@@chris9206 I was making a joke. He absolutely slammed this game for 20 minutes, most developers won’t send codes to people who are harsh on their products.
@@kazumo50 It was in Black flag and it was so annoying. You'd alert 1 guard and suddenly everyone knows you're there. Spider-Man was actually really good because it has multiple alert stages until the enemy saw a body which they report over radio.
Probably because they were "told" too... In there defense - You make a "new" scrappy char who isn't a jedi or bounty hunter, pretty sure you can't do too much with this as to not confuse Star Wars cannon etc. I.e. Ubi were better off going with an established char, perhaps! Personally, I don't think Ubisoft makes GREAT games, I think they make games in the 4-6.5 outta 10 range, "Meh" and "Ok"
I remember when the witcher 3 came out back in 2015 it really seemed like this would be the standard for big games going forward. Unfortunately not and star wars really deserves a game of that calibre in 2024
I will say Jedi Fallen Order and Survivor are the best we have gotten for an open world souls-light kind of experience, and I honestly dont know why they wouldnt do a better focus in this outlaws game on combat and customization, and instead followed the same atrociously buggy stealth section mechanics we have had since like 2006 I need to replay witcher 3 one of these days. CDPR have evolved as a studio but I always hope for a 4th game
@@ForgottenShinobi11 its why I give games I wanna play like 4-5 years and erase them from my memory lol because by then theyre super cheap and full of patches and features
I was interested in this game until I watched this review. The major reviewers encompass and gloss over pretty much every criticism with ‘It’s NoT PerFect’ but…so it refreshing to watch an honest review. I really don’t understand the stealth decision. Like it’s Star Wars, how many players were clamouring for a Star Wars stealth game as opposed to, y’know, action?
I wouldn't take this review that seriously, this is probably the least honest review of the game I've seen. All his gameplay complaints are addressed with character progression, mostly from side quest and exploration. Anyone that's played the game can tell from his b-roll he's lying when he said he's done the majority of side content. His equipment, gear, upgrades, amount of health bars, his faction rep, etc etc shows he hasn't done the side content. So he's saying one thing and showing another, aka either blatantly lying or REALLY REALLY bad at the game and ignorant to that. Not sure which is worse for a reviewer tbh.
As someone who loves the concept of the Agent class in SWTOR I've actually always thought a stealth-based Star Wars game where you could use a wide variety of interesting tools and weapons to take people out or get around undetected could be really cool and is something I've bee kinda hoping to see someday. But then this game comes along and makes it almost feel like someone's playing a prank on me. The most bare-bones stealth mechanics, and they make zero use of the fact that this is a sci-fi universe where they can come up with all kinds of dope tools for you to use, but instead the main method your character uses for takedowns is to throw the shittiest and most amateurish haymaker punch possible that looks so weak that she would realistically struggle to even leave a bruise, yet is somehow enough to take knock enemies out in one hit.
The original project, where you were an Alderaan survivor turned smuggler who happened to be off-planet with a full blown story of potentially being rebellion allied, or imperial, or independent, that game died for this. What will always bother me with most star wars games, aside from the good ones we've gotten recently. Is the missed opportunity and what could have been.
When it comes to maps and finding your next objectives, I feel like Ghost of Tsushima had the most innovative and best way to help you find your locations. Instead of making you look at a minimap, or pause the game and open up a full size map, it used the wind to direct you. So whichever way the wind was blowing was the direction of your objective, and that really kept you immersed in the game and paying attention to the environment instead of constantly looking at a map. That is honestly the best way that I have ever seen waypoints and objective locations done in a video game.
Cyberpunk was so fun. I wasn't expecting to love it as much as I did after buying it for $5 used when it was in its worst state. Best $5 I've likely ever spent.
@@M98747cyberpunk was incredible even day one. yeah there were some bugs and performance issues but the meat of the game has always been groundbreaking
@@DazHotep6EQUJ5There’s definitely a lot of DEI but there’s plenty of great games out today. You don’t have to try to make gaming as a whole seem like it’s all bad when that’s not true.
Cause a lot of it is outsourced and done in the most cost efficient way possible. Shareholders have an iron grip on this industry and theyre milking it like theres no tomorrow
I have 47 hours in the game and it is incredibly disappointing. There are some good ideas in here but the implementation is terrible. I think half my time in the game was looking up where to go because the game kept telling me to search an area for what to do instead of giving me a waypoint.
Nah. Larian turned baldurs gate into divinity original sins 3, with a D&D overcoat. They completely altered the franchise. I don't trust them not to do it again.
They lost 70% of value as company on stock market in last 3,5 years and are profitable solely because subsidies given by govs around the world. They got over 500million$(!!) in subsidies from Canadian gov for example look it up its insane. Them being parasitic on subsidies is for example only reason why Skulls and Bones had to be released since they made a deal with Singaporean government to release that project no matter what. Its so bad that they stopped giving raw sale numbers even to shareholders we still dont know sales of Avatar game,new The Crew,that PoP game and their other titles. Only title sales they gave in last couple of years are one of AC Mirage that sold "over 5,5m copies" which should tell you how grim it is and that AC is the only IP that generates any kind of proper revenue/profit for them and everything else at best makes back dev costs lol.
@@Tomasz- the game is nto bad atleast for me its not im playing it now its not bad i dont really understand why people are hating on the game it need some fixes yhe but its not that bad
The fact that they sell complete edition of this game for 129.99$ is enough reason to skip anything Ubisoft produces during this year and all next years while they keep such pricing strategy.
no, if game is not worth buying it is not worth "renting" either. Using subscription makes sense for those who already using it for all previous Ubisoft games which are also there and they play them often enough. There is no reason for anyone to create new subscription for only ONE overpriced game. More logical would be to buy it (if someone really really wants to do it) on the sale instead which it will be after a month or two :D
Massive Entertainment has shown me twice now that they are no different than the rest of the Ubisoft studios when it comes to making open world games. How do you have MULTIPLE studios making open world games yet ALL of them feel the exact same? It’s mind boggling, it’s like they’re making them purposely mid.
@@ANGRYWOLVERINE2060-ft2nc He said good, you play a "spartan" without a shield Plus horrible level scaling, unused potential and combat that needed cleaner animation blending
2:35 "I'm talking early 2000s level, gameplay design." I'd heavily disagree as the early 2000s stealth games are some of the best stealth games ever made. They let you improvise and adapt to any mistake you might make. - Deus ex (1999, but point stands) - Thief games - Splinter Cell - Hitman I could go on, it's really just the "casualisation" of video games that's bringing out this hand holding, making sure that anyone and everyone can not only complete the game but cannot get stuck; you know, actually making players try and use their head to problem solve. e.g the yellow paint design, why make players spend time exploring when you could just point them in the 'right' direction.
As much of a bad rep as starfield has gotten I cannot believe that there are some people who genuinely thought that this was gonna be better than starfield.
@@isaacfloyd4023 As much as I hate Ubisoft, I believed and still believe that this game is better than Starfield. I took a shit earlier and it was better than Starfield...
I'll never understand why it's so hard to get a modern, open-world Star Wars game where we can completely customize our characters, weapons, ships, and tell our own stories. There's a reason why OCs are so popular within the Star Wars community.
Because Cannon. Every new star wars story in any media is pretty much tied to the current stories we know in some way. You can't have a tied in cannon story if everyone had their own custom creations lol
@thecommakozzi8050 Galxies and SWTOR are not Disney Star Wars Cannon. That's my point. Everything Lucasfilm under Disney is designed to be in their cannon story.
Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR) spoilers ahead if you wanna play them! It's even very possible to have an OC with established "Cannon" as one person above is spelling it... lol. No matter what kind of build and personality you make your MC in KOTOR, they will always be Darth Revan. Same with the sequel and being the Jedi Exile. So, they obviously don't even have to go Full Commit on a completely original character. Even a "Commander Shepard" character creation in SW Outlaws would be more fun than having to use the deliberately Ugly Stick "modern audience" protagonist.
