Forspoken (Project Athia) [PS5, PC]

I posted the confrence details in the direct storage thread earlier today. I have to say its a shame that such a bland game is going to go be the first showcase for this technology.

 

hopefully they can make a more interesting world with the additonal time.

 

Oh bugger there goes our early DirectStorage showcase then.

 

What does the tweet say? It doesnt load, its being removed.

 

Delayed to Oct 11.

 

Ok thanks.

 

It's for the best. Game was looking a bit rough around the edges. Take the time and get it right!

 

Definitely, the latest gameplay leaked footage was really rough. Empty world with no interesting elements of traversial and band gameplay.
I hope they will kind of revamp the fighting mechanic to allow more hand-to-hand moves and combinations with the powers and abilities.
So far what I' ve seen looked more like a shooter with the powers. and seemt kind of boring.

 

Yep. And SquareEnix has had a string of failures recently, the latest being Babylon's Fall... so they need to make sure that what they put out there is in as good of shape as possible.

Hopefully they're able to do more with it, and that there's more there than what they've shown off recently.

 

Good thing they delayed the game.

 

Looks much better now!

 

Sometimes the game looks really good and sometimes

 

awesome! looks like a more polished FFXV.

Im still curious whether the "isekai" story will plays important part in the game and story. Or it will fall to the "isekai" trope of most "isekai" light novel. Where its used for nothing other than to increase the "hero is relevant to the player" psychological manipulation.

 

The colors there look like something an amateur would pick out of MS paint.

 

Literally what I was thinking. How does this game look so good in one shot and so, so bad in another shot??

 

5 years ago, I'd have guessed it's the art team's learning curve with a PBR pipeline. But at this point in time, is that still novel? At a AAA Square Enix team? Go figure...