A first review impression on Forspoken (for whatever its worth)

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Kind of a nothing tweet and he's not conveying himself clearly but I guess he's saying the demo in no way represents what he's been playing of the full game.

Well, that goes for most games because I believe apart from the good combat, the story development may be decent too. I also believe this game will have some really cool characters, especially villains. The demo was probably intentionally curtailed to be a thin slice of what to expect in order to avoid spoilers and to minimize too much discovery.
 
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Kind of a nothing tweet and he's not conveying himself clearly but I guess he's saying the demo in no way represents what he's been playing of the full game.

i watched Arekzz gaming video. he played first 5h and said, that he had just 1 negative in first 5 chapters because he hadn't melee weapon at that point.
if rate the game after the demo, i would say, it is 72-77 game. but if they really gave us old build just to try it and feel it, then yeah, i see it getting over 80. because traversal and combat was great and was very satisfying.
 
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i watched Arekzz gaming video. he played first 5h and said, that he had just 1 negative in first 5 chapters because he hadn't melee weapon at that point.

Are there melee weapons in Forspoken? Pretty sure the combat is all magic based. Just researched it. Appears that it's magic based combat only.
 

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i watched Arekzz gaming video. he played first 5h and said, that he had just 1 negative in first 5 chapters because he hadn't melee weapon at that point.
if rate the game after the demo, i would say, it is 72-77 game. but if they really gave us old build just to try it and feel it, then yeah, i see it getting over 80. because traversal and combat was great and was very satisfying.
Better to over deliver than over promise......They've had some time to polish, lets hope they gave the graphics/rez etc some further polish too.
 

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i watched Arekzz gaming video. he played first 5h and said, that he had just 1 negative in first 5 chapters because he hadn't melee weapon at that point.
if rate the game after the demo, i would say, it is 72-77 game. but if they really gave us old build just to try it and feel it, then yeah, i see it getting over 80. because traversal and combat was great and was very satisfying.

Arekks is leaving his channel.... the other guys are going to run it from now on. Always thought he ran a good channel....

Should still be good with the other guys though, just missing his personality. Was also surprised to learn that he used to work for MSFT.

I would trust what he says though generally.
 
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My 2019 goty!!! I want my sequel!!! Come on Jimbo, green light my sequel damn it!!!
Seriously, it did open world, with dope graphics, dynamic weather and time of day and very dynamic AL. No other open world game did all of that together the way they did. They did open world better than all if not most.
 

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The combat was ok for me, but it wont be alot of people’s taste. Kinda feels like Naruto battle lol. Lets see if the enemies are more complex.
Depends on how polished, how the enmies are and how deep the combat is I might enjoy it alot more.

I predict 73-81

To me it depends on combat, story, npc and world interaction and side quests
 
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Yeah, that's not what bait-and-switch means.
it means in a positive way how it feels. like demo had broken HDR, fps not the best, so world look little bit washed out and boring, plus not many activities.
so he wanted to say that it is opposite of that in final game.
bait and switch usually when offer too good to be true, or good and then switch to shit and etc.. so it was opposite.
 
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I feel like this game will be a days gone situation. Average scores, and the same people who ridiculed it at launch will act upset if there's no sequel.
 
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The combat was ok for me, but it wont be alot of people’s taste. Kinda feels like Naruto battle lol. Lets see if the enemies are more complex.
Depends on how polished, how the enmies are and how deep the combat is I might enjoy it alot more.

I predict 73-81

To me it depends on combat, story, npc and world interaction and side quests
Sometimes I'm put off by some Japanese games because thy end up feeling floaty. I like combat to have a fast but heavier feel.
 

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it means in a positive way how it feels. like demo had broken HDR, fps not the best, so world look little bit washed out and boring, plus not many activities.
so he wanted to say that it is opposite of that in final game.
bait and switch usually when offer too good to be true, or good and then switch to shit and etc.. so it was opposite.
Yeah but @Old Gamer is right, it’s not really what it means. I think the Twitter guy means more like what a big surprise in terms of how good it came out. Bait and switch is more along the lines of MGS 2, thinking it’s snakes next adventure and it being advertised that way, then you discover you play as Raiden the whole time. It’s literally baiting someone with one product to switch them with another. It doesn’t mean “sell them that it’s good and it ends up being bad.”

That would just be normal marketing.
 
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