Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

So. It's looking like Star Wars by EA is kind of not great, what with that Battlefront II fiasco and EA's overall soulless nature.

But here's a new game from the Titanfall guys.

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

Takeaways:

• It's a single-player adventure
• Is canon with the movies.
• We have a poster.
• And allegedly, the combat is described as similar to the FromSoftware games like Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice with a parrying system a la the latter.

Nothing much beyond that, though we're apparently getting a trailer tomorrow, so...

I thought the single-player game was cancelled?
Or was that just the first iteration of it that got canned?

No, that was the game that Visceral was working on. Respawn's been working on this for a few years now.

Personally I'm somewhat excited for it, mainly because of how Respawn did with Titanfall 2 and its own story. Hopefully we can get something like that in Fallen Order.

Then again, it's EA.

Several single-player games were cancelled, most famously Visceral's where you play as a smuggler-turned-rebel. This is the one that survived. Which, knowing EA, means it's the one with the widest focus group appeal and most easily-monetizable gameplay elements.

Edited by Dirtyblue929 on Apr 12th 2019 at 9:15:11 AM

Well of course, there's so many Star Wars games where you play as Jedi, that's what most people want.

I'd love games where you play as like a regular soldier, or some kind of secret agent, or hell, even a bounty hunter or smuggler, but nope, EA says Jedi.

Give it a few weeks and it'll get cancelled too.

Do you guys hate how EA's forcing the Frostbite engine on everyone?

Fallen Order will be using Unreal Engine 4.

By God, EA actually listening to their fans and developers? Truly the end times are upon us.

Edited by Dirtyblue929 on Apr 12th 2019 at 1:44:00 AM

Nah. If Frostbite's so hard to develop for, then FIFA being Frostbite-based means it can do anything.

Edit: Oh wait that was an intro to saying it was using UE 4

Edited by Watashiwa on Apr 12th 2019 at 11:18:12 AM

Optimism levels... rising...

Darn it, EA, how many times are you going to get my hopes up so you can smash them to pieces later (as many times as they can, of course).

Y'know, I really want this game to be good. I even suspect EA wants it to be good. However, I am not particularly optimistic-well, maybe cautiously so. I won't pre-order it, but if the reviews are good enough...

I really hope we can customize the protagonist in any way.

Give me customization or give me death, as they say. I'm sure someone says that.

It does look promising, so I will be keeping an eye on it at the very least.

I’d make mine a Zabrak.

Same. That’ll be a big selling point for me.

Edited by randomdude4 on Apr 12th 2019 at 6:56:41 AM

They don’t have any excuses like canon that they did for taking customization out of Battlefront 2, so hopefully we’ll get it.

Then again, again, it’s EA.

I'd like to make a Cathar, but are they even still around at this point in the timeline?

Supposedly one of the higher-ups at Respawn took to twitter to explain that it's 100% singleplayer and has no microtransactions (at least they're not planning on it as of now; knowing EA, well...). Will try to find the link.

OPTIMISM LEVELS REACHING CRITICAL MASS

Edited by Dirtyblue929 on Apr 12th 2019 at 6:51:52 AM

I'm almost positive they are. They only nearly got wiped out by the Mandalorians around the SWTOR era, and then they started bouncing back. If I remember correctly one of Luke's descendants in the Legends canon adopted a Cathar son.

Edit: Yes, he in fact did. Micah.

Edited by randomdude4 on Apr 12th 2019 at 6:57:45 AM

Oh, man. At this point all they have to do is announce modding support and my money will start creeping out of my pocket on its own. I hate it when that happens.

I am not the biggest Star Wars fan (I never watched the movies as a kid and only saw first three some 3-4 years ago) but this is looking nice.

If this game massively succeeds, would it mean EA could relax a bit and allow more Star Wars games to be made? Star Wars video game adaptations at the moment aren't looking great and this game may make EA have an epiphany or something. Too hopeful but eh. I do remember playing classic Battlefront games but got my ass kicked by bots way too many times

So yeah, would this Star Wars game do it and let there be more quality Star Wars games and not... the 2015 and 2017 Battlefront games?

From what I've heard, Visceral was shut down because it was making practically no progress on its game whatsoever. That one teaser they showed that one time was basically the vast majority of what they'd made at the time it was released. Combined with the Anthem thing, I can't help but wonder if this is less about EA not allowing games to be made and more about the games not really coming along in the first place.

While EA get a lot of justified criticism, they have become a convenient scapegoat/bogeyman as well.

Sometimes people definitely need to take a step back and make sure their criticisms are properly aimed.

So Unreal 4 is being used, meaning EA isn't forcing them to use Frostbite. It's also going to be single-player. And no microtransactions.

I guess Respawn earned themselves a lot of breathing room with the success of Apex Legends.

I’m hoping they can do well despite the obvious gameplay shift from their general shooters to Well lightsaber combat.