Eternity Avowed - Obsidian's first person action-RPG in the Pillars of Eternity setting - coming February 18th

[Moink]

Looks like an early Spiders game.

 

[Jenkem]

man.. AVOWED and BLOODLINES 2 in the same year?

Gaming is saved.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

The game's combat doesn't seems as bad as I thought it would be.. Cool that CC spells are more present than most first person RPG.

 

[Cross]

Combat tries into dark messiah of mm but I messiah still was mo4e fun probably.

It looks nothing like Dark Messiah. It looks like Skyrim, with the same stiff animations and banal enemy behavior. They even copied the "weapon in one hand, pew pew magic in the other hand" gimmick from Skyrim.

Dark Messiah had very satisfying hit feedback. It also had more interesting enemy behavior. Enemies could jump and climb, freeze you, pick you up and throw you around...

 

[NaturallyCarnivorousSheep]

Sailor Woedica would show you if she was still around

 

[Shadenuat]

Combat tries into dark messiah of mm but I messiah still was mo4e fun probably.

It looks nothing like Dark Messiah. It looks like Skyrim, with the same stiff animations and banal enemy behavior. They even copied the "weapon in one hand, pew pew magic in the other hand" gimmick from Skyrim.

Dark Messiah had very satisfying hit feedback. It also had more interesting enemy behavior. Enemies could jump and climb, freeze you, pick you up and throw you around...

Skyrim didnt have freezing and shattering combo for example, even though it sounds like banality that should be present in actionrpg

 

[AwesomeButton]

I don't expect anything good after The Outer Worlds happened but I couldn't care less about the graphicswhore takes. Gotta wait till release to see if they manage to improve writing at all.

Let's be real here. When did anyone improve their writing during development? We get TOW writing style. Whoever doesn't like it, don't buy the game.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Sailor Woedica would show you if she was still around

She was invited to show it many times, but never did.

 

[Quillon]

if you have a good game/a game you are proud of you show it like idk how long they been showing this indiana game? 20 mins? if you are ashamed of what you made you show it for 3 mins with a lot of quick cuts like Awoken

 

[PlayerEmers]

I had no expectations and the showcase still disappointed

 

[Drakortha]

Skyrim looked more natural than this. In 2011.

It's got that Unreal Engine 5 look. No artstyle.

 

[Habichtswalder]

What race are the dudes from the quest example supposed to be? Aumaua? Look like humans with severe skin infection and nothing like the Deadfire facesets.

 

[NaturallyCarnivorousSheep]

One of the puzzling things about it is that good half of the combat footage involved wands and outside of one scene they just threw a bit of cum at the enemy and that was it. Even focusing on just slashing with swords etc. would look better.

 

[Tyranicon]

>All the NPCs are ugly as shit

Ah, we haven't moved on from TOW, I see.

 

[jackofshadows]

Man this look like absolute dogshit. They've stalled development that long for this? Obsidian is fucking dead.

 

[frajaq]

Wow those gun animations looked rough, no weight, comical impact on the enemies... hope its work in progress

 

[Infinitron]

Explore the Living Lands, a mysterious island filled with adventure and danger in this first deep dive into the gameplay experience you can expect in Avowed, our upcoming fantasy action RPG set in the fantastical, vibrant Living Lands.

Learn more about how we incorporate world-building with profound themes, dynamic gameplay, and thoughtful reactivity and bring them to life in Avowed, where you can make choices to shape every step of your adventure.

 

[Grampy_Bone]

-When will developers learn? Show the gameplay and SHUT UP.

-Black black blackity black black black

 

[Infinitron]

This is p. cool art btw. Gives me the same vibe as the isometric games.

 

[Terenty]

Did AI generate that setting? I don't think you could come up with a more generic fantasy if you tried

 

[frajaq]

-When will developers learn? Show the gameplay and SHUT UP.

yeah there was a disappointing lack of showing the meaty RPG aspects of the game (character equipment slots/stats/skills)

 

[ferratilis]

yeah there was a disappointing lack of showing the meaty RPG aspects of the game (character equipment slots/stats/skills)

What if there aren't any? You have no idea how far the decline can go.

 

[cvv]

I totally spaced out watching that showcase, bored through my skull. Generic visuals, boring looking combat and staged, soulless PR talk.

 

[SpaceWizardz]

Looks unimpressive as an action RPG (poor sound design, slow attack animations, negligible and awkward hit feedback, etc.) and a post-TOW Obsidian leaves no expectations for good worldbuilding/narrative.
Can't imagine there's much confidence in this if even a mainline Bethesda title managed to underwhelm audiences, releasing it late '24 around something like Stalker 2 is sending it out to die.

 

[KVVRR]

I don't remember enough about the setting so I'll just assume that the guns are flintlock and supposed to sound and feel weak, the wands are low level, and that the fishmen are supposed to look like their faces are bloated to a point they look like they're wearing them as a rubber mask, but man they need to fix those sword swings asap. A wild, repetitive swing with the enemy barely reacting and a quick splush of blood really doesn't sell it at all. They need to mess around with the colour hues too; the tropical setting looked more arid and less vibrant than the desert they were comparing it too just a moment ago.

Also fire whoever decided to shoot the interviews like that. It looks so damn awkward. It felt like they were doing a fallout cutscene sketch or something. Just have the devs sitting somewhere explaining the game, not in the middle of a busy room, with them either being shoved to the side but still on focus or perfectly center to it like (again) a npc dialogue scene.