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In the best traditions of TEST! You're in good company my friends, if we can't be fools and see ourselves of what we are then surely what is the point of it all, for it is said:

"True wisdom is in knowing that we know nothing"
 
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I don’t understand the nature of these complaints. Granted, I’m watching this on my phone, so I can’t see much detail. I suppose the complaints have value since 5/6 people are downvoting it. Can someone who plays more video games than me explain exactly what is wrong with this? He keeps saying the “gameplay” is bad but I think he’s complaining about the graphics? Anyone know what to make of this?

View: https://youtu.be/FVHlt2GCZC8?si=YdPWfqxKplzkshL3
 
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"PFF Figures Disney would force another female protagonist down our collective throats. I bet shes a lesbo for robots who levels up by using social justice points gained by converting school children to team LGBTQIA. Worse yet, it has to be one of them BROWN ones, too. Everyone knows that there are no races in space but 1970's white men and slutty slug-head lady creatures. They are really dinging the cannon, too, by giving her speaking lines. Totally a woke failure. 0/10"

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That's a condensation of most of the bellyaching about the game. As for actual gameplay looking sucky: It's just a StarWars skinned FarCry game. Been done.
 

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I don’t understand the nature of these complaints. Granted, I’m watching this on my phone, so I can’t see much detail. I suppose the complaints have value since 5/6 people are downvoting it. Can someone who plays more video games than me explain exactly what is wrong with this? He keeps saying the “gameplay” is bad but I think he’s complaining about the graphics? Anyone know what to make of this?

View: https://youtu.be/FVHlt2GCZC8?si=YdPWfqxKplzkshL3
Ok, so my 2 cents on this video are a bit on the negative side. My issue isn't with what he's saying, but that when he's showing examples of what he's expressing as problematic, he's showing like snippets that are only a few sec long instead of something a hair longer to provide a better perspective of the scenes that he feels prove his point. I believe this is fair.

As for the game itself, I honestly don't care about the protagonist. I find that it's an interesting choice to use an unknown character that's clearly not a user of the Force running around & scraping by. Though I believe that they could've done a similar job if they'd replaced her char with Han Solo from periods of time before he ever met Luke in the bar. Which would've had a much more powerful fan draw towards being interested in the project.

Truthfully, the 1 thing about this game that I've seen from other videos that interests me is how the main character interacts with her companion to get past difficult obstacles & situations.
 
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"PFF Figures Disney would force another female protagonist down our collective throats. I bet shes a lesbo for robots who levels up by using social justice points gained by converting school children to team LGBTQIA. Worse yet, it has to be one of them BROWN ones, too. Everyone knows that there are no races in space but 1970's white men and slutty slug-head lady creatures. They are really dinging the cannon, too, by giving her speaking lines. Totally a woke failure. 0/10"

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That's a condensation of most of the bellyaching about the game.
Either you're replying to a comment I can't see or that's the most out-of-nowhere post I've ever seen in my life! 😆:drunk:

As for actual gameplay looking sucky: It's just a StarWars skinned FarCry game. Been done.
I've been watching the details drip out about this game and that is probably the best synopsis I've seen anywhere from anyone. I didn't play the Farcry franchise so might end up giving this one a spin.
 

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I watched gameplay footage from people who seemed to be less biased then the MSM or the haters. They had either not given a rating or were mostly okay with the game being as mediocre as these games can get.
Some of the things I noticed were:
- the hate on the graphics looks unwarranted. It looks perfectly fine and even stunning on some rare occasions
- was the main character uglified for the modern day audience? sure, she was. It's bad. Do I care? Nope. You'll be looking at her back 98% of the time, when it comes to the gameplay it doesn't really matter.
- the merchandizing insert, aka your companion plushie, is cute and a fun touch
- you get to ride on the endor style bikes, and crash. A LOT! The pre-animd crash looks worse then ewhat GTA4 had though, so not really a positive there...

and that's about all the slightly good things I can say. Now for the not that great:

- looking at the gameplay, the world, the thing as a whole, it teeters on the edge of feeling like a Star Wars world but I couldn't shake the feeling that it's sci-fi themed modded Assassins Creed. Slapping a couple of stormtroopers into the middle of a generic sci-fi spaceport doesn't turn it into SW. The SW elements felt out of place just enough to not click for me.

