I see the hoverbike gliding over the landscape and I just keep expecting it to hit a rock and explode at any given moment and then I have to wake up in the hospital and ... oh wait wrong game.
Looks entertaining, but like Starfield, NOT worth the $70+ price tag. I'll also wait for mods to come out as I am not a fan of the main character design in the slightest.
If you must risk being brainwashed by Disney and Ubiwoke trash content just pay $18 for 1 month and immediately cancel so you won't forget. I promise when you are done you will even regret that.
With all of the issues that have been pointed out by everyone, and I don’t disagree that there are issues, I have still just been having a blast with this game. Way more than I thought I would. I have a smile on my face throughout so much of it. I just take my time, walk through the cities and landscapes and take on jobs or main quests when I am ready. Just meet the game on its level and it becomes a truly great Star Wars game. Again, yes, AI issues, some performance hiccups, but overall it is a game more than the sum of its parts. Especially for a Star Wars fan.
The problem with Ubisoft, and all big publisher games, is that their executives can afford to buy talent working for them but then turn all their work into brown post digested slop through focus groups, spreadsheet management and souless margin hunting above all else. Margin they dont share with the talent. So sorry Ubisoft talent... You have to lose those executive hacks if you want your work to shine.
@@walker1054 Morph is glancing over a lot of issues here he is a bad game reviewer. He barely listed all the bugs, problems, nonsensical stuff etc. he is what someone would call toxicly positive. I mean he still talks Star Citizen into a good light while admirable that he stays so positive its just wrong to do so as it fakes a lot of players that trust him into buying bad products.
@@NorthIniumwell yea he doesn’t really note the average gameplay, this is a game and gameplay has to be good, 2000s era games weren’t really narrative heavy (shooters mainly) they just had great set pieces with satisfying gameplay (and data logs do not count as main narrative)
I’ve been really enjoying it. There are a few bugs at times but they haven’t impeded the overall experience. As I learn more and more I start to grow in appreciation for the systems the game uses for stealth and combat.
Man, this is exactly what I've been saying. This game is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but what it does really well is allowing you to just live in the Star Wars world like never before. I have always dreamed about walking the streets of Tatooine exploring the underworld bustling cramped dense cities, and driving my Speeder Bike across the Dune sea. Smuggling goods and getting in with the huts and really living that scoundrel life. This game finally allows me to live that dream. And yes it has problems and yes it's an Ubisoft game, but it's a damn fun game if you like Star Wars and I've always wanted to be a scoundrel. It's a lot like solo, but a game
I literally watched streamers uninstall the game because of how half-baked the mechanics are. Stop trying to gaslight people lmfao. The combat AI/Stealth is somehow even worse than STAR CITIZEN.
@@joshuamorgan1137 It isn't fun game at all.This game literally has the worst ai I have ever seen.Also what are those stealth melee attacks.It's so dumb.Go play the first watch dogs 10 times better than this garbage and has better ai,combat and stealth takedown etc.
Idk how you idiots don't yet understand that fun is relative and people think differently. How are you guys arguing on something so stupid like opinions?
The amount of Gameplay limitations in a game with the word "Outlaw" in the title is the main reason for me to rate it low midtier.Not to mention the hilariously bad physics,a sometimes nice looking but boring "Open World" and generic Gameplay mechanics,which we,ve seen 1000 times before,but much better.But hey if people have fun playing it,that's totally cool.
I just wanted to ask you. What version of the game did you play. The base edition for 70euro? The gold edition for 110 euro? Or the ultimate edition for 130 euro? You do great videos and im your subscriber for some time. In your opinion is the game worth its full price or do we missout to much in the standard game?
@@mVran I believe it’s the Ultimate edition, although it’s a weird version for reviewers that I don’t think gives me the season pass. I’ll probably end up paying for it, I really want whatever more they want to put out for it. If you’re not sure, the 70$ or game pass version are good choices.
This a review I appreciate. I hope you get into doing this sort of thing more. When I saw the ACG review I knew what it was and then the trash-it reviews started and I just didn't care. I'll buy it when it's complete and on sale and probably enjoy it fairly well at that time.
Honestly the lack of customization is what did it in for me. theres a couple upgrades here and there and some skins but thats it. To me for a open world game thats disappointing for me. I would of loved to have some options for personalization. even having different weapons to choose from and more than just that same speeder bike. Also, I'd like to throw in the fact you cant really interact with the world around you was probably the worst part. Its 2024 and i really want to see game developers go the extra step beyond what is necessary, Especially when they're charging 100 dollars here for just the base game. The little things are what matters.
@@MolemanITA You have to buy different clothing and equip it in order to change the way she looks. There are a couple of warm weather clothing options. They actually made her shiver without it, it was a nice attention to detail. As for customization, I get the desire for it but on the otherhand that's not what this game was going for. It's not a choose your own adventure RPG, it's an open world game with a linear storyline like all the other Star Wars games we've been getting as of late. They wanted to make a Canon character, which precludes any modification, same as Cal Kestis. It's a bit like saying I'd like it more if it was a racing game. Sure, but it's not that.
@Morphologis I understand that, thanks for the reply BTW, its appreciated. I bought the game so I'm going to play through it. There are some good aspects of the game but I get certain parts where I struggle to find the urge to keep playing. Combat seems stale after the first couple hours that's why I was hoping for customization or to be able to keep different weapons. Just doesn't seem like an overall fulfilling experience to me. Your review seems on point but there are some things a disagree with but hey not the end of the world.
Okay, so the more insidious empire? The empire of Andor? That was the empire before Palpatine had "All the cards" in his hand. Around the time when Outlaws would be set, it would be the empire of post Alderaan. They had already blown up a planet, all just to "Send a message" to a rebellion that had only just been born. The point isn't that they are "comically evil", it's that they are inept. Palpatine, by that point, did not want to run an empire. He was able to lose the mask he'd been wearing basically since Episode 1.
FWIW, I'm about 12hrs in and am enjoying it. It might sound weird, but it reminds me of my time with Death Stranding; where it wasn't about the fight mechanics or battling the bosses, and most of your time is spent simply running your business. If you pick a fight with stormtroopers, it escalates so fast that I end up regretting it :-) so most of the time I'm avoiding them. It's the sort of game where you stop and spend the time watching the guards do their rounds, and plan your approach so that you're hidden in tall grass...and then can clobber one guy while he's looking away and before his buddy comes back in view. It's not a run and gun game at all. Overall I'd say I'm enjoying it as much as I enjoyed Jedi Survivor so far.
I got Jedi Survivor at launch and actually returned it because it was so unpolished. I picked it up on sale a few months ago and I've been playing it off and on, but it certainly not worth $70.
I found using Nix made it a lot easier to navigate without having to stop in some spots for too long. It’s kinda like with Watchdogs, the abilities and hacks made it more fun to move around instead of just waiting.
@@MildChunkySalsa Yup, if you get stuck and can't work out to get past a certain point, it's probably because you haven't realised that there's a hidden switch somewhere and you can dispatch Nix to pull the lever and open a door.
@MrSyphen6 bang on mate, and that's why I play games. bollocks to the politics I couldnt care. I'm not going to miss out on this because the crowd want me to. I'm playing it, and it's easily one of the best star wars games ever made for exploration, and pure immersion. awesome!
I’m only 10 hours in and I’m thoroughly enjoying it. I think people just want to hate the game. Reminds me of Mad Max, badly reviewed hated. But once the dust settled it was a cult classic. Not saying that will happen here, but 10 hours in I don’t get the hate.
Mad Max was not badly reviewed and that game was and still is superb. It's blasphemy you even compared Outlaws to Mad Max. Mad Max has multiple weapons to acquire and upgrade and an extremely robust melee system with a lot of unlockable finishers and environment moves. You have dozens of different vehicles to collect and utilise, and an expansive world with TONS of collectibles and nooks and crannies to discover secrets and unlockables. Outlaws couldn't even lace max's boots. It's embarrassing you even compared these two games because Outlaws is generic corposlop with bad combat, mundane mechanics, and limited interactivity.
I mean I don’t think it is worth 70€. It might be especially for younger people a good game, but at some point in life you don’t want to spend time and money on a mid game. It seems made for a younger audience.
@@Billy-bc8pk I didn’t compare the games themselves but how people felt about them. Also check the reviews. PC Gamer and Kataku did not give it a good review. Also said this my not be the case here as I’ve only played 10 hours. Maybe read a comment before you got angry. You’ve literally proved my point about unnecessary hate. Chill out it’s a game. You don’t have to buy it.
It's a bad game with stealth mechanics that are trumped by decades old games like Thief. The fact that a lot of people in the comments are fine with games consistently regressing is just embarrassing.
I wish it was all the stun blaster instead of the takedowns for that reason, she isn't strong enough to do that? 😭😭😭 I get its for balancing but they could have made it super short range on default and then the longer range shot wait time.
@@pauls9034 good for you man, if you've never played an ubisoft game it would seem like magic. However all they have done is put a skin over assassin's creed. It's not that special. The fight mechanics have been shoe horned in. Most of the budget has been spent on marketing and IP rights and it really shows seeing as it's just another AC clone. If you've never played any AC games then you're lucky.
@@Imperium_protectorRemember when two people could have differing opinions on something without one of them verbally lashing out over it? Pepperidge farm remembers.
Its always weird when people acknowledge that it "needs time in the oven" but its fine cause its a good game. Unfinished products have never been a good game to me like Mass Effect andro. The only thing about this game that is very good is the graphics. But pretty graphics cant hide the horrible gameplay on display.
Exactly this. It is malignant to recommend this game in its current state. Also, the main charactergraphics during dialogue aren't good at all. Almost PS3 quality
I think the only thing apparent here is the fact that games, as art, can be massively subjective. "Broken games" can be good even for relatively large audiences. Fallout games, for example, even when they were still under the hands of interplay and black isle, always come out as technically broken messes but still manage to capture people's imaginations with its story, world and characters Even graphical fidelity is subjective, i for one do not mind these graphics, but im sure for others its a deal breaker Morph presenting his opinion on it, given his relatively unique background as starwars nerd professional architect is valuable because it helps present the game in a perspective that might help people gain more of an understanding of it; you know from a certain point of view kinda thing
@gypsyfromthesatelliteoflov5425 thats not even true at all...... Last good fallout/besthesda game was new vegas and people just build a tolerance to like fallout 4 just like they did with starfield. Like wasnt 76 made to compensate for 4.
@@fearpacex6000 but fallout 4 was commercially successful and it gave people a platform to get mods like fallout london out. Its a subjective medium, you cant just boil it down to its bits and bytes and call a game good because of x y z; its more personal like how people can like curry but not certain spicy curry
I have this game as well. I don't know what the bad reviews are saying, but I have been very much enjoying this game. I haven't wrapped this game yet considering there's so much to do in the game. It's still awesome and very much enjoying the game as I'm still playing it.
