How will a full game of complete garbage be better than their laughable display here? Do you need to shovel shit into your mouth for 100 hours to definitively say "it's a bit shit this"
Mass effect Andromeda was the canary in the coalmine but many years later we are still hiring rejects making a flood of boring crappy games nobody wants to buy.
so true. i know people who have talent and art skills built up over, at least a decade that would give their right arm to make this game, and i guarantee you it would be so much better. the whole thing is exactly what gaming is right now.........bland, boring and uninspired rubbish.
Its the cunning tactic of not actually making anything of quality - but simply stating that it is good and hoping that is enough. Shareholders used to fall for that, but finally they seem to be waking up and thats a good thing.
@@TheTrohlif u want to go down the rabbit hole go ahead. I didn't extensively and anyone correct me if I'm wrong but what ever Ubisoftdick initially tried to do a pirate mmo or pvp whatever's based off black flag that was supposed to have hand to hand combat but whatever reason its all ship battles and took how many years and how much to make? Ubisoftdick is garbage all u need to know
@@gregweisal5542. Not even that; you can board ships and fight on the deck in black flag. Skull and bones is a shitty cell phone pirate game where your ship has a STAMINA BAR.
1 glance told me this was going to be awful.. I havent bought a Ubisoft game since Division 1, and even back then, I was going against my better judgement.. THATS how long Ive known Ubisoft was garbage
I actually kind of like the Division 2 and I reinstall and play it from time to time but yeah.. Ubisoft stinks. I honestly don't think I've played any other game by them other than D2
Remember, the IGN video is just a few minutes of what Ubisoft thinks is the best available gameplay that will make people excited to play. I can't imagine what the rest of the game will look like 😂
Said it before and I'll say it again. No one wants a dumpy barista power fantasy in star wars. That's not even getting into the shit gameplay and boring story.
Going gold means that a video game is finished and ready to be printed on discs or digitally distributed. It's like saying, “We've finished making this game, now it's time to sell it out there! Its not like in where you get a gold record for selling well
He shows the character walking through water as an example of bad graphics at the exact same moment the "subscribe" banner fills the screen...priceless.
Why did they release this? Because the game is coming out next month and they need to start showing gameplay (months ago) this month to get people excited (to calm investors so they don't think anything is wrong.) *"Gone Gold." Means the game is at the final stage and ready for release.* It does not mean anything in sales other than, "we consider this done and ready to ship. We are not going improve or fix anything, (because they already fired most of the programmers that actually worked on this to give bigger bonuses to their friends,) and anything we do will either be patches or dlc." Not, it has high sales in pre-order that its gone platinum like it is for music.
@Catherine.Dorian. I swear 😂😂😂😂 Grown women are told not to have an imagination but become bosses and stay in reality and any kind of imagination or creativity is childish and are for men only
I do agree with everything you said except the last part playing a rogue is just as fun, especially in the RP games, a wookie berserker will mash a jedi
For me, the deal breaker was that you were forced to play as a strong wahman, rather than roleplay and create your own character (barring Jedi because they are OP compared to scoundrels and Bounty Hunters, and rise up the ranks of the criminal underworld across all the systems. When I saw this game announced, I thought "Sweet, I'm playing as a Rodian scoundrel" and then the trailer came out and saw the main character, then heard that she was the main default character, no customization engine, and thought "Fuck it, I'm buying the Kotor games, and Classing Battlefront 1; better spent money.
There will be a 50 to 100 gig day one patch. Companies knowingly release incomplete games because they sheep will buy it, your beta or alpha testers at best. I will never buy season passes or battle passes for games like this or always online games because the majority of the time you get crap for your money or they shut down the servers before the game is complete
that grenade part annoys me , not for the graphics/effects , but it would surely been more practical to kick/throw and then hit ground ... feels like it would have made a greater distance between you and blast . as for the effects , pretty sure jedi knight had better blast effects , maybe about the same
If I re😮correctly in the republic commando game when you meet the Trandotians if you threw a thermal detonator at them they very well might just kick it back at you
Always found it strange how none of the actresses they use as models sue the companies for destroying their image. I’d be irate if they used my likeness and then beat my character with an Ugly Stick.
