KOTOR is getting remade in unreal 4 engine by a indie team. fan game dead

SkeeterUK · 17 Feb 2016 at 09:33

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-02-16-kotor-remade-in-unreal-engine-4-looks-like-this

KOTOR: Apeiron is a voluntary community project still very early in development and with no discernible timeline, as is often the case with community projects. And it's wildly ambitious, claiming it will not only remaster the game with new visuals but also remake and expand it.

"Apeiron is a remake and remastering of the original game with added content, new worlds, missions, HUD, inventory, items, and companions," the project's website says.

And Apeiron will be completely free, because it has to be - because as soon as any money changes hands, IP holder Disney, which has apparently given the project the green light, will shut it down

Some pics to show but there on the article so just see em there.

Interesting news for sure but can't see it ever being done tbh as these things never do which is a shame as gfx look nice. If it ever does get finished and plays well in unreal 4 engine I'm sure as hell gonna try it. But I think it will get shut down or take years of small updates on progress then get canned as too large of a project to finish by a tiny team.

SkeeterUK · 17 Feb 2016 at 13:22

mid_gen said:
It's very easy to drop some assets into a level in UE4 and publish a few nice looking screenshots as the default rendering settings have all the shiny turned on....making a complete game is another matter entirely.

I think the devs stream their work on twitch

Http://www.twitch.tv/thedigitalcowboy

SkeeterUK · 17 Feb 2016 at 13:54

I doubt they did as well that's why I emailed Disney myself to see what they said about all this.

SkeeterUK · 8 Mar 2016 at 22:19

Do u think ea/bioware might of considered remastering Kotor games in the future themselves? Maybe after this mass effect there half way through developing? Would have been cool if they did instead of a indie team.

Tho I'm happy they are trying to update it I just feel its too big of a project and they lack the man power to ever finish it as updating a open world game like this with so many levels and events I just dunno how they will do it. Video looked awesome tho.

SkeeterUK · 8 Mar 2016 at 23:26

Yeah it was a shame bioware was bought out by EA. Maybe bioware devs will quit one day and firm a new dev studio and go back to making classics like Kotor again.

SkeeterUK · 9 Sep 2021 at 22:10