Readers imagine their dream Star Wars game and come to the conclusion that the publisher can no longer afford to make it.
If this appears on the correct day, today is Star Wars Day – May the 4th be with you! I know it because I am a huge Star Wars fan and have always been Well, no, because that's almost always the case. The era of prequels and sequels has had its dark days, but sooner or later something always comes along that reignites my passion for the series, and unfortunately it's rarely a video game.
Don't get me wrong. There have been some great Star Wars games over the years, starting with the old Atari coin-ops, but they've dwindled in recent years and are always much smaller than I would have preferred. “Star Wars Jedi” is good, but…as a fan, there are some things I don't like about it. It feels too much like a small redesign that fans could create as his mods would just wash away all the Star Wars stuff and make it just a run-of-the-mill sci-fi Souls-like.
Star Wars: Squadrons was great, but it was short and had a pretty low budget. Star Wars: Battlefront was also good, but despite its great graphics, it didn't have the scope and variety of the older PlayStation 2 games. Most games these days are good, but none of them are great. I'm afraid that will include Ubisoft's Star Wars Outlaws. This looks nothing like the dream bounty hunter game I had always imagined.
In recent years, the closest thing to what I consider the ultimate Star Wars game is Starfield. It may seem strange to say this, since Starfield is a pretty flawed game, but at least it's scaled appropriately. Flying around the galaxy and doing whatever you want is exactly what I want from a Star Wars game, and ideally I'd expect some good space and ground combat.
Very unfortunately, there are no space deals in Starfield. The value of things is the same no matter where you are in the galaxy. That seems like a stupid decision to me. Because that's essential to his game, which is a good Star Wars game where you play a civilian rather than a Jedi or a member of the military.
The Ubisoft game looks great, but it seems like a very simple third-person shooter. Maybe there's something more – they haven't really shown much despite it being released soon – but even if it's open world it doesn't seem to offer much freedom .
There have been rumors of a bounty hunter simulator for years, but this is not it. The main character hardly appears to be a smuggler. I always imagined that I could create a character to be a droid, an alien, a human, and have different costumes and equipment to look like any of the many characters or be my own. .
That way, you'll be able to freely fly around in space at a relatively high altitude, making deals and winning prizes. Or you can get more naughty and smuggle illegal goods, or you can go full bad and just be a pirate. Everything shown or at least hinted at in the original film.
But no game has ever been able to do something like this, and I don't think it ever will. That would require a huge budget, and I don't think anyone would spend that money on a Star Wars game, but the irony is that it's so expensive to get a license that it's impossible to get a license like Outlaw. Because you'll have to do something safer.
But my ideas can be applied to you too. If live service games are the current trend, feel free to add new planets or new roles. Perhaps an expansion will also allow you to sign up for the Rebellion or even aspire to become a Jedi after all. It could end up being something that simulates all of Star Wars, rather than the very small part of the universe that current games are aiming for.
I've pretty much lost hope that it will ever happen, but I still dream that someday, on Star Wars Day, my ultimate game will be announced.
From reader Cuspo
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