Forced stealth mechanics, yet the devs couldn't be bothered to implement more realistic ways of taking down enemies? Just one meager punch to the face on someone wearing a helmet and they're out cold? Ridiculous. We deserve better in 2024.
One thing that sticks out loudly to me : in pretty much all Star Wars content since the beginning, most blasters have a stun mode (short range blue circles). Here, it looks like they decided to remove that very canon and common option [EDIT: I was wrong. The stun mode does exist on the blaster in this game]. It makes some noise, so it could have been mediocre in some situations (had they integrated it in the game). I was expecting a bit more RPG design, deeper. Oh well.
Should have given her more than just the blaster pistol for permanent equipment. What about a shock baton, instead of breaking her hand when she is punching stormtrooper helmets 100 times a day.
because he doesnt know how to play the stealth sections hes being honest? riight, not saying its easy particularly if you play on hard or challenging, its clearly not a game for him though
Well, it should be a given that you be honest. As a reviewer, it’s your job to say weather something is good or bad. You might even help someone save some money
What would they think will happen if instead of creating better games they just ignore reviewers? They already have a shit reputation, it'll only get worse.
I didn't know that until this review. That's just wild. So this is a shooting game with very limited shooting mechanics and a stealth game with very limited stealth mechanics? All for $70? No thanks.
@@BrandonHeat243 Yep, a shooting game where you have 1 gun, and a stealth game where your method of takedowns is to hit people with the most amateurish haymaker punch that looks so weak that it wouldn't even leave a bruise IRL, let alone knock someone out.
@@combastion5227 frfr also punching bare hands straight into helmets designed to stop blasters n shit ?? *ain't no way space Karen isn't breaking her weak ahhh hands at some point* 💀😂😂😂😂
This is why i appreciate this channel. He doesnt cave in to the expectation that just because a review copy was issued, they have to factor that in when criticism on the game itself needs to be spoken about. Sure, the developers may not appreciate it, but as consumers of the product being reviewed... this sort of honesty goes a long way ahead of making a purchase at a price point that may not be satisfactory for the purchase you are making. Keep up the excellent reviews my guy, and dont let any debeloper change the way you stay honest in each review you make 👍👌
pretty sure the thousands of goobers who kept defending ubisoft saying "how can you tell it'll be bad, it isn't even out yet!" even though ubisoft hasn't released a good game in 200 years will be surprised enough for the rest of us
@@TheDaidai05for real as soon as you see ubisoft that should be people's cue to automatically keep away as far as possible like you're running from the plague 😂
How is this worthwhile criticism? It's really just nothing, so what if the main character isn't as hot as YOU would like to be? It doesn't have any worthwhile meaning.
@@henryreed4697 Lemme ask you something. If they wanted an actress to play the part of a character, why would they use CGI to change how they look? It's redundant. It's like buying an expensive and pretty painting and hanging it in your house only to spray paint a dick on it. It doesn't add up. You bought that painting, why ruin it? They paid to use that actress's likeness, so why change her? If they wanted the character to look like someone else, they should get an actress that looks like the character they're trying to make. Or, don't bother with the actress; just go full CGI and have her only voice the character. It's weird even if the roles were reversed and an ugly woman was made to be more attractive. Beauty has nothing to do with it. It's the fact that they are changing this person's face despite paying to use the original face. Why bother? It's a waste of time and money. I can't see a logical reason as to why they would do this as a creative or business decision.
@@rainingtacos7529 this is the most ridiculous logic I've ever heard. They paid for her voice, she's a voice actress for the game. The developers don't have to make the character a 1:1 recreation of the voice actress. Other mediums that use voice actors don't have to make to make their characters 1:1 recreations or their voice actors, why is this game being criticized for a rule that isn't applied to all other voice acted media? Besides the character looks fine, she doesn't look ugly. Sure she looks different to her voice actress, but just because she looks different doesn't mean she's ugly. And the character's appearance doesn't affect things that can be criticized, things like gameplay and story are things that are worth criticism. Character appearance that doesn't match your beauty standards isn't valuable criticism.
Bro the whole checkpoint thing when you fail a Stealth section is so infuriatingly dated, there should be consequences for failing not retrying the same level exactly how the devs want you to play through it. Also great review from Matty!
I don't play many stealth games but the Batman Arkham games alert enemies to your position, and allow you to escape and re-enter stealth after a little bit. You can get overwhelmed but it's not an instant game over if you're spotted.
Seriously though- how hard can it be to just make the game we want? Why can we not just get a big ol’ open world Star Wars RPG with several explorable planets? Create your own character. Play stealth or guns blazing. Vehicles. Space flight & dogfights. Ffs it’s 2024! Technology is unreal. All the lore and whatnot is already established. Surely it can’t be this hard to create an absolute gem with all the pre-existing stuff?! 🙄
I say ubi and AAA i gernal is too big to get properly managed especially when they can't risk anything since its too expensive to do anything...bc too big of a company while it needs to be this big to handle a AAA game but can manage those people. Its so weird since the division was so much better from what one can tell, i mean as a well rounded experience for what it wants to be.
@@skydivin4ng3l Yeah the budget and amount of people they have working on these things are way too bloated to be run effectively. If you look at something like Ass Creed 4 that was great I'm sure it cost way less and had less staff working on it.
This is a game that would take several years to make. I wouldn’t give up yet. EA just lost the license less than 4 years ago so new games are in the early stage of development. If GTA 6 has taken almost 10 years to make, you can expect a similar time frame for a game like you are describing.
That was what a Star Wars game is supposed to be, high-quality feed brimming with atmosphere and passion, not this unreal asset-flip with a.i-lighting like disney's star wars: outlaws.
@@jasonarnold1990 Well a lot of people are being conditioned into just using subscription services mostly I'd guess. I think plenty of people are mad about the price but all of us just aren't going to buy it.
@@jasonarnold1990I'm at the point with Ubisoft that after far cry 6 and buying the ultimate edition and being disappointed..that I'm not buying any more of their games full price. Fc6 was a disappointment and full of bullshit that made it unfun to play and I feel like I wasted my time after playing the story with what happened
Honestly, I didn’t want to buy this game because of the ridiculous prices, I’m tired of the “Ubisoft open world” formula, and I really wanted to customize my own character for an open world Star Wars game.
What kills me is that it’s just the one takedown animation, like you really couldn’t be bothered to at least create a small variety of takedowns? I mean I do game development and yea adding assets takes time but in the grand scheme they could have overhauled the takedowns in a month of solid work
Matty, sent this video to a mate considering Star Wars Outlaws and it helped him make a decision. Here is his feedback for your vid. Mate: "Also, I'm so glad you sent me that Outlaws review. He's a good reviewer - thought of points and then countered what people might think."
This was two unknown studios sub-contracted to do the job, Ubisoft is the Publisher. Starlink: Battle for Atlas was developed in-house by Ubisoft Toronto, and is severely underrated.
@@AyatollahS.A.Khamenei you just listed a Japanese, Belgian and Scottish company. None of them have the same level of absolute disease on them that these other mega corps like Disney, Ubisoft, EA ETC have.
@@adamj8244 LOL that’s my point smart guy, people should be more specific otherwise it’s just a critique of something that isn’t broken in the first place
I am just gonna comment this has nothing to do with our progression 9:19 in 3d model animation design, especially when it comes to facial animation. This is just pure Ubisoft laziness. A lot of the newer games have amazing facial animation. And as a 3d modeler watching this and having personally created facial mocap on UE4, the facial mocap here is a joke. They didnt even try tbh.
Those and the mandalorian s1 and s2 along with andor and rogue one are the best star wars we've gotten since 2013. Dang I miss the George Lucas lucasflm years...
