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Moaning_Clock
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Who the fuck peorders games 2024 ... aside from all the Kickstarter autists
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They finally got their formula right with Deadfire and then they decide to fuck it all up again by going out of their comfort zone into some action-like.
No matter what they do though, Eora will remain one of the most bland fantasy worlds ever created.
No matter what they do though, Eora will remain one of the most bland fantasy worlds ever created.
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It's absolutely similar to Veilguard, on many fronts.
Much like Veilguard, Avowed is also tied to a franchise that started out as a fairly dark and gritty setting with creepy looking monsters and complex, nuanced characters. Each subsequent entry in both franchises eroded away the darker aspects of their respective settings and began injecting more and more modern day real world viewpoints and ideologies.
Avowed was also presented with a completely different tone and set of aesthetics upon its initial reveal - ironically one more in line with the original Pillars of Eternity game.
Here's a link to the original announcement trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3QkO8fy3tg
I quite enjoyed the original Pillars of Eternity for what it was. Some of the world building is pretty intriguing and it wasn't afraid to dip into outright horror. I particularly enjoyed exploring the sanitarium and Heritage Hill. The design for the undead enemies was pretty creepy, in a satisfying way. Everything in Avowed shown looks toned down and cartoony...in exactly the same overly safe and sanitised style as games such as Veilguard.
Much like Veilguard, Avowed is also tied to a franchise that started out as a fairly dark and gritty setting with creepy looking monsters and complex, nuanced characters. Each subsequent entry in both franchises eroded away the darker aspects of their respective settings and began injecting more and more modern day real world viewpoints and ideologies.
Avowed was also presented with a completely different tone and set of aesthetics upon its initial reveal - ironically one more in line with the original Pillars of Eternity game.
Here's a link to the original announcement trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3QkO8fy3tg
I quite enjoyed the original Pillars of Eternity for what it was. Some of the world building is pretty intriguing and it wasn't afraid to dip into outright horror. I particularly enjoyed exploring the sanitarium and Heritage Hill. The design for the undead enemies was pretty creepy, in a satisfying way. Everything in Avowed shown looks toned down and cartoony...in exactly the same overly safe and sanitised style as games such as Veilguard.
"We have always known war..."
"It forged our empire..."
"Turned heroes into Queens and Kings!"
Queens mentioned before Kings YAAAAAASSSSSSSSS
It was already being infected with wokeness, which shouldn't surprise anyone seeing how POE2 was full of woke current year shit.
This game was no doubt rewritten in many cases like Failguard was, and as Dreadwolf Failguard was already Tumblr: the RPG.
It looks decent in the original launch trailer but probably would have been full of shitlib Commiefornia like POE2
The latest release trailers you can smell the incompotent DEI hands and tranny meddling
Team of zany characters posing like they are the Marvel Avengers very much puts me in the same vibe as Veilguard did. And even though I haven't played either game, that purple haze when casting clip straight up reminds me of the Veilguard scenes I've seen on YouTube.
We are talking about the trailer here, not the finished game. I have knowledge of how the game will be, and how different from Veilguard's God of War combat it will be, but the marketing presentation in this trailer tells me it was designed before Veilguard marketing flopped, as its taking some beats from it.
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What's rather funny is that Infinitron didn't even quote Obsidian's marketing in the OP, but the blurb is all his original content.
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Deadfire had sillier character writing, but it wasn't any less dark. Every faction is monstrous and you're railroaded into a grim ending.
We go through this every time. Cinematic trailers are 100% fake and never representative of the final product. A waste of money, but the industry has insisted on them for about two decades now.
Contrary opinion from a guy who's played 10 hours.
Mortismal said:
What zany characters and what posing?
That seems like regular PoE spell effects to me.
Heroic Liberator
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Oh no, he's evolving!
didnt that guy say veilguard was the best game of the year?
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The question is if he follows Pokemon or Digimon evolution logic
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He may have absurd tastes, but "This feels like the Pillars games" isn't about one's own preferences. I've seen no gameplay demonstrations so far that show he's wrong.
This is the cast for the new Marvel TV show.
Possible, but the Xbox people watching that trailer have seen Veilguard's marketing, and haven't played PoE. Or at least have seen Veilguard more recently, and have more recent memory of it.
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There is a way to "fix" them
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Grauken
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This is the cast for the new Marvel TV show.
I'm not seeing the big difference here.
"THE UNFORGETTABLE WORLD OF EORA ! " 
1. The difference isn't subtle.
2. One is before and the other is after Veilguard and superhero movie fatigue went mainstream.
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You're not doing a great job of explaining it. The previous games are paintings, which is why they're in battle, the Avowed pic is done in-engine so having them surrounded by enemies would look a bit silly, otherwise, it's the same concept.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe started in 2008 and the Avengers was released in May 2012. Project Eternity Kickstarter started in September 2012.
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