Forespoken Demo Impressions - Forget it
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I swear, writing in gamimg, especially with characters, keeps getting lazier. I thought Anthem was bad, Borderlands 3 was cringe, and COD Vanguard was worse, but this one takes the crown as the worst character dialogue I’ve ever seen.
I don't know about that. I think writing has gotten quite good, however those good games make the bad ones stand out more than they used to.
Borderlands 3 was fine imo, it's cringe kind of fit that particular game's setting and really didn't feel much different than any other game. COD doesn't care about story so that's no surprise really. Anthem....well we don't talk about Anthem.
For real though, Forespoken does seem exceptionally try-hard. Like it's trying to appeal to the woke crowd without actually being woke, while at the same time trying to make itself humorous in the most inoffensive way possible and as a result it's cringy crap. And honestly the writing, while annoying doesn't disregard the completely generic world game design and absolutely floppy dick combat.
I can't wait for reviews tomorrow, especially considering they've held back codes from most reviewers.
I have heard worse. Not by much mind. Maybe it’s part of some cunning conspiracy by publishers to destroy voice acting royalties by having games hit with such obnoxious spoken dialogue people will demand the return of text only.
It's not that bad, but it's trying too hard to be "with it". Plus, this your usual trying to be witty and snarky, but not good at it. I swear, nearly everyone and their mother is trying to be Deadpool, Drake, or Dante, and all failing at it. I find it funny that game featuring stripperiffic zombie and vampire hunters (2 out of the 4 characters anyway) has better dialouge and one-liners than this. Then again, Z2 Chaos knows what it is.
They're not even "woke" they're trying to appeal towards. This is just the usual being "hip, modern, and with it".
Yeah that's called woke these days, but same thing. You right.
I just noticed that the clips still run like shit. What even is optimization?
To racist, sexists, anti-gay, and conservative douchebags (just plain anything that makes them piss in their diapers). "Woke" is a dumb fucking made up slang, made by dumb fucking douchebags with spiky sticks up their asses, because most of them know how shitty of people they're to others and especially themselves. I will never take the term seriously and it has no meaning. That term is shouted by cries of those without true strength.
Thank you.
I have no idea either, but I am not gonna lose sleep over it.
In Square Enix’s case, probably a super mode in a hypothetical Transformers game. Cos based on these clips they’re not familiar with the PC gaming kind.
All this footage looks stuttery as fuck. I'm I just too used to 60fps these days or is it actually fucked up looking?
Honestly... I think that unironically really does improve that scene. Someone made the suggestion elsewhere on Twitter that the actual problem with this scene is the cinematography. It needed to ham up the moment with some quick cuts or something to broadcast that this is a scene that's not supposed to be taken seriously rather than this slow, quiet rotating shot.
I get the impression with most games you can pretty much tell in advance what kind of critical reception they're gonna get. And that's more due to the games than to the critics. Everything about this screamed "another janky open world action game to add to the pile" and that seems to be the general impression of it. Very rarely there's much of a surprise, and when there is it tends to be some indie game that comes out of nowhere.
That said, there ist still a chance I might buy this very cheap or pirate it some day, on account of finding the protagonist extremely cute. Though if the reviews are anything to go by I'm afraid that impression only lasts for as long as she doesn't open her mouth.
That said, there ist still a chance I might buy this very cheap or pirate it some day, on account of finding the protagonist extremely cute. Though if the reviews are anything to go by I'm afraid that impression only lasts for as long as she doesn't open her mouth.
Even being selective with who got review codes, they aren't getting great responses. Imagine if more reviewers who are more open to being harsh got codes. Ign giving it a 6 is pretty telling, ACG saying wait for a sale. Eazy Allies is the most positive review I've seen so far and they are almost saying the opposite thing as everyone else so I don't know if I believe what they say or not.
This is a japanese game studio's - Square Enix no less, who has been knee-deep in sacharine Final Fantasy/Kingdom Hearts dialoge for decades - first attempt at Uncharted-esque/Western witty writing. What'd you expect?
Review: Forspoken
Following its divisive demo, Forspoken finally opens up its mythic world. Chris Moyse ventures into The Break in this review for Destructoid.
www.destructoid.com
I expected better, especially considering Amy Hedding is a co-writer on the game and she used to be pretty good. Guess that's not true anymore.
They apparently hired Western writers for this game though. So I don't think the writing is because of them this time.