Something about it still just felt too baby-ish to me from the story and characters to some of the gameplay mechanics. Star wars games used to be made with an adult audience in mind with enough consideration to the level of maturity to not exclude the younger audience. KOTOR 1/2 are obviously great examples but even jedi academy/outcast while enjoying some good camp still feel more immersive and grounded. These new games feel like a theme park ride meant to check the star wars boxes whereas these other games ive listed feel like a genuine star wars experience to immerse yourself within
@@tnoudy3524 it's a sad world we live in right? If someone is being positive about the game he is considered to be paid. Only if you hate on Ubisoft (which brings more clicks and views than being positive) you are considered being real... people are easy to manipulate.
That's not the case. It's about facts and arguments. You can be positive. For example: I actually liked Assassin's Creed Odyssey, the gameplay is mid to ok and the world is very immersive and accurate as far as my historical knowledge goes, you can't get that experience from any other game. That being sad I also can agree to all it's shortcomings and probably won't buy any ubisoft game again for the foreseeable future.
0:28 The reason why these games are good is not that because of star wars. It is because of the studios made those games. I really don't understand why people had any expectation from outlaw.
I gotta say, this is one of the best detailed reviews not only MrMatty’s ever done, but it’s more detailed of the how and why this game doesn’t function than any review I’ve seen for this game. Thanks for what you put into this.
Disney is just too worried to green light an anti hero, a villain story, or anything that isn’t safe “you’re a good guy” or “You’re fighting the big bad empire” story.
Unfortunately $70.00 is standard for triple A games now I refuse to pay complete or ultimate editions for games now because of how expensive they are and for what ? Being able to play three days early ? A few cosmetic items that mean literally nothing ? No thank you.
After seeing Nix I finally understand the people who hate Return of the Jedi because of the Ewoks. I feel like Star Wars always feels the need to throw in a cute little mascot in order to sell more toys. Grogu, BD-1, those little birds in the Last Jedi, I didn’t mind it at first but now I’m getting tired of it.
I think any subsequent Star Wars game project should begin with you playing Anakin and killing all the younglings as a dark flashback for players, which would then introduce a much darker, grittier story (like Andor). Let's bin the cutesy stuff.
@predetor911 it's because George Lucas (when he still ran the show) made like 90% of his money on the Star Wars merch via a contract he wrote up to Fox at the time ANH was being made. Fox would get his portion of movie sale as long as he had sole rights to the toys and merch. Dude literally built his empire on it
You earned a new subscriber. I can't believe Ubisoft gave you a review copy, yet you still gave a super honest review unlike alot of other gaming journalists Huge respect
@@Flyon86I've been saying this for awhile. I'm not worried about AI writing in video games. I'm worried it can't come fast enough. Modern game writers are largely terrible.
I wonder why we didnt get a Mando & Grogu open world game where you can call in Grogu to do some force stuff to help take down big baddies etc. Or even a co-op or PvP Bounty hunter game
You’re fired. We told you in the meeting last week not to have good ideas, and so now what? Just off the top of your head you improve the game ten times. No, sir, not at Lucas/Disney.
I hope EA and Ubisoft dont try to blame missing projections on the IP and instead realize they don't know how to make great games (Jedi survivor only exclusion)
@@mycazglinski2302 what you mean "except Apex" like it didn't improve the battle royale genre when it came out 😭 It's not my type of game but they are yet to miss on any release. the only issues have been optimisation.
@@D4C_LoveTrain1 I was mainly talking about their solo* projects. Like the ones they get to fully craft. *EA and EA micro transactions heavily influence Apex.
The trick about Jedi Survivor is the same as Mandalorian Season one, every exec thought that it will bumm so they didn’t give an F. As soon as they get involved the project will be a disaster.
@@acurisuryeah good. Not groundbreaking like most of the past Star Wars games they are just creatively bankrupt don’t get me wrong I played survivor and fallen order but man that time period is so worn out we haven’t been able to REALLY control our own story since like kotor which came out when I was born. Just sucks being a Star Wars fan right now. You have one flavor to choose from and it’s the whole post clone wars timeline over and over and over.
The “caught” and reload to check point is such a weird decision to me. It’s not only limiting gameplay wise but also roleplaying and story wise as well, and makes it feel cartoonish. Oh you got caught by the scary deadly crime syndicate but they just say hey please go back to this check point and try again 😂.
I love Outlaws, its everything I wanted it to be, I'm living my Star Wars bandit dreams out here. I just do contracts and gamble, such is the hard grind of an outlaw. I did not enjoy survivor, I only paid $3 for it and I still felt ripped off! Not everything has to be crash bandicoot!! I just want to walk from A to B without a million traversal puzzles, and stab things with my lightsaber. I say stab because Metal Gear Rising it's not.
I binged kotor for an unhealthy amount of time when I was stationed in Korea 😂 my army buddy put me on and I was like this is the best Star Wars game ever I was hoping this game would be good
I was one of the few people keeping my hopes up for this game. You saved me 18€ that I wanted to spend on Ubi+ for a month and a lot of frustration. I couldn't even watch the complete review because it is just so sad.
Didn't we get GTA5 in 2013? The Last of Us? 2004 or something we got Half Life 2... Bro, these facial animations are from like the 90s. As a "mature" gamer, the industry has defintily gone backwards after the 360/ps3 era. That era we got an explosion of tech and innovation, and now everything is just regressing into dogsh*t. Cheap, corporate, quickie trash. But, more expensive than ever!
Also if you would have taken the time to do the side missions to get the ship, weapon, and speeder upgrades they DRASTICALLY change in their effectiveness!
Damn.... mannnn this title upsets me so much. Ive been so hopeful for this game to be good for all the things Matty was. Heres hoping someday we get a good one....
Star Wars Outlaws is trash. I played for 10hrs on ubisoft plus premium & the stealth is so trash that I gave up. It’s a time waster that starts you over after you wasted time getting to a certain point. I agree with Matty on this one.
“Shout out to Ubisoft for the review code”. Lmao. That’s the last time they giving you one 😂
True, and sad at the same time bc this is why we never get honest reviews like this
Why? We know Matty is more so a Jedi guy and he seems to be not much of an Ubisoft fan.
Eh not a big loss
@@chris9206 I was making a joke. He absolutely slammed this game for 20 minutes, most developers won’t send codes to people who are harsh on their products.
Ubisoft are know to still send codes to people that shit on their games all the time. For example, Luke Stephens. @@agenttxgaming4409
Instafail stealth missions if you get caught? Nope. No thanks.
It's lazy design in this day and age, honestly.
@@kazumo50 you know that Immortals Fenyx Rising gave me hopes for them and this SW... all in vain it seems.
@@kazumo50 It was in Black flag and it was so annoying. You'd alert 1 guard and suddenly everyone knows you're there.
Spider-Man was actually really good because it has multiple alert stages until the enemy saw a body which they report over radio.
@@kazumo50 I guess you never played the Ezio trilogy.
2007 called. They'd like their game mechanics back
Oh my god, they took the MJ missions from the Spider-man games and stretched it out into a full game 😂😂😂
Underrated comment
Lmao
OMG your spot on
Insomniac Games please don't get the wrong idea
stay tuned for spider-man 3 to turn MJ into the main character
Amazing how MGS5 came out so long ago and developers still don’t know how to properly balance stealth and full action
Shitty story but the gameplay was well done
@noble14Exactly
@@jboogie915
So the guy reviewing it in this video is wrong?
@@DREADEYE_KNIGHTyeah
@@DREADEYE_KNIGHTI think he means mgs5
Why would they even buy the rights to make a star wars game just to half-ass it.
Probably because they were "told" too...
In there defense -
You make a "new" scrappy char who isn't a jedi or bounty hunter, pretty sure you can't do too much with this as to not confuse Star Wars cannon etc.
I.e. Ubi were better off going with an established char, perhaps!
Personally, I don't think Ubisoft makes GREAT games, I think they make games in the 4-6.5 outta 10 range, "Meh" and "Ok"
@@nuruddinpeters9491Lol what? You would trust ubisoft writers with established characters? No way
It's not as though such a thing is a new concept. Disney purchased the rights to Star Wars and did more than just half-ass it. They killed it dead.
