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

[luj1]

But it's funny that even the gaymers of today who are into graphics think this looks bad

Crazy that these people can make no one happy (whether it's graphics or gameplay). It's the oooold problem with Soyer-led nu-Obsidian (after MCA left) - they always try to make everyone happy and in the end no one is happy. No one has had a vision in this company for 20 years, or balls

For me their first game (SWKotOR II) is also their last...

 

[luj1]

Doesn't help that this piece of turd is 70 GB too.

It's frankly hilarious that this costs 70 euros lol

 

[Artyoan]

Scathing one here on bugs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWrDkijow48

 

[Old Hans]

Heard a line that apparently NPCs don't move at all. They just stand in place, making it feel like a dead world. I don't mind this in general, but as a third-person game, an open-worldish kind of game, it feels pretty lame.

This is one thing I just cannot stand in games anymore. It was fine in Morrowind but that was 20 fucking years ago, and here we are doing the same old shit

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

Doesn't help that this piece of turd is 70 GB too.

It's frankly hilarious that this costs 70 euros lol

I meant Gigabytes. It's a 70 GB download.

 

[Wasteland]

70 euros, what are they smoking?

Come on man, 70 euros isn't that bad. There has to be some value in Obsidian--old design docs, computer equipment, sweaters knitted by granny Sawyer... Maybe they have a favorable lease on the building? And you get the privilege of laying off ...

Oh, you meant 70 euros for the game, and not the studio? lmao, yeah, delusional.

 

[Tyranicon]

The graphics aren't good.

The art style is quite frankly, probably downright offensive to a lot of people.

Imagine being the art director for this. Speaking of which, where did he go? Did Feargus black bag him?

 

[Fedora Master]

Review roundup:

PC:

Areajugones 78/100
Ars Technica tbd/100
COGconnected 93/100
Carole Quintaine 85/100
Combo Infinito 80/100
Creative Bloq 80/100
Dexerto 80/100
Eurogamer 80/100
Eurogamer Germany 80/100
Forbes 90/100
GINX TV 70/100
Game Rant 70/100
GameSpot 60/100
GameStar 81/100
GameWatcher 75/100
Gamekult 70/100
Gamepressure 90/100
Gamer.nl 90/100
Gamersky 85/100
Games.cz 60/100
GamesRadar+ 80/100
GamingTrend 85/100
Hardcore Gamer 80/100
IGN Benelux 90/100
IGN Brasil 85/100
IGN Deutschland 90/100
IGN Italia 80/100
INVEN 83/100
Jeuxvideo.com 65/100
Loot Level Chill 85/100
MGG 70/100
MMORPG.com 75/100
Malditos Nerds 80/100
Merlin'in Kazanı (Turkey) 80/100
PC Gamer 82/100
PCGamesN 60/100
Polygon tbd/100
Rock, Paper, Shotgun tbd/100
Slant Magazine 80/100
Stevivor 75/100
The Games Machine 85/100
The New York Times 80/100
TheSixthAxis 90/100
TrueGaming 75/100
Vandal 82/100
Voxel 80/100
Wccftech 88/100
WellPlayed 60/100
XGN 92/100

Xbox:

4P.de 80/100
Atomix 90/100
But Why Tho? 95/100
CD-Action 65/100
CGMagazine 85/100
Checkpoint Gaming 95/100
Digital Spy 80/100
Digital Trends 90/100
ElDesmarque 90/100
Eurogamer Poland 60/100
Eurogamer Portugal 60/100
Everyeye.it 78/100
GAMES.CH 79/100
GAMINGbible 90/100
GamePro Germany 73/100
GameSpew 80/100
Gameliner 90/100
Gamer.no 70/100
Gamereactor UK 90/100
Gamers Heroes 85/100
GamesHub 90/100
Gaming Nexus 80/100
Generación Xbox 89/100
Guardian 60/100
Hobby Consolas 83/100
IGN 70/100
IGN France 90/100
IGN Spain 80/100
Impulsegamer 90/100
Inverse 90/100
Jeuxvideo.com 65/100
Kotaku tbd/100
Meristation 80/100
Metro GameCentral 60/100
MondoXbox 93/100
Multiplayer.it 75/100
Power Unlimited 85/100
Press Start Australia 85/100
Pure Xbox 80/100
Radio Times 60/100
SECTOR.sk 85/100
Screen Rant 90/100
Shacknews 90/100
SomosXbox 95/100
SpazioGames 83/100
TechRadar Gaming 80/100
The Enemy 60/100
The Escapist tbd/100
The Verge tbd/100

Irrelevant and anti-Codexian

Avowed-FLT if anyone wants to waste a couple of gigabyte.

 

[luj1]

The graphics aren't good.

The art style is quite frankly, probably downright offensive to a lot of people.

Imagine being the art director for this. Speaking of which, where did he go? Did Feargus black bag him?

