Inuhanyou
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Speaking of jp games, I wonder if they have any plans
Frenetic Pony
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That's a similar sized studio to Sucker Punch (Ghost of Tsushima) and a similar amount of time.
Feels more like bad tools, not designed for an open world game even after FFXV and another 6 years, maybe the more talented left with Tabata. At least as far as the art is concerned, maybe the extensive combat system will end up good.
Hmm I wonder if I should buy it at launch, test for 1 hour whether I like it or not, and simply refund.
Doesn't the timer start counting down from when the download starts and not from when you first load the game? If so, you might not be able to trial it at all.
on steam, Its 2 hours of gameplay and within a certain time after purchase (in days or weeks, can't remember)
This game actually didn't have that long of a development time; the devs didn't start working on it right after XV released. Ghost of Tsushima had six years and Sucker Punch spent pretty much the entire ps4 generation making that game and only needed to focus on PS4 platform without having to worry about optimizing for a wide range of PC hardware. Forspoken only started development in 2019 with the PC version co-developed alongside console version, and was supposed to release in Jan 2022 before covid development impacts so that would have left it at around 3 years of dev time in comparison. I think Square Enix gives this team such a limited time because they know the team technically is able to achieve it compared to other SE teams, but they really should have been given more time on both this and FFXV. At the same time it's a new unproven IP so it would make sense not to blow a huge amount of money on it. FFXVI has had a ridiculously long development time now. Even VIIR was in development for longer than this.
Ultimately the graphics are going to be dictated by money, manpower, and/or time. The tools they built for this game addresses the issues they had with XV (the latter half of the game went heavily linear due to running out of budget and time), which was taking on the ridiculous scale of open worlds and high dev cost.
They released their paralympic mobile game. Tabata supposedly has a bigger game in development and also has plans to take on the open world genre for a second game and probably trying to shop for partner/publishers. Forspoken got soft rebooted after he left SE at the end of 2018.
How long will it take you to download though lol. Game is 87gb on PS5, about same size as Horizon FW and GoWR.
edit - Oh wait the timer only starts when you actually play the game?
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There are 2 timers
1. 2 hours of the game running. This is annoying for some games. So if you buy the new call of duty but already play hours in the free version, no refund for you.
2. Counting after purchase. I don't know the time limit for this one but I've been able to refund games weeks after purchase. My refund has been rejected for a few years old games that I've never even played.
Assuming forpsoken won't be filled with hours of cutscenes at the beginning, the 2 hours limit should be plenty
I thought you might be doing it on PS5.
As it's not cross-gen they could use a 100GB disc. It's about time one game uses that storage capacity on PS5.
oh for PS5 i would need to sue sony to get a refund. they have no refund policy.
forspoken livestream start in 2 minutes
the scheduled chapters in this livestream. gameplay video. trial version. PC version information. campaign information. more info
PC version
yeah seems sponsoderd by samsung
huh also on epic
- interesting that (small amounts of) popins and stutters are still in the intro level
- foul language used is KUSO (shit, instead of fuck)
- wooden lip sync in japanese too!
- the nauseating fish-eye-lens menu has been toned down, but to me it still looks nauseating
- it still have loading screen
- indoors still look weird (or im simply too accustomed with RT)
- no "iconic battle music" swooping while the camera change from cutscene to boss battle.
PC version
- Ultrawide
- KB+M or controller
- SAMSUNG SSD for super fast loading (why samsung? paid by samsung?)
- FSR 2 support (no DLSS2? should be able to swap FSR dll with DSLL dll right?)
yeah seems sponsoderd by samsung
huh also on epic
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Let be honest here, pretty much everything looks less impressive than HZD
Those specs are bizarre. Why the hell would you need 32GB RAM AND a 16GB GPU AND an NVMe SDD.
And recommending EITHER a 4080 or 6800XT for max graphics LMFAO.
arandomguy
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It's an AMD sponsored game. AMD's 4k marketed product stack will likely all have 16GB of VRAM or more. I can see this game requiring 16GB of VRAM for 4k with max textures, ala how some other games required 12GB or more when that was AMD's 4k stack (eg. Godfall, Farcry 6, etc.).
Some of it may also just be optics as well in terms of presenting the products. The CPU spec listings are slanted towards AMD over Intel too.
Also I believe they've only ever presented leveraging DirectStorage for loading times? It's not inherently given that DirectStorage (or a NVMe SSD requirement) would lower system memory/video memory requirements. At this point I don't know if people should assume that DirectStorage (even with Sampler Feedback) will inherently lower memory (either pool) requirements on the PC.
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Insanity lmfao
