Wait… I just had to look them up. The company behind kotar?? Okay now that fucking hurts. I’m used to the fall of EA but… Damn
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nimmo@lem.nimmog.uk 3 months agoThe original was EA, this re-release is Aspyr, so as bad as EA are I’m not convinced that they’re to blame here.
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 3 months ago
frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 3 months ago
The company behind KotOR’s mobile, Linux, and modern ports. Bioware was behind the original KotOR, and they were bought and ruined by EA.
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Okay, I should have looked a little more I was just looking at the years. It sounded like the original release years. That’s what I get for half assidly googling while I work lol.
So it’s like when Rockstar turned the GTA remasters over to the phone people and we ended up with a clusterfuck.
frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 3 months ago
Aspyr’s KotOR port was considered pretty good, I believe. I was disappointed in their Civilization series ports for Linux because their netcode was incompatible with the Windows versions, which is baffling to me, considering Linux users are already siloed so much in other ways. But the games ran okay, so it wasn’t all bad.
But yeah, I haven’t really heard any good updates or news come out of Aspyr for a while. If I recall correctly, they were the original devs for the KotOR remake, which was going to be their first game from the ground up from a technical perspective. But they had that taken away from them after working on it for a year or two, which is crazy. It must’ve truly been awful.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The original was not EA. It was Pandemic Studios, who release Battlefront 1 and 2 both before they were acquired by Electronic Arts between 2007- 2009.