Respawn Jedi Fallen Order

dreamers75

Gonna be honest no real interest in Star Wars but pound for pound Respawn are the best developer active at the moment*




https://twitter.com/pcgamer/status/1100865413129355264


*They have 3 very good games, they have made 3 games

Kiith

A reveal for a reveal. Just reveal it already.

Actually can't wait to see what they make of this.

EoinHef

Looking forward to seeing more on this.

Wasnt too dissapointed to hear the uncharted alike star wars was cancelled,this one interests me much more just because of respawn.

K.O.Kiki

Kiith wrote: »

A reveal for a reveal. Just reveal it already.

Actually can't wait to see what they make of this.

In fairness they are allowed a one-time exception for May the 4th.

Calhoun

Hopefully a decent single player story, would love a new KOTOR but a Padawan surviving order 66 sounds interesting.

Only thing I am not a big fan of with it being so close to the movie timelines is they have to kill them off or make them disappear.

Shiminay

All Titans have been replaced with AT-ST's and pilots with Storm Troopers :P They really should've given Battlefront to Respawn instead of Dice.

Whilst it's natural to want to get a great single-player game, that's not quite Respawn's forte to date. Whilst most would agree that the Titanfall 2 campaign was one of the best of the year it came out, it was very short and for me, it merely supplemented the multi-player. But I'll tell ya what, as dreamers said above, they're the best pound for pound dev out there right now I'd love to see a game in the slightly more expanded universe like the Rebels Animated series.

Calhoun

I was reading online about them lastnight and apparently there is a really good COD mission that they did showing they have a little aptitude for decent story telling.

How does the rebels animated series fit in with the existing film lore?

Stone Deaf 4evr

Calhoun wrote: »

I was reading online about them lastnight and apparently there is a really good COD mission that they did showing they have a little aptitude for decent story telling.

How does the rebels animated series fit in with the existing film lore?

have you not played titanfall 2? best FPS campaign in years

Calhoun

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

have you not played titanfall 2? best FPS campaign in years

No unfortunately BF1 came out at the time and i played it to death, a really good mate of mine plays it but he keeps telling me not to buy it as its effectively died.

I have picked up apex legends though.

Although i might have to buy it now with that comment

Mickeroo

Calhoun wrote: »

No unfortunately BF1 came out at the time and i played it to death, a really good mate of mine plays it but he keeps telling me not to buy it as its effectively died.

I have picked up apex legends though.

Although i might have to buy it now with that comment

Pretty sure it's on EA/Origin access. If you're on PS4 and can't access either of those then it's going very cheap in sales these days.

Stone Deaf 4evr

Calhoun wrote: »

No unfortunately BF1 came out at the time and i played it to death, a really good mate of mine plays it but he keeps telling me not to buy it as its effectively died.

I have picked up apex legends though.

Although i might have to buy it now with that comment

the ultimate edition is 6 euros quite often, its also seen a resurgence in players since apex dropped. still though, the campaign alone is worth 20 notes easy in my book.

Calhoun

Downloading it now, give it a shot. I had heard it got a bit of resurgence from apex legends.

gizmo

Shiminay wrote: »

All Titans have been replaced with AT-ST's and pilots with Storm Troopers :P They really should've given Battlefront to Respawn instead of Dice.

Whilst it's natural to want to get a great single-player game, that's not quite Respawn's forte to date. Whilst most would agree that the Titanfall 2 campaign was one of the best of the year it came out, it was very short and for me, it merely supplemented the multi-player. But I'll tell ya what, as dreamers said above, they're the best pound for pound dev out there right now I'd love to see a game in the slightly more expanded universe like the Rebels Animated series.

With Respawn essentially building a new team for Fallen Order as well as moving onto using Unreal Engine 4 and having being able to work on the project since 2015, I'm not quite sure we can accurately gauge its potential based on their previously released titles.

