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

[Infinitron]

Coming to Gamescom:

 

[luj1]

Find us at Hall 7 in the @Xbox booth at @gamescom!

Take an antibiotic before interacting with Avowed devs

 

[Fedora Master]

Quality wise sure
But you know damn well the game journo engine is going to pump out articles for their comrade trio while leaving KCD2 in the dust
Going to be a sight to behold

It's too bad bots can't buy games yet. Real astroturfing hasn't been tried.

You know how devs brag about 500k players on gamepass or whatever? Imagine them claiming 50 million copies sold (49.9 million refunded).

It's like how it's an open secret that some New York Times bestsellers just buy their own books.

The New York Times bestseller list is also rigged as fuck and they reject books they don't like. It is completely absurd that the list has any value.

I believe all of this can be called "payola" even though it usually refers to the music industry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola

"The first U.S. Congressional Payola Investigations occurred in 1959,[9] carried out by the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight into payola,[10] and prompted by a parallel investigation in the US Senate.[9]

DJ Alan Freed, who was uncooperative in committee hearings, was fired as a result."

"Freed was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1991. The organization's website posted this note: "He became internationally known for promoting African-American rhythm and blues music on the radio in the United States and Europe under the name of rock and roll"

"Freed was born to a Welsh-American mother, Maude Palmer, and a Russian Jewish immigrant father"

 

[Butter]

Why do you think they're given stars on the Walk of Fame?

 

[Cohesion]

"Freed was born to a Welsh-American mother, Maude Palmer, and a Russian Jewish immigrant father"

Every single time, like a jewclockwork.

 

[markec]

Delayed apparently

They need more time to point out all the features game wont have.

 

[Abu Antar]

Official.

 

[Fedora Master]

So many games, all of them irrelevant shit

 

[Elttharion]

Official.

 

[luj1]

Im stealing this and posting every time Shillfinitron posts news

 

[ADL]

Damn I wanted to play Avowed, Black Ops 6 and Flight Sim all on the same month of GamePass and cancel.

 

[onemananadhisdroid]

So many games...

Thief
Grim Fandango
Baldur's Gate
Starcraft: Brood War
Fallout 2
Myth II
Half-Life
Ocarina Of Time
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus
Metal Gear Solid
Unreal


All released with a mere weeks between them. But then neither of those took a lifetime and a team the size of Candlekeep HQ to get off the ground running. One can only drool about how many great games there's gonna be another 25 years down the road.

Sometimes you've got to admire Nvidia marketing wizardry though. Able to ship 2,000 bucks GPUs to people who evidently have fewer need for them than any generation of PC master racers before. Selling ice to eskimos has been replaced as the benchmark truly.

 

[sosmoflux]

Damn I wanted to play Avowed, Black Ops 6 and Flight Sim all on the same month of GamePass and cancel.

Why do you think they spread games out

 

[the mole]

it's better that they delay it and work on it because no one is excited anyways

atleast make the slop functional and consumable

 

[Raghar]

That's amazing. MS delayed finished game. That's like when VtM:B was delayed. And then Troika went out of business.

 

[deuxhero]

Or when Alpha Protocol was delayed because Sega wanted to juggle their release window, and refused to let Obsidian do bugfixes in the extra time.

 

[NaturallyCarnivorousSheep]

Alpha proctolog would be bad even with bugs fixed. A game with a single viable weapon type lmao.

 

[Modron]

Do you mean melee, pistols, or assault rifles? The others are viable as well just sad in comparison.

 

[sosmoflux]

"Viable" brain rot

 

[the mole]

Alpha proctolog would be bad even with bugs fixed. A game with a single viable weapon type lmao.

I thought it was fun, charming even, of course I picked pistols like any gentleman agent would

 

[NaturallyCarnivorousSheep]

Do you mean melee, pistols, or assault rifles? The others are viable as well just sad in comparison.

Melee can't be used against some bosses.
Assault rifles are crap because of le zoom zoom.
The rest isn't just sad it's terrible. Smg can't hit shit and shotgun kicks like a baby.

Terrible game design. Bad shooter. Bad stealth game. Bad RPG. Bad everything. Glorified VN.

 

[Silverfish]

Alpha proctolog would be bad even with bugs fixed. A game with a single viable weapon type lmao.

It was Obsidian's way of telling you that the best weapon is none at all.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Delayed apparently

The more I watch and listen to her, the more I think Carrie isn't "stupid", but merely very scared because she knows they have nothing to show. There used to be a meme about Deadfire not existing, but in the case of Avowid, this might really be a game that doesn't exist, except as a long list of features it doesn't have and a very short list of features it supposedly does.

 

[luj1]

So many games...

Thief
Grim Fandango
Baldur's Gate
Starcraft: Brood War
Fallout 2
Myth II
Half-Life
Ocarina Of Time
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus
Metal Gear Solid
Unreal


All released with a mere weeks between them. But then neither of those took a lifetime and a team the size of Candlekeep HQ to get off the ground running. One can only drool about how many great games there's gonna be another 25 years down the road.

Sometimes you've got to admire Nvidia marketing wizardry though. Able to ship 2,000 bucks GPUs to people who evidently have fewer need for them than any generation of PC master racers before. Selling ice to eskimos has been replaced as the benchmark truly.

Underrated post

Funny how back then none worried about releasing in the same window as others, yet all of these titles had room and were respected and played. That's because you had quality

Today everyone is worried about release windows because they are insecure about the gameplay quality they are offering, because no one believes in their product

 

[Roguey]

Melee can't be used against some bosses.
Assault rifles are crap because of le zoom zoom.
The rest isn't just sad it's terrible. Smg can't hit shit and shotgun kicks like a baby.

The intent behind AP is that you're not supposed to rely on only one type of weapon (though pistols ended up so overpowered that you can rely solely on them). Additionally, any boss that you can't use melee against will include other weapons you can use within the level itself (rocket launchers for helicopters, sniper rifle for Darcy behind a locked door).