Eternity Avowed Pre-Release Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Zed Duke of Banville]

They are really obsessed with pushing dual-wielding as some incredible discovery.

Obsidian must be targeting Drizzt fanboys as the audience for Avowed.

 

[mediocrepoet]

They are really obsessed with pushing dual-wielding as some incredible discovery.

Obsidian must be targeting Drizzt fanboys as the audience for Avowed.

Disgusting creatures. I avoid them when I can.

Also RA Salvatore should be burned in effigy for his crimes against the fantasy genre as a whole and D&D specifically.

 

[ciox]

give me F1-F2 remasters on Deadfire engine with Boyarsky and Cain supervising.

game actually comes out..

it's Fallout Fixt with AI Upscaling.

 

[Cyberarmy]

They are really obsessed with pushing dual-wielding as some incredible discovery.

Obsidian must be targeting Drizzt fanboys as the audience for Avowed.

Disgusting creatures. I avoid them when I can.

Also RA Salvatore should be burned in effigy for his crimes against the fantasy genre as a whole and D&D specifically.

HEY!

I love Artemis Entreri!

 

[Silverfish]

Also RA Salvatore should be burned in effigy for his crimes against the fantasy genre as a whole and D&D specifically.

You didn't like the race of super elves in Amalur who reenacted historical battles as elaborate stage plays but also somehow for real?

 

[mediocrepoet]

Also RA Salvatore should be burned in effigy for his crimes against the fantasy genre as a whole and D&D specifically.

You didn't like the race of super elves in Amalur who reenacted historical battles as elaborate stage plays but also somehow for real?

Look. Are you trying to get me to burst a blood vessel?

 

[whydoibother]

They are really obsessed with pushing dual-wielding as some incredible discovery.

LOADOUTS(tm) will redefine the RPG as we know it, things will never be the same again. True story.

Bro, imagine your favorite RPG, but you can change what weapons the characters have equipped! Insane!

 

[Peachcurl]

They are really obsessed with pushing dual-wielding as some incredible discovery.

LOADOUTS(tm) will redefine the RPG as we know it, things will never be the same again. True story.

Bro, imagine your favorite RPG, but you can change what weapons the characters have equipped! Insane!

What will they think up next? Changing armor?

 

[Roguey]

Also RA Salvatore should be burned in effigy for his crimes against the fantasy genre as a whole and D&D specifically.

You didn't like the race of super elves in Amalur who reenacted historical battles as elaborate stage plays but also somehow for real?

The House of Ballads was the most interesting part of Amalur.

 

[Artyoan]

Maybe they thought it would come together like bioware obsidian magic.

My opinion on it remains the same. I'll leave it in my wishlist and maybe pick it up on a deep discount if it has some praise far down the line. But the ambition of this game hinted at greater things with that first trailer long ago and now it is just kinda there. Either they couldn't do what they were wanting to or never really knew where they were going.

 

[whydoibother]

Maybe they thought it would come together like bioware obsidian magic.

The newly released Suicide Squad kills the Justice League game seems to have a similar development to this game, and Anthem.
What they ended up releasing is comic book villains shooting guns at each other, rather than use their in-character weapons and abilities. I don't think its developer Rocksteady managed to "find the game" during the development process. But maybe Obsidian will.
After all, there's a reason we talk about Bioware magic: it failed with Anthem, popularizing mockery of the term; but it succeeded with Mass Effect and Dragon Age. They did manage to find the fun there, and both series supported trilogies that reviewed and sold well.
Arguably Baldur's Gate 3 as well, given how much was cut from that game, based on the earliest marketing and leaks for it, and early access changes. Though of course that game was bookended by the tabletop system rules, so it had a spine to build around.

 

[Butter]

Maybe they thought it would come together like bioware obsidian magic.

My opinion on it remains the same. I'll leave it in my wishlist and maybe pick it up on a deep discount if it has some praise far down the line. But the ambition of this game hinted at greater things with that first trailer long ago and now it is just kinda there. Either they couldn't do what they were wanting to or never really knew where they were going.

