The most unrealistic part of this game is that they made a new yorker have empathy Edit:if anyone is wondering which part of the game was she ever empathetic, it was the last 10 minutes
Agito from Air Gear does both in dub he is major bromance an asshole that everyone loves also he has a split personality of a adorable sweat cake of a boy XD his fight with Croissant Mask is a mood look it up
Rogue Warrior end credits song lyrics: Like a ninja style I'm gonna bring it down I'm gonna show 'em what time it is Good spot to bring the noise Ah! You morons will love this Hope you assholes like fireworks Ooh! Fuckin' commies keep gettin' in my way Well, surprise motherfuckers Happy fuckin' birthday That's right Nighty night, you sweet piece of shit Enjoy the ride, cocksucker Have a nice trip Boom time, baby Trick or treat Looks like a party, come on I got places to go and people to meet Assholes are everywhere Fuckers 'round the forest High ho, high ho, this fucker's gonna blow Any time, anywhere, any place Kickin' ass and takin' names Who's the hardest motherfuckers around, huh? Ah! Rock 'n roll, motherfuckers, rock 'n roll Ooh! Ah! Hide and seek, motherfuckers Anybody home? Hey, daddy's here Come on Glad to see me, fuckers? Send me the bill, motherfuckin' cocksuckers I'm over here, fuckface Ah! There's gonna be fuckin' asses bleedin' all over the place Sorry, assholes, your quiet day at the office is about to get severely fucked up Any time, any where, any place Kickin' ass and takin' names Who's the hardest motherfuckers around, huh? Ah! Gimme a goddamn break I have a good place to blow some shit up Ah! Ooh! Ooh! Ah! Ooh! Ah! Ah! Ooh! Ooh! What the fuck was I doing again? Oh yeah, fuckin' shit up Goddamn cock-breath commie motherfuckers! You fuckin' asshole, you fuckin' pig farmers! Drop dead, motherfucker, you fuckin' amateurs! I own your fuckin' soul, you fuckin' commie bitch! Yeah, a little capitalism for you, huh pussy, you fuckin' shit-eating pig? Time to move, I've got bad guys to send to commie heaven
I like to imagine in the true ending, she returned and smugly confronted the people who held her up at gunpoint, confident now that she had magic powers, only for the gang member to just shoot her because the Magic barrier didn't negate bullets.
@@DelusionalDunmer This is a better idea than just "hurr durr magic bad gun good because bullet shoot through barrier" I'm so tired of smartasses acting like a bullet would beat magic. If this was the case then all magical fantasies would eventually evolve guns instead of magical weapons. Even the Garleans from a certain other Square Enix game can't even one-shot player characters and it's only in cutscenes where a weak pistol can kill somebody.
Fun fact: this game has an option to reduce the MC's dialogue. Not the blur, or the screen size, or the graphics quality. The DIALOGUE. They knew. They fucking knew what they were doing.
I feel bad for the actress who played the main character. First she had a main character role for the Resident Evil series from Netflix, now she's in Forspoken. Whoever is responsible for picking her auditions needs to be fired.
@@qwerty_artist one of my favorite spin on the homeless protagonist is magnus chase, the Norse saga of the percy Jackson series. I think I’ve read every single Rick riordan book besides the Egyptian series
@@captainanus8131 it was good, I just think it was a bit too complex for it to be interesting to me. It’s more the magic and mythology rather than the actual story. That’s why I liked the other ones, as the powers were never too complicated to understand. Another good series besides Percy Jackson that I like is rangers apprentice. It’s a sort of historical fiction set in medieval Europe. It’s insanely good. That and the underland chronicles I’d recommend if you haven’t read them
PS3 era acting: - Mortal Kombat movie: The videogame - White military guy with a buzz cut voiced by Nolan North - Robin Atkin Downes being in literally every Japanese game dub
Plot twist fray is just a homeless New Yorker that took 50 Benadryl‘s and a pound of ketamine and she’s really just overdosing on a park bench the entire game.
Actually to be realistic it would be fentanyl and benzos. I live like 4 hours away from ny. Im in pa so all the dope around here comes from NY (don't ask how I know) ... Ketamine is being found in bags that overdose victims have so they are using to cut the fet but still. Besides that I agree completely
I saw cuff as bad guy even earlier than you did. "Hmm... are any male characters in the game not assholes, morons or bumbling crazies? Hmm, one: Cuff sounds competent and sane. That means one thing: he's the villain."
There's never any actual foreshadowing either, unless maybe in the extra collectibles in Lore that you can miss entirely so when the Longplay I watched reached that point (that player never showed that optional stuff) I just spoke out loud "This makes no sense at all, wtf is this shit?" Somehow worse than when they made that mistake in Final Fantasy 13
Holy shit this is too true 💀 men bad!!!! Reminds me of when I watched the candyman remake where every single white character was an insane racist the dies horribly including the children. Made it easy to predict what kind of person the character would be based on their skin color the moment you saw them (definition of racism? 🤔)
I love how they unintentionally go for all the black people stereotypes. The main character is a homeless felon that never shuts up and was abandoned by her parents as a child. She also loves shoes and her painted nails give her powers. Like damn, is her favorite food fried chicken and watermelons, too?
Don't forget they all have to drop the F word all the time. Not even GTA is like that.
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@@joaolima9622 The F bombs are so forced and unnecessary. In GTA for example, it's totally fine. It fits to the characters and situations. Here, it's just there because... I guess, it's cool? To be fair, I wouldn't even mind this kind of character if there was growth during the journey... But she's the same, annoying prick all the time. Very unlikable character.
Don't forget her low IQ. How'd she even finish High-school? They virtue-signaled so hard with this game that hey went in the opposite direction. Amazing.
It's like how during every Phisnom stream, there's always someone asking him "Are you having fun yet" (Mostly to trigger PTSD from his first FNAF Security Breach stream)
I dont understand. Amy Hennig was one of the writers on the game, and yet the game is like it was written by a 10 year old. Like didn't she work on Uncharted? That game had pretty clever dialogue. How can the same person mess up like this?
@@ali32bit42 Luminous Engine was created (work began in 2012) because S-E was impressed with Unreal Engine but wanted to create their own after the failiure of their Crystal Tools Engine and also to have an engine they wouldn't have to be taught by foreigners how to use. Ironically they ended up doing that anyway with KH3, DQ11 and FF VIIR, as the Luminous Engine proved to be annoying; so much so that Yoshi P of FF XIV ended up tweaking the engine so much for FF XIV ARR (1.0 used Crystal Tools), that it barely resembled Luminous anymore (and is the engine being used for FF XVI btw), and Nomura just ditched Luminous Engine altogether for Unreal Engine for Kingdom Hearts 3 and 4, and Dragon Quest 11 also used Unreal Engine as did FF VII Remake. So only FF XV and Forespoken use Luminous Engine but it was always trying to ape Unreal engine.
its reused assets from their own engine I recognize a lot of them xD this include monsters ,buildings ,movement and gameplay ffxv would be the biggest contributor
While I was watching this I looked up forspoken and one of the first things I get is an article talking about how Forspoken has such an emotional and powerful ending, has well-developed story and characters, and has a message about sacrifice (because you can't be with the cat I guess), and goes on to say "the game’s developer, Square Enix, has not confirmed a sequel, but Forspoken’s open-ended ending has left fans hoping for more. A sequel would give players the chance to continue their journey with Frey and her companions, and explore the game’s rich world even further. A Forspoken sequel, or Forspoken 2, would be a great opportunity for Square Enix to build on the mixed and critical acclaims of the first game, attracting new players and retaining existing fans. With its stunning visuals, captivating storyline, and immersive gameplay, a Forspoken 2 would be a welcome addition to the gaming world." I hate video game journalists so much
Any "fan" who liked this will forget the game few days later. I watched few videos like this. Pyro predicted "main villain" twist. Another guy just after beating the dragon predicted it's protagonists mom.Etc etc. It's just such a predictable game with shitty characters full of stereotypes. The game is just a map with plain empty looking areas where you spam abilities against brain dead AI. I don't care if people had fun playing this. They should not lie to themselves and most importantly to others that this is amazing game. Forspoken just should be Unspoken.
probably just shilling for the good graces of Squeenix so that they get invited to pre release events, as they all do. No honesty about anything, because honesty is bad for business.
Frey is written like someone only watched the highlight reels of Tony Stark and Spiderman being snarky dicks to the bad guys and was like "this is funny, bet it'll be even funnier if she's like this 100000% of the time."
I love the new trend of making protagonist unlikeable, she is so condescending to the thing that si always actively helping her the “cuff” she keeps calling it that to just actually make it feel bad no one can hear it talking but her, and she still tells it to shut the f up because that will help her blend in faster?? and how when she says she fights despite no one wanting her there, WOMAN THEY ARE BEGGING FOR YOU TO STAY AND FIGHT WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN!!?
Its hilarious, too. Out of the two main characters, the Cuff and Frey, the Cuff is by FAR the more likable character of the two... and he turns out to be a world-killing, genocidal murder demon!? Man, I've gotta say, that right there should tell you everything you need to know about this game. The genocidal murder demon is more likable, more relatable and interesting than the MC.
