Major Gaming Reviewers Have Not Received Forspoken Review Codes

[Remember_Spinal]

Its mostly the Xbox fanboys on twitter. Credit where credit is due the Xbox fanboys here are a bit smarter than to make it that obvious.

Either way this fight is getting old, some of you dudes will argue way longer than what is sensible over this shit, lmao. And attempt to keep it going.

Its the same usual people that live on twitter day in and day out console warring, its not hard to find.

 

[peter42O]

Well I agree, but you know once it's not on a particular box, it's hated out the gate. One thing you will never see me do is hate or critique a game I don't know, have not seen or are interested in. I look at some of the games the Xfans mention and I'm only researching them now, most of them are indies, I've never heard about them before now, so it says much about it's penetration or how many people really know about these games. Harvestella, Various Daylife, Diofield? Even High on Life, I have not cared to check it out, only heard some rumble on the forums about it the last few days....Then indies falling into the 60 and 70's? I imagine have even less of an impact, unlike games like Journey, flower, flow etc...

Yet, everybody knows of Forspoken, either to hate or whatever, but the game is known. I see Xfans like to boost any game that's exclusive, it could be an indie that scores a 50. I was suprised Xfans loved Pentiment, especially when it was over 90 on Meta for the first couple of reviews, hype was through the roof, but all the hype dies down so quickly after launch is what I've seen. Look at Scorn, people hyped that game way more before release than after, within a few days, no one was talking about Scorn and how great it is, but you will still get that for Days Gone and Driveclub even now. I think PS fans are a bit more genuine about the games they love and support, Even Halo Infinite was abandoned quickly after launch, even by the most hardcore Halo fans...Are some people overstating how they really love or are playing these games?

For me, Forspoken just wasn't impressive based on the demo. Plus, the world seems empty, bland and boring. Not worth taking a chance on especially when I have Dead Space three days later and Hogwarts in two weeks.

A few of the Xbox games that may have hype for a few days and then goes away is because they're small games. None of them are huge games. Only Halo Infinite which I personally loved the campaign but it was the first Halo game I ever played, have no attachment to either way and im not an online co-op/multi-player guy. The reason why fell off Halo Infinite and went back to MCC is because there wasn't any new content to play. The core gameplay and combat is excellent but that doesn't mean much if there's no new content to engage with.

I can agree that PlayStation fans are more genuine about their games but I think that's also because they've been on a great role since Uncharted where as after last generation, for Xbox fans including myself to get really invested and whatnot, they have to give us great games on a consistent basis and big AAA games. Not just small AA/Indies. If/when this happens, then you'll see Xbox fans become more genuine and passionate but until then, better to wait and see how it all goes instead of potentially being let down.

 

[peter42O]

Xbox fans favorite exclusive is worrying about playstation exclusives and how good they are

Mark my words they will try and do the same thing with FFXVI, they just have to find the right angle/narrative to attack it from. They did this last year with Horizon

FFXVI is highly unlikely to have a bad demo, no review codes/delayed review codes to gaming media and thus far, has looked way more impressive than Forspoken has since the 2020 reveal. ALso, it's Final Fantasy. SE actually cares about FF. The rest is a crap shoot. I for one didn't attack HFW. Had a few negatives with it but still an excellent 9.0/10 game for me.

 

[Bryank75]

Okay guys, try and get this thread back on the rails please.

Forespoken review codes.

 

[TubzGaming]

Had to remove some posts, Please stay on topic of the Thread.

 

[Remij]

I'm looking forward to it regardless of where the reviews fall. There's lots of cult classic games which got 6/7s from major publications. I'm kinda worried that the game will fail to meet SquareEnix's expectations, and every time that these bigger AAA games do, it reduces the chances of them trying new IP in the future..

Basically the way it is now, they almost have to try a low risk AA game, hope that it finds an audience, and then scale it up eventually over time to a AAA product if all goes well.

I feel it's going to be way to divisive... but I'm excited to try it out. I don't have a PS5 so I couldn't give the demo a go, but it seems like I'll like it.