- the AI is as dumb as it looks in the viral hate clips. This game is probably meant to be played slowly, acting like we're playing an old AssCreed game where you couldn't just run around and GTA the whole town. It doesn't work in this setting since you have an infinite ammo blaster on you at all times that can seemingly kill every single thing in the game, and if someone gets too close you can one-button kill them with zero effort, or sick your pet on them and then kill them with a press.

- because of the above, there is zero reason to play this game as it was "meant" to played, slow and methodically. The AI doesn't really support it, it's as dumb as they come. Shooting one from a pair of guards facing the same direction won't alert the second one standing next to his friend that just dropped dead. Other times they raise the alarm and spot you through concrete walls for no reason. Just like they did in the last asscreeds. Again, a reskin.

- haven't seen much of the story playing out but the little I saw was generic fetch quests that you were supposed to complete silently. One of the players decided to go the TEST kind of silent, murdering every single non-civilian until they stopped coming. This included about 3 settlements/bases, and an imperial starbase. Literally hundreds of kills, on the hardest difficulty. He did die a couple times but only lost so little progress it didn't matter. There were no consequences to this. Zero.

- the "full of activities" you can do on planets is the usual ubi grindfest. Capture outpost, free setllemnts, climb towers, find 255 thingamajigs to get a hat... literally the same inconsequential as in every other ubi open world.

- ship flight is the same as in Starfailed, you launch into space and pass through a thick layer of clouds as the loading screen, then point and click your way to victory. It's there, but it's no Black Flag ship combat.

- I'm guessing there is crafting and upgrades, I haven't seen any, at least nothing that caught my eye enough for me to remember.

All in all, this looks and feels like a reskinned version of any recent asscreed game, without tha charm of an exotic locale or the mystery of history. The reason I'm not comparing it to Far Cry is because those had compelling villains at least, and decent gunplay, both of which this game seemingly lacks, but I could be way off on the villain thing as I haven't even seen a proper villain yet. Every NPC I've seen is just either a quest giver or there to kill you, or generic background clutter.

It's a solid 5/10 reskinned Ubislop game. If you like the gameplay in those, I think you will like this as well. If you are just here for the Warring of the Stars, I'd give it a skip until it's on a steep sale around Christmas time. I know I will, unless it's out on the xbox pc pass. Not sure I can be bothered to waste the 100gig or so space on this, but I might.
 

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There we go that's 70 dollars saved. Cheers Lorddarthvik
 

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There we go that's 70 dollars saved. Cheers Lorddarthvik
Haha, just don't blame me if it turned out it's a super duper great game in the end!
It's just my opinion based on what I've seen from non-gamurinalists on youtube.

TBH I sometimes enjoy a good solid timewaster that has a nice looking world and a comfortable easy game loop, so I can fully see why this will be a well received title in the end. It's just not the next best thing since sliced bread, but not every game needs to be.
 

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There we go that's 70 dollars saved. Cheers Lorddarthvik
Holy shit (or should I say 'wholey shit') I've just seen the minimum system requirements to play Outlaws, I'm out by default.
 

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For those still interested in this title, here's a review I found mostly unbiased by the usual pro/against crowds and might give you a more honest look at the actual game instead of the youtuber ragebait.
(first minute is a short take, rest is gameplay with dumb commentary that I found fun to watch but probably won't play it).
Do with this info what you will.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QGOi8LEH6o
 

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For those still interested in this title, here's a review I found mostly unbiased by the usual pro/against crowds and might give you a more honest look at the actual game instead of the youtuber ragebait.
(first minute is a short take, rest is gameplay with dumb commentary that I found fun to watch but probably won't play it).
Do with this info what you will.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QGOi8LEH6o
I'm still intrigued by the pet concept to work on things without using jedi abilities, but I'll probably wait until it's been released, the bugs have been patched & somebody releases a mod swapping the main char's face & body with that of her RL actress, because the RL actress is incredibly gorgeous. I have no idea why they chose to wreck her in game beauty that much.
 
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