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[Banjo64]

69 Metacritic with 48 reviews in.

Who could have seen it coming?

https://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-5/forspoken/critic-reviews

 

[AnotherOne]

I dont need reviews to tell me that this game sucks, playing the demo cemented it for me.

 

[Arun1910]

Close with the 69 guess. It was always going to be in the 60s. Nothing about what has been shown screamed that it would be good.

All in all, not surprising.

 

[TrebleShot]

Surprising , seems like it’s above average.
May consider this when it’s on a deep sale.

 

[Auto_aim1]

Protagonist is awful.

Will play it after a year maybe.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Square should fire those hacks and redirect all their money into making Dragon Quest games.

Currently #2 Best Seller for PS5 on Amazon.

Kinda sad when there's so much better stuff to play that's better than this.

 

[SF Kosmo]

I was kind of bullish on this game because I was really impressed by the combat and parkour animation, but it really seems like that's all the game has going for it. Falls into every JRPG trap, generic cookie cutter story, stilted dialog with long pauses between lines, and uninteresting side content. Shame.

 

[demigod]

Who thought making the main character annoying as Scalebound was a good idea? Did they hire the writers from Scalebound?

 

[tusharngf]

 

[Punished Miku]

Did they hire the writers from Scalebound?

Uncharted.

 

[The Tourmaline Gorilla]

I mean, all of the gameplay released, up to this point, was very indicative that this game sucked. 11 yr old me would have loved it, I'm sure.

11 yr old me was a disgrace.

 

[Elios83]

Reviews confirm the fears I had with the demo, the core gameplay with traversal and magic combat is great, the rest is forgettable.
Luminous is making the same mistakes made with FFXV.
They have this huge world but there is just a single town (the excuse is that people survived only there, the reality is that they're still in the "HD towns are hard" phase), they don't know how to fill it with life and cool activities besides the monsters you have to fight.
It's a shame because the IP was promising, but this team really has to stop making open world stuff if it's not their forte.
Anyway I want to play it at some point, I had fun with the demo.

 

[Hendrick's]

So we can throw the whole “padded woke review score theory” out the window now.

Easy Allies - 8.0

 

[acidagfc]

Oh hey, I predicted 69, close enough.

 

[Umbasaborne]

Maybe ill grab it on sale, def on pc though, i thought ps5 performance was pretty shitty from the demo

 

[Ghost of Caelid]

Midgrade...sucks because we don't get many isekai games.

 

[emivita]

 

[b0uncyfr0]

Just watched ACG's review. Its a deep deep sale.

It suffers from everything that's been done to death in many better games. Whilst it brings nothing new but a chacrter that can parkour around things pretty fast + fancy spell effects.

That's all..

 

[Ulysses 31]

Forspoken is exactly what you feared, it's exactly what I feared.

All those fears I had about the game materialized before my very eyes from the cringe-inducing story telling that makes you go, who wrote this?

 

[FingerBang]

Pretty much what I expected, will definitely play it in the future

 

[GHG]

Worse than anyone imagined, it's absolute trash.

 

[Lupin25]

This was made by the same team who developed FFXV, and it’s somewhat just as shallow as far as it’s poor dialogue and open-world.

Outside of cool magic casting and traversal mechanics, the open-world feels repetitive and devoid of anything crucial to the player.

The npc’s look boring. Should’ve been a more linear game. The demo was bad.

 

[sloppyjoe_gamer]

Will consider trying it again if they implement a "shut the fuck up" mode where the main character is silent.

 

[CherryFalls]

You also have to remember numbers are going to be inflated a little for this because of the mc, so considering that too, this is real bad

 

[rofif]

Seems that the game met a lot of hate and unfair criticism.
We get a new single player AAA game that does not have loot boxes, micro transactions and is not another 4 player coop unreal engine game…. And it gets criticised to hell for what? Character that is fun and alive? Not another stoic cardboard character without personality?

We really want only call of duty and UE looter shooters?!

And even graphics get a lot of hate when normally everyone says it doesn’t matter. I personally think the game looks great visually and I don’t mind the main character. I only played the demo and views are great. Combat and particle effects are standout too. Nothing average with this game.

As for gameplay, I’ve got my ps5 preorder coming tomorrow. No early shipment for me

 

[Agent_4Seven]

Another failure of a game from SQE, what a surprise. What I've played of a demo on the PS5 was more than enough to never touch this pos ever again. Pretty sure the next game from Luminous will be just as mediocre, bland and boring cuz they aren't capable to make anything else.

I've high hopes for FFXVI though, hopefully they won't fuck it up and they have no right to at this point.

 

[//DEVIL//]

Man you know the game is boring when you are bored from watching a video review about the game... I was about to fall a sleep listening ..

With that being said I want to play it. I really thought the demo was ok and I do want to support single player games and projects like that.

It's just the ign guy speaking was like ugh shut up!

 

[Kvally]

Well, even though I won't get it until it hits a deep sale, I thoroughly enjoyed Saints Row 2022, so I don't put too much value into this.

 

[Punished Miku]

I just pray MS doesn't put it on Gamepass in 2025.

 

[Roman Empire]

YES! 69 only for the actress.

Be damned the game. It was a bad decision to stick with Luminous Productions. This better help Square to make their decision of improving their in-game engine to modern standards or outsource their work pipeline to other engines like Unreal (that they are already using) or something else.

