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[–] oliver@lemmy.pifferi.io 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It‘s no brand thing. It‘s just a reaction on the way Ubisoft releases games these days and yes, the game could have been better but without the Star Wars-tag, it wouldn‘t have been noticed at all.

[–] lordveng@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Agree. I played the shit out of this game and it was good. But it could have been so much better. All the ships and weapons and planets in the star wars universe and we get 1 ship and 1 weapon and 4 meh planets. So many missed opportunities that could have made this game great.

  1. Remaster Kotor 1 or 2.
  2. Watch it sell like crazy.
  3. Never give ubi starwars licensing again.
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[–] disco@lemdro.id 32 points 5 days ago

It's almost like if I'm constantly fed slop I avoid it

[–] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 32 points 6 days ago

Disney killed the franchise by releasing slop year after year. Also by letting Ubisoft make a Star Wars game.

[–] enkonju@lemmy.world 58 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I thought the game looked ok, but why would I pay $70 for a game that can disappear from my library whenever Ubisoft feels like it? They've demonstrated that they're willing to permanently take games away from paying customers, so I'm not willing to spend more than the cost of a rental on one of their games.

And that's the exact feeling I've had. So eloquently said. Thank you. 💯

If they sell me a product that i can't forever keep, then I've been renting the whole time.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 34 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Could it be waning interest in the Ubislop formula?

No, it's the gamers who are wrong!

[–] TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don’t even hate the Ubisoft formula, but it’s, like, dawg…. Try something new. I go years without being interested in the schlog, then I get really into one. But it’s astounding that they’re still putting out the same game for over a decade now. The trimmings might be a little spruced and fluffed here and there but the core loop is still the same fucking game, again and again and again.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Yeah, I played AC Odyssey and the DLC a while back, and I'm still burnt out on Assassin's Creed about 4 years later.

It just seems designed to sap as much of your time as possible. Like an MMO but without any tangible benefit for them doing so.

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[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 42 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Waning interest in Ubisoft. Everything they touch is painfully generic and uninteresting. On top of that, they infect the games with Denuvo malware while charging top dollar. But sure, blame the consumers for your lack of vision, passion, business sense, and technical acumen. See how that pays off, Yves.

[–] aksdb@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

It's really sad. I truly believe that Yves (or rather the Guillemots in general) were passionate about game development once. Now it feels mostly corporate, even though they still claim to be pro-gamer and innovative and fun. It's double sad because they acquired quite some good studios that have to be shaped into their corp structure and ultimately lose their innovation. It's not as bad as old-school EA, but it's still subjectively bad.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 54 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not waning interest in Ubisoft?

Because, ooh boy, did my interest in Ubisoft wane year after year of overproduced cookie cutter crap. And I'm not expecting a change of phase.

Also, Guillemot, you're talking publicly a lot for someone with (now convicted) sexual harrasser friends you've protected all of your career.

[–] Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I don’t know how it has taken people so long to realize something I realized around AssCreed3, that all Ubisoft does is release the same game with a different skin over and over again.

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[–] JakenVeina@midwest.social 39 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

A) And yet, not long after, Andor was massively successful.

B) Then stop making games exclusively based off of third party IPs.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 days ago

A) And yet, not long after, Andor was massively successful.

Andor was awesome in addition to being successful. It feels weird when those two things coincide.

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

That's part of it for sure. It's grimdark. Read: boring.

Forever locked in a Jedi vs Sith binary. And it is the highest of heresy to dare imagine anything beyond it.

[–] Havoc8154@mander.xyz 3 points 5 days ago

How is Star Wars even remotely grimdark? That's just a wild criticism.

And the game you're talking about literally has no Jedi or Sith at all, it's entirely about the regular people of the galaxy.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

The worst bit is reflecting on how the first movie portrayed it all.

A horrific empire, but a secret mysterious force, not believed in by many, that can help you fight it. Classic warriors using heavy swords in an age of laser rifles.

I don't even really know what the message around the force was in The Last Jedi. I didn't even bother watching Force Awakens.

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 35 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The game looked quite generic to me. As someone who's not deep into Star Wars, the titular character looked more like 70s mom than space adventure. And the gameplay also looked like they just slapped yet another texture pack onto something I've seen a thousand times already.

So, I don't see why you'd buy this game in particular, unless you do a lot of gaming or a lot of Star Wars. I imagine, they missed out on most sales towards the more casual crowd.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 36 points 6 days ago

titular character looked more like 70s mom than space adventure

So more like star wars inlaws than outlaws?

[–] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 3 points 5 days ago

It feels like they tried to make a PG/kids version of Red Dead Redemption with aliens, poorly written characters and a glitch-infested game engine as cheap as legally possible without being called slave labor.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago

If they would've stuck with the old 'gritty' Star Wars game that was supposed to be like GTA style adult oriented Star Wars instead of this stupid shit. It would have been massively successful.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 days ago

Star wars should be in the public domain by now

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

Idk, I liked Jedi: Survivor even though that one was EA.

[–] Inaminate_Carbon_Rod@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Couldn’t care less about the games.

Couldn’t care less about the shows.

If a movie comes out, even a terrible one, I’ll be there.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 24 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Andor is the best thing the series has ever done, including every movie.

And the animated Clone Wars series is a close second

This last season came out swinging with their wardrobe budget. The first 2 episodes I think we just kept talking about how much we liked outfits

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

What? I thought Ubisoft was saying sales were really strong and how Outlaws was such a big success?

I'm going to guess this is the exact same case with Assassins Creed. An AC game set in feudal Japan should have been a Grand Slam. Literally everyone wanted it. But leave it up to Ubisoft to find ways to make money from a printer drop right into the shredder.

It's more than just bugs and "blandness." Clearly people aren't buying what Ubisoft is making, and they keep changing stuff but none of the things they change are the reasons people aren't buying their games. It is crazy to me that executives continue to learn the wrong lesson from failed games 100% of the time. And then they ignore gamers when we straight up tell them what they should have changed. Crazy.

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[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

All they have to do is get the same guys that did the trailers for KoTOR and they'd see very good things come out of it. They're just trying to milk it every way they can so that they can hold on to something now that they're losing all their OG IPs to public domain.

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

You mean SWTOR rather than KOTOR?

[–] Grizzlyboy@lemmy.zip 9 points 6 days ago

I tried it in May/June and it was very meh. At the start I had an urge to play it, but after a day or two I had no urge to open it. A lot of it felt repetitive to a point of why bother.

[–] Therobohour@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No it's because it was shite,poorly written and lousy with weird polical shit and terrble gameplay.

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago (6 children)

star wars is inherently a political franchise

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 6 days ago

Wasn't it more that the game was a buggy mess? No that can't have been it it was clearly the fans fault.

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