I'm surprised Pyro didn't immediately try to make some sort of Better Call Saul reference during the courtroom scene given he has the same receding hairline as Saul Goodman
@@mycycleminorities I think the movie industry is a bit starved for "youth abandons entire normal world for one of magic" stories. Those seem to benefit from the lack of structure that this game suffers from.
48:23 "I have no sympathy for a mother who TOSSES HER BABY AWAY LIKE GARBAGE" You mean like what she does when she was a baby? Pyro unfortunately skipped the most hilarious scene where her mother just TOSSES her as a new-born baby into a portal, HEAD FIRST...
It's like the writters had no idea how to make that scene work. 'Oh damn, if she gets the bag then there is no reason for her to go to the Isekai world'.
Reminds me of that Max Payne 3 quote lmao "If someone had told me six months ago this was where my life was headed, I'd have ordered a double of what they were drinking, drunk it, then blown my head off."
@@zombieKller he would’ve become a monk to obtain better vision for seeking out good games these days, to advise avid players on potentially bad games… or good ones
20:46 Protip: if you have been captured by people thinking you are the aggressor, a good move is to try to deescalate the situation. Even if it doesnt get you off scott free, it's better than being openly hostile ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU ARE OUTMATCHED. It's like giving the gang lip when they got a gun pressed against your throat. OH WAIT.
1:12:04 In a better written game this could be a phenomenal ending. Imagine for a second, a more likeable character with better writing who is absolutely ecstatic throughout the game that they're in this fantasy world. Truly enjoying it and becoming invested in everything about it. But she can't stay. And no matter how hard she tries, no matter how many solutions she can think of nothing works. Eventually her time is up and she gets thrown back into the real world, with a dull job, and nothing but her cat for comfort. Where does she go now? What can compare after the adventure she's been through? A normal job, a regular life. That would be hell to someone like this.
The story of FF Tactics Advanced 1 is kinda like this I guess? Or in Dr Who this is what happens to people after they finish an adventure with the Doctor Definitly an interesting field to explore in stories
what wouldve been cooler is that the story was self-aware and knew it was being obvious about the cuff being evil and also have the other witch girls say that its evil and that they want to get rid of it, but they couldve had the girl accept this because the cuff gives her cool powers, and that she doesnt care and that she wants the powers because its the first time she's ever been given autonomy and control in her life, and she doesn't want to get rid of it Shit story idea, I know, but it would be better than whatever I just watched.
It's not a bad idea at all, actually, it gives the mc motivation to become an anti-hero of sorts. Maybe though, if the cuff gave her riches or the ability to change the past or something, so it makes up for what she actually never had :p
That is good writing actually. Letting clues for ppl to pick up during the story, so they may have a chance to guess a twist before it come, or after seeing the twist be like "wow, how did I not realized that before, it was obvious" In forspoken the twist come out of nowhere, and there's no story indication of it. It feels like the writers of this game were D&D, and they wrote it just like they wrote the last seasons of GoT, making shitty twist that had no sense just to try to surprise the audience
I'm just preaching to the choir here but your suggestion is 100x better than what they used in this tax write-off. Maybe when the Cuff is free, he wouldn't kill the main chick straight away but instead keep her around as a partner and give her powers. A good example of this working is from, funnily enough, a PS3 game called Infamous 2. Where near the end you can team up with the big baddie to get a huge boost to your powers and end up ruling the world in the end.
Okay, I must admit, in the final fight when Frey says "The one fhing I do get is you're not alone! Even when you think you are..." And the boss replies "Oh spare me" that one I actually liked. Like that one line from the boss is something I actually really like. The combination of him just standing her, his dry tone of voice and him just starting blasting... Yeah, I like that.
Those one liners were very reminiscent of Life is Strange; the way you look at stuff and the main character _has to say something every time_ Thank you, Square Enix.
I mean, in that game they comment when you press a button to specifically observe something. In this game she just talks constantly whether you're trying to observe something or not.
but life is strange had a excuse as it was essentially a modern point and click adventure game the characters never shutting up was always a thing in those types of games. plus as cringe as it could get alot of the time the writing is just lightyears and lightyears ahead of forspoken in eveyway.
when your main character gets held up and the first thought of everyone watching is "damn i hope they shoot her" I think you might need to go back to the drawing board on the character thing
Especially when your main character doesnt know to bite their tongue when outnumbered by a gang. She deserved the consequences of giving them lip at that moment.
@@yourdude9942 nice miss. The game isn't even comparable to how dogshit these games are. The hints were pretty annoying but that's probably my biggest issue with the game.
Foreskin, caplisco protocool, badfeild 2042, all these new games are just so good and fun and amazing 😍 so happy we have such amazing developers nowadays. p.s checkout sons of the forest dropping in Feb it looks like one of the only good games this year
57:00 The game could have unironically been saved if Frey died there and from there onwards you played as the edgy demon killing everyone in the world.
I’ll be honest, other than the character model I don’t see how we’d be able to notice a difference in the game. Well, on second thought the edgy killer demon probably would’ve been more like-able.
"You killed a child, a little girl, her blood is on your hands" says Frey clad in her chinese child slave labor made RGB cape. Brave and stunning indeed. Chat:"You should've seen what Biden did" Lmao
@@Nobody44112 Yea I know it is a kinda dumb argument, like saying that if someone is criticizing air pollution, but still breathing that air, that means that they either are lying about it or are a hypocrite. You can be a part of something and still criticize that thing, although wearing a RGB cape isn't the same as breathing polluted air, because that's the only air one has access to, or eating unhealthy food because it's the only thing a person can afford.
@@Nobody44112 this is such a dumb quote. “Curious🤓” lolll Obviously you can criticize society while still taking part in it. Just because you criticize something doesn’t mean you hate it. Like if you said the walls on your house were old and shattered does that mean you would rather live outside?
I could tell from the adverts that it was going to be horse shit. Unfortunately, it will still probably profit to some degree because there is always a group of drooling morons that will support anything, no matter how bad
Fun fact: One month after this game's release, Square Enix fairly recently shutdown the studio that developed this game due to its poor reception and lacking sales.
Thats basically the norm in this current gen of crap we get Adult writers usually consists of 30 - 60 year olds that has no idea how teens - young adults talk
I was playing Death Standing while watching this. DS was infinitely more interesting, still is. That part sucked too cause you had to waltz through BT territory to all those assholes who live up in the hills
This game is truly the best Souls-like of our generation, as it saps the humanity of everyone that plays it and slowly turns them into a Hollow. Edit: This will be the only comment I make that'll get above 10 likes or something. Thanks, I guess, Internet strangers!
So here's the thing; I think using games to tell a story is a good thing. I'm all for that. But the thing is, a game implies it is interactive. The player has an active role, rather than passively consuming cutscenes. Everything is scripted so hard it may as well be a visual novel or a netflix show that gets yeeted after the second season.
Plenty of AAA games have toed that line in recent years - Uncharted, Red Dead II, the new GoW games, GTA V, and the Last of Us games all have heavily scripted events with basic AI and minimal gameplay
@@ac8911 last I checked, Last of Us actually let you perform the tasks without forcing you into a cutscene whenever you did a non-linear movement. It feels like its memeing with how often it does that
Remember when the hero in shadow of the colossus actually liberates the evil at the end and has to pay the consequences for his actions? Yeah nowadays you have games like forspoken when you can kill everyone and still face no consequences whatsoever!
@@owyemen9367 his entire civilization died for what did and he is constantly racked with stress and guilt for what he did kratos DID get punished for what he did a destroyer who in the end is a destroyed man same with THOR in ragnarok.
Community: Forespoken is horrible! Industry: hold my beer! Community: Redfall is horrible! Industry: hold my beer! Community: Gollum is horrible! Industry: hold my beer! Me: I'm out of hands
Frey = Chell Bracelet Angel Prick = Wheatley Witches = Personality Cores Frey's Mom = GladOs -Chell travels with Wheatley for a while before he turns evil and goes mad with power and a lust for revenge, just like bracelet and Frey -Chell has to work with GladOs (an unlikely ally and former nemesis) to beat Wheatley -bracelet British and so is Wheatley lol This game is just shitty overpriced Portal 2
Plus, it just felt forced and irritating. Makes me wanna do a drinking game where I take a shotmevery time she cusses just to forget im watching forspoken.
Sailor-mouth characters can work. The best example i can think of is Barret, it just makes sense. But if the only "mature" thing your character does is swear it aint it chief
So this story is full of tropes we've all seen before in other media: The down on their luck orphan with no direction in life who constantly gets into trouble and dreams of a better adventure - Percy Jackson Magically being transported to a fantasy land at a convenient time - Any isekai ever Suddenly being the most popular and beloved person after a few feats of skill/dumb luck - Sword Art Online Fake version of ideal life promised to you by the baddie if you give in - God Of War Ascension Your closest ally tricks you into releasing him from his prison and is actually evil - idk, probably a sonic game The true power was inside you all along - *Insert here* Who would have thought cringey dialogue would have been the least of this game's problems?
I understand what ur trying to say but every type of media uses tropes. They're just writing memes at this point and escaping them is basically impossible
"Your closest ally tricks you into releasing him from his prison and is actually evil" is the entire point of Bioshock (and by association, System Shock 2 as well) also if you'd like other examples, Clive Barker's Jericho, Doom Eternal (I mean the Dark Lord isn't really your ally, but the whole story turns out to have been set up by him since the dawn of time so it counts?), Half-Life Alyx
amazing how mobile gacha games like Nikke will throw in the most sensual and erotic design possible with an amazing voice...and pair it with a deepr, profound storyline which will make you cry
Fun fact: The war that resulted in the summoning of Susurrus is called "Purge of the Rheddig," Nobody in the story questions the implications, we are just meant to assume the nation of Tanta was 100% correct in wiping out another nation to the extreme the later summoned a demon just to get revenge for their extermination.