People are defending this game. “Just mediocre” isn’t something we should be ok with from one of the biggest publishers in the world, with one of the biggest IP’s in the world, at full triple A pricing
Well beyond triple A if you look at it. 70 bucks is just barely the base game (same scheme with AC shadows) and the true base is the next price up. Then there's the preposterous 130 dollar price for what? "Dlc"? Extra quest(s)? Stuff that was made before the games release and yet the studio has the gall to ask for more money to include it? That right there is a scummy practice that needs to be nipped in the bud. It's exactly what the entire argument was back when dlcs became a thing. I never had a problem forking over more money for fresh content to expand and enhance these worlds i came to love. But it's hard to argue against the entire controversy that once was when the dlc is being sold along the "base" game before it's even been released ya know lol. And all that to say, besides your original point which i absolutely agree with brotha. And i can't believe I'm seeing defence in favor of this game saying "clearly they only played the story mode which is where all the bugs are" lol. They gotta be trolling lol
This ^ When compared to games 10 or even 15 years older than this game, those older games blow this game out of the water, the gameplay, mechanics, facial animations, general npc interactiveness, environment interactivity, no swimming, stealth mechanics, just about everything I have comes up as an empty shell of a game, especially one they say is open world. It's easy to have an open world when there's basically nothing in it and nothing reacts or interacts with each other. They really don't expect people to compare it to older games? Why not, older games are always the baseline for new games, just sitting this game apart and only comparing it to itself is pointless.
Even though I think this is a very good game, I would never have paid $70 for it, and if I had, I would feel ripped off. I have Ubisoft+ at founder's level pricing ($14.99/month), and I play a lot of Ubisoft games, so for me it's worth it, but I will say my rating of the game is at least somewhat influenced by the fact that I didn't pay a minimum of $70 or a maximum of $130 for it.
apparently the First DLC is the ability to actually have fun in this garbage game...sadly its locked behind a 50$ paywall :( or 120 for the seaosn pass version of the game :D
@@Imperium_protectorhave you played the game? It’s actually has a pretty good stealth take to it which helps slow it down. My only complaint so far is just the characters design sucks, and some things don’t need button sequences like sitting down to eat. The over cuddling of the bug pet when eating can be cringe.
@@Imperium_protector I paid 20$ for Ubisoft+ get your head out of your sheep herd. If you didn't play it just say that. It's the 7th comment alone I see of you in this video alone. Get some help.
Morph! You nailed it as always man, THIS is what we meant when we said SC may have been holding you back a bit. You’re an expert in your field; masterclass editing and that ever-enticing voiceover of yours is truly one of a kind. Well done my friend!
@@theCabsAreHere1 I really appreciate the kind words. It’s hard to find games I’m interested in covering, I’m glad we finally got an open world Star Wars game.
@@z-beeblebrox For me, at least? It's privately owned and operated (the only one that is AFAIK), is arguably the best and most consumer friendly CDN and storefront in the industry, and has existed the longest, outlasting their competition. But the privately owned part is a big deal. It means that they're under no legal obligation to extract the most profit possible from the operation. Instead, they're free to operate as they see fit, dictated predominantly by both sides of their user base.
@@RayneAngelus Those are all great reasons. I think my main concern/skepticism though comes from the fact that if you got rid of all these other "bad" stores, Steam would effectively have a monopoly on PC gaming storefronts - which is a far bigger concern these days than it was when Steam first launched and most people bought physical copies of games.
You have shown locations and portions of this game that no one else has. They then bemoan the game but wonder if they even played anything more than a couple extra missions and the story. I have been plucking away bit by bit at this game and I have had plenty of fun. I will say I am a huge star wars fan who loves the original trilogy and Han was always my favorite character. So... This game was made for me. The game isn't perfect from a gameplay stand point. But is it fun...? I think it is fun enough to warrant a play through. It's the most fun I have had running around in the Star Wars Galaxy since SWG back in the day.
This is par for the industry, especially on big controversial releases. Time crunch to get things out on embargo lift his huge, so some need to rush through the game to 100% the main story in order to deliver an opinion, but in rushing they don't take the time to play it as the creator intended causing them to sometimes miss vital story elements and character development. This is why I posted earlier this week I wasn't going to post on embargo lift, I didn't want to feel that pressure and deliver a half-baked opinion. I let the game cook, experienced as much as I could, and I'm glad for it. I would have missed out on a ton of extra abilities and features, I probably wouldn't have even known they were there. In fact, even giving myself extra time wasn't completely enough. After posting, I kept playing, and discovered a secret skill giver with a great story tie to ND-5. I'll leave it at that.
I like the idea of the story and Star Wars is Star Wars but honestly the core gameplay just looks lame from what I’ve seen. The ability to mark characters and have xray vision etc.. just breaks the emersion they have tried to create. Just feel generic Ubisoft rpg with a Star Wars skin.
Nah, the reality is that people are disillusioned with the company. The game is good from my experience so far, the public opinions have nothing to do with the reality of the game if we are being honest adults here.
@@The_Raven_Riveri agree. Gamers are so jaded now thst they cannot enjoy a 7/10 game to save their own life. Everybody expects ubi to fail and when they deliver an average experience they automatically consider it flaming trash. I remember when ppl pissed on ac rogue and now they call it underrated. Smh
@@nathanconnolly395does every game need to be a 9 or 10 outta 10? Sure outlaws needs work but its a good game. There is fun to be had and if you are a star wars fan, a pretty amazing and accurate open world to explore. Yes combat is simple and you cant take guns with you they let u pick up to different areas. Some people have experience bugs but people are being way too hard om this game because they dislike ubisoft. They treat ubisoft like EA. Fuck EA.
Honestly, this was more fun than playing that ginger jedi. Star Wars open world RPG, travelling to multiple planet systems.....etc... someone needs to do it. Just not Bethesda, Ubisoft, or EA.
I've said it before, but I'd buy it on PC if they were selling it on PC. They have absolutely no excuse for having this be a server-authorized download-only game. I'm sick of this specific anti-consumer stunt.
@@Imperium_protectorI MIGHT be wrong, but I'm assuming he means that the game requires "online connection" despite being a singleplayer game, which is annoying
@@Imperium_protector A game like this could be sold on a disc, the same way it is for PS5, very easily. Relying on downloads means you expect things with that company to go on the way they are now forever. We've already seen plenty of examples of people effectively losing their purchases of older games.
It definitely turned out way better than I thought it would, but I still don't think it looks worth the $70 USD for the base edition not to mention the insane $130 USD for the the "ultimate" edition. I will definitely wait for a sale before I get this.
The massive issue i have with the game is this. That game had so much potential. They should've made a character builder instead. Re worked the stealth and weapons sets. Instead of being just a smuggler it should have given different class options. Such as smuggler and bounty hunter and the beauty of being a bounty and you also have different races and classes that also. Such as gungan mandalorians and a plethora of races. You could choose being either a heavy a light. Gunslinger. Its just sooo mucb they could have done. And i mean an F ton but nooooo. They did this it just pisses me off how creatively bankrupt they are. The wanted system couldve been better. And shoot a multiplayer wouldve been awesome. Coupd do heists and bounties together. Unlocking and finding different armor sets and weapon builds. Brand new and never before seen ships. Fighting both the empire and rebels or working with either or.
some survey they did probably shows the prettier character model turns off female players. Don't ask me to explain, nobody understands the female mind.
Well you changed my mind, I will certainly give it a try now. I'm also highly curious, which Ultra-Wide monitor exactly do you use when playing Outlaws and do you recommend buying it? I'm currently looking for a good one, for productivity at home but especially for great gaming..
@@positronikiss and U dunno anything but speculative BS because maybe you love misery? or just a insufferable person who gives too much care to what someone else is playing
@@sofajockeyUK it is? I haven't played either game, but I was under the impression that Jedi Survivor is a rather linear experience while Outlaws is a much larger open world.
Yeah, as soon as I saw the horse unicorn things riding along star destroyers, I switched off. Haven't watched what happens next , I'd rather block all sequels out of my mind. Hopefully they will undo this mess at some point and re-build it into what it should of been.
Fools following mob mentality. The world is beautiful and super immersive, music is amazing and the story is superb. Something as if crafted by Lucas himself. Yes, there are a few things here which are buggy, I bought it during the Black Friday sale, and it’s PHENOMENAL. I hope the continue fixing some aspects of the game along with more DLCs.
It was never going to be that game, its useless making that point until we get a elite dangerous like game. I think its a good linear game for what it is. And has made some steps which could be used in a n elite dangerous like mmo type game (which would hopefully encorperate aspects of EVE).
I found the portrayal in Andor perfect. A huge systematic bureaucracy that slowly encroaches and over time gets worse and worse for the individual, ever so slightly that in the end, no one feels opressed, because they are so used to the status quo by then. Reminds us on some real world dictatorial states. This all works until the Empire lashes out and show force, that is when they start to fail in the eye of the public. I mean, they are pretty evil here in Outlaws but they still perform patrol duty (to keep the citizens safe *ahm*) fight of pirates in space and you can even get to talk to some crooked ones for loosing some heat. They also do not just kill you for entering their territory, you can still back out of restricted areas if possible...this does of course not work if you stand in the middle of their base already ^^
@@triptych5998 That's literally what the Empire was for decades. It is incredibly corrupt state, some times tona point of comedy. And this is absolutely how real corruption works
If I really suck at stealthy gameplay because I'm a button masher and I'm old and I'm not going to "get good" because my hands are getting worse... can I still have a good time with this? Is the inability to complete stealth-based challenges without just shooting people instead a game-breaker? I just want a good star wars story and entertainingly fun gameplay, nothing to beat my head against. Is this game for casuals?
Thanks for the honest review. I'd also seen the waves of constant negativity, but in all of the streams I've watched, it looks pretty fun, somewhat immersive, and a great slice of Star Wars. The only thing still putting me off is the price point, but I keep forgetting about that monthly subscription option. I'll probably end up giving it a try.
It says, "they want me to tell you IT'S BAD." Which seems like it's true, there is definitely some severely unreasonable hate for this game that is not at all objective. It's something that if people continue to push will destroy the future for good games. If people trash good games because they use a female character or they don't like the CEO, then good games won't sell and future games won't come because the company won't be able to afford to produce them.
I'm about 10 hours in and I've actually been greatly enjoying it. I completely agree with your assessment of the graphics and how immersive the world is. It really does feel like walking through Star Wars, and the level of detail they put into background conversations, random events, etc., makes it feel "lived in". One thing you didn't mention that I've also been enjoying is the gambling: races, Sabacc, etc. I played as part of a couple of early missions and found myself continuing to play for fun, which can really help rack up your credits to purchase unique items from factions, which tend to be more expensive. That goes to the point of doing side missions, leveling up your skills, etc., which makes later missions more interesting, because you have a wider variety of options when playing them. I'm hoping that the expansions bring further worlds to explore, and aren't just more missions on the same worlds or with different characters. One thing I did NOT like was the time I was in an Imperial base and was wanted, and the stormtroopers just...kept...coming. I blasted at least a couple hundred of them, trying to find out when they would eventually run out of stormtroopers, at least give me a break to get away, but it never happened. I ended up almost dying having to make a run for it, which might be "realistic", but I think at some point the planet would run out of stormtroopers, or at least have a break in waves of reinforcements. So far I'd give this around an 8.5/10, but at least some of that is because I love Star Wars and am partial to the IP, and for loyalists like me, I think the game adheres closely to the lore and feel, and that's worth a lot to a fan like me. Thanks for your unbiased analysis, we really appreciate it!
I'm about five hours into it and I'm enjoying it to, for the reasons you described--just walking around you feel like you really are in the STAR WARS universe, more so than a lot of SW games that have come before. I also don't mind the stealth aspects either. And the planets are...well, huge environments! I still think that some people just wanted to have a mad-on for the game before it came out because the main character was a woman.
I'm not sure yet, but you might have persuaded me to try this game! I've been itching for a Star Wars RPG that focuses on a non-Jedi but this one has gotten so much negative publicity since it started ramping up. When you commented on the inability to keep other weapons from the world, I realized I was hoping a little bit for a more Skyrim-esque experience, though. Something with a lot of character options that affect gameplay in a meaningful way.
