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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm not the biggest fan of Ubisoft, which is why it's confusing that I'm a little excited for this one.

That being said, I will definitely be careful and wait for sale, still knowing the publisher.

Also if it isn't on Steam, it'll have to be even cheaper.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I also have reservations regarding Ubisoft, but this is as close to Star Wars 1313 as we're gonna get now. It's so refreshing to not be a Jedi in a star wars video game.

We must be cautious!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

May the cautiousness be with you.

[–] MrScottyTay 2 points 1 year ago

It also gives me big star wars ragtag vibes too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

1313 getting cancelled is one of the biggest disappointments in gaming in recent memory.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’m sure it’ll be on Steam. No achievements and shitty UbiConnect requirements on top of it, too.

[–] thirdorbital 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I know basically nothing about this game but I'm completely burned out on the Ubisoft open world model of a huge map completely littered with mindless collectible junk and grindy side-quests. Is there reason to hope that this will be different than the same junk Assassin's Creed and Far Cry have been pushing out, or are most expecting the same thing in a Star Wars setting?

[–] MrScottyTay 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm certain a year or two so they talked about how they had started to amalgamate features from their games across the board and how is stifled in house creativity (I've got no source on this at the moment but I'm sure i remember this) and how they're going to be starting to move away from that.

If this is true then this is likely one of the first games to try and move away from that stone this would likely have been started after that was said.

[–] thirdorbital 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I suppose I'll believe it when I see it. Thanks for the context though!

[–] MrScottyTay 2 points 1 year ago

Found the source

Tl;dr: they restructured their editorial team in an effort to make their games more unique to one another.

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

I'm skeptical, but not enough to write it off completely just yet. Definitely skeptical enough to not preorder, though.

[–] MrScottyTay 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should never preorder games anyway, you should always wait for actual customer reviews to back up what the big reviewers say

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

In some cases I'm willing to give certain companies the benefit of the doubt still. Fromsoft, for example. It is admittedly a very small list at this point though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I got a great tip for that: stop collecting mindless junk.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I haven't sat down to watch the trailer yet, but if this is basically The Division with a Star Wars skin, I won't be mad at it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Isn't it more likely that it'll just be a Ubisoft open world game full of bloat?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems to have more actual story to it than the Division does at least from the trailer. I thought it was going to be Far Cry based and was then surprised to see the studio.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know why people think Massive is somehow more independent than other Ubisoft studios. They've worked on both the Assassin's Creed and Far Cry games just like every other studio owned by Ubisoft.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I honestly have no idea how independent the various studios are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Typically they have one main studio leading a project that's being supported by half a dozen of their other studios. That's why they were able to churn out Assassin's Creed games annually. Massive did support work on AC: Revelations and Far Cry 3 before they got their own project with The Division.

Obviously now that they're leading two huge projects with Avatar and Outlaws, they are getting a ton of support from other Ubisoft studios.

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

I thought it looked incredible. It wasn’t on my radar until yesterday now I’m excited.

My only reservation is that it seems to follow the trend of having the protagonist be constantly being quippy with the the sidekick which is annoying after a while.

[–] MrScottyTay 1 points 1 year ago

That's star wars to a T

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do ubisoft generally play nicely with game pass?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They have released games on Game Pass, including Assassin's Creed, but they have a deal with Sony which would likely take precedent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, shame - thanks for replying!

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