Wow. I can't believe they legit did the "we just didn't tell you the main problem of the setting"-twist. Imagine if in Lord of the Rings no one told Frodo the ring was evil and he walked all the way to Mount Doom because the Ring told him to and right before throwing it in, the Nazgûl all show up around Frodo to say: "The ring, Frodo, it's evil. The Elves didn't tell you because you were just so fast, there was no way for them to stop you and tell you this, but now we do because you need to know what is going on, now give us the ring and stop being silly with those ideas of throwing the ring into the lava and saving your world, what would that accomplish, Frodo please see reason you little idiot with no powers. I'm all powerful, I know that you're fucked so just give me the ring and jump into the lava, please."
Worse thing is pointing out bad storylines and writing always gets the you a sexist card if the MC is a woman nowadays, you could have made this a cool game if this lead actually wanted to be in the fucking world!
Thanks for providing another major way in which this plot falls apart. So the denizens of Cipal would know about the true cause of The Break, given the Tantas' rather close relationship with the people there. But because they decided not to tell anyone close to them that Susurrus split himself into four cuffs, latched himself onto them and is in the process of driving them mad, the plot is allowed to happen. Had they actually said something, it wouldn't be a mystery to the remaining 1% of the population why they suddenly went crazy. The driving force of the central threat is led from a group of powerful sorceresses concealing the fact that they will go crazy and drive the world and the people they care about to ruin. Amazing writing.
Fun fact: i live in another country and i was somewhat excited for this game but it was on my low list of games i want to play. Now i checked the price after I’ve seen the first video pyrocinical made about it and i was surprised to find out that its more expensive than the UK!!! Base game: 94$ Deluxe edition: 120$ WHAT THE HELL?!?!?!
Every minute of this game passes and i can PHYSICALLY feel my brain trying to block out the fact that its actually happening. Nothing and i mean NOTHING makes sense.
I will say, in NY, you’d be surprised how many homeless folks look like they actively take care of themselves. Lots of gyms here have cheap memberships and I used to work at one, lots of homeless folks would come in purely for a quick shower and pay their subscription with however much they can muster.
I thought it looked like a mixe between Infamous 1 and Second Son. But "appreciate"? They weren't bad, maybe just SS. I definetely miss the series, but you make it sound like it was somewhat just below average. But maybe that's just me
@@spelareNR14 when I say appreciate i don't mean they were bad, I personally liked all of them so "being bad" is subjective. by appreciate I mean wish the series wasn't left to rot and that we had it good while it was still active.
I read a comment where someone said this game just had Infamous combat, and I couldnt put into words why that was wrong even if it was right. Because I LOVE the infamous series, and the combat too, but somehow this game (forspoken) is a fart in the night when it comes to the combat
It feels like a slap in the face to even mention this atrocity in the same sentence as Infamous. That series actually felt like a game, and a pretty fun one at that.
I like how in the beginning they weren't gonna kill her with the guns...But burning her alive is fine. Also love how she got out of that situation with unholy bs like out of a cartoon...
I'm not sad that the devs are getting flamed for this. How can you sit down in front of your team, publishers and sponsors and have this to show. I would be embarrassed.
Considering that said publishers still think NFTs are a good business choice after the continuous financial failures and awful rep they have, I wouldn’t be surprised if there wasn’t much of a reaction.
@@Dr.Oofers What's even worse that they practically make the newer Deus Ex franchise (since Human Revolution) with it's third game got canned after 4-5 years of waiting from that stupidly blows cliffhanger ending in Deus Ex Mankind Divided, and that game was from 2016 At this point Dragons' Dogma 2 could've ended up released sooner than third sequel in Deus Ex games, or worse considering of how long and highly specialised the production of a good Immersive Sim game, let alone a AAA-grade kind of that would take years upon years until it'll became even realised, sequel to HR and MD is a pipe dream since Square Enix abandons and sells all of their IPs, at least until there's a good publishing company and very passionate while competent dev team with lots of $$$ to buys out Deus Ex IP for it Sorry for a bit long rant, but it's infuriates me as someone that once plays all of the three games (invisible war excluded, although that game is quite good for modern standards of video games, it was a really bad deus ex game), all due to Square Enix executives' short-term minded due to the fuelling to greed, at this point Mihoyo have bigger potentiality to buy Deus Ex IP But who am I kidding, no current huge Chinese video game company would make a game that dares to touch actually legit and thoughtful conspiracy theories as themes for their fictional games, it's all anime girls and simp culture that even cynical dudes like Pyrocynical to Bricky became subservient to profits from those industries
@@ohamatchhams mihoyo is bad at making an RPG, like that company as much as I do, them making rpg or immersive sim is just no, and it's not because of any reason you give.
5:43: The game states she lives in Hell's Kitchen and that's a pretty large one bedroom. Some would consider it to be massive, especially for the city. That would be a $4500 apartment in New York and she's living there rent free and complaining.
The really weird thing is nobody ever showed up to try and drive her off. She has a fucking shoe collection and she can afford to take care of a cat, AND she has a nice looking smart phone. The fact she pisses off EVERYONE she interacts with, even when they have a GUN to her head, it's fucking impossible she was never kicked out of there by some other homeless person. That whole building would be CRAWLING with homeless people, she'd need her own fucking gun just to stay alive. Also it's a REALLY good thing the GROUP of armed thugs that FOUND HER HOME decided to really inefficiently burn the place down instead of just walking in and stabbing her or kidnapping her to take to their boss so he could, well let's be honest make her into a prostitute so he could recoup the losses from the apparently MULTIPLE jobs she botched. Every aspect of this game is done SO fucking poorly.
I think it's hilarious that the game sets everything up for the character and she still wants to go back to that hellhole, even though the concept itself is that she is supposed to be a woman that desires for an adventure in another world, she is even reading Alice in Wonderland damn...
I am at a loss for words that this made it past the initial pitch, it went into storyboarding, developers got hired to do this, it passed through quality assurance testing and got released to steam with a $100 price tag
I think that they got past storyboarding and then when it came to actually formatting the game and making gameplay that's where they failed they had a really interesting story but they couldn't find a way to tell it to you without just shoving it down your throat at the end
That's always the story with these kinds of games. What we get is extremely different from what was intended originally. As they develop the game and see what they can and cannot do, they rewrite, adapt, repurpose and generally remake the game while it's in production. Games that have good devs, writers, don't have higher-ups fucking everything up and generally have a vision behind them can survive the process. Games that do not end up as disjointed and full of contrivances or plot holes. This was made by Square Enix so... it's about as expected, sadly. I wouldn't be surprised if this wasn't originally meant to be a Final Fantasy game that was repurposed.
We need to respect FromSoftware for not giving us a cutscene hell like this, at least for Elden Ring, each NPC, dialogue, boss, feels more meaningful and interesting, because you're actually hunting for lore instead of being just bombarded by it 24/7.
Also, when Elden Ring does throw cutscenes at you they are usually jaw-dropping moments that make sense to make more cinematic than the rest of the game.
Imagine turning on a game, your 6 year old making fun of you, and eventually turn it off so "he can play a real game" and popped on sonic 2. As soon as the Sega noise went off he went "hey dad, look! my graphics are better!" I died, still dead
Waypoints from Ghost of Tsushima, Combat from infamous second son, Likability of the newest saints row and performance of Calisto protocol. Can't believe Pyro would steal all these game assets to create a 2023 game
@@qwerty_artist second son was goated, but it’s combat only works in the infamous franchise, cause they actually diversify it. When copy pasted into other mediums forsaken is the result
This game being bad literally has nothing to do with the AAA Gaming industry bro. It’s just a bad game and there’s many other good AAA Games that released just this year like the Dead Space remake or GoW:R
@@drstrangelove307 AAA games are unbelievably repetitive and unoriginal since big publishers only care about feeding the masses with what they want to see
ps5: no games
pc: no frames
The sad truth, I have borderlands 3 on pc, runs like shit, I got borderlands 3 on my ps5, runs at a constant 120 fps
@@damikey18 it does not 💀 both have 0 games
@@damikey18 it does not
@@damikey18 ps5 has no games 😔
@@hardicnut123 It has Bloodborn
The most unrealistic part of this game is that they made a new yorker have empathy
Edit:if anyone is wondering which part of the game was she ever empathetic, it was the last 10 minutes
New Yorkers are dangerous
I thought it was Ohio.
They truly made the impossible possible.
i can vouch, NEVER seen an empathetic mf over here. ive lived here since birth
@@ginogatash4030 ain’t no way you still think this is funny
I wish people knew there were more ways to show a character is hotheaded and angry than just cussing a lot.
Agito from Air Gear does both in dub he is major bromance an asshole that everyone loves also he has a split personality of a adorable sweat cake of a boy XD his fight with Croissant Mask is a mood look it up
@@senritsujumpsuit6021 an air gear fan in 2023? Damn you are a rare breed
@@senritsujumpsuit6021 common air gear w
@@vx1762 Air gear art style is just *chef's kiss*
Rogue Warrior end credits song lyrics:
Like a ninja style
I'm gonna bring it down
I'm gonna show 'em what time it is
Good spot to bring the noise
Ah!
