Topic: Star Wars Outlaws (30-8-2024)

@Ravix That's my fault, I was late in answering your question! Yeah, the bottom line is, it's Star Wars (and a Star Wars video game, to boot) so the story is never gonna be super-complex or heck, even that important to the overall experience. Flashy, accessible fun is fun. The rest will work itself out.

I'm real pleased to see you were able to slot right back in where you'd left off, though, and that you've found something that seems to be holding your interest. That's awesome! A lot of your post reads very familiar to me, glitches an' all. I think I even had that exact same bug happen to me, where Kay respawned and all the nearby enemies had disappeared, making what felt like a tough section of gameplay easy to sprint through. Hey, never look a gift horse in the mouth, right...?!

Here's hoping you continue to enjoy the adventure!

@Ravix It's such a weird game. It is technically not great, it is very floaty and some effects and most characters just look like they have been added on top of a pretty decent looking and fucntioning game environment engine.

• You just summed up my experience with Paw Patrol. I'm going to get one hundred percent today. It's taking a lot longer than I expected. Then it's onto a wine simulator game.

Tatooine is vast and kind of empty (obviously) but it is also awesome and has lots to do, and it is populated in all the right places.

• Is it freeroam? I didn't look into the game at all. I stopped following the franchise just before they starting making TV shows. The original trilogy will always be the best (you know that's true) but I did like the one where the Deathstar blows up a planet and you see it from the point of view of the people

I get the same kind of simple dopamine hit as I would when clearing bases in AC games (which definitely got too big for themselves, despite making it through 3 of the big open world ones and loving them at the time.

• And you summed up why I play the new Assassins Creed games especially FarCry. I know a lot of people don't like clearing bases, it's kind of a rush like you said.

Even though I like perfectionist games where everything is really well thought out and the world's function properly

• Are you talking about an Ubisoft game? Paw Patrol runs better than Far Cry Primal did. It crashed more than any other game I'm ever played. Each time there was a cuts-scene crash each time I'd use fast travel crash each time I returned to the village crash but I wanted platinum so I kept pushing it until I finally saw the credits. I might put that game on the list, I'm looking for something freeroam that has a story, but a story I can avoid for a while.

@GirlVersusGame no, definitely not Ubisoft in terms of perfectionist. I mean like Warhorse, Rockstar, Larian and CDPR who are incredibly anal about their game world design (I hope this translates well, it is Freud so it should be something that is universally understood, but you never know these days 😂) so I gravitate more to games that are designed by perfectionists, who add things for a real reason, which is why it is harder for other games to impress me in the same way. But Ubisoft, when they aren't getting too carried away kind of manage to provide comfort food gaming, popcorn gaming, where the best aspects are when they just add stuff because it is fun to do. But they get a bit lost when they try to make it mean more, as they aren't as good at that aspect of development.

Outlaws definitely taps in to some of the good stuff they do do, I loved Far Cry 6, for example, and that was just driving, running and sliding around 'cuba' listening to Ricky Martin and blowing stuff up, and sometimes clearing an entire base with stealth or mixed tactics.

So even though Outlaws is technically a bit crap, I find myself speeder-ing, running, rolling and sliding (it makes normal traversal less boring) between quests where I inevitably stealth in or shoot some lasers about the place with a little alien pet who can help out a bit.

Is it freeroam? Yes and no. There is multiple planets, each planet is like a mini sandbox(ish) and each sandbox has a city/towns that function a bit like a corridor set up game (like uncharted, sw jedi games) one planet is mostly just the corridor style city, also. The cold one. I guess it is too cold to go outside of the city walls so there is nothing there.

So it is kind of semi-freeroam...

I don't know how it would compare to Paw Patrol. But you've played open world RPG's and games like Uncharted before, yeah? It is somewhere between the two, kind of 🤷‍♂️

What is your game history like? I know you play some heavy simulators recently, but I feel like you have some sinilar games you've enjoyed. You mention Far Cry now. I think some Elder Scrolls you have played? Uncharted?

@Werehog cheers 😄 and no, it's not your fault.

Would you say, as the resident Star Wars Boffin (this is high praise from this wannabe Star Wars Boffin 😄) that the devs managed to capture the spirit and atmosphere of Star Wars for you? I feel like that was one of the parts it is hard to put your finger on, but it is why it is so enjoyable to play. There is just something about the game that shows they got it. Which is why it is even more of a shame it went so badly for them, as that will be that and they won't get another chance to make more.

@Ravix Outlaws definitely taps in to some of the good stuff they do do, I loved Far Cry 6, for example, and that was just driving, running and sliding around 'cuba' listening to Ricky Martin and blowing stuff up, and sometimes clearing an entire base with stealth or mixed tactics.

• That's why I played FarCry 6. I thought they stopped making games like that. My game bugged at one point I had to keep playing weekly for that one hundred percent to pop. Some general or something who only appeared in a certain weekly mission. He kept deciding not to.

I don't know how it would compare to Paw Patrol. But you've played open world RPG's and games like Uncharted before, yeah? It is somewhere between the two.

• I don't either, this is truly a unique (repetitive) experience. It is kind of neat being able to summon vehicles for them, sort of like Grand Theft Auto with puppies except you can't cause any actual harm. I did manage to drive so fast that I broke through the world map, so that's something. I haven't.. played Uncharted yet but I have them all (I know) they've been on that back list for years. The movie too.

