Avowed - Obsidian's new game, like Pillars of Eternity meets Elder Scrolls

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So does this game take place in fantasy Africa? I am watching gmanLive's review and 80% of the human characters are black.

No one was ever fired for including MORE black characters in a game.

 

[Sho'nuff]

All aspects except story and feeling like a fucking Star Wars product.

Yes, that's precisely what I mean. They took the formula, gameplay, systems that bioware created and made it slightly less janky (not saying much, name a good playing bioware game). What made Kotor special, specifically the story and characters, were all missing. I can't even remember a single thing from KotorII.

This repeats itself through their whole catalog. It's not that they are bad, it's just they are mediocre and devoid of originality.
New Vegas is an evolution of FO3. And while FO3 is kind of unique (it's still oblivion with guns and fallouts motiff) its still a Bethesda game, which means it's a barely functioning. New Vegas slightly improves the gameplay, but does nothing much on top of that. Obsidian getting their flowers for NV is ridiculous, it's still clearly a Bethesda game.

As I said, I think Stick of Truth is really their only game they can point at and say they made a "hit". They still ride the coat-tails of it being South Park, and because the tone, art, characters, etc is all decided for them, but they actually made a game that isn't just a 1 for 1 copy.
Say what you will about Bethesda, at least their games are original garbage. Oblivion belongs to them, so when they make space oblivion, or Skyrim oblivion, or 50s sci fi oblivion, that game belongs to the studio, they own it.
Obsidian has been shitting out other studios games and claiming them as their own their entire existence. Stick of Truth is the only game that is their own, except the IP doesn't belong to them, so what does that leave?

 

[CyrusHowler]

What made Kotor special, specifically the story and characters, were all missing. I can't even remember a single thing from KotorII

Yep. KOTOR 1 had new characters and a new story but it felt like Star Wars. It felt like it could be a movie.
KOTOR 2 felt like it was written by someone who hated Star Wars…Because it was. Fagallone has stated he despises the themes of Star Wars and purposely made KOTOR 2 as a “deconstruction” of Star Wars.

It's not that they are bad

Nah, they’re bad. Their writing is so overblown. Its moral gray areas to the point of ad nauseam. Sure, black and white storylines aren’t the best, but endlessly making everything this muddled gray areas with no stakes is moronic.

Say what you will about Bethesda, at least their games are original garbage

Call me a “fanboy” but I’d rather play a new Bethesda game than a new Obsidian game or a new Larian game. Starfield is the only Bethesda game from Morrowind onward that I genuinely stopped playing and never finished. I didn’t hate it, but it just wasn’t *fun* like other Bethesda games were. Flaws and all, I have fun when I play a Bethesda game and their titles, much like Rockstar’s, are some of the few I can replay more than once.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

Outer Worlds was mid-tier shit.

the game was so shitty microsoft heavily advertised the fact you could technically buy it for $1, how many games can you buy for $1 at launch that are good? another thing to point out, is that Obsidian is apparently releasing The Outer Worlds 2 in about 8 months. i don't know if Avowed is getting any DLC, but i found that a weird thing to say in their announcement trailer back in December. It feels like they must have given up on Avowed to announce 2 games practically back to back. how many game studios release two games in a year anymore? they seem to be dropping this like a dead cat and moving onto their next one

 

[TrainWreckWatcher]

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Giga Nigga vs. La Goblina

Chirst they cant even do goblins right she looks like the troon from gremlins 2.

GTA 6 is our only hope now.

Nigger, you better just stop playing games right now if you're putting any faith in that pozzed hole.
They won't even make fun of gays or trannies in it anymore and were removing it from GTAV discreetly.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220418210724/https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/04/transphobic-content-and-jokes-removed-from-latest-gta-v-remasters/

God this game looks like dogshit. I saw some combat and they managed to make it look like a cluster fuck in the worst ways imaginable.
Remember the big group fights from oblivion and how awful that often looked? Worse than that but with vomit purple and pink everywhere cause for some reason everyone loves those colors.

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

Credits are also up

Didn't even have to fucking watch it, the autogenerated thumbnail already has a jeet AI lead. Because of course it does.

I mean, looking at this, would you still be surprised?

 

[30+GameOvers]

Why copy the bethesda formula if you aren't going to implement any of the actual fun parts? I know isometric RPGs don't sell well, but coasting of one game for 12 years is a failing strategy. Of course, Obsidian is a Microsoft-owned company so they probably won't die yet.

Thing is that you could slaughter whole towns if you wanted to in Outer Worlds, so it's not like the engine isn't capable of it. This was a calculated decision, to prevent people from killing the diverse wholesome niggerinos in towns. What a joke.

it aged like shit lmao.
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rest in piss Obsidian, you were supposed to look at Forspoken and take notes on what NOT to do.

Millennial writing has been a curse on pop culture and media. Even Kingdom Come 2 now has marvel tier writing all over the place.