Oh, I got an even better one: Debra Wilson is the only actress they never uglify, her characters always look exactly like her. She should sue them all for the implied insult: "Nah, she's hideous enough as scanned, no uglification needed"
IGN’s comments about adjusting the settings reminds me of what the director of Game of Thrones season 8 episode 3 said about the whole episode being too dark to see.
Right! So I need to adjust my flat screen settings in order to enjoy the movie or game you made! WTH 🤦♂️ is this mentality. I’ve been watching YT content just fine, from countless creators.
What’s amazing is that ten years ago STAR WARS, DISNEY and UBISOFT; were regarded as top tier entertainment. Frightening how the mighty have fallen. Also, I have a PS3 and the worst graphics don’t look this bad; I have Star Wars force unleashed, which is a great Star Wars game. Ubisoft and Disney will probably just blame the fans.
The expert system they have raved about in the interviews is bare bones, punch 5 people to somehow learn fast talk. They dont even bother making you have to do 5 deals to learn fast talk, it is just there to be there and so they can in interviews keep bringing up the experts as if they are some deep part of the game.
They say “multiple planets” !! Not hundreds or dozens of planets just multiple planets. You can bet pounds to peanuts it will be like Starfield and just cookie cutter copies.
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Yves has essentially become the lead of the Smoking Gun standing in front of a burning, exploding building telling everyone that there's nothing to see here and everything is fine.
I do the same thing with Madden games . Instead of wasting 60-70 bucks every year I just subscribe to EA for a month or two at 15 bucks a month and play it then cancel my subscription.
Just looks like the slapped some assets in the stock TPS template on UE, on Massive Entertainments web page they are looking for a Senior AI Programmer for Outlaws, but I just looked it up, its a proprietary engine called Snowdrop.
A THERMAL detonator implies that it incinerates anything within the blast radius. Apparently you can just shuffle away a few feet from it like a bad fart and be fine
You can cross a planet in four to five minutes on a speeder and we all know if we don’t buy the ultimate edition we won’t be getting the full experience. Seriously the water effects and explosions look awful. Did they rush this game or let certain things infest and take root
2:03 lasers do have a bullet arc because light is still affected by gravity, it's why black holes are black. Not by that much, no, I'm just feeling pedantic today.
To be fair the the guy from Ubisoft if you adjust the settings on your TV you can improve the video. I found it the most enjoyable with the television turned off. That's when i found it looked best. Others may want to give that a try, too.
Investors finally learning how to spot an incoming train-wreck. Took them a good long while and a great many failed games but i guess they eventually noticed that they were losing money. I like that the Ubisoft response to their questions was "dont be silly, we are the best ever" ....and it didnt reassure anybody.
Games like this are just one reason why I've been avoiding 99% of the AAA game space these days. I've got my PC, my OG Xbox One, my PS3, Wii U and Switch, and I do not buy any game that has been released in the last 5 years with the exception of a couple of first-party Switch games. AAA gaming in general is as bad as the tripe that Hollywoke and the streaming services poop out. I tell everyone who'll listen; buy physical media and stay away from anything new.
Soooo basically what they are saying is that they are going to pull “gameplay” footage from a high end PC that is absolutely screaming, slap a “Work in Progress” tag at the bottom, and say “See look, this is what the game actually looks like” Then you’ll spend your $130 just to find out it looks like the original game play video. Look people it’s gone gold, they aren’t changing anything about this game. You’re about to pay $130 for a game that looks horrible, has a DEI agenda, has bad combat, and has a main story of about 30 hours. Yeah minus all this other garbage, the main story was confirmed to be 20-30 hours long. ORRRRRRR you can just buy Black Myth: Wukong for half the price, play it a week earlier, and be treated to something truly special and entertaining.
I think it's plainly obviously look, DEI on the screen plus in games is most sertanally a problem. DEI behind the game is where the real problem is, though.. fact is, these people don't know how to make a game.. if your employing people on race and sex this is the outcome. Plus I've seen some very questionable info on how disgraceful it real is working for UBISOFT these days. Every sane accomplished person will stay away sertanally..
"she runs like my 60 year old uncle in flip flops..."...
that comment had more thought and creativity put into it than the game itself.