You morons will love this
Hope you assholes like fireworks
Ooh!
Fuckin' commies keep gettin' in my way
Well, surprise motherfuckers
Happy fuckin' birthday
That's right
Nighty night, you sweet piece of shit
Enjoy the ride, cocksucker
Have a nice trip
Boom time, baby
Trick or treat
Looks like a party, come on
I got places to go and people to meet
Assholes are everywhere
Fuckers 'round the forest
High ho, high ho, this fucker's gonna blow
Any time, anywhere, any place
Kickin' ass and takin' names
Who's the hardest motherfuckers around, huh?
Ah!
Rock 'n roll, motherfuckers, rock 'n roll
Ooh!
Ah!
Hide and seek, motherfuckers
Anybody home?
Hey, daddy's here
Come on
Glad to see me, fuckers?
Send me the bill, motherfuckin' cocksuckers
I'm over here, fuckface
Ah!
There's gonna be fuckin' asses bleedin' all over the place
Sorry, assholes, your quiet day at the office is about to get severely fucked up
Any time, any where, any place
Kickin' ass and takin' names
Who's the hardest motherfuckers around, huh?
Ah!
Gimme a goddamn break
I have a good place to blow some shit up
Ah! Ooh! Ooh! Ah!
Ooh! Ah! Ah! Ooh! Ooh!
What the fuck was I doing again?
Oh yeah, fuckin' shit up
Goddamn cock-breath commie motherfuckers!
You fuckin' asshole, you fuckin' pig farmers!
Drop dead, motherfucker, you fuckin' amateurs!
I own your fuckin' soul, you fuckin' commie bitch!
Yeah, a little capitalism for you, huh pussy, you fuckin' shit-eating pig?
Time to move, I've got bad guys to send to commie heaven
I like to imagine in the true ending, she returned and smugly confronted the people who held her up at gunpoint, confident now that she had magic powers, only for the gang member to just shoot her because the Magic barrier didn't negate bullets.
or magic doesn't work in earth and she can't even cast the barrier.
@@chrisb.2028 Not even that, she just didn't put the magic barrier up on time since you can't react to the speed of a bullet
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
@@DelusionalDunmer This is a better idea than just "hurr durr magic bad gun good because bullet shoot through barrier" I'm so tired of smartasses acting like a bullet would beat magic. If this was the case then all magical fantasies would eventually evolve guns instead of magical weapons. Even the Garleans from a certain other Square Enix game can't even one-shot player characters and it's only in cutscenes where a weak pistol can kill somebody.
Fun fact: this game has an option to reduce the MC's dialogue.
Not the blur, or the screen size, or the graphics quality. The DIALOGUE.
They knew. They fucking knew what they were doing.
The High on Life syndrome again
Must be a joke right? Right?!!
They did the same with High on Life. Looks like both studios knew how annoying their characters were gonna be.
@@Crispifordthe3rd515 feels like the annoying kid in school who'll do something stupid to blame you for it.
So this game is on the level of Bubsy
I feel bad for the actress who played the main character. First she had a main character role for the Resident Evil series from Netflix, now she's in Forspoken. Whoever is responsible for picking her auditions needs to be fired.
Or rather the people who hires her needs to be fired because they dunno how to write an engaging story
Her agent needs to be put on one of those industry "don't trust this guy" lists
@@babykata-dt3ys or a blacklist. They belong in McDonalds.
I like how Pyro assumes the game is bad just because the main character is a woman and not a thick flamethrower guy
Can't blame him.
pyro as wise as always
Average british male
Well can't you blame him thick flamethrower guy looks nice but also how could you call TF2 a bad game?
i mean is he wrong
I hate how her tragic backstory is so obviously to make her more likeable. No negative consequences on her psyche from her shitty life.
No see, she's sarcastic and witty from having to fend for herself... that's what writers think being homeless does to you apparently
@@qwerty_artist one of my favorite spin on the homeless protagonist is magnus chase, the Norse saga of the percy Jackson series. I think I’ve read every single Rick riordan book besides the Egyptian series
Her potty mouth makes her less sympathetic somehow.
@@garrettcooper58 that’s a throwback and a half. Gotta read those books again. The Egyptian series is fire too
@@captainanus8131 it was good, I just think it was a bit too complex for it to be interesting to me. It’s more the magic and mythology rather than the actual story. That’s why I liked the other ones, as the powers were never too complicated to understand. Another good series besides Percy Jackson that I like is rangers apprentice. It’s a sort of historical fiction set in medieval Europe. It’s insanely good. That and the underland chronicles I’d recommend if you haven’t read them
whoever wrote "ps3 acting" thank you. It became the part of my vocabulary from now on
What does that mean
I physically laughed when Pyro read that out on stream
@@3Guys1Video no gaem
@@bbman10pwns ok
PS3 era acting:
- Mortal Kombat movie: The videogame
- White military guy with a buzz cut voiced by Nolan North
- Robin Atkin Downes being in literally every Japanese game dub
Plot twist fray is just a homeless New Yorker that took 50 Benadryl‘s and a pound of ketamine and she’s really just overdosing on a park bench the entire game.
Actually to be realistic it would be fentanyl and benzos. I live like 4 hours away from ny. Im in pa so all the dope around here comes from NY (don't ask how I know) ... Ketamine is being found in bags that overdose victims have so they are using to cut the fet but still. Besides that I agree completely
All in le head?
@@randomviewer391 OMG CRY OF FEAR 3 FT. SWEDISH PRIME MINISTER BLADEE????
I genuinely think this is canon
I’d play the game just to see her OD’ing on a bench and that this is all a hallucination.
Finding out your dads name and getting powers is like unsubbing from Dream and your dad comes back with the milk
this actually made me laugh for like 5 minutes
All black people actually have superpowers.
@@LobovDaGOAT I mean being a dream fan is relatively worse than watching pyro man talking about uk shows for 8 hours.
@@LobovDaGOAT > > > > >
@@LobovDaGOAT that's what a delusional dream fan would say
I saw cuff as bad guy even earlier than you did. "Hmm... are any male characters in the game not assholes, morons or bumbling crazies? Hmm, one: Cuff sounds competent and sane. That means one thing: he's the villain."
Also he sounds white af, they couldn't let him live
There's never any actual foreshadowing either, unless maybe in the extra collectibles in Lore that you can miss entirely so when the Longplay I watched reached that point (that player never showed that optional stuff) I just spoke out loud "This makes no sense at all, wtf is this shit?"
Somehow worse than when they made that mistake in Final Fantasy 13
Holy shit this is too true 💀 men bad!!!! Reminds me of when I watched the candyman remake where every single white character was an insane racist the dies horribly including the children. Made it easy to predict what kind of person the character would be based on their skin color the moment you saw them (definition of racism? 🤔)
I love modern writing so much
@@clownworld4655 well tbf as a straight white man the first thing I do when I meet a POC is oppress them and rank up my privilege score.
I really wish her final line was "this world is spoken for"
And then she says 'It's forspoking time'
@@ronnelmontanez5308 beat me to it
that is legit a good line
I didn't laugh at a single fucking line in the entire game but your dumb comment made me chuckle. Fuck.
Nah, its "that jsut happened lol"
I love how they unintentionally go for all the black people stereotypes. The main character is a homeless felon that never shuts up and was abandoned by her parents as a child. She also loves shoes and her painted nails give her powers. Like damn, is her favorite food fried chicken and watermelons, too?
Don't forget they all have to drop the F word all the time. Not even GTA is like that.
@@joaolima9622 The F bombs are so forced and unnecessary. In GTA for example, it's totally fine. It fits to the characters and situations. Here, it's just there because... I guess, it's cool?
To be fair, I wouldn't even mind this kind of character if there was growth during the journey... But she's the same, annoying prick all the time. Very unlikable character.
Don't forget her low IQ.
How'd she even finish High-school?
They virtue-signaled so hard with this game that hey went in the opposite direction.
Amazing.
As a white guy..... there is nothing wrong with chicken and watermelons my dude.
@@xxXXRAPXXxx As a white guy you are not very bright are you.
That fact that the main character actually keeps pocket sand on her and successfully used it to beat a woman with a literal gun. 🤠
peak of the game honestly
Not even like, grab a metal pipe or loose brick to smack her with.
Straight up king of the hill pocket sand.
My favorite part about this is the guy for the 500th time asking pyro if the game is good hoping for him to change his answer
Phenomenal.
It's like how during every Phisnom stream, there's always someone asking him "Are you having fun yet"
(Mostly to trigger PTSD from his first FNAF Security Breach stream)
@@thediam0nddrag0n78 lmaoo
I'd rather work for 8 hours without pay than play this game,
pyro you deserve a reward
Agree it’s so hard to play trash but it’s kinda Pryos job
@YeaMan bro you have so many comments on this video of just that just shut up 😭
I worked for 8 hours to afford the deluxe edition of this game 😁👌
I dont understand. Amy Hennig was one of the writers on the game, and yet the game is like it was written by a 10 year old. Like didn't she work on Uncharted? That game had pretty clever dialogue. How can the same person mess up like this?
