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

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I'm about 6 hours into the game, still exploring the first area, looking for the secret/hidden unique items and levelling up to do some monster hunting.

The first city has a female blacksmith, which is a bit gay, other than that, nothing extreme woke wise.

Mechanically the game plays like Dishonored.

The game is fun to play mechanically, I spam through the convos and couldn't give a shit about the storyline. The world looks nice, runs smooth as butter on my rig and is just simple entertainment. Something sorely lacking in todays industry.

EDIT: Obsidian have always got the shit end of the stick and have, IMO, been harshly and unfairly tarnished for their work, even going as far back as KOTOR2, which the critics ragged on.
Avowed seems to be the punching bag for the faggot media who were too scared to call out KCD2. That game is infinitely worse than Avowed which is just a game.

Be aware that this game had to run smoothly on a Series S, so any physics and cobbled-together areas can be explained by content/physics having to be cut to work on the Series S. It would have made sense for Microsoft to cap this game at 1080p@30FPS and include the physics, but microsoft are fucking retarded.
 
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wholetthegodsout said:
Of course the company is going to say they are happy with the sales. Do you think Microsoft wants one of their studios to openly admit that sales are a disaster and the game is underperforming? Especially with Outer Worlds 2 set to release this year.
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Not of course, usually when sales suck the company will shut the fuck up about it and the general public won't know for sure because they don't also follow the investor calls. If they were actually happy they'd blast that shit from the rooftops and there'd be numbers, even if it's bullshit "has engaged" or whatever instead of sold.
 
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Update:

I'm about 6 hours into the game, still exploring the first area, looking for the secret/hidden unique items and levelling up to do some monster hunting.

The first city has a female blacksmith, which is a bit gay, other than that, nothing extreme woke wise.

Mechanically the game plays like Dishonored.

The game is fun to play mechanically, I spam through the convos and couldn't give a shit about the storyline. The world looks nice, runs smooth as butter on my rig and is just simple entertainment. Something sorely lacking in todays industry.

EDIT: Obsidian have always got the shit end of the stick and have, IMO, been harshly and unfairly tarnished for their work, even going as far back as KOTOR2, which the critics ragged on.
Avowed seems to be the punching bag for the faggot media who were too scared to call out KCD2. That game is infinitely worse than Avowed which is just a game.

Be aware that this game had to run smoothly on a Series S, so any physics and cobbled-together areas can be explained by content/physics having to be cut to work on the Series S. It would have made sense for Microsoft to cap this game at 1080p@30FPS and include the physics, but microsoft are fucking retarded.
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The Series S isn't a fucking toaster.

Are you seriously telling me the Series X can't handle object physics and run at more than 30 fps?

Bullshit.
 
There is a quest where you can either kill an NPC or tell the NPC to run away and never show their face again.
After the dialogue ends, the NPC starts running, and like every true gamer ™ I ran after the NPC to see where they hole up.
NPC disappeared into thin air after running 20 yards.
2025 video games everyone.


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Jace on ice said:
The Series S isn't a fucking toaster.

Are you seriously telling me the Series X can't handle object physics and run at more than 30 fps?

Bullshit.
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Yes I am telling you that. The series S is a piece of shit because Microsoft designed it. On paper it should be more powerful than it is, but 3 OS's and shit part selection later and you have a crap console.

To put it into perspective, games run better on the 1X than they do the Series S.
 
Lord Lemurian said:
One of the negative points he lists at the end of his review video is that Avowed is “woke“. Bitch please. There’s nothing particularly woke about this completely bland and unremarkable game apart from choosing pronouns in the character creator
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What's interesting is that i peeked at the resetera thread on avowed and most people were shitting on it there too, and it was allowed by the mods, so it must not be woke enough to justify tribal defense. Leave it to Microsoft to engineer a game in the sweet spot of bland and politically correct enough to not become a culture war football, so mediocre and lacking conviction nobody wants to defend it.
 
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To be the contrarian, I'll defend it with most graceful objectivity.

It has a shallow but working set of bare bones combat and map systems, it has the working skeleton of a game.