Been playing non-stop since the 27th, haven't gotten close to finishing the main story as i've been doing every side quest i come across. The graphics are beautiful The atmosphere of locations are spot on The gameplay (whilst i've only experienced a couple of bugs, no biggie as EVERY game has them) emphasises stealth but most games do anyway and it's kinda more fun than just holding LMB to blast everything all the time The reputation system is very well done to the point where i've reloaded saves to see what the gain/loss is like and changed my option more than a couple of times The side quests are just as well done as the main story The easter eggs you come across put a smile on my face everytime I downloaded the game with low expectations and hadn't seen any media on it aside from the reveal trailer and i think that's how people show go into a game, not just Outlaws. I'd like a few more named characters to be male where it makes sense, having a majority of the people you connect with be female kind of pulled me out of the interactions but it's something i've moved past and realised it honestly doesn't matter. Not sure what this "Ubisoft buggered up early access saves with the day 1 patch" is all about, it's likely a PICNIC thing :D (IT term, search it up if you don't know...) I'll be keeping my eye on any expansions and/or follow up entries because it's a good non-lightsabre focused game. Great review Morph, stellar content as always!
@@NorthInium spoken by yet another moron who hasn't touched the game but their favorite rage bait streamers told them to hate it, so they do. Baaaaaa. Good sheep!
I “only” got a 3060 ti. I’ve watched gameplay on oled smartphone and it looks insanely good, but I wonder how it looks on not perfect settings on a ips panel
When I read on a developers website that one of the main creative directors for the game at Ubisoft Massive and many of the developers hadn’t worked on a single player game before, I was very hesitant. After playing for many hours I can honestly say that I am enjoying it, even with its flaws. To me its main flaws are to do with some stealth,melee,combat mechanics, some of the writing and Kay’s design and facial animations. Hopefully they will patch some of these out. I think they have captured the essence of Star Wars pretty well and the worlds and environments are gorgeous and incredibly immersive. You can see and feel the amount of love they have put into the game and I appreciate that.
@@arronstone177 Yeah, it grew on me, and it forced me to, well, THINK before I acted. And I like how you can use Nix to help when you have to go stealth.
@@MarcMcKenzie-qb6or Nix with improved abilities is so good later in the game, specially since some enemies you can’t just punch away. I found his attack useful and had to plan on who to stun before just wasting it
How much is stealth relied upon for progression? Like, can I shoot my way out if I'm utterly failing to stealth correctly? I'm not a fan of stealthy gameplay and prefer to just run and gun kind of action. A few stealth tasks or puzzles here and there, fine, but some reviews are making it look like the game is something like 80% stealth play and some have gone so far as to claim that you don't even have access to a gun for a lot of the game. That amount of sneaking is a total dealbreaker for me.
10:59 My only complaint about the game is, I haven’t found I had to carefully time anything with nix. I’m not even sure he can fail In any of his actions. I wish they found a way to make it feel like there’s a possibility your stealth actions with nix can fail or are the wrong ones to use in the moment. Right now he feels like a get out of jail free card for everything. Besides that I like the environment, the sound, the visuals were mainly fixed, The story is good, It’s a solid game.
Defend it all you want. Convincing people to spend money on this is going to be very hard. That’s like asking people to watch the acolyte so it gets a season 2.
Yeah man, I really like this game so far. Nowadays, so often we see viral negativity started by a few reviewers and taken up by a massive mob of people who have never even played the game. I enjoy the stealth aspects, and that is coming from someone who rarely enjoys stealth mechanics. The missions unfold in a really nice way with good but not overwhelming approach choice. The world is interesting and fun to explore, uncovering clues feels natural. The UI and design aesthetic nails it. The combat is decent. I don't know how people can gripe about combat and compare it to Red Dead or whatever, Rockstar combat is always janky and can be cheesed. Saying Far Cry or other open world games are better makes no sense to me. Far Cry? With those generic corny unbelievable characters? The Star Wars setting really helps this game for me personally, I really enjoyed the world, the cities, etc. I don't know man. I purposefully chose to just relax and take in the game for what it was and I found it easy to suspend disbelief and be engaged in the story and my personal progression. This game is a true 8.0 - 9.0 for me because getting me to give a fuck about doing things in an open world or the story of some random franchise is getting harder and harder these days. If you like Star Wars and can enjoy it, and gaming, without nitpicking and searching for hot takes this game is solid. Ans as a plus, since this is getting panned so hard you can wait for a sale. People out here trying to get that petty cash by making the hottest take, don't let the negativity mob get in your way of enjoying this hobby.
Seriously. I'm not Ubisoft or Disney fan, but there channels that literally grift on making several videos a day - all just regurgitating the same stuff on consuming media that they apparently hate. It's unhealthy.
Totally agree with most of your take. I'm loving this game. The combat is so much better after filling out the experts. Such a great system compared to a skill tree and more meaningful.
Definitely, I understand criticism but people are actively harassing those who like this game and discrediting their opinions as bought and paid for. Let people have different opinions, let people enjoy games regardless of how you feel about or who makes them
I've played Outlaws and so far it's a lot of fun and I'm really enjoying it. More so than I did Jedi Fallen Order. The game doesn't deserve the hate it's received.
@@Sgt.chickens The crappy main character design, the buggy mess release, the preorder scams, the cut content scams, the low quality, the overblown budget, the copy-paste content, the lifeless animations, the broken AI, the many gameplay design flaws, the entitlement and gaslighting from the developers...I am sure there's more but you get the picture.
@@brittrugg2676 That was not my opinion, those were just facts. Of course it's a tolerable, enjoyable product, but it's not worth 110 dollars for an early access that deletes your save file rendering the early access period virtually useless, it's not worth 70 dollars so that they can sell you cut content as day 1 DLC on their unfinished, buggy, copy paste, unoptimized, sanitized, corporate aproved, bland story, bland characters with a tinge of leftist agenda game, now, if you like getting scammed out of your money by companies on subpar product that's a you problem chief.🤷
I do think some of the hate is blind hate but so is some of the love. The landscapes have some wow moments but there is a lot wrong with this game on the level of Black Flag and Starfield and to say that it is "Amazing" is just as wrong as saying the game is "Absolute garbage". Hell at this point, any normal person should give this game a wide berth for 3-6 months simply b/c no one can seem to truly be objective about the damn thing
Star Wars is under a microscope, with any percieved slight being overblown by disengenious actors looking to leverage them as talking points to support their narrative that everything Star Wars Disney is woke garbage.
@@Morphologis That as well. Also, coming off the heels of a project as thoroughly disapponting as the Acolyte, everyone's attitude toward this game seems to be an echo of what happened after TLJ to Solo
@Morphologis The only Star Wars to come out of Disney + that hasn't been woke garbage was the first two seasons of Mandalorian and Andor and maybe several animated shows. Either way, Outlaws has horrible a.i. and combat, as well as terrible character animations. It definitely has amazing environments and architecture and space stuff is ok, but that stuff is more of a part to the game that is supposed to supplement the former
You know what would have made sense for a outlaw protagonist who can solo entire bases of enemy’s with out people noticing? Sev, from Republic Commandos. He already should have had a reason to hate the empire (He was left on Kashyyk). His ability to one shot storm troopers with his fists would have made sense (He has a knuckle blade made out of a really strong material). It would have been way more interesting if the two elite units of the sides during the Clone Wars we’re on the same team. And it could have been a semi realized sequel to republic commandos. Or this could have been a prequel to the actual sequel. And he would have heard about the destruction of Tantuss Base through his connections in the underground/ Rebel alliance. He would go looking to reunite the squad and it would have retconned Scorch‘s death in the Bad Batch finale. Just my thoughts and ideas since the people in the seats love using old characters.
This game is totally worth 18$ for Star Wars fans. Assuming you know you’ll have enough time sit down and beat it over the course of a month. I’m around 25 hrs in and having a blast. They nail the atmosphere.
@@adawg3032"the precuels ruined star wars" , "the 3d clone wars series ruined star wars", "Disney ruined star wars" Years pass and star wars fans still hate star wars lol
@@jonathanbosak8581 Well yeah bud, people said all those things, with good reason. People thought 1 and 2 were bad, so they said so. Then 3 came out. People thought it was bad, so they said so. Then the disney "movies" came out, which were an effortless series of cash grabs and an absolute pile of dog 💩, so people said so. Not sure what you don't get about that lol... Each was more terrible than the last. They thought it was ruined, then they learned what the true definitely of ruined was. Of course they hate it now. What is there to like? It was good and got progressively worse. Why are you surprised people said so?
No, people are angry about the fact that this game isn't being reviewed objectively. Mad Max is a decade old and has more gameplay and nearly the same level of graphics. Assassin's Creed Unity is also a decade old and has better graphics (ther eis literally a comparison video between the two and it's just embarrassing). The mechanics are limited, the open-world has no interactivity. The combat is mundane; there is barely any customisation, and compared to Ghost Recon Wildlands, Outlaws falls WAAAAAAY short as an open-world TPS, given you have a ton of weapons and customisation in Wildlands and plenty of vehicles. There is literally nothing about Outlaws that does anything better than its peers, even games made a decade ago by Ubisoft!
Haven't people already pointed out the game's flaws and performance issues? Even this video acknowledges them. What more do you want? Do you want them to rage like those ragebaiting grifting channels that thrive on negativity? Saying its the worst game ever made? It seems like you're upset that people enjoyed the game just because they don't share your opinion that this game should be trashed.
@@jesseomollo9405 It sets an extremely bad precedent that people are accepting lower quality games for higher prices. This trend will continue on, as people will keep buying games with poorly implemented mechanics, less content than what we had from games 20 years ago, and far fewer features than what we had 10 years ago. It's the same as what happened with horse armour DLC -- it started as a microtransaction and ballooned into an incorrigible practice within the industry that now makes up the brunt of revenue sales for most gaming publishers, making games worse int he process. This is one of those games that sets the trend of making gaming worse overall: it tells Ubisoft that they can produce corposlop for double the price of most games and people will pay for it all while getting less in the process. Anyone who actually cared about games culture would care about this negative trend sweeping the industry, but sadly it looks like a lot of people in this comment section support the dissolution of quality in the gaming industry.
when i see the console controls my immidiate question is - is it as linear as the jedi fallen order? From the games I played that were mainly console made, all of them were super linear and boring after a while and I finished it only because I don't like having unfinished games
Some people don't seem to see the individual project in this. Trying to create a general negative narrative about Disney, Wokeness, Star Wars and Ubisoft might be another topic, to be viewed disconnected to a single game review imho. Acolyte was really bad, so were the sequels, but we also had Mando and Andor that brought some new light. A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. I have not yet reached the point of damning every new release related to Star Wars. Some people seem to have reached that level and thats ok too, just shouldn't judge morph or any other Content Creator who is not joining the negative bias and downrates things solely for that. Thanks Morph, I enjoyed watching the review and always appreciated the professionalism of your SC Content that I also see here. It does indeed feel unbiased to me.
While I do believe Disney and Ubisoft have been dropping the ball lately, they do still create some good items. Not every single human being in those companies are bad, they're are still those who want to make good products. And I think we should provide honest feedback, so if something is actually good or decent they know. So hopefully the company takes note, and starts following their example. I don't think being just negative about everything they releases will ever fix their company. Destroy it maybe, but not fix
The aesthetic and visuals is what drew me in. I'm sure modders will make it even better. But I think I'll wait for some Christmas sale before I buy this game. The minigame with the pet seemed immersive to me tbh lol
It looks unfinished. The combat is terrible. That's before we get into the well-documented controversies. Ubisoft are a lazy, ideological developer and as such, I wouldn't touch any of their games with a bargepole.
