Star Wars: Battlefront II (The villagers are outside with pitchforks and torches)

Well, it's part of the game and immensely interesting, for it could have some influence on future games and practices. Things like that don't happen every day.

I am 'guaranteed' as many free cocktails and mixed drinks as I like as long as I keep playing, I'd say your comparison falls flat on its face in so far as how actual casinos do business.

I'm not unhappy. 

Because she has a different opinion?

the whole thing is rather ridiculous though. Did EA make it so you could win without paying additional money for it? Did EA force people to buy these loot boxes? Are the loot boxes things you can spend ingame or real world currency on which gives you random gear and skins? Does the gear in these lootboxes make it impossible to win the game if you didn't buy them?

If the answer is yes then there is nothing wrong with them. Don't like them? Don't spend money on them.

Having the PC die assaulting Luke's Jedi Academy along with whatever ragged remnants of the squad remain by that point would have been a fitting end I think. Because I think you could play off the dynamic very well there, have the 'Kind and Noble' Jedi offer the wounded and defeated Imperial mercy, a reprieve from death and instead she demands it.

She failed in her service, she failed her squadron, she failed her Empire, she'd rather go down with its wreckage then accept mercy from a 'terrorist'.

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I would have enjoyed that sort of story, I would have written that sort of story, a story where you have a reeling Empire basically refocus its efforts on making the Rebellion bleed as much as they can for every inch of the Galaxy. It would have had questionable themes and mortality, you could potentially be labeled a terrorist for what I'd allow players to do, ya know, shooting civilians, bombing civilians, killing surrendering enemy personal, torture, and a whole assorted other bunch of nastiness that the Star Wars galaxy desperately needs back in it in my opinion.

This Disney horseshit gutted its soul, I would restore it.

...With mature content, and graphic depictions of violence, and a Imperial Commando Squad taking the Rebellion to task on a increasingly deranged and insane revenge mission. All sorts of conflicting dynamics, views and politics on display, and I'd offer no real opinion in the game as to which side you should back, I'd bring up at the Galactic Empire while tyrannical, also offered a steady sort of existence there within for humanity, its not a glorious sort of life but its a life, and its more then you would have had under the Republic.

Meanwhile you can play up that as a Imperial Commando you are bombing hospitals without remorse and that assorted shit, I wouldn't want to impose a moral conflict, I'd want it to be brought about naturally via progression in the game. But seriously...If you are going to play Spec Ops, you better nail the Spec Ops mentality. 

Storm Commandos, and other assorted Elite Units are fucking Fanatics.

They would likely commit ritualistic suicide the spot out of disgrace if the Emperor's robes were dirtied by a improperly maintained landing ramp via his shuttle. I am not joking, the Empire had a tendency to sort of indoctrinate its military branches in the spec forces, not to mention that military service in general to the Empire sort of encourages you to play by party line, considering that's all but required if you want to go to a proper Military Academy.

Anyone else feel that the campaign, while beautiful, became rather generic narrative-wise once Inferno Squad joins the Rebellion?

If Loot boxes are deemed to be "gambling" I'm looking forward to the Magic the Gathering card pack, Pokemon card packs, sporting card packs and pretty much every collectable card game to be nailed for the same thing. People have been attempting to get loot boxes restricted under gambling for a while and they've failed at every turn, for obvious reasons (which is the player or consumer is always guaranteed to receive content or a "prize" with loot boxes and you can't have a gambling system where "everybody wins".)

While I very much appreciate the rest of the post and especially in SciFi I like mature, conflicting and morally grey stories much better than the b/w cliches, I have to hook in here and say: SW was in its original form always a very Disney-esque franchise.

IMO, graphic depictions of violence and such do not fit with the style that Lucas set up for the series ever since Episode 4. Other than some alien slime when Obi-Wan cuts off the arm of that guy in the bar, I can't remember ever even seeing a drop of blood in the movies. And from an interview I saw with Lucas back in the day, that was very much on purpose.
So IMO, SW actually fits very well into Disnay's scheme of family friendly movies. Whatever you or I would like it to be, saying that Disney's approach to SW gutted it's soul is fairly ludicrous since SW's soul was from it's very conception pretty cliched and family/teen-oriented space fantasy.

If anything, I'd say that with Rogue One Disney produced the most grimdark SW movie ever made.