There was almost another great lost Star Wars game. Not a rumor. Not fan fiction. Not one of those “what if” forum ghosts that refuse to die. Former Knights of the Old Republic lead designer and Star Wars: The Old Republic director James Ohlen has revealed that he once pitched a full SWTOR reboot called Star Wars: The New Republic — and it had serious support before EA’s board killed it. That is the kind of sentence that lands like a thermal detonator if you care about BioWare-era Star Wars. The SWTOR Reset That Almost Happened In a recent interview with PC Gamer, Ohlen said that around 2015 he spent roughly six months building a pitch for a total relaunch of The Old Republic. The project was called Star Wars: The New Republic. And this was not some half-baked napkin idea. Ohlen said he put together a design document, presentations,…