I don't buy this at all. I don't think I've ever finished a game I didn't like and Morphologis has completed this game, so it's obviously got positive elements, plus if you are into Star Wars then that helps. For the rest of us, what you are saying could be addressed through patches, just check it out again in a few months.
@@dtrjones Many youtubers finish games that make a living with reviewing stuff so regardless if he likes it or not he would have finished it. Also Morph isnt really a good game reviewer as is as he has not that much experience in judging games.
@@dtrjones The game needs more weapons, needs better AI, needs better combat environments, needs better animations, needs an actual melee system, needs proper stealth, needs more vehicles, needs more vehicular weapons, needs more mission types, needs more environmental interactions, and needs a better story. Those aren't going to be fixed in a few patches within a few months.
Can you get snipers and other weapons or just the pistol blaster type? Looks a little lacking tbh. Could be a lot more. Yeah it is not the typical procedurally generated planets but, a handcrafted nothing to do is just as bad. Ideally a bit more of an AC vibe would have been nice. Entering random buildings etc... They definitely need to have more incentives when exploring. More detailed and interesting weapon and ability upgrades. Like the previous start wars titles, especially the last one, there was zero incentive to go find new parts for your lightsabre. Not sure if I want to fork out the money,.
I've picked up the sniper blaster rifles, but yeah, I wish you could carry more than one blaster besides your pistol you often drop the weapons you pick up, but your blaster is your default weapon. Still, I like that you can modify it--although I wish you could use the stun setting more. Also, you do have to modify it especially for some missions, so there's your incentive.
I’m only 10 hours and I like it. As you say not perfect. But this doesn’t have the billion $ budget of a rockstar game. I think people’s expectations are out of whack. But I grew up loading ganes from a floppy disk
Thank you for your honest and unbiased review, too much of a rarity these days! You are the only content creator that I have found through an interest in Star Citizen that I haven’t unsubscribed from….looking at you SugarMike
I don't know if we played the same game, at what point do I care about ND-5, he's stuck on ship all the time, the game gave very little opportunity for bonding. (one to be specific)
i paid for the Ubisoft monthly pass and played Outlaws for 50+hrs. I did not finish the game b/c it isnt any good. If you play video games then you know. The idea that this game is anywhere near to the quality of games that have been released for years is absurd...additionally you need to have $1K+ GPU to get the footage in this video
Thanks for your honest review ! I definitely want to check it out - I was kinda left hanging by yet another "drama". I'll therefore buy it knowing full well what to expect (and not to expect ;) Thanks ! On a side note, I have the feeling that the stuff that feels unfinished has more to do with cost effectiveness than with the ability to meet a deadline... (kinda for the same reason we've seen a decline in CGI quality these pas few years in movies)
This isn't hate, just observation, but I have watched 20 reviews of this game and basically every positive you mentioned the others basically said the exact opposite. So I can't decide what to make of this game. At least you agree that the combat sucks. Luckily for me I already don't support Ubisoft so I wasn't going to buy it anyway.
@@hippoace I have moral standards and this company is pure garbage. I have a ton of games to play and enjoy so it’s not costing me anything. Plus this game does NOT look fun to me. There might be some cool aspects, sure. But the combat looks so bland and boring. Even worse than typical Ubisoft stuff. I’d rather stand on my principals than support a bad company. But your comment didn’t really have anything to do with mine. I was just trying to figure out why the opinion was so opposite most the others. I don’t care one way or the other. I love that people have different opinions and likes. Keeps life interesting and people trying new things. So good attempt but nah.
Honestly, just look up some good gameplay, then you can judge the game yourself, most of the reviewers I’ve watched speaking negatively about the game don’t really seem to fully understand or don’t want to bother with the mechanics. From what I’ve seen though, my main complaint would be the lack of customisation for both your arsenal and your character: there’s a few skins for Kay and you can only run around with your blaster; you can pick up weapons from the enemies but they’re more of a “temporary gun” like it works on Mirror’s Edge and that kinda sucks for me.
@@allopic3764 I’ve watched quite a few streams or reviewers I trust and the world seems cool but the focus on stealth is shallow and combat it shallow I can tell. Watching her one punch a Stormtrooper in his helmet is hilariously bad 😂 The temporary gun thing you mentioned was one of my huge negatives in stuff I’ve watched. It makes your character feel bland and like they’re not progressing. Very very bad design choice.
Honestly it feels like a fine prototype. I wish a 2nd "polished" and "real" version would be a game where we play a bounty hunter. Ship customization, maybe even character creation. Also bouny hunting and scanning is much cooler than smuggling and outlawing. Sucks that The Mandalorian literally claims everything in that regard, so we can never ever have an original Mandalorian character with his own clan and stuff. Since for whatever reason Disney's Mandalore is a planet with 50 people. lol
The environments always looked great. Some of those bugs definitely look as though it needed more time in the oven. Hopefully they get fixed fairly quickly, as they really destroy immersion.
they should've leaned more into the reputation systems, it would help set the game apart from other action games but the factions feel pretty hollow in the typical ubisoft way, showing you rewards and what not before even thinking about doing tasks for them.
Currently playing it. While I don't think the game is bad, it's not great either. It's just really mediocre and seems a bit outdated. I do regret preordering. It's a game you buy when it drops below $15.
I beat the game, completed a lot of the side quests and got 44 out 49 achievements on Xbox. Complain about the price when Ubisoft premium is $18 a month then you can cancel. I give this game a 7.5/10. For a Ubisoft game I was surprised in a good way. It’s a great game. A few graphical bugs on my end and that’s it. Also live action cameos are 100% possible.
I see the hoverbike gliding over the landscape and I just keep expecting it to hit a rock and explode at any given moment and then I have to wake up in the hospital and ... oh wait wrong game.
well its a singleplayer game, latency and magic collisions don't appear here ^^
nice!
@@CellDE True, but it also doesn't have 12 years of development time and 700 million in funding.
Hoverbike traume is way too real.
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Sounds like a good game to buy in a few years when it's cheap.
And (hopefully) on Steam
Looks entertaining, but like Starfield, NOT worth the $70+ price tag. I'll also wait for mods to come out as I am not a fan of the main character design in the slightest.
If you must risk being brainwashed by Disney and Ubiwoke trash content just pay $18 for 1 month and immediately cancel so you won't forget. I promise when you are done you will even regret that.
@@DarkPhoenixDack125starfield was better than this shit
Got it for free with my GPU on my new build, so it’s been enjoyable so far for free. I just hate the characters, super super forgettable
With all of the issues that have been pointed out by everyone, and I don’t disagree that there are issues, I have still just been having a blast with this game. Way more than I thought I would. I have a smile on my face throughout so much of it. I just take my time, walk through the cities and landscapes and take on jobs or main quests when I am ready. Just meet the game on its level and it becomes a truly great Star Wars game.
Again, yes, AI issues, some performance hiccups, but overall it is a game more than the sum of its parts. Especially for a Star Wars fan.
The problem with Ubisoft, and all big publisher games, is that their executives can afford to buy talent working for them but then turn all their work into brown post digested slop through focus groups, spreadsheet management and souless margin hunting above all else. Margin they dont share with the talent.
So sorry Ubisoft talent... You have to lose those executive hacks if you want your work to shine.
This game doesn't seem like post digested slop though, the video doesn't make it seem like it is at all either.
@@walker1054 they are just making assumptions based on what the nerd masses tell them. Original thought is a problem nowadays.
@@walker1054 Well, i was fooled buying into Star Citizen aswell through his videos, because they seemed so well and look where the "game" is now.
@@walker1054 Morph is glancing over a lot of issues here he is a bad game reviewer. He barely listed all the bugs, problems, nonsensical stuff etc. he is what someone would call toxicly positive. I mean he still talks Star Citizen into a good light while admirable that he stays so positive its just wrong to do so as it fakes a lot of players that trust him into buying bad products.
@@NorthIniumwell yea he doesn’t really note the average gameplay, this is a game and gameplay has to be good, 2000s era games weren’t really narrative heavy (shooters mainly) they just had great set pieces with satisfying gameplay (and data logs do not count as main narrative)
I’ve been really enjoying it. There are a few bugs at times but they haven’t impeded the overall experience. As I learn more and more I start to grow in appreciation for the systems the game uses for stealth and combat.
I want an open world star wars game where you get to be a bounty hunter mandalorian
That would be sick
That's what we all want... and your armor gets upgraded with time and progress
@@moritz8506 yes!!
Yeah they were stupid not to capitalize on that.
Neat. Go play The Old Republic.
I saw someone post some stealth gameplay that really allowed you to see the takedown animations. They are bloody terrible.
"You dont like it, dont buy it."
Just like old time...
Man, this is exactly what I've been saying. This game is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but what it does really well is allowing you to just live in the Star Wars world like never before. I have always dreamed about walking the streets of Tatooine exploring the underworld bustling cramped dense cities, and driving my Speeder Bike across the Dune sea. Smuggling goods and getting in with the huts and really living that scoundrel life. This game finally allows me to live that dream. And yes it has problems and yes it's an Ubisoft game, but it's a damn fun game if you like Star Wars and I've always wanted to be a scoundrel. It's a lot like solo, but a game
I literally watched streamers uninstall the game because of how half-baked the mechanics are. Stop trying to gaslight people lmfao. The combat AI/Stealth is somehow even worse than STAR CITIZEN.
@@LeftJoystick Lol...
"It's a fun game"
"STOP GASLIGHTING ME!"
@@LeftJoystick shut up
@@joshuamorgan1137 It isn't fun game at all.This game literally has the worst ai I have ever seen.Also what are those stealth melee attacks.It's so dumb.Go play the first watch dogs 10 times better than this garbage and has better ai,combat and stealth takedown etc.
Idk how you idiots don't yet understand that fun is relative and people think differently. How are you guys arguing on something so stupid like opinions?
Great review! It definitely looks like fun, but I'll consider playing it next year when it goes on sale.
The amount of Gameplay limitations in a game with the word "Outlaw" in the title is the main reason for me to rate it low midtier.Not to mention the hilariously bad physics,a sometimes nice looking but boring "Open World" and generic Gameplay mechanics,which we,ve seen 1000 times before,but much better.But hey if people have fun playing it,that's totally cool.
I just wanted to ask you. What version of the game did you play. The base edition for 70euro? The gold edition for 110 euro? Or the ultimate edition for 130 euro? You do great videos and im your subscriber for some time. In your opinion is the game worth its full price or do we missout to much in the standard game?
@@mVran I believe it’s the Ultimate edition, although it’s a weird version for reviewers that I don’t think gives me the season pass. I’ll probably end up paying for it, I really want whatever more they want to put out for it. If you’re not sure, the 70$ or game pass version are good choices.
This a review I appreciate. I hope you get into doing this sort of thing more. When I saw the ACG review I knew what it was and then the trash-it reviews started and I just didn't care. I'll buy it when it's complete and on sale and probably enjoy it fairly well at that time.
Honestly the lack of customization is what did it in for me. theres a couple upgrades here and there and some skins but thats it. To me for a open world game thats disappointing for me. I would of loved to have some options for personalization. even having different weapons to choose from and more than just that same speeder bike. Also, I'd like to throw in the fact you cant really interact with the world around you was probably the worst part. Its 2024 and i really want to see game developers go the extra step beyond what is necessary, Especially when they're charging 100 dollars here for just the base game. The little things are what matters.
