Forspoken official Thread (PS5/PC) OUT NOW!

[Don Homer]

Finished the game. My thoughts:

Spoiler: thoughts

-I WISH i posted about the twist with Cuff. I had a feeling he was a bad guy. It reminded me of an episode of Teen Titans where Raven helped a dude named Malchior and he turned out to be a bad guy....ANYWAYS
-idk if i like Frey keeping Cuff. I rather he got destroyed. But i guess that would make some equipment irrelevant
-i didnt mind the dialogue, even tho i do think the Frey's cursing was excessive. There were times when i was genuinely surprised she didnt curse
-frey is pretty much unpleasant for the entire game outside of the last chapter. She was just annoyingly mean and moody
-The open world in this game is great. a lot to do, a lot of battles. I gotta fight the mutants when i play again. also a lot of gear still to be obtained
-the platforming is a great idea, but the controls are what hurt it. The controls are my biggest gripe, and also the camera

i think the game got a bad wrap and a lot of people with agendas wanted the game to fail. It has its issues but it's a solid game 7.5/10

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Finished the game. My thoughts:

Spoiler: thoughts

-I WISH i posted about the twist with Cuff. I had a feeling he was a bad guy. It reminded me of an episode of Teen Titans where Raven helped a dude named Malchior and he turned out to be a bad guy....ANYWAYS
-idk if i like Frey keeping Cuff. I rather he got destroyed. But i guess that would make some equipment irrelevant
-i didnt mind the dialogue, even tho i do think the Frey's cursing was excessive. There were times when i was genuinely surprised she didnt curse
-frey is pretty much unpleasant for the entire game outside of the last chapter. She was just annoyingly mean and moody
-The open world in this game is great. a lot to do, a lot of battles. I gotta fight the mutants when i play again. also a lot of gear still to be obtained
-the platforming is a great idea, but the controls are what hurt it. The controls are my biggest gripe, and also the camera

i think the game got a bad wrap and a lot of people with agendas wanted the game to fail. It has its issues but it's a solid game 7.5/10

Can’t argue with any of that, im about the same if we’re using metacritic I’d give it about a 76-78

Spoiler

my thing is, they could have taken the cursing out the game and just made it rated teen. There wasn’t anything overly violent or suggestive outside of that. The F-Bombs seem so unnecessary.

I didn’t really have too much problem with the controls though, I feel like i could always get to where i needed and do what I wanted without fighting back against the controls. Only change I’d make is loosening the resistance for spells on the adaptive triggers, casting spells over and over again will make your hands tired.

 

[Don Homer]

Can’t argue with any of that, im about the same if we’re using metacritic I’d give it about a 76-78

Spoiler

my thing is, they could have taken the cursing out the game and just made it rated teen. There wasn’t anything overly violent or suggestive outside of that. The F-Bombs seem so unnecessary.

I didn’t really have too much problem with the controls though, I feel like i could always get to where i needed and do what I wanted without fighting back against the controls. Only change I’d make is loosening the resistance for spells on the adaptive triggers, casting spells over and over again will make your hands tired.

it's the small things. Like if you wanna dash to a treasure box or some other item, you might miss and start running up the walls. it's things like that that will make a gamer's eyes roll

 

[Kooley_High]

Game isnt worth full price imo. $40 max.

 

[SymbolicOne09]

Copped the game on the pc micrsoft store ...Just made it to the first rest house... liking the gameplay... the dialog isnt as bad as people made it seem

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

it's the small things. Like if you wanna dash to a treasure box or some other item, you might miss and start running up the walls. it's things like that that will make a gamer's eyes roll

Yeah, the parkour comes with compromises, like trying to run through doorways lol

 

[Sad Bunny]

Almost done.

 

[Fctftl]

Almost done. Should I say fukk it and bla bla bla bla?

By all means, dont use a spoiler tag for the people that didnt finish it yet

 

[Sad Bunny]

By all means, dont use a spoiler tag for the people that didnt finish it yet

My bad not really a spoiler though

 

[Methodical]

I'm level 47 and in chapter 6 (A Hero's Welcome). Still exploring all the world. I still love it.

 

[Sad Bunny]

Finished this. Good game. I haven’t best. Shame this quick in a while

The combat and traversal

I like for the ending keeps it open for more gameplay.

I need that DLC or sequel

I felt OP as fukk by the end of the game

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Finished this. Good game. I haven’t best. Shame this quick in a while

The combat and traversal

I like for the ending keeps it open for more gameplay.

I need that DLC or sequel

I felt OP as fukk by the end of the game

Tanta DLC in spring

 

[Sad Bunny]

after 2 dozen hours of gamelpay



6.5-7/10

The Good
Parkour is very fun, and lots of abilities to choose from

game maintains a stable frame rate

fast load times

zero pop in from what I saw no matter what mode I chose, well done.


The Okay

dialogue isnt terrible, but not great. its about what you'd get in a marvel movie with more instances of the word "fukk"

the landscape ranges from shyt to kinda cool looking

there's potential for some nice world building.

so so story, your typical fantasy fish out of water story with 3 major plot twists.
The Bad

side content sucks

optimization sucks, yes it has good things as said above but the resolution drops down hard to points where this looks like a ps3 game. it even happens in cutscenes where nothing big is happening and you're just talking to an NPC. random blurry faces, poor character models, this game is a ps5 exclusive is it not? so act like it

filler galore, Ubisoft bullshyt

barren, empty lands

the good shyt happens in the last third of the main campaign. this game would be a 9/10 if the last third happened sooner.

redundant combat. most enemies feel the same, and are brain dead, spam whatever you doing to move on.


Conclusion

I think there's a good foundation set and much potential. without spoiling, there is room for a sequel. id like to see Frey again without being bogged down by nonsense. the main campaign is very short for an open world RPG, and it feel like most of the so called "content" is mindless filler.

horizon had a problem with side content and rectified this with the sequel, offering stories to make us care about the bullshyt tasks. I think a Forspoken sequel can accomplish that as well. Keep the main character, keep the parkour, keep the spell switching, and improve on the above, and I think we have a hot game of the year candidate.

World being kinda barren makes sense based on the story though. But if they make a sequel I’d like to see more for sure.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

 

[Methodical]

I finally reached level 50 and still in chapter 6 (A Hero's Welcome).

That Gracious cloak is powerful