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Vei had reached the abandoned house with the talking cuff, nearing the end of the first chapter of the game and moving on to thefantasy world of Athia, the main setting. After she takes in her settings, she walks towards the desk and interacts with the item, only for the game to stutter. Vei wonders if the stuttering was due toForspokencrashing, only for a popup to say that veibei’s PS5 still had forty gigabytes of app data to download before she could continue playing.
Vei was not pleased by this and can even be heard regaining her composure in a clip shared to Reddit, almost as if she was on the verge of tears. Once she calms down, she laughs some of her frustrations off as she questions whyForspoken"said it was playable" when it wasn’t. She says she “doesn’t want to go Karen” on the situation before expressing that it was ridiculous that she had to download roughly forty gigabytes in order toleave New York inForspoken. Due to the fact that the core ofForspokentakes place in Athia, veibei essentially had the entire rest of the title left to download.
The download had an estimated three hours left before it would finally finish, and veibei could play without any interruptions. She points this out in a dramatic fashion and presumably ends the stream untilForspokenfinished downloading. The original stream was understandably left off of Vei’s channel, but luckily the download was completed later that day, and a full, uninterrupted stream ofForspokencan be found on the Vtuber’s channel with possibly more to come. All that remains of the situation is a Twitch clip one viewer managed to save.
It’s understandable why Vei made such a mistake, as plenty of releases in this generation of gaming tend to prioritize downloading the start of the title first so other parts could take their time loading as fans play. Once the start of the game is fully downloaded, these games will consider themselves “playable” on menu screens. However, it seems thatForspokendoesn’t seem to be too streamer-friendly so far, assomeone else was banned on Twitchfor playing it early.
Forspokenis available now on PC and PS5.
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