Sacred Symbols+, Episode 300 | Forspoken Review Discussion and Spoilercast (Video)

The best name on that list is Todd Bonzales.

Evan

Episode was great. Would love for colin and gene to reunite and do ffxv. A game i loved the first time. Got bored with in postgame and then just thought was ok in a second playthrough.

Nathan Barnard

worlds first!! hahahah

Pyo

His game taste these days is questionable for sure lol. Id go for a Dustin or Gene take first myself, Chris also seems to have fairly passable taste, if a bit mainstream and bland. Guess that's the beauty of LSM not being JUST Colin. You can align with someone else's tastes in games from the company and take their word on if somethings good or not, theirs a broad enough spectrum across the shows for everyone's tastes to be represented.

Stinkling

Agreed. And ultimately you or anyone should play exactly what they want without having to prove why! Love ya buddy.

Jordan Falduto

I don’t know man, sometimes I get really into a game that I intellectually understand isn’t very good, but something about it captures my attention. Greedfall comes to mind…was spending 60 hours on that a good use of my time while I have a back catalog of AAA games that I know will be great? Probably not, but it’s my time, damnit. 😅 OT2 is my GOTY so far, so I’m not hating on your take at all.

Jimmy G

There's been tonnes of fantastic turn based jrpgs since 1999. Octopath is decent but has issues with characters and tedium, same as the first one. Would still recommend them to fans of jrpgs tho.

Yalingo

The dedication for this video was real

Austin Lipka

It's contrarian to drop high quality good games and purposefully play low quality mediocre at best games. Matty would be on the spoilercast and it was (is?) his GOTY. Micah stuck with it longer than Colin so she would probably be on it too. Can't remember if Holly played it from their chat, but she has a much better taste in RPGs than any of the Sacred crew. Regardless, I'm just whining because I used to go to Colin for his JRPG takes but his taste in games has since taken a turn. It's okay though because he's brought in people whose takes I CAN relate to - hence the empire. When I was a KF listener, his taste was all I had.

Jordan Falduto

It’s not necessarily contrarian if you’re genuinely bored with a game and drop off. It happens. If you already think OT2 is great you should probably count your blessings there’s no spoilercast.

Jimmy G

Octopath Traveler 2, the best turn-based RPG since FFIX = mmm dropped it 30 hours in, too tedious Forspoken = getting the platinum, Spoilercast Colin my boy, you gotta wear that contrarian hat proudly!

Jordan Falduto

Yeah that demo looked much better than the final product

Walker Simmons

it's true though, i mean just look at how lauded the Luminus tech demo was prior to this games announcement. honestly I just think that graphical polishing is some of the later things done, and they just ran outta budget to implement it.

easelgames

That's a bad goal from the very start unless you are catering to an audience of children or idiots, which they were. You can impress me for a maximum of about ten minutes, at which point I need to have found a game I actually like to play. This is why stuff like SCORN just fail so hard. Nobody really cares about your art if you aren't making a good game first.

PRETENTIEUX

I remember reading an article where someone at Luminous Productions said they were trying to make Forspoken the most graphically impressive and beautiful open world ever made. What happened? Definitely needed way more development time or better management

Walker Simmons

"The difference between Control and Forspoken is that Control is awesome" LOL that one snuck up real quick.

LOL - what a special way to celebrate SS+ 300! 😆😆

Alex Castellanos