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

[Roguey]

Is it a coincidence that "your soul is awakening" 10 minutes before Thaos and his goons perform a ritual to kill off your companions and leave you with Watcher powers?

As I recall, it's your close proximity to Thaos that's causing it.

 

[Bara]

Okay visual the new trailer looks a little better but hot damn that dialogue not just the voice acting but the writing itself was horrid.

The whining soldier at the end was just terrible. New Vegas is never happening again with these devs.

 

[luj1]

 

[Cryomancer]

Seeing the gameplay reveal only made me more exited about Tainted Grail : The fall of Avalon. And lose the little hope that I had to this game.

 

[Hammer Of The Heretics]

Outside of Josh Sawyer, there's not a single dev in there that can make something spectacular.

And inside of Josh Sawyer it's too dark to code.

 

[Abu Antar]

I mean, which competent developers do they still have around the studio? Those that are left seem to be working on Grounded.

 

[Reinhardt]

it's about gods

 

[Zombra]

no hit reactions

This really struck me too. (No pun intended.) Seems like the player gets attacked a number of times and ... nothing. This thing just swung a weapon at you as hard as it could and you just stand there. No screen shake, no flash of color, just absolutely nothing happens. I guess if the UI was there you would see a little meter go down. The shield blocking doesn't look terrible, but what if you don't use a shield?

 

[adddeed]

Man that new video looks horrible. No hope for this game.
Is it a different team making this or same people who made PoE1 and 2?

 

[Vic]

I think they gave up on Starfield

dude the mod tools aren't even out yet, just wait

well, it's true. The Creation Kit isn't out yet so modders are still limited with what mods they can create.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Avowed Lizardmen:

Underworld Ascendant lizardmen:

 

[Tyranicon]

First page of steam discussions tell a story:

 

[Shaja]

 

[Cryomancer]

Will be a bugfest? IS every single game made with diversity hires devs a bugfest?

 

[Gangrelrumbler]

First page of steam discussions tell a story:

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Hmmm, let's see: game is shit, game is shit, game is shit, lizards, game is shit, game is shit, game is shit, game is shit, game is shit, game is shit, game is shit, hey any romances? I swear one day people will forget about Bioware and all of their games, but some people will consider dating sims elements a core RPG feature until the heat death of the universe.

 

[Quillon]

Avowed has been in development for over five years.

they were forced to show something and didn't have anything worthwhile on hand

 

[Infinitron]

Yep, it's clearly been in some kind of development hell. At this point they should have been able to show something more fleshed out.

 

[Vic]

the development hell called we don't know what the fuck we're doing but we need money

 

[Roguey]

Yep, it's clearly been in some kind of development hell. At this point they should have been able to show something more fleshed out.

Taking bets on whether or not the upcoming Bloodlines 2 video will look better or worse.

 

[Elttharion]

I saw plenty of people defending the game by saying its AA and that its better for Obsidian to focus on small scale games instead of spending more than half a decade to develop a truly AAA title. If the game was on dev hell then its a huge fail for Obsidian as any problems are due to pure incompetence.

I wonder what MS will do if (when?) the game flops.

 

[Infinitron]

I wonder what MS will do if (when?) the game flops.

That'll be when Josh Sawyer steps back into the arena with a BG3 clone pitch.

"Just as planned. "

 

[Roguey]

I saw plenty of people defending the game by saying its AA and that its better for Obsidian to focus on small scale games instead of spending more than half a decade to develop a truly AAA title. If the game was on dev hell then its a huge fail for Obsidian as any problems are due to pure incompetence.

I wonder what MS will do if (when?) the game flops.

Team of 150+ working for six years isn't AA. The Outer Worlds was AA. This is the full three.

Though one can argue they are handicapped by the Carrie Patel management style of "no mavericks, no martyrs" with a strict 9-5 (or 10-6 since Tim Cain said game devs like to come in to work a bit late) working day. This is what an ethically-sourced big budget game looks like.

The Avowed audience:

 

[Tyranicon]

Yep, it's clearly been in some kind of development hell. At this point they should have been able to show something more fleshed out.

Taking bets on whether or not the upcoming Bloodlines 2 video will look better or worse.

Avowed has full (if short), uninterrupted clips of gameplay.

VtMB2 has Chat GPT-generated text devblogs.

Yeah, it's going to be a real mystery.

 

[Infinitron]

Oh, they uploaded a new version of the deep dive video and deleted the previous one:



What changed?

 

[Elttharion]

I saw plenty of people defending the game by saying its AA and that its better for Obsidian to focus on small scale games instead of spending more than half a decade to develop a truly AAA title. If the game was on dev hell then its a huge fail for Obsidian as any problems are due to pure incompetence.

I wonder what MS will do if (when?) the game flops.

Team of 150+ working for six years isn't AA. The Outer Worlds was AA. This is the full three.

Though one can argue they are handicapped by the Carrie Patel management style of "no mavericks, no martyrs" with a strict 9-5 (or 10-6 since Tim Cain said game devs like to come in to work a bit late) working day. This is what an ethically-sourced big budget game looks like.

MS is also terrible at managing their studios, pretty much a match made in heaven.