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

[ropetight]

Weird to see Barbarian was apparently less popular than the snoozefest that is Chanter.

Civilized propaganda. If all barbarians were literate enough to vote the results would be very different.

In the retarded PoE system, they are!

And they go to college, mainly gender studies.

 

[NJClaw]

The PoE system did nothing wrong. Wizards are supposed to be bodybuilders: mens sana in corpore sano.

 

[Cryomancer]

Why a Skyrim clone has classses to begin with? Skyrim doesn't have classes. You just pick skills and perks from a bunch of skill trees. Seems like this whole game is bad from the get-go if nobody asked this simple question from the start.

And that is how Avoided works. They just picked classes from Pillows and made into trees. But very limited. For eg, only 3 out of the 11 classes are trees and they had a tiny fraction of abilities from Pillows.

The PoE system did nothing wrong. Wizards are supposed to be bodybuilders: mens sana in corpore sano.

Harry Potter using Pillows system

 

[markec]

The PoE system did nothing wrong. Wizards are supposed to be bodybuilders: mens sana in corpore sano.

The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.

William Francis Butler

 

[Oberon]

Not really. Obsidian was never good. New Vegas was a fluke.

KotOR2 and NWN2: MotB were flawed but good. Haven't played New Vegas or Alpha Brotocol. Everything after than was worthless trash, and now they're also competing with Biowhore in wokeness.

Nuke it all.

Yes, good way to describe MotB. I enjoyed the Hell out of that game, a rare instance of a really good NWN official campaign, and good custom modules were coming out finally around that time... NWN2 Toolset was too finicky to see the sheer volume of great modules that 1 produced, but some really good ones started to come out around then

 

[Sibelius]

There's like half a dozen women in that photo and yet the only person showing any cleavage is your bald-headed fishman companion

Why would village women show cleavage?

I don't get the complaints about that collage at all. Looks like a normal fantasy game to me.

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/games/resources/productinclusion/representation/

• Are you creating playable female characters that are equal in skill and ability to their male peers. Are your female characters equipped with clothing and armor that fits their tasks? Do they have exaggerated body proportions?

 

[v1c70r14]

People selling product should be calling out people (potentially) buying said product?

That'll end well.

It's crazy how expecting current gen consoles to give players above 30 FPS is "crying" and "entitlement". Game developers telling customers to go fuck themselves and that 60 FPS is some kind of unreasonable target, why would anyone want anything above 30 FPS? 25 FPS is great, actually customers should be eternally grateful of developers for anything above 15 FPS on Stutter Engine 5. Etc. Delivering 480p video upscaled to 6K with severe ghosting and generated frames and obnoxious artifacts and you're still expected to pay an above premium price for the spluttering mess of shader duct tape and spaghetti UE blueprints used as code, and half-assed gameplay that doesn't even compare to a Source Engine game from 2006. Pay more for less and be happy doing so, bigot.

This is a company owned by Microsoft with their full weight behind them to develop games tailored to their hardware, mind you. Back in the days when industry expos were filled with strippers and sweaty nerds it somehow was more professional than this, both in terms of doing their jobs and making the most of the hardware, as well as giving customers bang for their buck and having an attitude of either good service or camaraderie as fellow hobbyists. Craftsmanship and expertise in the industry is dead.

 

[Lyric Suite]

The amusing part is that the game looks like dogshit. I mean technically speaking. Same with Starfield, abysmal perfomance, shit graphics.

BTW, it also doesn't look like Pillars either. All those neon colors i don't think even Failguard has that shit.

 

[Fedora Master]

The amusing part is that the game looks like dogshit. I mean technically speaking. Same with Starfield, abysmal perfomance, shit graphics.

I assume it will have the typical console-type tube levels too instead of a true open world. Like TOW.

 

[Lyric Suite]

The Not So Outer World.