@@ninjazz4324 fr
i absolutely love all the unreal engine free assets they used for literally every map in the game. really shows the quality
its their own engine . but the assets are probably from megascans so its still that generic unreal look
@@ali32bit42 Luminous Engine was created (work began in 2012) because S-E was impressed with Unreal Engine but wanted to create their own after the failiure of their Crystal Tools Engine and also to have an engine they wouldn't have to be taught by foreigners how to use. Ironically they ended up doing that anyway with KH3, DQ11 and FF VIIR, as the Luminous Engine proved to be annoying; so much so that Yoshi P of FF XIV ended up tweaking the engine so much for FF XIV ARR (1.0 used Crystal Tools), that it barely resembled Luminous anymore (and is the engine being used for FF XVI btw), and Nomura just ditched Luminous Engine altogether for Unreal Engine for Kingdom Hearts 3 and 4, and Dragon Quest 11 also used Unreal Engine as did FF VII Remake.
So only FF XV and Forespoken use Luminous Engine but it was always trying to ape Unreal engine.
its reused assets from their own engine I recognize a lot of them xD this include monsters ,buildings ,movement and gameplay
ffxv would be the biggest contributor
@@budgiecat9039 speak English
@@jesseashton6163 learn comprehension
While I was watching this I looked up forspoken and one of the first things I get is an article talking about how Forspoken has such an emotional and powerful ending, has well-developed story and characters, and has a message about sacrifice (because you can't be with the cat I guess), and goes on to say "the game’s developer, Square Enix, has not confirmed a sequel, but Forspoken’s open-ended ending has left fans hoping for more. A sequel would give players the chance to continue their journey with Frey and her companions, and explore the game’s rich world even further.
A Forspoken sequel, or Forspoken 2, would be a great opportunity for Square Enix to build on the mixed and critical acclaims of the first game, attracting new players and retaining existing fans. With its stunning visuals, captivating storyline, and immersive gameplay, a Forspoken 2 would be a welcome addition to the gaming world." I hate video game journalists so much
Any "fan" who liked this will forget the game few days later. I watched few videos like this. Pyro predicted "main villain" twist. Another guy just after beating the dragon predicted it's protagonists mom.Etc etc. It's just such a predictable game with shitty characters full of stereotypes. The game is just a map with plain empty looking areas where you spam abilities against brain dead AI.
I don't care if people had fun playing this. They should not lie to themselves and most importantly to others that this is amazing game. Forspoken just should be Unspoken.
Official critics are worthless. They have their woke list to check off and every other opinion is paid for
Forspoken 2: NFT overload
@@grimoireweiss5203 Forspoken? More like Forsaken.
probably just shilling for the good graces of Squeenix so that they get invited to pre release events, as they all do. No honesty about anything, because honesty is bad for business.
Frey is written like someone only watched the highlight reels of Tony Stark and Spiderman being snarky dicks to the bad guys and was like "this is funny, bet it'll be even funnier if she's like this 100000% of the time."
I love the new trend of making protagonist unlikeable, she is so condescending to the thing that si always actively helping her the “cuff” she keeps calling it that to just actually make it feel bad no one can hear it talking but her, and she still tells it to shut the f up because that will help her blend in faster?? and how when she says she fights despite no one wanting her there, WOMAN THEY ARE BEGGING FOR YOU TO STAY AND FIGHT WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN!!?
Its hilarious, too. Out of the two main characters, the Cuff and Frey, the Cuff is by FAR the more likable character of the two... and he turns out to be a world-killing, genocidal murder demon!?
Man, I've gotta say, that right there should tell you everything you need to know about this game. The genocidal murder demon is more likable, more relatable and interesting than the MC.
@@SouthernGuy5423 If Jack Sparrow met this woman, he'd say: ''If you had a sister and a dog... I'd choose the dog.''
I saw the stream and Pyro took 5 minutes to turn on subtitles. Truly a moment of all time.
Thats what makes him the best game journalist in the industry
It then took him another 5 minutes to find out the subs are in the accessibility setting
I'm surprised Pyro didn't immediately try to make some sort of Better Call Saul reference during the courtroom scene given he has the same receding hairline as Saul Goodman
Bro that'd be an insult to Saul to say he has a similar hairline with Pyro
Saul would have totally Goodman'd all over the court
This should have just been a movie. Kid Icarus Uprising does every thing this game wanted to with a million times better execution. On a 3ds.
Kid Icarus Uprising hits me in the feels, Pittwo is best boy
This being a movie wouldnt help with the shit story
@@mycycleminorities I think the movie industry is a bit starved for "youth abandons entire normal world for one of magic" stories. Those seem to benefit from the lack of structure that this game suffers from.
@@qwerty_artist Kid Icarus Uprising Enjoyers assemble 🤝
48:23 "I have no sympathy for a mother who TOSSES HER BABY AWAY LIKE GARBAGE" You mean like what she does when she was a baby? Pyro unfortunately skipped the most hilarious scene where her mother just TOSSES her as a new-born baby into a portal, HEAD FIRST...
Why didn’t 400 IQ Frey just pick up the bag while leaving the room at the same time? The world will never know.
best ending: you get to leave nyc
What was she cooking?
It's like the writters had no idea how to make that scene work.
'Oh damn, if she gets the bag then there is no reason for her to go to the Isekai world'.
If someone told me this is the future of gaming 10 years ago, I would have sold my PS3 and dedicated my life to being a monk.
Reminds me of that Max Payne 3 quote lmao "If someone had told me six months ago this was where my life was headed, I'd have ordered a double of what they were drinking, drunk it, then blown my head off."
@@cooperv.6083 I love that fucking game. I always remember the quote: "I've been stuck in the past for so long, I forgotten what year it was."
Bro fell asleep for a year and missed elden ring 💀
Don't be so dramatic bad games exist in every generation.
@@zombieKller he would’ve become a monk to obtain better vision for seeking out good games these days, to advise avid players on potentially bad games… or good ones
20:46 Protip: if you have been captured by people thinking you are the aggressor, a good move is to try to deescalate the situation. Even if it doesnt get you off scott free, it's better than being openly hostile ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU ARE OUTMATCHED. It's like giving the gang lip when they got a gun pressed against your throat. OH WAIT.
1:12:04
In a better written game this could be a phenomenal ending.
Imagine for a second, a more likeable character with better writing who is absolutely ecstatic throughout the game that they're in this fantasy world.
Truly enjoying it and becoming invested in everything about it. But she can't stay. And no matter how hard she tries, no matter how many solutions she can think of nothing works.
Eventually her time is up and she gets thrown back into the real world, with a dull job, and nothing but her cat for comfort.
Where does she go now? What can compare after the adventure she's been through? A normal job, a regular life. That would be hell to someone like this.
The story of FF Tactics Advanced 1 is kinda like this I guess?
Or in Dr Who this is what happens to people after they finish an adventure with the Doctor
Definitly an interesting field to explore in stories
His Dark Materials ending
This comment had a better story that most games, 8/10, graphics were good
Isn't that what happends to some of the protagonists in the chronicles of Narnia? Was a while since I read them though.
@@elloo98 Yep. However they also forgot about their experience so it wasn't that bad.
They literally had one idea which is a sentient bracelet and tried to build a AAA game around it
You know when they came up with the idea that the bracelet was actually the bad guy they thought they were the greatest writers to ever exist.
@@Jordo246 "next witcher 3" lmao
@@pockpock6382 every Ubisoft game since 2015.
@@GeraltofRivia22 you would know haha.
yeah and talking armor or weapons are something that has NEVER been done before
what wouldve been cooler is that the story was self-aware and knew it was being obvious about the cuff being evil and also have the other witch girls say that its evil and that they want to get rid of it, but they couldve had the girl accept this because the cuff gives her cool powers, and that she doesnt care and that she wants the powers because its the first time she's ever been given autonomy and control in her life, and she doesn't want to get rid of it
Shit story idea, I know, but it would be better than whatever I just watched.
It's not a bad idea at all, actually, it gives the mc motivation to become an anti-hero of sorts. Maybe though, if the cuff gave her riches or the ability to change the past or something, so it makes up for what she actually never had :p
No bro, it will be a great origin story for anti-hero story.
That is good writing actually. Letting clues for ppl to pick up during the story, so they may have a chance to guess a twist before it come, or after seeing the twist be like "wow, how did I not realized that before, it was obvious"
In forspoken the twist come out of nowhere, and there's no story indication of it. It feels like the writers of this game were D&D, and they wrote it just like they wrote the last seasons of GoT, making shitty twist that had no sense just to try to surprise the audience
I'm just preaching to the choir here but your suggestion is 100x better than what they used in this tax write-off. Maybe when the Cuff is free, he wouldn't kill the main chick straight away but instead keep her around as a partner and give her powers. A good example of this working is from, funnily enough, a PS3 game called Infamous 2. Where near the end you can team up with the big baddie to get a huge boost to your powers and end up ruling the world in the end.
We already have a game with a kinda similar ideia: Final Fantasy: Stranger of Paradise
Okay, I must admit, in the final fight when Frey says "The one fhing I do get is you're not alone! Even when you think you are..."
And the boss replies "Oh spare me" that one I actually liked. Like that one line from the boss is something I actually really like. The combination of him just standing her, his dry tone of voice and him just starting blasting... Yeah, I like that.
