

However, the game's fairly awful launch failed to convince people on the fence that this change was for the better in fact, the sequel struggled to present a strong argument for its existence in general. Overwatch 2 went free-to-play, a decision that came with its share of positives and negatives. Therefore, a sequel should have been a slam dunk, but Blizzard ended up complicating matters. The hero shooter revitalized the genre, and the 2016 game arguably did it better than any of the titles that dropped in its wake. That fantasy world certainly looks appealing, but I realized that's often because the RTX tech disguises art assets that are really cheap and bland.Even though it declined toward the end of its run, Overwatch was undoubtedly a massive success in nearly every metric.

In fact, the game doesn't seem to feature any ray-tracing until Frey arrives in Athia. The opening chapter shows NYC with snow in December, but the ground remains dry, presumably to avoid ray-tracing. Doors inexplicably grow or shrink depending on how you look at them (reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland in all the wrong ways). If the sloppy opening - presenting Frey's entire backstory through documents on a table, with a judge handing down a community service sentence - doesn't turn you off immediately, the lack of consideration only gets worse from there. With publisher Square Enix already catching heat for producer Naoki Yoshida's defense of upcoming Final Fantasy XVI's scant diversity, Forspoken makes the nightmarish choice to start with its Black protagonist in court for her third felony. Put simply, Square Enix faces too many open-world competitors to get away with a poor showing like this.
