One of these days we'll have to get a proper single player narrative driven Star Wars game where you're part of the Empire and "don't" end up defecting from it

Empire at war but you're Thrawn after Palpatines death.

How do you convince people to play as Space Nazis who are so comically evil they build a planet destroying space station and use it on a random backwater planet of peaceful farmers?

>>713664997
You give 'em nice healthcare packages and PTO.

>>713664997
Don't think you need to, I'm sure there's plenty of people out there who just wants to not be part of the good guys for a change

We already did. And it was pure unaltered kino

>>713664874 (OP)
why'd you put don't in quotation marks

>>713665493
The "secret" side missions that you got lightning tats for completing gave child me all the dopamine

>>713666002
>get all the bonus objectives on some mission
>”the emperor would like to speak with you”
things will never be this kino again

>>713664997
You make the game about a soldier in the Empire following orders. Maybe you do, but I don't solely play games which allow me to do what I normally do every day. Sometimes I like to play as somebody doing something I wouldn't normally do.

>>713664997
>on a random backwater planet of peaceful farmers
Alderaan was a fair bit more than that.

Star Wars is so retarded, this is the best a jewish space fantasy can be? Sci fi is fake and rootless and commie coded, science is fake, Jedism is Kaballah.

>>713664997
Because it's fun to be the bad guys.
>>713666529
>science is fake
yes goy don't do any science yourself cause it's fake, don't make a little rocket and inspect the firmament, it's all just nonsense, you can't actually make rocket fuel that could take you that high anyway

>>713664874 (OP)
At the end of the day, Star Wars is a story about heroic adventure. If you set it during the the Galactic Civil War, then it is extremely difficult to write a compelling story about a heroic Imperial character because they're cogs in a machine.
Beyond that, "single player narrative driven" games are probably the most expensive and focus group-driven video game genre. In other terms, you need something with widespread appeal and want something with a safe message.

The best you'd be able to get is a smaller-scale RPG set after Endor, where you play an Imperial who has to navigate the collapsing galactic order.

>>713664997
The Tie Fighter was a lot more fun to fly than rebelshit in SWG, at least to my 10 year old brain back then

>>713664997
By pretending that such bad guys are the good guys, like how it always been.

>>713664874 (OP)

1994

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_TIE_Fighter

>>713664997
If space marine can do it so can star wars.

>>713664997
don't fucking bring it up
why does everyone feel the need to make star wars into suffering porn
you literally just make a game where you play stormtroopers killing rebels/space pirates/gang members in the outer ring, etc. and you add in lots of cool vehicles and blasters and stormtrooper variants and make it a lot of fun, like star wars is supposed to be

>>713667191
based

>>713664874 (OP)
>where you're part of the Empire and "don't" end up defecting from it
Just play any game where the main character is an American soldier

>>713666529
Star Wars isn’t even sci-fi, it’s a myth in space. It has more in common with Beowulf or The Kalevala than with Asimov or Star Trek.

>>713667674
Dunning Kruger take. Sci-fi comes in many forms, from Star Trek (which has as much mysticism as it does hard science) to pulpy stuff like Flash Gordon to action movies with nothing to do with space science like The Terminator. It isn't just The Foundation.

>>713664874 (OP)
THE DARK TROOPER IS SO FUCKING COOL

>>713664997
Playing an unapologetic orphan stomping bad guy is hilarious and more people would do it if games didn't actively punish you for it.

>>713667191
everything has to be suffering porn these days. are they intentionally training people to think that way or is it just what grabs attention/sells?

>>713666772
>it is extremely difficult to write a compelling story about a heroic Imperial character because they're cogs in a machine.
Edmun Dontus is a young man working as an apprentice with his father in the shipyards on Correlia. He and his family want nothing to do with the growing sectarian violence between the Empire and the Correlian Resistance, but find themselves caught in the middle of it when a group of resistance fighters break into their home to evade Imperial patrols after bombing a convoy. Dontus parents are both brutalized by the insurgents when they try to alert the authorities and are killed in the crossfire of the ensuing gunfight. The resistance fighters escape, Dontus' parents are dead, and Dontus is falsely accused of collaborating with the resistance and sent to a detention facility.

Years later, Dontus is given a chance to join the Imperial Army and climbs through the ranks to make his way into the Special Forces, hoping to use his combat skills, position, and power to hunt down the people he blames for the death of his parents and his false imprisonment - the resistance fighters, now all high-ranking figures in the Rebel Alliance. Unsympathetic to the Rebellion's fight against the Empire, or simply blinded by his single-minded pursuit of vengeance, Dontus travels across the galaxy to destroy the lives of the people who destroyed his.

>>713664997
That never stopped development of Battlefront 2 and Empire at War.

>>713669470
I mean I get it but "lol then the rebels kill his parents so he's allowed to fight them sort of justifiably now!" is less appealing than "in this game you play as a stormtrooper because they look cool, kill rebels in 8 different planets"

>>713669916
You fucking asked for a story with a heroic and compelling imperial protagonist instead of a cog in a cool-looking machine. Now you want a cog in a cool-looking machine.

Make up your mind.

>>713664997
"You get to play as the bad guys"

That's it. You don't have to justify it. You don't have to make people sympathetic. Just let people live out the power fantasy.

>>713664874 (OP)
Coolest looking design, leftmost being 1 and rightmost being 5
>5
>1
>4
>2
>3

>>713667321
Americans larp as rebels, Igor. Your propaganda brochure is out of date.

>>713666441
Nah I only play Call of Duty, GTA and FIFA

>>713668338
"Wars" is part of the title. You'd want to watch a Star Wars series where nobody ever shoots a blaster and it's just Han Solo or someone like him running a bar?

>>713664997
>Space Nazis
Ackshually they're the U.S Army and the Rebels/Ewoks were the Vietnamese.

>>713670026
I am not every other person on 4chan. I frankly do just want a cog in a cool looking machine.

>>713664997
Start them as republic clones in a no-Jedi unit. You play as just a rank and file soldier, but through the first half of the game, you build up camaraderie and trust in your unit. When Order 66 happens, your chip doesn’t activate, but you see all your trusted comrades and commanders doing their duty, the player will naturally be pushed into following them (like a real soldier in such a situation). The second half has you as a stormtrooper gradually becoming numb to combat and sinking into just following orders and trying not to think about what you’ve done
And if you really want it to be good, you can keep the second half working for the empire secret and make it seem like a played-straight clone wars game

>>713672245
>chip
The game is already trash.

>>713664997
>convince

>>713673980
As much as either of us may not like it, it is no longer possible to make a Star Wars game without adhering to Disney canon.

>>713664997
only the third world likes the rebels