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Already preordered

@ShogunRok

Ahh, cool. I still cant decide if im going with PS4 or Switch for this one....

@ShogunRok

Anything to say regarding performance? I know the Japan release suffered from some pretty bad technical issues. Just wondering if thats been fixed by now.

Looks neat to me. I like that hexogonal grid thing. Looked fairly unique.

Do we know yet if there is local co-op for this?

All censorship is evil and ineffective.

@Octane I beat it. Between the constant glitches, inconsequential story, and awful combat, I'd say its one of the worst Star Wars games ever made. Far cry from the golden age of SW games back in the early-mid 2000s.

This game is bad.

Already preordered.

Imagine a Souls game except the map changed every time you died. Thats what this sounds like. And I already paid $70 for Demons Souls. Sounds like good value to me.

Its got the classic Frogwares kind of jank but you can tell they love their work. Its a good game to just dive into and explore.

Lol, who cares. Blizzard pissed their loyalty away long ago.

"The original game has some of the best role-playing in the entire trilogy..."

You mean the only role-playing...

@Robinsad The ending is the main problem. The story is already fairly lackluster. Cal is told to "go here, find thing." Standard video game fare...from 10-15 years ago. I tend to expect a bit more from games these days since they do have decades of evolution to build on. Especially Star Wars games which have Kotor and the Jedi Knight series to build on.

After numerous hours of navigating boring linear, not to mention glitchy, environments (falsely disguised as non-linear Dark Souls style maps which fades quickly upon any scrutiny), you get to the end and it was all for nothing. Coupled with having a cast of characters that aren't likeable or interesting and only serve as cogs in the "story's" machine and don't have any agency of their own.

Incredibly bland game. Churned out just to appease the haters after the Battlefront 2 debacle. Unfortunate that it worked.

@deathaxe I'm aware. Doesn't change the fact that the actual game's story is hot garbage. Lifting one element from Filoni's work doesn't make it good.

Doesn't fix the numerous glitches or genuinely bad combat. Or the awful story. Why did they even bother?

Fallen Order was so bad. I have little to no hope for Star Wars games going forward. Surely this is just a branding effort and nothing that will fix the contractual obligations to EA.

@nessisonett Oh my lord, yes. They have some really poorly written stuff at times but undoubtedly helpful beyond measure.

Absolutely correct. Im not the best gamer but Ive played every Souls game multiple times through. The secret of Souls games is really just taking your time.

Censorship is evil and ineffective.

Yet another reminder that censorship is evil and ineffective no matter who is doing it.

Red Dead Redemption had really boring open world design. Vast wilderness to do either some uninteresting side quest or just ride around. The novelty wore off after the first ten hours. This legit makes me less interested in GoT.

These soapbox articles are reeeaaalllly looking for things to complain about.

The Vikander version was a halfway decent movie but a terrible Tomb Raider movie. The Angelina films made no bones about including mystical and magical elements that needed little to no explanation just like the vast majority of the Tomb Raider franchise. The Vikander film sidestepped this entirely with its inclusion of a random unnecessary plot point that suddenly made the whole mystery about "science" or whatever. Completely destroyed one of the main conceits of Tomb Raider and certainly did the 2013 game no justice. Took Tomb Raider and turned it into a bland uninteresting action movie.

Pretty sexist to cover women up. I remember a time when women fought for the right to be sexy in public but now people are saying thats shameful. When big corporations are agreeing with the talking points of 90s era puritan moralists, you know you're heading in the wrong direction.

@nessisonett

No one is arguing that Lovecraft wasn't a racist. His racism is plainly visible. But that doesn't mean that he was ONLY a racist. The effort to reduce Lovecraft to a one dimensional charicature entirely dismisses the incredible contribution he made to the horror genre. We can't throw the baby out with the bathwater and just say "well Lovecraft was a racist so nothing he did was valuable." Might as well ditch over half of the literary canon then since racists from a 100+ years ago wrote them.

Also comparing fiction from 100 years ago written by a flawed individual to the manifesto of the worst person to live in the modern era is pretty absurd. In any case, Mein Kampf also shouldn't just be forgotten since its important to realize that true atrocity can happen and we need to understand where it came from so we can prevent its replication in the future.

@nessisonett

Yes, lets judge the greatest horror writer of the last hundred years by our moral standards because he held the beliefs of his time that we now view as reprehensible. Everyone is the past is flawed. Everyone now is flawed. But we don't just forget achievements because the person who made them wasn't perfect.