There's no Obsidian Magic, and there's no Obsidian Ambition. If they were an FPS studio, they'd be churning out bi-annual Call of Duty games, just glad to be getting a paycheck and hopefully not working too hard.

 

[Silverfish]

The House of Ballads was the most interesting part of Amalur.

That's not a high bar to clear.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Fuck FNV, give me F1-F2 remasters on Deadfire engine with Boyarsky and Cain supervising.

You are trolling, right? Right???. jpg

Far as I see it, not a chance in a million years Obsidian can come up with FNV2 that doesn't suck donkey balls, but F1 remaster they could probably manage and already got technology for isometric game.

Come to think of it, it's really weird how Fallout is this huge franchise but it basically starts at 3.

 

[Tyranicon]

Come to think of it, it's really weird how Fallout is this huge franchise but it basically starts at 3.

1. Take high quality nerd thing.
2. Slap on a new coat of paint.
3. Dumb down for normies.
4. Produce slop so slopslurpers can consume.

A tale as old as time. In the modern day we also have

5. People assume nerd identity by buying stupid useless merch.

 

[Drakortha]

Can games with themes that Fallout 1 & 2 have even be released in current year? I suspect any kind of remaster would need to go through a censorship filter, and might result in them being bastardized. I'm not sure that's worth it for some nicer graphics and effects.

 

[Gangrelrumbler]

I finally found someone praising Avowed:

This guy had accidentally shown why Avowed will fail, and Stellar Blade will most likely sell well. You see Stellar Blade is the "butt game". It's a game with K-POP star looking Asian game who jumps around and fights monsters, this is something people will remember months from now when the game comes out, they will look at it and say: "Oh, it's the butt game everyone is talking about, maybe I'll try it". Meanwhile despite wasting so much time Avowed has failed to show anything interesting, notable or intriguing about the game. It screams Generic Fantasy Action RPG #598.

Yahtzee talked about this when he explained why Prey II was such a miserable failure:

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

I doubt that Stellar Blade will have anything more than the kpop butt, but the same happened to Nier Automata, and at the end of the day the butt was a bait to drive you into existencial crisis. Obsidian games have very brainy narratives but they don't have an ounce of heart. Fitting for someone in the spectrum like Jsawyer.

 

[ropetight]

Oh, look at us, how smart we are, we don't need asses showing to make and sell games.
Famous last words.

 

[General Disarray]

I mean the melee combat is just so bad. Age of Chivalry mod from 2007 have a much more engaging system. Seeing these trailers just make me want to start up Chivalry 2.

 

[Quillon]

not a chance in a million years Obsidian can come up with FNV2 that doesn't suck donkey balls, but F1 remaster they could probably manage

as if they wouldn't revise the content of F1/F2 for "the modern audiences"

why Prey II was such a miserable failure

cos it was a snorefest, designed for people who have trouble sleeping

 

[Moink]

BG1/2 have Nintendo Switch ports that are just 1:1 of the original games (well, it's the Beamdog version) and work pretty well from what I've heard.

 

[ChildInTime]

I doubt that Stellar Blade will have anything more than the kpop butt, but the same happened to Nier Automata, and at the end of the day the butt was a bait to drive you into existencial crisis. Obsidian games have very brainy narratives but they don't have an ounce of heart. Fitting for someone in the spectrum like Jsawyer.

Eh, Stellar Blade has a sexy girl protagonist that you can dress up in slutty clothes, it's third person, action looks great and there's even some sort of quest system and c&c, it will do fine. Avowed has... dual wielding and trannie elves or something?

 

[Lhynn]

I doubt that Stellar Blade will have anything more than the kpop butt, but the same happened to Nier Automata, and at the end of the day the butt was a bait to drive you into existencial crisis. Obsidian games have very brainy narratives but they don't have an ounce of heart. Fitting for someone in the spectrum like Jsawyer.

They have what retarded cretins think is "cerebral". In actuality its just poorly executed dumb bullshit.

Its a fucking plague, poe players, pentiment players and now avowed players, all mediocre games that only cretins and halfwits could ever praise.

 

[Modron]

Avowed has... dual wielding and trannie elves or something?

and vitiligo.