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

[Saint_Proverbius]

I miss MCA.

I think it's pure shit that he was raked through the mud over some bullshit texts.

and whatever shitty South Park games they pump out

They only did Stick of Truth. It wasn't bad, particularly if you're a fan of the show... but the sequel was better.

So, no involvement of Urquhart, Sawyer, Cain or Boyarsky in Avowed.

Not that it looks interesting to me, but Silent Hill was made by a group of developers Konami didn't have any faith in and people that they only hired just to keep any other studio from hiring them. They put them in a room in the basement to make a game they didn't really care anything about and it was one of their biggest hits ever and something they never could manage to replicate once that team left the company. I'm not even sure the moral of that story, but I'm sure it isn't that games these days just might suck because of corporate interference and design-by-committee.

But none of those guys were stars until Silent Hill was a hit.

TOW is a 6.5/10 game, it doesn't suck as much as it is aggressively mediocre.

This is my take as well.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

I miss MCA.

I think it's pure shit that he was raked through the mud over some bullshit texts.

That's the world we are living in unfortunately. And once your reputation is tarnished, it tends to stay that way regardless of legal exoneration.

 

[AwesomeButton]

What's up with the color purple in general?

It is the year of purple brains producing purple prose for purple-colored games.

Same as how Nature uses bright and saturated colors to warn us of danger. Purple warns us of bad writing.

Add Wrath of the Righteous to the list too, along with DA: PurpleNotWolf.

 

[AwesomeButton]

TINA AMINI: And we just saw a quick flash of ourselves, actually, and we are-- actually, if you could explain, too, because we are a Godlike.

CARRIE PATEL: Yes.

TINA AMINI: We are almost the opposite of Yatzli in that way. So what does that mean in the world of-- the universe in general, and why we look the way that we look here.

CARRIE PATEL: Sure, so in the world of Pillars of Eternity, a Godlike is a member of any kith species whose soul has been touched in some way by one of the gods. You can play as a Godlike in Pillars one or Deadfire. In Avowed, you are definitely a Godlike, and being a Godlike will manifest in a number of different ways. But one of them is you usually have a unique physical appearance that manifests in some way on your face and/or head.

Now, with Avowed, you can choose exactly what that manifestation looks like. This lichen-like growth is one of your options, but you will have some that are a lot bigger and more dramatic, and you'll also have some that are a lot subtler.

But either way, you have a connection to one of the gods. The thing that's unique about you is you don't know which one, and most Godlikes of Eora, it's very well known which god they share a lineage with. For you, it is a mystery, and that's one of the things you'll get to explore in your journey through Avowed.

I think this is new information? Earlier this year they said you could only be a human or elf (which I guess is still true in a fashion).

Yes, and it's pretty close to dissuading me from even trying the game out.

Should be renamed to Aghast.

Agape

A bowel.

Avowid.

 

[Lemming42]

A-void because I go a-voidin' my bowels when I see the trailers

 

[Sweeper]

I am very cautiously optimistic.

Joined: Apr 6, 2023

 

[Heroic Liberator]

/disavowed

 

[processdaemon]

Anyone else think Avowed could be cool? Promise I'm not trying to farm fabulously optimistic reacts

I don't think it will be bad, just kind of forgettable. I don't get the impending sense of doom that I get from watching the DAVe promos but none of the companions sound interesting to me and the little we've heard of the story doesn't seem very inspired. I'm open to being proved wrong and I'll probably still get it, either at release if nothing else good comes out around the same time or in the digital bargain bin somewhere down the road, but I'm not particularly optimistic about it.

 

[Lemming42]

Yeah, jokes aside I would probably be mildly optimistic about Avowed were it not for TOW, which I genuinely despised so much that it put me off anything this team make in the immediate future. I'm open to the possibility of Avowed being a decent Skyrim-lite, and it turning out to be an enjoyable enough way to spend 20~ hours.

It is, however, way funnier for the purposes of this thread to rip it to fucking shreds and complain intensely about every new piece of information, and there's about a 30% chance that the game will be bad enough that all the hate will be entirely justified anyway.

 

[AwesomeButton]

No, it will be a fantasy-themed RPG-lite, structured the same way as TOW.

This will become evident as soon as the first dev stream begins.

Obsidian cannot pull off a Skyrim clone.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Everything about PoE is forgettable. Obsidian's peak was New Vegas in the end.

