I absolutely love Jedi Fallen order and Jedi Survivor for how well they pull off that genre, but my jaw hit the floor in shock the first time I played one and had trouble beating a couple stormtroopers. The force unleashed made you feel like a human wrecking ball in a glass shop. The new games make you feel like you are fighting for your life just to stay afloat. I think both are incredible games for totally different reasons and I’d love to see TFU brought back
My head cannon is that Luke was heavily protected by the force, since stormtroopers were supposed to be an elite fighting force. Callan (I whatever his name is, I can’t remember) wasn’t as strong in the force as Luke and so he had a tougher time trying to get by.
That, or Luke got the benefit of a lack of training on the stormtroopers part whereas Carlson was fighting at the height of empire power.
And in TFU, you were already a brick shithouse by the time the game started.
It made sense, narratively. Yeah, Cal can block and deflect lasers, but also he was barely a Padawan when the Order came in so it makes sense for him to struggle early on and have to both come to terms with his previously damaged Force connection and also train his abilities in the Force. Second game literally has you take on and chump a whole crowd of Stormtroopers in your first fight and then go on to run a train through Coruscant while also taking down an Inquisitor who gave Cal a lot of trouble in the first game. Second game Cal is leaps and bounds above first game Cal at the start of their respective games.
I respectfully disagree my guy. I played them all and while TFU was considerably better, it doesn’t make the other two shite. They were both solid canon games.
I think you're just getting hung up on my terminology. Okay, they are not "shit", and I did somewhat enjoy them, but I do think they are glazed so hard in the star wars fandom and are mad overrated.
The feeling playing them didn't even come close to how fun TFU was.
They’re also two entirely different kinds of games. Force unleashed is a linear hack and slash game, which wants you to go crazy and mow down droves of enemies as quickly as possible and build up a combo meter. The Jedi games are much slower and semi open world, requiring that you wait for an opportunity to strike at your enemy, because if you blindly rush in you’ll just die. They can’t really be compared, because the intent and design behind them is so different.
I think I just have a soft spot for him cause shameless was one of the first tv shows my wife and I watched together when we started dating 🤣 makes sense though I never really thought about how polarizing a game could be when using a real life actor as the main character. Like not everyone’s a fan of everyone sort of thing
The Jedi games ripped off the mechanics of Sekiro but did a really shitty job. Not that they could’ve done a good job anyways because a combat system like that doesn’t work when you’re a Jedi going up against groups of storm troopers with guns and batons.
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u/banhatesex Sep 08 '26
Not enough games anymore give the true badass power fantasy like tfu gave.