[Star Wars Outlaws] You can actually fly to the planets!
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So I've been keeping an eye on this game for a while and despite my usual reservations about Ubisoft, they are saying a lot of things that I want to hear about this game. Star Wars Outlaws is a game where you play as loveable scoundrel Kay Vess, who has more than a few similarities to Han Solo, plus her delightful pet gecko alien thing Nix. It's an open world action adventure game in the style Ubisoft like to make, created by Massive Entertainment who were behind the Division games. Before we go any further, yes it's got some really dumb and overpriced special editions that gate random content behind paying more for the base game. If that's something that really bothers you, it might be worth waiting for a sale or something else. Here is a really good gameplay trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_O1eqWWbe4
I think this has lots of potential.
Edit: Game is coming out on mostly everything except Switch. Xbox Series X|S, PS5 and PC on 30th August.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_O1eqWWbe4I think this has lots of potential.
Edit: Game is coming out on mostly everything except Switch. Xbox Series X|S, PS5 and PC on 30th August.
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I still am not going to preorder this. I do not want to encourage Ubisoft's FOMO head start access nonsense that they're pushing. So I will do my part to not give that my support, while still supporting the game in the long run. I'll probably wait for an early sale and grab it for like 10% off or something.
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The lady in the "Criminal organizations" part is indeed the same character from Solo.
1. Graphics looks great, don't know what they were running it on but I'd be happy with it looking like that.
2. I am getting good open world vibes from the voice narrating the gameplay trailer saying "traveling to your destination can be an adventure itself". There better be 10,000 things to distract me from what I am supposed to be doing, a la Far Cry 5's fishing.
3. Is that some form of Deadeye at 10:01? Star Wars RDR2 would make my day.
Anyway, makes me semi excited and cautiously optimistic.
Oh and driving the speeder bike looks fun, I want to "Dukes of Hazard" across some canyons...
Love the main character design and the little alien axolotl. Between this, Lego Horizon, and Astro Bot...my PS5 will be getting a lot of use this year from me for new games.
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That said deciding whether to play this or Visions of Mana first is gonna be really hard.
Really wish there was a little more time between them... but hopefully there's enough time to play both before Metaphor because there's no way I'm delaying that one!
I like the shooting. There is a red-dead like, slow time mark your enemies and shoot them dead power which is nice. The speeder-bike looks sick if they utilize it well. (jumps, fights a la Interstate 76). I will likely get this but wait a couple months for it to drop a couple bucks and read some reviews. My only disappointment is the lack of traditional skill trees. As long as they don't make her a long lost Jedi or something stupid I'm in.
Personally, given Ubisoft's track record of discounting games soon after release, I am definitely going to wait. I definitely intend to buy and play this game. But not for full price. I'll wait 3-6 months and get it for 40% off.
Personally I haven't played a Ubisoft open world game since Assassins Creed Black Flag, so it's actually not going to be too familiar for me. I do fully understand, having had similar issues myself, if people just look at that description and go "Nope" immediately. The fact that the developers have been saying it's around 60ish hours to do everything is very encouraging to me though, because it indicates it isn't going to have a solid thick layer of pointless open world cruft.
As a fan of all the Far Cry games "a solid thick layer of pointless open world cruft" gives me goosebumps. :-)
I hope there is fishing. SPACE FISHING
It's like the Avatar game. Most mechanics are kinda simple and not too deep.
But it absolutely nails the vibe and setting. So if you are into the vibe and setting it's a really cool experience.
If you are just looking at the gameplay alone it will feel a little lacking.
So I'm definitely grabbing it.
I know some people don't like it but for me combining "scoundrel" and "jedi" would be the absolute best case scenario.
Seems very strictly no Jedi stuff.
I think it was AC Odyssey that was probably the most egregiously tuned in favor of pushing cash shop sales. We'll have to see how this game is.
I'm definitely not okay with companies selling game editions for $130 dollars and then asking for even more money in the cash shop for cosmetics that should be earnable in the game by playing.
Alternate take... I think Star Wars is super boring without space wizards. The Jedi/Sith are the most vital component of the entire setting. (To me.)
Firstly, any any speed of XP someone will find it "just slow enough" because some people don't like any XP. I would very much disagree that any of thpse games had XP slowed down for that purpose and I'm not even a huge fan of them.
I have never felt like any of that stuff in those stores would be even remotely useful. The comesmetics can be a bit much sure, but then I just say plenty of games don't have cosmetics at all so not having whatever is in the shop and just not looking at it has no real bearing on the game that is there.
Secondly, this isn't an XP game so that is all moot. You just learn skills from characters around the world.
yes but you have lucas literally in your name you're not doing a good job of going undercover... george
But variety is good.
And it's nice to have a game going all in on scoundrel aesthetic.
I'm super excited for this game. I'm working to get a couple games I'm currently playing done before this comes out. It looks really fun!
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Glad they are making a game where you do not play one though, and also a game that isn't completely tied up in the jedi lore, sith, etc.
The universe ends up feeling very small when everything boils down to jedi and trips to the same desert planet.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Like if some says the word Jedi I don't think anyone is counting that haha.
Even if there's no Jedi, Outlaws doesn't exactly get full marks here since you will be running around Tatooine again.
im counting it
every mention of the j word is -1 i have standards
I want a scoundrel/shady thief at the beginning and end.
PC sysreqs are about where I'd expect. But not where I'd like.
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Wasn't this one of the plot points of the last Star Wars movies, that Rey was some regular person and wasn't actually important or divine? Then they ignored it and pivoted hard the other way because people complained, but still.
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Yes and no.
In Movie 1, it was very strongly hinted that her lineage did matter, and that she was a very important person. Also, she was extremely strong in the force regardless of who her lineage was.
In Movie 2, regardless of whether people agree with it or not, Rian Johnson decided to subvert expectations by saying she was a nobody. HOwever... it was the badguy who said it, so there's also room for interpretation that the badguy was lying or twisting the truth for his own ends.
In Movie 3, it was revealed that yes, she does have important lineage.
Her force capabilities were never in question. She was mega strong in the force. She was never a "regular person" because regular people aren't hugely strong in the force.
If anything, the fact that she naturally and instinctively knew how to do everything is a bigger plot hole than whether or not she had important lineage. She was able to do things like Force Push, Force Pull, Jedi Mind Trick, and fight with a lightsaber without dismembering herself, all of which are techniques and disciplines that took a literal lifetime of study in the Jedi Temple to learn and master, and hands-on instruction from Jedi instructors to teach those techniques. And she was able to do all of them without issue the very first time she tried, just by doing it, without practice and instruction. That was the bigger problem with Rey. The identity of her parents was a big point of speculation and contention, but it really never mattered to the story.
Might not matter! The Ahsoka show seemed to establish that with enough training anyone really can use the Force, even without a notable midichlorian count.
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Pretty sure that was to underscore the implication that literally anybody could be born with Force affinity, which was the point the movie was trying to make with Rey.
Though it was pretty dumb that an untrained kid can use telekinesis when, again, everything shown and said about the Jedi clearly demonstrated that Force affinity and Force skills are absolutely two different things. Anakin was a prophesied Force child and the most ability he had was an unconscious level of premonition that let him race. He couldn't do anything else remotely Force-related until he trained, though.
Funny because Luke certainly is able to deflect blaster bolts while blind, make impossible torpedo shots, and lift rocks and x-wings the very first time someone merely tells him to try do it.
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You mean like a blank from 40K?
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