 

[Infinitron]

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/rp...-foster-that-sense-of-exploration-wanderlust/

Almost every quest in RPG Avowed can be started in multiple ways: "We want to just constantly foster that sense of exploration, wanderlust"​

Obsidian Entertainment's next game lets you do things "out of order"

Obsidian Entertainment's next first-person RPG Avowed is coming in hot - and following up the brilliant Pillars of Eternity CRPGs from a different perspective - next February. And its developers are saying all the right things about the game's approach to exploration as "almost every" quest has multiple ways to start it.

Speaking to GamesRadar for our Avowed Big Preview, environment region designer Berto Ritger explained how the game handles player choice when it comes to quests. Avowed isn't a properly open-world game, but its wide and explorable areas mean that you'll sometimes find key items out of order or stumble upon a quest in an unusual way, and Obsidian is supporting all of those possibilities.

"I think almost every, if not every, quest in the game has it more than one way to start it," Ritger explained. "You can do things out of order and pick up items and give them to people that want them, or kill a character or whatever, like, you can play things out of order. You can come at a dungeon or vice versa, from a different direction than you normally would. And we want you to be able to do that just based on however you naturally progress through the world."

That's in line with Ritger's previous comments about how the "core of RPGs that makes them special is missable content" since it makes the experience "feel so much more personal to how you play the game." Both the missable content and the fact that you can start quests in unexpected ways is the game trusting you to be - or maybe even helping you feel like you're - smart. Like someone who's discovered something uncharted.

"We want to just constantly foster that sense of exploration, wanderlust and just getting lost pleasantly," Ritger continued. I'm just excited to try and kill literally every single NPC in the game before loading up another save file and playing Avowed like the true saint I am when it comes to PC, Xbox Series X|S, and Game Pass on February 18.

 

[Iluvcheezcake]

I'll tell you why this happens

LMAO thats a 4/10 woman pretending to br a cuck 4/10 soyboy.

Actually thats kinda sad really, i feel bad, laughing at mentally ill people... :/

 

[Dark Souls II]

I'll tell you why this happens

LMAO thats a 4/10 woman pretending to br a cuck 4/10 soyboy.

Actually thats kinda sad really, i feel bad, laughing at mentally ill people... :/

"Soyboy"? Say it to her face not online and see what happens:

Not gonna lie, it's very funny that there are people here who will proceed to a) purchase a game-product made by literal bearded women, and b) try to convince everyone that said game-product is actually good.

 

[Skinwalker]

Not gonna lie, it's very funny that there are people here who will proceed to a) purchase a game-product made by literal bearded women, and b) try to convince everyone that said game-product is actually good.

Are you talking about Dark Souls 2?

 

[Iluvcheezcake]

I'll tell you why this happens

LMAO thats a 4/10 woman pretending to br a cuck 4/10 soyboy.

Actually thats kinda sad really, i feel bad, laughing at mentally ill people... :/

"Soyboy"? Say it to her face not online and see what happens:

Not gonna lie, it's very funny that there are people here who will proceed to a) purchase a game-product made by literal bearded women, and b) try to convince everyone that said game-product is actually good.

Did she.... glue her pubes to her face ...




The horror....



The horror....

 

[ERYFKRAD]

It's crazy how expecting current gen consoles to give players above 30 FPS is "crying" and "entitlement". Game developers telling customers to go fuck themselves and that 60 FPS is some kind of unreasonable target, why would anyone want anything above 30 FPS?

It's honestly even more amazing that these chucklefucks want gamer money without having to work for it, but somehow gamers are the entitled ones.

 

[sosmoflux]

"...getting lost pleasantly"

They literally can't not make things gay

 

[Louis_Cypher]

When I tried to play Pillars of Eternity, the setting frankly put me to sleep. Maybe I'll try it and Deadfire again one day. I've not been impressed with western RPGs in recent years, the 'Great Revival' and the Kickstarter campaigns after Pillars of Eternity. I was wondering if Avowed would somehow be some mindless fun, sorta a knockoff Skyrim by Microsoft. Seems it's devs have got the same radioactive anti-white ideologies as usual, and I won't support that.

