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

[Serious_Business]

Anyone made the joke about Avowed not being avowed yet. I mean fucking hell, what a boring title. I guess it is concise, but I still prefer some riffing on the classics, like The Legends of the Black Geyser : The Gem of Ultimate Power. I'm sure I'm giving some millenial ideas somewhere : "Rpg Game : The Gem of the Absolute Mad Lad of a Wizard"... yeah yeah. It's not meant to be funny, asshole. I want that fucking gem, you hear me. I will have the gem at all costs. It will give me power!!!

 

[Cohesion]

Why are military trained men having trouble with Xaurips.

XAURIP STRONK U BIGOT

 

[Desiderius]

When you’re trying to fight a Drake and there’s like fifty of them they are.

(don’t go down pits)

 

[std::namespace]

i just realized what this shit makes me think off - grimrock, kek, same production values

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Legend of Grimrock was created by four people, and its sequel released just two-and-half years after the first game.

 

[Viata]

Grimrock was great, both games in fact. And the original trailer made me want to play the game, not the case for this one.

 

[Tyranicon]

[Grabs screenshot]

Is this AI? It looks like AI gen. I'm assuming from the 'tuber trying to get a cool thumbnail because the actual game doesn't look good.

 

[std::namespace]

Grimrock was created by four people

exactly!

 

[HoboForEternity]

[Grabs screenshot]

Is this AI? It looks like AI gen. I'm assuming from the 'tuber trying to get a cool thumbnail because the actual game doesn't look good.

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Looks like the cgi trailer hands photoshopped to some random background might be AI might be not

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Why are military trained men having trouble with Xaurips.

Fucking dealing with Xaurip Champions on POTD.

 

[roguefrog]

One thing I'm glad to hear is no horny companion NPCs. I thought after BG3 that would trend.

 

[Desiderius]

[Grabs screenshot]

Is this AI? It looks like AI gen. I'm assuming from the 'tuber trying to get a cool thumbnail because the actual game doesn't look good.

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Good enough

Reminds me a little of Wiz 8 (which I’m currently playing). Give me the Wiz 9 and I’ll be good.

 

[Lacrymas]

One thing I'm glad to hear is no horny companion NPCs. I thought after BG3 that would trend.

Not being able to fuck them doesn't mean they won't be horny.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Frankly I'd rather fuck a bear than angry lesbians from TOW.

 

[roguefrog]

Not being able to fuck them doesn't mean they won't be horny.

Sure, except I expect they will keep that shit to themselves, as true incels (not souls) who have no possible chance of getting laid during the full duration of the RPG.

 

[Roguey]

One thing I'm glad to hear is no horny companion NPCs. I thought after BG3 that would trend.

BG3 was released six months ago and this has been in development for years. It'll take a while before we'll see RPGs obviously influenced by it.

 

[Viata]

I hope not. But then again, devs always get the worse part from other rpgs.

 

[Butter]

One thing I'm glad to hear is no horny companion NPCs. I thought after BG3 that would trend.

BG3 was released six months ago and this has been in development for years. It'll take a while before we'll see RPGs obviously influenced by it.

Weren't there memes about Shadowheart as soon as the game released in EA?

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

le epic battles against like two enemies on screen at any given moment

 

[Tyranicon]

One thing I'm glad to hear is no horny companion NPCs. I thought after BG3 that would trend.

BG3 was released six months ago and this has been in development for years. It'll take a while before we'll see RPGs obviously influenced by it.

 

[Quillon]

One thing I'm glad to hear is no horny companion NPCs. I thought after BG3 that would trend.

BG3 was released six months ago and this has been in development for years. It'll take a while before we'll see RPGs obviously influenced by it.

What is there to get influenced by BG3 specifically? BG3 = DAO + DOS games and those were around for much longer + BG3 EA was around.

 

[Tenebris]

One thing I'm glad to hear is no horny companion NPCs. I thought after BG3 that would trend.

BG3 was released six months ago and this has been in development for years. It'll take a while before we'll see RPGs obviously influenced by it.

What is there to get influenced by BG3 specifically? BG3 = DAO + DOS games and those were around for much longer + BG3 EA was around.

I hope you enjoy rpgs with a heavy focus on voice acting and romance because that's what we'll be getting.

 

[Quillon]

I hope you enjoy rpgs with a heavy focus on voice acting and romance because that's what we'll be getting.

What we have been getting for 20 years.

 

[Tenebris]

And now we'll get 20 more. Fun.

 

[roguefrog]

What is there to get influenced by BG3 specifically?

Mostly expensive triple A stuff, which does make it harder to copy.

Like fully voiced and mo-capped cutscenes for everything. Even when a simple text bark would have been better, quicker, and cheaper (see all those superfluous fully named NPCs in Baldur's Gate proper that trigger a cutscene to only speak one line of dialog)

More resources poured into romances of course. Although I don't think Obsidian will actually ever do them fully. They've seem to always have been critical of player character romances. (even though PoE2 technically has romance options, they're easily ignored/skippable)

Possibly the multiplayer component.

I agree it's too early to tell though unless they decided to do another hard pivot after the first pivot away from an "open-world" Bethesda game.