Respawn Jedi Fallen Order

johnny_ultimate

Late embargo or not in this case, anyone who decides to buy a game before reading reviews - whether they’re released a week beforehand or on the day - deserves the 60 quid hit if the game turns out to be ****e

Stone Deaf 4evr

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Late embargo or not in this case, anyone who decides to buy a game before reading reviews - whether they’re released a week beforehand or on the day - deserves the 60 quid hit if the game turns out to be ****e

If it was something like the division or destiny , the fear of getting left behind is real, with a single player focused thing like this, there's really no need to be preordering.

Grumpypants

I live life on the edge and blindly pre ordered a ps5 from gamestop. Yolo

As for embargos they are often used in place of a big marketing drive. Outside of word of mouth this is a really quiet release for a star wars game.

JimBurnley

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

If it was something like the division or destiny , the fear of getting left behind is real, with a single player focused thing like this, there's really no need to be preordering.

I wouldn't preorder at full price, but the GS offer of €10 plus old game (total cost €30 max) a few months ago was way too tempting. Even if it's pants I can get that back after a few weeks from CEX, probably even make a little profit. My only 'problem' is finding time to play as I just got Death Stranding too

2Mad2BeMad

Cordell wrote: »

I'm waiting for this but I'm a bit concerned about DS references (yeah, I know) - will it feature the same mechanics as DS? I mean grind/farm one section until the next, one chance to recover dropped loot?

I hope so :P

Cordell

It certainly looks like so, such is life
So I'll pay full price on Steam so I will be able to refund if needed

Multiple good reasons for embargos. Prevents media putting out a review just to be first, with or without playing the game. Prevents reviews of incomplete games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRcCSYX-wLI

TitianGerm

Niska wrote: »

They are also not allowing the usual 10 hour advance trial for EA Access members - "to stop spoilers".

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-11-12-star-wars-jedi-fallen-order-wont-get-ea-access-trial

https://twitter.com/EAAccess/status/1193958401874653184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1193958401874653184&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eurogamer.net%2Farticles%2F2019-11-12-star-wars-jedi-fallen-order-wont-get-ea-access-trial

What's the campaign time on it? If it's similar to Titanfall 2 then you could probably blast through it in the 10 hours and that would affect sales.

Cordell

This is a single player game, unlike TF2 which is a multiplayer game with a single player campaign. So it has to be (much) more than that.

Shiminay

It doesn't have to be anything

It certainly should be mind you, but that's a very different thing.

I'm not at all happy about all this "Dark Souls" references. I fking hate the Dark Souls games.

Cordell

I hate them too. Although I didn't mind the rest with respawn of enemies and revenge quests in Shadow of Mordor, but did not like it either.

Zero-Cool

I've no interest in star wars but the dark souls comparison has me very intrigued in this. I believe it won't be a patch on it difficulty wise but I'm like l liking the sound of the mechanics.

Potential-Monke

Penn wrote: »

Well that's more troubling than the review embargo imo. I'd also wonder if that breaks the T&Cs of EA Access, if people were told they'd get trial access to all EA games, though I presume they'd have some get-out clause for that. Have they done it with any other game?

Oh they're covered!

EA Access T&C's wrote:

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The Phantom Pain

The Phantom Pain wrote: »

I don't think anyone is against embargoes, it's late embargoes that people are wary of. Very rarely do late embargoes actually hide a good game. Even Doom 2016 - which had no review copies sent out - was held back because the devs and Bethesda admitted they thought it would flop.

Perhaps in EA's case they are just especially nervous when it comes to the Star Wars IP because of their sordid history with it. They are probably paranoid that the critics will have knives out due to leftover resentment from Battlefront II and won't judge the game fairly...or it really could just be the game is trash. We'll see.

I was fully against embargoes earlier in the thread. I presumed it meant **** game.

Vicxas

Embargos always rile me up the wrong way, im hoping this game is good. My heart cant handle another awful Star Wars game

Rob2D

Just got sent a deal there for this 20% off already.......

ERG89

Rob2D wrote: »

Just got sent a deal there for this 20% off already.......

Where is that??

Grumpypants

It's out in New Zealand so the first few streams have shown up. I won't embed this so you have to click out to avoid spoilers but this is the first hours or so but skip to about 20 min mark if you just want to see some combat.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdbaMH1igTM

Stone Deaf 4evr

Grumpypants wrote: »

It's out in New Zealand so the first few streams have shown up. I won't embed this so you have to click out to avoid spoilers but this is the first hours or so but skip to about 20 min mark if you just want to see some combat.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdbaMH1igTM

looks ok in fairness. I'm still going to hold off until I see a few reviews though.

Any way to play on PC early? VPN?

Sephiroth_dude

I got the duluxe for 50 on cd keys for xbox one.

Varik

Watched the opening, Is that the hu playing at the start.

KilOit

Ign

9 -gave it a glowing review

Grumpypants

84 on PS4, 85 on XBOX, and 90 on PC on metacritic from around 20 reviews. Seems to be a hit.

Respawn are a top Dev

Kiith

Looking good anyway. Will get stuck into it this week, after seeing those reviews.

Retr0gamer

Eurogamer review less than enthusiastic. Said they were bored for a lot of it and the story is drivel.

Kiith

While others seem to be saying the story is pretty good. It's like reviews are subjective or something :P

To be fair, i was probably going to play this regardless of the reviews. It's Star Wars...and while that's not quite as important to me anymore, it's still Star Wars

Penn

Kiith wrote: »

While others seem to be saying the story is pretty good. It's like reviews are subjective or something :P

To be fair, i was probably going to play this regardless of the reviews. It's Star Wars...and while that's not quite as important to me anymore, it's still Star Wars

Yeah for me this is one of those "A family member asked me what I want for Xmas and I can't think of anything so I'll just pick this game. F*ck it, it'll do" kind of games. Not hyped in the least about it, but might be a decent enough playthrough. Most reviews are generally positive enough.