Star Wars Outlaws length teased by Ubisoft, and it's music to our ears

It seems developers are finally listening to a large portion of the playing audience. For years now, we’ve had countless games that are so stuffed with content they often feel bloated rather than expansive. These games often outstay their welcome with underwhelming busy work.

Only a small handful of games have managed to pull off huge worlds full of quests that never get old including Elden Ring, Red Dead Redemption 2 and The Witcher 3. Hopefully we’ll be able to add Star Wars Outlaws to that list as Ubisoft has teased the length of the upcoming game recently and what we’re hearing has us excited.

Star Wars Outlaws is looking like it'll be a great scoundrel adventure.

Star Wars Outlaws is an upcoming game from Ubisoft and the first new Star Wars game we’ve had in some time. Set to be a an open-world action adventure where we’ll play as an outlaw called Kay Vess, Outlaws will be an original story in the vast universe. Speaking at last year’s San Diego Comic Con, creative director Julian Gerighty commented on the game’s length saying, “Our objective is to really get people into a very dense, rich adventure, open world adventure that they can explore at their own rhythm," Gerighty said. "So it is absolutely not a 200 or 300 hour epic unfinishable RPG. This is a very focused action-adventure RPG that will take people on a ride and is very manageable.”

We can rejoice that it sounds like we won’t have a game that we’re constantly slogging at and we can finish it in a reasonable time while having a blast. From what we’ve seen of the game so far, it’s shaping up to be a proper Star Wars adventure filled with exciting set pieces and brilliant characters. While we don’t have a solid release date, we should be able to get our grubby, scoundrel hands on the game this year.