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Akagami_Shanks
01/21/23 1:45:50 AM
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The question is, how hard?

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boxoto
01/21/23 1:52:16 AM
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it's pretty disappointing, since the isekai angle could be cool, if handled correctly, and it's nice to see a black female lead in a AAA game.

especially one made from a non-western studio.

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Bandit_Keith
01/21/23 1:52:26 AM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/6/4/AAcLysAAEHDY.jpg

The recommended specs...

No, thank you.


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Vyrulisse
01/21/23 1:52:47 AM
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The dialogue is incredibly cringe.

like... it's hard to put into words how awful it is.

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Akagami_Shanks
01/21/23 2:03:29 AM
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i see like no hype for it either

the subreddit only has like 4,000 people, the discord only has 112 members, Twitter seems generally negative to it. Creators also won't get a key until the day it releases, everything screams that it's not gonna be a popular game

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Akagami_Shanks
01/21/23 7:25:02 AM
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/01/20/three-red-flags-ps5s-forspoken-has-raised-already/?sh=6719d80f12fd

all this negative press is gonna kill the game

the board is not even top 10 on ps5 lmao

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viewmaster_pi
01/21/23 7:27:08 AM
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hyper-realism isn't a substitute for art direction, that immediately turned me off

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viewmaster_pi
01/21/23 7:37:13 AM
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oh, it kind of reminds me of scalebound but for playstation

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Irony
01/21/23 7:41:16 AM
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Demo was ok. The patch fixed my issue with the controls.

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dotsdfe
01/21/23 7:42:52 AM
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I'd love to see a good game with a super cool and open magic system. Sadly this one looks like it falls just short of that.

From what I saw in previews, a lot of the combat ends up being melee anyway, which sort of takes a lot away from the potential of the entire premise.

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Raikuro
01/21/23 7:58:48 AM
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Looks fun but wish the dialogue didn't have such a "how do you do fellow kids" vibe
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Irony
01/21/23 7:59:35 AM
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Actually wish it had more of a how do you do fellow kids vibe


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DeadBankerDream
01/21/23 8:24:43 AM
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When they released the demo video to showcase their "movement parkour magic" or whatever they called it my heart sank, because the only reason they would put this much effort into making movement look pretty is if the open world is giant and empty and they needed something to keep the players from getting bored while traversing it.

The demo was more or less that (though less of it than I was expecting tbh), but had a bunch of other issues as well. At least you can turn the dialogue off, but that just leaves a giant wad of silence in its wake. The combat is very boring after the first few encounters, though I think they also did a really poor job introducing it in the demo. I couldn't tell you if enemy designs were good or bad, because there are so many particle effects and they blend in so much with the background that I could hardly even see them. In some battles you were fighting the lock-on more than the enemies.

Overall I do like the idea conceptually, but it was a truly joyless experience.

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Guns_of_Verdun
01/21/23 8:25:32 AM
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viewmaster_pi posted...
hyper-realism isn't a substitute for art direction, that immediately turned me off
I was gonna say this XD

I saw a trailer and it looked like the most cookie cutter generic game ever made.

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Rain_Dust
01/21/23 8:32:27 AM
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more like FOR-GOTTEN M I RITE guyz!??

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Akagami_Shanks
01/21/23 8:35:35 AM
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Guns_of_Verdun posted...
I was gonna say this XD

I saw a trailer and it looked like the most cookie cutter generic game ever made.
It'll be a great game, for people who just started gaming!

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Vegy
01/21/23 8:45:28 AM
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I read foreskin instead and was lile wtf

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Snip-N-Snails
01/21/23 8:46:52 AM
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Kind of wonder if Crowbcat will cover it and honestly a bit looking forward to that.

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0Renegade
01/21/23 8:47:11 AM
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DeadBankerDream posted...
When they released the demo video to showcase their "movement parkour magic" or whatever they called it my heart sank, because the only reason they would put this much effort into making movement look pretty is if the open world is giant and empty and they needed something to keep the players from getting bored while traversing it.

The demo was more or less that (though less of it than I was expecting tbh), but had a bunch of other issues as well. At least you can turn the dialogue off, but that just leaves a giant wad of silence in its wake. The combat is very boring after the first few encounters, though I think they also did a really poor job introducing it in the demo. I couldn't tell you if enemy designs were good or bad, because there are so many particle effects and they blend in so much with the background that I could hardly even see them. In some battles you were fighting the lock-on more than the enemies.

Overall I do like the idea conceptually, but it was a truly joyless experience.
tbh, other than games like GTA, i dont understand the appeal of open world games. They usually just end being a whole lotta nothing, you take in the sites a few times then there's just nothing to do otherwise in it, ffxv being an example from square

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JuanCarlos1
01/21/23 8:49:30 AM
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This is from the FFXV team, so another critical flop for then. Granted its a different director. Such a shame cause the concept has so much potential.

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tsup-tsup
01/21/23 8:56:35 AM
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I think it looks cool. Won't pay $90 for it but'll grab it when it's $40.

Bandit_Keith posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/6/4/AAcLysAAEHDY.jpg

The recommended specs...

No, thank you.
People are mad because next gen is finally arriving?