😂😂😂😂😂
So you played the complete game??
How will a full game of complete garbage be better than their laughable display here? Do you need to shovel shit into your mouth for 100 hours to definitively say "it's a bit shit this"
@@fastica it's Ubisoft mate, how dense are you?
lol hilarious. And not giving a cent to Ubisoft. Hope they go out of business.
Ubisoft like all the other AAA game companies not worth your money anymore.
That's your opinion, but in this case... ubisoft should just fire everyone and start from scratch or shut the doors for good.
@@crankywombat2598 No shit, should he give your opinion instead?
exactly right never buy ubisoft
They stopped being worth the money after AC black flag
@@admiralspirehahahah bro u got me dead 💀
Was never going to be interested in playing a female Han Solo... yes im a biggot thats gonna keep his money
I’m a proud misogynist, I want the hot male characters back
I dont mind playing a female but she's not hot enough.
Yes ! I sexualize everything. All female should look like Eve from Stellar blade
It should've been a game about Dash Rendar post Shadows of the Empire.
Wow. I can't believe I can see your comment at all. Hopefully you see mine, as I have been shadowbanned by the usual blue-haired nose-ring fascists.
I'm just a regular bigot, money isn't a factor. 😅
DEI is the death of creativity.
It’s literally the cause of every once great franchise being ruined……
What is DEI?
They said that about nostalgia
Ubisoft: The fans are stupid and it's not our fault....
You meant....
Ubisoft: The fans aren't stupid. It's not our fault!
This is what you get, when you hire people based on skin color/gender/sexual preference/religion/etc..
Mass effect Andromeda was the canary in the coalmine but many years later we are still hiring rejects making a flood of boring crappy games nobody wants to buy.
so true. i know people who have talent and art skills built up over, at least a decade that would give their right arm to make this game, and i guarantee you it would be so much better. the whole thing is exactly what gaming is right now.........bland, boring and uninspired rubbish.
When you hire activists.
Bad graphics? I agree with your sentiment but it's not in conjunction with shit visuals that's just shit Devs lol
@@Rogers1000 The lead protagonist looks like she was made up by a committee of DEI activists. I'd hardly call her feminine or attractive.
This proves that most of the budget isn't going into game development.
I remember blowing up barrels..................... in Goldeneye N64......
And in doom!!
@@aguidamonsterIn 1993
Ubisoft should’ve have been printing money with Star Wars and Assassins Creed games…but they decided to go another way instead! 😂
Exactly they're printing their paper for bankruptcy protection.
Exactly, they have gone full far left, woke DEI and they are being run by activists.
These scum are infesting many studios now. Look at concord ffs
to be fair gamers don't know what they really want until they are told what to get by these companies
Its the cunning tactic of not actually making anything of quality - but simply stating that it is good and hoping that is enough. Shareholders used to fall for that, but finally they seem to be waking up and thats a good thing.
@@silvercat18 ya
This is the same Ubisoft that claimed Skull & Bones was the first AAAA game.
I'm noticing a pattern
What's Skull & Bones? lol
@@TheTrohlit's basically the ship battles from black flag and nothing else. Nothing else
@@TheTrohlif u want to go down the rabbit hole go ahead. I didn't extensively and anyone correct me if I'm wrong but what ever Ubisoftdick initially tried to do a pirate mmo or pvp whatever's based off black flag that was supposed to have hand to hand combat but whatever reason its all ship battles and took how many years and how much to make? Ubisoftdick is garbage all u need to know
@@gregweisal5542. Not even that; you can board ships and fight on the deck in black flag. Skull and bones is a shitty cell phone pirate game where your ship has a STAMINA BAR.
The explosion effect in the game is definitely from ps2 era..
1 glance told me this was going to be awful.. I havent bought a Ubisoft game since Division 1, and even back then, I was going against my better judgement.. THATS how long Ive known Ubisoft was garbage
I actually kind of like the Division 2 and I reinstall and play it from time to time but yeah.. Ubisoft stinks. I honestly don't think I've played any other game by them other than D2
Division 2 is good started playing it 2 weeks ago
@@VintasticGaming i tried it.. I thought 1 was much better..I didnt even finish the campaign for div2
"gone gold" means they have "printed" the final build for initial release. not based on a sales metric.
