As was announced earlier this year, LucasArts is following up its two years of absolute stasis with - I can't believe they're taking this gamble - a new Star Wars game, one that impressed so much at E3 that a number of people, including this guy, are completely sold on LucasArts as a developer. Jesus is a grudge-bearing asshole compared to the attitude of forgiveness fans of ubiquitous franchises catch when you open the spigot back up.
The full article on Digital Trends features many quotes from Star Wars 1313's creative director Dominic Robilliard, who discusses the ninety-seventh internal reorganization that led to the fructifying environment the development team enjoys today, until oppportunistic hindsight decides ten years from now that this was actually another big mess that we've now totally fixed for real this time.
Much is implied by the author about how the new guard has ostensibly turned the studio around and put it back on track or something, but I couldn't help but focus on this part:
Robilliard joined LucasArts a little more than four years ago, coming from Sony where he worked on the Getaway franchise and the “on hold” action game, Eight Days. Since he came on board, he’s worked on the Special Edition re-release of The Secret of Monkey Island and the puzzle-platformer Lucidity. He originally signed up with LucasArts to work on a game that was apparently canceled after the studio’s administration changed in 2010, so 1313 marks his first crack at Star Wars that we know of.
It's certainly a relief to know that LEC is taking developers who were originally being put on smaller, interesting projects before getting their heads on straight and just assigning them to additional Star Wars. It is sensible to be delighted by this because this is after all going to be Competent Additional Star Wars instead of Mediocre Additional Star Wars, and why would you possibly want something other than Competent Additional Star Wars from the company that once did this?
Source: Digital Trends
"Hey, here's a game that looks like they're actually sorta TRYING to make good... it's like 1992 all over again! Gabbo! Gabbo! GABBO!"
These days I'm only hoping for a "competent" new Indy game from them, nothing more. The Staff of Kings made The Emperor's Tomb look Fate of Atlantis. I'd really like a new Indy with this 1313 production budget.