If that was it and you could sell it to studios to make amd tweak and do stories in, build upon it.

Except it crashes a lot. So its not even finished.
Story: shit.
Npcs: ugly props.
World intertivity: as close to total zero as you can physically get.
Companions: necessary and boring.

If it came with developer tools way past Todd grade it may have become a cult craft your explore and shoot adventure.

But its not. It is barely a game, like how a few cool designs in a mediocre drawing book is world building.

They aimed for mediocrity and they aimed at 2000s mediocre shovelware. They hit the target spot on.
 
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Guy who blew out Concord's ass simply by repeating how awful the designs were talks about Avowed and the mainstream media. Gets a little preachy but his heart is in the right place.
 
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It has a shallow but working set of bare bones combat and map systems, it has the working skeleton of a game.
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$70.
Male Idiot said:
Except it crashes a lot. So its not even finished.
Story: shit.
Npcs: ugly props.
World intertivity: as close to total zero as you can physically get.
Companions: necessary and boring.
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$70.
Male Idiot said:
It is barely a game, like how a few cool designs in a mediocre drawing book is world building.
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$70.
Male Idiot said:
They aimed for mediocrity and they aimed at 2000s mediocre shovelware. They hit the target spot on.
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$70.
 
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Male Idiot said:
it has the working skeleton of a game.
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It's exactly what I felt playing it.
The same feeling when you got your exam with a 10/20 or 5/10 or 50/100 idk where you live.
Not proud of it but you passed so it's ok I guess [coping hard agressively]
 
Male Idiot said:
It is not worth half of that. 10 dollars max if you really liked PoE.
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There are way better games on sale, right now, that can buy for $10. Disco Elysium, the entire Batman Arkham Collection, the Leisure Suit Larry Collection, Deus Ex Mankind Divided, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, both Grimrock games, and that's just skimming Steam. On GOG, you can get the first Kingdom Come, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Dragon's Dogma 1, Torchlight 1/2, Darkest Dungeon 1, literally all of the Metro series, and Frostpunk. Even if it was only competing for $10, there's a lot better that I can spend it on.
 
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Eadred said:
There is a quest where you can either kill an NPC or tell the NPC to run away and never show their face again.
After the dialogue ends, the NPC starts running, and like every true gamer ™ I ran after the NPC to see where they hole up.
NPC disappeared into thin air after running 20 yards.
2025 video games everyone.


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Meanwhile, two examples from Oblivion I can think of off the top of my head:
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Hirtel, dude you meet running the fuck away from Kvatch who informs you about the city's destruction. You can jolly well run alongside him, and you will witness him permanently relocating to an inn in Anvil.
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The notorious Lucien Lachance. There are two instances where he will approach you directly outside of his lair in fort Farragut, and both times after ending the conversation he will cast a chameleon spell on himself and physically walk towards his destination (the aforementioned fort and later Applewatch).

Not to say that there is no instances of NPCs just randomly vanishing after they're no longer needed for anything, for example once his party has been wiped out, the Orc adventurer leader in the Shivering Isles prologue will leg it towards the entry gate and simply disappear from the game. It's still better than just going poof in the middle of a road.
 
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Tri-Tachyon'sClown said:
Guy who blew out Concord's ass simply by repeating how awful the designs were talks about Avowed and the mainstream media. Gets a little preachy but his heart is in the right place.
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He needed something to be outraged about now that KCD2 sold a lot.
Currently, Avowed is the prygelknabe for the outrage media, so they need it to drive clicks.

Avowed brings in the angry gamers who are OUTRAGED that this game is kind of a 6/10 or a 7/10, and it is a conspiracy that some people think is fun. Woke and Broke and whatever culture war loser shit.

I am having fun playing it as I get time to sit down. I like the magic system and the combat. The universe is one I like; while the NPCs look like hot trash, the game has fantastic views with great design and some baffling design and graphics choices. It is a mixed bag.

Do I think you should go out and buy it for 70? Hell no, but there is no conspiracy about this game, and the only reason that this is a hot topic is that KCD2 was too good, so like Bladursgate, the outraged gamer will suck the girlcock if the game is fun.
 
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