This Week in Gaming (Week 35)

[TheinsanegamerN]

Massive Entertainment is the best studio inside Ubisoft. Really liked Avatar game from them. Didnt remind me of cluttered map checklist gameplay with bad story telling like in AC games

It's still Ubislop, infected with uplay DRM and french corporate meddling.

I tried to get something out of the Star Wars: Outlaws video, I really did, but all I managed to ascertain is that it's Generic Open World Shooter 39875 with a mildly Star Wars-y skin on it.

I think I'll pass this week. Better save my money for W40k: Space Marine 2.

That's the feeling I got too. Not a whole lot of soul there, just a paint by numbers corporate bang bang with star wars painted on.

I am a big fan of the Mana series. However, the trailers on Steam leave me on the iffy side. It's the voice acting. If we can turn it off, I think I'm in. EDIT: Wait a minute, it gets a release on Steam, XBox and Playstation 5&4(!), but no release for Nintendo Switch?!? WTAF SquareEnix?!?

It's modern Squeenix, incompetence is to be expected.

 

[Laurijan]

It's still Ubislop, infected with uplay DRM and french corporate meddling.

MrMattyPlays review out. He is angry and tears game apart.

 

[colossusrageblack]

I would've been more interested in Star Wars Outlaws if there was more of an RPG aspect to it, in terms of having a custom character. To me, unless the character you're forcing me to play is well known or somehow vital to the story, let me pick who I am and what I look like. It seems to me that for a game like this, there's really no reason to force the player to be this one character.

 

[milewski1015]

As a Star Wars fan, I'll wait until Outlaws goes on a DEEP discount to take a look. Still haven't played Squadrons yet that I got for free, and haven't picked up Jedi Survivor. The Steam Library backlog never ends...

 

[kapone32]

I would've been more interested in Star Wars Outlaws if there was more of an RPG aspect to it, in terms of having a custom character. To me, unless the character you're forcing me to play is well known or somehow vital to the story, let me pick who I am and what I look like. It seems to me that for a game like this, there's really no reason to force the player to be this one character.

I do not understand why RPGs have gone away from this mechanic.

 

[L'Eliminateur]

endzone 2 being single players kills it for me, i want friggin COOP

 

[Renald]

I do not get the point advertising for something which can not be obtained. I just clicked on one game "Endzone 2". Preorder. Not finished. I just played recently a free giveaway - called "Surving the AFtermath". That endzone looks nearly identical.

Ubisoft / Star wars -> annoying launcher / commercial boring topic -> Ubisoft should start fixing their exisitng games and their exisiting launcher which bareley works on Windows 11 Pro. Some games are lost - just deactivated. I'm not in the mood to pay for something which is deactivated later. I paid for something which can not be played anymore.

Endzone 2 is available on Steam and perfectly playable.

Surviving the Aftermath is a copy of "Endzone" asked by Paradox Interactive. Not the other way around.

 

[AusWolf]

Bang for buck is Ubisoft+ Premium 1 month subscribtion to play it in best version 3 days early

That's what they're probably trying to force us to do by increasing the game's price to a ridiculous amount.

 

[kapone32]

That's what they're probably trying to force us to do by increasing the game's price to a ridiculous amount.

The price of new Games makes me appreciate my Humble Choice subscription that much more.

 

[AusWolf]

The price of new Games makes me appreciate my Humble Choice subscription that much more.

The price of new games makes me appreciate my roughly 600-long Steam library full of old classics.

 

[Laurijan]

The price of new games makes me appreciate my roughly 600-long Steam library full of old classics.

I am in a beating old games from my backlog streak. SW Outlaws I still had to put inbetween.

 

[lexluthermiester]

It's modern Squeenix, incompetence is to be expected.

Fair point. Still, better is expected!

 

[AusWolf]

I am in a beating old games from my backlog streak. SW Outlaws I still had to put inbetween.

I'll probably get Outlaws on a massive discount one day. The characters in it look trash, the story is basic AF, and the gameplay is mostly a badly executed stealth thing that doesn't make my mojo flow a single bit. That little pet companion thing looks cute, but that's it.