One a them Star Wars was announced at the Let Geoff Have This He’s Got Nothing Else Going On Awards this week, from none other than Casey Hudson. It’s called Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic, a name that will instantly make any Knights of the Old Republic oldhead point at their screen that’s Chappie style, which also happens to be a game that Hudson was project director on. The only problem with Fate of the Old Republic is that the studio that’s making it only got started this year, calling into question how far away it is – a question that Hudson, kind of, answered.
As noted, developer of the game Arcanaut Studios is a wee babby of a studio, with RPS overlord Julian pointing out in his and Mark’s Geoffies verdict that optimistically, we’d be looking at a 2028 or 2029 release date for the game. Hudson’s response to such an estimation (which is more likely in direct response to some guy who often seems to know a lot about what happens in the industry) is one of unconvincing substance. “Don’t worry about the ‘not till 2030’ rumors,” he wrote on his personal Dwitter account. “Game will be out before then. I’m not getting any younger!”
You’re honestly trying to convince us that a game of likely quite a large scale, with probably too many people working on it, that only has a quite short, pre-rendered trailer that shows off scenes you could find in literally any modern day Star Wars, will be out within the next four years? Hogwash! Malarkey! Balderdash! This isn’t the ’90s, or the 2000s, or even the 2010s, big name games almost always get delayed, whether it’s internally or externally, and I can’t see that not happening to this one.
For the sake of Hudson and his team at Arcanaut, I do genuinely hope they manage to get it done within such a timeframe, and done in a healthy manner, even if I don’t believe it to be possible. You see the water droplets in that trailer? That looked like fricken’ real life! If that’s what they’re aiming for, only the gods can help them.