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

[Cohesion]

Considering the current Microsoft/Xbox crisis, its kinda funny the extra weight this game has on its shoulders

Developers developers developers.

More like

Sweating from all that coke.

 

[Silverfish]

"My character is a level 20 wolfman rogue named Dread who's a pretty cool guy and doesn't afraid of anything. He can teleport behind people and one shot them with his katana. Nothing Personal kid"

Hey, at least he's not a stealth archer.

 

[Vyvian]

From "romances shouldn't be in rpgs" to "back when romances in rpgs were good"...

At some point you have to admit the battle was lost and just deal with what you get.

 

[Jenkem]

The new footage and details that will be shown soon are going to be great.. Another Obsidian slam dunk.

 

[Butter]

Lower your expectations folks! We've only had 200 people working on this for 5 years! Don't expect a lot of features or content! We're the underdog so you should support our work! Just don't expect it to be good...

 

[Lemming42]

I'm still not recovered from The Outer Worlds. Genuinely scarring experience. I'm not ready for more. I can't take something like that again. I'm not fucking ready. Why can't the company just go bust and the game get scrapped before release.

 

[PunchYouInTheFace]

Need more games like Deadfire and The Outer Worlds.

 

[Bulo]

Need more games like Deadfire and The Outer Worlds.

Are you some sort of drug addict?

 

[scytheavatar]

I'm still not recovered from The Outer Worlds. Genuinely scarring experience. I'm not ready for more. I can't take something like that again. I'm not fucking ready. Why can't the company just go bust and the game get scrapped before release.

The Outer Worlds at least has vets like Cain. You should be scared of the games that will be coming out of Obsidian without them around. They have a high chance of making The Outer Worlds look like Skyrim in comparison.

 

[Child of Malkav]

The Outer Worlds at least has vets like Cain.

Oh my, the Cain that praised the FO show? The Cain that made TOW? That Cain? Just let Obsidian die at this point.

 

[Lemming42]

The Outer Worlds at least has vets like Cain. You should be scared of the games that will be coming out of Obsidian without them around. They have a high chance of making The Outer Worlds look like Skyrim in comparison.

I get the impression Cain's influence over many things was minimal, the guy had a story about how it took him two weeks to get a small tweak made to enemy AI because of the bizarre chain of command at Obsidian.

Plus while pretty much every aspect of TOW is a trainwreck, the writing is the real shocker, and Avowed is surely going to be written the same people. I could just about have tolerated walking around an empty-ass world getting into the worst gunfights in gaming history if it weren't for the mind-rending shit of every single line of dialogue in the game. I guess Avowed might be an even wilder ride but I struggle to imagine how.

 

[Old Hans]

I wish they would release some new footage just for something new to make fun of

 

[Infinitron]

I wish they would release some new footage just for something new to make fun of

Why do you think this thread became active again?

https://www.xbox.com/en-US/events/xbox-games-showcase

 

[NaturallyCarnivorousSheep]

Deadfire had bad writing but the character building and combat are superb, too bad this game throws all of this out of the window!

 

[NaturallyCarnivorousSheep]

 

[fantadomat]

We've only had 200 people working on this for 5 years!

 

[Dishonoredbr]

Obsdian still exist? Shame

 

[Poseidon00]

Need more games like Deadfire and The Outer Worlds.

At least Deadfire had satisfying build autism, I actually enjoyed some segments of that.

Outer Worlds was so insufferably bland by the time I met Parvati I had absolutely had enough, I quite playing the game seriously, and just attacked anything and everything I saw. I still got bored of it within the hour.

 

[PunchYouInTheFace]

At least Deadfire had satisfying build autism, I actually enjoyed some segments of that.

Outer Worlds was so insufferably bland by the time I met Parvati I had absolutely had enough, I quite playing the game seriously, and just attacked anything and everything I saw. I still got bored of it within the hour.

I enjoyed The Outer Worlds (TOW) because almost every quest has non-lethal solutions. In any other RPG, the same scenario would likely present binary choices about who you'd kill. From what I remember, there are only one or two exceptions in TOW. Additionally, the level design is good, offering you the option to sneak past enemies, which is useful when you don't need to kill them for xp farming. I personally think combat should reward the least amount of XP, so that quests have a bigger impact on character progression.

Combat is definitely not the game's strong suit, and build variety is also weak (and picking perks like it's a button instead naming them to make them unique definitely does not help). It's understandable that people expecting a game like New Vegas might be disappointed, since TOW is essentially Arcanum with First person combat.

That being said, the foundation is good and they can easily make better game for the sequel. It needs refinement.

 

[Butter]

Arcanum already has guns, and it's 100x better than The Outer Slop.

 

[PunchYouInTheFace]

Arcanum already has guns

Holy shit. How did I missed that.

 

[Thal]

Arcanum already has guns

Holy shit. How did I missed that.

You went the Harm-spam way and never looked back

 

[Spukrian]

Additionally, the level design is good, offering you the option to sneak past enemies, which is useful when you don't need to kill them for xp farming.

Sneaking in The Outer Worlds is very good, but you know what's even better? Backstabbing and then murdering every enemy in melee combat. Works against all types of enemies.*

* = All enemies except Primals.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

I wouldn't say TOW builds are necessarily bad, the character system itself is pretty solid. It's just that even on Supernova the game is way too easy to bother with minmaxing. You can max whatever and it's gonna work good enough.

 

[DeepOcean]

Can't wait for juvenile californian women trying to write aping Marvel with those quirky and "oh so funny" interactions and half of the NPC cast being troons telling their unique snowflake stories.