@@Right_Said_Brett Lmao I can't even argue with that 💯
Because it's going to sell decently regardless of how good/bad the game itself is. Many will pay for anything that has Star Wars branding.
I remember when the witcher 3 came out back in 2015 it really seemed like this would be the standard for big games going forward. Unfortunately not and star wars really deserves a game of that calibre in 2024
I will say Jedi Fallen Order and Survivor are the best we have gotten for an open world souls-light kind of experience, and I honestly dont know why they wouldnt do a better focus in this outlaws game on combat and customization, and instead followed the same atrociously buggy stealth section mechanics we have had since like 2006
I need to replay witcher 3 one of these days. CDPR have evolved as a studio but I always hope for a 4th game
@@MagickGOATee They working on it, let¡s just hope it comes out in a better state than cyberpunk 2077.
@@ForgottenShinobi11 its why I give games I wanna play like 4-5 years and erase them from my memory lol because by then theyre super cheap and full of patches and features
imagine SWTOR mixed w Rdr2, witcher 3 and elden ring.. swtor customization, rdr and witcher type stories, and souls like combat
@@lovekilss You'd need a 1 billion dollar budget
What makes a stealth game great is not punishing you for being caught, but requiring you to improvise and adapt to the difficulty after doing so.
Missed opportunity. They should had you try to escape capture or now that you're caught, you gotta break out of jail.
a good stealth game should always let you go in loud, it just might not be the ideal way to do things
@@nxcrobutchergames like Early hitman games, Manhunt1, MGS and last of us 1 and 2 on hardcore are great as well.
Batman Arkham too
"requiring you to improvise and adapt"
bro just unwittingly described "punishing" in more words
I was interested in this game until I watched this review. The major reviewers encompass and gloss over pretty much every criticism with ‘It’s NoT PerFect’ but…so it refreshing to watch an honest review. I really don’t understand the stealth decision. Like it’s Star Wars, how many players were clamouring for a Star Wars stealth game as opposed to, y’know, action?
I wouldn't take this review that seriously, this is probably the least honest review of the game I've seen. All his gameplay complaints are addressed with character progression, mostly from side quest and exploration.
Anyone that's played the game can tell from his b-roll he's lying when he said he's done the majority of side content. His equipment, gear, upgrades, amount of health bars, his faction rep, etc etc shows he hasn't done the side content. So he's saying one thing and showing another, aka either blatantly lying or REALLY REALLY bad at the game and ignorant to that. Not sure which is worse for a reviewer tbh.
@@cynic5581a guy using early B-roll to not spoil later parts of the game does not mean he’s lying? What the fuck are you on about
As someone who loves the concept of the Agent class in SWTOR I've actually always thought a stealth-based Star Wars game where you could use a wide variety of interesting tools and weapons to take people out or get around undetected could be really cool and is something I've bee kinda hoping to see someday. But then this game comes along and makes it almost feel like someone's playing a prank on me. The most bare-bones stealth mechanics, and they make zero use of the fact that this is a sci-fi universe where they can come up with all kinds of dope tools for you to use, but instead the main method your character uses for takedowns is to throw the shittiest and most amateurish haymaker punch possible that looks so weak that she would realistically struggle to even leave a bruise, yet is somehow enough to take knock enemies out in one hit.
Saving my cash for space marine 2
Now that looks like a blast of a game. I’d buy that for sure
Can I play that game as a single player game?
@@gleam6370no
@@gleam6370 you can indeed
for the emperor
An uabashed SW fan.
Discloses the fact he got a review code.
Goes HAM on the game and MERCILESSLY hammers it.
RESPECT, brother.
The original project, where you were an Alderaan survivor turned smuggler who happened to be off-planet with a full blown story of potentially being rebellion allied, or imperial, or independent, that game died for this. What will always bother me with most star wars games, aside from the good ones we've gotten recently.
Is the missed opportunity and what could have been.
I want 1313 to get made. The one teaser looked so good.
We missed out on Project Ragtag. In exchange we got Outlaws. This is the worst timeline
Man we will never see a game like this at this rate.
@@raidengoodman8754 Ragtag was an EA project though
@@kriegaone3658 i know. Still, it's the SW game to get cancelled and not outlaws?
When it comes to maps and finding your next objectives, I feel like Ghost of Tsushima had the most innovative and best way to help you find your locations. Instead of making you look at a minimap, or pause the game and open up a full size map, it used the wind to direct you. So whichever way the wind was blowing was the direction of your objective, and that really kept you immersed in the game and paying attention to the environment instead of constantly looking at a map. That is honestly the best way that I have ever seen waypoints and objective locations done in a video game.
"Don't get caught" should always be followed by [Optional] as in cyberpunk.
Cyberpunk was so fun. I wasn't expecting to love it as much as I did after buying it for $5 used when it was in its worst state. Best $5 I've likely ever spent.
Dont get caught - bonk a trooper on their helmet and steal their useless armour for a disguise.
Can't be caught if there are no survivors to report it, lol.
@@M98747cyberpunk was incredible even day one. yeah there were some bugs and performance issues but the meat of the game has always been groundbreaking
@@lizabettaretta yeah only minor issues like game breaking and progression halting bugs, and horrendous frame rate problems. No big deal at all
It’s funny how we’re gone from Unity’s facial animations to this. Like what happened. It’s been such a decline over the last decade.
@@DazHotep6EQUJ5 lol of course you clowns are here
@@DazHotep6EQUJ5There’s definitely a lot of DEI but there’s plenty of great games out today. You don’t have to try to make gaming as a whole seem like it’s all bad when that’s not true.
We were too harsh on Unity
Cause a lot of it is outsourced and done in the most cost efficient way possible.
Shareholders have an iron grip on this industry and theyre milking it like theres no tomorrow
@@chaserseven2886found the sweet baby inc intern
It’s honestly pretty annoying that we had to wait almost a decade for EA to give up the license to Star Wars just for Ubisoft to make this
Maybe Larian can save the day with Kotor 3
I have 47 hours in the game and it is incredibly disappointing. There are some good ideas in here but the implementation is terrible. I think half my time in the game was looking up where to go because the game kept telling me to search an area for what to do instead of giving me a waypoint.
Nah. Larian turned baldurs gate into divinity original sins 3, with a D&D overcoat. They completely altered the franchise. I don't trust them not to do it again.
Not even Splinter Cell made you fail a mission because you tripped an alarm…
The fact that Ubisoft manages to not go bankrupt is truly inpressive
People buy all that shit over and over again...
It's junk food gaming for a very casual audience and a lot of them keep buying.
they have actually been struggling
They lost 70% of value as company on stock market in last 3,5 years and are profitable solely because subsidies given by govs around the world. They got over 500million$(!!) in subsidies from Canadian gov for example look it up its insane. Them being parasitic on subsidies is for example only reason why Skulls and Bones had to be released since they made a deal with Singaporean government to release that project no matter what.
Its so bad that they stopped giving raw sale numbers even to shareholders we still dont know sales of Avatar game,new The Crew,that PoP game and their other titles. Only title sales they gave in last couple of years are one of AC Mirage that sold "over 5,5m copies" which should tell you how grim it is and that AC is the only IP that generates any kind of proper revenue/profit for them and everything else at best makes back dev costs lol.
@@Tomasz- the game is nto bad atleast for me its not im playing it now its not bad i dont really understand why people are hating on the game it need some fixes yhe but its not that bad
The fact that they sell complete edition of this game for 129.99$ is enough reason to skip anything Ubisoft produces during this year and all next years while they keep such pricing strategy.
I know like when will those greedy mfs learn their lesson it’s like long overdue.
