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[Spyxos]

Star Wars Jedi series director Stig Asmussen seemingly nearly walked away from the project after Lucasfilm initially pushed back against developer Respawn's idea to make a game featuring Jedi. In an interview with The Guardian, Asmussen said Lucasfilm was so very protective of Jedi in terms of Star Wars canon that they pushed for a change to call the characters in Respawn's game "Force users."

"To Lucasfilm, the Jedi are like the holy grail. I mean, it's something that they're probably the most protective of, except for maybe Baby Yoda. So we had to kind of earn that. We had to go through a whole process of, why do you want it to be a Jedi? What do you want to do with the Jedi? They were really uncomfortable with Jedi, and they said, 'Let's reset this. Let's call this character a Force user,'" Asmussen said.

Lucasfilm, Asmussen said, wanted to change Respawn's game to focus on a bounty hunter or a smuggler. At this point, Asmussen--who previously worked on the God of War series--said he considered dropping out.

"I'm like, well I think you have the wrong person for the job," he said. "That's not my background. My background came from God of War … I've never worked on a shooter, and you need a different team to do that. You might as well be asking me to make a racing game. And eventually over time, we built that trust to the point where we ended up calling [the franchise] Jedi."

In the end, Respawn convinced Lucasfilm and created a series focused around a Jedi named Cal Kestis. His story continues in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, which releases on April 28 for console and PC.

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/can-you-pet-the-bogling-in-star-wars-jedi-survivor/1100-6513074/

The Jedi can't be that important to them, otherwise they wouldn't have shit on Obi-wan Kenobi like that.

 

[Northeastmonk]

I wonder what they thought about Starkiller.

 

[Spyxos]

I wonder what they thought about Starkiller.

Wasn't he a Sith or something in between?

 

[ABnormal]

Protective towards Jedis? Did they even see the movies that came out after Lucasfilm acquisition? I think they should have been worried earlier.

 

[Northeastmonk]

Wasn't he a Sith or something in between?

That's true. He was under Vader and fights against the Empire once he realizes how much Vader doesn't care. I played it back on launch and I've forgotten most of it. I had to look some of that up. Lol

 

[Kilau]

Oh yeah, because Lucasfilm is so protective of the legacy.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Probably because he's a man

 

[ToTTenTranz]

To Lucasfilm, the Jedi are like the holy grail.

Then why did they completely ruin episodes VII to IX and the Obi Wan Kenobi series, while making Rogue One and Andor great?

 

[StueyDuck]

I mean it definitely isn't sending... the message... like other Disney products so I can see why.

Luckily they did eventually give in. The first one was good. And I'm hoping the second can raise to a great or even exceptional

 

[Chiggs]

To Lucasfilm, the Jedi are like the holy grail.

Unless you're Luke Skywalker in the Disney Trilogy. At that point, you're a fat asshole who tries to kill people in their sleep.

 

[Spyxos]

Then why did they completely ruin episodes VII to IX and the Obi Wan Kenobi series, while making Rogue One and Andor great?

Didn't you know that Jedi can fly through space? Lucasfilm apparently didn't know either. They just wanted to make money. They didn't care whether the movie was good or not.

 

[drganon]

The people in charge of star wars at Disney are morons.

 

[ManaByte]

I wonder what they thought about Starkiller.

Oh that's a whole other story. He only existed because George wanted a Darth Vader game. They showed him the first level and he was happy. But then they needed a whole game. Thus Starkiller.

 

[Buggy Loop]

The people in charge of star wars at Disney are morons.

I can only imagine their meeting

Somehow, EA/Respawn made a Jedi game

 

[Valt7786]

You know I'm genuinely surprised we played as a white male in that game now. Surprised we didnt have to play as Cere.

 

[Imtjnotu]

The people in charge of star wars at Disney are morons.

Kathleen Kennedy

 

[Drizzlehell]

Our man with the plan, Steve Assmansson.

The Jedi can't be that important to them, otherwise they wouldn't have shit on Obi-wan Kenobi like that.

That's just BS corpospeak. No one at Disney really cares. They don't get anything about this franchise either.

 

[Silver Wattle]

The sequels say otherwise.

 

[Shits_McGiggles]

The schizo is strong in Lucasfilm.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

And yet it's one of the better Star Wars things to come out in recent times. Solid game, very much looking forward to Survivor from Respawn.

 

[PillsOff]

"Lucasfilm was so very protective of Jedi in terms of Star Wars canon"



AHAHAHAHAHA
Stig should do stand up

 

[K' Dash]

The IP is already destroyed, who gives a fuck? At this point nothing can be worse than TLJ or Rise of Palpatine…

 

[lh032]

Probably because he's a man

perhaps they can introduce a maamlien jedi?

 

[LordBlodgett]

This is crazy to hear. That game did more justice to Jedi's than all of the movies in the last 20 years or so.

