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Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Game Informer Cover Story Summary
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Exploration sounds totally fine. Large levels, meaningful upgrades hidden in nooks and crannies, metroidvania style mobility and traversal abilities...
Story I'm with you on, there's no way of knowing until it's in our hands.
It's almost like you shouldn't use a 15 minute gameplay sequence to describe a seemingly deep game with many interwoven systems!
We might not know a lot about the plot, but I suspect, given who it involved, the writing is going to be fine.
Not surprised at the scaling of the AT-AT. It's on the cover art, so is probably the big set piece being saved for tomorrow.
Cool shit OP, thanks.
From what is in the OP, it seems like this was one of those cases of a game showing a demo that doesn't fully represent what the game is about. 3d map projection makes me think about Dead Space's UI which is great, and all the exploration based gameplay, rewards and all sounds pretty exciting, and even more so all the little touches to keep you immersed like "real time" travel, hubs and all.
All in all, sounds pretty good!
From what is in the OP, it seems like this was one of those cases of a game showing a demo that doesn't fully represent what the game is about. 3d map projection makes me think about Dead Space's UI which is great, and all the exploration based gameplay, rewards and all sounds pretty exciting, and even more so all the little touches to keep you immersed like "real time" travel, hubs and all.
All in all, sounds pretty good!
Quick Summary (tl;dr version)
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- You can upgrade and customize your lightsaber with different parts and colors
- Levels are quite large
- Lightsaber combat is silk smooth and responsive and it's close to Sekiro
- Vehicles with guns confirmed
- Difficulty settings and there was plenty of challenge in the GI demo, harder than the EA Play demo
- There are combos but enemies are tough
- There's a ship-HUB, you use this to travel to various planets
- Many path locked behind gadgets and abilities to unlock
- Good variety in locations in old and brand new planets
- There's Photo mode
- Player customization and Skill tree with various upgrade circles
Article about the metroid and DS influences:
Couldn't get the same impression from the demo. Maybe I need to see it again
yeah...after watching the gameplay demo, i find that really hard to believe.
I sure hope their claims of metroid prime-like gameplay come to fruition. That's the single most interesting thing revealed about this game, but it's not displayed in the footage shown so far.
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Ehh...isn't responsiveness something you'd have to play yourself to know? Seems hard to pick up from watching.
Now jankiness is something I did notice so maybe he played a different build or something
Huh the combat didn't look that smooth in the demo, and definitely didn't look like Sekiro.
Difficulty is something we'll have to play to see, but what they streamed today looked incredibly simple.
Difficulty is something we'll have to play to see, but what they streamed today looked incredibly simple.
I liked the gameplay demo but this info sounds even awesome.
Seems like a lot of people are judging it just from the early basic demo and haven't seen any of this info yet.
Seems like a lot of people are judging it just from the early basic demo and haven't seen any of this info yet.
When they make Sekiro comparisons, are they talking about the posture meter stuff? Seemed like there was something of that ilk going on
Sekiro's combat is a lot more than just the posture meter; namely, perfectly timed blocks.
Sekiro's combat is a lot more than just the posture meter; namely, perfectly timed blocks.
Just speculating, I don't know but perhaps it does and they didn't want to age restrict the reveal video if that would happen?
The Game Informer details make it sound better.
Wow.
It really is just EA saving ass after all their major fuckups with the license deal. Fuck EA, holy shit, man. A bunch of cowards. Still, best of luck to the team making this game. It's a great opportunity for all of them - I'm just crushed it's come at the cost of several other projects that EA almost nonchalantly seemed to put in the garbage bin from a layman's POV, along with hundreds of people's jobs.
What are you going on about? The team decided they wanted to do Star Wars...
Sounds like it. Jason from MSW was in line to play it but quit because the demo kiosks are set up in the parking lot or something and not indoors.
Can developers just stop shoehorning FromSoft-style combat into games where it doesn't fit?
Do you want to be a fast acrobatic Jedi with a wide array of combat tools that you can creatively chain into sequences of your own invention, or do you want to clunkily circle an enemy with your saber out and wait for a counter opportunity, get a few slashes in, then go back to your holding pattern? I know my answer.
Stop treating Soulsborne combat like it belongs in every type of action game. Its deliberate nature and economy of movement are out of place in games where you should be agile and free.
Do you want to be a fast acrobatic Jedi with a wide array of combat tools that you can creatively chain into sequences of your own invention, or do you want to clunkily circle an enemy with your saber out and wait for a counter opportunity, get a few slashes in, then go back to your holding pattern? I know my answer.
Stop treating Soulsborne combat like it belongs in every type of action game. Its deliberate nature and economy of movement are out of place in games where you should be agile and free.
Love that Brandon is hyped on it. I trust his opinions a lot.Very excited for this!
Citing Metroid Prime as a reference and comparisons to Souls, whew, it's like they are talking directly to me.
I knew after seeing the 3D map that there must have been more to the level design. Sounds like this could be a winner, especially if they clean up some of the animations.
i made a thread about this a while ago, although i didnt really title or get at the main issue i was trying to and it swerved off course.
Basically, devs used to take the action game template from DMC and then GOW, and now its Souls. While its a testement to how popular and influential souls has been, its also kind of stupid, because it shows that developers of many of these games only riff off of what's popular and what they can easily understand as a concept, even if its not suited for the type of game they are making.
It's such an unfortunate trend. I really wish developers would take combat design cues from games that suit their project. There is no shortage of great combat gameplay to reference. It doesn't always have to be the hottest new thing, if the hottest new thing is slow and calculated while your thing ought to be zippy and unrestrained.
Thank goodness the new God of War and Devil May Cry games didn't just copy/paste Bloodborne's combat.
To be fair, with games like Nioh, Bloodborne and Sekiro, its not as if souls likes cant be ultra fast and in the moment...and God of war did take certain cues from souls while making its own thing...
But going back to the overall point, the flow of the combat for this starwars game does not really fit souls at all, especially with haphazard uncharted sections just bolted onto it as well