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

[SpaceWizardz]

Latest Elder Scrolls Online expansion looks sick, gj Obsidian!

 

[Dishonoredbr]

Magic looks cool. I want to see uncut gameplay before saying anything else tho.

 

[conan_edw]

Seriously, I can't comprehend how the art could be this bad. Starfield + ESO are looking much better than Obsidian's knock offs. Even inXile's new game is looking way better and if I'm not mistaken they have way less employees than Obsidian.

 

[Artyoan]

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CEO Feargus Urquhart told me that in scope Avowed is more akin to Obsidian's past RPGs like The Outer Worlds in size than it is a sprawling open world a la Skyrim, though that was actually Obsidian's initial pitch. When the developers sat down and focused on what Obsidian does best—stories and companions, in particular—the more compact scale came naturally.

• The world is lightly systemic: think water and lightning interactions, but not the ol' bucket-on-the-head trick

 

[AwesomeButton]

Like Baldurs Gate, but serious, with guns, rennesance at adult psychology.

A real Frenchman would never misspell "renaissance".

 

[Butter]

Codexers talking 90% about graphics. Never change.

 

[Fearlessjay]

In fairness Inxile's new game looks pretty good. Easily the biggest surprise so far except for the endless Like a Dragon games.

 

[0sacred]

Codexers talking 90% about graphics. Never change.

it's not like they showed anything else of substance in the trailer. Of course, the absence of many things you'd expect in an RPG also speaks volumes.

 

[Delterius]

Codexers talking 90% about graphics. Never change.

oh is there something else in the trailer

i guess the magic won't be as boring as in skyrim, but that's it really

 

[Rhobar121]

To make it funnier, Microsoft supposedly doesn't care what its studios are doing, which means that if Obsidian fucked up, it's only their own fault.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

U niggas talking about Graphics. Let's talk about Fampyrs.

 

[Gahbreeil]

FORGE

YOUR

Destiny?

DESTINY

 

[thesecret1]

The only new thing shown in the trailer is that the game will be uglier than we thought.

 

[Cross]

Codexers talking 90% about graphics. Never change.

What else is there to discuss? We already know what the setting is like from the Pillars games. They've already said the combat is going to be like Skyrim, and the few seconds of combat they showed seems to confirm that.

And a lackluster art style is often indicative of a lack of creativity in other aspects of the game. Bethesda is an obvious example of this, with Morrowind being the last game they made that had an interesting art style.

 

[Drakortha]

Where do they get this generic as fuck music? do they search google for "generic trailer music" then call it a day? Uninspired TRASH.

 

[Roguey]

CEO Feargus Urquhart told me that in scope Avowed is more akin to Obsidian's past RPGs like The Outer Worlds in size than it is a sprawling open world a la Skyrim, though that was actually Obsidian's initial pitch. When the developers sat down and focused on what Obsidian does best—stories and companions, in particular—the more compact scale came naturally.

"Came naturally" i.e. development was such a disaster and they lost multiple leads until they decided to scale back.

"In most of our games companions have been optional, which I think offers a wonderful degree of choice to players, but it means there's a limit to how deeply you can tie them into the core story. With Avowed we decided companions are going to be core. They're going to be part of the experience. And that means we can invest so much more in them and tie them much more closely, and personally, to the events and the parts of the world the player is encountering."

Ugh, mandatory companions.

You know even Planescape Torment didn't have mandatory companions.

And can they die?

This time there was a pause. "You'll have to see," Patel said. Until 2024, then.

That is, they'll be immortal unless the story kills them.

 

[axedice]

"In most of our games companions have been optional, which I think offers a wonderful degree of choice to players, but it means there's a limit to how deeply you can tie them into the core story. With Avowed we decided companions are going to be core. They're going to be part of the experience. And that means we can invest so much more in them and tie them much more closely, and personally, to the events and the parts of the world the player is encountering."

Even though they dropped the ball after Avellone left, Obsidian has always been better with companions compared to other mainstream studios. So this quote kinda surprised me. Outerworlds companions were shit, so maybe Carrie is referring to that?

And besides, what the hell is she talking about that companions "have been" optional? Does it mean companions are mandatory now?

 

[Falksi]

Thank God for games like Caves of Lore

 

[DeepOcean]

I wasnt expecting cutting edge graphics but I also wasnt expecting the "my first game made with random assets from Unity's/Unreal asset store" vibe of this Avowed trailer. Honestly, if it wasnt for Obsidian's name and you claimed this was yet another o those janky steam survival games, I would believe it.

 

[santino27]

"As someone who's come through development as a narrative designer, companions are a huge part of the experience and draw for me both as a player and as a developer," Carrie Patel said. "One thing we wanted to do with Avowed was make sure the companions felt really integral to the story. In some games they're optionally recruitable, but in Avowed they're deeply tied to the story, tied to your party… we really wanted to create this sense that you're in this big wild frontier, you're going on this adventure of discovery, and you have this small but tight knit crew with you. The sense you're adventuring through the wilds together, sharing in the discovery and the danger. These people are just as much a part of your story as the larger events that you're getting in the middle of."

The way you interact with other characters in Avowed will be similar to The Outer Worlds, where your dialogue options reflect the tone you want to want to use. "We try to hit a sweet spot when we're writing dialogue options where we invest enough personality for those options to be fun and interesting, but also leave enough space around them so that the player can really invest whatever headcanon they built for their character into that option," she said.

Mandatory companions from the company who write ass cancer in human form.

 

[POOPERSCOOPER]

Game looks like complete ass.

 

[AwesomeButton]

CEO Feargus Urquhart told me that in scope Avowed is more akin to Obsidian's past RPGs like The Outer Worlds in size than it is a sprawling open world a la Skyrim, though that was actually Obsidian's initial pitch. When the developers sat down and focused on what Obsidian does best—stories and companions, in particular—the more compact scale came naturally.

"Came naturally" i.e. development was such a disaster and they lost multiple leads until they decided to scale back.

"In most of our games companions have been optional, which I think offers a wonderful degree of choice to players, but it means there's a limit to how deeply you can tie them into the core story. With Avowed we decided companions are going to be core. They're going to be part of the experience. And that means we can invest so much more in them and tie them much more closely, and personally, to the events and the parts of the world the player is encountering."

Ugh, mandatory companions.

You know even Planescape Torment didn't have mandatory companions.

And can they die?

This time there was a pause. "You'll have to see," Patel said. Until 2024, then.

That is, they'll be immortal unless the story kills them.

I had to take a break from reading that article when it reminded me that the brainlet dangerhair is in charge. On second thought, who am I fooling, there is no one at Obsidian who would have done a decent job.

 

[0sacred]

"In most of our games companions have been optional, which I think offers a wonderful degree of choice to players, but it means there's a limit to how deeply you can tie them into the core story. With Avowed we decided companions are going to be core. They're going to be part of the experience. And that means we can invest so much more in them and tie them much more closely, and personally, to the events and the parts of the world the player is encountering."

Ugh, mandatory companions.

You know even Planescape Torment didn't have mandatory companions.

They went full JRPG

 

[Perkel]

Can't wait for their system presentation.

LVL 10 achieved.

Make a choice :

+1% to archery damage
+1% to melee damage
+1% to magic damage
WILDCARD - food items are 2% more effective and you get "Yummy stake !" - +5% to attack speed for 2 minutes.

 

[Fearlessjay]

I doubt any of the companions will look like Tifa. More likely fat ugly Lena Dunham lookalikes.