Nolan North speaks to Greg Miller on podcast We Have Cool Friends, about the cancelled Star Wars gaming project Ragtag where he was set to play a Bounty Hunter type character similar to a Han Solo type, “but lacking the moral compass.”
This portion of the podcast begins at roughly 1:18:30.
“It was a Bounty Hunter type character, it was kind of… think of a Han Solo type character, yet without the moral compass. So it was interesting. And I wouldn’t even say Han Solo, because there was another character that was like that. He [North’s character] was a bounty hunter, and it was different from Drake, and it was so great.”
Nolan confirmed that his character would have been one of several playable characters. “And there were multiple people that you play as. Think about when you go off in regular Star Wars, you’d go to Dagobah and you’d play as Luke. Then you go to Cloud City you’d play as [someone else].” North did not mean that Luke Skywalker would be playable but rather suggesting that different original characters would be associated with different levels.
North declined to name the cast working with him on the project but spoke in loose details about the characters and shooting the motion capture. North told Miller that the game was at least four months into motion capture when it was cancelled, which he claims is unusual in the games industry. “With Ragtag, [there was] at least 4 to 6 months of shooting? We did a bunch of stuff. It was an ensemble they had done with other characters. But it was visually stunning. It was just really cool.”
It seems more details about this cancelled game keep coming to light, last month we learnt from the game’s producer that they thought this would have been the best Star Wars game ever.