 

[KiryuRealty]

Xbox fans favorite exclusive is worrying about playstation exclusives and how good they are

Mark my words they will try and do the same thing with FFXVI, they just have to find the right angle/narrative to attack it from. They did this last year with Horizon

It’s the only game they have available to play due to MS’ chronicle development problems, so they play it on a professional skill level!

 

[adamsapple]

I'm looking forward to it regardless of where the reviews fall. There's lots of cult classic games which got 6/7s from major publications. I'm kinda worried that the game will fail to meet SquareEnix's expectations, and every time that these bigger AAA games do, it reduces the chances of them trying new IP in the future..

Basically the way it is now, they almost have to try a low risk AA game, hope that it finds an audience, and then scale it up eventually over time to a AAA product if all goes well.

I feel it's going to be way to divisive... but I'm excited to try it out. I don't have a PS5 so I couldn't give the demo a go, but it seems like I'll like it.

Wait, the demo never came to the PC ?

That's weird.

 

[Remij]

Wait, the demo never came to the PC ?

That's weird.

They typically don't because they get datamined.. and I completely understand it from the developers perspective.

 

[rofif]

This screenshot is making rounds on forums and people are criticizing the graphics.

I found this spot in the demo... HDR doesn't come through on the screenshot but it looks pretty good. wtf have they done to this screenshot.
quality 120hz/40fps shot from me in this location

+ Right around the corner, there is stuff like this(same 40fps quality mode but I switched to HDR jpg)

Like cmon... what are we doing here? Who and why is making this game looks good through 10x compressed bad screenshots?! The game is quite stunning in places

 

[Gediminas]

This screenshot is making rounds on forums and people are criticizing the graphics.

I found this spot in the demo... HDR doesn't come through on the screenshot but it looks pretty good. wtf have they done to this screenshot.
quality 120hz/40fps shot from me in this location

+ Right around the corner, there is stuff like this(same 40fps quality mode but I switched to HDR jpg)

Like cmon... what are we doing here? Who and why is making this game looks good through 10x compressed bad screenshots?! The game is quite stunning in places

that shot with trees below, really doesn't look good for PS5.

 

[rofif]

that shot with trees below, really doesn't look good for PS5.

The one with flowers?
The fog is kinda aggressive yeah but I like the HDR look.
I still think it looks better than the top shot compared that I compare to low quality one

 

[Gediminas]

The one with flowers?
The fog is kinda aggressive yeah but I like the HDR look.
I still think it looks better than the top shot compared that I compare to low quality one

no, where trees are below. where you stand on the edge of the mountain. those pictures aren't good.

 

[rofif]

no, where trees are below. where you stand on the edge of the mountain. those pictures aren't good.

aaah ok. so the min picture of comparison.
yeah 100% this is worst location in the demo.
It still looks way better on real screenshot compared to that weird cropped and compressed crap

 

[adamsapple]

Aside from the JPG compression, there's no difference between that twitter picture and yours @rofif

I said in jest earlier that it looks like Nier on PS3, but that screen and the way the trees look like water color spotches really does make it look like Nier.

 

[rofif]

Aside from the JPG compression, there's no difference between that twitter picture and yours @rofif

I said in jest earlier that it looks like Nier on PS3, but that screen and the way the trees look like water color spotches really does make it look like Nier.

That is all the difference. People are judging the graphics with small compressed shot.
It might be the worst looking part of the demo too. This is just unfair.

 

[Gediminas]

Aside from the JPG compression, there's no difference between that twitter picture and yours @rofif

I said in jest earlier that it looks like Nier on PS3, but that screen and the way the trees look like water color spotches really does make it look like Nier.

yes, looks like Nier PS3. identical. yes, i am camping here and writing here in good faith.

 

[adamsapple]

yes, looks like Nier PS3. identical. yes, i am camping here and writing here in good faith.

Someone who hasn't seen the screens above will probably find it a bit difficult to determine which panel is from Nier and which is from Forspoken.

Even you said it's not good looking a few posts above.

 

[AshHunter216]

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yes, looks like Nier PS3. identical. yes, i am camping here and writing here in good faith.

Don't feed the trolls.

 

[Gediminas]

people, guess, which game is Nier and which is Forspoken..

i am very objective, my programming says that upper one looks like next gen and the below is looking like a PS3 game.