Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order - Official Gameplay Demo
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seems like they wanted to focus on combat with this demo.
Print journalists have been lied to before and fed us what they were only told to feed us. Game previews are notoriously upbeat and uncritical. That's even ignoring the fact that Game Informer is owned by Gamestop and has an interest in promoting games they will be selling. At least in video form, shown to the public, there is the slightly higher possibility that game assets and mechanics were actually developed for the game they claim to have made. Show isnt perfect but its better than tell imo.
A third person action game is right up my alley, my favorite genre if I'm being honest, so I'm interested. But this didn't look amazing or anything, just average at best. I'll still give it a try, I love GOW3 and what Stig did with that game so I have hope.
That "shiny" gameplay wasnt so shiny... it actually looked very boring and the main character is just so bland and looks funny.
I was really hyped for this but after what I saw it quickly turned into something else.. I really hope it turns out good, I need a deep dark Star Wars game that ain't like all other crappy Star Wars games. Take a chance and do something new damnit!
That being said, the article does have good info and the game sounds better there than what was shown off.
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Makes complete sense if Gameinformer didn't have actual hands on time with the game. Unless, you are going to say that Reiner has been lying about all of the games he has had hands on time with.
Oh, it's really really great actually. Fun combat, one of the best soundtracks of the last generation, and loads of personality and MGS-esque touches. Platinum really nailed it. I'd say it's one of the rare unmissable action games for any fan of the genre. It really is something special.
The limited budget shows in the environments, but the star attraction is the gameplay.
Also you can slice any destructible object into many dozens of pieces with crazy precision. Watermelons, phone booths, whatever. It's great.
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Yeah I agree the look and feel of the game definitely doesn't appear to be there. But in terms of content and design... It sounds fantastic from the article
I'm pretty certain the game was in their hands. Need to go back to it to check though.
I can't really think of many times when interviewers have been "lied to". A far bigger risk with an article like this is that they are being way more positive than is natural because they want readers to keep buying. Which is all part of the cycle.
Dafuq are you talking about?
You're saying the article is irrelevant.
You're saying over 30 minutes of described gameplay and interview questions in an article is less relevant than 13 minutes of a short, linear slice of gameplay in a video
Just watched this, I think it looks fine. It's nothing earth-shattering, but it's pretty much what I want from EA at this point. Just a solid, fun single-player experience set in the universe will feel novel since it's been so fucking long since we've had one.
After reading the Game Informer info, it looks like this is definitely a case of don't judge a book by it's cover, or in this case, a game by a vertical slice demo.
I was talking about Anthem level of "gameplay". What was so scripted here that wouldn't exist in the final game?
No one's "judging" it though. If you want people to be interested and excited for your game, maybe your "cover" vertical slice demo shouldn't look lame.
This looks incredibly generic.
Also the grappling hook animations at the beginning, lol. I don't think that's how physics work, not even in Star Wars.
Also the grappling hook animations at the beginning, lol. I don't think that's how physics work, not even in Star Wars.
What is this silly false dichotomy? Do you sincerely think it's impossible for the final game to have the things described in the Game Informer article because the 15 minutes showed didn't highlight all of those things?
If I show 15 minutes of a girl slaying hollows in the grey walls of the Undead Burg in Dark Souls with ease with a longsword and shield, and then I say that the game will feature a large interconnected world, great weapon variety and magic abilities, majestically monstrous bosses, epic locales, creepy mazes you'll get lost in full of tough as nails enemies... am I lying? No, I just showed a small sample of the game to demo some basic aspects of the combat and traversal abilities.
I mean perhaps the article is lying and the entire game will nothing but small corridors, and then we can be outraged at the obvious lies peddled by the devs and Game Informer... but come on.
One I can see for myself, the other I can't. I'm not sorry for not believing gaming journalists (and it is not like the gaming industry is any better).
I'm going to be that guy: am I the only one who's still bothered by the Uncharted-esque problem of an ostensible light-side "good guy" just brutally mowing down grunts? At least with Force Unleashed you knew you were playing a bad dude who could massacre without conscience. The cognitive dissonance is going to be a big barrier to me getting immersed.
The gameplay looks fine, visually it looks fine. For me this game will be a success or failure based on the story. We shall see. I'm still day one.
Why would they script unfinished features for a demo?
Has your fanboyism literally stooped to the point where you're asking if I own a PS4 when i've literally posted videos of myself playing UC4. That's quite frankly very embarrassing and cringeworthy. People can own more than one platform. CRAZY I KNOW.
Btw, i've literally pointed out segments in Ubi's demos that were scripted. Including posting gifs. Calm the hell down and kindly never accuse me of not owning a platform ever again. 👏
How were they lied to when they saw a longer video than the public like always?
No one's judging it ???
Seems like a lot of people have already decided to dislike it, without knowing all the info going on a lot of comments.
The gameplay demo looked fine, even if it wasn't the best demo ever but the info in the article makes it sound fantastic. Metroidvania gameplay, with freedom to explore each world and travel between them at any time and access new areas as you gain more powers.
This isn't just a standard linear action game, like some people have been saying / thinking. There's a lot more to it than this one demo.
Wow the level of generic has escalated a lot over this thread. It was generic, then very generic, then really generic and now your coming along with incredibly generic. You've barely left any room for anyone to out generic you with that.
Maybe you should take it all in context of the overall bigger picture instead of dismissing it wholesale?
Why pick on Star Wars of all things? Call of Duty and Battlefield have you realistically killing realistic enemies from real countries with real politics involved, comparing that to over the top evil space nazi's really makes the violence and ethics in Star Wars seem trivial and almost cartoonish in comparison.
Besides, we clearly jumped into a story mission here, there's going to be context behind what you're doing and why, i'm sure the empire didn't politely negotiate their positioning in this area we're in.
I can't quite figure out what but something about this looks really off. Like the characters look weird, the animations like the grappling at the start where Chewie and the others just fly off are super weird, the main character looks like he belongs in some teen drama or something, the gameplay looks too smooth to be real, but kind of bad at the same time..
Not impossible, just that I'd rather see it than hear from it / about it.
Take Cyberpunk for an example, for all the "day one", "in CDPR we trust" jokes that I made, I still don't believe deep down that the game will be as ambitious as they've said. And that goes for any company / creator / developer (Kojima, ND, SSM, Nintendo, etc)