Lucasfilm Originally Wasn T Super Comfortable With Fallen Order Being A Star Wars Game About Jedi
Lucasfilm was initially resistant to the idea of a melee-focused action-adventure game “about Jedi and Force powers,” Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order game director Stig Asmussen recalled during the latest Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Game Maker’s podcast. Instead, Lucasfilm wanted Respawn Entertainment to work on something involving “blasters and bounty hunters,” more in the vein of Disney+’s The Mandalorian. “That’s not the background of the team we’ve built; you might as well ask me and us to start building a racing game at this point,” Asmussen said....