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Forspoken Sold so Badly that Steelbooks are Ending Up in Landfills (twitter.com)
posted 3 years ago by The_Mad_Draklor 3 years ago by The_Mad_Draklor +52 / -0
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– Norenia 36 points 3 years ago +36 / -0

Best comment-

I JUST FILLED A DUMP WITH MY FREAKING GAME! insert Frey face

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– Galean 35 points 3 years ago +35 / -0

It was a bad looking game. The main character was unattractive and nothing about the gameplay looked interesting. Even if you get passed the woke in it, the game is everything I do not like in AAA games. Lots of bad dialogue, boring open world and characters that you do not care if they live or die.

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– DickCactus 8 points 3 years ago +8 / -0

Yep. Soulless nonsense like the huge majority of AAA titles. I honestly think what reaaaly fucked Forspoken is that they thought they could charge so much for it. I’m an Aussie and it was $120 on steam. Like honestly get fucked cunts…

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– LauriThorne 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

Yeah, that's your shitty governments fault not theirs.

$70 is 105 Australian buckaroos and you weirdos have a 10% tax on digital sales from companies outside of your convict camp because mUh ImPoRt.

Why do aussies always forget about currency conversion and the fact that you're apparently ruled by robber barons? It's unfortunate really.

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– Smith1980 11 points 3 years ago +11 / -0

What is the game about? I saw critics gushing over it for obvious reasons but I haven’t heard any reviews

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– Norenia 44 points 3 years ago +44 / -0

New Yorker car-stealing sharp-tongued negress gets isekaied.

No, not via Truck-kun.

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– Assassin47 29 points 3 years ago +29 / -0

She is unworthy of Truck-kun.

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– Norenia 16 points 3 years ago +16 / -0

Perhaps, but the sight of her getting splattered would at least provide SOME entertainment.

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– Smith1980 6 points 3 years ago +6 / -0

What is Truck-kun?

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– Norenia 19 points 3 years ago +19 / -0

A commercial 18-wheeler shipping truck that is likely the catalyst for at least half of all "Reborn in Another World" stories.

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– Strike08 21 points 3 years ago +21 / -0

There is a literal manga about the person who drives said truck to send people to another world.

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– Norenia 17 points 3 years ago +17 / -0

OF COURSE THERE IS

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– LinkR 8 points 3 years ago +8 / -0

That just sounds like murder.

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– TomSeeSaw 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

Truck-kun would like a word. On the street.

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– Strike08 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

Preferably on a road crossing

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– deleted 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0
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– Strike08 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

Isekai Transporter

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– deleted 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0
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– yamez 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

Manga name?

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– Strike08 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

Isekai Transporter

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– deleted 13 points 3 years ago +13 / -0
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– YouAreAPirate 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

I want a manga about a rouge 18-wheeler roaming Japan's suburbs, looking for people to isekai.

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– StupidPrizeWinner 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

Though fitting, red is a bit bold for your average Truck-kun. White is more traditional, mundane and less eye catching, all leading to a greater isekai success rate.

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– dekachin 36 points 3 years ago +36 / -0

It's a generic AAA "open world rpg", except the MC is inner city dumb young entitled black bitch who gets teleported to another world and gets a magic bracelet ("cuff") which grants her superpowers.

Basically Square Enix tried really hard to make a AAA video game version of a shitty, generic diversity-and-inclusion check box Netflix series.

If you just changed the MC to a Hwhite male and swapped out the woke characters, it would be a generic 7/10 type "open world" game probably. The cringe dialogue and characters bring it down a lot.

Hogwarts Legacy absolutely destroys Forspoken. Hogwarts Legacy is actually a good game. It's the same type of game but 100x better in every respect. And where was it made? Salt Lake City, Utah.

The fact that it was made by japs is cringe. Imagine being from a superior race and culture with dominant global products, and thinking "I should stop being awesome and Japanese, and instead copy what the jews in hollywood do". I hope they learned their lesson, Square Enix dumbfucks.

Notice how EVERY big company, even Japanese, gets taken over by the wokes? Ever wonder why? It's because top university candidates from the highest rank schools tend to be some of the most woke, and they exploit their position to take over the most desirable jobs, which means the jobs in the biggest companies. They then make sure their fellow traveler wokes and others just like them get hired in, too. This is especially prevalent in shit like marketing departments.

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– Strike08 13 points 3 years ago +13 / -0

The tech demo that was shown before it was renamed/twisted to forspoken was actually quite interesting. Too bad that they had to make it for "western audiences" instead of actually giving us something good for a change

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVX0OUO9ptU

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– The_Mad_Draklor [S] 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

The game was made on the Luminous engine, the same engine that FFXV was built on and the reception towards that game was lukewarm. Luminous Productions re-using Project Athia assets for Forspoken was a last ditch sunken cost fallacy attempt to recoup the investment into the engine.

Apparently, they thought woke-ifying the game would help it sell and we know the rest of the story.

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– Smith1980 6 points 3 years ago +6 / -0

Gotcha. Yea it makes no sense. Unfortunately any black character I see in current era I assume they will be anointing and lecturing. One exception being Denzel. They could make a cool game with him as the main character. Or a character voiced by him. But it sucks that Japan is bending the knee.

A white male character with the same dialogue would’ve been torched by critics

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– dekachin 12 points 3 years ago +12 / -0

But it sucks that Japan is bending the knee.

Square Enix would sell their own mother if it made them 0.1% more profit. All this is, was some woketards at Squenix thinking that they could make a woke pander game to sell to Gaijins for easy Hwhitebuxx.

