The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise

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• drspod@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • KonalaKoala@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, like beating a dead horse, it has no giddy-up and go. What the hell were they thinking when they decided to do Star Wars Outlaws?

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  • Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is perfect.

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Make boring shit, get no love from the community. It’s as easy as that.

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• acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  just like the movies, the waning interest in the franchise is only because you keep making shitty games with it.

  If you people start making GOOD star wars stuff again, we WILL eat it up.

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  • ijedi1234@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Unpopular Opinion: The Yuuzhan Vong Invasion would’ve been better than the Sequel Trilogy.

    Seeing that business with Ithor on the big screen would’ve been great.

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    • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Anything with a cohesive narrative would have been better than the sequel trilogy, including Dark Empire. Hell, Abrams did Dark Empire anyway, he just compressed it into a single film along with ESB and ROTJ because he’s never had a single original idea about Star Wars.

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  • Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They just need to focus on a planet hopping mmo that runs a real world 9 year cycle through the movie eras. No character selection, full randomized setup where you find out what you’re capable of as go. You may not end up a Jedi but you might end up the most notorious bounty hunter in the galaxy or you build end up born a clone dying minutes into first combat.

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    • SheeEttin@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Star Wars rogue like? I’d play it

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  • Xanthobilly@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Andor is an example of excellent Star Wars content that people want to see. They just produced crap.

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    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I actually strongly disagree.

      Andor was an example of actually telling a new story. Yes, people were eager to know who Cassian was. But If you had polled the entire Star Wars fanbase, like five of us would have said “Oh, I want a deeply political story with a massive focus on social justice that heavily focuses on a politician and a spymaster’s daughter”. And we would have fully admitted we were on our bullshit.

      Which was basically the problem with Outlaws. Everyone has been asking for a Han Solo game since people realized a Star Wars Pacman could be a thing. And you need to go REAL hard to make that live up to people’s expectations.

      Which, getting back to Andor: I would go so far as to say everything up until The Prison is REALLY rough. You have moments of brilliance (basically any time Skarsgard is on screen) but it spends too much time on a plot point it had already dropped and Cassian is kind of a mary sue. But we were enthralled because this was something NEW (well, less so if you have ever read a political thriller but… Star Wars!). And once it found its legs… it was painful beauty in all the best ways.

      And, to go back to “It is a Han Solo game” or “It is a Jedi knight but not a Jedi Knight” and so forth? It doesn’t take much to realize “I have seen this story a million times” and wander off. Like, I know I basically did that once I heard there were insta-fail stealth sections (although I generally try to not give Ubi money to begin with). Same with Ginger McBoring Face Survivor. It had an interesting hook (I LOVED Dark Times and Dass Jennir) and the gameplay was fine but when it came time to come back for seconds it was just “Eh, I’m good”.

      Nah. We need more Star Wars that people don’t KNOW they want to see. Not just the tired crap that an exec would think was gold.

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  • datavoid@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Personally I’m pretty tired of Star wars, every entertainment product doesn’t need to belong to a Disney franchise

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    • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same, all the Star Wars slop Disney has churned out has completely washed any lingering magic out of the fabric of the franchise for me. I don’t even feel the desire to watch supposedly good Star Wars products like Andor these days.

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