 

[StereoVsn]

Considering the "quality" of Star Wars movie and Disney+ output over last 10 years or so, I am not certain what the hell are they protective about.

Doubt anything could be worse then the last two Star Wars movies, last season of Mandalorian, Obi-Wan (maybe last episode was decent but that's it), Bobba Fett, etc...

And yeah, I would take Fallen Order over pretty much anything Lucas Arts produced recently. Well, ok, Andor was pretty good. Came out at wrong time, but pretty good.

 

[StereoVsn]

This is crazy to hear. That game did more justice to Jedi's than all of the movies in the last 20 years or so.

But did the game have the High Ground? Or would you say the new movies were rough and course and irritating just like sand?

 

[StereoVsn]

The IP is already destroyed, who gives a fuck? At this point nothing can be worse than TLJ or Rise of Palpatine…

Oh, I wouldn't be too sure. There are 3 new movies rumored and all sound like crap.

Rey is back for the 3rd one, and I can only hope they will drag Palpatine's corpse with that movie for extra "fun", lol.

 

[Majormaxxx]

Force users sounds like people who menstruate

 

[PaintTinJr]

Star Wars Jedi series director Stig Asmussen seemingly nearly walked away from the project after Lucasfilm initially pushed back against developer Respawn's idea to make a game featuring Jedi. In an interview with The Guardian, Asmussen said Lucasfilm was so very protective of Jedi in terms of Star Wars canon that they pushed for a change to call the characters in Respawn's game "Force users."

"To Lucasfilm, the Jedi are like the holy grail. I mean, it's something that they're probably the most protective of, except for maybe Baby Yoda. So we had to kind of earn that. We had to go through a whole process of, why do you want it to be a Jedi? What do you want to do with the Jedi? They were really uncomfortable with Jedi, and they said, 'Let's reset this. Let's call this character a Force user,'" Asmussen said.

Lucasfilm, Asmussen said, wanted to change Respawn's game to focus on a bounty hunter or a smuggler. At this point, Asmussen--who previously worked on the God of War series--said he considered dropping out.

"I'm like, well I think you have the wrong person for the job," he said. "That's not my background. My background came from God of War … I've never worked on a shooter, and you need a different team to do that. You might as well be asking me to make a racing game. And eventually over time, we built that trust to the point where we ended up calling [the franchise] Jedi."

In the end, Respawn convinced Lucasfilm and created a series focused around a Jedi named Cal Kestis. His story continues in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, which releases on April 28 for console and PC.

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/can-you-pet-the-bogling-in-star-wars-jedi-survivor/1100-6513074/

The Jedi can't be that important to them, otherwise they wouldn't have shit on Obi-wan Kenobi like that.

In the scheme of things - what has come out after Lucas sold SW, Clone Wars Season 3 onwards? - they shouldn't have worried at all IMO.

However, if in the context to the few good/acceptable things Disney have managed, forgetting their mainline film abominations and baby Yoda rubbish mocked the franchise, then yes, they should have been worried.

Although I finished the first game, it was buggy, the game mechanics and skill tree weren't good and belittle the Jedi in the way it folds out, and the dialogue/story premise was weak and felt too box ticking woke for good/acceptable SW, and poorly matched the animated series canon. Better than nothing, but hardly great, acceptable mainly for the graphics IMO.

All the SW animated series are disney's best efforts, but all have issues for me in the middle to end - bringing back Maul and adding Witches is more Flash Gordan writing than SW IMO - and even the non-mainline films like Solo, Rogue One,, or series like Andor which I very much liked - or at a push acceptable Kenobi/Book of Boba/Mandalorian - all have quality/canon/cringe moments, and Asoka's trailer looks budget quality for such a great Clone Wars character from what I've seen, and a poor choice of casting for a character that by Clone wars canon should have more allure and peter pan approach to her work.

EA chose a very good actor for the main role for this series going by his performance as a young Joker in Gotham, but it didn't translate well in the game writing for me. I didn't like the God of War reboots, and the SW to Uncharted , meets Tomb Raider reboot cross-over was interesting to see, but probably not for me buying a sequel. A Jedi game needed more of a Death Stranding quality or something completely different skill based like Wonderful 101 or delivered in a Zelda/SotC form to make it more than a B-movie experience IMO. They should have taken the shooter option of the smuggler, as the gameplay would have been superior going by the old Dark Forces games.

 

[Drizzlehell]

In the scheme of things - what has come out after Lucas sold SW, Clone Wars Season 3 onwards? - they shouldn't have worried at all IMO.

However, if in the context to the few good/acceptable things Disney have managed, forgetting their mainline film abominations and baby Yoda rubbish mocked the franchise, then yes, they should have been worried.

Although I finished the first game, it was buggy, the game mechanics and skill tree weren't good and belittle the Jedi in the way it folds out, and the dialogue/story premise was weak and felt too box ticking woke for good/acceptable SW, and poorly matched the animated series canon. Better than nothing, but hardly great, acceptable mainly for the graphics IMO.

