One playable character...

[TNX.]

But why? This isn't just Star Lord or Star Lord and the Guardians, this is...Guardians of the Galaxy. We should be able to play as everyone.

[Draggy]

Yea I'm irritated by this too. Especially by the fact that other characters don't even seem to have their own healthbars, profiles etc. and thus act like "meat shield" for Star Lord.

The explanation in IGN's article about this

"Eidos Montréal senior game director Patrick Fortier explained why they chose to make Star-Lord the sole playable character, as opposed to giving the option to switch between the Guardians. “One of the things we asked was, well, what if we experienced teamwork from the inside? From controlling one character? In real life it's kind of like that. When we work with our creative team, sometimes we don't agree. Sometimes we're in a bad mood one day, or we're very adamant about a certain thing or we're very passionate about it, and you have to navigate those waters. That's the kind of teamwork that most people know in real life,” Fortier said. “We thought, ‘Well, that hasn't really been explored very much in video games. If we're going to go and give room for these characters to get fleshed out in a narrative-driven action adventure game where the psychology and the personality of the characters really comes through, this is probably a really interesting way to go about it.’”

[Demiurge]

translation: less work

[Castor Troy]

Seems similar to Mass Effect. You play as one character and you control your squads powers. It would be interesting if you play as the different characters throughout the game though.

[REM 🔋]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Demiurge:

translation: less work

[badfluffy]

Haha that's the lousiest explanation for "we were too lazy" or "well we picked the white dude, who else could we pick?" I have ever seen.

[REM 🔋]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von badfluffy:

Haha that's the lousiest explanation for "we were too lazy" or "well we picked the white dude, who else could we pick?" I have ever seen.

Well the lazy part is right. Your comment about the "white dude" is just you being a blatant racist.

[PocketYoda]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Castor Troy:

Seems similar to Mass Effect. You play as one character and you control your squads powers. It would be interesting if you play as the different characters throughout the game though.

Mass Effect was about Shepard GotG is about the whole team?

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Draggy:

Yea I'm irritated by this too. Especially by the fact that other characters don't even seem to have their own healthbars, profiles etc. and thus act like "meat shield" for Star Lord.

The explanation in IGN's article about this

"Eidos Montréal senior game director Patrick Fortier explained why they chose to make Star-Lord the sole playable character, as opposed to giving the option to switch between the Guardians. “One of the things we asked was, well, what if we experienced teamwork from the inside? From controlling one character? In real life it's kind of like that. When we work with our creative team, sometimes we don't agree. Sometimes we're in a bad mood one day, or we're very adamant about a certain thing or we're very passionate about it, and you have to navigate those waters. That's the kind of teamwork that most people know in real life,” Fortier said. “We thought, ‘Well, that hasn't really been explored very much in video games. If we're going to go and give room for these characters to get fleshed out in a narrative-driven action adventure game where the psychology and the personality of the characters really comes through, this is probably a really interesting way to go about it.’”

I'll wait for a sale making it just star lord was a huge mistake.. I don't even like him.. Rocket and Groot were my interest.

Also no interest in that pre order crap.

[Aimano]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Demiurge:

translation: less work

...Or smart game design. Square's last multi-character Marvel hero game didn't work out too well, plus this game was always designed from the beginning to be a Star-Lord vehicle; just like the GotG always has been.

[Codex_of_Memory]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von DanteYoda:

I'll wait for a sale making it just star lord was a huge mistake.. I don't even like him.. Rocket and Groot were my interest.

That was pretty much my reaction as well, seriously Star Lord is the least likable character of the bunch, but I bet we have to play him because he is human and relatable. Sadly for me it means this game isn't even going to make it to the wishlist.

[PocketYoda]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von zouron:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von DanteYoda:

I'll wait for a sale making it just star lord was a huge mistake.. I don't even like him.. Rocket and Groot were my interest.

That was pretty much my reaction as well, seriously Star Lord is the least likable character of the bunch, but I bet we have to play him because he is human and relatable. Sadly for me it means this game isn't even going to make it to the wishlist.

Same i'll consider it later (maybe in a year or so) when the prices aren't stupidly high for one boring character i have no interest in..

Jeez these developers have no clue these days..

[Silverflame]

It's because they want you to make decisions and the other characters like or dislike them etc. This doesn't work well if you can switch around. I mean they could just make you switch to Star Lord as the decision maker in such moments and let you play as the other characters to get around that tbh.
I'd rather play Rocket than Starlord myself.

[sling_shot]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Castor Troy:

Seems similar to Mass Effect. You play as one character and you control your squads powers.

That's what I thought, and I'm sure there's a place for this type of combat.... but GotG is a team focused narrative. Wouldn't have made more sense to have this play like Final Fantasy 7 Remake?

These SE/Marvel collaboration games are the definition of "let's not do things people actually want"

[Ylion]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Draggy:

‘Well, that hasn't really been explored very much in video games.

yes it has been explored in pretty much every storydriven singleplayergame
but if their target audience is fortnite players, i guess thats true

[GRoque]

Probably to play with the other characters, you need to buy a DLC. Is just my guess...

[TNX.]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von GRoque:

Probably to player with the other characters, you need to buy a DLC. Is just my guess...

They would never do that.