Referring to the gold/green CDs it was written on for mass physical production.
Remember, the IGN video is just a few minutes of what Ubisoft thinks is the best available gameplay that will make people excited to play. I can't imagine what the rest of the game will look like 😂
The gameplay is absolute dog shit. They managed to make exploring the inside of a Sarlacc boring
Same... Lol just for a tooth😂
Said it before and I'll say it again. No one wants a dumpy barista power fantasy in star wars. That's not even getting into the shit gameplay and boring story.
Ubisoft said we better get used to not owning games…..they better get used to people not buying their games 🤣
Never seen such high fidelity graphics from a Game Maker game before, Well done on your High School IT project guys !!
"What engine? A 2 stroke moped?" 😂😂
😂😂
Going gold means that a video game is finished and ready to be printed on discs or digitally distributed. It's like saying, “We've finished making this game, now it's time to sell it out there! Its not like in where you get a gold record for selling well
If that is the case then they are bonked and this will flop hard xD
The final version written on gold/green CD that would be sent to the factory for mass physical production.
He shows the character walking through water as an example of bad graphics at the exact same moment the "subscribe" banner fills the screen...priceless.
Why did they release this? Because the game is coming out next month and they need to start showing gameplay (months ago) this month to get people excited (to calm investors so they don't think anything is wrong.)
*"Gone Gold." Means the game is at the final stage and ready for release.* It does not mean anything in sales other than, "we consider this done and ready to ship. We are not going improve or fix anything, (because they already fired most of the programmers that actually worked on this to give bigger bonuses to their friends,) and anything we do will either be patches or dlc." Not, it has high sales in pre-order that its gone platinum like it is for music.
What turns me off more than the gameplay and graphics is when I play a Star Wars game I want to use the force. Not be a random commoner.
I don’t get why they do that. It’s like having a Harry Potter game but you’re a muggle - what’s the point?
@Catherine.Dorian. I swear 😂😂😂😂 Grown women are told not to have an imagination but become bosses and stay in reality and any kind of imagination or creativity is childish and are for men only
I do agree with everything you said except the last part playing a rogue is just as fun, especially in the RP games, a wookie berserker will mash a jedi
Good point.
@@etherealbladerx8153 I’ve always hated that idea, imagination is the best. But I never liked romance films, I’d take lord of the rings any day
Star Wars Outlaws would make a great PlayStation 3 game, outdated like Ubisoft 😂.
For me, the deal breaker was that you were forced to play as a strong wahman, rather than roleplay and create your own character (barring Jedi because they are OP compared to scoundrels and Bounty Hunters, and rise up the ranks of the criminal underworld across all the systems. When I saw this game announced, I thought "Sweet, I'm playing as a Rodian scoundrel" and then the trailer came out and saw the main character, then heard that she was the main default character, no customization engine, and thought "Fuck it, I'm buying the Kotor games, and Classing Battlefront 1; better spent money.
There will be a 50 to 100 gig day one patch. Companies knowingly release incomplete games because they sheep will buy it, your beta or alpha testers at best. I will never buy season passes or battle passes for games like this or always online games because the majority of the time you get crap for your money or they shut down the servers before the game is complete
Ubisoft: Get used to not owning our games.
Us: Oh no problem I won’t own them at all.
Ha, no amount of video settings can save this game. Quite the journey for ubi since the watch_dog days.
Changing the on/off setting does it wonders.
Its crazy , rainbow 6 vegas 2 was my fav game of all time now ... trash
that grenade part annoys me , not for the graphics/effects , but it would surely been more practical to kick/throw and then hit ground ... feels like it would have made a greater distance between you and blast .
as for the effects , pretty sure jedi knight had better blast effects , maybe about the same
Thermal grenades are almost mini nukes lol
Kay Vess saves the day without any bruise marks or scars on her body accept her stupid brain 😂
If I re😮correctly in the republic commando game when you meet the Trandotians if you threw a thermal detonator at them they very well might just kick it back at you
Always found it strange how none of the actresses they use as models sue the companies for destroying their image. I’d be irate if they used my likeness and then beat my character with an Ugly Stick.
