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Star Wars Outlaws ESRB Rating Confirms Focus on Stealth and Gambling Minigames

ESRB has rated Star Wars Outlaws for PS5, Xbox Series S|X, and PC. Their rating also confirms some of the minigames.

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jznrpg16d ago (Edited 16d ago )

Far Cry with a Star Wars skin is my guess for this game. Too bad I’m not a big fan of Far Cry, they have been stale for a long time

ElaBosak16d ago

How did you even come to this conclusion? Lol there's literally no connection to Far Cry other than the publisher.

Tacoboto16d ago

The same development studio (Massive) just released Avatar and Avatar has a lot of that Far Car DNA. I'd bet there's a lot of cross-over in their development.

ElaBosak16d ago (Edited 16d ago )

@Tacoboto Still different teams. Either way, Avatar is an open world game set in the wilderness. How can you possibly make one without "Far Cry DNA" in it? lol Even Red Dead 2 has "Far Cry DNA" in it. "Skin animals to upgrade your pouch and clear gang hideouts. Oh, and collect dinosaur bones on your way"

Star Wars Outlaws looks a different experience. Maybe closer to GTA / Watch Dogs than Far Cry.

KyRo16d ago

How are people all of a sudden praising this game based on Massives and Ubisofts track records? You can seemingly sell people any old trash if it has the Star Wars name attached it seems 🙃

-Foxtrot16d ago

There's a small connection...writing wise

She wrote Far Cry 6 (along with WatchDogs Legion)

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CrimsonWing6916d ago

It looked more GTA to me 🤔. Can you point me out the Far Cry game that looks and plays like this?

Inverno16d ago

People disagreeing seem to be too optimistic this won't turn out mediocre like most of what Ubi releases.

Psychonaut8516d ago

Looks much more like a reskinned Division to me. But a reskin nonetheless.

smolinsk16d ago

The division? Not even close. Actually looks unique for a Ubisoft game

YourMommySpoils16d ago

Oh I'm sorry, when did this game become first person?

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phoenixwing16d ago

Internet required for disc's to work. Not buying.

smolinsk16d ago

Welcome back from your time travel back in time. No internet is the extreme these days and if you don't have Internet then you don't have the money for this game.

phoenixwing16d ago (Edited 16d ago )

Obviously you put little thought into your argument. A game requiring servers to run makes the disc a coaster when the servers are shut down. But you don't care about that you probably are a jerk who only sees how things affect yourself. Resorting to calling people poor is funny btw do you call ppl poor whenever they disagree with your world view? I just happen to be of the opinion that single player disc's shouldn't be coasters at the whim of a game company.

Crows9016d ago

Many have internet...you just don't need Internet to be able to play a game once installed...that is actually the norm not your nonsense.

Most games don't require the constant internet connection to play.

Welcome back to reality and hope you stop drinking the mainstream AAA coolaid

staticall16d ago

@smolinsk
Ignoring the weird "you don't have the money for this game" argument, look at «The Crew» from the same ol' Ubisoft - you can have all the money and internet in the world, you just can't play the game, because the servers are down, not in singleplayer, not in multiplayer.

With this Star Wars game though, you can't even install it. This is not ok, this should never be the case. You shouldn't need to download even a single byte from the internet in order to install a singleplayer game.

-Foxtrot16d ago

What is with people not getting this whole situation

It's not about people not having the internet, it's just a shitty thing to implement

It's a single player game, you shouldn't need to

Jesus when did so many gamers started bending backwards for Ubisoft.

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CrimsonWing6916d ago (Edited 16d ago )

I think that’s just for the initial install. And seriously, you’re using the internet right now to post this… you sort of need internet for things to work in 2024. My job requires it or we’re dead in the water. I also need it for Netflix and online shopping. I don’t think it requiring a network connection for an install is this crazy terrible thing. No hyperbole here, but when I play a game I always connect to the internet. If my internet goes down I’m on the phone with Comcast immediately, I am not playing a game without my home having a network connection. If there’s no internet that’s priority number 1 and 99.99999% of time it’s just a brief outage that is fixed in less than an hour and even when that happens it’s a rare occurrence.

Helldivers 2, the most beloved game of this year so far, requires an internet connection to play… where is all the hate on that one?

phoenixwing16d ago

Helldivers isn't a single player game though. Again the servers will go down eventually and it will be unplayable for good off of the disc permanently. It's like you don't even care crimson, just because you have internet doesn't mean the company will perpetually pay for server upkeep.

Crows9016d ago

Helldiver's is an online multiplayer game. What's with the constant nonsense these days...

smolinsk16d ago

Precisely the case. Well put.