Graphics aren't good, writing isn't good, story (probably) isn't good.... So honest question - what do you have left? How is the gameplay? I only see a bunch of particle effects and numbers, you can barely see what's going on

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

How is the gameplay?

I watched multiple reviews and there's honestly so much wrong with it that when i think about typing it out, i just give up. i dont have the energy for this shit.

 

[Mortmal]

Review roundup:

PC:

Areajugones 78/100
Ars Technica tbd/100
COGconnected 93/100
Carole Quintaine 85/100
Combo Infinito 80/100
Creative Bloq 80/100
Dexerto 80/100
Eurogamer 80/100
Eurogamer Germany 80/100
Forbes 90/100
GINX TV 70/100
Game Rant 70/100
GameSpot 60/100
GameStar 81/100
GameWatcher 75/100
Gamekult 70/100
Gamepressure 90/100
Gamer.nl 90/100
Gamersky 85/100
Games.cz 60/100
GamesRadar+ 80/100
GamingTrend 85/100
Hardcore Gamer 80/100
IGN Benelux 90/100
IGN Brasil 85/100
IGN Deutschland 90/100
IGN Italia 80/100
INVEN 83/100
Jeuxvideo.com 65/100
Loot Level Chill 85/100
MGG 70/100
MMORPG.com 75/100
Malditos Nerds 80/100
Merlin'in Kazanı (Turkey) 80/100
PC Gamer 82/100
PCGamesN 60/100
Polygon tbd/100
Rock, Paper, Shotgun tbd/100
Slant Magazine 80/100
Stevivor 75/100
The Games Machine 85/100
The New York Times 80/100
TheSixthAxis 90/100
TrueGaming 75/100
Vandal 82/100
Voxel 80/100
Wccftech 88/100
WellPlayed 60/100
XGN 92/100

Xbox:

4P.de 80/100
Atomix 90/100
But Why Tho? 95/100
CD-Action 65/100
CGMagazine 85/100
Checkpoint Gaming 95/100
Digital Spy 80/100
Digital Trends 90/100
ElDesmarque 90/100
Eurogamer Poland 60/100
Eurogamer Portugal 60/100
Everyeye.it 78/100
GAMES.CH 79/100
GAMINGbible 90/100
GamePro Germany 73/100
GameSpew 80/100
Gameliner 90/100
Gamer.no 70/100
Gamereactor UK 90/100
Gamers Heroes 85/100
GamesHub 90/100
Gaming Nexus 80/100
Generación Xbox 89/100
Guardian 60/100
Hobby Consolas 83/100
IGN 70/100
IGN France 90/100
IGN Spain 80/100
Impulsegamer 90/100
Inverse 90/100
Jeuxvideo.com 65/100
Kotaku tbd/100
Meristation 80/100
Metro GameCentral 60/100
MondoXbox 93/100
Multiplayer.it 75/100
Power Unlimited 85/100
Press Start Australia 85/100
Pure Xbox 80/100
Radio Times 60/100
SECTOR.sk 85/100
Screen Rant 90/100
Shacknews 90/100
SomosXbox 95/100
SpazioGames 83/100
TechRadar Gaming 80/100
The Enemy 60/100
The Escapist tbd/100
The Verge tbd/100

Irrelevant and anti-Codexian

Avowed-FLT if anyone wants to waste a couple of gigabyte.

That will cost you just a little more to get a Game Pass key than paying for a VPN and safely pirating it. Plus, you never know what kind of shit they could repackage in those.

 

[Jenkem]

Too many people here are so jaded by life and its circumstances that nothing will ever be good enough.

It's quite sad, really.

 

[Tyranicon]

Graphics aren't good, writing isn't good, story (probably) isn't good.... So honest question - what do you have left? How is the combat? I only see a bunch of particle effects and numbers, you can barely see what's going on

You can't have a good story if the writing is bad, at that point it's just a writing prompt with a bunch of plot points.

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

that nothing will ever be good enough.

For the record, KCD 2 is more than good enough.

 

[Necrensha]

The Outer Worlds was also filled with excessive amounts of teal/brown/purple, but at least they didn't have broccoli heads and rejected Vulpera designs. Disgusting.

 

[luj1]

Too many people here are so jaded by life and its circumstances that nothing will ever be good enough.

Your standards are just trash mate. This game is objectively quite weak. You are just used to eating shit I guess.

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

Bruh you can't kill all the NPCs in this game. No more universal character death. Your weapons don't even connect with the NPCs in towns like guards and stuff. Sawyer gave a whole fucking talk about the importance of UCD.