Just looking at this video, the fact that she dress the same way in an ice world and in a desert world is pretty ridiculous.
the base game is 70
@@thomasjohnson1399 it's 103 dollars after tax where I live. For the base game.
@@MolemanITA You have to buy different clothing and equip it in order to change the way she looks. There are a couple of warm weather clothing options. They actually made her shiver without it, it was a nice attention to detail.
As for customization, I get the desire for it but on the otherhand that's not what this game was going for. It's not a choose your own adventure RPG, it's an open world game with a linear storyline like all the other Star Wars games we've been getting as of late. They wanted to make a Canon character, which precludes any modification, same as Cal Kestis.
It's a bit like saying I'd like it more if it was a racing game. Sure, but it's not that.
@Morphologis I understand that, thanks for the reply BTW, its appreciated. I bought the game so I'm going to play through it. There are some good aspects of the game but I get certain parts where I struggle to find the urge to keep playing. Combat seems stale after the first couple hours that's why I was hoping for customization or to be able to keep different weapons. Just doesn't seem like an overall fulfilling experience to me. Your review seems on point but there are some things a disagree with but hey not the end of the world.
Okay, so the more insidious empire? The empire of Andor? That was the empire before Palpatine had "All the cards" in his hand. Around the time when Outlaws would be set, it would be the empire of post Alderaan. They had already blown up a planet, all just to "Send a message" to a rebellion that had only just been born. The point isn't that they are "comically evil", it's that they are inept. Palpatine, by that point, did not want to run an empire. He was able to lose the mask he'd been wearing basically since Episode 1.
FWIW, I'm about 12hrs in and am enjoying it. It might sound weird, but it reminds me of my time with Death Stranding; where it wasn't about the fight mechanics or battling the bosses, and most of your time is spent simply running your business. If you pick a fight with stormtroopers, it escalates so fast that I end up regretting it :-) so most of the time I'm avoiding them. It's the sort of game where you stop and spend the time watching the guards do their rounds, and plan your approach so that you're hidden in tall grass...and then can clobber one guy while he's looking away and before his buddy comes back in view. It's not a run and gun game at all. Overall I'd say I'm enjoying it as much as I enjoyed Jedi Survivor so far.
I got Jedi Survivor at launch and actually returned it because it was so unpolished. I picked it up on sale a few months ago and I've been playing it off and on, but it certainly not worth $70.
Except that gameplay in death stranding is good, and unique, unlike ubisoft and his re-heated watch dog legion gameplay with a star wars skin
@@brkenppt2222 I loved Death Stranding but the fight mechanics against those guys in the camps wasn’t that great, with those oddly ineffectual weapons
I found using Nix made it a lot easier to navigate without having to stop in some spots for too long. It’s kinda like with Watchdogs, the abilities and hacks made it more fun to move around instead of just waiting.
@@MildChunkySalsa Yup, if you get stuck and can't work out to get past a certain point, it's probably because you haven't realised that there's a hidden switch somewhere and you can dispatch Nix to pull the lever and open a door.
Greatly detailed and informative eview, Morph! Thank you.
The game is very good for a first ever open world Star Wars game I promise you. Bash it all you guys want to. I wasn’t disappointed.
What are your credentials to review? Because I think it's hot trash.
:^)
"first ever open world star wars game"
Only reason I'm not buying is because of Ubisoft! I'm done supporting all their BS
Same here. If this game was released by anyone else, or without usual Ubisoft crap, I'd gladly buy and play it.
Cry about it. 🙄 Man, you people are annoying.
Who cares who made the game? It is a lot of fun. I'm really enjoying it.
@@MrSyphen6 it was made by people who want you to get comfortable with not owning games. For me, it's a no. Enjoy your limited time license.
@MrSyphen6 bang on mate, and that's why I play games. bollocks to the politics I couldnt care.
I'm not going to miss out on this because the crowd want me to. I'm playing it, and it's easily one of the best star wars games ever made for exploration, and pure immersion.
awesome!
I’m only 10 hours in and I’m thoroughly enjoying it. I think people just want to hate the game.
Reminds me of Mad Max, badly reviewed hated. But once the dust settled it was a cult classic.
Not saying that will happen here, but 10 hours in I don’t get the hate.
This👆
just like no mans sky haha, owned from day one and loved it then, but love it even more now!
Mad Max was not badly reviewed and that game was and still is superb. It's blasphemy you even compared Outlaws to Mad Max. Mad Max has multiple weapons to acquire and upgrade and an extremely robust melee system with a lot of unlockable finishers and environment moves. You have dozens of different vehicles to collect and utilise, and an expansive world with TONS of collectibles and nooks and crannies to discover secrets and unlockables. Outlaws couldn't even lace max's boots. It's embarrassing you even compared these two games because Outlaws is generic corposlop with bad combat, mundane mechanics, and limited interactivity.
I mean I don’t think it is worth 70€. It might be especially for younger people a good game, but at some point in life you don’t want to spend time and money on a mid game. It seems made for a younger audience.
@@Billy-bc8pk I didn’t compare the games themselves but how people felt about them. Also check the reviews. PC Gamer and Kataku did not give it a good review.
Also said this my not be the case here as I’ve only played 10 hours.
Maybe read a comment before you got angry. You’ve literally proved my point about unnecessary hate. Chill out it’s a game. You don’t have to buy it.
Those takedowns look lazy.
The one with the electroshock weapon looks fine but the normal takedown is weird
They are lazy.
It's a bad game with stealth mechanics that are trumped by decades old games like Thief. The fact that a lot of people in the comments are fine with games consistently regressing is just embarrassing.
It's a kid's game.
I wish it was all the stun blaster instead of the takedowns for that reason, she isn't strong enough to do that? 😭😭😭
I get its for balancing but they could have made it super short range on default and then the longer range shot wait time.
Its mid bro. Point blank period. It aint great, it aint terrible but it damn sure aint worth 70 bucks.
I absolutely love this game. Sucks to be you.
@@pauls9034 you must think getting in a bath and dropping a plugged in toaster into the water ir probably the most fun thing everXD
Not even mid lol
@@pauls9034 good for you man, if you've never played an ubisoft game it would seem like magic. However all they have done is put a skin over assassin's creed. It's not that special. The fight mechanics have been shoe horned in. Most of the budget has been spent on marketing and IP rights and it really shows seeing as it's just another AC clone. If you've never played any AC games then you're lucky.
@@Imperium_protectorRemember when two people could have differing opinions on something without one of them verbally lashing out over it?
Pepperidge farm remembers.
Even calling them Airplane flight mechanics does an insanely massive disservice to airplanes everywhere.
What do you mean by that?
except when that aiplane is a Boeing
I'm not sure where you've been, but Star Wars has been doing WWII planes in space style flight mechanics since the original trilogy.
@@Seahorn_Boeing F/A 18?
@@Morphologis if you’ve played Lego Star Wars the Skywalker saga, then that’s the best comparison to the fight model.
Its always weird when people acknowledge that it "needs time in the oven" but its fine cause its a good game. Unfinished products have never been a good game to me like Mass Effect andro. The only thing about this game that is very good is the graphics.
But pretty graphics cant hide the horrible gameplay on display.
Exactly this. It is malignant to recommend this game in its current state. Also, the main charactergraphics during dialogue aren't good at all. Almost PS3 quality
I think the only thing apparent here is the fact that games, as art, can be massively subjective.
"Broken games" can be good even for relatively large audiences. Fallout games, for example, even when they were still under the hands of interplay and black isle, always come out as technically broken messes but still manage to capture people's imaginations with its story, world and characters
Even graphical fidelity is subjective, i for one do not mind these graphics, but im sure for others its a deal breaker
Morph presenting his opinion on it, given his relatively unique background as starwars nerd professional architect is valuable because it helps present the game in a perspective that might help people gain more of an understanding of it; you know from a certain point of view kinda thing
I find most EA games to be shallow, as a whole, as it relates to ME. Nice to look at but skin deep. I get that from this as well.
@gypsyfromthesatelliteoflov5425 thats not even true at all...... Last good fallout/besthesda game was new vegas and people just build a tolerance to like fallout 4 just like they did with starfield. Like wasnt 76 made to compensate for 4.
@@fearpacex6000 but fallout 4 was commercially successful and it gave people a platform to get mods like fallout london out.
Its a subjective medium, you cant just boil it down to its bits and bytes and call a game good because of x y z; its more personal like how people can like curry but not certain spicy curry
I have this game as well. I don't know what the bad reviews are saying, but I have been very much enjoying this game. I haven't wrapped this game yet considering there's so much to do in the game. It's still awesome and very much enjoying the game as I'm still playing it.
People are defending this game.
“Just mediocre” isn’t something we should be ok with from one of the biggest publishers in the world, with one of the biggest IP’s in the world, at full triple A pricing
Well beyond triple A if you look at it. 70 bucks is just barely the base game (same scheme with AC shadows) and the true base is the next price up. Then there's the preposterous 130 dollar price for what? "Dlc"? Extra quest(s)? Stuff that was made before the games release and yet the studio has the gall to ask for more money to include it? That right there is a scummy practice that needs to be nipped in the bud. It's exactly what the entire argument was back when dlcs became a thing. I never had a problem forking over more money for fresh content to expand and enhance these worlds i came to love. But it's hard to argue against the entire controversy that once was when the dlc is being sold along the "base" game before it's even been released ya know lol.
And all that to say, besides your original point which i absolutely agree with brotha. And i can't believe I'm seeing defence in favor of this game saying "clearly they only played the story mode which is where all the bugs are" lol. They gotta be trolling lol
This ^
When compared to games 10 or even 15 years older than this game, those older games blow this game out of the water, the gameplay, mechanics, facial animations, general npc interactiveness, environment interactivity, no swimming, stealth mechanics, just about everything I have comes up as an empty shell of a game, especially one they say is open world. It's easy to have an open world when there's basically nothing in it and nothing reacts or interacts with each other. They really don't expect people to compare it to older games? Why not, older games are always the baseline for new games, just sitting this game apart and only comparing it to itself is pointless.
The best endorsement I've heard is "Doesn't feel like Ubisoft game" :)
Even though I think this is a very good game, I would never have paid $70 for it, and if I had, I would feel ripped off. I have Ubisoft+ at founder's level pricing ($14.99/month), and I play a lot of Ubisoft games, so for me it's worth it, but I will say my rating of the game is at least somewhat influenced by the fact that I didn't pay a minimum of $70 or a maximum of $130 for it.
@@BIGhappyG33 actully, i changed my mind after trying it. it sucks crashes every minute.
it gives good vibes, actually. i hope they will further patch the game and create additional stories.
Wishful thinking
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apparently the First DLC is the ability to actually have fun in this garbage game...sadly its locked behind a 50$ paywall :( or 120 for the seaosn pass version of the game :D
@@Imperium_protectorhave you played the game?
It’s actually has a pretty good stealth take to it which helps slow it down.
My only complaint so far is just the characters design sucks, and some things don’t need button sequences like sitting down to eat. The over cuddling of the bug pet when eating can be cringe.
@@Imperium_protector I paid 20$ for Ubisoft+ get your head out of your sheep herd. If you didn't play it just say that. It's the 7th comment alone I see of you in this video alone. Get some help.
Morph! You nailed it as always man, THIS is what we meant when we said SC may have been holding you back a bit. You’re an expert in your field; masterclass editing and that ever-enticing voiceover of yours is truly one of a kind. Well done my friend!
@@theCabsAreHere1 I really appreciate the kind words. It’s hard to find games I’m interested in covering, I’m glad we finally got an open world Star Wars game.