REDGUM16d ago

You don't have internet? Just asking.

JackBNimble16d ago

Ubisoft already confirmed that you can play offline once the game installs.

What I find hilarious is you guy's complain about needing an internet connection to install that game. But I didn't see any complaints when you needed an internet connection just to set your console to play your single player games offline.
Amazing...

CrimsonWing6916d ago

This exactly! It’s ridiculous this whole “I won’t buy a game because it requires internet!” Do they say the same about Netflix?

phoenixwing16d ago (Edited 16d ago )

Yeah once the game installs which means if you ever Uninstall to make room and the servers are gone you can't play it. Better never ever delete it off your hard drive and it's amazing how you guys come to the defense of this practice like it's somehow completely normal to do and for what? Some always online required drm that can be gone at the drop of a hat? I mean does ubisoft pay you guys to be their shills or something?

JackBNimble16d ago

Phoenix you a link on that ?
You don't need to be online to play, which means you're not on any server.

There are other games exactly like that , one which I play and the servers are down after 8 years and I still can play the single player game.

phoenixwing16d ago (Edited 16d ago )

@jack the server is the online data required to be on to interact with the drm on the disc. It connects online and allows the disc to install. Do you follow the logic of what happens when the greedy company turns off that online component from their servers? Your single player disc won't connect if you try to play it fresh after its shut down. Hence your disc becomes a coaster.

If you don't understand that then ill just think your unable to comprehend English or are a shill.

smolinsk16d ago

It's the cancel culture and it's getting way out of hand. They also complained about the girl in the game is ugly and Ubisoft not using the actual actor who Motion captured vees. I mean it's a design choice they can do what they feel is right. The pricing on the special editions are to steep that's it. It's insane with the cancel culture out there trying to ruin everything.

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Ironmike16d ago

Hear we go with hate I might just be decent

smolinsk16d ago

Looks so good and very unlike a typical Ubisoft game. Looking forward to it.

Ironmike16d ago

Avatar was good game there's hope here

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Ubisoft Is Pulling Out All The Stops To Ruin Star Wars Outlaws

Hanzala from eXputer: "Ubisoft takes away even the right to own Star Wars: Outlaws as if the ridiculous pricing and uglified characters weren't enough."

TheLigX13d ago

Im all in with the author on the business practices side of things…. But the “uglification of the character”? Lol. Dude is a nut.

CrimsonWing6913d ago

What weird is Ubisoft has always been doing this tier thing and for the same prices. Look at Valhalla and tell the tiers and pricing, look at Division 2, but now all of a sudden we choose this hill to die on.

What about other publishers? I know I bought the third tier for Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth never once saw an article about that.

There’s some vicious mob mentality going on and this chick is nowhere near as fugly as what Xbox is pulling with Fable. There’s literally a couple angle shots on this b*tch that makes her look weird, but I can snapshot you a bunch of others where she looks fine.

Like, what in the hell is going on that made this the hill to die on? Remember Red Dead 2 having multiple tiers and content locked behind tiers? We did boycott that game to be burned to the ground and string up the publishers.

Markusb3313d ago

there was an internal memo at xbox asking dev teams to not make females with curves and sexy, make of it what you will.

notachance13d ago

tbh the first time I saw the latest fable trailer I laughed at the main character's face, there's no way that sh*t isn't on purpose

Crows9013d ago

To be fair...Xbox hasnt shown fable recently and fable isn't star wars.

More current attention means conversation will focus around current events. As we approach fables release you can bet people will talk about how ugly that character is if it hasn't changed and more specifically if there's no character creator to adjust that ugliness

Profchaos13d ago

The difference with rdr2 and this is you can never ever play this pay walled mission. Rdr 2 was just a horse you got early and some online currency.

But GTA v has flying missions pay walled and no one noticed.

Anyhow it's not the first time.ubisoft has done this assassin's Creed IV had a entire PS exclusivity mode story while watchdogs had a few PS exclusive missions

shinoff218313d ago (Edited 13d ago )

I think because with ubisoft it's a pretty big pattern and I think more and more people are getting upset about it. Ubisoft are the biggest abusers of this practice.

Also the other point. Even if you think the chick is ugly. So what it's a video game character. Do they all have to be society's standard beautiful

VincentVanBro13d ago

Why do you care? Regardless of how long this practice has been in place, why would you defend it? Do you like having to pay extra $$$ for a complete game?

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Eonjay13d ago

Here is a picture of the article writer Hanzala Iftikhar: https://exputer.com/author/...
Can someone tell this guy to GTFO. Isn't it funny how we have the revenge on the toads running around calling everyone else ugly.

And totally agree with you on the business end. Especially with the dlc mission. Its like they want to fail.

