Launched at the beginning of the year, Forspoken promised so much – but ultimately failed to deliver. However, Square-Enix and …
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managed to get it for £9.99 on disc from amazon last year. worth it.
Doesn’t matter what the graphics looked like or whether they got improved granted that affected perception of the game on release but that wasn’t the only thing wrong with it
It just felt like a poorly put together game
I played this game on max settings +raytracing at 4k dlss quality with my 4070 super at 30fps with lossless scaling frame generation 2.1 30fps to 60. plus forced 16x anisotropic filtering through nvidia control panel, and it looks absolute STUNNING! unbelievably beautiful and smooth experience. yes, a slight input lag, but I played with a controller and it felt fine. looked 1000 times better than quality mode on ps5
I don't know about you guys but I loved the game. After their latest patch. I went back and played it again and loved it again. I note it's got a minority lead and a lot of you hate it because of that but the game is pretty good. Smh
forspoken is a good game.
but only on opposite day.
Oh I don't like the comparison with FF16 and the praise it gets. At least for me FF16 appeared incredibly blurry and my eyes hurt really started to hurt while playing due to the low fps even in performance mode I at most got 40fps and a lot of drops. even after decreasing the output resolution. Personally I'd rather take a solid 60 fps in performance mode with forspoken graphics than that <40fps blurry mess from FF16.
Boggles the mind Forspoken uses FSR2 and has a 40fps mode but FF16 and FF7 Rebirth have neither.
The storyline needed to be patched. Graphics and lighting are very forgivable in comparison.
Did they make all the improvements with their FREAKIN' MINDS? Sadly I'll never know, made it about 15 seconds into the video before calling it quits and just watching Storymode again XD
Enjoying the game on PC with Xbox controls, gen 4 SSD and RTX graphics.
This looks like trash compared to Stellar Blade.
In the UK it is £9.99 on amazon atm, just purchased it.
ps plus essential in spring 2024 garanteed😂
after watching this, I might give Forspoken another try in a few months. I enjoyed the game when it first released since traversing the world was fun and it was what I bought the game for. But I stopped since it would either drop fps so bad that my game would crash or it would just crash without the intial fps drop. Thanks for the video!
I prefer 1.0. I don't care about dark cornees
I got this game for 9.99 on Black Friday. What a deal
The story was awful, I can’t even remember it.
I enjoyed the video but I'm going to toss this out there since knowone ever seems to mention or consider it. I believe the reason for this games graphics being decently lower than other major title's is because of the size of the world. knowone seems to talk about just how large this game is and has to be due to the speed at which the character can travel across it. I haven't played since launch and will most likely go back at some point since the improvements but as far as I remember there aren't any loading screens in the open world while traveling which makes for alot to render all the time. I'm no game designer this is just my opinion as the world in Forspoken seems to be larger than most other title's.
i buy physical copy since the first PlayStation, need complete games or spent my money for other.
just tryed today at 15€, seems to me ok right now but i had to change the gamma to reduce like a light filter
What would anyone recommend performance mode or quality mode? I see lots of conflicted opinions on this
So i'm confused….
So PS4 games played on the PS4 Pro/PS5 can achieve 2160p perfectly.
But PS5 native games are having problems staying above 720p? O.o
Did we just go backwards…..What is this, 2009?
for everyone wondering- performance mode is still blurry, especially with the foliage which falls apart and is distractingly blurry, noisy, and weird looking although not as bad as before, and it still drops some frames in the open world and combat. the other two main modes fix the issue for the gross looking foliage but looks significantly choppy with quite a lot of input delay. though, the performance mode is finally (in my opinion) playable. although not preferable nor great, and 100% would rather play in 40hz quality.
I honestly don’t think Forspoken is that bad of a game. Certainly not game of the year material, but not as bad as people make it out to be.
What about the dynamic resolution that was causing motion blur everytime the camera movied. I could not play it on ps5 anymore due to my sore eyes, and coudn"t stand not being able to see enemies clearly because of the fast nature of the game, I'd be moving and attacing enemies and all I see is motion blur smear.
