re: Ubisoft releasing story trailer for Star Wars Outlaws April 9

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when you prioritize checking the right boxes over actual story telling your video game/movie is likely to fail.

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This isn't just true when it comes to checking the diversity and inclusion boxes - it's also true when checking narrative boxes as well. It's why Star Wars sucks. They're so obsessed with rehashing the same things over and over. Always go to Tattooine, always some super weapon, always some skywalker relative or mystery about who someone's mom/dad are, etc. They can't move on

When I read that they brought back Palpatine for the latest shitty movie I died laughing. Shameless and desperate arse pull. Crazy to me how there are literally 2 good movies out of 11 (12?) in the series

KOTOR and the Respawn games (Fallen Order and Survivor) were both better than any of the movies because they don't fall into the trap I outlined above. They'll give you brief fan service moments like fighting with Vader in the latter games, but for the most part, they're wholly self contained narratives that are able to make the most SW's extensive universe in ways that aren't tropey and recycled for the 5th time