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Why Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Won't Allow Human Dismemberment (Disney/LucasArts guidelines on the star wars franchise)
- Thread starter Rodjer
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this was a thing in the old Jedi Knight games right? I think it really helped to sell lightsabers as being an intimidating weapon
It was inevitable really, the films also shy away from showing it. Just look at the way Kylo slashes Finn at the end of TFA, that should have cut him in half but somehow it didn't. That's probably also why the prequels has Jedi fighting generic robots or insects where they could freely slash away without scaring kids. This is a game for kids after all.
Even in Jedi Knight 2 the dismemberment was fairly rare unless you fiddled with the command console.
Even in Jedi Knight 2 the dismemberment was fairly rare unless you fiddled with the command console.
Yeah, this is obvious. Star Wars games are gonna shoot for the T Rating. Lopping off stormtrooper heads was never going to happen in this game.
I mean, nowadays I guess they might do. Luke's hand and the bottom half of Darth maul might not agree that they always have though.
Edit:Snoke as mentioned above too. I guess videogame Devs have a tendency to make things like that more visceral though.
LucasArts? In a new sense? Because Kotor had it, Jedi knight, and Force Unleashed 2 all had it. Which were all LucasArts.
Edit: Kotor may not have had it. I can't remember exactly.
Edit: Kotor may not have had it. I can't remember exactly.
Yep, even the movies have very much shyed away from showing a bunch of gruesome dismemberments. It's meant to be a huge dramatic moment when it happens.......so to have Jedi running around and slashing every human into two pieces means you would kinda lose that effect.
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The new LucasArts is under Disney so yes, it's more on Disney than LucasArts.
No I get that, I didn't realize that Disney resurrected LucasArts. I thought it died with the actual LucasArts
I think seeing it on screen in big cinematic moments is one thing, but applying full dismemberment to a hack and slash Star Wars game is probably a bit much. You will be slashing thousands of humans in this game, it would look a bit silly if you saw arms flying off every two seconds. In ROTJ when Luke is hacking away at Jabba's goons there is no dismemberment either, there's a limit to how much you can show that before it gets dumb.
It's certainly unfortunate. Dismemberment could be used as a point of morality, where the more you engage in brutal execution, the closer you move to the dark side.
Disney shying away from the gore in general kinda removes the sense of lethal in combat. The scene where Anakin slices off Dooku's hands still makes me wince. Lightsaber duals should feel dangerous.
Disney shying away from the gore in general kinda removes the sense of lethal in combat. The scene where Anakin slices off Dooku's hands still makes me wince. Lightsaber duals should feel dangerous.
I don't think it was in the early games.
There was a cheat you could use in Outcast & Academy.
I imagine someone will make a mod for the pc version, but those of us on consoles will be shit outta luck.
I mean presumably humans who asked the question cared and that's why they asked the question?
It was a cheat. It's pretty funny how people are misremembering this, in lots of places the narrative is forming around how things were different in the good ol' days and how Star Wars are draconian now. Uhh... nothing changed folks.
And the reason JO and JA had the dismemberment cheat was because at that time, Raven had done a gore system for SoF2.
Its something that was always part of Star Wars, so I guess people care because it feels authentic to that.
"I don't care so nobody else should and its stupid" doesn't really add anything.
It was on by default but it only happened rarely, sometimes when duelling you would cut off the opponents hand during the killing blow, for example. Using the console you could turn it up to a cartoonish level.
Sure, we all live in a unimaginably large universe so we are aliens to some distant civilization out there
Technically speaking there are humans. They're referred to as such in-universe as far as I know and are supposedly native to Coruscant.
Nothing to see here folks. It's basically always been this way. The franchise was always marketed as a family friendly affair(in the games and movies)
A lot of people care, clearly. And that's because it matters. The detail and richness of the Star Wars universe is what the entire franchise has been built upon. Turning around at this point and saying "the details don't matter" is understandably disappointing to a lot of fans who fell in love with that detail.
Haven't there only been like three dismemberments in all of the SW movies? Also remember that scene with Luke fighting Jabba's goons and like no one got cut in half?
That was only shown in shadow though it's not like we got a full display.
you mean only humans? not including aliens, the wompa or darth maul I can think of from the first 6 movies:
-Vader cuts Lukes hand off
-Luke cuts Vaders hand off
-Dooku cuts off Anakins arm
-Samuel L Jackson decapitates someone
-Anakin cuts off hands and then decapitates Dooku
-Mace Windu loses a hand
-Obi wan cuts Anakin into pieces
Gotcha so really only 6 that happened during specific story beats, so I don't really see an issue with this game not having people getting cut into pieces every time you fight an NPC.
Like do people not realize that would make the game a hard-M rating which would be kind ridiculous for a kids property like Star Wars?