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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (3 children)

First open world Star Wars game? Was KotOR not open world?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

Guess Star Wars: Galaxies wasn't open world(s), either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No, it wasn't. It was a series of very small maps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What do you think planets are?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Celestial bodies that orbit a star, but there are lots of ways to represent them in video games, and KOTOR's implementation was not what most people would call open world.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Such a massive miss that you can’t craft your own character. That alone makes kills it for me

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I disagree. A created character can’t exist in Star Wars beyond the game they are created in. This character has the possibility of appearing in cameos across mediums.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is kind of what's killing Star Wars right now though. We don't need 50 different character threads placed throughout six different shows that run parallel/in sequence with each other.

It's also what's killing the MCU.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I disagree. Star Wars seems to be doing fine outside of the mainline sequel trilogy. In fact, I’d say it’s the pantheon of secondary and tertiary characters and their stories that redeemed the prequels.

Marvel is fun, but admittedly a bit cramped since everything is kind of bound to earth within a relatively limited span of modern times. Star Wars not so much. Granted, a lot circles around the Skywalker era, but a lot of stories are told that have nothing to do with the skywalkers or anything else you see in the movies. Sometimes they add significance to things we always took for granted, like Rogue One and the acquisition of the Death Star plans.

Am I right to assume you were not a fan of The Mandalorian?

[–] huskypenguin 3 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Jedi survivor was open world