Biblically accurate seraphim legit cut off her "so you see" dhar mann moment
She has to narrate everything she says because otherwise you wouldn’t be able to know what’s going on in the slideshow presentation
i said this during the stream but joss whedon has done irreparable damage to writing in media and this game is proof of it.
can't believe its to the point where people think silence or having little no one-liners is bad now
Yeah, the constant sarcastic riffing is going to be seen as one of the worst aspects of late 2010s and 2020s media. It really sucks ass
what's he done before ?
Honestly man this shit is fucking terrible, Cringe inducing one liners left and right and unlikeable protagonists define alot of games nowdays
@@terrifyingpresence7539 Firefly
Those one liners were very reminiscent of Life is Strange; the way you look at stuff and the main character _has to say something every time_
Thank you, Square Enix.
I mean, in that game they comment when you press a button to specifically observe something. In this game she just talks constantly whether you're trying to observe something or not.
Forespoken took it from Life is strange and life is strange took it from Silent Hill
but life is strange had a excuse as it was essentially a modern point and click adventure game the characters never shutting up was always a thing in those types of games.
plus as cringe as it could get alot of the time the writing is just lightyears and lightyears ahead of forspoken in eveyway.
@@housewilma4904
Chloe might be more annoying than Frey honestly
@@UmbraMan1 she is. They’re both terrible but chloe is an absolute bitch
when your main character gets held up and the first thought of everyone watching is "damn i hope they shoot her" I think you might need to go back to the drawing board on the character thing
Especially when your main character doesnt know to bite their tongue when outnumbered by a gang. She deserved the consequences of giving them lip at that moment.
i want to see a crossover between high on life and forspoken that causes the player's eardrums to crumble
Ends with the gun character beating the shit out of Frey and getting arrested
This should be considered a form of torture and a warcrime. I'm 100% for it.
Add the new God of War with them, someone has to tell how you should play the game.
@@zwan6740 More like ends right at the beginning with the Guy blowing his brains off.
@@yourdude9942 nice miss. The game isn't even comparable to how dogshit these games are. The hints were pretty annoying but that's probably my biggest issue with the game.
I love how the cape he got looks like something you'd get on Roblox lmfao
looks like that one neon armor you get for the warrior role in miitopia
bro ong
Foreskin is truly a game that can be played
Woah I wouldn’t go that far!
Foreskin, caplisco protocool, badfeild 2042, all these new games are just so good and fun and amazing 😍 so happy we have such amazing developers nowadays. p.s checkout sons of the forest dropping in Feb it looks like one of the only good games this year
I mean, it's barely playable on 3090. I highly doubt 70% of PCs can even boot it up
@@VasiliyOgniov uhh sarcasm? Ever heard of it big daddy bear 🐻?
@@abrahamwashington8579 dont forget saints row totally good fun and amazing
This makes Anthem's story look like a masterpiece
GET GLITCHED
I'd rather watch Paul Blart Mall Cop 2
Whoa whoa let's not go wacko mode there
I'd honestly sooner play Anthem than this shit, at least the gameplay there is interesting and has some kind of depth to it. RIP Anthem.
Anthem was amazing, just abandoned. This shit wasn't abandoned and it was still dogshit.
57:00 The game could have unironically been saved if Frey died there and from there onwards you played as the edgy demon killing everyone in the world.
I’ll be honest, other than the character model I don’t see how we’d be able to notice a difference in the game.
Well, on second thought the edgy killer demon probably would’ve been more like-able.
"You killed a child, a little girl, her blood is on your hands" says Frey clad in her chinese child slave labor made RGB cape. Brave and stunning indeed.
Chat:"You should've seen what Biden did"
Lmao
"You criticize society yet you participate in it, curious?"
@@Nobody44112 the RGB cape society
@@Nobody44112
Yea I know it is a kinda dumb argument, like saying that if someone is criticizing air pollution, but still breathing that air, that means that they either are lying about it or are a hypocrite.
You can be a part of something and still criticize that thing, although wearing a RGB cape isn't the same as breathing polluted air, because that's the only air one has access to, or eating unhealthy food because it's the only thing a person can afford.
@@Nobody44112 this is such a dumb quote. “Curious🤓” lolll
Obviously you can criticize society while still taking part in it. Just because you criticize something doesn’t mean you hate it. Like if you said the walls on your house were old and shattered does that mean you would rather live outside?
@@Nobody44112 you simply cannot criticize something that you have no experience in
The game everyone knew was gonna be bad ended up being bad. Imagine my shock.
I could tell from the adverts that it was going to be horse shit. Unfortunately, it will still probably profit to some degree because there is always a group of drooling morons that will support anything, no matter how bad
At least Outriders was kinda fun
People say it gets better the more you play, this is proof it doesn’t
@@sultanmahfries6402 Funnily enough, someone in chat for this game (somewhere in the vid, forgot where it is) said it actually gets *worse.*
It ended up worse than I would have thought
I thought the combat would have been the better part of it, and then it wasn't.
Fun fact: One month after this game's release, Square Enix fairly recently shutdown the studio that developed this game due to its poor reception and lacking sales.
The fact that oblivion came out 16 years ago, and has gameplay 100x better than this game really speaks volumes about the gaming industry as a whole.
We are in dire, dire straits.
that game is sick bro, im 13 but I've never played skyrim and have 100 hours in oblivion.
Oblivion does not have good gameplay tho. But yea, you're right. This game blows.
@@RottenHeretic good point, might be nostalgia for me tbh
@@Dizzy... Oldest Pyrocynical fan
I think it's funny that they made Frey talk like a 12 year old who just discovered swear words and uses them every 5 seconds.
Millennial dialogue writing in a nutshell. That new Tales from the Borderlands game suffers from the same thing.
Just like me fr
you must be hated and depressed @@PixelHeroViish
@@PixelHeroViish How people put up with you is admirable
Thats basically the norm in this current gen of crap we get
Adult writers usually consists of 30 - 60 year olds that has no idea how teens - young adults talk
The greatest joke is the fact that pyro spent money on this
Piracy exists tho
He didn’t just spent it, he paid a 100 bucks, he could’ve atleast used that to wipe his as with it that would’ve been a much better use of the money
This game makes me appreciate the chapter in Death Stranding when they take BB away and you have to cope for like 4 hours without him
I was playing Death Standing while watching this. DS was infinitely more interesting, still is. That part sucked too cause you had to waltz through BT territory to all those assholes who live up in the hills
I actually like how tedious Death Stranding is. And the part without the babeh was really fucking tense, i loved it.
Watching Pyro's soul being shredded bit by bit every time someone asks him if the game is good is miles funnier than all the one liners combined
So happy to see gaming has evolved to "throwing water balloons at pigeons"
Truly one of the moments in gaming history
YESSSS!!! WE FINALLY HAVE A PIDGEON MISSION!!!! REJOICE!!!!
@@WokioWolfy Average GTA 4 enjoyer.
@@WokioWolfy most sane postal 2 apocalypse weekend enjoyer
This game is truly the best Souls-like of our generation, as it saps the humanity of everyone that plays it and slowly turns them into a Hollow.
Edit: This will be the only comment I make that'll get above 10 likes or something. Thanks, I guess, Internet strangers!
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Atleast souls like usually have some baddies, even a fucking doll looks hot. Only thing smashable here is the biblical angel god
At least this game has a coherent story even if it is awful. Way more variety in actual gameplay as well
$100
This man spent $100 so that we wouldn’t make the same mistake. Remember our heroes
I cant believe Pyro would forspoken the truth about Petscop 2
perish
Imagine copying my comment and get more likes for it
@@TheEngieTF2 maybe don’t confidently claim such a dog shit comment bro
@@TheEngieTF2im not the original im the copy i am the one who steals
@@boofjew wait, that's weird. I can only see your comment on the notification. But it disappears when I click on replies?
So here's the thing; I think using games to tell a story is a good thing. I'm all for that. But the thing is, a game implies it is interactive. The player has an active role, rather than passively consuming cutscenes. Everything is scripted so hard it may as well be a visual novel or a netflix show that gets yeeted after the second season.
It literally feels like Netflix the movie
Cinematic games are a plague on the industry. Sony deserves blame for all of this.
@@drstrangelove307 cinematic games aren’t bad shut up
Plenty of AAA games have toed that line in recent years - Uncharted, Red Dead II, the new GoW games, GTA V, and the Last of Us games all have heavily scripted events with basic AI and minimal gameplay
@@ac8911 last I checked, Last of Us actually let you perform the tasks without forcing you into a cutscene whenever you did a non-linear movement. It feels like its memeing with how often it does that
Remember when the hero in shadow of the colossus actually liberates the evil at the end and has to pay the consequences for his actions? Yeah nowadays you have games like forspoken when you can kill everyone and still face no consequences whatsoever!
İts okay you can say god of war
@@owyemen9367 his entire civilization died for what did and he is constantly racked with stress and guilt for what he did kratos DID get punished for what he did a destroyer who in the end is a destroyed man same with THOR in ragnarok.
@@owyemen9367 at the end of GOW3 he literally tried to kill himself to fix the world.
what.
Except for RDR2 that game is amazing with its storytelling
@@AlexanderMartinez-kd7cz Hell, Kratos still guilt for all of his actions in GOW 4 and Ragnarok
Watching Pyro breakdown in insane laughter at the waterballoons and pigeons killed me.
