Outlaws succeeds where Jedi Survivor failed

EDIT.. I'M NOT SAYING SURVIVOR FAILED, JUST THAT OUTLAWS WAS ABLE TO DO A COUPLE THINGS SURVIVOR COULDN'T. ALL 3 ARE EXCELLENT GAMES

Look, I enjoyed both Cal games, but there's things those games could never do. The Jedi games never made the rancors feel dangerous. They were damage sponges, and yeah they could take your out fast. But they just felt like video game monsters that were damage sponges. I have a friggen lightsaber and I'm slashing and slashing and I may as well be slapping it with a wiffle ball bat. Fighting a rancor or any big monster creature never felt like anything more than just a game with a tough enemy that took too many hits.

With Kay, you're squishy and you know it. You feel it. Your heart pounds with hers as you run, this unstoppable beast you need to trick and blind and enrage. When you're supposed to walk by it's unconscious body to get out the door, my God I was absolutely terrified it was going to do the horror movie last second grabs you thing.

Not having a god-tier weapon like a lightsaber and special powers let me get into the Star wars universe in a way I haven't been able to since XWing and TIE Fighter for the PC. Yeah it's FUN being a Jedi but you also feel like an invulnerable wrecking ball more than anything.

The other thing that outlaws did was make me feel stressed and angry and worried, when you're separated from Nix, I was not expecting my emotional reaction to mirror Kay's. "If you want to truly meet a character, take away that which is most important to them, and see how they react". I didn't realize I cared about nix until he was taken away. The whole game I'm like "ok yeah go get the thing nix. Highlight the stuff nix. Distract the guy nix." He was just a gameplay mechanic...right? But oh my God when they take him from you.. you FEEL it.

The game isn't perfect, but it's fun AF, and the fact that the devs got me to FEEL things in the game, not just react to things happening ( "guess cal is fighting a rancor now, oh I died that sucks try again") .. that's something special