Star Wars Outlaws Review Clown Show

hello again I am blunty currently on the fence about whether or not the lightsaber hilter's microphone gag is working or not let me know on the down below I it's it was a whim I guess I'll see if I get sick of this and throw it aside halfway through the video so Star Wars out laws review scores are all over the place there's just no General consensus for this game at all we're swinging between OMG this game is everything I'd ever wanted from a Star Wars open Mod game to literally heartbreakingly shitty game boo in fact taken on average the wildly desperate high and low scores are coming in uh you know overall worse than starfields aggregate score so that's interesting also a fun little opening to talk about whether review Aggregates and averaging them is useful even slightly it's not I've seen Outlaws being heavily criticized to being typical Ubisoft open world crap but I have also seen it being criticized for not being Ubisoft enough somehow apparently they've streamlined or removed some of the more cliche Ubisoft stuff and that really annoyed at least one review I was looking at While others maintain that the Ubisoft game feels like an Ubisoft game and that's a bad thing because they acted like that was some sort of unexpected shock like why why would you be surprised that a company who does such a very specific thing with the r mod games to such a broad and long-standing extent that Ubisoft style open world is a thing you will see in reviews of other games I this Ubisoft game plays like an Ubisoft game are you okay would would you like me to call your nurse I think your medication might need a little tweak I hear good things about a new medication it's a pill called uh dip shitol I've seen people Screech about gamebreaking bugs and while the footage of this bug is indeed hilarious and stupid [Music] and backed up by at least one more person posting the exact same bug happening in the exact same spot on the exact same mission that second person also said it was the only problem they've had bug wise so it's extraordinarily disingenuous at burst to Screech about the game being bug riddled or this goofy [ __ ] being called gamebreaking because it's just not it's just a stupid and very annoying bug I'm sure but in no way breaks the game from being continued which is what actual game breaking bugs do that's why we call them game breaking because they break the game you feckless pillocks so desperate to poop on the game you cling to any floor to try and make it into a Titanic iceberg for you don't be so disingenuous we can all see right through you do you think you're getting away with this clowns I've heard about forced stealth which I don't like it's it's one of the things that annoyed me about the Assassin's Creed games particularly the early ones I love stealth when I get to choose it and when if I [ __ ] up or decide that I want to do something in a loud way I can still do that and still complete the mission but from what I've seen if stealth fails in Outlaws you can still shoot your way through and maybe there's some specific missions where if you're caught you automatically fail but so long as that is a rarity I'm still okay with that too I've seen complaints about super handh holdy yellow paint climbing crap that is so aggressively intrusive it's basically treating you like a complete [ __ ] who has never played a video game before and infantilizes the gameplay to such an absurd amount it is infuriating but then I also read in a different review elsewhere that you can just like turn that off in the options it's just an option for it to you can turn it off so where's the problem there how do you review a game and not even glance at the options screen that feels a bit disingenuous I've seen complaints that many of the missions feel repetitive and well we're kind of back to the yeah it's a nuis soft open m game that's the deal and the repetition of mission types gives you two things the chance to refine your gameplay approach or to keep trying different approaches each time you repeat this mission style in Far Cry 5 for example I took great satisfaction in utterly dismantling enemy camps without ever raising a single alert perfect stealth was the goal but but every once in a while I drove up to the gates in my car and pretended I was doing a speedrun of Doom and ran through there with a shotgun just uh blowing everyone to Absolute pieces it was equally satisfying but you can't do that stuff if there was only ever One mission that required clearing out of an enemy base or if each base had an entirely different concept to clear it out no the repetition of a fortified base with snipers and guards and alarm towers and Lookout towels and and sort of looped paths around you know that that cycle that's that's where you got to refine or experiment that's the point of repetitive missions so repetitive missions are a choice of gameplay not a failure of developer imagination not always the case but it certainly is with Ubisoft games in my opinion it's okay not to like it but don't sit there being shocked that Ubisoft made an Ubisoft type game it just makes you look silly finally one of the most uh sort of common threads I saw was complaints about performance and optimization which sadly is another Ubisoft classic not one of my favorite things about their games uh they they do like to um well like many Publishers These Days release to a date not when the game is actually