 

[Slothbeing1209]

So Amy Hennig? You guys still think she good?

 

[jaysius]

Budget AAA don’t fall for this bullshit.

 

[LordCBH]

Still can’t believe their best idea for a protagonist was “frumpy bitch from another world who never shuts the fuck up.”

 

[CherryFalls]

Seems that the game met a lot of hate and unfair criticism.
We get a new single player AAA game that does not have loot boxes, micro transactions and is not another 4 player coop unreal engine game…. And it gets criticised to hell for what? Character that is fun and alive? Not another stoic cardboard character without personality?

We really want only call of duty and UE looter shooters?!

And even graphics get a lot of hate when normally everyone says it doesn’t matter. I personally think the game looks great visually and I don’t mind the main character. I only played the demo and views are great. Combat and particle effects are standout too. Nothing average with this game.

As for gameplay, I’ve got my ps5 preorder coming tomorrow. No early shipment for me

Are you really doing the ''You don't like this game? Go back to call of duty then!!'' strawman?.. For this game? It's very transparent

 

[Ronin_7]

Told ya.

Demo was terrible.

 

[Iced Arcade]

Sony shows up at Square office

 

[Billbofet]

Most shocking thing I've seen: 15 hour campaign from IGN.



What in the world are you talking about? Who is picking reviews? Some of the ideas some of you have about this industry are just wild.

Forspoken Review Codes Not Sent Out to Multiple Outlets by Square Enix

Forspoken review codes haven't been given to many outlets ahead of its release date, causing concerns over the PS5 and PC game's reviews.

www.gamerevolution.com

Seems like this isn't normal practice. Calm down.

 

[Shakka43]

67-69, I think is gonna miss the 70s mark.

 

[Kvally]

12 hours seems kinda short for this kind of game.

 

[R6Rider]

Overall don't mind Matty's videos, but man are his thumbnails awful.

 

[analog_future]

Seems that the game met a lot of hate and unfair criticism.
We get a new single player AAA game that does not have loot boxes, micro transactions and is not another 4 player coop unreal engine game…. And it gets criticised to hell for what? Character that is fun and alive? Not another stoic cardboard character without personality?

We really want only call of duty and UE looter shooters?!

And even graphics get a lot of hate when normally everyone says it doesn’t matter. I personally think the game looks great visually and I don’t mind the main character. I only played the demo and views are great. Combat and particle effects are standout too. Nothing average with this game.

As for gameplay, I’ve got my ps5 preorder coming tomorrow. No early shipment for me

Have you played the game?

 

[Fabieter]

I hope this is the death of Luminous Productions.

The game design, writing, graphics... everything might as well be shit, uninspired, outdated, whatever you wanna call it.

But when not even the dude who is directing the cutscenes seems to have even the slightest clue about cinematography... that's when the product as a whole becomes insulting to me.

What? Why would you want them closed down? I know the hatetrain is big this time but it's a great game at least on the gameplay front.

The only thing this should send to sqaure is stop using western writers and composer.

 

[SolidQ]

70$+ from you

 

[Kilau]

So Amy Hennig? You guys still think she good?

Is the story bad or just the dialogue? I’m not sure what she wrote.

 

[Punished Miku]

Is the story bad or just the dialogue? I’m not sure what she wrote.

Dialogue also depends on solid acting to mean much of anything. There's a lot of failure to go around.

 

[Spyxos]

Yeah, no thank. I have better things to do.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Seems that the game met a lot of hate and unfair criticism.
We get a new single player AAA game that does not have loot boxes, micro transactions and is not another 4 player coop unreal engine game…. And it gets criticised to hell for what? Character that is fun and alive? Not another stoic cardboard character without personality?

We really want only call of duty and UE looter shooters?!

And even graphics get a lot of hate when normally everyone says it doesn’t matter. I personally think the game looks great visually and I don’t mind the main character. I only played the demo and views are great. Combat and particle effects are standout too. Nothing average with this game.

As for gameplay, I’ve got my ps5 preorder coming tomorrow. No early shipment for me

What is this abundance of great 4 player co op unreal engine games because I want to play them?

I mean grounded is awesome but I need more.

Sorry you pre ordered this. Maybe you can cancel your pre order and grab it a month or so when it will be half price?

 

[GymWolf]

If it gets into the 80s that will be a good thing.
But im thinking 75 - 80.

Imma tax them some points cuz these fuckers had access to Ella Balinska and did a full face and body scan of her, and used her for mocap.

They also had access to Monica Barbaro and did this:
Monica Barbaro:

Auden:

Not that Auden is ugly or anything, but shes no Monica.
They could have put in the work, and she could have helped promote the game.
But I guess they didnt expect her to star in Top Gun Maverick at the time they were doing the voice work, scanning and mocap.


P.S This engine and hair just dont get along at all.
I really hope I have enough GPU power to do some serious downsampling.
Or it gets DLSS support sooner rather than later.

She looks slightly better here

 

[Aenima]

So Amy Hennig? You guys still think she good?

Hard to tell how much she contributed as the game has several writters and she joined the writting team later. She did a good job with the Uncharted 1 and 2 but thats all the praise i can give her.

 

[Coloress_Kafka]

So Amy Hennig? You guys still think she good?

There’s no way to know how much she wrote, there’s like 5 different writers on this project.

Which kinda sums up the game overall, too many cooks nobody with a singular vision.