What is your game history like? I know you play some heavy simulators recently, but I feel like you have some sinilar games you've enjoyed. You mention Far Cry now. I think some Elder Scrolls you have played? Uncharted?

• Good question. I brought a console with me this time so I can check. 222 games played (spooky) 9547 trophies (professional?) I see 571 games in my library, it's definitely counting Plus.

I'll see what stands out; Cyberpunk, Oblivion, Hogwart's Legacy (not finished) Ark (too addictive) Mount and Blade 2 (your kind of game, swords etc) Bloodstained Ritual of the Night (amazing) Skyrim (obviously) Outward (very hard) V Rising (outstanding) Dragon's Dogma 2 (only one playthrough, no DLC is a game breaker) Ghostwire Tokyo (a kind of unexpected gem) Persona 5 (addictive) Watch Dogs Legion was basically a tool to combat agoraphobia, London was very accurate and the game wasn't bad, The Witcher 3 (obviously) Elden Ring (obviously) Forbidden West, Far Cry (all of them, 5 being my favorite) Monster Hunter World (too addictive) I have maybe three PSN accounts though, there are games scattered around each. Sanctions killed my main account. This current one is a UK one. I re-earned/rebought everything, which was fun for a lot of openworld games but I'd rather not do it again. It's hard to find new openworld games, it seems to have been more of a PS4 thing? and now so many games focus heavily on the story. Or at least it seems that way. Maybe fifty or so games are simulators, everything from Lawnmower Simulator (rough) to Flight Simulator. I'm just missing Ravix Simulator.

@GirlVersusGame you definitely don't want to play a Ravix simulator 😂

Am I really dumb? (don't answer that 😭 obviously) but I didn't think you had played The Witcher 3 yet. Big Woops from me. Some of the games you mention are kind of story heavy, though, although TW3 gives you a lot of real freedom despite it being that way, as do the Elder Scrolls games, I suppose. And definitely Elden Ring which just plops you there and says "well? Go on then! get on with it! And there might be some story if you look it up online" which is a more unique approach, but also really good with mlst things being inferred.

I was going to put this in what games are you currently playing, as we can now decide what games you will definitely be playing next. But i'll just post it here for now as I can't find a suitable thread for this tangent. Surely we can do better than winemaking simulator, though?

You realise Kingdom Come: Deliverance is like a mix of The Elder Scrolls, The Witcher 3, and european history, right? Why is this not on your list of games you loved. That is very dissapointing 😛 with a game list like that it is almost like it is made for you. And it heavilly leans in to simulation elements too, especially with how the world functions and how you are just a person that is part of that world and the rest is just what happens to be happening at the time in history.

Erm... Star Wars Outlaws. Yeah back to relevant chatter. Maybe Outlaws would be a good game for you to try as well. Even if i'd encourage to lean towards KCD instead as it fits with even more of the games you already like.

@Ravix but I didn't think you had played The Witcher 3 yet.

• Both (PS4/PS5) at 100%, both DLCs, both on two different accounts so technically I finished the game and the DLCs four times. I have the audiobooks ready to go too. I'm just waiting for the right game, I muted Paw Patrol two zones ago and replaced it with Black Metall. I'm not listening The Witcher while playing this, it would ruin the vibe (of the Witcher)

You realise Kingdom Come: Deliverance is like a mix of The Elder Scrolls, The Witcher 3, and european history, right?

• I have it but I'm a fencer (offline) it would affect how I tried to play that game. I only understand the technique of non-lethal combat. Unless it has a spear or a bow then maybe. I've tried to play games with swords before and they are worlds removed to fencing. It's like training for years with a real bow then being handed a rifle. Muscle memory might be the word. It's really hard to unlearn technique and expected response especially if those games are realistic in how they handle swordplay. It's a weird complaint, I played some kind of hand to hand medieval game last year and just the weight in the physics engine kept throwing me off, I couldn't remove the mechanics of a real life foil or sabre so I kept dying to everyone and everything.

Erm... Star Wars Outlaws. Yeah back to relevant chatter.

• I'll see myself out, unless I try Outlaws.

@GirlVersusGame I didn't know which thread to move to without mentioning Outlaws again.

Outlaws.

I thought maybe 'currently playing', as then you will be more inclined to be influenced to 'currently play' some KCD. But for now it stays here as it is easier to just hit 'reply' 😅

So you've actually played The Witcher 3 more than me? 😭😂 how did I miss this? So it is just the books/audiobooks that you need to consume next?

KCD is fencing friendly, but as an RPG you can do the whole game as a dagger from the shadows type, avoiding actual hand to hand combat if you want, or play as a huntsman type with bows, a poisoner, anything like that, you can even play as a pacifist, or wield a mace or hammer and bonk people on the head while you hide in full plate armour.

Speaking of (I bet if anyone has it would be you) perhaps you have read Talhoffer Fechtbuch? (I have not) or similar german and Italian fencing manuals? A little different to the style that schools teach now, of course, but it would probably still be super interesting as historical texts, and medieval martial arts are obviously a big inspiration for KCD.

So yeah a bit of books, bit of games. Not so much Outlaws. Sorry Star Wars. Jabba The Hutt. Bib Fortuna. Stormtroopers.

Played "Last of Us-Part 2 lost levels"

I am surprised how much I enjoyed these. 1st one is slow by nature but 2nd and 3rd could had been in the game.
It reminded me of how much I missed playing something new from ND. Intergalactic can't come soon enough.