Heroic Liberator
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Vanilla fantasy is harder to fuck up than 'high concept' SF stuff.
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Eternity Avowed - Obsidian's first person action-RPG in the Pillars of Eternity setting
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IHaveHugeNick
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That's assuming they're learned from failure of previous two games to finally make a vanilla fantasy, and not another season of Desperate Housewives of Eora bickering to each other.
Ok come on codex how on earth did you fail to point out pastel blue pink white colour palette on the orlan girl? I feel embarrassed for you now.
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Aside from Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 releasing before the end of the year and at least one non-RPG, hiking simulator Dragon's Dogma 2 released in March:
The Weeaboo above the Sea of Fog II
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just looked at both and im not seeing this? care to provide examples? Just saw 3 in a row: avowed, dragon age 4 and doom. Out of them all actually doom disappointed me most: shield and dragon riding?
Tyranicon
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Just my opinion of course, but the actual in-game footage of DA 4 looks much better than the garish, hyper-cartoony look of Avowed.
It's like comparing Valorant to knockoff Valorant made in Unity.
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This isn't a comedic game about how corporations are bad.
Instead it's a somewhat-more serious game about how colonialism and imperialism are bad.
Heroic Liberator
Arcane
Assuming that they maintain the style of Deadfire when tackling such topics, then it'll be leagues ahead of TOW's nonsense.Instead it's a somewhat-more serious game about how colonialism and imperialism are bad.
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2024 hot take: Tim Cain ruined RPGs by introducing perks. Now all our RPGs are just basic bitch action games with +damage perks slapped on.Avowed bethesda-esque skill trees:
Not great, BUT 40% is very substantial and will be felt in gameplay. Not like the usual 2% increase that numbers go up gives you.
jf8350143
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The dialogue UI is awful.
They keep the weapon upgrade system from Pillars, which is nice. Third person mode is also pretty good.
The skill tree looks pretty bad, at least for the first level. It might get better at later level but I don't have high hopes for it.
They keep the weapon upgrade system from Pillars, which is nice. Third person mode is also pretty good.
The skill tree looks pretty bad, at least for the first level. It might get better at later level but I don't have high hopes for it.
jf8350143
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They said later that the reason why the sword sound like a mace at the beginning is it's under leveled(maybe not sharp enough to cut through the enemy). After they upgrade it the sound goes back to normal.
They do this so the player knows when their equipment is not working well.
It's a nice touch and has some potential.
Trash Player
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If they add in a rudimentary Grounded-in-Eora, it will boost sales a lot. Open world survival sandbox is the go-to for AA now. It is a shame to waste the art assets from a financial standpoint.
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It is, but it is still lazy as fuck game design, please do not defend this.
"Let's create a new power, effect, or ability-"--- 'Nah, too expensive, just edit the cell in that database row on the back end"--> (Fn=x*1.40) "All set, New Upgrade ready!"
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PunchYouInTheFace
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Oh I know you're gonna like it. Just like you like Inquisition.
The skill tree is fine but I want to see non-combat perks.
Silverfish
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In true Obsidian fashion, +25% fart damage will come with a penalty of -25% fart radius.
Whoever wins, we lose...
At least we are getting Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon, even with lower graphics, it has much more style than these two fuckups...
Tyranicon
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I really have no idea what the hell happened in the industry to where the art design sucks this hard. Everything looks like sickening cartoonish shit.
Did all these 30-something art directors go to the same school or something?
Quillon
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I remember they spent time and effort to make a medieval bathroom right/realistic through iterations in deadfire, an isometric gaym, both games' looks were realistic af but now just cos it is said something along the lines of "the living lands is wacky" in the lore they went crazy on everything and they don't need a second invite to paint the game eye melting purple & pink(again after TOW)
Talented people left for jobs where they aren't being slaved away and where they get paid their worth. There's no creative freedom in the AAA space anymore, so there's no reason to stomach shitty pay and working conditions. This goes for programmers too.
The industry is filled with incompetent soyboys and tumblrinas who are mentally stuck at being 10 years old, hence the amount of infantile dialogue, childish writing and cartoonish art styles.
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