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

[NaturallyCarnivorousSheep]

Funny that you talk about all these details but forgot yo mention Feargus and his gluttony almost bankrupting Microsoft

 

[La vie sexuelle]

If you can stomach the weapons grade cringe, you'll be reminded that they were priming their audience for "We're AA guys! This is going to be another unambitious product." from the outset of TOW2.

Weaponized cringe.

 

[Yosharian]

Yeah that trailer is fucking awful

 

[Justinian]

- Tries to post low-effort cringe humor trailer.

- Trailer is clearly high-budget, high effort, unfunny.

Bitches please. This is how you do it.

I spent no money/fucks on the below shit and it shows.

I've seen those sprites in at least 4 different games, it def shows

 

[Silverfish]

Amazing how its never their fault

In their defense, it's impossible to adapt over the course of 20 years, especially after you know what to expect.

 

[NaturallyCarnivorousSheep]

So can Avowed be the Baldurs gate 3 killer or will we have to wait for Dragon Age 4

 

[duskvile]

So can Avowed be the Baldurs gate 3 killer or will we have to wait for Dragon Age 4

Avowed is aiming to be first person. Pillars 3 could potentially aim for isometric turn based game but I hope it will stay true to the roots with RTWP. Dragon Age 4 is it's own thing.

 

[Child of Malkav]

So can Avowed be the Baldurs gate 3 killer or will we have to wait for Dragon Age 4

The only thing DA4 is gonna kill is itself.

 

[Ryzer]

So can Avowed be the Baldurs gate 3 killer or will we have to wait for Dragon Age 4

The only thing DA4 is gonna kill is itself.

It will be a good laughing stock for years to come.

 

[deuxhero]

You think people still care enough about DA to remember it a month after launch?

 

[Butter]

Expect DA4 player count to drop 41% after the first week.

 

[cvv]

I honestly expect the same exact scenario with DA4 as what happened with Starfield.

Game launches, fanboys and many journos (game will be packed to the gills with The Message) will be waxing lyrically, but already dark reality starts creeping into the candy Barbie world of "wooow this game is amaaazing" and soon the whole edifice comes crashing down and the game ends up sitting at Mixed of Mostly Negative on Steam.

 

[Zombra]

prognostication x 1

 

[Gargaune]

I honestly expect the same exact scenario with DA4 as what happened with Starfield.

Game launches, fanboys and many journos (game will be packed to the gills with The Message) will be waxing lyrically, but already dark reality starts creeping into the candy Barbie world of "wooow this game is amaaazing" and soon the whole edifice comes crashing down and the game ends up sitting at Mixed of Mostly Negative on Steam.

That also depends on brand reach. If you're only selling to the faithful, it's less likely you'll get overwhelming blowback as they struggle to keep buyer's remorse at bay. Which, in turn, might prevent the backlash from reaching the sort of Internet Phenomenon™ avalanche that Cyberpunk or Starfield got snowed under. If you sell to everyone, well... fuck you and the horse your rode in on.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I don't think a lot of people give a shit about Avowed, which ironically might be safer for Obsidian's prospects under Microsoft than if they did.

 

[Child of Malkav]

Expect DA4 player count to drop 41% after the first week.

Hm, apparently it's been up to 52% since 2018.
2018
And in 2021.
2021

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

- Tries to post low-effort cringe humor trailer.

- Trailer is clearly high-budget, high effort, unfunny.

Bitches please. This is how you do it.

I spent no money/fucks on the below shit and it shows.

I've seen those sprites in at least 4 different games, it def shows

How the fuck I miss that KS? I must’ve been really depressed. Well, I’ll just wait for itchio release.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

I honestly expect the same exact scenario with DA4 as what happened with Starfield.

Game launches, fanboys and many journos (game will be packed to the gills with The Message) will be waxing lyrically, but already dark reality starts creeping into the candy Barbie world of "wooow this game is amaaazing" and soon the whole edifice comes crashing down and the game ends up sitting at Mixed of Mostly Negative on Steam.

Unless the action gameplay hits some massive improvement between the leak and launch I don’t expect any lyrical waxing to be going on. Not unless there’s some unknown aspect of the game for them to do that over.