Not that that's a bad thing of course. It's actually kind of amusing that the Game Director on the project, Stig Asmussen, spent his last four years at Sony Santa Monica working on a new sci-fi IP before the project was canned back in 2014. Not a bad change in fortune. :pac:

Shiminay

Star Wars Rebels takes place between episode's 3 and 4 on the outer rim of the galaxy so is somewhat distant from the films lore, but you get cameos every now and again. The "crew" are a Jedi who left the order and so wasn't taken out with Order 66, his partner, a Mandalorian, a big and burly warrior that isn't a wookie, honest, who's the last of his race and a young kid who's force sensitive. Oh, and a borderline psychotic astromech droid called Chopper...

It's the best Star Wars thing produced in years I think, much better than the films. They have a couple of cameos in Rogue One.

Calhoun

Nice I like that setting leaves allot of room for growth.

EoinHef

Calhoun wrote: »

I was reading online about them lastnight and apparently there is a really good COD mission that they did showing they have a little aptitude for decent story telling.

How does the rebels animated series fit in with the existing film lore?

"All Ghillied Up" was the name of the mission in COD,was a doozey for its day. Very well done.

Although how many people that worked on that mission are still at respawn i couldnt tell ye. Theres been a few departures but they still seem to have the knack of knowing what works or not.

Retr0gamer

Shiminay wrote: »

Whilst it's natural to want to get a great single-player game, that's not quite Respawn's forte to date. Whilst most would agree that the Titanfall 2 campaign was one of the best of the year it came out, it was very short and for me, it merely supplemented the multi-player.

I'd take that 4-6 hours of inventive level design and set pieces over games that drag out the same boring combat loop over 40+ hours. It was a little gem that reminded me of when I used to like FPS games when they used to experiment with set pieces and their design.

dreamers75

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I'd take that 4-6 hours of inventive level design and set pieces over games that drag out the same boring combat loop over 40+ hours. It was a little gem that reminded me of when I used to like FPS games when they used to experiment with set pieces and their design.

I dont see star wars games having that "type" of level in a game.

But respawn are infinity ward who were 2015 and as i said above pound for pound the are the best developer of games i like out there :P

Shiminay

I guess I feel that 6 hours is too short for a single player game that I'm expected to pay €60 for and on the opposite side of that same coin, I'd say anything over 15 hours is being too heavily padded with fetch quests and collectibles and all that and I could definitely do without that. But 10-12 hours means you'll get anywhere between a week and 2 weeks out of it depending on your schedule and I think that'd be really cool

Calhoun

One of the designers from KOTOR2 is working on this project excitement levels have gone up.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10158604978863079&id=6738073078&sfnsn=mo

Mr Crispy

Not as excited for this as I was originally, knowing it's a third person game from a newly assembled team rather than an FPS from the same people that made Titanfall. The reveal will have to be something special to get excitement levels up again.

Vicxas

This better be good or Disney should just rip the Star Wars franchise from EA

Calhoun

Darch Nemesis wrote: »

Not as excited for this as I was originally, knowing it's a third person game from a newly assembled team rather than an FPS from the same people that made Titanfall. The reveal will have to be something special to get excitement levels up again.

I'd personally give them the benefit of the doubt for now as being apart of a big studio with decent rep they won't want to be the team to ruin it.

Mr Crispy

https://twitter.com/starwars/status/1115632678349430785

Canis Lupus

Darch Nemesis wrote: »

Not as excited for this as I was originally, knowing it's a third person game from a newly assembled team rather than an FPS from the same people that made Titanfall. The reveal will have to be something special to get excitement levels up again.

Who wants a boring laser beam fps. I need some light saber swinging 3rd person goodness!

Mr Crispy

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Who wants a boring laser beam fps. I need some light saber swinging 3rd person goodness!

Ah Dark Forces was great though! But I'll be happy with your vision, if they do it right.

Varik

All the Jedi knight games were 3rd person for lightsabers.

Skerries

I find your lack of faith disturbing

Mr Crispy

Amazon supposedly leaked the poster early, but it really gives nothing away.

Mr Crispy

Will be built on UE4 rather than Frostbite.

Yes, I'm desperate for news.

Shiminay

Darch Nemesis wrote: »

Will be built on UE4 rather than Frostbite.

Yes, I'm desperate for news.

That, given all the dire tidings of games involving Frostbite of late, is great news. Frostbite's a great engine, but it's a bastard to work with and offers no means to do modding or anything like that (by design) which is a total crock as far as I'm concerned.