Crows9013d ago

Okay so down below you grab the best possible picture of the games character....and the most middling angle and lighting for the actress. Good job...

Eonjay13d ago

@Crows90
"Okay so down below you grab the best possible picture of the games character....and the most middling angle and lighting for the actress. Good job..."

I used the SAME EXACT image from the article itself. They same one they used to call her ugly. Oh, did you not read the article? Good job...

RiseNShine13d ago (Edited 13d ago )

Hve you seen the real model? Her name is Humberly González, and She's like 10 times more beautiful than the game's character, just google it and looks at some pictures, it's pretty clear they have uglified her on purpose.

smolinsk13d ago

No it's not. The character in the game has a lot more charisma from the trailer we have seen. She is not ugly Just a little normal with some sweet and charming characteristics to her like the dimple in the chin and high cheekbones. The girl that motion captured her looks boring and yes beautiful but so non charming and special. just the classic boring beautiful.

Vees is perfect and nice to see them doing normal with a curve

Eonjay13d ago

Wait... you are for real saying that this:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media...
is 10x more beautiful than this:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media...

I don't get it. Are you just trolling?

CrimsonWing6913d ago (Edited 13d ago )

Troy Baker didn’t look like Joel.
I think they wanted this character to fit in the world and environment. She’s a down on her luck smuggler and looks the part.

Most game characters don’t look like their voice actors. Take the FF7 cast for example.

dumahim13d ago

@CrimsonWing69

Troy Baker wasn't the model for Joel. It'd make sense if you used an example of the actual model used for the character appearance.

CrimsonWing6913d ago (Edited 13d ago )

@dumahim

Can you link me an article saying the character was modeled off the voice actor?

I 100% see this as an artistic decision and not a woke one. She fits in with the scoundrel looking smuggler kinda of characters. People are f*cking over reacting. We’ve gone through so much bullsh*t with woke character designs… I have no clue why this is the one everyone and their mother is taking a stand on. Like, what world am I living in?

MeatyUrologist13d ago

Eonjay: I definitely think the actual voice actor looks better than the Freddy Mercury spawn looking character they came up with. Just seems weird with the games industries push for diversity and representation that they would take an attractive woman of color and make her an unattractive bland looking white woman.

MontyeKristo12d ago

Eonjay

Considering one is a real life pretty woman and one is a video game character made out of pixels - yeah. She is.

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Inverno13d ago

What's nuts is that people can't seem to tell the huge difference between the models and who they're modeled after. It's not just unflattering angles, female protagonists in games are ugly as all hell. The excuse is always "you don't know what real women look like", which is ironic cause neither do the ones that say that know it seems.

MrBaskerville13d ago

Character seems cool. I think most gamers are just a little brain damaged from being online.

JackBNimble13d ago (Edited 13d ago )

Disney alright fucked the star wars, at this point it's just another game.
Buy it or not the star wars franchise will never comeback from what Disney has done to it.

isarai13d ago

Whyd they add butt chin and laugh lines since the reveal tho?

https://www.reddit.com/medi...

Killer2020UK13d ago

Agreed. Ubisoft really suck at this stuff. I feel sorry for the devs who've put in all that work to make a videogame only to have execs and money men create a load of bad faith by shoehorning in monetisation everywhere they can.

This "uglification" thing is nonsense though. If devs don't want their characters looking like they've just stepped out of a salon then that's fine. It's not some grand conspiracy and even if it was, what a hill to die on.

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ROCKY2813d ago

UBI is SOFT and so are all the executives in SF

Eonjay13d ago

Its a perfect example of how greed destroys. Its like they still don't get it. Imagine being so greedy that you turn everyone off and get nothing.

ROCKY2813d ago

they once were the king of the hill years back - but they have fallen based on ego's and greed
sad but true

Markusb3313d ago

Ubisoft are going to see this fail and it deserves to, esecially after the whole, gamers need to get used to not owning their games statement. Pricing and paywalls for single player is insane. The trend of making charaters androgynous is clear and has been going on for a while, tied to ESG social credit scores etc, pretend its not real thats fine but its how games are funded these days. You can say it doesnt matter, if that is true why spend time, effort and money changing the characters? Also why facial scan a beautiful actress and then change her, dont waste money paying her for a scan, japanese and korean devs seem to be fine making characters look just like the people they paid for their likeness.

Gameseeker_Frampt13d ago

Everyone calling the character model ugly to fit their social agenda would probably be posting videos/articles complaining about Alien and The Terminator if they were released today. "Woke Hollywood is butchering female characters - instead of getting supermodels we are forced to watch Sigourney Weaver and Linda Hamilton!"

