Thanks to Xbox Game Piss I can try out Avowed until Monster Hunter Wilds comes out.
I am not too deep into it yet. The combat is fun. Though with my bad eyesight it is kinda hard to dodge projectiles. I should look into the accessibility settings for this. My character is a wand toting mage who belongs to Ravenclaw.
The world is somewhat interesting. I think it’s too close to the tropey DnD fantasy setting with guns and funghi thrown in but it is alright so far. I have come to not expect too much from AAA games in this department. Writing and voice acting are ordinary too.
Anyone else playing this?
Obsidian is an AA studio.
They used to be indie and produce masterpiece games that didn’t get sold because they didn’t have mass appeal. Both Pillars game are awesome - it’s kinda sad that they now do 3d games with minimal deepness - and i’m not saying Avowed and The Outer World are not awesome in some ways, just that they lack the little something both pillars had.
But they’re totally fine with charging $70 for their “AA” game, Jesus. I will admit I don’t know much about Avowed in particular but as someone who’s played Pillars and Deadfire, seeing this release and the response be either mixed/negative or just obsidian fans downplaying it’s shortcomings as “AA” is really irritating. They shouldn’t charge this much after developing it for so many years only to put out a low quality title.
Well, to be fair, they sold out since a while a back.
“At that time where our finances had become healthy again, I brought up that since we had the means to do so, we should pay back the employees who gave up their paychecks to keep us going. That comment was met with silence by all the owners.”
They are not in there for art anymore. Money’s the game now …
I don’t mind AA, but I guess they may have lost something with their recent output; I remember The Outer Worlds not being that good.
Their best writers have had little to nothing to do with the studio for the better part of a decade, that’s all. Also getting bought out by Microsoft in the middle of their development cycle probably affected them quite poorly.
The outer worlds world building was cool, the voice acting was nice… I can’t remember the game story at all. The gameplay had only one quality : it existed. The weapon selection could have been cool but it was not. They didn’t weave the good world building they did in the other elements of the game and it was a shame.
So, I think it’s a lost opportunity of a game. It could have been way cooler with not a lot of efforts. I feel it took some risks while avoiding all the risks a game should take.
TL;DR : This game is like horseradish. It starts strong then offer no more flavor than what it started with. Then you get tired of that flavor and ask yourself why you are eating horseradish in the first place.
Yeah, fair.