Mr Crispy

https://twitter.com/BlairBroon/status/1116830762899128320

^Respawn producer. Hopefully EA won't overrule them and force in some microtransactions somewhere. Although for 100% SP, it'd hardly matter.

Mr Crispy

Rumoured release date of November 15th.

Mr Crispy

The usual modern ****e of a teaser for a reveal of a teased trailer revealing a trailer tease.

https://twitter.com/EAStarWars/status/1117079999008387073

Relikk

Trailer coming up now.

https://youtu.be/pPIyVPlwBL4

EDIT: Nothing special. All pre-rendered and no gameplay. I have a feeling this is going to play more like a "The Force Unleashed" type of game rather than a "Jedi Knight" game. Meh.

Mr Crispy

Yeah, terrible trailer, and cringey presentation (which is par for the course, I guess).

Edit: The trailer in question.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GLbwkfhYZk

johnny_ultimate

Looks and sounds the part anyway. This is one of those cases where I’m not so fussed about a reveal being cinematic as I think the narrative and world-building will be a key to its success: whether it can add something to a series that has gotten innumerable stories told across a wide quality spectrum, not to mention dozens of different games.

Still, as intrigued by the basic premise and as hopeful as I am about Respawn’s role, not really a whole lot one can say or judge until something more substantial emerges. I would be all in for a Titanfall 2 esque short but sweet and polished experience as I think that’s something missing in this era of endless open world titles.

nix

Is that Cameron Monaghan?

Mr Crispy

Yeah, they had him on stage too.

ERG89

Darch Nemesis wrote:

The usual modern ****e of a teaser for a reveal of a teased trailer revealing a trailer tease.

Should they not have something pre recorded to show by now?
The game is out this year I think.

pixelburp

Boilerplate cinematic trailer, but just makes me lament how EA have exclusive rights on the license. Wonder if Disney are themselves regretting the decision.

Venom

ERG89 wrote: »

Should they not have something pre recorded to show by now?
The game is out this year I think.

Games out Nov 15th and so far all that's been shown is a CGI trailer I guess gameplay at E3 or whatever EA are doing during that event.

Mr Crispy

So that's two actors who've played both Jedi and Joker.

gizmo

Yea, they definitely should have shown in-game footage by now but so help me god if it's not a pixel-perfect representation of what they release in around seven months time I'm going to write some angry things on the internet. :mad:

Varik

Anyone hear the name he was called, almost sounded like Galen.

Mr Crispy

The main character? It's Cal I think.

Mr Crispy

Also, Sarlacc pit confirmed.

Venom

I wonder how much the lack of microtransactions and loot boxes is down to Disney putting EA on notice not to screw up again and risk bringing any negativity on the upcoming episode 9?

Shiminay

That was my first thought too.

pixelburp

Oh I would say a very frank and honest conversation was had between Disney & EA once the negative press started knocking on Disney's door: that whole exclusive deal was probably taken in good faith, Disney likely happy to defer to the expertise of EA in the games industry to know what path to take. It's not like both companies aren't chasing profits, but with the Star Wars brand in a sticky enough situation, the last thing Disney expected was their games to be also in the dog house.

Though I do wish they broke the contract and tendered out to more studios, Fallen Order is only going to underwhelm, precisely because the AAA industry is built on unrealistic financial expectations.

Venom

pixelburp wrote: »

Oh I would say a very frank and honest conversation was had between Disney & EA once the negative press started knocking on Disney's door: that whole exclusive deal was probably taken in good faith, Disney likely happy to defer to the expertise of EA in the games industry to know what path to take. It's not like both companies aren't chasing profits, but with the Star Wars brand in a sticky enough situation, the last thing Disney expected was their games to be also in the dog house.

Though I do wish they broke the contract and tendered out to more studios, Fallen Order is only going to underwhelm, precisely because the AAA industry is built on unrealistic financial expectations.

It's really hard to have any sort of opinion on Fallen Order due to a lack of any gameplay footage which I have to admit is concerning seeing as the game is due for release in November. The one thing for me in its favour is that Respawn did such an amazing job with Titanfall 2's single player campaign and that its combat, movement and level design really looks like a perfect fit for a game about a Jedi.