They’re throwing their hat in the arena of action gameplay, melee action gameplay, and it looked terrible in the leak. Dragon Age 4 is going to be judged against all the various Hack & Slash games on the market, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to come out looking good if the bit of leaked gameplay we saw last year is any indication.

 

[scytheavatar]

So can Avowed be the Baldurs gate 3 killer or will we have to wait for Dragon Age 4

Dreadwolf is aiming to be a God of War killer, if it ends up being the best game ever made it would become the game Yoshi-P wanted FFXVI to be rather than some BG3 killer. Avowed originally was aiming to be a Skyrim killer but now that they have downgraded the game to being a medieval The Outer Worlds it seems being an Outer Worlds killer is the best they can hope for.

Basically the game with the best chance of being a BG3 killer is the next game Larian is making.

 

[Zombra]

Quick question, what are you guys talking about?

 

[Kem0sabe]

I honestly expect the same exact scenario with DA4 as what happened with Starfield.

Game launches, fanboys and many journos (game will be packed to the gills with The Message) will be waxing lyrically, but already dark reality starts creeping into the candy Barbie world of "wooow this game is amaaazing" and soon the whole edifice comes crashing down and the game ends up sitting at Mixed of Mostly Negative on Steam.

Unless the action gameplay hits some massive improvement between the leak and launch I don’t expect any lyrical waxing to be going on. Not unless there’s some unknown aspect of the game for them to do that over.

They’re throwing their hat in the arena of action gameplay, melee action gameplay, and it looked terrible in the leak. Dragon Age 4 is going to be judged against all the various Hack & Slash games on the market, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to come out looking good if the bit of leaked gameplay we saw last year is any indication.

After what dragon's dogma 2 has been showing in gameplay videos, bioware and Obsidian should be ashamed by the shit they are peddling as "action rpg combat" in their next AAA RPGs.

 

[Häyhä]

Quick question, what are you guys talking about?

 

[Roguey]

After what dragon's dogma 2 has been showing in gameplay videos, bioware and Obsidian should be ashamed by the shit they are peddling as "action rpg combat" in their next AAA RPGs.

They have different priorities.

 

[Zeriel]

After what dragon's dogma 2 has been showing in gameplay videos, bioware and Obsidian should be ashamed by the shit they are peddling as "action rpg combat" in their next AAA RPGs.

They have different priorities.

My favorite excuse. Imagine it in other arenas of life.

"We had different priorities than winning the war. If only you understood the avant garde art piece we were constructing at Saigon."

 

[Roguey]

My favorite excuse. Imagine it in other arenas of life.

"We had different priorities than winning the war. If only you understood the avant garde art piece we were constructing at Saigon."

I liked Dragon's Dogma well enough but it's not giving me what I want when I want to play a Bioware or Obsidian-branded game. All games/studios have different priorities, some are going to be more suited for what you want than others.

 

[scytheavatar]

I honestly expect the same exact scenario with DA4 as what happened with Starfield.

Game launches, fanboys and many journos (game will be packed to the gills with The Message) will be waxing lyrically, but already dark reality starts creeping into the candy Barbie world of "wooow this game is amaaazing" and soon the whole edifice comes crashing down and the game ends up sitting at Mixed of Mostly Negative on Steam.

Unless the action gameplay hits some massive improvement between the leak and launch I don’t expect any lyrical waxing to be going on. Not unless there’s some unknown aspect of the game for them to do that over.

They’re throwing their hat in the arena of action gameplay, melee action gameplay, and it looked terrible in the leak. Dragon Age 4 is going to be judged against all the various Hack & Slash games on the market, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to come out looking good if the bit of leaked gameplay we saw last year is any indication.

After what dragon's dogma 2 has been showing in gameplay videos, bioware and Obsidian should be ashamed by the shit they are peddling as "action rpg combat" in their next AAA RPGs.

What have they been showing in gameplay videos? As I said in the DD2 thread, the original DD was a 7.5/10 game with some cool ideas but design issues which go beyond it being jank. And DD2 seems to be DD1.5 more than some effort to make an actual good game.