were the easiest thing to fix.  Unless I've got a very different understanding to the reality of those positions.

The other thing it will depend on is how 'transferable' the so-far completed work is.  Meaning; if they decide to proceed with the project, but dropping Aspyr, how easily could another dev team pick up the project and run with it?  I guess we're about to get a lesson in just how easy-to-use UE5 is 

Either way, again - remake, not remaster.  The story was always going to change.  The people making it were always going to see that change as improvement, otherwise they wouldn't have changed it.  I might or might not, depending on what is different and by how much, but assuming 'bad, because modern sensibilities' leads to fear.  Fear leads to hate.  I forget what comes next, but I'm sure everyone gets the idea.

One could argue the Beamdog work on Bioware games. They updated the games for more modern systems, did bug fixing, etc. They did add some new content, but it's entirely ignorable.

That is terrible news. I was really looking forward to seeing more about it.

Barely is the rumor of a cancellation out, back are the guys who are making the UE5 movie adaptation with a teaser: