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submitted 2 months ago by Carighan@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

This is going to be one of those "Ubisoft investigates Ubisoft and found that Ubisoft did nothing wrong at Ubisoft"-situations, isn't it?

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[-] garretble@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Honestly, Outlaws has flaws, BUUUUT it's fun as hell. It's a 7/10 game, but it's fun. I enjoy my time with it even though I see some glitches here or there, or that the lip sync is a little jank.

It's a big ass Star Wars game (with no AC towers hooray!) where you get to rub shoulders with scoundrels and play Sabacc and visit honestly cool locations that are visually impressive.

I feel like most of the issues it has is probably a function of "we need this game out by X date" versus the devs' ability.

[-] brenticus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I finished the main story last night and I basically agree with you. It's got plenty of issues, but overall it's fun. It is neither the 9/10 game of most reviews I saw nor the 4/10 game that people want it to be.

I think my main issue is that it wants to have a story about the underworld and how you can't trust anyone and you're a huge underdog just trying to survive but it doesn't want to commit to it. It feels thematically janky in places and ways that feel design-by-committee. It fills the shoes of Shadows of the Empire decently enough, but it feels like it was trying to be 1313 and failed.

[-] garretble@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I have this feeling that once it starts going on more sales and more people play it the general consensus will be that’s it’s a pretty solid game. I also imagine like a lot of these games there will be a patch in the next month that fixes a litany of issues.

You’re right it’s kind of interesting that the factions don’t really add a lot of meaningful gameplay mechanics, but oh well. At first I was like, “I’m not working with the Pykes AT ALL because I know what happens in your spice mines.” But you end up just being friends with all of them as needed (to get their rewards).

Just having this big coat of Star Wars paint over this otherwise fairly standard action/shooter/open world game really does make it more fun, though. I still have a bit to go in the story, but I’m just basting around cleaning up side quests right now because it’s fun to do.

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