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

[Camel]

Is it a new Veilguard, boys?! I'm so excited.

 

[flyingjohn]

Smile dangerously.

 

[Tehdagah]

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

Game has a 80 on Metacritic though.

 

[Dark Souls II]

 

[dutchwench]

Is it a new Veilguard, boys?! I'm so excited.

PoE1&2 used to have proper dialogue for Stoic options and the like. What the fuck is this? One single guy takes a break from gamedev and it all goes to utter shit?
You'd think a guy who made a game about pirates on a ship would know that a captain fucking off as the ship sets sail would be bad news for everyone involved.

 

[Butter]

Is it a new Veilguard, boys?! I'm so excited.

Never hire aspiring novelists to write your video game. You're literally better off having Ben the level designer write dialogues over his lunch. Even Bethesda games don't have writing this shockingly bad.

 

[Brickfrog]

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

I dont remember using ui option settings to play games like TOEE and Fallout but I think that had more to do with me being a dumb preteen than anything else.

earnest female gamers are more mentally ill and worse failures at life than their male equivalents,

Do they have money? That's all advertisers care about.

Times Square is gormless tourists

Yeah that's why it's a good place to advertise mainstream entertainment products (movies, TV, video games, etc)

 

[Camel]

Smile dangerously.

*Nods Respectfully Towards You*
[Nod solemnly and leave.]

 

[La vie sexuelle]

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

Game has a 80 on Metacritic though.

I am aware that surprisingly many people consider toothpaste a mint substitute for a balanced diet, but that is not a reason to take their opinions seriously.

 

[Roguey]

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

George Ziets, Travis Stout, Eric Fenstermaker, John Gonzalez, Matt MacLean, Tony Evans, and Josh Sawyer were respectable writers.

 

[Rieser]

Christ, what a mess. Expected but sad anyway. How hard can it be to make a decent RPG. That's all I'm asking for. A decent one. Instead we get the usual garbage.

People like shitting on PoE 2 (valid, by the way) but compared to utter slop like this it's still considerably better and I would much rather play through a third one of those than play this crap at all.

 

[sosmoflux]

Better than expected

JuiceHead, MrMattyPlays, FextraLife and GManLives all gave it below-average ratings

Retard, Retard, Decent (said it was "Pretty Darn Good"), Absolute Retard



Sitting around 7/8

Not saying it's good, but it's sounding better than the 4/10 disaster it was looking like

 

[aweigh]

Retard, Retard, Decent (said it was "Pretty Darn Good"), Absolute Retard

I agree, I hate every single person I mentioned. I didn't mention them because I like them, they're all SJWs. I hate SJWs.

I mentioned them because those types of reviewers are the ones that matter to normie gamers, not any of the ones you mentioned.

 

[aweigh]

LOL

 

[Camel]

Never hire aspiring novelists to write your video game. You're literally better off having Ben the level designer write dialogues over his lunch. Even Bethesda games don't have writing this shockingly bad.

I miss the functional writing from the 90s and 2000s games.

George Ziets, Travis Stout, Eric Fenstermaker, John Gonzalez, Matt MacLean, Tony Evans, and Josh Sawyer were respectable writers.

FTFY.

 

[Ryzer]

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

George Ziets, Travis Stout, Eric Fenstermaker, John Gonzalez, Matt MacLean, Tony Evans, and Josh Sawyer were respectable writers.

Aren't they all gone from Obsidian now except Josh? and Josh did not work on Asoyed.

 

[Infinitron]

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

George Ziets, Travis Stout, Eric Fenstermaker, John Gonzalez, Matt MacLean, Tony Evans, and Josh Sawyer were respectable writers.

Aren't they all gone from Obsidian now except Josh? and Josh did not work on Asoyed.

He did end up working on it a bit: https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...ng-february-18th.134122/page-235#post-9225652

 

[Ryzer]

And he was completely fine with the esthetics despite the fact that PoE1 and 2 look so much better through and through visually speaking? Asoyed looks like unicorn dung.

As much as I find PoE boring, I at least recognize that the visuals stood out.

 

[TT1]

From what I see almost 100% of reviews mentions the pros: game is larger than expected, combat feel impactful and visual outstanding.

The cons: small variety of enemies, lack of races for player character, lack of classes and flat companions.

It will be around 80... 82 in metacritic.

 

[La vie sexuelle]

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

Josh Sawyer were respectable writers.

 

[ShaggyMoose]

Costs AUD $120 for the "standard edition"...

 

[Modron]

That's what you get for living in the upside down.

 

[Raghar]

Never hire aspiring novelists to write your video game. You're literally better off having Ben the level designer write dialogues over his lunch. Even Bethesda games don't have writing this shockingly bad.

I miss the functional writing from the 90s and 2000s games.

Writing for computer games is drastically different that writing for books or movies. Player can see the same dialogue multiple times, and it needs to be unobtrusive.
Movies and books can have gradation. But, what happens when player knows the story already and just plays it for different ending, or to play it again? Gradation is no longer relevant because player knows the ending, and it can be harmful. Players are typically skipping walls of text by rapid clicking, but they need to read the text of the choices.

Self-educated with talent was quite common writer in 90s, and they had advantage of they were making game because they wanted to play it. (+ theirs inspiration was Rambo, Predator, Star Wars, and great fantasy writers who were full of racism and who were able to describe different worlds as a different worlds. Dune is still awesome book.)

 

[Takamori]

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

George Ziets, Travis Stout, Eric Fenstermaker, John Gonzalez, Matt MacLean, Tony Evans, and Josh Sawyer were respectable writers.

Aren't they all gone from Obsidian now except Josh? and Josh did not work on Asoyed.

He did end up working on it a bit: https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...ng-february-18th.134122/page-235#post-9225652

Hmm interesting one the reviews posted they mention the game start with yoinky sploinky wholesomechungus reddit writing but as the game progresses towards the end it becomes more serious and actually try to present difficult choices.
So if I were to pin point, thats balance man. I don't think he is the retard writing "Smile dangerously" "Unsheates Katana" and so on

 

[Takamori]

And he was completely fine with the esthetics despite the fact that PoE1 and 2 look so much better through and through visually speaking? Asoyed looks like unicorn dung.

As much as I find PoE boring, I at least recognize that the visuals stood out.

Well depending at what stage of the project you joined you can't simply say Hey this game art is dogshit, better restart also I don't see Sawyer the type of guy wanting to burn bridges with an entire team.