Eternity Avowed - Obsidian's first person action-RPG in the Pillars of Eternity setting

[luj1]

I think the problem is that gamedev changed fundamentally

Educated chads with vision and balls (Carmack, Romero, Rolston, whatever) were replaced by (1) CalArts pseudoeducated hipsters with mental disorders, and/or (2) businessmen who don't even play games, nor have they read anything in their lives

Large teams, big budgets, etc., it all produced way worse games than ever before

These teams where everyone has a say (and it's all ran by a spineless dude) are a disaster - 99% of teams today

 

[Raghar]

I can't imagine the kind of person who would install a PC game in the 90s/00s and not immediately go to the options screen to tune it to their preferences.

Because you are a retard, who rates Pillars higher than Arcanum, because in truth, you skipped the RPG Renaissance

People weren't bitches with ADHD back in the 90s/00s and just played games instead of bitching about accessibility

We first had to go to options to reduce graphic settings to have playable speed of 15 - 30 FPS.
Then we had to hope crack is working.
Then we had to hope the game is bug free, or it can be finished with bugs.

 

[anvi]

Painfully busy UI in combat, excessive floating numbers look like shit in FPP. From one of the videos:

A still image fails to convey the extent of the spam in motion.

Needs more purple.

 

[luj1]

We first had to go to options to reduce graphic settings to have playable speed of 15 - 30 FPS.
Then we had to hope crack is working.
Then we had to hope the game is bug free, or it can be finished with bugs.

Yes but no one thinkered with UIs, those options were very limited, you're not following the conversation

Painfully busy UI in combat, excessive floating numbers look like shit in FPP. From one of the videos:

But how much of that can be turned off?

Retarded argument. It's not my job to fiddle with the UI to make it useable.

I can't imagine the kind of person who would install a PC game in the 90s/00s and not immediately go to the options screen to tune it to their preferences.

 

[Roguey]

Yes but no one thinkered with UIs, you're not following the conversation

My condolences to you for playing Fallout at the default combat speed.

 

[Ryzer]

Painfully busy UI in combat, excessive floating numbers look like shit in FPP. From one of the videos:

A still image fails to convey the extent of the spam in motion.

Needs more purple.

The color palette looks like someone's vomit. minus the purple ( if he didn't eat cabbage). The artstyle is so bad.

 

[toro]

Quite glad this woke piece of shit is getting some reviews which aren't glowing with praise. It would be great to see it fail miserably.

Microsoft's money. Mainstream sites will not rate it less than 8/10.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

The great trolling has begun.

The game already have ugly characters , no need use character creation as gotcha to make characters that are ugly on purpose.

 

[Dark Souls II]

The great trolling has begun.

@Infinitroon when will we get the option to pick Avowed character portaits as avatars? I love the purple dwarf drag queen dude here so much. Or I could just use the Yahtzily or whatever as avatar, the way she looks is way more offensive than Adolf Hitler.

 

[luj1]

Yes but no one thinkered with UIs, you're not following the conversation

My condolences to you for playing Fallout at the default combat speed.

Let me repeat

People back in the 90s/00s (you are not among those) didn't care about any options other than hardware settings

So your argument re: customizing UI "in the 90s" (as a way to defend Avowed from rightful criticism) is moot and fake

 

[Raghar]

We first had to go to options to reduce graphic settings to have playable speed of 15 - 30 FPS.
Then we had to hope crack is working.
Then we had to hope the game is bug free, or it can be finished with bugs.

Yes but no one thinkered with UIs, those options were very limited, you're not following the conversation

They used pixel art as UI overlay, thus we typically could just enable minimap or stuff like that. But we had message filtering options, and autopause options. (which were critical in BG, or HoI2)

 

[Ryzer]

I think it takes real skill to make a game that looks worse than PS3 games in 2025 with Unreal Engine 5 while requesting a 3080 and 16GB of RAM.

 

[Roguey]

People back in the 90s/00s (you are not among those) didn't care about any options other than hardware settings

So your argument re: customizing UI (as a way to defend Avowed from rightful criticism) is moot and fake

In BG you could remove any element of the UI you didn't care for so you could see More Gameworld.

 

[luj1]

Maybe, I can't remember (I doubt that), but the assumption that "everyone was doing it in the 90s" is absolutely fake

 

[sosmoflux]

I feel sorry for Xbox man
Arkane
Obsidian
These should be slam dunk studios
But due to all the trappings of modernity they can't deliver jack shit

 

[Necrensha]

I feel sorry for Xbox man

>Feeling sorry for Microsoft

 

[Tyranicon]

https://bsky.app/profile/jasonschreier.bsky.social/post/3li2twqthjc2p

Jason Schreier believes Avowed could be the next Fallout NV, with a vast gap between the critical reception and player reception.

This dude thought Veilguard was going to slamdunk on the chuds before his entire industry got bullied off Twitter.

 

[normie]

yeah, because Times Square is where all the gamers hang out

It literally is lol. Gaming is not a niche hobby for basement dwellers anymore.

These days the hinge profile of every third woman I see mentions bg3 or FFXIV etc etc.

It's decidedly mainstream at this point.

earnest female gamers are more mentally ill and worse failures at life than their male equivalents, otherwise women only engage with gaming (games with actual gameplay) as an accessory to being an egirl or being a pickme

Times Square is gormless tourists (and everybody else not New York enough to know to say no) being accosted by niggers demanding their wallets and phones
running an ad for it on TS is decidedly part of some silly femoid's Carrie Bradshaw fantasy, it moves exactly zero units

 

[Sherry]

The game already have ugly characters , no need use character creation as gotcha to make characters that are ugly on purpose.

Hi.

The character creator can go the other way too, which is really nice in creating a protagonist you can enjoy looking at while you are in conversations with others. A quick scroll through player's character designs, did I pick out these three. Nothing ugly, and you can even turn off the Godlike growth in the options if you want to look as normal as possible.

HEY GOOD LOOKING, WHAT'S COOKING?

Thanks,
Sherry

 

[Tyrr]

 

[Ryzer]

The dialogues give the impression they have been written by a 5th grade. Continous one-line punch answers.
A few decades ago, Obsidian could write scripts such as this:

 

[sosmoflux]

Reviews seem fine
Better than expected
Don't let brainrotted grifters drag it in bad faith
Nobody expected this to be anything better than 7/10 goyslop

 

[aweigh]

Better than expected

JuiceHead, MrMattyPlays, FextraLife and GManLives all gave it below-average ratings, at best calling it "fine" at its most generous. All agree it has bad writing, bad companion characters and the only fun part is running around the world finding hidden treasure chests.

These are the only reviewer-types that matter, these are the ones Avowed needed to give it a maximum shill review. None did.

 

[Infinitron]

The dialogues give the impression they have been written by a 5th grade. Continous one-line punch answers.
A few decades ago, Obsidian could write scripts such as this:

It was always just Chris Avellone. Nobody else there was that good.

 

[Infinitron]

Hi.

Join in the excitement of Avowed by preparing your character with Dimitri Berman & Berto Ritger during the 5pm EST Character Creator Stream!

Pick up tips on design techniques, jank your character with hairstyles, facial features, and much, much MORE!

WHO WILL YOU BECOME?

Thanks,
Sherry

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2380413304