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

[Tyranicon]

Why is "haha, you know we're rushing everything last-minute, from core gameplay to dialogue, just a couple months before release!" constantly being twisted as a positive in these interviews. The last six years was a practice run for this epic eight-week development cycle.

All modern games* released on 1.0 are just hidden Early Access. This is partially related to anti-crunch measures the industry has taken and is commonly known.

*Japanese games not included.

 

[Modron]

All modern games* released on 1.0 are just hidden Early Access. This is partially related to anti-crunch measures the industry has taken and is commonly known.

*Japanese games not included.

*Plenty of Japanese games included.

 

[Alienman]

If we were going to do romance, we were going to really, really, really do it right — or not at all.​

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I wish that went for the whole RPG thing too.

 

[BlackheartXIII]

When I asked how much audio the studio had recorded for Avowed and the Camp, Patel laughed and told me, "You mean how much audio are we still recording to fill out all that banter in those Camp conversations?"

I'm sick of autoplayed generic time-filling bantz poorly written by millennials because zoomers can't have one single idle second.

Everyone talks like a yuppie from fucking [urban center near developers] all the time. I'm tired of it.

As I mentioned before, player agency will be utilize, regulated and appropriated to affirm the writers characters and narrative, you will play an immersive fanfic masquerade as an rpg:

Nu-Obsidian writers loathe player agency (although it's highly regulated) so they would invest instead in companions/NPC reactivity that would force their infantile doll play on the player, this is a very MFA behavior.

 

[Gargaune]

you will play an immersive fanfic masquerade as an rpg

No, I won't.

 

[Tyranicon]

immersive fanfic

Modern rpgdevs: our worlds are so immersive that you'll feel like you've been transported back to the middle ages.

Also modern rpgdevs:

 

[NaturallyCarnivorousSheep]

This is NOT going to be a game with a number of towns

You say this as it's a bad thing.

 

[Herumor]

immersive fanfic

Modern rpgdevs: our worlds are so immersive that you'll feel like you've been transported back to the middle ages.

Also modern rpgdevs:

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I still wonder who was in charge of Karlach, because from the moment you see her / get her in your party, everyone just starts dickriding her for no reason whatsoever.

 

[NaturallyCarnivorousSheep]

No idea her head holds to her shoulders too loosely to not fall off every time I saw her

 

[AwesomeButton]

If we were going to do romance, we were going to really, really, really do it right — or not at all.​

​

I wish that went for the whole RPG thing too.

My words exactly

 

[S.torch]

Is not that these people are anti-player agency, is that they're just anti-player. They're against anything they perceive to be a player's power-fantasy. Be it romance or having a meaningful role in the game's narrative. The player character just exists to get lectured and educated, while being a vehicle for their amazing and godlike OCs throwing their sarcastic metacommentary.

One of the greatest joys of creating something is for other people to enjoy it together with you. But for these types it's the contrary: the greatest joy is listening to themselves talk.

 

[luj1]

They're against anything they perceive to be a player's power-fantasy. Be it romance or having a meaningful role in the game's narrative.

Romance is not first order gameplay

 

[the mole]

They're against anything they perceive to be a player's power-fantasy. Be it romance or having a meaningful role in the game's narrative.

Romance is not first order gameplay

mansplaining

 

[Old Hans]

immersive fanfic

Modern rpgdevs: our worlds are so immersive that you'll feel like you've been transported back to the middle ages.

Also modern rpgdevs:

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on the flip side they really went all out with her beheading scene

 

[Grotesque]

The stylistic direction is atrocious.





it will not be this game

 

[Eldrin]

This looks much more in-line to what I hoped from Avowed after the first teaser trailer:



Just mind that the video above isn't really gameplay footage, but an animated gameplay concept trailer(?), so... don't get your hopes up too much...

 

[Drakortha]

I swear I hope the industry keeps dynamiting itself and all get fired. There are already others who are taking the mantle.

Larian Cultist detected.

 

[NaturallyCarnivorousSheep]

Avoid is doomed. Feargus Urquhart said so on Joe Rogan podcast and then sharted all over the studio.

 

[Crescent Hawk]

I swear I hope the industry keeps dynamiting itself and all get fired. There are already others who are taking the mantle.

Larian Cultist detected.

I feel i need to defend myself since I have always disliked Larian. So no.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Butter]

Spoiler alert: it takes about four minutes and one fight to recruit Pallegina. You spend half that time on loading screens.

 

[Infinitron]

Spoiler alert: it takes about four minutes and one fight to recruit Pallegina. You spend half that time on loading screens.

 

[Jack_Deth]

The most appealing part is it's supposed to be short like Outer Worlds.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Judging by camping supplies they're playing on POTD on that stream, so that's kinda nice.

 

[JarlFrank]

I do wonder if the appetite for this type of game still exists in the way it did 10 - 15 years ago; Starfield's frosty reception is a gamechanger in that it raises serious questions about whether or not this genre has had its time in the sun, and if it can continue to exist without some serious innovation.

The problem isn't open world games being out of favor, it's that Starfield was shit even for Bethesda's low standards.

>shit game comes out
>it flops because it's shit
>"OMG THE GENRE IS DEAD"
>years pass
>another game comes out in that very genre
>it's good
>it succeeds
>"OMG THE GENRE IS BACK"

It's really just about whether a game is fun or shit, and nothing else.