Avowed Showcase: My Thoughts And Hopes

[@Johannicus]

My fear is that it will be like the outer worlds. Shallow and very little reason to replay it because there arnt that many reasons for it, both in game mechanics and story. EDIT: Chanter is probably my favourite RPG class ever!

[@Warm_Fireplace]

This reminds me of Dark Messiah Might and Magic, a game i hold enjoy a lot So im still looking forwards to =D

[@plainluke722]

Right now Avowed is like the last piece of bread in the pack that you've left for a while, and you're looking at it from the outside of the pack, confident that it is most likely mouldy, but you still choose to get the butter and attempt to make a sandwich, knowing you might get sick.

[@lostzephyr2191]

The world of the PoE franchise is pretty interesting, so I'm hoping that Obsidian will take full advantage of it and do it justice.

[@Wunderkind04]

Honestly, I was SUPER disappointed at their first reveal trailer for it. This however, looks significantly better. The first trailer looked janky as hell, but this looks more like the Obsidian we know. Seems to be smoothed out, and a bit of weight has been added to combat. Maybe not enough, but some. And honestly, I'm just happy to see Xaurips! The only thing that could make this better for me is if the Cipher abilities are done well.

[@spellandshield]

There might be no cipher abilities though.

[@steffen89able]

Dont have much hope. Outerworlds wasnt particularly good.

[@SavageDragon999]

The side quest showcased in the gameplay trailer is absolutely boring and terrible.

[@TheSaival]

I still cant deal with the fact that in first PoE you couldnt side with the bad guy at the end. For whatever reason the big reveal was like "huh" for me, while the game tried so hard to make it a shocking revelation 🤣 About the game if they are smart they will go the baldurs gate route. So make it very character driven with lots of likeable characters and romance. This will completely change the game, but it will make it sell.

[@pandoraeeris7860]

It looks like a lazy, boring Skyrim clone.

[@mikaelbaruchel7059]

For me, the cartoonish style is a no go. Period.

[@zoltanschweifer4304]

Don't hope anything it looks bad middle Skyrim copy. Dialog conversation was bad and booring also the combat is mediocre. Cyberpunks combat is one million times better. Mybe it whould be better if they whould go third person. Like elden ring. I just wanted warn you put your expectations very very low. This Xbox game pass game made to be mind with 1 billion hours to play just that you pay more for subscription.

[@bligh1156]

I will definitely wait for a few reviews, I don't trust Obsidian anymore. In ither news, Dragon's Dogma 2 looks like it worth buying so far.

[@Mhantrax]

The reason they are taking this route because gamers didn't recognize an amazing game when both PoE were released. Thus, no budget for continuing that style. Capitalism trumps art. Again.

[@TheRealClaylex]

Maybe I'm being too cynical here but there was just.......nothing here that impressed me Oh sure, the game looks good, the action certainly peaked my interests, but I felt I needed to see more to get hyped for this.

[@tahnadana5435]

just make another isometric crpg, it worked out for BG 3, so why lose balls

[@luckyowl6432]

I was excited for this game but something is off-putting... I think it's the lighting but I can't put my finger on it

[@Lol_Pig]

Very much not a fan of the art. Looks cheap. Lacking in depth and detail.

[@Cracker_Juice]

Removal of classes and limiting the player to only a few playable races is pretty upseting, as an rpg fan

[@christopherr.561]

Agree with pretty much all of what you said. I was really excited when it was announced way back but that has been tempered over the last few updates due to art style, class limitations and just look of gameplay. I probably won’t buy it at release but will wait for some reviews and I loved PoE 1 and 2. I was a kick starter backer. But I am a tad above Luke warm on this.

[@Xxxkiller101]

we will just have to wait and see when it comes to the combat/character progression. I'm disappointed on lack of class-based(multiclassing) progression. I cant be certain of anything since i did not like how ilithids and their abilities worked in bg3 early access, but to my surprise they were greatly improved upon on full release. voicing was nice except for private nauki that didn't sound like rauatian/amaua to me.

[@MusicMirror18]

Art style is odd choice for sure.

[@charliebee5154]

Their recent presentation felt like a Kickstarter campaign. I can't see the game gaining ANY real traction from what was shown so far. I'm hoping, HOPING for the best as I would hate to lose the PoE franchise because of a boring PR department.

[@Julian_FP-7]

From what I understood this game takes place prior to the other isometric games in the timeline. Honestly would prefer PoE3 in response to BG3s success but will likely be playing this as well.

[@spellandshield]

They have never confirmed that actually.

[@bligh1156]

Correct, that is a very prominent rumor, but I have not heard that from Obsidian... yet.

[@deathbycognitivedissonance5036]

I have mixed feelings on this as well.

