Star Wars Outlaws is just just lying to you - SWG Did This Already

[@Jaystars]

If I can't tame a Rancor as a creature handler I'm out.

[@SonnyScapes]

It's so funny. I saw an ad with the title of first ever open world and honestly I was so damn offended

[@SageOfEchoes]

SWG was ahead of its time. I played on Scylla server and unlocked one of the first Jedi. I was really hoping Outlaws would be more like that game, remastered with updated canon.

[@AdventureGameHotspot]

@@SageOfEchoes I was Lowca born 🙂

[@rizlawow]

Rizla of Chimera 🫡

[@jarradpuckridge8210]

Come back bro swg legends is alive and well

[@bobicus7765]

being one of the first jedi on a server meant turbo-grinder right? how was that

[@PatricM93]

I miss those days so much, I was on Ahazi and Sunrunner (I can’t remember the exact name). Space combat was ahead of its times PvP was awesome Quests were amazing Immersion was 100/100

[@KairuFreestar91]

SWG was way ahead of it's time on a lot of things, even in the NGE. while emu's are fun for nostalgia i hope one day we get a true remaster/remake of swg with all of it's possibilities.

[@AdventureGameHotspot]

@@KairuFreestar91 thoughts on Stars Reach?

[@KairuFreestar91]

​@@AdventureGameHotspot never heard of that sorry

[@AdventureGameHotspot]

@@KairuFreestar91 it’s the new SWG clone MMO that Raph Koster is making

[@KairuFreestar91]

​@@AdventureGameHotspot i see, but we've had swg clone mmos in the past too that didnt exactly make the cut. Secret World is what comes to mind in that regard. Secret World was labeled to be the "swg spiritual successor" when it was coming out all those years ago. I played some of that and it didnt feel that way at all. imo the only successor to a SWG mmo would be SWG itself. it has to be open world, it has to be star wars, and it has to be a sandbox. I wouldnt mind a "main story" like we have in swtor or final fantasy 14. mmo "main stories" have come a long way since those first mmos in the late 90s/early 2000s. but no one is gonna make a game like that now because gaming and style of gaming has evolved. look at final fantasy 7 and it's remake for example. FF7 is a cult classic and people still love and play it today. Square Enix did an amazing job remaking it in Final fantasy 7 Remake/Rebirth, but it's two different styles of gameplay. and the kotor remake i imagine, if it had gone to a proper company and not a upscaling pc porting startup company (Asyper), wouldve been the same. in conclusion: It's old, repetitive, and predictable now but swg is truly in a league of its own and nothing will come close to it. I doubt anything developed today will come close to it and that's ok cuz gaming is just different now.

[@jamesevans5286]

​@@KairuFreestar91 Raph Koster designed SWG, so aside from it not being Star Wars IP, I think it can match or even exceed SWG with modern technology.

[@Carblesnarky]

SWG is still the most sandbox/open world SW game overall. To be honest though, I am betting even Swtor is closer than Outlaws. Yes it is an open zone game, but it has so many zones. I don't think another SW game let's you visit as much of the galaxy at it does. Some of the planets are freaking huge to boot. Frankly I am planning to pick it up after it's price has way dropped. Not in a hurry.

[@devinousbrody6498]

100% accurate man - when I heard the statement - “The First Star Wars open world game” - I was like uhhh?!?!? Not only was SWG was the first open world but the first MULTI world open world Star Wars game. Same with faction stuff, not only that SWG had like 50-100 factions that you could gain or lose rep on.

[@spaghettitax6234]

I don't know how the first lie even gets started, there have been so many open world star wars games at this point its ridiculous, even if where talking new canon Fallen Order and Survivor were open world.

[@Warmaker01]

SWG used to be so open world and tried to have more realistic elements, that players were forced to wait at Starports to travel between worlds. We'd sit there waiting for the shuttle and talk to each other. You were free to travel anywhere. You could be attacked by Rebel and Imperial NPCs depending on your standing with them. We had Rebel and Imperial aligned players fighting across different worlds in the game. The old Imperial held Bestine and Rebel held Anchorhead wars and often in the desert between the two cities. Guys were getting ganked by Bounty Hunter players. Some BH players were more slick about tracking their prey and waiting to pounce. Other BHs were a lot more clumsy and stupid about it. Players were holding duels outside spaceports with lots of people watching. Hunting Groups on Dathomir and Dantooine. Slaughter Ewoks at Endor. We'd argue with each other about who was the best armorsmith / weaponsmith on the server. We had players that literally had zero build space dedicated to combat but still had their fun with the game in various non-combat functions. A lot of stuff that won't fly in modern MMORPG sensibilities. I do think the fault lies in that SWG is part of gaming ancient history now. SWG launched in 2003 and official servers shut down in 2011. Disney Wars also has a big thing against any Old Star Wars, to the point of degrading past major characters in the franchise for the sake of promoting their new Disney-era characters.

[@cabritsanscor]

Regardless of what the majority of people actually think of this game (hard to say as Black Myth: Wukong is the game of the moment), I think we can safely say you didn't receive a free trip to Disneyland.

[@AdventureGameHotspot]

@@cabritsanscor I did NOT, but I’m excited for the game either way 🤪

[@cabritsanscor]

@AdventureGameHotspot It would be good to see your honest review when it's released.

[@8bit_nacho825]

Most people aren't counting MMOs. Hell, most people didn't consider Final Fantasy 11 to be part of the mainline FF series.

[@Captain-Thievius]

This is not the first time Disney Starwars lied about being the first at something, and I doubt it’ll be the last. Battlefront 2 EA is not the first Imperial Campaign, TIE Fighter is. Andor is not the first Spy Thriller, Imperial Agent Story (swtor) is. And the amount of people claiming SWG doesn’t count as an open world is an exercise of willful ignorance on their part. It’s like claiming GTA Online doesn’t count as an open world because multiple players are on the same map.

[@Andyman269]

The question is how do we define an open world game, if we talk about single players games then yeah sure, all the other open world games were multi player online games

[@Carblesnarky]

That's a totally fair point. I think Outlaws may be the closest thing in SW single player games. However, it's still more of an open zone as you only get to go to I think 4 or 5 planets. It's not like No Man's Sky or even Starfield (for all it's faults) where you can go just about anywhere your ship can get to.

[@ginogarcia8730]

and technically you can still play *cough*

[@Hot_SpicyGrill]

It broke new ground! 😂

[@fubi0688]

Galaxies is more open world sandbox than open world RPG. I take that to be the difference.

[@AchronTimeless]

SWG was a MMO. That's a different genre than single player "open world" and I'm pretty sure you know that. You're better than rage bait like this.

[@AdventureGameHotspot]

@@AchronTimeless what does that have to do with anything?

[@Gospelgg]

yes, it is single player, but they're advertising it as the FIRST open world game, which is clearly not true. How is that rage bait when it's 100% correct?

[@SonnyScapes]

@@AchronTimeless yeah bud you wrong. Why the hate. They specifically state "first star wars open world" game? Is that true or false? without adding any stipulations to that statement.