This pricing is designed to direct players to the Ubisoft subscrition service
no, if game is not worth buying it is not worth "renting" either. Using subscription makes sense for those who already using it for all previous Ubisoft games which are also there and they play them often enough. There is no reason for anyone to create new subscription for only ONE overpriced game. More logical would be to buy it (if someone really really wants to do it) on the sale instead which it will be after a month or two :D
@@maofria1452problem is most people prob don’t want a subscription to Ubisoft games
But your still paying 129 for an incomplete game at launch
Massive Entertainment has shown me twice now that they are no different than the rest of the Ubisoft studios when it comes to making open world games. How do you have MULTIPLE studios making open world games yet ALL of them feel the exact same? It’s mind boggling, it’s like they’re making them purposely mid.
Ubisoft haven't made a good game in a decade
Id say since far cry 3@@PhantomDeth
@@PhantomDeth I think Odyssey was good.
@@ANGRYWOLVERINE2060-ft2nc He said good, you play a "spartan" without a shield
Plus horrible level scaling, unused potential and combat that needed cleaner animation blending
They all follow the same Ubisoft open world blueprint, zero creativity or originality, just get the game out for short term profits, repeat.
THE POWER OF 1.
THE POWER OF 2.
THE POWER OF MANYYYY!
@@charliipresley more like THE POWER TO LOSE MONEYYYYYY! Amirite, lol.
The power of many bugs.
Crouching in tall grass with.. eagle vision? Played this game 15 times in last 12 years already 🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Exactly 😂.
Yup same donkey in a dress just with different makeup 🗑️
Ubisoft has just made the same game with different coats of paint for years now
@@Flyon86 It's getting quite pathetic...not even trying to be innovative
Well said mate.
Another Ubisoft “wait until it’s heavily discounted to $20-25 on a sale within a year” type beat
so a normal ubisoft release then...
I'm more of a "sub to ubi+ for a month once a year" kind of guy
Just like Game of Thrones, I may subscribe for a month then cancel.
Yeah I will never ever Play this even 5 bucks would be too much.
Huh? No. Why would you spend TIME on a game that aint worth it??? Money is the cheap currency.
It's like they took the stealth section from non-stealth games and made it a whole game
They made Spider-Man’s Mj missions into a whole game 😂
@@skrillahbeats001 and the mj missions still have more substance than this entire game
2:35 "I'm talking early 2000s level, gameplay design." I'd heavily disagree as the early 2000s stealth games are some of the best stealth games ever made. They let you improvise and adapt to any mistake you might make.
- Deus ex (1999, but point stands)
- Thief games
- Splinter Cell
- Hitman
I could go on, it's really just the "casualisation" of video games that's bringing out this hand holding, making sure that anyone and everyone can not only complete the game but cannot get stuck; you know, actually making players try and use their head to problem solve. e.g the yellow paint design,
why make players spend time exploring when you could just point them in the 'right' direction.
Are we really surprised from a company that blatantly stated that “gamers should get comfortable with not owning games”?
As a former Stadia gamer, that's not a position you want to be in.
I'm comfortable not owning this game... 🫣
Woah they actually said that? I’m not allowed to own property I purchase anymore? Horrifying commie stuff.
That quote is taken out of context.
@@kittenburger_prime
Not the way I meant it.
So... starfield with starwars mods is a better starwars game than the actual starwars game?
As much of a bad rep as starfield has gotten I cannot believe that there are some people who genuinely thought that this was gonna be better than starfield.
@@isaacfloyd4023 As much as I hate Ubisoft, I believed and still believe that this game is better than Starfield. I took a shit earlier and it was better than Starfield...
@@irulane990 Thats some serious bias lol
@@irulane990nah. Haters gonna hate. Starfield is one of the best games from 2023. Seems like
so many folks how open world RPGs actually work.
Oh it's open world but there isn't anything there 😂. Any interesting line of dialog or NPC will always result in a minor fetch quest. 💤 💤@@w00master
I'll never understand why it's so hard to get a modern, open-world Star Wars game where we can completely customize our characters, weapons, ships, and tell our own stories. There's a reason why OCs are so popular within the Star Wars community.
They apparently don't want our money
Because Cannon. Every new star wars story in any media is pretty much tied to the current stories we know in some way. You can't have a tied in cannon story if everyone had their own custom creations lol
@@Webslinger760uh… Galaxies, SWOTOR, etc.??? are you new here???
@thecommakozzi8050 Galxies and SWTOR are not Disney Star Wars Cannon. That's my point. Everything Lucasfilm under Disney is designed to be in their cannon story.
Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR) spoilers ahead if you wanna play them!
It's even very possible to have an OC with established "Cannon" as one person above is spelling it... lol. No matter what kind of build and personality you make your MC in KOTOR, they will always be Darth Revan. Same with the sequel and being the Jedi Exile. So, they obviously don't even have to go Full Commit on a completely original character. Even a "Commander Shepard" character creation in SW Outlaws would be more fun than having to use the deliberately Ugly Stick "modern audience" protagonist.
The faction system is broken because they couldn't be bothered making multiple conclusions and consequences in the storyline.
Forced stealth mechanics, yet the devs couldn't be bothered to implement more realistic ways of taking down enemies? Just one meager punch to the face on someone wearing a helmet and they're out cold? Ridiculous. We deserve better in 2024.
A punch by a woman no less.......
I wasn't gonna watch any reviews on this game (but a Matty review is irresistible) and now I am not buying this game, forced stealth is so irritating
One thing that sticks out loudly to me : in pretty much all Star Wars content since the beginning, most blasters have a stun mode (short range blue circles). Here, it looks like they decided to remove that very canon and common option [EDIT: I was wrong. The stun mode does exist on the blaster in this game]. It makes some noise, so it could have been mediocre in some situations (had they integrated it in the game). I was expecting a bit more RPG design, deeper. Oh well.
@@Baraz_Red I thought the stun had a shorter range as well.
Should have given her more than just the blaster pistol for permanent equipment. What about a shock baton, instead of breaking her hand when she is punching stormtrooper helmets 100 times a day.
I'm actually surprised Matty went against the grain here especially since Ubisoft gave him a copy. Props to being a rare honest reviewer
because he doesnt know how to play the stealth sections hes being honest? riight, not saying its easy particularly if you play on hard or challenging, its clearly not a game for him though
@@Guardian582cope harder
@@Guardian582Did you hyperfocus on that and ignore the rest of the review?
Well, it should be a given that you be honest. As a reviewer, it’s your job to say weather something is good or bad. You might even help someone save some money
@@Guardian582forced stealth is a huge L.
This game is just one big MJ mission
When you realise we got this instead of Star Wars 1313. Oh dear...
@TheInterestRates Too right mate. I’m still salty they canceled 1313 and shut down LucasArts.
Ubisoft ain’t sending you another code again bro 😂😂
…I feel no great disturbance in the force. As if no one cried out in great pain.
Oh no. Anyways
Good for him, honestly
What would they think will happen if instead of creating better games they just ignore reviewers? They already have a shit reputation, it'll only get worse.
They will. They always send codes to everyone no matter how hard you bash them
To make a shooting game from Star Wars universum, where you actually can't change your weapon, that's definitely a shocking game design choice.
I didn't know that until this review. That's just wild. So this is a shooting game with very limited shooting mechanics and a stealth game with very limited stealth mechanics? All for $70? No thanks.
@@BrandonHeat243 Yep, a shooting game where you have 1 gun, and a stealth game where your method of takedowns is to hit people with the most amateurish haymaker punch that looks so weak that it wouldn't even leave a bruise IRL, let alone knock someone out.
@@combastion5227 frfr
also punching bare hands straight into helmets designed to stop blasters n shit ?? *ain't no way space Karen isn't breaking her weak ahhh hands at some point* 💀😂😂😂😂
"Open world", but the game forces you to play in a specific way. What are we doing Ubisoft?
Apparently Ubisoft wants everything in its right place.
Honestly even R* is guilty of this themselves not to take away from Ubisoft.
