Coming 2024.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF0kMT39GNY&t=146s
GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY :Party: :Party:
I'll take "Loins moistened" for $2000, Alex.
Well, that's not coming off my keyboard.......
I try not to get excited about cut scenes and trailers, but... :stardestroyer2: :privatedancer:
so hawt
Ok, I'm holding off for the gameplay trailer.
But...open world Star Wars??? Oh boy.
(https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.1999298899.2802/st,small,507x507-pad,600x600,f8f8f8.jpg)
My kids used to love that show (and so did I LOL)
Anyway this has awesome potential. I'm very interested in this game.
:smitten:
I don't know what to make of this. Star Wars has been so hit and miss lately. The cut scene looks cool. But at the same time something did not connect with me. Perhaps because I am afraid it will be a miss and have now come to expect being let down by star wars. Maybe it's that Han Solo's replacement does not seem as cool a character.
You know who was also a replacement Han Solo once?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4f/Dark_Forces_box_cover.jpg/220px-Dark_Forces_box_cover.jpg)
Kyle Katarn, the fan favorite character from the Dark Forces series which led to a bunch of sequels and spin-off games.
Why, what's this!
https://www.pcgamesn.com/star-wars-dark-forces-remake#:~:text=It%20is%2C%20however%2C%20very%20difficult%20to%20play%20now%2C,being%20lead%20by%20a%20professional%20developer%20at%20Obsidian.
QuoteThe remake is being done in Unreal Engine 4, and it's not just a fan project made by enthusiastic amateurs – it's actually being lead by a professional developer at Obsidian. Jason Lewis is Senior Environment Artist at the studio, and has presumably worked on the developer's most recent games, such as Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire and the upcoming The Outer Worlds.
(Reportedly the Ep1 Racer game is getting a full official remake, too.)
Kyle is even being plotted to show up in the new Filoni/JonFav tv or film works going forward.
So a good Solo-like can happen, but this new 'Kay Vess' will have to compete against Kyle, too. And for that matter against the protagonist (whose name I don't recall) from
The Outer Worlds who seems like a better Solo-like simply because she's older and more experienced than Kay.
I get what you're feeling, though. Y'know who never said "I've been held back my
whole life. But now... I just need a chance... to finally be free"? -- Han Solo. He made his own chances and luck, and got held back by some bad choices and character flaws
of his own. I've got mixed feelings about the Solo prequel movie, but they did manage to get that (if I recall correctly) despite being set at a similar age as Kay.
Still, hey, open world SW! -- depending on the writing it could still work, and even if the character doesn't, the setting's still good (between Empire and Return) and the execution could still be good.
You better be able to customize your character. Otherwise, this is a nonstarter for me. I felt the same way about Jedi Survivor. Lack of character customization was a huge miss.
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on June 12, 2023, 06:49:53 AMYou better be able to customize your character. Otherwise, this is a nonstarter for me. I felt the same way about Jedi Survivor. Lack of character customization was a huge miss.
Absolutely agree....although any game related to Star Wars will always be a day one purchase for me regardless:) Although very interested in this game, so far out there to really get excited right now as it seems the bigger titles always have change in release dates ....
If that pre-rendered cutscene is any indication, there will be some rather hard limits to customization! -- but hopefully as much allowed as, let's say, the Red Dead Redemption series.
If it's reasonably close to that, I'll be fine.
Edited to add: I don't expect it to be like Knights of the Old Republic or, let's say, Dragon Age 1 or 3. Maybe more like DA2...?
Despite the lack of customization I loved Survivor. The thing that gets me on this - the trailer is just that, a trailer. Need me some gameplay footage.
I had no issue with lack of customization on Survivor. It was a story driven "interactive" movie type of game less than an RPG or Sandbox and I felt the focus on the character worked for what it was.
If Outlaws is a true open world experience I'd much prefer to have very extensive customization since this plays more into the RPG and living out the fantasy elements approach. If you're stuck with one canned protagonist in those types of games there's the danger of not liking/identifying with the protagonist and that's a much bigger dissonance.
I think Rockstar did it best in GTA 5 where it offered three fully fleshed out and different characters in the single player mode. Even though you couldn't customize any of them beyond their look, it added significant flavor and kept me engaged.
Of course the ideal is something like Cyberpunk 2077 that has extensive character customization in not only look and gender but also personality.
If it's going the route of Ubisoft's prior entries they'll probably make you stick to one character. Ubisoft only reluctantly made Alexios and Male Eivor playable in the last two Assassins' Creed games, and in both cases it was really clear that you were intended to play Kassandra/female Eivor.
I remember the devs were pretty reluctant to implement the level of customization they ended up putting in, as it required extensive development time, voice work and motion capture.
I would imagine given what Ubisoft said internally in the past about their desire to keep the story focused on a single character and make that very fleshed out, that we won't be getting much choice here.
I mean, lets be real, what we really want is KOTOR level of customization where you can play the game 4-5 times and have 4-5 entirely different experiences with wildly different characters.
They don't make em like that anymore.
some in game footage:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1668328201813397504
This makes me think there will not be much if any character customization. Sale purchase for me!