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Forspoken’s reviews “challenging” and sales “lackluster”, says Square Enix
“It already seems inevitable that there will be stories two weeks from now about how Forspoken failed to meet Square Enix’s sales expectations,” I wrote as the demo for the Isekai romp arrived on PC. How wrong I was! It took six and a half weeks.
“Reviews of Forspoken… have been challenging,” says Square Enix’s latest financial report, and its sales have been “lackluster”.
Forspoken’s initial world and story “nothing like” final release
It turns out the original draft of Forspoken, the newest RPG game published by Square Enix, was actually very different from the fantasy-focused final product. The writer credited with developing the original concept of Forspoken says the game underwent quite a few changes before landing where it did earlier this year.
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Forspoken’s PC system requirements are still weird, so let’s fix them
Thanks to the joys of late code delivery, a few of us are just now getting to grips with talkative Squeenix ARPG Forspoken. While Alice Bee hammers her review together, I’ve been on my usual hardware bullshit, mainly investigating the peculiar system requirements that were released last week.
These aren’t just an odd collection of specs because of the sheer weight and breadth of their demands; they also overtly target resolutions and framerates that hardly anyone is going to be engaging with. Who on desktop plays at 1280×720? Fewer than 0.3% of Steam users, apparently. And personally, if I’ve spent the cash on a 1440p gaming monitor, I probably wouldn’t be satisfied to watch it display my games at just 30fps. I’ve therefore been finding out what PC hardware Forspoken actually needs to run both smoothly and at more realistic resolutions. Maybe then we can update those system requirements to create some very-much-unofficial, but hopefully more useful, spec guidelines.
Forspoken’s demo is now available on PC
It seemed a shame, given Forspoken‘s somewhat unusual system requirements, that its demo remained unavailable on PC. Well, that’s no longer the case. As of today, you can now give Square Enix’s Cuff-ing season action-adventure a whiz before you decide whether you want to pay £65/$70 for it.
Forspoken’s PC system requirements are demanding, kind of baffling
Steam’s most recent hardware survey says that 65% of PC players use 1080p, but you wouldn’t know it to look at Forspoken‘s system requirements which benchmark the game against 720p 30fps (minimum), 1440p 30fps (recommended) and 2160p 60fps (ultra).
Regardless of what kind of performance you’re aiming for, you’ll need a pretty beefy machine, with 24GB of RAM and an RTX 3070 required to hit those recommended specs.
Forspoken’s PC requirements are out and actually kinda weird
Forspoken’s cinematic trailer shows a world the demo suggests it might not live up to
Last month CJ reported that we might see a demo for Forspoken, Square Enix’s upcoming action RPG with magic-infused parkour. A demo did indeed come out in December, but only on PS5 – and to very mixed reviews. It’s a shame, because the world on show in its latest cinematic trailer looks appetisingly stylish.
The game comes out on January 24th, so we’ll know for sure soon enough.