So I played forspoken and I have things to say.
First of all can I say I'm just pissed at people negative review bombing this beautiful game? The world building was beautiful and I actually liked the banter/quarrel/conversation between Cuff and Frey. Ciff reminds me of this sassy talking skull in one of my favorite book series who's so sassy and a jerk but still a fun character who makes you laugh. it seems the DLC was setting up for a sequel giving us a glimpse of Cuff's rebirth and Frey's journey to Reddha to find out what all the jazz was about between Athia and Reddha. Now we will never know because people review-bombed this game so hard when it wasn't even that bad.
I do have criticism regarding it's very very bad optimization on PC (i played it on PC). Wish it was better optimized. On that front, i agree with the critics. I olayed on Low settings with fsr on and it was still a struggle at times. i think developers these days are releasing games for consoles and calling it a day instead of optimizing for PC as well. I think that is simply abhorrent Especially since nvidia isn't even providing that much of vram for their gpus and some of us simply can't afford to keep upgrading our gps every few years. why are all modern games so badly optimized these days damn it?
HOWEVER, the game was nowhere as 'bad' and 'cringe' as it was made out to be. It was fun, combat was actually enjoyable, there were so many powerful characters and bosses i LOVED it. And i get people are like 'Frey is so rude i don't like her' but she lived her life as an orphan thinking that her parents threw her away because they didn't want her. And her life Was anything but easy. She had to find a way to survive from one day to the next. And i think that kind of trauma changes a person. I feel like when it comes to male characters, they are given a bit of grace even if they are outright evil in the last and are trying to improve. Kratos of God of War literally commited a genocide and is brisk and gruff and LOVED just because he is trying to do better. So this double standard if having harsh judgement on female characters irrespective of their past and trauma is hipocritical. In fact, it would have been so unrealistic from a storytelling standpoint if Frey was polite and pleasing and bending over backward for everyone. And i feel like her bitterness was needed to show the character development. Female characters already get too much hate for nothing and Frey happened to be female and black, so incels blew their top off.
Anyhow i liked the game. It was fun and beautiful. The art was well done. I am sort of emotional having finished it and very frustrated that we'll never get a sequel to know more about Reddha, it's animosity with Athia, and more info on dear old Cuff's life. It sucks! I went on to steam to see if the reviews were still bad and saw that recent reviews of this game were actually positive with people acknowledging that the game was judged too harshly when it came out. A little too late for that, i know, but it still made me happy. If more people like this game, do you think we could hope for a sequel in the future? I NEED it. But i do hope that it will be better optimized so that it can be played on low/mid-end PC as well (at keast on low or medium setting). Not all of us can afford high-end gaming laptop/pc, and I have been feeling down lately thinking that I am no longer going to be able to play new AAA games because the requirements are soooo high!