The old republic is going through death throws, its hard to see it living many years. I personally think this colossal failure happened as a result of a conservative publisher. EA sat back like the emperor and pulled its strings to make the game more bland.
Here is a description, with examples from other games, of how I think the game should have been designed.
They should have ripped combat directly from jedi outcast multiplayer. One for one, that game had the best jedi multiplayer of any star wars game to date. The force powers were great, the lightsabers were deadly, it was magnificent.
This kind of combat would obviously throw combat off with the other classes. Thats ok though you just have to give the other classes a point. Make bounty hunters the only other class that stands a chance against jedi one on one. Fill them with a plethora of weapons and give them a jet pack and a bunch of gadgets. Make smugglers fly ships and trade things. Make troopers part of a tactical military.
Have there be trooper/soldiers that are supposed to group with each other. Have this class specialize into other classes with heavy weapons, shield generators, snipers, etc. Set it up so a team of two or three is a balance to a single jedi or bounty hunter.
Then with the smugglers you make them stealthy traders. They shouldn't be designed for combat balance, they should be smuggling. Which leads me into the next area of the game, ships.
Each class could be allowed access to a different variety of ships that they can pilot. Jedi can only use fighters and light transport ships. Bounty hunters light transport - freighter or cruiser class. Troopers have access to all ships say fighter to large combat vessels, and fill them as teams. Smugglers get transports and freighters, but have access to all kinds of black market technology.
Then since the game has ships in it now (properly) a galaxy based economy similar to how EVE online works could be implemented. Smugglers are essential (could even change them to smugglers/traders depending on player choice) to providing other players with ship parts, weapons, droids etc.
This is about as far as I'm going to go with this for now. Obviously as I've described it there are still balance issues but nothing that would be insurmountable with a little creativity. What do you think?
With Arkane Austin no more and Lyon living for who knows how long, the superb Dishonored is in serious danger; Microsoft cannot be trusted.
I love the Dishonored series so much and really want Dishonored 3. Microsoft better not screw this up.
I mean, I think the fans will probably kill Arkane Lyon by cooking up reasons to hate whatever they do next without playing it. I've never seen a game so artificially disliked as Deathloop.
Lol, why don't we just say, we are worried about all studios owned by MS now. They will keep closing studios until they have none left ...🙄
Just merge them all into a single studio, have it churn out a single Call of Duty every year and call it a day, lol.
I think it's becoming clear based on matt bootys comments there's no future for any IP that can't sell above 10 million within the launch window. But is also a small game that gives them prestige
/S it's beyond a joke right now
A renowned industry insider has suggested the rumored PlayStation May 2024 showcase featuring Silent Hill 2 could happen this week.
Bogus!
Why would Sony do that and how would this benefit them?
1) It would piss off their media partners (IGN, Gamespot, Edge, etc.) since they would have to allocate resources fast to cover the event.
2) Risk of not having great coverage or proper coverage from the various source
3) It could give the impression that they are not confident in their own stuff.
4) They would miss the chance to hype the event losing viewers and losing free marketing time.
Again I'm calling it bogus unless it's a small showcase before the big one or because they want to announce that Hellbalde 2 is also coming on PS5.
As far as I can remember, they typically give a week heads up for these sorts of things.
Last year it was a weeks notice.
https://blog.playstation.co...
May 17th announcement for may 24th show.
Nintendo always tweets that a direct is happening tomorrow but no one cares.
Sony gives a week or days of notice and we get anti sony type fake outrage like this.
But good luck trying trying to get some Sony hate going...
You just mention it!
Sony gives a week in advance NOT just a couple of days.
So I fail to see what Sony's hate movement I'm trying to start when it's a basic business strategy to not piss off your partners (ask Sega).
And I doubt it's hate to ask how it would benefit Sony in doing so.
@Versus
Huh? What?
Bro you really should relax, if what you read was some kinda negative against Sony.... seriously, is that what you got from the comments?
Bro, he was debunking the rumor, and gave perfectly good reasons why it would be unlikely, and your Nintendo Direct comparison is different, as this is supposed to be a BIG Sony showcase, not a surprise 20 min direct, and Sony 's pattern has been one week.
Slow down warmonger.
@thesoftware730
"1) It would piss off their media partners (IGN, Gamespot, Edge, etc.) since they would have to allocate resources fast to cover the event."
That is implying Sony is preventing them from doing their job properly therefore negatively affecting their business...but i guess that's a reach in your mind?
And it's not like they need that many resources to cover the stream. They just need 3 people to react to the stream live and make some easy articles made up mostly of summaries of Sony provided press releases. They would have enough time to "prepare" if it was announced with one days notice.
@Versus
" That is implying Sony is preventing them from doing their job properly therefore negatively affecting their business...but i guess that's a reach in your mind"
No, it simply implies that some media all over the world might (keyword MIGHT) not properly cover the event like having proper articles for each game announced, or having a proper preshow. maybe some popular YouTubers won't have time to prepare or simply your local newspaper doing an article on tech and game.
So why would Sony take a chance?
What benefit would that give them?
Before I get tons of replies for Sony given a week in advance, my initial comments are related to the notion that the Show could happen this week as the title mentions.
Now to be fair the complete article mentions that Jeff said the Show could happen later in May giving time for Sony to give the normal 7-day notice.
Again not trying to start a negative thing here just thinking that it's bogus that Sony will have a show this week
Yeah as much as I’d like to hear what sony’s 1st parties have cooked, it’s not their style to shadow drop a showcase.
Still waiting for ghost of tsushima 2, I’m ready whenever man..
Going in with no expectations but likely will see something that resonates with me.
Here is a look at the new Joker Trailer. Warner Bros. Games today released a new MultiVersus trailer revealing the first look at gameplay for The Joker, who will join the roster as a playable character when the upcoming free-to-play platform fighter videogame launches on May 28th.
Sounds great if you ask me. Too bad it didn't turn out this way.
I was going to post to say I disagree with the assessment of its quality, but like your ideas. I suppose the nuanced gameplay was the aspect that constantly stuck out to me as the weakness.
Bioware has the most successful sci-fi franchise of all time, creates entire new worlds with breathtaking scale, a jaw-dropping amount of voice talent, and yet still only wants to employ a few variations to the same formula? As much as I love the game, there could have been so much more creative risk taken with the gameplay. At least a million would have bought it with the name and CGI trailers alone.