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From: Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: They're Making A New Star Wars Game
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 08:21:44 -0700
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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.

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-Justisaur

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