Preview Avowed Gameplay Demo and Previews

[Roguey]

Obsidian returns to making casual FP action games, as if Pillars 1/2 never existed.

Millions more people played The Outer Worlds than any Pillars or Tyranny or Pentiment. This keeps the studio running.

 

[Tyranicon]

They're gonna have to rush out Grounded 2 if they keep this up.

 

[AwesomeButton]

played

You mean "started the game .exe file when it was available for free on game pass"?

 

[Roguey]

You mean "started the game .exe file when it was available for free on game pass"?

They specifically stated "units sold through."

 

[agris]

Is this it, is the codex finally going to stop sucking obsidian's dick? "Muh flatout new faggos"

Hey man, FlatOut was fantastic

 

[AwesomeButton]

I see the inability to produce natural looking facial animations of characters in conversation has translated very well from The Outer Worlds.

Spoiler

You know, fuck everything else, a game in 2024 that can't give me the quality of conversations I got in 2015 with The Witcher 3, will get nothing but my derision. This is a role-playing game, if you're going to do 1st person 3D (and 3rd person in dialogues) in a post-Witcher 3 world, you owe it to the players to provide characterisation through your characters' animations. It's not optional, you don't get a "we're a small indie studio" excuse. If that was the case, which it isn't, you should have stuck to isometric, you losers.

 

[sebas]

That's because CDPR built an engine for their Holywood style storytelling. Avowed will just use UE5.

 

[AwesomeButton]

That's because CDPR built an engine for their Holywood style storytelling. Avowed will just use UE5.

They could buy/license it, and port it, if anyone in lead position cared about it enough, and if they had enough actual programmers working on the project.

 

[luj1]

Faces are the least of Avowed's problems

 

[Silvanus]

The biggest problem I'm seeing is that this is just not interesting. Veilguard looks so awful that it'll provide some entertainment from how bad it is, and Avowed doesn't even have that. I'm guessing that it'll turn out like the Outer Worlds (I actually had to look up the name of that game to make sure I remembered it) as an unremarkable, uninteresting game that gets instantly forgotten by everybody outside of its small group of enthusiasts.

 

[Roguey]

I see the inability to produce natural looking facial animations of characters in conversation has translated very well from The Outer Worlds.

Everyone uses FaceFX because it's good enough. It was like this nearly 20 years ago (first release of FaceFX was 2005), it will likely remain true for 20 years more.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Faces are the least of Avowed's problems

I see the inability to produce natural looking facial animations of characters in conversation has translated very well from The Outer Worlds.

Everyone uses FaceFX because it's good enough. It was like this nearly 20 years ago (first release of FaceFX was 2005), it will likely remain true for 20 years more.

I used to be able to play low effort games like that, now I don't have the time. This too will likely remain true for the next 20 years.

 

[Maculo]

Those spell effects and UI were rough; god damn. I am not a graphics whore, but that green spray was distractingly bad. If you cannot render an acid spray in the moment, then why make it so massive on the screen? Just cut the loss and reduce the size of it.

That felt worse than the last one with the sporlings.

I don’t get the logic here. They had a game with Chanters, psykers, soul androids/puppets, and reincarnating enemies. Why not lead with the semi-unique aspects to your own setting? Dayum.

 

[POOPERSCOOPER]

I made A Vow not to play this game

 

[Hydro]

I duno guys, I feel pretty optimistic about the game. Don’t let a few screeching bethestards spoil your fun.

Believe in Feargus.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

You know, fuck everything else, a game in 2024 that can't give me the quality of conversations I got in 2015 with The Witcher 3, will get nothing but my derision. This is a role-playing game, if you're going to do 1st person 3D (and 3rd person in dialogues) in a post-Witcher 3 world, you owe it to the players to provide characterisation through your characters' animations. It's not optional, you don't get a "we're a small indie studio" excuse. If that was the case, which it isn't, you should have stuck to isometric, you losers.

Fair point I guess. If you want to compete in the "open world RPG" arena, Skyrim ain't a game to beat anymore, there's a new sheriff in town.

 

[Roguey]

Fair point I guess. If you want to compete in the "open world RPG" arena, Skyrim ain't a game to beat anymore, there's a new sheriff in town.

Witcher 3 doesn't have the same goals, there's not much crossover.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Fair point I guess. If you want to compete in the "open world RPG" arena, Skyrim ain't a game to beat anymore, there's a new sheriff in town.

Witcher 3 doesn't have the same goals, there's not much crossover.

Sure there is. If you're not up to a standard of 10 year old game, that's a problem.

 

[Roguey]

Sure there is. If you're not up to a standard of 10 year old game, that's a problem.

Witcher 3 was made by over 250 people in four years during pre-pandemic conditions. Avowed's 100 and had a period of a year and a half where they were a "crappy developer" (Feargus's words).

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Sure there is. If you're not up to a standard of 10 year old game, that's a problem.

Witcher 3 was made by over 250 people in four years during pre-pandemic conditions.

And it was so long ago, Osama bid Laden was still alive when they started development.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Fair point I guess. If you want to compete in the "open world RPG" arena, Skyrim ain't a game to beat anymore, there's a new sheriff in town.

Witcher 3 doesn't have the same goals, there's not much crossover.

What goals does Avowed have?

 

[Fargus]

Bore you to death

 

[Roguey]

What goals does Avowed have?

Being Outer Worlds with more exploration and somewhat less role-playing freedom (mandatory companions, no pacifist-playthrough support).

 

[Gahbreeil]

Being Outer Worlds with more exploration

Touchdown!

somewhat less role-playing freedom (mandatory companions, no pacifist-playthrough support)

Sadge.

 

[frajaq]

Have they shown all available skill trees yet?