 

[gurugeorge]

Christ I'd almost forgotten about this looming disaster

 

[Fedora Master]

Review roundup:

PC:

Areajugones 78/100
Ars Technica tbd/100
COGconnected 93/100
Carole Quintaine 85/100
Combo Infinito 80/100
Creative Bloq 80/100
Dexerto 80/100
Eurogamer 80/100
Eurogamer Germany 80/100
Forbes 90/100
GINX TV 70/100
Game Rant 70/100
GameSpot 60/100
GameStar 81/100
GameWatcher 75/100
Gamekult 70/100
Gamepressure 90/100
Gamer.nl 90/100
Gamersky 85/100
Games.cz 60/100
GamesRadar+ 80/100
GamingTrend 85/100
Hardcore Gamer 80/100
IGN Benelux 90/100
IGN Brasil 85/100
IGN Deutschland 90/100
IGN Italia 80/100
INVEN 83/100
Jeuxvideo.com 65/100
Loot Level Chill 85/100
MGG 70/100
MMORPG.com 75/100
Malditos Nerds 80/100
Merlin'in Kazanı (Turkey) 80/100
PC Gamer 82/100
PCGamesN 60/100
Polygon tbd/100
Rock, Paper, Shotgun tbd/100
Slant Magazine 80/100
Stevivor 75/100
The Games Machine 85/100
The New York Times 80/100
TheSixthAxis 90/100
TrueGaming 75/100
Vandal 82/100
Voxel 80/100
Wccftech 88/100
WellPlayed 60/100
XGN 92/100

Xbox:

4P.de 80/100
Atomix 90/100
But Why Tho? 95/100
CD-Action 65/100
CGMagazine 85/100
Checkpoint Gaming 95/100
Digital Spy 80/100
Digital Trends 90/100
ElDesmarque 90/100
Eurogamer Poland 60/100
Eurogamer Portugal 60/100
Everyeye.it 78/100
GAMES.CH 79/100
GAMINGbible 90/100
GamePro Germany 73/100
GameSpew 80/100
Gameliner 90/100
Gamer.no 70/100
Gamereactor UK 90/100
Gamers Heroes 85/100
GamesHub 90/100
Gaming Nexus 80/100
Generación Xbox 89/100
Guardian 60/100
Hobby Consolas 83/100
IGN 70/100
IGN France 90/100
IGN Spain 80/100
Impulsegamer 90/100
Inverse 90/100
Jeuxvideo.com 65/100
Kotaku tbd/100
Meristation 80/100
Metro GameCentral 60/100
MondoXbox 93/100
Multiplayer.it 75/100
Power Unlimited 85/100
Press Start Australia 85/100
Pure Xbox 80/100
Radio Times 60/100
SECTOR.sk 85/100
Screen Rant 90/100
Shacknews 90/100
SomosXbox 95/100
SpazioGames 83/100
TechRadar Gaming 80/100
The Enemy 60/100
The Escapist tbd/100
The Verge tbd/100

Irrelevant and anti-Codexian

Avowed-FLT if anyone wants to waste a couple of gigabyte.

That will cost you just a little more to get a Game Pass key than paying for a VPN and safely pirating it. Plus, you never know what kind of shit they could repackage in those.

Nobody has ever gotten a cease and desist over vidya piracy and neither has anyone gotten a VIRUS or a BTC miner from reliable torrents.

 

[Dark Souls II]

Looks like Skyrim total conversion mod made by Ubisoft

In Skyrim you could attack guards, kill NPCs (the NPCs could move), the NPCs would react to you stealing things, and you weren't forced to have a fish faggotnigger companion. Vanilla Skyrim back in 2011 had better art direction, face animations, much better UI, generally looked better, and definitely had more RPG elements. What Skyrim also had: spider webs that you were trusted to destroy without the game showing you a "Destroy the spiderweb" icon on the spider web.

 

[Artyoan]

Too many people here are so jaded by life and its circumstances that nothing will ever be good enough.

It's quite sad, really.

While I agree with this, much of the industry deserves the criticism and the cynicism is often justified. I would have preferred they go after an actual Elder Scrolls contender in this instance. The first trailer looked ambitious with a much better art style.

They pulled back and then asked $70 anyway.

 

[Fedora Master]

Too many people here are so jaded by life and its circumstances that nothing will ever be good enough.

It's quite sad, really.

Path of Achra is GOTY. And you know what it didn't have? Massive shilling efforts.

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

The first trailer looked ambitious with a much better art style.

I guess we know which "art director" to thank for that awful change in art style.

 

[Turn_BASED]

Too many people here are so jaded by life and its circumstances that nothing will ever be good enough.

It's quite sad, really.

I would disagree. I play older games all the time and the difference in quality is really stunning despite the technical limitations. Newer games tend to just be terrible in the places that matter - story, writing, atmosphere, pacing, challenge - with a few exceptions that are justifiably celebrated.

 

[brychu]

Looks like Skyrim total conversion mod made by Ubisoft

In Skyrim you could attack guards, kill NPCs (the NPCs could move), the NPCs would react to you stealing things, and you weren't forced to have a fish faggotnigger companion. Vanilla Skyrim back in 2011 had better art direction, face animations, much better UI, generally looked better, and definitely had more RPG elements. What Skyrim also had: spider webs that you were trusted to destroy without the game showing you a "Destroy the spiderweb" icon on the spider web.

Skyrim has trash UI, everyone is using skyui.