So scary that these triple A devs cannot even produce a halfway decent game these days
Because they no longer care about producing good products. All that matters is marketing and quotas, gameplay be damned.
@@checkmatechannel971 and people keep buying them
Cause... Morons keep buying them? If I could do a sub par job and still make just as much money, why the fuck would I ever try?
@@ZaLewdWarudo exactly by buying shit games you are rewarding bad behavior
@@DaughterCesar most do it just so they can showcase the utter crappiness of it. So others won’t have to buy it
The most unrealistic part of this game is that she could even be in that house
Wdym
@@orxy5316 how someone that is basically a homeless thug is paying for that apartment in NY?
@@luisfilipe2747 She's squatting genius.
@@G-Mastah-Fash squat deez
@@G-Mastah-Fash nuts
that bracelet feels like Colossal trying to do an impression of Wheatley
EGGS ON TOAST
I knew I couldn’t be the only one who kept hearing Wheatley
Community: Forespoken is horrible!
Industry: hold my beer!
Community: Redfall is horrible!
Industry: hold my beer!
Community: Gollum is horrible!
Industry: hold my beer!
Me: I'm out of hands
Rise of Kong: Hold my moonshine
This game is proof that Ella Balinska really needs to fire her agent.
lol she was in the Resident Evil show
yeah should should fire her agent
Imagine buying the base game only, and not the deluxe edition, but the base game forces you to press E just to pick up items.
Please dont give them ideas
No subtitles in the base game and the frames are capped to 60
@@Fanrose2475 as if this game could run at above 30fps
@@Fanrose2475 In the words from Pyro's Total Chaos Stream: "That's bait, Tom Hardy pointing upwards gif, that's bait."
@@Fanrose2475 capped to 60? Bro pyro got a 30k pc and runs at like 15 at most 💀
The game is actually all in Wheatley’s head so he entertains himself while he floats in space.
Space space SPACEEEEE
Frey = Chell
Bracelet Angel Prick = Wheatley
Witches = Personality Cores
Frey's Mom = GladOs
-Chell travels with Wheatley for a while before he turns evil and goes mad with power and a lust for revenge, just like bracelet and Frey
-Chell has to work with GladOs (an unlikely ally and former nemesis) to beat Wheatley
-bracelet British and so is Wheatley lol
This game is just shitty overpriced Portal 2
@@woohoomusic5098 unlike Forsaken, Portal 2 is among almost everyone's favorite game
@@thediam0nddrag0n78 I agree, the portal franchise is awesome. Forspoken, however, will never cross the threshold of my home
The Cake is a lie 🤥
say it with me now: "having your characters swear every other word has the opposite effect of making your story more mature."
Plus, it just felt forced and irritating. Makes me wanna do a drinking game where I take a shotmevery time she cusses just to forget im watching forspoken.
*coughHelluvaBosscough*
Sailor-mouth characters can work. The best example i can think of is Barret, it just makes sense. But if the only "mature" thing your character does is swear it aint it chief
@@maxkennedy7430their dialogue is "what the fuck did you fucking do you fucking fuck"
The script writer making the one liners: "aww yeah this is gonna be so sick."
So this story is full of tropes we've all seen before in other media:
The down on their luck orphan with no direction in life who constantly gets into trouble and dreams of a better adventure - Percy Jackson
Magically being transported to a fantasy land at a convenient time - Any isekai ever
Suddenly being the most popular and beloved person after a few feats of skill/dumb luck - Sword Art Online
Fake version of ideal life promised to you by the baddie if you give in - God Of War Ascension
Your closest ally tricks you into releasing him from his prison and is actually evil - idk, probably a sonic game
The true power was inside you all along - *Insert here*
Who would have thought cringey dialogue would have been the least of this game's problems?
Percy isn't an orphan though?
I understand what ur trying to say but every type of media uses tropes. They're just writing memes at this point and escaping them is basically impossible
You could break any story down in this way lol.
Your closest ally tricks you into releasing him from his prison and is actually evil - Bravely Default, surprisingly.
"Your closest ally tricks you into releasing him from his prison and is actually evil" is the entire point of Bioshock (and by association, System Shock 2 as well)
also if you'd like other examples, Clive Barker's Jericho, Doom Eternal (I mean the Dark Lord isn't really your ally, but the whole story turns out to have been set up by him since the dawn of time so it counts?), Half-Life Alyx
Try not to make a female character one dimensional challenge (hard)
amazing how mobile gacha games like Nikke will throw in the most sensual and erotic design possible with an amazing voice...and pair it with a deepr, profound storyline which will make you cry
Fun fact: The war that resulted in the summoning of Susurrus is called "Purge of the Rheddig," Nobody in the story questions the implications, we are just meant to assume the nation of Tanta was 100% correct in wiping out another nation to the extreme the later summoned a demon just to get revenge for their extermination.
Maybe the common person doesn’t know?
(Who am I kidding the developers would not think that deeply)
Wow. I can't believe they legit did the "we just didn't tell you the main problem of the setting"-twist.
Imagine if in Lord of the Rings no one told Frodo the ring was evil and he walked all the way to Mount Doom because the Ring told him to and right before throwing it in, the Nazgûl all show up around Frodo to say: "The ring, Frodo, it's evil. The Elves didn't tell you because you were just so fast, there was no way for them to stop you and tell you this, but now we do because you need to know what is going on, now give us the ring and stop being silly with those ideas of throwing the ring into the lava and saving your world, what would that accomplish, Frodo please see reason you little idiot with no powers. I'm all powerful, I know that you're fucked so just give me the ring and jump into the lava, please."
What you wrote reads like if Amazon remade The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Oh, God, I hope I didn't jinx it.
@@ejm1225 that’s…. Literally the exact thing they have already done twice in rings of power
Worse thing is pointing out bad storylines and writing always gets the you a sexist card if the MC is a woman nowadays, you could have made this a cool game if this lead actually wanted to be in the fucking world!
Thanks for providing another major way in which this plot falls apart.
So the denizens of Cipal would know about the true cause of The Break, given the Tantas' rather close relationship with the people there. But because they decided not to tell anyone close to them that Susurrus split himself into four cuffs, latched himself onto them and is in the process of driving them mad, the plot is allowed to happen.
Had they actually said something, it wouldn't be a mystery to the remaining 1% of the population why they suddenly went crazy.
The driving force of the central threat is led from a group of powerful sorceresses concealing the fact that they will go crazy and drive the world and the people they care about to ruin. Amazing writing.
Fun fact: i live in another country and i was somewhat excited for this game but it was on my low list of games i want to play.
Now i checked the price after I’ve seen the first video pyrocinical made about it and i was surprised to find out that its more expensive than the UK!!!
Base game: 94$
Deluxe edition: 120$
WHAT THE HELL?!?!?!
You know for sure that you’re not suppose to buy a game that costly
This garbage is literally double the price Elden Ring was at launch in my country.
Please do not spend that much money on this piece of crap.
@@xy-te9db pffft me? Spending that much on that? I would never 🙃
It costs 80€ in Germany. Wtf... Wasn't the first time a Japanese publisher put up a ridiculous price for my country.
No way this turns into an Isekai
It turned into a freaking Isekai.
Yup, it is isekai: the videogame. They didn't even try it to subvert the more obnoxious conventions.
The marvel-ish one liners really rubbed me the wrong way.
Isn’t Isekai just anime fantasy stuff? That’s what I’ve always heard others refer to it as.
I was expecting the bus to hit her and isekai her at the beginning xD
@@Sm0ke821 SAME
Every minute of this game passes and i can PHYSICALLY feel my brain trying to block out the fact that its actually happening. Nothing and i mean NOTHING makes sense.
Alf is voiced by one of the chicks in the new charlie's angels.
So it makes sense her acting sucks.
I will say, in NY, you’d be surprised how many homeless folks look like they actively take care of themselves. Lots of gyms here have cheap memberships and I used to work at one, lots of homeless folks would come in purely for a quick shower and pay their subscription with however much they can muster.
New York isn't a real place
But the gyms sound based
@@Fanrose2475 oh no it’s definitely a gta lobby but there are some damn good gyms that aren’t franchised, just gotta hunt them down
its cheaper for a homeless person to be wellgromed and clean then a non homeless person.
well in the big citys anyway.
This game has the frames. It is truly one of the graphics of all time. Overall a game. I'm giving it a score out of 10
Doesn't have all of the frames tho
@@Backfisch5927 I dunno it could do with less frames in some places.
This isn't old at all
It certainly has framed, but I definitely have more fingers than the game has frames
bro so sad to hear you lost both your hands.
Mad respect for Pyro for playing this shit so we doesn't
superman no speak english
We isn't gone to play this game now pyro is play it.
English may be down 👇🏻 we up tho ⁉️⁉️🔥🔥🗣️💯🔝🔝
Minor gramatical error
Ye we doesn't plays gaem
1:14:28 I love how this is where Pyro truly loses it. Throwing water balloons at pigeons XD
This game really makes you appreciate and miss the Infamous series.
I thought it looked like a mixe between Infamous 1 and Second Son. But "appreciate"? They weren't bad, maybe just SS. I definetely miss the series, but you make it sound like it was somewhat just below average. But maybe that's just me
@@spelareNR14 when I say appreciate i don't mean they were bad, I personally liked all of them so "being bad" is subjective.
by appreciate I mean wish the series wasn't left to rot and that we had it good while it was still active.