You need to play it first before you cast judgement. There is ALOT of content here and the gameplay is fun af
@Mistersupafly absolutely this. This is my number 1 complaint with GTA V and was utterly shocked to see this doubled down in RDR2
@@NicholasMisiak618fun in what manner?
This is why i appreciate this channel. He doesnt cave in to the expectation that just because a review copy was issued, they have to factor that in when criticism on the game itself needs to be spoken about.
Sure, the developers may not appreciate it, but as consumers of the product being reviewed... this sort of honesty goes a long way ahead of making a purchase at a price point that may not be satisfactory for the purchase you are making.
Keep up the excellent reviews my guy, and dont let any debeloper change the way you stay honest in each review you make 👍👌
A Ubisoft game is middling and makes people annoyed, there's no surprises there
Kinda surprised because the ac games are good
Star Wars is a brand name now synonymous with mediocrity. And to think my generation hated the prequels, like those were terrible, lmao.
@@500TD500 were*
Because we could have Rayman instead
pretty sure the thousands of goobers who kept defending ubisoft saying "how can you tell it'll be bad, it isn't even out yet!" even though ubisoft hasn't released a good game in 200 years will be surprised enough for the rest of us
Someone at GamesRadar played this and actually wrote that Star Wars Outlaw feels like Red Dead 2 in space.
Except that was actually a good game.
Well, guess we know who got one of those trips to disneyland then...
Can you rob random NPCs or feed people to gators in this game.
You’re kidding 😳
They're getting paid by Ubisoft to write good reviews
This is why we wait for reviews people. For Ubisoft to sell this game at the prices they are is just exploitative at this point.
lol, you needed to wait for a review? Its a Ubisoft game.
Perhaps the whales are what's keeping them afloat. Meaning, they have to charge that much. And other struggling studios follow suit.
@@TheDaidai05for real as soon as you see ubisoft that should be people's cue to automatically keep away as far as possible like you're running from the plague 😂
They took an attractive model and turned her into Rocky Dennis from the movie Mask (look it up youngsters)
How is this worthwhile criticism?
It's really just nothing, so what if the main character isn't as hot as YOU would like to be? It doesn't have any worthwhile meaning.
@@henryreed4697 You're missing the entire point.
@@rainingtacos7529 and tell me what is the point?
@@henryreed4697 Lemme ask you something. If they wanted an actress to play the part of a character, why would they use CGI to change how they look? It's redundant. It's like buying an expensive and pretty painting and hanging it in your house only to spray paint a dick on it. It doesn't add up. You bought that painting, why ruin it? They paid to use that actress's likeness, so why change her? If they wanted the character to look like someone else, they should get an actress that looks like the character they're trying to make. Or, don't bother with the actress; just go full CGI and have her only voice the character. It's weird even if the roles were reversed and an ugly woman was made to be more attractive. Beauty has nothing to do with it. It's the fact that they are changing this person's face despite paying to use the original face. Why bother? It's a waste of time and money. I can't see a logical reason as to why they would do this as a creative or business decision.
@@rainingtacos7529 this is the most ridiculous logic I've ever heard.
They paid for her voice, she's a voice actress for the game. The developers don't have to make the character a 1:1 recreation of the voice actress. Other mediums that use voice actors don't have to make to make their characters 1:1 recreations or their voice actors, why is this game being criticized for a rule that isn't applied to all other voice acted media?
Besides the character looks fine, she doesn't look ugly. Sure she looks different to her voice actress, but just because she looks different doesn't mean she's ugly.
And the character's appearance doesn't affect things that can be criticized, things like gameplay and story are things that are worth criticism. Character appearance that doesn't match your beauty standards isn't valuable criticism.
I'm a simple man, I see Ubisoft I avoid.
Man of culture
Same
So do I, but their older games are really good though.
Ubisoft- introduces dei
Gamers- "look what they did to my boy"
I used to be a big fan of them, but now I couldn’t agree more with you. Sad. AC shadows will be the first main line AC game. I don’t buy day one.
I give up on Star Wars entertainment as a whole. We can’t catch a break
Star Wars has been dead(at least to me) since 2017. There have been only a few exceptions
There's tons of great Star Wars content anyways. Just need to look back and play games like KOTOR, read/listen to comics, watch Clone Wars 2003, etc
@@Walamonga1313 jedi survivor is still good at least
Try The Old Republic if you haven't yet, it has a lot of free content
Thanks for not shilling out like other Star Wars fans
Remember....this is coming from a guy who thinks Starfield is good! Let that sink in.
@@TheVeiledCollectiveWhy are you still here? All of your comments are miserable
@@irecordwithaphone1856 xxx
@@irecordwithaphone1856
Maybe he's an anti fan?
8:45 Team America put more effort into animating puppets than this game did into animating its characters.
Bro the whole checkpoint thing when you fail a Stealth section is so infuriatingly dated, there should be consequences for failing not retrying the same level exactly how the devs want you to play through it.
Also great review from Matty!
Can you elaborate? What kind of consequences?
Being sent back for failing is a consequence. This isn't an RPG.
Sounds like the old Assassin's Creed game missions
I don't play many stealth games but the Batman Arkham games alert enemies to your position, and allow you to escape and re-enter stealth after a little bit. You can get overwhelmed but it's not an instant game over if you're spotted.
Star wars game mechanics from 1998 wtf
Her face during the speeder conversation looked in fact pretty awful.
That shit looked scary LMAO
Her face is tired is all
@1nvisibleAcropolisshe’s not real bro, plus i think he meant the graphics lmao 💀
Idk why they make women so ugly in games now. The VA is really pretty too.
Why do they even bother?
I am going to pass on this game. Very low interest to begin with and I’m out on Ubisoft at this time.
Between this and ac shadows... company is done
@CatholicChad712 what's wrong with AC shadows?
Ubisoft thumbs down
@CatholicChad712 We say this, but these games will say. Internet doesn't represent reality
@kennethjones7129 Black protagonist got the internet in a uproar essentially. Right or wrong, they see this decision as "Woke"
You like...her hair??? Oh man scraping the barrel now for some positives. Playdoh hair is never a great look in AAA video games.
Seriously though- how hard can it be to just make the game we want? Why can we not just get a big ol’ open world Star Wars RPG with several explorable planets? Create your own character. Play stealth or guns blazing. Vehicles. Space flight & dogfights.
Ffs it’s 2024! Technology is unreal. All the lore and whatnot is already established. Surely it can’t be this hard to create an absolute gem with all the pre-existing stuff?! 🙄
2024 and it plays worse than Xbox 360 games from 2010
I say ubi and AAA i gernal is too big to get properly managed especially when they can't risk anything since its too expensive to do anything...bc too big of a company while it needs to be this big to handle a AAA game but can manage those people.
Its so weird since the division was so much better from what one can tell, i mean as a well rounded experience for what it wants to be.
@@skydivin4ng3l Yeah the budget and amount of people they have working on these things are way too bloated to be run effectively. If you look at something like Ass Creed 4 that was great I'm sure it cost way less and had less staff working on it.
Star Wars Galaxies did it successfully 2 decades ago
This is a game that would take several years to make. I wouldn’t give up yet. EA just lost the license less than 4 years ago so new games are in the early stage of development. If GTA 6 has taken almost 10 years to make, you can expect a similar time frame for a game like you are describing.
My hope for Star Wars games faded when 1313 got scrapped. This IP is a shell of what it once was.
An elegant game for a more civilized age.
Man I was so excited for 1313
That was what a Star Wars game is supposed to be, high-quality feed brimming with atmosphere and passion, not this unreal asset-flip with a.i-lighting like disney's star wars: outlaws.
I can't help but laugh at the fact that Ubisoft is living up to the usual expectation of releasing overpriced trash.
Why aren't more people pissed off about the way they price their games? It's insane. 110$ for the real game?? Fk them bro
@@jasonarnold1990 Well a lot of people are being conditioned into just using subscription services mostly I'd guess. I think plenty of people are mad about the price but all of us just aren't going to buy it.