Oh, I got an even better one:
Debra Wilson is the only actress they never uglify, her characters always look exactly like her. She should sue them all for the implied insult: "Nah, she's hideous enough as scanned, no uglification needed"
There new slogan is:
Here at Ubi, we emphasize the SOFT.
So, rather than creating a great African character in Ancient Egypt or Kush, they chose to crap on Japan with this? Unreal.
And managed to spend millions on a Star Wars game that moves and looks worse than the original Beyond Good an Evil imho.
Japan? This video is about a Star Wars game. Where does Japan fit into this video?
Ubisoft management = 💩
The graphics are horrific.
I'm surprised no one noticed the 2d explosion Sprite and this is a reskin of the Leya game.
IGN’s comments about adjusting the settings reminds me of what the director of Game of Thrones season 8 episode 3 said about the whole episode being too dark to see.
Right! So I need to adjust my flat screen settings in order to enjoy the movie or game you made! WTH 🤦♂️ is this mentality. I’ve been watching YT content just fine, from countless creators.
GameCube graphics look better than this
Almost looks like a re-skin of RE 6, the slide is exactly the same.
The crater from the barrel exploding isn’t even underneath where the barrel was.
I mean... I did love Jedi Knight 2: Outcast... but those graphics are circa 2002.
At this point they probably have whole "Department of responding to backlashes - RTB Dep.". And its probably busiest of all departments :D
Can't wait for the sorry not sorry
i believe ubi is too dumb to know what they should have done.
I'll stick to Jedi Academy! It's aged like a fine wine!
i sure hope that thermal denonator explosion was meant to be a throwback to the old school explosion "ahhh" sound effect. if it isent then oh my
Disney really said "execute order 66.000 dislikes" lmao
What’s amazing is that ten years ago STAR WARS, DISNEY and UBISOFT; were regarded as top tier entertainment. Frightening how the mighty have fallen. Also, I have a PS3 and the worst graphics don’t look this bad; I have Star Wars force unleashed, which is a great Star Wars game. Ubisoft and Disney will probably just blame the fans.
Imagine if Star wars and Assassins Creed both do not sell well..... It could shut down Ubisoft.
Between Star Wars Outlaws and Assassins Creed Shadows they're a mess.
I'm surprised they didn't try to disavow the videos as "cheap fakes".
I dont understand why it looks so poor when Avatar looks amazing
Ya, not giving Ubisoft any money.
The expert system they have raved about in the interviews is bare bones, punch 5 people to somehow learn fast talk. They dont even bother making you have to do 5 deals to learn fast talk, it is just there to be there and so they can in interviews keep bringing up the experts as if they are some deep part of the game.
I couldn't care less. As long as Disney owns "the SW" I'm not at all interested.
Sweetbaby is backing this game ever more reason not to spend a single penny on it .
Ubisoft is like the kid with chocolate around its mouth swearing blind it's not seen the dairymilk from the fridge
There already was a Warriors game. Who actually wanted to play the villain?
They say “multiple planets” !! Not hundreds or dozens of planets just multiple planets. You can bet pounds to peanuts it will be like Starfield and just cookie cutter copies.
considering skull and bones was considered AAAA quality, this might just be AAAAA quality
I already have Star Wars Uncharted at home thanks EA did that twice already.
Farewell Ubisoft.
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Yes, I agree with you. Her platform is wonderful, and her strategies are exceptional
I would of prefered to have created my own character rather then play one they made.
remember when Ubisoft would downgrade the graphics from the initial reveal to launch. I dont know if that's actually possible here
Yves has essentially become the lead of the Smoking Gun standing in front of a burning, exploding building telling everyone that there's nothing to see here and everything is fine.
I like how a investor, of all people was showing more sense.
Can you delay it, it doesn't look sellable.
That's shockingly sensible of them.
They got rid of Lucas's in-house setup... Well... Their fault. These aren't the games you're looking for... Move along. Move along.
Explosions and gameplay is Ride to the hell retribution bad😂
I do the same thing with Madden games . Instead of wasting 60-70 bucks every year I just subscribe to EA for a month or two at 15 bucks a month and play it then cancel my subscription.