@@Morphologis I definitely can relate haha, I’ll be trying out Outlaws because of your review 🤙🏼
Cam someone please tell me what location/spacestation it is in the video from 16:04?
I'm more concerned with the Uplay always online restrictions that have removed nearly all of my interest in ubisoft games for the past decade.
Same. The only CDN/storefront/game service I care to deal with is Steam. Uplay is hot garbage and not something I want to bother with.
piracy solves all problems
@@RayneAngelus I'd love to know why Steam always gets a free pass in these discussions.
@@z-beeblebrox For me, at least? It's privately owned and operated (the only one that is AFAIK), is arguably the best and most consumer friendly CDN and storefront in the industry, and has existed the longest, outlasting their competition. But the privately owned part is a big deal. It means that they're under no legal obligation to extract the most profit possible from the operation. Instead, they're free to operate as they see fit, dictated predominantly by both sides of their user base.
@@RayneAngelus Those are all great reasons. I think my main concern/skepticism though comes from the fact that if you got rid of all these other "bad" stores, Steam would effectively have a monopoly on PC gaming storefronts - which is a far bigger concern these days than it was when Steam first launched and most people bought physical copies of games.
Great review, thank you!
You have shown locations and portions of this game that no one else has. They then bemoan the game but wonder if they even played anything more than a couple extra missions and the story.
I have been plucking away bit by bit at this game and I have had plenty of fun. I will say I am a huge star wars fan who loves the original trilogy and Han was always my favorite character. So... This game was made for me.
The game isn't perfect from a gameplay stand point. But is it fun...? I think it is fun enough to warrant a play through. It's the most fun I have had running around in the Star Wars Galaxy since SWG back in the day.
This is par for the industry, especially on big controversial releases. Time crunch to get things out on embargo lift his huge, so some need to rush through the game to 100% the main story in order to deliver an opinion, but in rushing they don't take the time to play it as the creator intended causing them to sometimes miss vital story elements and character development.
This is why I posted earlier this week I wasn't going to post on embargo lift, I didn't want to feel that pressure and deliver a half-baked opinion. I let the game cook, experienced as much as I could, and I'm glad for it. I would have missed out on a ton of extra abilities and features, I probably wouldn't have even known they were there. In fact, even giving myself extra time wasn't completely enough. After posting, I kept playing, and discovered a secret skill giver with a great story tie to ND-5. I'll leave it at that.
I like the idea of the story and Star Wars is Star Wars but honestly the core gameplay just looks lame from what I’ve seen. The ability to mark characters and have xray vision etc.. just breaks the emersion they have tried to create. Just feel generic Ubisoft rpg with a Star Wars skin.
Nah, the reality is that people are disillusioned with the company. The game is good from my experience so far, the public opinions have nothing to do with the reality of the game if we are being honest adults here.
@@The_Raven_River if we're being honest it's aggressively mediocre solid 5 maybe 6 out of ten
@@The_Raven_Riveri agree. Gamers are so jaded now thst they cannot enjoy a 7/10 game to save their own life. Everybody expects ubi to fail and when they deliver an average experience they automatically consider it flaming trash.
I remember when ppl pissed on ac rogue and now they call it underrated. Smh
@@nathanconnolly395 Did u complete it or watch some cringe youtuber hate post? lmao
@@nathanconnolly395does every game need to be a 9 or 10 outta 10? Sure outlaws needs work but its a good game. There is fun to be had and if you are a star wars fan, a pretty amazing and accurate open world to explore. Yes combat is simple and you cant take guns with you they let u pick up to different areas. Some people have experience bugs but people are being way too hard om this game because they dislike ubisoft. They treat ubisoft like EA. Fuck EA.
Wow actually a video with constructive criticism about outlaws. Well done dude, great vid:)
Honestly, this was more fun than playing that ginger jedi. Star Wars open world RPG, travelling to multiple planet systems.....etc... someone needs to do it. Just not Bethesda, Ubisoft, or EA.
"that ginger jedi" that alone is enough to disregard anything you have to say
U have a problem with gingers? I loved jedi survivor
I've said it before, but I'd buy it on PC if they were selling it on PC. They have absolutely no excuse for having this be a server-authorized download-only game. I'm sick of this specific anti-consumer stunt.
what the fuck do you mean "if they were selling it on PC?" its on PC? i dont get it
@@Imperium_protectorI MIGHT be wrong, but I'm assuming he means that the game requires "online connection" despite being a singleplayer game, which is annoying
Lmao. Games have been download only on oc for 15 years, now!
The last man on earth using a disk drive in his PC
@@Imperium_protector A game like this could be sold on a disc, the same way it is for PS5, very easily. Relying on downloads means you expect things with that company to go on the way they are now forever. We've already seen plenty of examples of people effectively losing their purchases of older games.
It definitely turned out way better than I thought it would, but I still don't think it looks worth the $70 USD for the base edition not to mention the insane $130 USD for the the "ultimate" edition. I will definitely wait for a sale before I get this.
The massive issue i have with the game is this. That game had so much potential. They should've made a character builder instead. Re worked the stealth and weapons sets. Instead of being just a smuggler it should have given different class options. Such as smuggler and bounty hunter and the beauty of being a bounty and you also have different races and classes that also. Such as gungan mandalorians and a plethora of races. You could choose being either a heavy a light. Gunslinger. Its just sooo mucb they could have done. And i mean an F ton but nooooo. They did this it just pisses me off how creatively bankrupt they are. The wanted system couldve been better. And shoot a multiplayer wouldve been awesome. Coupd do heists and bounties together. Unlocking and finding different armor sets and weapon builds. Brand new and never before seen ships. Fighting both the empire and rebels or working with either or.
That's not a 'potential' this game has, you just want a game of a different genre, a role playing game instead of an action-adventure one.
So you just weren't able to adjust your expectations. Got it.
Excellent review Morph, Im really loving these other space game reviews 🍻
The voice actress is very beautiful! Why the hell did they not use her likeness?
some survey they did probably shows the prettier character model turns off female players. Don't ask me to explain, nobody understands the female mind.
@@eclipsetrekker Probably all blue haird weirdos that say it turns away female players lul
Yall are weird? The character looks fine
DEI
Honestly the Kay vess actor choice for them was kinda weird but I ain’t gonna complain
Well you changed my mind, I will certainly give it a try now. I'm also highly curious, which Ultra-Wide monitor exactly do you use when playing Outlaws and do you recommend buying it?
I'm currently looking for a good one, for productivity at home but especially for great gaming..
I don't support anything EA or Disney so.... until the companies can change my mind, I don't care
yet u care enough to leave comments on youtube :facepalm: if u dont care then stfu...
Ubisoft made it. Nothing to do with EA
Okay?
@@Averagejack1234 starwars is disney im assuming thats why he said it
@@Averagejack1234that’s even worse
We are slowly approaching a point where the game companies realize WE JUST WANTED KOTOR ALL ALONG
Some TH-camrs are literally paying their bills by shitting on anything Star Wars. It's refreshing to see an honest take. Great video, Morph!
U dunno if this was paid by ubi or sumeone else doe ;p
@@positronikiss He literally says it's not paid in the video
@@positronikiss and U dunno anything but speculative BS because maybe you love misery? or just a insufferable person who gives too much care to what someone else is playing
@@Oakbeast oh mai go lol. Stap projecting bud :P
@@valithevali Ahh ok. Thx for the info.
I just finished after 42 hours. There is some jank, but I finished with a smile on my face. It started at around 7/10 and finished at around 8.5/10.
How does it compare to jedi survivor?
@@formulaic78 Survivor is a step above. Outlaws is fun but SW Jedi is much bigger in scope,
@@sofajockeyUK OK, thanks. I have survivor downloaded so I guess I'll play that and wait for Outlaws to go on sale.
@@sofajockeyUK it is? I haven't played either game, but I was under the impression that Jedi Survivor is a rather linear experience while Outlaws is a much larger open world.
@@harrasikaSurvivor is the best star wars jedi game ever made by far incredibly good
I don't know what it is, but I can't get excited about Star Wars stuff anymore... something died in me when I watched the sequels
Yeah, as soon as I saw the horse unicorn things riding along star destroyers, I switched off. Haven't watched what happens next , I'd rather block all sequels out of my mind. Hopefully they will undo this mess at some point and re-build it into what it should of been.
Your probably just clinically depressed and don't enjoy a majority of things now
Someone's being a little dramatic.
Fools following mob mentality. The world is beautiful and super immersive, music is amazing and the story is superb. Something as if crafted by Lucas himself. Yes, there are a few things here which are buggy, I bought it during the Black Friday sale, and it’s PHENOMENAL. I hope the continue fixing some aspects of the game along with more DLCs.
So much potential wasted, ability to create your own character, choose your own career path, i.e. thief, smuggler, jedi, etc. So MUCH potential lost.
It was never going to be that game, its useless making that point until we get a elite dangerous like game. I think its a good linear game for what it is. And has made some steps which could be used in a n elite dangerous like mmo type game (which would hopefully encorperate aspects of EVE).
I still want a Star Wars pod racing game that sort of like Redline
I played so much pod racer back in the day. Had it on Dreamcast. I'd love a new one.
The Empire in current Star Wars is a little too Sidious and not enough Palpatine.
What does that mean? A little too evil not enough bureaucracy?
the corruption is due to the game being based in the outer rim
@@mluby7828 Comedically evil vs something with a bit more subtlety. I was more commenting on Disney’s current approach.
I found the portrayal in Andor perfect. A huge systematic bureaucracy that slowly encroaches and over time gets worse and worse for the individual, ever so slightly that in the end, no one feels opressed, because they are so used to the status quo by then. Reminds us on some real world dictatorial states. This all works until the Empire lashes out and show force, that is when they start to fail in the eye of the public.
I mean, they are pretty evil here in Outlaws but they still perform patrol duty (to keep the citizens safe *ahm*) fight of pirates in space and you can even get to talk to some crooked ones for loosing some heat. They also do not just kill you for entering their territory, you can still back out of restricted areas if possible...this does of course not work if you stand in the middle of their base already ^^
@@triptych5998 That's literally what the Empire was for decades. It is incredibly corrupt state, some times tona point of comedy. And this is absolutely how real corruption works
If I really suck at stealthy gameplay because I'm a button masher and I'm old and I'm not going to "get good" because my hands are getting worse... can I still have a good time with this? Is the inability to complete stealth-based challenges without just shooting people instead a game-breaker? I just want a good star wars story and entertainingly fun gameplay, nothing to beat my head against. Is this game for casuals?
Another ubisoft game that'll only be worth it when it goes on sale for like 15 bucks in a year
I agree!!
I was ok with shelling out the full price, got 50 hours of fun out of it.
Thanks for the honest review. I'd also seen the waves of constant negativity, but in all of the streams I've watched, it looks pretty fun, somewhat immersive, and a great slice of Star Wars. The only thing still putting me off is the price point, but I keep forgetting about that monthly subscription option. I'll probably end up giving it a try.
Seems that you've liked the game. Why the clickbite cover that it's bad then?
It says, "they want me to tell you IT'S BAD." Which seems like it's true, there is definitely some severely unreasonable hate for this game that is not at all objective. It's something that if people continue to push will destroy the future for good games. If people trash good games because they use a female character or they don't like the CEO, then good games won't sell and future games won't come because the company won't be able to afford to produce them.
@@GCOCommanderwhich is why i dont read comments
Which epidemic track did you use? The music in the first part is nice.