@@jasonarnold1990I'm at the point with Ubisoft that after far cry 6 and buying the ultimate edition and being disappointed..that I'm not buying any more of their games full price. Fc6 was a disappointment and full of bullshit that made it unfun to play and I feel like I wasted my time after playing the story with what happened
Prince of Persia the Lost Crown was $50.00 and despite being a great game people still talked trash.
@@ronniefazzio6979 That game was mid.
How is anybody disappointed by Outlaws? It literally never looked or sounded good.
I've said it once and I'll say it 100 more times. Ubisoft is one of the worst game developers on the market.
On the plus side, a bunch of influencers got to go to Disneyland.
😂😂
Honestly, I didn’t want to buy this game because of the ridiculous prices, I’m tired of the “Ubisoft open world” formula, and I really wanted to customize my own character for an open world Star Wars game.
When it comes to the price, Ubisoft games typically get massive sales about a month from launch, for the vast major of thier games.
If you want a good open world star wars game where you can customize the hair and outfits and lightsaber and gun parts play Jedi survivor
I mean, I know it's older, but SWTOR is THE open world Star Wars game. I still play it.
your answer is: SWTOR
@@Soramitsu the real answer is galaxies but that's no more
Bro heard Ubisoft was making a star wars game and got excited. Nah bro, you're just too naive.
For real. People do not learn.
He even threw out the word acceptable. These games cost 70 bucks. Acceptable isn't acceptable at that price
sigh...another game where enemies have awareness icons above their heads and calls itself a "stealth game"
Make sure you climb the radio tower and mark them with your binoculars.
You can just turn off the icons
That stealth punch is hilarious
Looking at the girl's size and arms I'd expect anyone she hits to barely feel anything and her to break her hand. Ridiculous
@@ShadowWolfQc Especially against those Heavy Stormtroopers.
What kills me is that it’s just the one takedown animation, like you really couldn’t be bothered to at least create a small variety of takedowns? I mean I do game development and yea adding assets takes time but in the grand scheme they could have overhauled the takedowns in a month of solid work
Why do they even wear helmets if a 120 lb chick can kncok em out with a dainty slap.
I like it how it takes 2 gunshots to the head to take down a storm trooper but one slap from a noodle arm does the trick.
Feels bad for anyone who thought modern ubisoft was going to make a good starwars game
Must be disappointing to find out Outlaws IS actually good ;)
@@SouLP196 ok bot😅
Imagine what's going to happen to AC shadows
@@Reclusiveon3 no I’m not a bot bro. Just a gamer enjoying a good game
@@SouLP196lmfao it’s not
Matty, sent this video to a mate considering Star Wars Outlaws and it helped him make a decision. Here is his feedback for your vid. Mate: "Also, I'm so glad you sent me that Outlaws review. He's a good reviewer - thought of points and then countered what people might think."
It's almost as if corporations aren't good at making art
Yea from software, larian, rockstar all just collectives of people living on communes 👍
This was two unknown studios sub-contracted to do the job, Ubisoft is the Publisher.
Starlink: Battle for Atlas was developed in-house by Ubisoft Toronto, and is severely underrated.
@@AyatollahS.A.Khamenei you just listed a Japanese, Belgian and Scottish company. None of them have the same level of absolute disease on them that these other mega corps like Disney, Ubisoft, EA ETC have.
@@adamj8244 LOL that’s my point smart guy, people should be more specific otherwise it’s just a critique of something that isn’t broken in the first place
You know the game f*ck up if Matty is angry
Matty is angry at all games now
yeah matty is like cottage cheese a really soft guy so for him to get angry is a singular moment .Well a singularity moment.
@@cmike123 That is true, his expectations are way to high now
Yeah but this is the same guy who loved starfield I can't trust his opinion as much
@@The_English_Gentleman What? That's not even close to true. I have no idea what you and @cmike123 are on.
I am just gonna comment this has nothing to do with our progression 9:19 in 3d model animation design, especially when it comes to facial animation. This is just pure Ubisoft laziness. A lot of the newer games have amazing facial animation. And as a 3d modeler watching this and having personally created facial mocap on UE4, the facial mocap here is a joke. They didnt even try tbh.
It’s crazy to me that a game such as Red dead redemption 2 came out in 2018 and looks 100x better than a game in 2024
The Cal Kestis games really do feel like the last refuge of Good Star Wars.
And those games are broken messes too.
@@purringbluzzmuffin8030 I mean, at launch on pc maybe. But I had a fine time with both FO and Survivor on console
And Andor
Those and the mandalorian s1 and s2 along with andor and rogue one are the best star wars we've gotten since 2013. Dang I miss the George Lucas lucasflm years...
Something about it still just felt too baby-ish to me from the story and characters to some of the gameplay mechanics.
Star wars games used to be made with an adult audience in mind with enough consideration to the level of maturity to not exclude the younger audience.
KOTOR 1/2 are obviously great examples but even jedi academy/outcast while enjoying some good camp still feel more immersive and grounded.
These new games feel like a theme park ride meant to check the star wars boxes whereas these other games ive listed feel like a genuine star wars experience to immerse yourself within
Respect for not being a shill and being real
Gotta hate to be considered real
@@tnoudy3524 it's a sad world we live in right? If someone is being positive about the game he is considered to be paid. Only if you hate on Ubisoft (which brings more clicks and views than being positive) you are considered being real... people are easy to manipulate.
That's not the case. It's about facts and arguments. You can be positive.
For example: I actually liked Assassin's Creed Odyssey, the gameplay is mid to ok and the world is very immersive and accurate as far as my historical knowledge goes, you can't get that experience from any other game. That being sad I also can agree to all it's shortcomings and probably won't buy any ubisoft game again for the foreseeable future.
@@tnoudy3524 gotta love to be considered unreal!!!! Think about that
0:28 The reason why these games are good is not that because of star wars. It is because of the studios made those games. I really don't understand why people had any expectation from outlaw.
I gotta say, this is one of the best detailed reviews not only MrMatty’s ever done, but it’s more detailed of the how and why this game doesn’t function than any review I’ve seen for this game. Thanks for what you put into this.
I am forever thankful to cyberpunk. It taught me to wait for a game to be finished. I now pay half price for a finished product. This is the way!
Me too! Especially on pc. Im perpetually behind the times so when im ready the games are finished with all dlc for around 15 bucks usually
This is the Way!
bruh i got witcher 3 a couple yrs ago for like 8 dollars lmao felt like a daylight robbery after completing it
Had zero expectation from ubisoft and still disappointed lol
The irony is insane how the division creators made a game with no guns lmao
Disney is just too worried to green light an anti hero, a villain story, or anything that isn’t safe “you’re a good guy” or
“You’re fighting the big bad empire” story.
$70.00 price point? What is that? The ultimate version is $169.99 CDN crazy prices!
Exactly. And for what? 20+ hours of crappy gameplay? Unbelievable.
Unfortunately $70.00 is standard for triple A games now I refuse to pay complete or ultimate editions for games now because of how expensive they are and for what ? Being able to play three days early ? A few cosmetic items that mean literally nothing ? No thank you.
man the instant fail stealth missions make this a huge pass for me
Ass creed 2 had this figured out 10+ years ago lol. There's mechanics to break aggro and go into stealth again.
@@Flyon86Even the OG Metal Gear Solid has a system like that
Skill issue
After seeing Nix I finally understand the people who hate Return of the Jedi because of the Ewoks. I feel like Star Wars always feels the need to throw in a cute little mascot in order to sell more toys. Grogu, BD-1, those little birds in the Last Jedi, I didn’t mind it at first but now I’m getting tired of it.
I think any subsequent Star Wars game project should begin with you playing Anakin and killing all the younglings as a dark flashback for players, which would then introduce a much darker, grittier story (like Andor). Let's bin the cutesy stuff.
Don’t forget that little boo-boo frik or whatever its name was in Rise of Skywalker
Wah
They're like cute, adorable omens.