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viewmaster_pi
01/21/23 8:58:09 AM
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Rain_Dust posted...
more like FOR-GOTTEN M I RITE guyz!??
yes

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Akagami_Shanks
01/21/23 9:29:40 AM
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tsup-tsup posted...
I think it looks cool. Won't pay $90 for it but'll grab it when it's $40.

People are mad because next gen is finally arriving?
No it's just a horribly optimized game. Nothing it's doing is breaking graphics barriers and even on ps5 its only 720p a good portion of the time.

Why does a 2 year old graphics card with 24 gigs of ram only get 30 fps at 1440p?

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Ratchetrockon
01/21/23 9:57:24 AM
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I saw gameplay footage and it looks fun but generic. Id rather just play the itsuno dmc games since those are the only action button mashers that I care about lol.

I was expecting forspoken to play more like the infamous games (3rd person shooter w/ powers) but improved mobility and more variety of powers cuz its magic. But nah its like the dmc games but with limitations.. . Ughh why!!!!!

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UnholyMudcrab
01/21/23 9:59:37 AM
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I heard yesterday that a bunch of reviewers still hadn't been given review codes yet, and that pretty much sealed it for me. Publishers don't do that kind of shit unless they're more or less convinced that their game is gonna blow.

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Gwynevere
01/21/23 10:47:26 AM
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Bandit_Keith posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/6/4/AAcLysAAEHDY.jpg

The recommended specs...

No, thank you.
There's no way in hell anything in this game looks good enough to actually require a 4080 to play on Ultra

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NoxObscuras
01/21/23 10:58:19 AM
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I think the story is cool and I want to play through the game at least once. But I wasn't really a fan of the combat after trying the demo. I might actually wait on this one, which is kinda sad.

tsup-tsup posted...
I think it looks cool. Won't pay $90 for it but'll grab it when it's $40.

People are mad because next gen is finally arriving?
Nah, I've played the demo on PS5. Nothing I saw should have required PC specs that high. High spec requirements aren't always a sign of next gen.

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Vyrulisse
01/21/23 11:02:07 AM
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tsup-tsup posted...
I think it looks cool. Won't pay $90 for it but'll grab it when it's $40.

People are mad because next gen is finally arriving?
There's nothing "next gen" about this game. It looks like an early last gen game and the gameplay is nothing special.

Those specs and how it runs on consoles already just show an unoptimized piece of crap.

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Akagami_Shanks
01/21/23 6:06:53 PM
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damn vy

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viewmaster_pi
01/21/23 6:15:35 PM
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damn vy

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Irony
01/21/23 6:16:09 PM
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Shut the fuck up

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viewmaster_pi
01/21/23 6:20:35 PM
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that's not what you were supposed to say...

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Akagami_Shanks
01/21/23 7:15:39 PM
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Irony posted...
Shut the fuck up
No you shut the fuck up

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Xerun
01/21/23 7:32:56 PM
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From what Ive seen its number 2 on preorders on Amazon ( after Hogwarts Legacy)

and everyone whos got it early said it was better than the demo and about an 8/8.5 out of 10. It might not break any records but will probably do fine

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Delirious_Beard
01/21/23 7:53:31 PM
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the writing looks like it will give the recent saint's row reboot a run for its money in terms of being just the absolute worst

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Punished_Blinx
01/21/23 7:56:53 PM
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Godfall flopped
Deathloop was a good game but flopped
Ghostwire Tokyo flopped
Forspoken will most likely flop too

If we're being honest if the publisher was confident in the sales of these games they wouldn't be signing up for these exclusivity deals to begin with. Which is a weird position for a AAA game to be in.

Good luck KOTOR Remake.

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Akagami_Shanks
01/22/23 1:54:53 AM
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Xerun posted...
From what Ive seen its number 2 on preorders on Amazon ( after Hogwarts Legacy)

and everyone whos got it early said it was better than the demo and about an 8/8.5 out of 10. It might not break any records but will probably do fine
haven't we seen this song and dance before

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Akagami_Shanks
01/22/23 6:59:23 PM
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<img src="https://i.gyazo.com/785d15a455acdef1151e003ba9df30a4.png">

top selling steam games

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Ratchetrockon
01/22/23 7:00:54 PM
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Holy crap steam deck #1.

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UnfairRepresent
01/23/23 11:02:35 AM
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Akagami_Shanks posted...
<img src="https://i.gyazo.com/785d15a455acdef1151e003ba9df30a4.png">

top selling steam games
RDR2 on there twice like a boss

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Akagami_Shanks
01/23/23 4:22:12 PM
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68 meta critic

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pauIie
01/23/23 4:39:06 PM
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it's really too bad and people are gonna shit on "woke" black female characters for it

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VIIVincent
01/23/23 5:27:28 PM
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Sqaurenix been on a decline and shit like this isn't helping. Killing Chaos couldn't cut it and this will be Forgotten. I'll keep waiting for FFVIIR part 2 because I'm skipping out on Crisis Core, the mobile game... and other games they're trying. FF16? Not even on my radar.

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Blue_Inigo
01/24/23 11:29:15 AM
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https://twitter.com/ReticleRonin/status/1617708100852797440?s=20&t=ltBqso-5EKAAz5gXN_UUNw

Buying 5 copies for her so nah it won't

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boxoto
01/24/23 1:10:56 PM
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^ I might have to buy six copies then

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