Nobody complained about the way the Kay Vess looked in the cgi trailer last year. Ubisoft didn't change the way the character model looked from then to now. What did happen is players got to see the difference between the cgi and actual gameplay graphics - which for any gamer with half a brain shouldn't be surprised that everything is downgraded when it comes to Ubisoft. Watchdogs, The Division, Assassin's Creed, Far Cry - what they use to sell you the game looks nothing like what you get when you buy it. Why are the people upset with the "uglification" of Kay Vess not also complaining about how bad Galen looks now?

-Foxtrot13d ago

When it comes to the character ask yourself, why is it male characters look almost identical to their actor but the female ones don’t

It’s a trend

Cal from the Jedi games looks identical to the actor, yet she doesn’t.

It’s not just this game it happens with most western games these days

Eonjay13d ago (Edited 13d ago )

No. Absolutely not. Chris Judge doesn't look like Kratos. Nolan North Doesn't look like Drake. Troy Baker has 50 different roles he has played and he doesn't look like any of them. Eve from Stellar Blade has her artist's body but not her face. It is exceedingly difficult to find ANY Japanese voice actor or actress that looks like their game model. Like at all. Ben Starr doesn't look like Clive. This lie has to stop. There is no trend. There is just a weird movement where people want the medium to reflect what they deem as acceptable. Its brainwashing. Don't let them get you.

-Foxtrot13d ago (Edited 13d ago )

I’m talking about FACIAL models who allow them to use their likeness not just mocap actors

Kratos isn’t based on Chris Judge facial wise is he

However Leon S Kennedy in the RE Remakes has a voice actor and face model

Sure there’s exceptions but my point is when it does happen it’s mostly the female characters who suffer

Crows9013d ago

Absolutely wrong you continue to be.

He didn't say the voice actors look like all the characters they're voicing. When you try to make them look and represent each other....yeah that's where apparently some devs have a wicked hard time.

Eonjay13d ago

Obvious we are both men, but I highly doubt any woman legitimately looks at Kay Vess and thinks they are 'suffering' lol. In fact, as people mentioned, last year NO ONE had anything negative to say about her looks. If we are talking about the FACIAL models, then can we agree that the model they came up with for her face isn't bad... like at all?

romulus2313d ago

Doesn't Senua look just like Melina Juergens?

isarai13d ago (Edited 13d ago )

Also since the reveal they gave her a butt chin and extra laugh lines alongside other small tweaks to her facial features for no real reason.

https://www.reddit.com/medi...

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Star Wars Outlaws Launches Day 1 Mission Behind $110 Edition

While the standard $70 edition of the game may not grant access to the Day 1 exclusive mission, the Gold Edition priced at $109 and the Ultimate Edition priced at $129 both include the Season Pass.

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purple10115d ago

If the content is ready to go day one, probably right to include it in the game?

DLC To me means the developers went on further to produce more chapters for the fans

Unless they finished developing and were sitting around twiddling their thumbs for months before release, I can’t see this is dlc

just_looken13d ago

"On-Disc DLC Is For 'Easy Compatibility"
2012 quote
https://kotaku.com/capcom-s...

-Foxtrot14d ago

People keep defending this because it’s one mission out of probably a dozen from Jabba but it’s not the point, there shouldn’t be any locked behind a paywall

Ubisoft will do anything to kill hype for a game and hurt their own image in the process

The sad thing is the sales for this will be high, reviewers will give most issues they find the benefit of the doubt and Ubisoft will keep on trucking sadly.

shinoff218314d ago (Edited 14d ago )

First game not completely on disc. Idgaf what you(not you specifically) say that's not the norm.

Then the day one dlc. Day one dlc shouldn't even be a thing unless it's some dumb sh like outfits or something

At this point I'd rather them not make another beyond good and evil. Save it for when they get a fking clue if ever

just_looken13d ago

This has been a thing sense 2012 from capcom yet 12 years later were all say wha and oh ubi is bad.

Hey capcom started this mainstream everyone remember that
https://www.eurogamer.net/c...

VincentVanBro13d ago

Regardless it’s better that we confront this practice now than not at all

Crows9014d ago

Oops...they said the quiet part out loud....

Exclusive mission...Day 1...

In other words. Not early access. It's out day 1.
It's a bunch of horseshit. Some people enjoy eating horse shit these days but that doesnt make it any less shit.

GoodGuy0914d ago (Edited 14d ago )

Just wtf is ubi doing with this game lmao. God just let them release the game, then a story expansion about a year later. All these different editions and dlcs...

I know if the game is truly good then we could probably forget about the BS but I still think it's insane these publishers want to keep pulling stupid crap like this.

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