[@5686darryl]

it looks terrible lol

[@badrhetoric5637]

I enjoyed The Outer Worlds, yet felt very little motivation to return to it. I hope Avowed will be a culmination of the studios experience, into somethint great.

[@megamike15]

i really enjoyed the first two pillars but something about avowed just does not click with me. since it's trying to copy skyrim it look more bland to me.

[@IDontKnowYouWhoAreYou]

is pillar of eternity worth it it looks boring to me :( but having beaten and played pathfinder kingmaker and wrath i want a good rpg story and mostly voice acted rpg

[@oceanstone5223]

In my personal opinion, I want primarily these things: 1st, I think the environments look great and very reminiscent of the pillars games. see some anslogs compass, some twin elms, some of the more druidic forest islands in deadfire (ori o koiki for eg), but the way the character models look, it feels like it lacks a layer of grime and grit. Those amaua are dead, have been camping, have been ambushed, but they look kinda tidy. The valian companion, who I am sure will be well written because apparently paul kirsch wrote a lot of her, looked extremely tidy and made up even. The game absolutely needs that "sauce" for it to feel grounded in Eora, regardless of how bright the colors and environments are. 2nd, I want it to further the story of Eora. I dont really mind if we are classless and the gameplay is mediocre (as long as movement is not uncomfortable I don't think it will matter TOO much for enthusiasts of obsidian's narrative design). I think, even if the player character doesn't identify with a particular class, there is value in seeing cyphers and paladin orders in the living lands. I don't think we have to worry too much about them "ignoring" the narrative continuity of Pillars of Eternity. Was suprised to see in the fankit for the Valian companion that they explain that she moved to the living lands with her family that were animancers, without explaining anything about animancy or the valian republics or anything. Also references to spells like pull of eora, tanglefoot, minoletta's missiles etc are present in the trailers. I think we will very much be rewarded for being Pillars fans, even if the game doesn't have a lot of mass appeal because the graphics and combat are scuffed. Also I want to add that its valid for people to want better graphics and great combat, it's just not something I care about too much if all of the other components are good. Seen a lot of comments about "NPC facial expressions and skeletal movement", and i'm like, is this something i will think about if the narrative truly pulls me in? I have other hopes, for eg, that itemization will be more like Pillars and not like Outer Worlds (a game that I enjoyed a lot in many ways, for what it's worth). I want to add that they're doing a really bad job of marketing the game. No heavy weapons or two handed weapons in sight. They show a random scuffed quest to demonstrate choice and consequences, without the context of finding these NPCs, the mood of the player reaching that location, music, and interspersed with Carrie's commentary. We are also only a couple more months away from the release of the game and we don't have an actual trailer yet. Just two gameplay showcases and a CG teaser. I am really hoping that it's just bad advice and not "this is all they have". Maybe they'll keep showing us more as time passes. It still very much has a solidly AA vibe, so I guess this isn't going to be Obsidian's first big AAA game that many people seem to think it was going to be.

[@Anonimuuz]

Not really sold on it yet hopefully they show more during the summer games fest this year and I hope that they will support modding for this game as they said they were not opposed to modding when Outer Worlds dropped

[@Baraz_Red]

I don't mind that it is action/first person (the form), but I would prefer they remain more true to PoE1-2, so classes and a party (let us say of 4, like in Vermintide, which proves an action game can be party-based).

[@sp2ip]

It seems a bit like they had a more ambitious vision for it early on but for whatever reason have scaled it back. Lack of confidence and lack of investment has probably made this one dead in the water. A linear first person rpg with mediocre looking combat? The story would have to be exceptionally amazing to get this to work. PoE1 was good story-wise but there was a lot of exposition, very sceptical!

[@Hoonter101]

Looking at the developers I have little hope it will be good

[@Vagabond_Gaming]

Agreed. Let's hope it is more weighty

[@micasa8421]

I really liked the Pillars of Ethernity 2 in turn based mode it was amazing Bg3 - DOS2 - POE2 best RPG's Imo. I don't feel any excitement for this. It looks like you walk thrue a corridor then enter an open space to fight some enemies then walk a tunnel again. The combat looks meh. Kinda looks like a Outer Worlds reskin, so i'm expecting the same gameplay and quality. Dissapointed they didin't make an open world game as most people expected when the first trailer came out.

[@Defcon339]

The melee combat seems kind of boring, I wish they would have tried something more like Bannerlord's melee combat.

[@shadowfox2300]

it's going to suck if there is no chanter i loved playing as a chanter it was so unique as a class it was always one of my multi class options

[@dick8689]

I love Obsidian and the games they make and i want them to keep making games, so wether it's good or not ill still support them.