I'm about 10 hours in and I've actually been greatly enjoying it. I completely agree with your assessment of the graphics and how immersive the world is. It really does feel like walking through Star Wars, and the level of detail they put into background conversations, random events, etc., makes it feel "lived in". One thing you didn't mention that I've also been enjoying is the gambling: races, Sabacc, etc. I played as part of a couple of early missions and found myself continuing to play for fun, which can really help rack up your credits to purchase unique items from factions, which tend to be more expensive. That goes to the point of doing side missions, leveling up your skills, etc., which makes later missions more interesting, because you have a wider variety of options when playing them. I'm hoping that the expansions bring further worlds to explore, and aren't just more missions on the same worlds or with different characters. One thing I did NOT like was the time I was in an Imperial base and was wanted, and the stormtroopers just...kept...coming. I blasted at least a couple hundred of them, trying to find out when they would eventually run out of stormtroopers, at least give me a break to get away, but it never happened. I ended up almost dying having to make a run for it, which might be "realistic", but I think at some point the planet would run out of stormtroopers, or at least have a break in waves of reinforcements. So far I'd give this around an 8.5/10, but at least some of that is because I love Star Wars and am partial to the IP, and for loyalists like me, I think the game adheres closely to the lore and feel, and that's worth a lot to a fan like me. Thanks for your unbiased analysis, we really appreciate it!
I'm about five hours into it and I'm enjoying it to, for the reasons you described--just walking around you feel like you really are in the STAR WARS universe, more so than a lot of SW games that have come before. I also don't mind the stealth aspects either. And the planets are...well, huge environments!
I still think that some people just wanted to have a mad-on for the game before it came out because the main character was a woman.
I'm not sure yet, but you might have persuaded me to try this game! I've been itching for a Star Wars RPG that focuses on a non-Jedi but this one has gotten so much negative publicity since it started ramping up. When you commented on the inability to keep other weapons from the world, I realized I was hoping a little bit for a more Skyrim-esque experience, though. Something with a lot of character options that affect gameplay in a meaningful way.
Been playing non-stop since the 27th, haven't gotten close to finishing the main story as i've been doing every side quest i come across.
The graphics are beautiful
The atmosphere of locations are spot on
The gameplay (whilst i've only experienced a couple of bugs, no biggie as EVERY game has them) emphasises stealth but most games do anyway and it's kinda more fun than just holding LMB to blast everything all the time
The reputation system is very well done to the point where i've reloaded saves to see what the gain/loss is like and changed my option more than a couple of times
The side quests are just as well done as the main story
The easter eggs you come across put a smile on my face everytime
I downloaded the game with low expectations and hadn't seen any media on it aside from the reveal trailer and i think that's how people show go into a game, not just Outlaws.
I'd like a few more named characters to be male where it makes sense, having a majority of the people you connect with be female kind of pulled me out of the interactions but it's something i've moved past and realised it honestly doesn't matter.
Not sure what this "Ubisoft buggered up early access saves with the day 1 patch" is all about, it's likely a PICNIC thing :D (IT term, search it up if you don't know...)
I'll be keeping my eye on any expansions and/or follow up entries because it's a good non-lightsabre focused game.
Great review Morph, stellar content as always!
The Delusions hit hard
@@NorthInium spoken by yet another moron who hasn't touched the game but their favorite rage bait streamers told them to hate it, so they do.
Baaaaaa. Good sheep!
@@NorthInium or maybe they like the fucking game...
@@NorthIniumdick comment....in my best stormtroopers voice.....move along
totally agree!
I “only” got a 3060 ti. I’ve watched gameplay on oled smartphone and it looks insanely good, but I wonder how it looks on not perfect settings on a ips panel
Did they bribe you to make this review? Might be worth a purchase after the mods roll out, and it's on sale for %80 off.
Its strange how the speeder makes a indent in the sand like it has tires. It should displace sand, but not like that?
When I read on a developers website that one of the main creative directors for the game at Ubisoft Massive and many of the developers hadn’t worked on a single player game before, I was very hesitant.
After playing for many hours I can honestly say that I am enjoying it, even with its flaws. To me its main flaws are to do with some stealth,melee,combat mechanics, some of the writing and Kay’s design and facial animations. Hopefully they will patch some of these out.
I think they have captured the essence of Star Wars pretty well and the worlds and environments are gorgeous and incredibly immersive. You can see and feel the amount of love they have put into the game and I appreciate that.
Agreed. Although I don't mind the stealth stuff (mostly) thanks to the years of playing METAL GEAR SOLID 🤣.
@@MarcMcKenzie-qb6or I liked the stealth in MGS. I’m enjoying the stealth more in Outlaws the farther I get into the game.
@@arronstone177 Yeah, it grew on me, and it forced me to, well, THINK before I acted. And I like how you can use Nix to help when you have to go stealth.
@@MarcMcKenzie-qb6or Nix with improved abilities is so good later in the game, specially since some enemies you can’t just punch away. I found his attack useful and had to plan on who to stun before just wasting it
How much is stealth relied upon for progression? Like, can I shoot my way out if I'm utterly failing to stealth correctly? I'm not a fan of stealthy gameplay and prefer to just run and gun kind of action. A few stealth tasks or puzzles here and there, fine, but some reviews are making it look like the game is something like 80% stealth play and some have gone so far as to claim that you don't even have access to a gun for a lot of the game. That amount of sneaking is a total dealbreaker for me.
10:59 My only complaint about the game is, I haven’t found I had to carefully time anything with nix. I’m not even sure he can fail In any of his actions. I wish they found a way to make it feel like there’s a possibility your stealth actions with nix can fail or are the wrong ones to use in the moment. Right now he feels like a get out of jail free card for everything. Besides that I like the environment, the sound, the visuals were mainly fixed, The story is good, It’s a solid game.
Defend it all you want. Convincing people to spend money on this is going to be very hard. That’s like asking people to watch the acolyte so it gets a season 2.
Dont worry, the ubisoft plus subscription will make up for those lost day 1 purchase sales. Everything will work out fine for them little buddy
@@viewaskew7741 imagine launching a game with the hopes that the Ubisoft plus subscription will be the only thing to save your game.
@@viewaskew7741lay down the copium my dude
@@ggs3442 Okey Dokey my duder!
@Morph..... did you stream any of this or looking to one you get that extra add-ons? I'd be down to watch👍
Yeah, I've got a twitch account where I've streamed it for the last two streaming days. www.twitch.tv/morphologis
Yeah man, I really like this game so far. Nowadays, so often we see viral negativity started by a few reviewers and taken up by a massive mob of people who have never even played the game. I enjoy the stealth aspects, and that is coming from someone who rarely enjoys stealth mechanics. The missions unfold in a really nice way with good but not overwhelming approach choice. The world is interesting and fun to explore, uncovering clues feels natural. The UI and design aesthetic nails it. The combat is decent. I don't know how people can gripe about combat and compare it to Red Dead or whatever, Rockstar combat is always janky and can be cheesed. Saying Far Cry or other open world games are better makes no sense to me. Far Cry? With those generic corny unbelievable characters? The Star Wars setting really helps this game for me personally, I really enjoyed the world, the cities, etc. I don't know man. I purposefully chose to just relax and take in the game for what it was and I found it easy to suspend disbelief and be engaged in the story and my personal progression. This game is a true 8.0 - 9.0 for me because getting me to give a fuck about doing things in an open world or the story of some random franchise is getting harder and harder these days. If you like Star Wars and can enjoy it, and gaming, without nitpicking and searching for hot takes this game is solid. Ans as a plus, since this is getting panned so hard you can wait for a sale. People out here trying to get that petty cash by making the hottest take, don't let the negativity mob get in your way of enjoying this hobby.
Seriously. I'm not Ubisoft or Disney fan, but there channels that literally grift on making several videos a day - all just regurgitating the same stuff on consuming media that they apparently hate. It's unhealthy.
The NPC interaction (or lack of) needs an overhaul. It could have used another year in deployment.
Totally agree with most of your take. I'm loving this game. The combat is so much better after filling out the experts. Such a great system compared to a skill tree and more meaningful.
@@quntface1518 💯! It’s popular to hate on things. I haven’t picked this up yet but a buddy told me he was enjoying it too.
Definitely, I understand criticism but people are actively harassing those who like this game and discrediting their opinions as bought and paid for. Let people have different opinions, let people enjoy games regardless of how you feel about or who makes them
Thanks for a balanced and honest review. I look forward to playing it when it’s finished and free on the epic game store.
I've played Outlaws and so far it's a lot of fun and I'm really enjoying it. More so than I did Jedi Fallen Order.
The game doesn't deserve the hate it's received.
Yeah it does wym?
@@leto_atreusII Great argument bro you really put your point forward so we can all understand what your problem is.
@@Sgt.chickens The crappy main character design, the buggy mess release, the preorder scams, the cut content scams, the low quality, the overblown budget, the copy-paste content, the lifeless animations, the broken AI, the many gameplay design flaws, the entitlement and gaslighting from the developers...I am sure there's more but you get the picture.
@@leto_atreusIII disagree with your opinion. I like it.
@@brittrugg2676 That was not my opinion, those were just facts. Of course it's a tolerable, enjoyable product, but it's not worth 110 dollars for an early access that deletes your save file rendering the early access period virtually useless, it's not worth 70 dollars so that they can sell you cut content as day 1 DLC on their unfinished, buggy, copy paste, unoptimized, sanitized, corporate aproved, bland story, bland characters with a tinge of leftist agenda game, now, if you like getting scammed out of your money by companies on subpar product that's a you problem chief.🤷
Really enjoyed the game at launch and it’s only getting better. A great Star Wars experience for anyone who still enjoys such things.
I do think some of the hate is blind hate but so is some of the love. The landscapes have some wow moments but there is a lot wrong with this game on the level of Black Flag and Starfield and to say that it is "Amazing" is just as wrong as saying the game is "Absolute garbage". Hell at this point, any normal person should give this game a wide berth for 3-6 months simply b/c no one can seem to truly be objective about the damn thing
Star Wars is under a microscope, with any percieved slight being overblown by disengenious actors looking to leverage them as talking points to support their narrative that everything Star Wars Disney is woke garbage.
@@Morphologis That as well. Also, coming off the heels of a project as thoroughly disapponting as the Acolyte, everyone's attitude toward this game seems to be an echo of what happened after TLJ to Solo
@@TurdFerguson-td9nx what a weird way to try and insult someone lmao
@@Morphologisterrible take seeing as Jedi fallen order and survivor were very well received.
@Morphologis The only Star Wars to come out of Disney + that hasn't been woke garbage was the first two seasons of Mandalorian and Andor and maybe several animated shows. Either way, Outlaws has horrible a.i. and combat, as well as terrible character animations. It definitely has amazing environments and architecture and space stuff is ok, but that stuff is more of a part to the game that is supposed to supplement the former
You know what would have made sense for a outlaw protagonist who can solo entire bases of enemy’s with out people noticing? Sev, from Republic Commandos.
He already should have had a reason to hate the empire (He was left on Kashyyk). His ability to one shot storm troopers with his fists would have made sense (He has a knuckle blade made out of a really strong material). It would have been way more interesting if the two elite units of the sides during the Clone Wars we’re on the same team. And it could have been a semi realized sequel to republic commandos. Or this could have been a prequel to the actual sequel. And he would have heard about the destruction of Tantuss Base through his connections in the underground/ Rebel alliance. He would go looking to reunite the squad and it would have retconned Scorch‘s death in the Bad Batch finale.
Just my thoughts and ideas since the people in the seats love using old characters.