@predetor911 it's because George Lucas (when he still ran the show) made like 90% of his money on the Star Wars merch via a contract he wrote up to Fox at the time ANH was being made. Fox would get his portion of movie sale as long as he had sole rights to the toys and merch. Dude literally built his empire on it
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I can't believe Ubisoft gave you a review copy, yet you still gave a super honest review unlike alot of other gaming journalists
Huge respect
This writing and script were 100% AI. There's no way the characters in this game talk like that
AI probably would've done a better job tbf
This whole generic game was probably AI generated
@@Flyon86I've been saying this for awhile. I'm not worried about AI writing in video games. I'm worried it can't come fast enough. Modern game writers are largely terrible.
@@M98747What a god awful take
@@irecordwithaphone1856
I mean, do you have any other better ideas?
I didn't think it was possible for me to want to play this game less... And then I just watched this review
I wonder why we didnt get a Mando & Grogu open world game where you can call in Grogu to do some force stuff to help take down big baddies etc. Or even a co-op or PvP Bounty hunter game
You’re fired. We told you in the meeting last week not to have good ideas, and so now what? Just off the top of your head you improve the game ten times. No, sir, not at Lucas/Disney.
theres literally infinite good ideas for star wars video games and they just dont ever do them, or only ever pick the worst ideas
The same reason we didn't get a Cal Kestis Disney+ show and got The Alcolyte instead.
I remember finishing KOTOR 2 and being excited about KOTOR 3…
The graphics were better in them. I am just going to wait for the new Mass Effect game.
I'm not a graphics snob but holy sh... that facial animation is so bad Detrimental to immersion
8:44 omg that face💀
Exactly. What were they thinking 🤢
Damn I thought people were exaggerating when they said it was bad
Looks like an alien.
Is she part Alien? It does look awful! the clip were she CGI, she does look better. I find the character model off putting and distracting.
How are we regressing this much? Ass creed 2 and Far cry 3 had better face animations back on the xbox 360 lmao
I hope EA and Ubisoft dont try to blame missing projections on the IP and instead realize they don't know how to make great games (Jedi survivor only exclusion)
@timothycastaneda9363 Yeah, but the Respawn team has made a banger every time, except Apex. Both Titanfall games are in my top 20
@@mycazglinski2302 what you mean "except Apex" like it didn't improve the battle royale genre when it came out 😭
It's not my type of game but they are yet to miss on any release. the only issues have been optimisation.
@@D4C_LoveTrain1 I was mainly talking about their solo* projects. Like the ones they get to fully craft.
*EA and EA micro transactions heavily influence Apex.
The trick about Jedi Survivor is the same as Mandalorian Season one, every exec thought that it will bumm so they didn’t give an F.
As soon as they get involved the project will be a disaster.
This game looks so bad. It just makes me wanna play a good Star Wars game like bounty hunters, or Kotor or even the LEGO game
game looks fine another hater
The Lego Skywalker saga is hella fun play it
@@gamerbeast3616 nah that shit is ass bro u def didn’t watch the review nobody likes failing stealth and restarting the whole misssion..🤨
It’s getting sad that we can’t have good star wars games
Jedi Survivor was good, performance issues aside
@@acurisuryeah good. Not groundbreaking like most of the past Star Wars games they are just creatively bankrupt don’t get me wrong I played survivor and fallen order but man that time period is so worn out we haven’t been able to REALLY control our own story since like kotor which came out when I was born. Just sucks being a Star Wars fan right now. You have one flavor to choose from and it’s the whole post clone wars timeline over and over and over.
@@prod_yashai’m one more rebellion-era star wars game/movie/tv show away from completely cutting off star wars content for the rest of my life
@@prod_yasha If it's the same over & over again, then don't play them, there is plenty of other things to play
Literally so much to work with too, such an easy thing to slam dunk but they keep messing it up.
The “caught” and reload to check point is such a weird decision to me. It’s not only limiting gameplay wise but also roleplaying and story wise as well, and makes it feel cartoonish. Oh you got caught by the scary deadly crime syndicate but they just say hey please go back to this check point and try again 😂.
I love Outlaws, its everything I wanted it to be, I'm living my Star Wars bandit dreams out here.
I just do contracts and gamble, such is the hard grind of an outlaw.
I did not enjoy survivor, I only paid $3 for it and I still felt ripped off!
Not everything has to be crash bandicoot!! I just want to walk from A to B without a million traversal puzzles, and stab things with my lightsaber.
I say stab because Metal Gear Rising it's not.
I binged kotor for an unhealthy amount of time when I was stationed in Korea 😂 my army buddy put me on and I was like this is the best Star Wars game ever I was hoping this game would be good
Hopefully that kotor remake isn't a dei dumpster fire
@@CatholicChad712 I agree
@@CatholicChad712You know it's going to be a dei dumpster fire let be realistic
not under Disney, made by Ubisoft...
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I am sure they will fuck up this remake too. Disney is very good at selling overpriced shit (or disappointment at best)
This is why you don't watch review videos by giant gaming "journalists" like IGN.
Real people, real reviews, real issues.
this guy is a massive shill lol
@@NocturnalNickhow?
@@mekelle8757 by shilling
IGN gave this game a 7/10, which is basically a 5/10 in the video game world. Its not like they are calling this game GOTY either lmao
@@NocturnalNick do elaborate my good sir
I was one of the few people keeping my hopes up for this game. You saved me 18€ that I wanted to spend on Ubi+ for a month and a lot of frustration. I couldn't even watch the complete review because it is just so sad.
So glad i didn't listen to the paid reviews, and waited for an honest one.. thank you my man!
You’re telling me she’s strong enough to knock out fully grown aliens in armor with one punch of her bare hand? Damn.
That’s what you care about ?
You’re acting like that mechanic would be different if it was a male character. It wouldn’t be.
@@jennymcelligott nah, but it shouldn’t be a dumbass punch 😂
Yaas queen! Girl boss! Strong independent woman, yo.
It would of been cool if they went with a garrote wire she chokes people with or even a stun taser would makes more sense for these stealth sections.
I do not get why Ubisoft is so content with releasing slop. They can't be making that much profit, right?
@@DazHotep6EQUJ5call of duty is still a better game then most online shooters
@@DazHotep6EQUJ5Cool, but Ubisoft’s stock price is down massively in the last 5 years
@@ISGAMINGFORNERDSit’s own f the best shooters out there
I don't understand how GAMERS are okay with ubisoft releasing slop and defending it! I mean look at Ass Creed!
WE’LL FIX IT IN POST!
Damn those facial animations looks straight out of 2013
Saying this is an insult to Bioshock Infinite, GTA V, TLOU, Tomb Raider …
More like 2007
there is no way you can make this face look like its human :D
Didn't we get GTA5 in 2013? The Last of Us? 2004 or something we got Half Life 2... Bro, these facial animations are from like the 90s. As a "mature" gamer, the industry has defintily gone backwards after the 360/ps3 era. That era we got an explosion of tech and innovation, and now everything is just regressing into dogsh*t. Cheap, corporate, quickie trash. But, more expensive than ever!
@@af4396 oh damn you're right I guess I should have said around like early 2010 era
Also if you would have taken the time to do the side missions to get the ship, weapon, and speeder upgrades they DRASTICALLY change in their effectiveness!
"I'll let the gameplay do the talking," absolute perfection. Words truly were not needed lol.
Ubisoft- Will you buy Outlaws?
Answer- 9:02
Damn.... mannnn this title upsets me so much. Ive been so hopeful for this game to be good for all the things Matty was. Heres hoping someday we get a good one....
The Acolyte was supposed to be cool and good too. Star Wars is died?
Star Wars Outlaws is trash. I played for 10hrs on ubisoft plus premium & the stealth is so trash that I gave up. It’s a time waster that starts you over after you wasted time getting to a certain point. I agree with Matty on this one.
Awesome review, MrMatty. I won't be picking this one up personally, but I enjoyed the review.