PatricianTV is streaming the game.

This dude hated The Outer Worlds(altho I don't necessarily agree with his video, Salt Factory one was better done), I sense another video essay in the works.

Ignoring the woke shit for a second how is the gameplay, because Outer Worlds is one of the most boring games ever made and after the hype died down everyone just came to the same conclusion.
Did they improve the combat or did they just decide to make a worse Outer Worlds?

Melee combat seems to be more in depth, but other than that, no. I saw the player being able to wield magic and a weapon, ala Bioshock with a plasmid and a gun, so maybe mage-gunslinger or mage-melee builds will spice up the combat?

That explains why Jason Schreier "loves" this game, because he hates white males except for himself.

Jews aren't white

 

[biggie bundu]

Wtf even is this game? Who does this appeal to? Did they hire the same character designers that worked on Concord? Holy fuck this looks bad

 

[biggie bundu]

I can't stand the look of this game. Like so many other modern games now, the graphics are technically high quality, but everything has this shimmer of plastic fake soullessness over the top.

 

[30+GameOvers]

Wtf even is this game? Who does this appeal to? Did they hire the same character designers that worked on Concord? Holy fuck this looks bad

There is only a few possible kinds of people who this appeals to:
1) People who want more Outer Worlds sloppa(me) but in fantasy packaging
2) People who wanted Pillars of Eternity in 3D
3) People who wanted a "Skyrim Lite"(which this was initially advertised as).

In the end, I doubt it will end up appealing to anybody. Pronouns and lack of killable town NPCs means I won't be playing this until these two things are patched out, and with how little shit anyone gave about modding Outer Worlds I doubt that will happen.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

I hate them...

 

[Foltest]

The charachter models just look so fucking ugly.

 

[TouchFluffyTail]

I am so glad I didn't spoil myself by watching any promo material about this game these screenshots are fucking killing me.

You may not like it, but this is what peak vidya performance looks like

 

[Caddo Cobgang]

Call me a “fanboy” but I’d rather play a new Bethesda game than a new Obsidian game or a new Larian game.

I don't have a hateboner for any of them really but like Larian honestly seems like the least interesting of the three, maybe its just because I am not used to CRPGs and found BGIII to be too complicated, I get forgive wokeness if its not overly cringe, but if I get filtered by something then I have a hard time coming back

 

[Draina]

Like Ice Cube said "Everythangs corrupt, everythangs fucked up". If i paid half a mind to and cared what gaming companies were up to in their twitter ad campaigns i would be playing Tic-tac-toe on paper with myself. Unless the "woke" is blatant and in my face to the level i can't ignore it i don't really care. In KCD2s case i was invested in the game and the world cause i played the first one trough twice. So gay shit (no two straight men cannot be friends without wanting to fuck each other) and magic muslim niggers from the heart of africa made me kind of pissed. But a fantasy game from a studio i already have low expectations from in the same fantasy setting i kind of like. Meh Bill Gates can have my 11 bucks, i install play uninstall and forget about it.

>quoting a nigger
>insisting on people buying the game
Quite lazy, Shlomo

 

[ParasiteSteve]

Is there a reason like 80% of fantasy games heavily overuse these weird pseudo Scottish accents?

Veilguard did they shit too.

Because its "Norse". Actual Norse would need subtitles, modern Scando or Fin language would also need subtitles. So getting Oor Willie to put some lines down gets that same feeling without the extra aggro of the other options.

 

[kiwirevolving]

Interesting how all the early reviewers say they "played for 15 hours"

Is there like a time limit for the early review copies?

Im curious to see what reviewer will draw the short straw and end up getting publicly hanged because they fucked up and didnt disclose it was a paid review, because it's obvious how much Xbox is trying to astroturf this shit

 

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That explains why Jason Schreier "loves" this game, because he hates white males except for himself.

White male? Schreier?


Did you even have to look this one up?


This is the guy calling you a icky nazi chud online while he covers up his buddies at Blizzard repeatedly sexually assaulting women for fun. (At least, until his book is ready to be published.)

 

[gay]

Real question, was Obsidian ever that good? All of their best games ride on the coat-tails of others work.

Obsidian has made good games, their issue is that they made New Vegas and now they're stuck having to cater to retards that want them to make New Vegas 2, it's why they made Outer Worlds, it's why they're doing Outer Worlds 2 and transitioned a CRPG franchise like Pillars to being Fantasy Outer Worlds because Pillars 2 flopped so badly, Tyranny and Pentiment (which imo are good but flawed) didn't do well either so naturally all roads lead back to more Lidl Skyrim slop.

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

Interesting how all the early reviewers say they "played for 15 hours"

Care to link some? Could be them reading from the same shill script, like the classic "I don't understand the hate, I'm having a blast" that was prevalent during Forspoken/Concord/Suicide Squad.