Star Wars video games

I know somebody will look at the schedule and go, wait a minute, you had four different dogfighting games.

How much variety did you really have? But up to this year, we had one, and that was a Star Wars one.

So we'd been lacking in variety over the years.

the course of the years and that we hadn't had any dog fighting stuff.

And all

the Seinfeld characters, yeah.

yeah yeah and uh and we had like a you know the the star wars dog fighting combat the uh attack wing game in there but but by and large we stuck to pretty shooty bangy stuff now that we're starting to expand the audience a little bit i i don't mind us expanding the oil spot a little bit and and getting to some war game adjacent stuff so a military themed rpg i think fits the spirit of what we're doing pretty well so uh mike before you had to take off What did you get in on Saturday morning? Did you sit down and get to play in anything or were you still just walking around like the watcher from Marvel Comics?

Exactly.

Because listen...

i love that this didn't these didn't have to be ginormous on the scope of a fallen order or a battlefront sizzle sizzle and that's another thing that lucasfilm they say that they're gonna just lean into these smaller star wars games Which, come on, if you can get some really cool games that you don't have to pour 40 hours into to be, I mean, that's a win for everybody, man.

Because I loved Jedi Survivor and Jedi Fallen Order, but it is a gee golly commitment, don't you know?

you have got to want to get it

I have exhausted those.

You've exhausted them?

there are no more encounters before i have to go and get it's it's quite embarrassing i'll just freely admit it but that's the deal uh but anyway in other video game news along those same lines of the smaller scale games lucasfilm says that they are exploring star wars games that will surprise fans now what that means i don't know but they're being more flexible about pitches and they're going to try some different stuff

I wish they would do that for their shows.

On the heels of the success of Star Wars Zero Company and Star Wars Galactic Racer, Douglas Riley, a Lucasfilm exec, sat down with the game business show to talk about the future of Lucasfilm Games and announced that the company will be less restrictive about the pitches they accept going forward.

Now, you may remember that for about a decade, EA had the exclusive rights to Star Wars games.

We got Battlefront, we got Jedi Fallen Order, That was about it, right? They had these big AAA huge games, but they couldn't really expand so much.

But now, after we have people like Bit Reactor and people like Fuse Games making Zero Company and Galactic Racer to massive critical and fan acclaim, it seems that they are opening up the floodgates for pitches.

So, Wes, based on this new news, how do you feel about the fact that maybe we're going to get a wide variety of Star Wars games? Could we really recreate the early 2000s?

I would love it.

I didn't think that Star Wars Zero Company was going to be as fun as it is.

Like, we have all these new different types of games.

Uh-huh

... they're actually kind of doing with Star Wars Games, 'cause they're kind of working with, like, Zero Company in Galactic Racer.

Maybe not to Ace who, you know, we all know doesn't like flying.

Uh, Zero Company I might've liked.

Preston, which, which one of these two...

You have two Star Wars games this year.

Mm.

Uh, which one's on track to be your game of the year?

Although...

Star Wars Racing comes out this week, but I got a little bit of time before Grand Theft Auto, obviously.

And I love Ghost of Yotei.

Yep.

It's like all the stuff that you love in iote but it's like a light version of a rogue like it's not like a separate game or anything like that yeah not to that extent but it uh it looks awesome and i actually really enjoyed the legends multiplayer in the original ghost of tsushima and i know they did it for they did it again for this yeah iote i've not played the version in iote but that was that was a lot of fun uh in ghost of tsushima which i think you should go back and play ghost as well

yes I think on my short list is obviously GTA 6 is coming out.

So Star Wars is coming out this week.

Galactic Racer.

I have some great Star Wars video game moments.

I'm actually sad there aren't more consistent Star Wars video games.

I'm definitely in the pocket for that.

I'm like one of those people who I'm addicted to the mobile game Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes.