You can’t really gauge its Steam reviews because there are only 13(!) total so far, reflective of a game that has launched with just a few hundred players. 224, as I’m writing this article. Sub-Concord levels. Yes. Concord is a unit of measurement now.

The Concord legacy lives on.

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[–] simple@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

The article is tongue in cheek, but I'm not sure where you're getting "pretty decent AA game" from. It got scathing reviews and has a worse average score than Forespoken. It's currently mostly negative on Steam so from what it sounds, it seems like a bad game that got zero advertisements because the studio gave up on it.

[–] sgnl@midwest.social 7 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Forespokens hatred train was beyond-the-pale ridiculous. If every game was judged / brigaded as harshly as Forspoken was, the AAA game industry would collapse.

And honestly, Forspoken was a really fun game if you focused on what you were doing 99% of the time, which was traversal and combat. The story, quest design and characters were lackluster, but it wasn't nearly as horrible as people made it out to be.

People robbed themselves.

[–] zecg@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

People robbed themselves.

Are you fucking kidding me? It's 79.99€ on Steam and you're talking as if the opportunity to experience it is lost forever. If it's worth a cat shit, I'm looking forward to its proper release in 2026 at 15€ or less.

[–] sgnl@midwest.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

Lol, I'm not gonna contest you on the price point. But that's an issue with every AAA+ game imho. Even I snagged it on sale.

But that's also not even close to what the review bombing was about.

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