Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order and Jedi Survivor

Pretty sure if BioWare made the game I would have read over ten articles about how the one elevator is animated backwards.

I played on Jedi Knight, and got interrupted all the time in boss fights. Less so in mook squad fights, but it did happen on occasion.

It was annoying, but not enough to ruin the experience for me.

I play on Story Mode, but still have a ton of fun. I really like BD-1, he's quite cute and has a wonderful personality thanks to Ben Burtt (it's nice to see him involved with STAR WARS again after being shafted some years ago....Or so I'd read.) the more I play this game, the more I really can't find anything wrong with it on PC. The story is great, the characters are interesting and well acted/voiced/animated, the music is great and fits the Universe perfectly and the combat/gameplay is addictively fun and also challenging. Challenging enough to penalize you for stupid mistakes and yet reward you for great execution (looking at you sliding sequences)..... I am doing my second run through and find myself enjoying it as much as the first time. And this time around I want to see if I can discover things that I had missed before.

Finished Fallen Order today. Not the best Star Wars game I've ever played but I still had lots of fun playing it. Cal's background story was something I really liked experiencing through his memories. It gave some depth to the otherwise very bland and generic player character. Nightsister Merrin was my favorite character. I wish she had been the player character to be honest. Maybe in the next game, as someone suggested. Ilum is one of my favorite planets so going there was probably the highlight of the game for me.

Since Fallen Order is very linear and there aren't any player choices it doesn't have much replay value. I didn't like the enemies respawning everytime Cal meditates or how much time you just spend running around and doing puzzles. Combat was okay I guess. It sometimes got very repetitive when you kill the same enemies all the time. I liked the purge troopers or whatever they were called. Their VA was great. The game had lots of memorable and beautiful moments for sure.

Rather than be able to play as Nightsister, I think I'd've preferred the option to play Cal as female. The name works still and they'd need another VA, but nothing about Cal's story mandated that he be male.

That being said, Merrin is awesome.

The other big thing I think a lot of people are asking for and getting is the coupler that is added near the end of the game so you don't have a rusted spot on your customized lightsaber.

Beat it early last week, and had a generally positive time. Did second highest difficulty. I wanted to get the full 100%, but I only got the title through Gamefly and I wanted to be able to get Death Stranding. Overall: Good story, albeit predictable at times, but it made me nostalgic for the older metroidvania style games. 8/10 in my book, and I hope that we see more games like this in the future for the franchise.

Also, I agree with Gileadan about enemy interrupts. It's especially bad with those dual-wielding Inquisitor troops, and throughout my playthrough they were the most difficult enemy for me to have to go 1v1 against.

Yes, I thought the same the first time I saw that and I see the point......But it could have been merely the idea that was important, not necessarily the 'colour' of the lightsaber.

Okay.....So just for giggles and the sake of curiosity, I installed Fallen Order on my Dad's PC. He's running an Intel 8700K with 32GB G.SKill @ 3000 Mhz with a newer RTX 2080 and a 32" 60 hz 4K BENQ monitor (mind you, I had v-sync turned ON just as I do with my own system). Normally with games like ANTHEM, DA:I or ME, I would honestly say I much prefer the way those games both look and play on my system at 1440p. Something about those games in 4K at 60hz, and the playability combined....just isn't right. I honestly think that for the games I play, my rig is the perfect balance- and I don't generally like the look of 4K at 60hz especially if you're playing with V-sync OFF because you get a ton of screen tearing.

But I have to say, I played through the opening level of Bracca on my Dad's system......and WOW, I was blown away with both the looks and the performance. I was expecting much the same as I always had gotten.... 'Looks okay, I guess. Doesn't really do anything for me.....and there's something, something about it that doesn't look right. Personally I would prefer the balance of graphics and performance, how it looks and plays on my own system....." That's the response I was expecting to have with Fallen Order. But I can honestly say, this is the first game I have tried that looks even better in 4K (even at 60hz) than 1440. The colour, the lighting, the textures, the overall detail is just much higher...looks more realistic on my dad's monitor and his set-up. And I was quite surprised how well it played. Yes he has a far newer system than mine, but with the exception of his RTX GPU, there' really isn't much difference over all between his rig and my own.....And as I said already, in most cases, I would choose my system over his even given the difference in playable resolutions.

But, my point is Fallen Order is damn impressive in 4K on a rig that can actually handle it........Makes me wanna play the game all over again on his system to get the fullest experience. (Kashyyyk would be gorgeous in 4K)......

This week when playing Fallen Order, I am going to try really hard to find all of the lightsaber materials and parts. I've always been short by a half-dozen or so, though I've still managed to build I lightsaber I really like.

So today in Fallen Order I discovered there's several ways to get a double-bladed lightsaber without going Dathomir, even early in the game. You can go to Kashyyyk and then back to Bogano. During my second trip, I found Cordova's lightsaber and dismantled it at a workbench, then welded it to the one I already had.