I finished the game already, but the biggest quality of life update is being able to use Soul Pods to dispel illusions so you’re not more or less locked in with Yatzli while exploring in the later Acts. Set your expectations appropriately, and Avowed is a hell of a game, but it’s got more in common with Dark Souls or God of War than it does Fallout: New Vegas or Skyrim.
It’s hard to “set your expectations accordingly” when you go from baldur’s gate 3 and Kingdom come Deliverance 2 to this. It makes me wonder what could have been before development was restarted.
I don’t really understand this mentality. Is it a younger gamer thing? I can enjoy games on their own merits without having to compare them with anything else. Besides, the best aspect of Avowed is its gameyness so to speak . It’s just the right length and pick up and play enough that busy people like me can play it and actually finish it. I’ve been meaning to play BG3 but I if I do I have to commit to it for a year at least, and that’s a hard pill to swallow. And I always finish every game I start, especially RPGs.
Well I’m almost 40 so not a young thing. I also have a pretty packed work week and it’s not a set schedule. The only difference between us is that gaming is my main hobby. I don’t follow any sportsball, and the only other hobbies are things like TTRPGs and building Legos or Gunpla. And it’s pretty common to judge something based on the contemporaries of what it is. You can like something, and my not liking it doesn’t lessen your enjoyment.
Well, playing through the first KC:D now, I can tell you it was rough to go from Avowed’s combat to KC:D’s, but that’s okay, because KC:D has other strengths. When development gets restarted, it’s not because it was shaping up into a better game than what we ended up with.
Seems like everyone was all over Avowed the week it was out, then I hardly heard it mentioned at all until now.
That being said, these seem like some nice QoL features but I don’t really see this persuading many people to hop in and buy it.
I’ve never heard of it, but it definitely seems like one of those games.
Obsidian has to pay streamers more to shill it for longer in order to compete.
I finally played through Avowed a week or two ago and went in with low expectations. I had heard all around that it was a decent 7/10 game, but I was pleasantly surprised.
It’s not New Vegas 2 or anything, I think most of the people who worked on FNV have long since left, but I still really appreciate Obsidian games for what they are.
Metal Gear Rising was a load of lazy, overrated garbage and Fallout NV just piggybacked on the hard work Bethesda did for FO3.
Obsidian is woefully overvalued among the gaming community. We should stop expecting good things from them.
They’re no Larian.
Are you under the impression that Metal Gear Rising is an Obsidian game?
You’re right, it’s Platinum.
I get the two confused because of some darling sentiment the gaming community had towards them.
Still 70€, call me when it’s 10 or less.
Physical edition? No? Sorry, not interested.
Okay. Company will cancel.
Yeah, why avoid buying a product that doesn’t meet our standards if it won’t change the company.
Do you think there’s any stopping the industry’s shift to digital at this point? Because we just saw another quarter where we went even harder in that direction.
No. I don’t share his concern, but he is entitled to have it.
I personally have greater ownership over my digital copies than physical ones because they can be easily backed up and spread to different machines.
