Star Wars Battlefront Classic Collection: Aspyr, wtf?

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FakeSympathy

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I was gonna try to write this review with funny quips and SW quote references just like w/ my Jedi Survivor review.

But no, this game doesn't even deserve that. It's just bad. Not even "so hilariously bad it's good" type of bad.

By this point, more servers have been added and they are mroe stable, but myself and many people are still seeing visual bugs everywhere.

And Aspyr has even't given the most basic apology, instead just saying "We're working on it"

At first I thought it was because this is Asypr's first time doing a big-scale multiplayer game like this. But they didn't even consider getting more people?

There is barely any improves regarding to the graphics or visual elements, and for some reason, they fucked up the sound effects.

The worst part? According a well-known BF2 modder, Aspyr incorporated his mod without his permission or giving him incentives. And somehow, all the "upscaling work" dramatically increases the game size to nearly 63 GB.

Someone may argue "well the core gameplay is still fun". But why would you pay MORE for a broken mess and bare bones new content and QoL changes?

$35 is an insult. You can probably get both games more no more than $10 at this point. Even if Aspyr works to improve the game, I don't think people are coming back to this
 
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I consider it a feat of engineering to take a pair of PlayStation 2 games that probably took up 6GB at most combined and turn them into a 35GB barely-functional mess with actual missing lines of code.
Oh no, it's actually 73GB, or 10x the size of the pc versions of the originals. The Switch version is still 25GB.
 
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...is there some sort of reverse Nobel Prize we can give these guys? Like, excellence in failure?
I genuinely think Aspyr were the wrong guys to work on the project. They have zero experience in working with games with big multiplayer component like this. Embracer has tons of studios under their belt and they chose Aspyr? WTF I don't know who to be more mad at
 
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