I expected better from Digital Foundry. FF16 isn’t even a true open world RPG. FF16 has linear small levels, loading for each map instance and mostly cutscenes with minimal interaction. Forspoken is a true open world RPG which is highly impressive. FF16 you load and instance into each section of the story and the areas are small in comparison with very linear pathing.
Comparing Forspoken to FF16 which came out a half year later with full support of SE is not remotely fair.
Shame the bias and overt instinctive hatred people have for Forspoken is downright discriminatory.
Anyone in here noticed the copy pasted stars in the night sky??
Who paid them to re review this, Squeenix?
This Game is so much better that Atomic Heart, Callisto protocol or Dying light 2 so far and and these did not receive so much hate 😅 not a masterpiece but a pretty fun game.
No amount of patching can make a garbage game good.
Why is this host always on low volume and muffled mic?
Revisited gameplay videos are the ones that makes me buy games.
Really enjoying Forspoken right now, started without expectations and and pretty fun.
I wish Jedi Survivor gets a similar treatment in performance.
I'm trying to figure out what's a better option – Quality 120Hz or RT 120Hz?
Any suggestions?
This is Honest Objective Opinion. Forspoken now is Amazing Game that we can draw parallel with Secret Of Evermore on SNS when other games were Legend of Mana , Chrono Trigger ect. Many skipped Secret Of Evermore back in then but later it become revelation and same is with Forspoken, it's Large World with Story that is explaining whole in game world and all Action that is happening and especially after this Update. Who don't know what is Secret Of Evermore go and see and remember that during it's life on SNS it was rated as bad or average but for me it was something that I was able to relate especially because I was watching Movies without synchronization, I had and still have the freedom to hear the voices of actors
Agni's Philosophy should have been the game we got instead of Forspoken. Agni's character design was so appealing and the main character for Forspoken is so bad. Square Enix wanted to make a game with western looks and writings and they failed so hard. Good
I havent played to Forspoken, is the game is better with 1.2 patch? I mean all the negative points that were higlighted during the first review?
I really enjoyed this game and now I have a reason to play it all over again. I cant wait 😎👍
Thanks for this revisit video. The revisit to the PC version sounded more optimistic about the game than this video. I am not sure if this just two different people coming to different opinions or if the PC version is considered better.
A few more thoughts:
I strongly disagree with critiques saying Forspoken is empty. There are plenty of things to do in this apocalyptic world.
It is unfair to compare Forspoken with FF16, especially as a means to criticize a game's engine. If I had to guess, Forspoken didnt have the same amount of money put into it as FF16. Also, I am pretty sure FF16 dev team had a whole year just to polish the game. You also have Forspoken developed for PS5 & PC while FF16 was just for PS5. They are apples and oranges.
I really dig this medium because I can enjoy Forspoken immensely and find FFXVI to be boring trash and I get to have that. Feels nice.
i wonder if forspoken is realy failure? it still sold rank around 10 above jedi survivor in uk. last check is rank 1 is final fantasy16 rank2 is totk
Hope they do this for FF16. Performance mode on that game looks horrendous.
This game got so much extra heat in my opinion for no reason. Hear me out though this is a mid game… this past 12 months, there has been a plethora of extremely bad games for chrissakes that weird Valkyrie Elysium game, high on life, etc. etc.. This is the only one that got crucified for being just that.. mid… Youtubers really prove their point with this one lol I don’t get it keep that same energy with every game that comes out
Game is awesome. Gameplay is one of the best. Simply interesting
This looks so much better now 😊
You can't polish a turd
Oliver, you have become almost everything I like about Digital Foundry. And now this. Yes! These days we need you to revisit games which struggled at launch. Or games DF missed at launch for whatever reason. Thanks for your great work!
I was thinking of buying this game after I beat FF16
It does look better but the everything else .FF16 for the win.
Uh, the games look VERY SIMILAR IN STYLE, TONE, ETC.