Unfortunately because the corporate culture at Squenix is totally out of touch with reality thanks to woke subversion, they badly miscalculated and got a cold hard dose of reality.

So hopefully they've learned their lesson.

A white male character with the same dialogue would’ve been torched by critics

and no one would care because critics are worthless now. people don't trust them, they trust people like popular streamers and youtubers. the "critics" torched Hogwart's Legacy and it smashed sales records while Forspoken languished.

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– Smith1980 7 points 3 years ago +7 / -0

True. YouTubers have taken over but the garbage media still yours rotten tomatoes or rolling stone as if we don’t already know what they will say. I trust Critical Drinker or Dave Cullen much more

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– dekachin 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

I don't even look at critic scores anymore, only user scores on places like metacritic or RT

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– Smith1980 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

The only indication critic scores give me is that if they live a game or show then I know not to bother.

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– WhoIsThatMaskedMan 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

High critic, low audience: Terrible leftist propaganda

Low critic, high audience: Good, and does not shill The Message

Low critic, low audience: Bad and terribly generic

High critic, high audience: Rare diamond in the rough OR publisher paid for a lot of fake reviews

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– Assassin47 10 points 3 years ago +10 / -0

Japan is bending the knee.

I'm hoping SquareEnix seeing the poor sales and firing their President is a sign they are about to change course.

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– Guy_Incognito76 7 points 3 years ago +7 / -0

Most likely scenario was a bunch of glitzy consultants came in and pitched the idea to Nippon Honorburu Business execs who thought it looked like garbage but figured if the round-eyes say it's good who are they to argue?

The usual result of failures in the western markets is pulling back and making more standard jap games, which then "unexpectently" make it big in the west (eg Monster Hunter) and they try making more western-focused games again with similar results as this.

Some kind of eternal east-west game dev cycle.

The bigger issue to me is the defining issue of entertainment today, which is also the genesis of GG and this site: the attempt to forcefully change the tastes and habits of the market. Products are being made not based on what people want, but on what the developers think they should want. Everyone thinks they can just throw their customers away and create new ones from magic. it's quite insane, and I think it will be studied in the future much like "tulip mania" today.

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– Adamrises 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

SquareEnix made THREE Final Fantasy 13 games, despite the original being almost universally hated. With the final one being a literal waifu jerkoff fest for the director.

Squenix is physically incapable of learning from their mistakes in smart manner.

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– Galean 18 points 3 years ago +18 / -0

The female protagonist gets in to fantasy land. The fantasy land is very gynocentrist, because of course it is, and the protagonist talks constantly.

She has a magic bracelet that allows her to do pew pew magic and acts as a guide.

The world looks empty, the story is stupid, the motivations make no sense and the little I've seen of people streaming it has deep moral lessons like war is bad.

Even if you removed the woke factor, the game was just to uninteresting, sure a sexy main character that was silent for most of the game would have made the game sell better but it would still be a bad game.

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– Smith1980 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

Gotcha. Thanks for the rundown. I had major red flags of being overhyped.

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– alucard13mmfmj 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

Probably wouldve upgraded from shit game to a mediocre game if she stfu and had alternative bikini outfits.

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– Galean 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

While old, if you like isekaied plots. I remember really liking the longest journey as a kid. Is a puzzle mystery game but there was just something about it.

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– SoctaticMethod1 8 points 3 years ago +8 / -0

Can we recycle the metal at least, it might be the less shit part of the game

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– deleted 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0
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– TriangleGang 7 points 3 years ago +7 / -0

I swear I've seen some older games at Best Buy that included the steelbook for free. Like they had a bunch left over from pre-sales so they threw them on the shelf with the game to get rid of them.

That would have been a far less wasteful solution here.

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– Galean 8 points 3 years ago +8 / -0

I kind of doubt this was in a landfill. Who randomly searches a landfill, finds this game and knows enough about the game to post pictures?

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– deleted 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0
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– Adamrises 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

BestBuy seems to just always have leftover collector's/steelbook editions of games well after their release. I think its because people don't think to go there as often for buying games, and they have the space to not need to purge as quickly.

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– daxishazhi 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

Landfills is the best place for this game.

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– Guy_Incognito76 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

Hopefully that's it for Yaaaas queen/danger hair virtue signal games.

But I doubt it. One thing wokeness has baked in: its failures are the fault of its critics. This game's failure is because gamers are sexist racist misogynists and it proves we only need more like it.

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– AnotherSchwarzesMark 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

From square at least it seems and I hope. Hopefully they learned their lesson, only took them one studio and one ceo.

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– MegoThor 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

“I cAn MoVe ShIt WiTh My MiNd!”

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– evilplushie 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

Good

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– deleted 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0
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– AnotherSchwarzesMark 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

Wouldn't not call it woke at all but it could've been far more woke, agreed. The biggest issue is the storyline, the lack of a good open world and the cringe. All in all it's not even gonna be remembered. It's not rage bait like others and it's not even so bad it's good. Boring fits pretty well.

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– SuurSuomi39_II 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

I don't even bother with video games, the last game I played was Mafia 2, I had a wonderful experience playing that game, I knew the modern trash will just ruin my perception of games so I decided to quit while I'm ahead.

Especially with how the whole thing goes with games nowadays, pay 60e to play some woke garbage? I don't think so.

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– The_Mad_Draklor [S] 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

With the plethora of old games that are available to us, we don't really need new games. Sure, every once in a while, there will be a legit good modern game that isn't woke. However, you get like one of those for every 20 woke games.

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– OmegaBird 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

I have no idea what this game is, but I am always happy to see the game industry getting fucked in the eye socket. I wish for a game crash like the one from the 80s. Let the Indies rise from the ash.

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