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

I said it "the most grimdark SW movie", which I stand by. After all, the empire is in full swing, the galaxy is not in a good place and the entire group of protagonists dies. Compared to that, any other SW movie was a birthday party.


Here as well, please read carefully. I never said there was no violence (obviously there is). I (and the person I quoted) said "graphic depiction of violence". Even when people get limbs cut off, there is basically no blood because light sabers instantly cauterize the wound (and IIRC Lucas said this was on purpose to keep the movies family friendly).

*Sigh*

Let's do it then shall we?

Note what I said, its soul, the thing that emerged over the decades post Lucas's films, the thing that actually made that bland universe vibrant and colorful, the expansion upon the lore and history of the setting beyond what that fella envisioned in his 'classic' retelling of underdog vs impossible odds, good vs evil, yadda fucking yadda.

The EU.

In the EU we had Rakgauls, Technobeasts, Bio-Weapons that would actually dissolve living tissue(like Sarin on crack basically), Sith blood rituals that cleansed planets, terrorism, rampant mass murder, corruption, rape, anything and everything you can likely imagine was at one probably in the EU, for shock value if nothing else. Anything from Storm Trooper zombies(Death Troopers) to Bobba Fett blowing a dude's head off with a point blank rocket barrage. It may have never made it to film, it may have never made it to television(for obvious reasons, it'd kill the kid friendly family pictures that folks want to make profit of) but it was there.

That's what I would want to revive, that sense that this is indeed a galactic civil war that has claimed hundreds of millions of lives, and will claim countless hundreds of millions more.

And in this bloody civil war, there are good people, bad people, good ideas, bad ideas, people with altruism, and those with greed, the corrupt, and the innocent, the world weary and the naive. I would want that.

SP was fun and pretty good if you simply judge it by the standards of being what SW usually is. 

From my end most of the disappointment is that they had the opportunity to get serious and actually say something of note (kind of like Rouge One started to get into with its portrayal of the Rebels), but ended up kinda fudging it from a narrative perspective (essentially with what you've detailed in your spoiler). Definitely enjoyed the first half or so of the game most, but the rest wasn't necessarily bad. This is of course, just my opinion.

I like the characters at least. Some small niggles (which mostly have to do with the narrative) aside, Iden's a cool addition, as is Shriv (a gruff, snarky Duros who is a prominent NPC). All the legacy characters are done well. 

Another thing I liked is that given the nature of the protaganist as a glorified grunt, most of the time is spent away from Jedi/Sith issues (and the lone mission where you play Luke is interesting for his character arc), so you get a more "normie" perspective than often is the case in SW.

Level design is pretty well done. There's a nice mix of ground and air/space combat that you often transition between (e.g. fly around a bit, land your fighter on an enemy ship to shoot some dudes etc.). Maybe a bit linear, depending on the mission, but that's par for the course in this genre.

The mechanics are solid and polished, and there's relatively few bugs that I'm aware of. Garbagepile straw capitalist tactics the publisher has engaged in with it notwithstanding, it's pretty much a straight upgrade to the previous DICE Battlefront, IMO.

I wouldn't expect much of those types of stories to return with Disney having final say on canon.

About the closest you'll get is things like the Tarkin novel.

I'm just gonna drop this here and call it for today:

EA being evil douchebags for a long time might have had something to do with it as well, the reaction to this nonsense I mean.

not even really mad at the situation but the memes are classic.

It is a grave they dug themselves, it seriously isn't that hard to build goodwill by showing a modicum of respect to your consumer base however EA constantly took the piss and pushed the limits of what the consumers would accept and finally reached breaking point.

You reap what you sow and with EA constantly taking advantage of their consumers this was always going to happen sooner or later, I am only disappointed that this did not happen sooner.

Not getting something in return is not the only condition for a gambling practice. Chance is involved because even if the box say "you get 1 hero and one vehicle card" you don't see exactly what you're getting, the content has a random factor. You have half the information to know what you're buying. It's like going to a grocery store and the manager says "in this bag here you're gonna find fruits, which ones? that's random" He tells you only part of the information you need.

I think we're hitting a... I don't know how to call it, let's say "cultural difference" . I don't know if you're American, I'm going to assume you are, either that or your country has a different definition of gambling. Regardless, apparently in America loot boxes by law are not considered gambling because "you get something always out of them" which is agreed by many to be shady to say the least, but it hits one of those wonderful and handy legal gaps so, it's considered legal. Obviously in many European countries they have the concept much more defined, otherwise they wouldn't bother investigating in the first place.

Whether or not you believe it's true, that's alright, it's your opinion. You like the game, you like the system, I'm happy for you. Although I personally don't think we should support this kind of stuff in our games.
The thing is that this loot box stuff system is actually dangerous (as many already posted in other comments) for people with addictive tendencies, kids also shouldn't be exposed to the system, especially when the rating for the game is "T" , which is obviously their intent by not adding gore or blood into the game and have a much wider audience.

Don't forget Battlefront II isn't the only Star Wars game.

I haven't purchased Battlefront II because I don't really like PvP as well as the predatory stuff.

However, for an authentic Star Wars experience with hero characters you can play from the start, there is a solution...
So I've cranked up this baby for another playthrough. 

They are really fun games, and the "acting" of the Lego characters is quite hilarious!