Does Anyone Actually Believe That Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic Remake Still Exists?

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:James Lucas

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When Disney bought Lucasfilm and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Star Wars for $4 billion in 2012, it immediately got to work cleaning up the convoluted and often contradictory expanded universe, labelling everything beyond the movies and TV shows as 'Le𒁃gends'. Over time, certain elements would be folded into its more cohesive canon, like the Republic Commandos and Grand Admiral Thrawn, but The Old Republic is still waiting for its turn under Tattooine’s twin suns.

There has been the odd reference here and there, usually to Darth Revan (including in the latest season of Andor, which made everyone think hesa wasa Gungan), but the closest Disney has ever come to touching on the era in any meaningful way is through The High Republic, which is still set centuries later. So, when PlayStation announced a remake for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Knights of the Old Republic in 2021, a spa♎rk lit under🅷 the fanbase. Somehow, KOTOR had returned.

And then... crickets.

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A close up of Darth Revan in pitch black darkness illuminated by the glow of a red lightsaber.

A year later,168澳洲幸运5开奖网: it was delayed indefinitely, changing hands as168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Saber ꩲInteℱractive took over development from Aspyr. Already a worrying start. Rumours then started mounting that the game had been cancelled, fears that were only made worse when Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors started to dodge quest♏ions about the project entirely. Shortly after,168澳洲幸运5开奖网: the trailer was delisted. Things looked bleak for🔯 the classic BioWare RPG’s long-overdue return.

But last year, Embracer promised t𝓀hat the remake was "alive and well", a comment that would be reiterated several times in the coming months. As recently as March, Saber CCO Tim Willits stated that "everything that we have talked abജout i🏅s still in development". That should be reassuring, but afte🍃r Knights of the Old Republic’s no-show at the most recent State of Play, I’m starting to lose faith in these empty updates.

It’s been four years. Any excitement from that initial glance at Revan (which let’s face it, was the equivalent of an 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Elder Scrolls mountain range) has completely faded. Mos﷽t fans have moved on t𒈔o begging for Battlefront 3. I’m not expecting a reveal anymore, certainly noꦍt at Summer Game Fest (I’ll eat my Finn action figure if I’m wrong). At best, I’m expecting Sabre to drop an apology letter to the community on a random Tuesday, announcing its cancellation with as much fanfare as an Admiral Ackbar cameo.

That happened in Andor, too.

In 2023, insiders felt the same. Giant Bomb’s Jeff Grubb was asked about when he expected KOTOR to release, amidst reports claiming that it’d be lucky to launch in 2024. Grubb was a lot harsher, going as far as to say that 168澳洲🌞幸运5开奖网:he doesn’t think it will “ever co💫me out”. He even speculated that the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake, which completely restarted development after its lacklustre reveal, would beat it to the punch. By the looks of things, he’s right, since PoP is supposedly launching sometime🔯 next year.

I’d love for Knights of the Old Republic to return, welcoming a new generation into Star Wars’ best era, and potentially kickstarting a renaissance of Old Republic storytelling, but it’s just not happening. We’ve heard nothing about the game — seen nothing from it. The only e🐬vidence of its existence is a brief CG shot of a mask and some vague promises. As everyone and their mother says in Star Wars, I’ve got a bad feeling about this.