probably polished and ready for release necessarily it is a sad but apparently inescapable fact of the industry these days and the image I'll probably use as the the thumbnail for this video is supposedly an example of this that's been thrown around one shot is from the first reveal trailer the other was from some PTO mode I don't know whether it's on PC or console or whatever but but you know they look nothing alike because well it looks [ __ ] and run [ __ ] and to be honest with you I didn't bother to check what the OG sources for this image is the ugly one certainly Feels cherry-picked by Bad actors just desperately trying to make it a thing because again in the wild inconsistency in reviews and reactions in general I've seen just as many people are calling the game beautiful even stunningly beautiful now personally I've not played ubby didn't tap me on the shoulder for review code for this one they have in the past for some of their other games not this time around or their last one thankly might have pissed someone off uh and and frankly I had no intention of spending the premium price for Early Access or the real release date legitimizing their super sleazy little [ __ ] you of having a whole Last Quest featuring jab of the Hut locked behind a pre- auto pay wall as well there are several Ubisoft games I very much enjoy playing but dear God they are such a slimy company when it comes to that monetization [ __ ] it is hard to to to just enjoy the game on its own Merit sometimes you know what I mean so despite you know pre-order bad I would usually pre-order just so I can have it nicely pre-installed get my settings locked in and ready to go for stream day there's several reasons why I decided not to touch this game until reviews were out and the [ __ ] you spend more second release day had passed and let's be clear about this the Early Access is not early access that's the release day you just have to pay more to get there the actual release day is second release anything else is just branding [ __ ] you for that Ubisoft and everyone else is who does that [ __ ] but I'm not sure I want to play this game or I'm ready to pay for this game money's pretty tight right now and it's hard to justify the buy even for a game I want to use you know full content to you know make me money but uh and as a game that Milds Star Wars which I obviously love uh and and a game genre that I really enjoy I like the open bold stuff I want this game to be great I expected the game to be middling though it is after all an Ubisoft open world game and those are broadly usually pretty M I've never really jelled with the Assassin's Creed series but Far Cry I really like many of those the most recent one Far Cry 6 I kind of fell off that one I didn't think it was one of the strongest entries I never even finished it uh but the recent ones before that you know five and to a slightly lesser extent New Dawn had a bunch of fun with those I thought they were really good Ubisoft open World Games even though they too had a lot of flaws and I was hoping Outlaws would fall somewhere in that space you know Far Cry 5 to New Dawn kind of area that kind of Ubie Peak right now though I can't tell the reviews are so wildly inconsistent for every Claim about a floor I see another calling it a favorite part and for everyone complaining about the gameplay Loop here or there I see someone who just clearly isn't familiar with ubisoft's bone deep idiosyncracies that's that's that's UB you're complaining about an Ubisoft style thing in an Ubisoft game and it drives me nuts I mean context guys but maybe this is all a sinister plan a conspiracy to force me to spend the money and play it for myself no matter what you know they they make the review so confusing deliberately they paid people to make bad reviews I paid people to make good reviews just so everyone was so confused bugger it I'll try it for myself and they spend the money anyway or maybe this is all just the end stage of what video game discourse has become basically useless I don't know man I'm still on the fence uh I've got a few days before my usual weekend streams kick off I'll try to make a choice whether or not to get this game or not I suppose or I don't know this video is just basically me having a bit of a rant because the reviews are so it's been so long since uh a game has come out at least a big you know big deal game Star Wars Ubisoft you know it's a big deal game um where reviews have been so desperate I cannot you know find any commonality there's not just one or two outling reviews everybody hates this game but I love it or you know this is the world's shittiest game but I still love it that you know that kind of thing it happens sometimes with games that's not happening this time they just they're all over the place literally all over the place and it's just baffled trying to get a a feel for what this game actually is like to play so so I just don't know what to make of it if you've been playing if you've been one of the suckers who spent extra for the real release day not the second release day uh let me know how you're feeling about that in the down below I guess uh I am I will catch you next time thank you as always to the patreons up above there and I guess I stuck with the gimmick of the lightsaber microphone um spoiler alert I it's not like I've hidden a microphone in this it's um the microphone's here prop call it shape is it's just a prop live along and prosper