Instead of this shite, these are promising upcoming indie games. The only western RPGs I'm waiting for:

• - Monomyth
• - Hibernaculum
• - Vampire Syndicate: Gangs of MoonFall
• - (Might play Exodus if it somehow isn't too pozzed by WOTC)

I've been following Monomyth ever since the dev commented on a thread I made about first-person RPGs, saying he took inspiration, in part, from FromSoftware's King's Field series' and it's desolate atmosphere; it looks amazing frankly, a one-guy passion project again. I've been following Hibernaculum since I love anything space related, and it's also a grid dungeon crawler. I've been following Exodus since KOTOR/Mass Effect writer Drew Karphyshin said he was moving to that studio, saying it was like old BioWare (but I'm worried about Wizards of the Coast being massively woke). I only realised Vampire Syndicate more recently, an oversight on my part.

If you look at the direction JRPGs have taken, they do a lot of eclectic blending of genres. You got ARPGs with actiony battle systems like Rogue Galaxy, or TRPGs like Front Mission or Fire Emblem, or half dating sims like Persona, or Soulslike, or pure dungeon crawlers like Etrian Odyssey and Wizardry spinoffs, all side-by-side, so that the RPG genre is diffuse and people can probably be a fan of specific bespoke niches. There are some signs that the Western RPG is going that way, rather than just going back to pen & paper. Indie devs combining RPG chardev and battle systems with other genres. It's just we don't unite them under the banner CRPG the way JRPGs are (because of a shared anime aesthetic). I'm really interested to see the genre mixing that is emerging more in the west, such as SpaceBourne, 3D space sim with RPG, by Burak Dabak, or Star Valor, 2D space sim with RPG, by Rafael Burgos, or Titan Outpost and The Jovian System, sci-fi base building with RPG, by The Boar Studio. Escapes the expectations that people put on the genre, you can go anywhere, and it allows life-affirming fun.

 

[docmars]

The amusing part is that the game looks like dogshit. I mean technically speaking. Same with Starfield, abysmal perfomance, shit graphics.

BTW, it also doesn't look like Pillars either. All those neon colors i don't think even Failguard has that shit.

Yea I was expecting Avowed to be dustier looking being in the PoE universe and all. It's got some muted tones in some of the environmental work, but everything from the UI to the characters and particle diarrhea, it screams waxy Fortnite-adjacency.

I was playing Witcher 3 with the latest texture revamp recently (12gb mod), and couldn't believe how much everyone's outfits and faces caught my eye. The detail down to the straps dangling on dresses and armor is stunning — and this is considering the original game featured roughly the same geometry for characters and outfits.

Modern RPGs really do feel watered down by comparison.

 

[Desiderius]

The PoE system did nothing wrong. Wizards are supposed to be bodybuilders: mens sana in corpore sano.

The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.

William Francis Butler

Well, we got that achievement checked off.

 

[TC Jr]

Should I even bother making an Awokedsisters list, or is literally no one besides Rougay going to bother playing this trash?

UP AGAINST THE WALL

 

[Roguey]

There are a number of people in the Codex Steam group who have nothing to do with the forum. Joined it because it has RPG in the title I guess?

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

There are a number of people in the Codex Steam group who have nothing to do with the forum. Joined it because it has RPG in the title I guess?

RPG Codex must preserve its reputation by curating its Steam group and ejecting those who play insufferably woke games, such as Veilguard and Avowed.

 

[Fedora Master]

We must secure the existence of our forum and a future for autistic grognards.

 

[Desiderius]

I'll tell you why this happens

LMAO thats a 4/10 woman pretending to br a cuck 4/10 soyboy.

Actually thats kinda sad really, i feel bad, laughing at mentally ill people... :/

She looks like she's eight.

The neotony is real.