Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Justisaur Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: They're Making A New Star Wars Game Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 08:21:44 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 66 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 17:21:45 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5151bba50c842ddbe3cc30117eb9cb3f"; logging-data="770652"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+3/u3y/19yaqbkdrNbAL+EozKQLpzijnw=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:Fnpf5n7+r3cvReIcSa2Pi14fdAU= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 4093 On 6/15/2024 10:16 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote: > > It's called "Star Wars:Outcast". Here's a trailer if you missed the > announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP_wXv2ErgI > > Okay, so this bit isn't as newsworthy as the new Doom game. New Star > Wars games are a dime a dozen. I've over thirty of them on PC alone > (and that's not including duplicates). So announcing a new Star Wars > game is sort of like telling people that the sun is rising in the > morning. It's more unusual when there's NOT one being developed. > > Still, I've got to show interest. I'm a Star Wars fan and we must > blindly consume Star Wars media of any and all sorts. A new Star Wars > video game? Sure, I'll show interest. > > Except... it's /really/ hard this time. Because it's not just a game > being developed by Ubisoft, it's a Ubisoft Game. You know the sort of > thing I mean; big open world, hollow storytelling, adequate gameplay, > and lots of grind. Even in the trailer, where they've gussied it up as > much as they can, you can FEEL the Ubi-stench on the game. That utter > lack of originality and vive. The refusal to take risks. For fuck > sakes, they're even going back to Tatooine, the ass-end of the Star > Wars universe where every hack writer sends their heroes. > > Sure, it's got the LOOK of the movies. You can never say that a > Ubisoft game lacks in the visuals. The robots look like robots from > Star Wars. The space ships look like space ships from Star Wars. The > vest-wearing space-pirates look vest-wearing space-pirates from Star > Wars. Ubisoft is great at emulating a look. > > And -while the trailer is pretty light in showing off that department- > I'm sure the minute-to-minute gameplay will be fine too. Not great. > But fine. It'll be enough to keep you playing for hours, because > Ubisoft has perfectly captured the formula of making you think that > /if you only play *just* a little bit longer/ you'll finally come to > the really awesome part of the game. They'll drip feed you /just > enough/ dopamine to make you not realize the tediousness of the > experience. It's only when you finally get to the end of the game that > you wonder why you played so long. > > So I watch that trailer and there's part of my brain that goes, "Oooh, > Star Wars" and "Yeah, let me be a scoundrel rogue "Starfield"-ing my > way through a galaxy far-far-away!" It's a dream come true for anyone > who ever wished they could be like Han Solo! But even with all that, I > still see everything I hate about Ubisoft games leaking out of the > video, and my brain revolts at the idea of having to play another one > of their titles. > > Why did it have to be Ubisoft? Did they run out of historical times to pillage? Off to pillage sci-fi now (yes I know it's a long time ago, but space-fantasy.) I think I'd rather go back to playing SW Galaxies. I hear it's less grindy/paywalled now. -- -Justisaur ø-ø (\_/)\ `-'\ `--.___, ¶¬'\( ,_.-' \\ ^'