Probably because they wanted to get out of that desert ASAP.
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Why Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Won't Allow Human Dismemberment (Disney/LucasArts guidelines on the star wars franchise)
- Thread starter Rodjer
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Probably because they wanted to get out of that desert ASAP.
It doesn't bother me, as I've been so disappointed with the video game output for the Star Wars IP, enabling dismemberment with a futuristic glow stick won't fix the problems the game may have.
That's not even the worst retcon/pointless addition. That honor goes to Han Solo's name or the Anakin chosen one prophecy.
Han's name is stupid but at the end of the day it does not affect anything. Midichlorians literally screwed with the idea of the force.
Bro, the throne room scene in The Last Jedi is way more gnarly than that almost offscreen moment. Snoke gets got in half and you see all of it. Dudes are turned into little chunks of meat. REY DECAPITATES DUDES
It's funny how reactions to the game alternate between "Why does it look so easy?" and "Why isn't every blow landed a one-shit kill/dismemberment?"
The realistic saber combat in Jedi Knight was a fun goof, but I don't know if you really want to play a whole game like that.
The realistic saber combat in Jedi Knight was a fun goof, but I don't know if you really want to play a whole game like that.
None of these games had dismemberment of non-droid characters in them, what the fuck are you people talking about? Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy only had it if you used codes to activate it, it was not a default or publicized feature and was not in the console versions of the games.
There's no human dismemberment in Jedi: Fallen Order because they don't want a mass market Star Wars game to be rated M, because no Star Wars game is rated M. Anyone expecting to chop people up in this game has no sense of the history of Star Wars games and how they treat lightsaber damage. It was never, ever going to happen.
So basically Jedi Outcast and Academy had it then. Cheat code or not.
If they want to make the lightsabers not seem like baseball bats then dismemberment is a good place to start. But I get why it isn't in.
For Honor's lightsaber event will be the best lightsaber game this gen I guess.
For Honor's lightsaber event will be the best lightsaber game this gen I guess.
Only on PC with a console cheat code that was not supported by Lucasarts and was not available in the other versions of the game, because it's not intended as the way to play it. No Star Wars game has ever had dismemberment of human beings in it. It's a bizarre thing to expect in a Star Wars game, if only because it's not even true to the movies. Yeah, a couple people lose hands at key thematic moments, but when Luke cuts his way through Jabba's guards not a single limb goes flying because it's a space wizard movie for children.
They're not console games. Jedi Outcast and Academy were PC games which had a port here and there later because they were succesfull on pc. Dont dimiss them. Those two games had it
I consumed alot of brutally violent media when i was a kid. It was excellent. All my favorite stuff, really. Some was a little extra fucked up. Like robocop. That was a rough one. But how else is a 7 year old going to learn what a mounted machine gun will do to a mans body.
Force unleashed 2 absolutely has it while maintaining a teen rating.
The article actually states it's been a long policy in Lucasfilm to always be careful with showing dismemberment, not something new to Disney, and it's obviously not completely prohibited. They find creative ways to keep it PG-13 or limit it to one or two instances.
I mean, a lot of people here already mentioned Snoke cut in half in TLJ. There's also some cutting in Solo and Rogue One.
I mean, a lot of people here already mentioned Snoke cut in half in TLJ. There's also some cutting in Solo and Rogue One.
I'm good either way, but citing this as a reason not to buy is laughable.
I mean, would the absence of dismemberment in Sekiro be a reason not to buy for those people? Or is that different because this is Star Wars and there has to be a reason to bitch about it?
I mean, would the absence of dismemberment in Sekiro be a reason not to buy for those people? Or is that different because this is Star Wars and there has to be a reason to bitch about it?
I agree. The very essence of Star Wars is dismemberment. Without it, it's just not Star Wars. Ruined!
You can show dismemberment if the scene is subverting your expectations.
I'm surprise this scene wasn't change in the "remasters" with a lot of limbs flying around..Also Star Wars
In conclusion, lightsaber combat is a land of contrasts
Such a shame. It just doesn't look right without it.
I think the cauterised slash marks do an adequate job of translating the deadly power of the lightsaber. This is pretty much what the films do outside of the big moments. Anakin killing the separatists was exactly like that gif except for the bugs and droids he chopped in half.
Jedi Academy literally had a option for it on its menu. No codes or mods needed.