Just looks like the slapped some assets in the stock TPS template on UE,
on Massive Entertainments web page they are looking for a Senior AI Programmer for Outlaws,
but I just looked it up, its a proprietary engine called Snowdrop.
I wouldn’t play it if they were giving it away for free.
Not with those 1987 explosion 😂
Need to fire whoever edited this video. Hopeless
I think it was a mobile game.
A THERMAL detonator implies that it incinerates anything within the blast radius. Apparently you can just shuffle away a few feet from it like a bad fart and be fine
DEI hires simply ruin everything.
Ubisoft deserves to go broke !!
DEI hires on full display....
Why couldn’t you just create a character, why does she talk every second, why are the graphics so bad, this is just straight up a terrible showcase.
Since you mentioned the share price, I thought I'd check it further...
If you look at the past 5yrs, the Ubisoft share price is down 74% 😮
You can cross a planet in four to five minutes on a speeder and we all know if we don’t buy the ultimate edition we won’t be getting the full experience. Seriously the water effects and explosions look awful. Did they rush this game or let certain things infest and take root
2:03 lasers do have a bullet arc because light is still affected by gravity, it's why black holes are black. Not by that much, no, I'm just feeling pedantic today.
The tiny asteroids you can blow up in No Man's Sky have more OOMPH to their explosions than this.
Also...the most stunning part is that companies put the "best" stuff into early trailers/showcases. Woof.
you guys expect to much from a game that only cost a Measley $100 dollars .....
I have multiple items behind H here in my house. Great minds? No.
The red barrel trope really needs rethinking…..
Ubisoft 2025: “We have now added green shootable barrels”
To be fair the the guy from Ubisoft if you adjust the settings on your TV you can improve the video. I found it the most enjoyable with the television turned off. That's when i found it looked best. Others may want to give that a try, too.
I’m more excited for the bounty Hunter remaster. Though I am holding off to see if they changed any story elements after the fact
Investors finally learning how to spot an incoming train-wreck. Took them a good long while and a great many failed games but i guess they eventually noticed that they were losing money. I like that the Ubisoft response to their questions was "dont be silly, we are the best ever" ....and it didnt reassure anybody.
Laughed my arse off at "engine , what a 2 stroke engine " 🤣🤣🤣
The game is literally surviving off it's star wars licence, Players will buy any old trash if they're a fan of star wars. Which is really sad.
This is a game to buy when it's on steep discount during a Steam Sale. I would never spend full price.
How did her speeder bike get to where she comes out the cave? It’s not the same place she left it…
The power of many players, of two players, one player and the the power of noooo one plaaaaaying.
Team America should sue em for copyright infringement over her Matt Damon chin
Games like this are just one reason why I've been avoiding 99% of the AAA game space these days. I've got my PC, my OG Xbox One, my PS3, Wii U and Switch, and I do not buy any game that has been released in the last 5 years with the exception of a couple of first-party Switch games. AAA gaming in general is as bad as the tripe that Hollywoke and the streaming services poop out. I tell everyone who'll listen; buy physical media and stay away from anything new.
It's almost like they deliberately inflated the game price in order to push people into signing up for Uplay. Nah, they'd never be that cynical.
Soooo basically what they are saying is that they are going to pull “gameplay” footage from a high end PC that is absolutely screaming, slap a “Work in Progress” tag at the bottom, and say “See look, this is what the game actually looks like”
Then you’ll spend your $130 just to find out it looks like the original game play video. Look people it’s gone gold, they aren’t changing anything about this game. You’re about to pay $130 for a game that looks horrible, has a DEI agenda, has bad combat, and has a main story of about 30 hours. Yeah minus all this other garbage, the main story was confirmed to be 20-30 hours long. ORRRRRRR you can just buy Black Myth: Wukong for half the price, play it a week earlier, and be treated to something truly special and entertaining.
I think it's plainly obviously look, DEI on the screen plus in games is most sertanally a problem. DEI behind the game is where the real problem is, though.. fact is, these people don't know how to make a game.. if your employing people on race and sex this is the outcome. Plus I've seen some very questionable info on how disgraceful it real is working for UBISOFT these days. Every sane accomplished person will stay away sertanally..
mad max game that is 10 years old is far better then this