Forspoken official Thread (PS5/PC) OUT NOW!

CoolinInTheCut

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I hope this game sells well as to not sway developers away from Black characters, but those were good examples, the writing is bad. I'd argue that FF writing is camp and has anime tropes to fall back on, people expected G.O.W tier dialogue which isn't great, but it works.

I gotta disagree on Frey's writing. I obviously haven't played the game, but none of these examples I've seen from clips of the game are deserving of the outrage. Maybe I'm missing the one clip where she actually sounds "cringe" like these cacs wanna describe her. But she actually seems pretty realistic versus overly emotional or dramatic depictions of people in games typically made by Japanese developers.

Things like open world checklist fluff, lifeless world and NPCs, combat/gameplay taking a while to flesh out, and inconsistent graphics + resolution all seem like legitimate criticisms though.
 
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about threeish hours in.

dialogue really isnt bad. its cliche and corny at times, but I'm not :comeon: listening to it.

can definitely see how much interaction with her "companion" might annoy you depending on personal taste, but their chemistry is pretty well done to me for what it is.

combat is pretty simple right now, but I can see through the skill tree and with support spells you can play at least three dfferent distinct styles.

I'm liking it:manny:
 

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Cause the game actually did end up being very successful.

Was number one on steam for a time.

But as usual reality ain’t real to y’all. It’s just a conspiracy against this game :mjlol:
It's a $60 game on a subscription service. People don't have to invest anything more to play it. A lot of people downloading and trying it doesn't necessarily mean it's a great and successful game.

Forspoken doesn't have a subscription service to fall back on to mitigate its mediocre scores and reception. If people don't buy it then it isn't a success.

High on Life has a 67 on Metacritic. That score looks familiar. It's just weird that you spin that game into "successful" because let's be honest the Game Pass crowd isn't getting many critically acclaimed games with a high level of frequency. When you aren't swimming in GOTY games yeah you're a bit more willing to try out mediocre games.
 

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It's a $60 game on a subscription service. People don't have to invest anything more to play it. A lot of people downloading and trying it doesn't necessarily mean it's a great and successful game.

Forspoken doesn't have a subscription service to fall back on to mitigate its mediocre scores and reception. If people don't buy it then it isn't a success.

High on Life has a 67 on Metacritic. That score looks familiar. It's just weird that you spin that game into "successful" because let's be honest the Game Pass crowd isn't getting many critically acclaimed games with a high level of frequency. When you aren't swimming in GOTY games yeah you're a bit more willing to try out mediocre games.

No. It sold a lot of copies. Was number 1 on steam for some time.

Most popular games don’t have glowing reviews scores.

It’s weird you play all types of mid review games, but in your stan context now you wanna pretend something’s wrong with other people enjoying games without glowing reviews. :smh:
 
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No. It sold a lot of copies. Was number 1 on steam for some time.

Most popular games don’t have glowing reviews scores.

It’s weird you play all types of mid review games, but in your stan context now you wanna pretend something’s wrong with other people enjoying games without glowing reviews. :smh:

Lol at thinking Winb is a sony stan
 

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Lol at thinking he’s not.

He do the same shyt the rest of you stans do :smh:

No @winb83 has supported Microsoft buying Activision/Blizzard and has said that Sony is pretty much a hog with their purchases. That's been most of interactions on here. So I don't think the bolded is fair.
 

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No @winb83 has supported Microsoft buying Activision/Blizzard and has said that Sony is pretty much a hog with their purchases. That's been most of interactions on here. So I don't think the bolded is fair.
Nah WINb been posting on here and the site before stanning sony for decades.

He just said the merger is ok for competition sake.

The fact that you think being ok with the merger makes you “not a sony stan” only shows how bias all of you are on here.

Expose yourselves sony stan brehs :mjlol:
 

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I gotta disagree on Frey's writing. I obviously haven't played the game, but none of these examples I've seen from clips of the game are deserving of the outrage.

It's not outrage, it's just criticism, tlou 2 leaks was outrage. Why didn't deathloop, watch dogs 2 or miles morales have this same problem? Miles' voice actor isn't good, but he's not so bad that it takes away from the overall experience.

'Is that a motherfukking dragon'

'Did I just do that? I did not just do that. I just moved shyt with my mind. I just freaking moved shyt with my mind! Yeah, okay, that is something I do now.'

Whedon-esque dialogue is bad enough, but to do it poorly and have a mediocre performance is intolerable in my opinion. I don't think Forspokens' criticism is 100% due to cacs resentment towards playing a Black character.
 

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Nah WINb been posting on here and the site before stanning sony for decades.

He just said the merger is ok for competition sake.

The fact that you think being ok with the merger makes you “not a sony stan” only shows how bias all of you are on here.

Expose yourselves sony stan brehs :mjlol:

Well you also don't like the truth about Xbox that you have to shyt on the one person who has actually been on your side for things :mjlol:

Be an Xbot brehs:russ:
 

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I watched a few reviews where they try to give samples of the dialogue to "prove" how bad the writing is for Frey, and it honestly felt like some corny incel shyt where they were just mad at playing as a black woman. There was legit nothing wrong with her. The random NPCs definitely feel awkward like the ones you meet in modern English VAed FF games, but no one ever complains about that shyt in FF games.

@17:23:

I don't know what happened to ACG, but his quality has plummeted. I know he's been dealing with a lot YouTube demonetize bullshyt, but he seriously sounds burnt out and bytches about the nitpicky things that he used to never complain about...
 
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