Because the reviews are already bad, so why send codes when that will just be confirmed by the final version not living up to the hype... -_- I get it, but that's really not going to help anything..
Just to clarify it seems like the major gaming sites all got their codes. Also as a person who has to pay to play, I'm often irritated at the blogs complaining about not getting it for free.. I wish the reviews came out earlier but some of these blogs really feel entitled.
@eonjay I mean a lot of review sites LITERALLY RELY on recieving codes to play so they can get a review out for the embargo and get clicks. It's quite literally how they make most of their money to, yknow, live probably?
Imagine if IGN got no codes going forward, they'd lose a lot of their staff within a year because all their money would go elsewhere
Have you been paying attention to how bad this game looks? It's weird demo and it's glaringly empty open world and run in circles gameplay? He's not from the future hes just been paying attention...
And what hype? People like you have been knocking the game since it was announced. And there’s been dumb articles even before previews looking for ANYTHING to hate on the game to the biggest “turn off” is dialogue. Still can’t find any other game that’s had far campier worse dialogue get hated just for that.
That's not how it works. MANY games over the years have released in shitty states the devs/pubs KNEW the game was in. Garnering bad reviews aplenty. Devs/pubs don't reject sending codes to avoid bad press.
I find it sad that every time I think N4G finally reaches the bottom of the barrel in terms of users. Someone comes and makes the bar even lower. Congrats man, next time try to read the article before commenting.
Didn't mean to cause offence dude, but i was simply suggesting that SkillUp and 'prominent youtubers' are perhaps not top of the list of recipients for free games, even if they claim to have received codes in the past.
If IGN and Gamespot etc., we're listed then I guess it might raise an eyebrow. I did read the article, it's simply that in my opinion, it seemed to be trying to build an issue where one probably doesn't exist.
One of my favorite games from last year only managed 69... But I'm more of a gameplay person. If a game feels good to play I value that over the the nonsensical criteria some reviewers come up with. By the same token, the game can have a great story but if it's not fun to play I will pass.
I'm just curious. Out of the games I've played this year new wise not just an old game I finally played. Star ocean 6 got my vote. I haven't played gow
Star Ocean. I love the game and smoked EQ on Chaos with 100 hours in. Raymond was 100x as cringey as anything Forspoken could ever even hope to muster but I play Star Ocean for the gameplay. No one would play Star Ocean for a deep narrative anyway.
depends on your definition of back in the day. My back in the day a 4 or 5 was absolutely riddled with bugs. Any mechanically solid game was rated at least a 6-7+.
Exactly Eonjay, let's hope that the game delivers for fans despite the best efforts of the naysayers. I am getting Days Gone vibes all over again with the way this game is being treated.
Days Gone was hammered just like this and I personally loved that title as did millions of others.
Idk about day one days gone but I played it after a year and thought it was fing great. I enjoyed it alot. Even got the special ending that alluded to a part 2.
I actually just speak my mind. Please explain to me what I lie about. Actual details. Not just "this is the mindset I've pegged you for, so since the majority share my interests, that little vote bar proves me right because I'm in a little bubble who will always say you're wrong, and say I'm right because we're disagreeing".
Who are these "outlets"? They don't mention any specifics. There's a lot of people out there who think they are entitled to free review copies of games.
From what I understand we're talking about several "major" outlets. And it seems no one has received codes for PC, likely a bad port considering the ridiculous system requirements. I remember reading that a 3070 is needed for just 30fps at 1440p. Like wtf is that?
The performance is poor on PS5 as well. The information has been coming out. So it's not only a "power through it because we didn't optimize for PC", it's "We crapped the bed across the board".
It literally dips to 720p, and sometimes under 30fps, on PS5.
I'm not saying they were wrong to pay for exclusivity based off of the Athia demo, but 24 months is insane. It should've been 12 max.
When you put it in context of other timed exclusive games... take any other PS timed exclusive. Let's say Silent Hill 2, they only paid for 12 months of that, assuming Bloober doesn't butcher it, that game is 10x what Athia/Forspoken was at its peak.
Yeah. You kind of always gamble when putting out a new product. You gamble when you invest into something new.
Nobody is coming out of this not taking a hit though. I see this going to PlayStation Plus pretty quickly, and right on Gamepass after the two year window is up. Really can't say with PC. The performance is so poor even the people actually interested may stay away.
This reminds me of a certain CD Projekt situation … My question did the big sites get it and perhaps the lesser know sites didn’t and now they causing a stink?
VGC has an article with a video link to 75 minutes of leaked footage so no surprise with them getting blacklisted. Windows Central....no honest review of a PS exclusive coming out of there. ShillUp shits all over Square in the NFT segment (which they deserve) and rubs in Avengers/Babylons Fall any chance he gets so no surprise there.
More and more Publishers are taking the Microsoft way of doing things. Only give out a few review codes say 40 to 50 to your most trusted sites that you've giving them $$$ and favors to and come review time that favor will be returned with a high review score. What's good for Microsoft is good for everybody else.
The PS5 demo ran at 900p barely hitting 40FPS and dips down to 720, on the PC side the requirements for the game are insane which only suggest the game is a hot mess garbage not optimized on both platforms. No one getting a PC code means exactly that. PS fanboys will never accept that and will award SE their $70 for this piece of garbage and they will downvote this comment to hell.
Because the reviews are already bad, so why send codes when that will just be confirmed by the final version not living up to the hype... -_- I get it, but that's really not going to help anything..
Honestly, I don't think it's malice or a hidden agenda at play here. I feel it's just SE being extremely incompetent with their marketing once again.
This game will be swimming in 7's.
I’m excited for this game to finally come out. No not to play it. So that we can move on from all these articles.
Game is probably glitchy and broken then. No review codes and early embargo means big sus for a big game like this.