I'm getting so many conflicted replies about this. It's driving me insane.
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Star Wars |OT2| This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them! [OPEN TROS SPOILERS | TAG MANDO SPOILERS]
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I'm getting so many conflicted replies about this. It's driving me insane.
There is a seedy back alley just round the corner for the more mature SW fan : )
Hey. I just gotta say, in my roughly three decades of fandom I have never been more happy with the state of the franchise and the quality of current Star Wars media than I am right now. That is all.
Yeah, these days its more interesting to me to see how deep the rabbit hole goes instead of having a discussion with those people.
I'm with you here. As a "generic white dude" myself, I can confirm that we have in fact become boring as hell.
This! I can sort of understand why alien leads would be a difficult thing for a live action film/series (although there are plenty of near-human species they should use), but why does the lead for SWJ:FO have to be a dull, generic white male human? Take the opportunity and make the lead one of the more... alien looking aliens, like a Dug, or an Aleena?
That was just super basic, like super mediocre. I'll be there Day 1, but only because I'm a SW whore.
I can't get excited for this after Sekiro just came out and showed everyone how to do proper sword combat.
I can't get excited for this after Sekiro just came out and showed everyone how to do proper sword combat.
It looks solid, nothing mindblowing (except seeing my favorite droid at the end lol), but solid. Some more polish and it should be fine.
Not sure if I will get it day 1 through, since Pokemon is coming out on the same day.
Not sure if I will get it day 1 through, since Pokemon is coming out on the same day.
I liked what I saw, but so far it's a murder simulator. I would have liked to see him calm the spiders with the Force like Kanan did.
God of War spoiled me.
It looks good but not great. If it wasn't Star Wars I probably wouldn't have any interest going forward.
It looks good but not great. If it wasn't Star Wars I probably wouldn't have any interest going forward.
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I was hoping for Umbara so pretty excited about that. Thought it was a good demonstration overall.
On one hand, it's basically Jedi Outcast/Academy saber gameplay updated to current-gen standards.
On the other, why the hell do we still not have dismemberment in TYOOL 2019
On the other, why the hell do we still not have dismemberment in TYOOL 2019
How in the world is it like Dark Souls?
Why? The levels seemed incredibly linear, how could you possibly get lost? Now, maybe other levels are larger (I doubt it). But, UC never had a waypoint system because it was always incredibly obvious where to go. The only time you got confused is because you didn't know what you could or could not climb on.
It should be noted that the game is nowhere near as linear as some people are complaining about on gaming side. There's at least one or two extra paths leading off from the spider nest where the player character uses the force to read the "echo" of the stormtrooper's corpse.
Personally I think it looks absolutely amazing. Like, what I've always wanted from a Star Wars character action game levels of amazing. The combat is weighty and OT like in its heft, and I'm excited to see more.
I think the only reason people are complaining about how boring it looks is because they didn't use the opportunity to show off a major set piece moment, which is probably what they're saving for the Microsoft conference tomorrow.
Slower, more deliberate gameplay with lock ons and health bars.
Personally I think it looks absolutely amazing. Like, what I've always wanted from a Star Wars character action game levels of amazing. The combat is weighty and OT like in its heft, and I'm excited to see more.
I think the only reason people are complaining about how boring it looks is because they didn't use the opportunity to show off a major set piece moment, which is probably what they're saving for the Microsoft conference tomorrow.
Slower, more deliberate gameplay with lock ons and health bars.
Hm, would be interesting if the levels are more non linear than what was shown today (which was just a demo course).
We must have watched a different game. I swear people see lock on and blocks and immediately think it's Dark Souls.
Which is what they chose to show. How can I take their word that exploration is a big feature when they showed the most linear, straight line level ever?
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Part of the gameplay has the player character start going down a secondary path though, in the nest of the larger spider.
It's not easy to show off a honeycombing, metroid/dark souls-like level structure within a short span of time, especially if the alternate paths are expansive.
To the left of the Stormtrooper's body, you can see a platform to an alternate path.
True, you don't have to, and I don't either. I just like what I'm hearing. We'll see.
Just caught it. I thought it looked aight. Combat looks decent and the graphics look great. Just not feeling the protagonist. Like, at all.
Not the best demo but the Game Informer article made it sound pretty impressive.
Everyone who's played it says it feels great so maybe something is lost in the translation when streaming a demo?
Everyone who's played it says it feels great so maybe something is lost in the translation when streaming a demo?
Definitely liking what I am reading in that gameinformer article about the "metroid-style" level design. Hopefully that will turn out well and make the trip to the objective interesting.
To be fair, it is a E3 demo, which is probably in easy mode, or the person playing is pretty good (or both).
To be fair, it is a E3 demo, which is probably in easy mode, or the person playing is pretty good (or both).
Watching the Fallen Order trailer has got me thinking back on the old Jedi Knight games. Mostly because they occupy the part of my mind that equates Jedi and video games. The Jedi Knight games had a real freewheeling style to them, allowing you to switch between blasters and lightsaber on the fly, liberal use of force powers to run and super jump everywhere. But it also had some serious jank to it as well. Particularly the saber-on-saber combat which was mostly just shuffling back and forth, swinging wildly and hoping to get lucky. I loved dueling online, but really most of it felt like a coin-flip, and I think I cheesed most of the dark jedi in the campaign by just kicking them off cliffs.
Fallen Order definitely looks more purposeful in its saber combat. You can see parries and counter-strikes. Reflecting blaster bolts seems like the result of good timing, rather than luck as was the case in JK. The saber combat looks better playing in most regards. But for how unwieldy Jedi Knight could be, there was an expressiveness there that I think was core to making it fun to play as a jedi. We see a bit of that expressiveness in Fallen Order when the demo pulls a stormtrooper in front of his own blaster bolt. I hope we see more of that and it isn't all just canned finishers.
It's definitely more on-target than Force Unleashed ever was, at least!
Fallen Order definitely looks more purposeful in its saber combat. You can see parries and counter-strikes. Reflecting blaster bolts seems like the result of good timing, rather than luck as was the case in JK. The saber combat looks better playing in most regards. But for how unwieldy Jedi Knight could be, there was an expressiveness there that I think was core to making it fun to play as a jedi. We see a bit of that expressiveness in Fallen Order when the demo pulls a stormtrooper in front of his own blaster bolt. I hope we see more of that and it isn't all just canned finishers.
It's definitely more on-target than Force Unleashed ever was, at least!
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