I read a comment where someone said this game just had Infamous combat, and I couldnt put into words why that was wrong even if it was right. Because I LOVE the infamous series, and the combat too, but somehow this game (forspoken) is a fart in the night when it comes to the combat
It feels like a slap in the face to even mention this atrocity in the same sentence as Infamous. That series actually felt like a game, and a pretty fun one at that.
I like how in the beginning they weren't gonna kill her with the guns...But burning her alive is fine.
Also love how she got out of that situation with unholy bs like out of a cartoon...
they didnt even try to shoot at her after she jumped out of there reach.
@@housewilma4904 she jumped behind a fucking fence thats like the prime object of "stuff you can shoot through with guns"
Jumpcut to after the firemen left
@@sincereshanee6593 it was a chain link fence prop from gmod, you can't shoot through it
I'm not sad that the devs are getting flamed for this. How can you sit down in front of your team, publishers and sponsors and have this to show. I would be embarrassed.
Considering that said publishers still think NFTs are a good business choice after the continuous financial failures and awful rep they have, I wouldn’t be surprised if there wasn’t much of a reaction.
@@Dr.Oofers What's even worse that they practically make the newer Deus Ex franchise (since Human Revolution) with it's third game got canned after 4-5 years of waiting from that stupidly blows cliffhanger ending in Deus Ex Mankind Divided, and that game was from 2016
At this point Dragons' Dogma 2 could've ended up released sooner than third sequel in Deus Ex games, or worse considering of how long and highly specialised the production of a good Immersive Sim game, let alone a AAA-grade kind of that would take years upon years until it'll became even realised, sequel to HR and MD is a pipe dream since Square Enix abandons and sells all of their IPs, at least until there's a good publishing company and very passionate while competent dev team with lots of $$$ to buys out Deus Ex IP for it
Sorry for a bit long rant, but it's infuriates me as someone that once plays all of the three games (invisible war excluded, although that game is quite good for modern standards of video games, it was a really bad deus ex game), all due to Square Enix executives' short-term minded due to the fuelling to greed, at this point Mihoyo have bigger potentiality to buy Deus Ex IP
But who am I kidding, no current huge Chinese video game company would make a game that dares to touch actually legit and thoughtful conspiracy theories as themes for their fictional games, it's all anime girls and simp culture that even cynical dudes like Pyrocynical to Bricky became subservient to profits from those industries
Doesn't matter, it will still make profit with BlackRock funding
@@ohamatchhams Square Enix is Japanese, not Chinese lmao.
@@ohamatchhams mihoyo is bad at making an RPG, like that company as much as I do, them making rpg or immersive sim is just no, and it's not because of any reason you give.
I hate writers thinking something has to be going on all the time with dialogue. There's beauty in the silence too.
That moment in the stream where he completely goes insane and laughs as he "throwing water balloons at pigeons" was hilarious 1:14:41
worst person you know gets isekai'd and gets powers: the videogame
ah yes, my favorite isekai. the one where it undermines it being an isekai by just having them actually being from there technically
5:43: The game states she lives in Hell's Kitchen and that's a pretty large one bedroom. Some would consider it to be massive, especially for the city. That would be a $4500 apartment in New York and she's living there rent free and complaining.
The really weird thing is nobody ever showed up to try and drive her off. She has a fucking shoe collection and she can afford to take care of a cat, AND she has a nice looking smart phone.
The fact she pisses off EVERYONE she interacts with, even when they have a GUN to her head, it's fucking impossible she was never kicked out of there by some other homeless person. That whole building would be CRAWLING with homeless people, she'd need her own fucking gun just to stay alive.
Also it's a REALLY good thing the GROUP of armed thugs that FOUND HER HOME decided to really inefficiently burn the place down instead of just walking in and stabbing her or kidnapping her to take to their boss so he could, well let's be honest make her into a prostitute so he could recoup the losses from the apparently MULTIPLE jobs she botched. Every aspect of this game is done SO fucking poorly.
I loved when the game finished and the message "The game has been completed, and you can now progress" appeared
tbh i think being stuck in that weird magical world is way better than living in nyc
anything is better than nyc
Not just a fact, literally the truth
you can go there by just talking to the guy behind your home in nyc
I think it's hilarious that the game sets everything up for the character and she still wants to go back to that hellhole, even though the concept itself is that she is supposed to be a woman that desires for an adventure in another world, she is even reading Alice in Wonderland damn...
I am at a loss for words that this made it past the initial pitch, it went into storyboarding, developers got hired to do this, it passed through quality assurance testing and got released to steam with a $100 price tag
Considering SE thinks NFT’s are still profitable, I’m not surprised.
I think that they got past storyboarding and then when it came to actually formatting the game and making gameplay that's where they failed they had a really interesting story but they couldn't find a way to tell it to you without just shoving it down your throat at the end
@@zakaryrichmond396 yeah you're right the story couldve been at least mid had it been executed differently
Supposedly, the final game is unrecognizable from what the team initially pitched, so make of that what you will.
That's always the story with these kinds of games. What we get is extremely different from what was intended originally. As they develop the game and see what they can and cannot do, they rewrite, adapt, repurpose and generally remake the game while it's in production.
Games that have good devs, writers, don't have higher-ups fucking everything up and generally have a vision behind them can survive the process. Games that do not end up as disjointed and full of contrivances or plot holes. This was made by Square Enix so... it's about as expected, sadly. I wouldn't be surprised if this wasn't originally meant to be a Final Fantasy game that was repurposed.
We need to respect FromSoftware for not giving us a cutscene hell like this, at least for Elden Ring, each NPC, dialogue, boss, feels more meaningful and interesting, because you're actually hunting for lore instead of being just bombarded by it 24/7.
Also, when Elden Ring does throw cutscenes at you they are usually jaw-dropping moments that make sense to make more cinematic than the rest of the game.
Imagine turning on a game, your 6 year old making fun of you, and eventually turn it off so "he can play a real game" and popped on sonic 2. As soon as the Sega noise went off he went "hey dad, look! my graphics are better!" I died, still dead
Sonic Adventure 2 or Sonic the Hedgehog 2?
@@JeanMarceaux Oglivine Maurice hedgehog 2. The o.g.
codename The Super Sonic hedgehog. Real name Og
@@doomedfromthesmart damn that's Freddy
*crazy
Waypoints from Ghost of Tsushima, Combat from infamous second son, Likability of the newest saints row and performance of Calisto protocol. Can't believe Pyro would steal all these game assets to create a 2023 game
And I just noticed the knock off style meter 💀
@@jackofastora8962 nooooo show me, give me the time stamp, I gotta see this
@@Explosivevortex the style meters is in the boss fights; the rest can be seen All throughout the game. Ong they didn’t even try to hide it
dont diss my fave game infamous like this
@@qwerty_artist second son was goated, but it’s combat only works in the infamous franchise, cause they actually diversify it. When copy pasted into other mediums forsaken is the result
Main menu basically foreshadowed the amount of effort put into the rest of this.
I'm watching this waiting for the mandatory "he's right behind me.. isn't he?" line
"The mystical world of Finland, and fight dragons" As a finn, very accurate. Just fought a dragon this morning
Noita moment.
@@zarrg5611 dont stand in the dragon's mouth, it deals 6000 damage per frame
Bruh, Finland is literally Skyrim
@@spelareNR14 *Sweden
@@mizlnimbl My dog did that once and he’s no longer with us. I learnt the damage the hard way
Gamers - "This AAA game is bad!"
Publishers and Developers with Goofy face - "We'll do it again"
This game being bad literally has nothing to do with the AAA Gaming industry bro. It’s just a bad game and there’s many other good AAA Games that released just this year like the Dead Space remake or GoW:R
@@drstrangelove307 Joke 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡👿👿👿👿🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬😠😠😠😠😠😠😠🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😣😣😣😣😣😣😞😞😞😞😞😠😠😠😠😠😠👹👹👹👹👹👹🤡
@@drstrangelove307 AAA games are unbelievably repetitive and unoriginal since big publishers only care about feeding the masses with what they want to see
...Gamers: "and we'll buying them again!"
Everytime it gets so annoying and boring when people just say AAA is bad.Everyone knows.Just the same shit regurgitated.
When Pyro's Mukbang break is way more entertaining than the gameplay that I woke up from sleep watching the gameplay.
as a game developer that so far spent 70% of my career making menus, I'm amused to see I'm not the only one failing.
Making a fucking inventory is such a pain, and that’s even before you get to actually making the UI well designed and digestible for players
@@roboknobthesnob everything is like that
I actually fell asleep halfway through the video at how fantastic this game was
If She-Hulk was a game
👆🏻👆🏻📤🎁🎊🎁📤☝️☝️
Velma*
Best analogy I've ever seen
@@noahanders7605 Nah, Velma's gouge your eyes out bad. This isn't *that* bad.
@@Laff700 This game could've avoided a lot of backlash by simply launching at 25$ instead of 60$
This could honestly be a student project and I would believe it
A filthy rich student
@@chubbyanemone696 A filthy rich student with 15 external ssd's filled with textures and animations
"I just moved shit...with my freaking mind!" - Albert Einstein