 

[frajaq]

real Avowedheads WILL watch this stream that is starting right now

https://www.twitch.tv/obsidian

e: nevermind this is for people that didnt play PoE 1/2

 

[Be Kind Rewind]

Yeah, jokes aside I would probably be mildly optimistic about Avowed

Obshitian is making Underworld Ascension crossed with Skyrim, wrapped in the color palette of Outer Worlds, and featuring the world building of Soyer, now with extra Microsoft DEI and faggotry, and you'd be optimistic about it if not for Rick & Morty: Spacer's Choice?

 

[Lemming42]

real Avowedheads WILL watch this stream that is starting right now

https://www.twitch.tv/obsidian

The stream's packed! Wow! They're getting the kind of viewership figures normally only attained by DarkSydePhil!

Obshitian is making Underworld Ascension crossed with Skyrim, wrapped in the color palette of Outer Worlds, and featuring the world building of Soyer, now with extra Microsoft DEI and faggotry, and you'd be optimistic about it if not for Rick & Morty: Spacer's Choice?

Well, I really enjoy garbage.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Well, I really enjoy garbage.

 

[Alienman]

real Avowedheads WILL watch this stream that is starting right now

https://www.twitch.tv/obsidian

e: nevermind this is for people that didnt play PoE 1/2

The enthusiasm.

 

[AwesomeButton]

The enthusiasm.

I also liked the part of the "deep dive" where the hosts tell Carrie they are so happy to have her often there.

And I thought - you're all Microsoft employees, so she'll be happy to go and you'll be happy to have her as often as you are told

 

[Tyranicon]

The Obsidian guys don't really look happy in any of their marketing material.

They probably know something we don't.

 

[Jenkem]

The White March >>>>>>> Avowed >> PoE >> Deadfire

 

[Alienman]

The Obsidian guys don't really look happy in any of their marketing material.

They probably know something we don't.

Even without the Microsoft chopping axe hanging over them, I just don't have the feeling that it's a happy-go-lucky place, where people care that much about RPGs.

 

[Lemming42]

It sounds like a shithole, Tim Cain's story about working there still makes me laugh. He springs out of his chair and raises his voice in excitement to relay a good idea he's just had to the team, and he's chastised for making sudden movements and raising his voice because it spooked people or whatever, as if the people who work there are nervous old horses who'll bolt from the stable at a loud noise. Oh, and the one about how him writing a to-do list on the whiteboard was taken as a passive-aggressive attack by his team and caused a rift which nearly broke the damn company apart at the seams. Then he also has the side-splitting one about how a minor tweak he could have done himself in twenty seconds took like two weeks because it had to be okayed by various departments and passed around.

Makes you wonder what Sawyer's current situation is. Likely entombed in his office, safe behind soundproof walls, sat tweaking New Vegas shotgun damage values by 0.01 in either direction for the definitive release of the jsawyer mod - the one that'll finally achieve the truest balance, a nirvana-like zen state - and trying to block out the utter fucking horror of what he's made of his life.

 

[frajaq]

Makes you wonder what Sawyer's current situation is. Likely entombed in his office, safe behind soundproof walls, sat tweaking New Vegas shotgun damage values by 0.01 in either direction for the definitive release of the jsawyer mod - the one that'll finally achieve the truest balance, a nirvana-like zen state - and trying to block out the utter fucking horror of what he's made of his life.

hes on permanent vacation in Europa by his Twitter, wonder the last time he seriously worked on a game lol

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Makes you wonder what Sawyer's current situation is. Likely entombed in his office, safe behind soundproof walls, sat tweaking New Vegas shotgun damage values by 0.01 in either direction for the definitive release of the jsawyer mod - the one that'll finally achieve the truest balance, a nirvana-like zen state - and trying to block out the utter fucking horror of what he's made of his life.

hes on permanent vacation in Europa by his Twitter, wonder the last time he seriously worked on a game lol

In Europe, you say? He should be joining Johan over at Tinto, certainly a better way to put his balancing autism to use than with RPGs.

 

[BrainMuncher]

The Obsidian guys don't really look happy in any of their marketing material.

They probably know something we don't.

I feel kind of bad like I'm telling a kid santa isn't real. But someone has to do it.

All those ads and marketing pics you see with happy smiling faces... they aren't really that happy. They are employees being told to smile for the camera or models paid to smile.

 

[Orud]

Then he also has the side-splitting one about how a minor tweak he could have done himself in twenty seconds took like two weeks because it had to be okayed by various departments and passed around.

No, that's just Agile for you.