All the SW animated series are disney's best efforts, but all have issues for me in the middle to end - bringing back Maul and adding Witches is more Flash Gordan writing than SW IMO - and even the non-mainline films like Solo, Rogue One,, or series like Andor which I very much liked - or at a push acceptable Kenobi/Book of Boba/Mandalorian - all have quality/canon/cringe moments, and Asoka's trailer looks budget quality for such a great Clone Wars character from what I've seen, and a poor choice of casting for a character that by Clone wars canon should have more allure and peter pan approach to her work.

EA chose a very good actor for the main role for this series going by his performance as a young Joker in Gotham, but it didn't translate well in the game writing for me. I didn't like the God of War reboots, and the SW to Uncharted , meets Tomb Raider reboot cross-over was interesting to see, but probably not for me buying a sequel. A Jedi game needed more of a Death Stranding quality or something completely different skill based like Wonderful 101 or delivered in a Zelda/SotC form to make it more than a B-movie experience IMO. They should have taken the shooter option of the smuggler, as the gameplay would have been superior going by the old Dark Forces games.

Buggy?

Woke?

Mechanics not good?

What the fuck are you talking about? All those other imaginary issues aside, what was it about this game that was even remotely "woke"?

 

[PaintTinJr]

Buggy?

Woke?

Mechanics not good?

What the fuck are you talking about? All those other imaginary issues aside, what was it about this game that was even remotely "woke"?

None of the crew are driven by the natural order of things in any universe - far far away or not - to eventually pair bond, and all have presentation to suggest pair bonding is their last concern even when their mission ends.

Compare and contrast with the crew of SW Rebels - which is also delivered pretty woke - but still adheres to the reality that in a natural distribution more people want to pair bond than not, and two sets are present - is my opinion.

 

[kyussman]

Lucasfilm = we are very protective of the Jedi.....also Lucasfilm = we have totally destroyed Star Wars under Disney.

 

[Drizzlehell]

None of the crew are driven by the natural order of things in any universe - far far away or not - to eventually pair bond, and all have presentation to suggest pair bonding is their last concern even when their mission ends. Compare and contrast with the crew of SW Rebels - which is also delivered pretty woke - but still adheres to the reality that in a natural distribution more people want to pair bond than not, and two sets are present - is my opinion.

 

[Honey Bunny]

Have they seen the other Star Wars shit they've approved for the past decade?

 

[GymWolf]

Have they seen the other Star Wars shit they've approved for the past decade?

Yeah, this is legit clown world if true.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

None of the crew are driven by the natural order of things in any universe - far far away or not - to eventually pair bond, and all have presentation to suggest pair bonding is their last concern even when their mission ends.

Compare and contrast with the crew of SW Rebels - which is also delivered pretty woke - but still adheres to the reality that in a natural distribution more people want to pair bond than not, and two sets are present - is my opinion.

 

[MagiusNecros]

Fallen Order bar SWTOR, both Animated series and maybe the first couple seasons of Mandalorian were the only good things to come out of Star Wars.

The 3rd trilogy of movies was awful and I very much preferred the original books for 7-9 that comprised of Jacen and Jaina Solo.

Bunch of retcons for such a lacking vision.

They were hesitant of Fallen Order because it was surprisingly good instead of bad.

 

[PillsOff]

Were they hesitant about.... Just say..

EVERY FUCKING DECISION THEY MADE FOR THE LAST 35 YEARS THAT DROVE THIS FRANCHISE INTO THE FUCKING GROUND or was it just this one bout making a Jedi videogame?

 

[Tefl0n]

Lucasfilm is allergic to good story writing

 

[AJUMP23]

Didn't the Respawn SW game start as something else?

And it is the only decent SW game we have gotten. Lego SW turned out to not be that fun.

 

[Roman Empire]

Kathleen Kennedy

Even George Lucas hated her when she worked under him. She has a hate boner with everything Star Wars.

 

[Drizzlehell]

Even George Lucas hated her when she worked under him. She has a hate boner with everything Star Wars.

Then why would he pick her to take the mantle after the Disney acquisition?

 

[FunkMiller]

Ha ha ha.

'Lucasfilm'

Call them what they are: Disney.

 

[Lord Panda]

Even George Lucas hated her when she worked under him. She has a hate boner with everything Star Wars.

I loathe Kathleen as the next person, but I would like sources for this claim. I would believe it post-Disney but prior to the acquisition, Lucas and Kennedy seemed like they were on the same page.

 

[Wildebeest]

They are protective of Jedi and how they are used in new media? In translation, they are very protective of ways the IP could be leveraged to make new popular characters which could be made into action figures and other merch. Money that they don't get their greedy mits on. The actual image of Jedi and what they mean to people, they don't care except to take a dump on it.