Today, Square Enix® announced that the much-anticipated, debut title from studio Luminous Productions, Forspoken, is now available globally on the PlayStation®5 (PS5™) console and PC via STEAM®, Epic Games Store, and the Microsoft Store. In this story-driven action-RPG, players will become extraordinary while utilizing magic-enhanced parkour and wielding a vast array of powerful spells and abilities in order to save the lands of Athia.
Square Enix and Luminous Productions also released a free playable PC demo (via STEAM®, Epic Games Store and Microsoft Store) today. In the PC demo, players will face-off with a variety of enemies and test their fighting abilities with an extensive arsenal of attack and support magic that will prepare them for the high-octane action they can expect to encounter in the full game.
Forspoken puts players in the shoes of Frey Holland, an ordinary young woman who has been mysteriously transported to Athia, a fantastical land that is devastated by an unknown force known as the Break. Having somehow survived this strange phenomenon and armed with a magical sentient bracelet called ‘Cuff’, Frey now offers Athia a last beacon of hope and must harness her newfound magical abilities to save Athia and find her way home.
Slick wrote on Jan 25, 2023, 09:42:
How's the direct storage working out? This is the first title to support it, pretty exciting stuff.
VaranDragon wrote on Jan 25, 2023, 09:31:RogueSix wrote on Jan 24, 2023, 20:20:
But other than that... meh. The game feels as generic as it gets. The console heritage requires you to be Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on the fucking keyboard to master the controls and the combat/evasion/movement system.
I take it you've never played a Souls game or Elden Ring?
Saboth wrote on Jan 25, 2023, 10:51:
Is this the 32 GB RAM game? Anyone tried running it on 16 GB to see if it actually uses all the ram up or if it was just a marketing agreement between game makers and memory manufacturers?
Burrito of Peace wrote on Jan 25, 2023, 08:00:
Yeah, I'm not downloading 150GB to confirm "this game sucks" when there are already a plethora of reviewers saying the same thing. It's a hard pass from me, dog.
WaltSee wrote on Jan 25, 2023, 09:52:eRe4s3r wrote on Jan 25, 2023, 03:53:
I feel like they played RNG story generation here... oh wait... my god. It is GPT3 generated isn't it holy crap, it all makes sense now. AI wrote this.
Hah-hah...;) Pretty funny and right on point...;) (AI = garbage in, garbage out.) Thanks guys, for saving me the trouble of getting the demo. Reading through the Steam reviews, such as they were, yesterday, I was surprised to see a repeating theme, that the trailers (there are a bunch of them) are noticeably better looking than the actual game graphics. Old game engines have their limits. Pass. $70 asking is insulting.
eRe4s3r wrote on Jan 25, 2023, 03:53:
I feel like they played RNG story generation here... oh wait... my god. It is GPT3 generated isn't it holy crap, it all makes sense now. AI wrote this.
RogueSix wrote on Jan 24, 2023, 20:20:
But other than that... meh. The game feels as generic as it gets. The console heritage requires you to be Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on the fucking keyboard to master the controls and the combat/evasion/movement system.
Leper wrote on Jan 25, 2023, 00:37:There was a demo for consoles so it's not hard for me to believe that a PC demo could be released with a low amount of effort and given the game isn't very good, a demo can only help.
Props for providing a demo. Rare thing these days.
jacobvandy wrote on Jan 24, 2023, 21:59:She is a person of colorRogueSix wrote on Jan 24, 2023, 20:20:
And it's true what people have said about the character and story. Sheesh. Frey and the narrator are extremely annoying. What a cringefest. Dumb comment after dumb comment. The only saving grace is that some comments are so dumb they are almost funny again .
That's the main thing I came here to say after playing for a couple hours so far -- if you're a person who gets annoyed by a chatty protagonist or sidekick, don't even bother because this game has both and they converse all the time. They are deliberately not subtle about this being an Alice in Wonderland story, so the culture clash between modern NYC teenager and medieval fantasy setting is a persistent theme. As is the Japanese developer influence... Everything from the girl's origin story and how the intro plays to yeah, the combat, feels very JRPG. So I'm not surprised at all that someone might feel overwhelmed by all the systems when they're thrown into a mid-game combat scenario. These types of games take dozens of hours to slowly introduce all the individual mechanics and build on top of previous ones, giving you time to practice along the way so that the complexity is easier to digest. That's not really something that is feasible to allow for in a demo.
RogueSix wrote on Jan 24, 2023, 20:20:
And it's true what people have said about the character and story. Sheesh. Frey and the narrator are extremely annoying. What a cringefest. Dumb comment after dumb comment. The only saving grace is that some comments are so dumb they are almost funny again .
phinn wrote on Jan 24, 2023, 21:09:
Considering this uses a much newer version of the Final Fantasy XV engine which came out SEVEN years ago it's pretty pathetic how this game turned out.