It's pretty hard to mess up the visuals of star wars. This is the bare minimum. And it's all they got right
Can you choose to side with the Empire?
This game is totally worth 18$ for Star Wars fans. Assuming you know you’ll have enough time sit down and beat it over the course of a month. I’m around 25 hrs in and having a blast. They nail the atmosphere.
star wars fans would never pay for this slop, star wars went to shit because of disney
@@adawg3032"the precuels ruined star wars" , "the 3d clone wars series ruined star wars", "Disney ruined star wars"
Years pass and star wars fans still hate star wars lol
@@jonathanbosak8581 Well yeah bud, people said all those things, with good reason.
People thought 1 and 2 were bad, so they said so.
Then 3 came out. People thought it was bad, so they said so.
Then the disney "movies" came out, which were an effortless series of cash grabs and an absolute pile of dog 💩, so people said so.
Not sure what you don't get about that lol... Each was more terrible than the last. They thought it was ruined, then they learned what the true definitely of ruined was. Of course they hate it now. What is there to like? It was good and got progressively worse. Why are you surprised people said so?
@@jonathanbosak8581prequels have always been peak Star Wars. And Disney has always been the worst
@@HaltDieKlappathe prequels are the best Star Wars movies tho, especially 3
Is the footage of this video captured on console or PC (max settings)
Are some of the commenters on here unhappy because morph is not ragging on the game as they expected like other ragebaiting youtubers do? lol
No, people are angry about the fact that this game isn't being reviewed objectively. Mad Max is a decade old and has more gameplay and nearly the same level of graphics. Assassin's Creed Unity is also a decade old and has better graphics (ther eis literally a comparison video between the two and it's just embarrassing). The mechanics are limited, the open-world has no interactivity. The combat is mundane; there is barely any customisation, and compared to Ghost Recon Wildlands, Outlaws falls WAAAAAAY short as an open-world TPS, given you have a ton of weapons and customisation in Wildlands and plenty of vehicles. There is literally nothing about Outlaws that does anything better than its peers, even games made a decade ago by Ubisoft!
Haven't people already pointed out the game's flaws and performance issues? Even this video acknowledges them. What more do you want? Do you want them to rage like those ragebaiting grifting channels that thrive on negativity? Saying its the worst game ever made? It seems like you're upset that people enjoyed the game just because they don't share your opinion that this game should be trashed.
@@jesseomollo9405 It sets an extremely bad precedent that people are accepting lower quality games for higher prices. This trend will continue on, as people will keep buying games with poorly implemented mechanics, less content than what we had from games 20 years ago, and far fewer features than what we had 10 years ago. It's the same as what happened with horse armour DLC -- it started as a microtransaction and ballooned into an incorrigible practice within the industry that now makes up the brunt of revenue sales for most gaming publishers, making games worse int he process. This is one of those games that sets the trend of making gaming worse overall: it tells Ubisoft that they can produce corposlop for double the price of most games and people will pay for it all while getting less in the process.
Anyone who actually cared about games culture would care about this negative trend sweeping the industry, but sadly it looks like a lot of people in this comment section support the dissolution of quality in the gaming industry.
I'd say the thumbnail already made the creator's opinion clear even without watching the video. Which I haven't and won't.
when i see the console controls my immidiate question is - is it as linear as the jedi fallen order? From the games I played that were mainly console made, all of them were super linear and boring after a while and I finished it only because I don't like having unfinished games
Some people don't seem to see the individual project in this. Trying to create a general negative narrative about Disney, Wokeness, Star Wars and Ubisoft might be another topic, to be viewed disconnected to a single game review imho. Acolyte was really bad, so were the sequels, but we also had Mando and Andor that brought some new light. A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. I have not yet reached the point of damning every new release related to Star Wars. Some people seem to have reached that level and thats ok too, just shouldn't judge morph or any other Content Creator who is not joining the negative bias and downrates things solely for that.
Thanks Morph, I enjoyed watching the review and always appreciated the professionalism of your SC Content that I also see here. It does indeed feel unbiased to me.
While I do believe Disney and Ubisoft have been dropping the ball lately, they do still create some good items. Not every single human being in those companies are bad, they're are still those who want to make good products.
And I think we should provide honest feedback, so if something is actually good or decent they know. So hopefully the company takes note, and starts following their example.
I don't think being just negative about everything they releases will ever fix their company. Destroy it maybe, but not fix
The aesthetic and visuals is what drew me in. I'm sure modders will make it even better. But I think I'll wait for some Christmas sale before I buy this game. The minigame with the pet seemed immersive to me tbh lol
It looks unfinished. The combat is terrible. That's before we get into the well-documented controversies. Ubisoft are a lazy, ideological developer and as such, I wouldn't touch any of their games with a bargepole.
I don't buy this at all. I don't think I've ever finished a game I didn't like and Morphologis has completed this game, so it's obviously got positive elements, plus if you are into Star Wars then that helps. For the rest of us, what you are saying could be addressed through patches, just check it out again in a few months.
@@dtrjones Many youtubers finish games that make a living with reviewing stuff so regardless if he likes it or not he would have finished it.
Also Morph isnt really a good game reviewer as is as he has not that much experience in judging games.
@@dtrjones The game needs more weapons, needs better AI, needs better combat environments, needs better animations, needs an actual melee system, needs proper stealth, needs more vehicles, needs more vehicular weapons, needs more mission types, needs more environmental interactions, and needs a better story. Those aren't going to be fixed in a few patches within a few months.
Triggered By Wokeness tm
all i see are bots on youtube yapping the same bs. bet you wont say it to the devs face in public on live tv!!!
Can you get snipers and other weapons or just the pistol blaster type? Looks a little lacking tbh. Could be a lot more. Yeah it is not the typical procedurally generated planets but, a handcrafted nothing to do is just as bad. Ideally a bit more of an AC vibe would have been nice. Entering random buildings etc... They definitely need to have more incentives when exploring. More detailed and interesting weapon and ability upgrades. Like the previous start wars titles, especially the last one, there was zero incentive to go find new parts for your lightsabre. Not sure if I want to fork out the money,.
I've picked up the sniper blaster rifles, but yeah, I wish you could carry more than one blaster besides your pistol you often drop the weapons you pick up, but your blaster is your default weapon. Still, I like that you can modify it--although I wish you could use the stun setting more. Also, you do have to modify it especially for some missions, so there's your incentive.
Yea, it’s a good game. I’m enjoying it. Not perfect, of course, but very fun. The devs on this one did the Star Wars IP right.
I’m only 10 hours and I like it. As you say not perfect. But this doesn’t have the billion $ budget of a rockstar game. I think people’s expectations are out of whack. But I grew up loading ganes from a floppy disk
Great review!!!
Thank you for your honest and unbiased review, too much of a rarity these days! You are the only content creator that I have found through an interest in Star Citizen that I haven’t unsubscribed from….looking at you SugarMike
I don't know if we played the same game, at what point do I care about ND-5, he's stuck on ship all the time, the game gave very little opportunity for bonding. (one to be specific)
i paid for the Ubisoft monthly pass and played Outlaws for 50+hrs. I did not finish the game b/c it isnt any good. If you play video games then you know. The idea that this game is anywhere near to the quality of games that have been released for years is absurd...additionally you need to have $1K+ GPU to get the footage in this video
Thanks for your honest review ! I definitely want to check it out - I was kinda left hanging by yet another "drama". I'll therefore buy it knowing full well what to expect (and not to expect ;) Thanks ! On a side note, I have the feeling that the stuff that feels unfinished has more to do with cost effectiveness than with the ability to meet a deadline... (kinda for the same reason we've seen a decline in CGI quality these pas few years in movies)
This isn't hate, just observation, but I have watched 20 reviews of this game and basically every positive you mentioned the others basically said the exact opposite. So I can't decide what to make of this game. At least you agree that the combat sucks. Luckily for me I already don't support Ubisoft so I wasn't going to buy it anyway.
Imagine your hate for something closes off potential fun...im 40h in and still enjoying the lore created.
Imagine your hate for something closes off potential fun...im 40h in and still enjoying the lore created.
@@hippoace I have moral standards and this company is pure garbage. I have a ton of games to play and enjoy so it’s not costing me anything. Plus this game does NOT look fun to me. There might be some cool aspects, sure. But the combat looks so bland and boring. Even worse than typical Ubisoft stuff.
I’d rather stand on my principals than support a bad company.
But your comment didn’t really have anything to do with mine. I was just trying to figure out why the opinion was so opposite most the others. I don’t care one way or the other. I love that people have different opinions and likes. Keeps life interesting and people trying new things. So good attempt but nah.
Honestly, just look up some good gameplay, then you can judge the game yourself, most of the reviewers I’ve watched speaking negatively about the game don’t really seem to fully understand or don’t want to bother with the mechanics. From what I’ve seen though, my main complaint would be the lack of customisation for both your arsenal and your character: there’s a few skins for Kay and you can only run around with your blaster; you can pick up weapons from the enemies but they’re more of a “temporary gun” like it works on Mirror’s Edge and that kinda sucks for me.
@@allopic3764 I’ve watched quite a few streams or reviewers I trust and the world seems cool but the focus on stealth is shallow and combat it shallow I can tell. Watching her one punch a Stormtrooper in his helmet is hilariously bad 😂
The temporary gun thing you mentioned was one of my huge negatives in stuff I’ve watched. It makes your character feel bland and like they’re not progressing. Very very bad design choice.
Honestly it feels like a fine prototype. I wish a 2nd "polished" and "real" version would be a game where we play a bounty hunter. Ship customization, maybe even character creation. Also bouny hunting and scanning is much cooler than smuggling and outlawing. Sucks that The Mandalorian literally claims everything in that regard, so we can never ever have an original Mandalorian character with his own clan and stuff. Since for whatever reason Disney's Mandalore is a planet with 50 people. lol
Been watching you long enough to trust your reviews - but I couldn't have any LESS trust for IGN.
The environments always looked great. Some of those bugs definitely look as though it needed more time in the oven. Hopefully they get fixed fairly quickly, as they really destroy immersion.
Please do an architect reviews, on the different locations in the game!! That would be so good!
I don't know anything about Star wars but I saw it on sale at Target for $39. Bought it and I think it's pretty good.
I'm upset they don't have a character creator and they say its the first open world Star Wars game. Like Star Wars Galaxies didn't exist.
@MetaphorLi91you tried bro😂
@MetaphorLi91 you are paranoid man🤣😭😭😭
@MetaphorLi91 deleting comments cause you realise youre getting laughed at🥲🥱😭
they should've leaned more into the reputation systems, it would help set the game apart from other action games but the factions feel pretty hollow in the typical ubisoft way, showing you rewards and what not before even thinking about doing tasks for them.
Currently playing it. While I don't think the game is bad, it's not great either. It's just really mediocre and seems a bit outdated. I do regret preordering. It's a game you buy when it drops below $15.
I just wish they’d give us this type of expansive gameplay with created characters. Imagine Mandolarian gameplay 😭
They didn’t even bother to put a bottom in the bodies of water. They are just holes on the map. Amazing stuff.
I beat the game, completed a lot of the side quests and got 44 out 49 achievements on Xbox. Complain about the price when Ubisoft premium is $18 a month then you can cancel. I give this game a 7.5/10. For a Ubisoft game I was surprised in a good way. It’s a great game. A few graphical bugs on my end and that’s it. Also live action cameos are 100% possible.
Thanks for another beautifully presented, well crafted, thoughtful & balanced review.
Appreciate all the effort you put into them all.👌