Is anyone else playing Avowed? What are your thoughts so far?
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Don't have it although I am loosely interested in it, but not enough to spend the nearly $100 (after tax) asking price. Maybe when it's $10 on sale or something.
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I'm liking it. I'm big on exploration, and I hate when games have difficult but reachable places, but when you get there, there's nothing. That is not the case with Avowed. Just about every hard to reach place I've managed to BS my way to has had something. It's usually just money and some mats, but occasionally I've found some unique equipment or accessories.
Combat is just a slightly better Skyrim combat but with a dodge. I will say the dodge has fucked me multiple times because it's just the jump button, but if you press any direction other than forward when you press it, you dodge in that direction. So no jumping sideways or backwards. I've accidentally dashed to my death off a cliff more than a few times.
I personally don't think the story and characters are as bad as everyone is saying, but I'm easy to please. It doesn't seem any worse than Skyrim story-wise. I like that the companions actually have personalities and banter with each other. They feel more like Dragon Age or Mass Effect companions, granted not nearly as deep. But I've already laughed several times from their ambient camp banter, and I only have two companions and less than 15 hours of play time.
The beginning tutorial area is weak, and character creation wasn't very good. I honestly expected to quit after my first short 2ish hour session, but when I finally got set loose in the first real area and started exploring and climbing around on rooftops and finding underwater caves, and finding loot left and right, I got hooked.
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I am really enjoying it so far. I'm almost finished with the second map.
So many people seem to hate it for reasons I don't quite understand. I also really liked Outer Worlds, though.
I'm enjoying the story, the characters, the inventory system - everything everyone else seems to hate. I really don't understand why other people say the world feels dead. I guess I enjoy not having to run around to find NPCs who are always on the move? (Looking at you, Skyrim.)
Sure, most weapons in the game are exactly the same. But that makes the "unique" ones so much more interesting. I like that I can upgrade those unique weapons, so that they always stay useful. No more quest rewards that are already underleveled when I receive them! (Looking at you, Skyrim.)
I'm enjoying the Balder's Gate 3 camping system, but I'm glad you don't need to "spend" food for every night in camp.
My only "problem" is that it feels a little unoptimized. I get low frame rates sometimes that don't go away even at the lowest settings, especially inside cities. But, it's relatively minor. I can (and do) live with it.
It feels like a full game with no glitches on release, which is nice.
Although, if your glass textures all look frosted and weird, then turn "global Illumination" up to at least medium.
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Nearly beat it, not a great game 5/10.
The environments are nice and fun to explore.
Story is mediocre. Dialog is tiresome, I started button spamming to get through a lot of the conversations that didn't matter. Combat is nothing remarkable, no matter the weapon combos, and the enemies are just damage sponges with no real tactics necessary to defeat a given enemy. Magic is kind of cool but you have to really spec into mage to get there. The immersion is about as deep as a puddle on flat concrete.
It is one of the games of all time, a game you could not play and miss out on nothing.
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Any diehard pillars fans who have played it? For the most part it doesn't seem super well received but I wonder how much of a bump it gets for being in the pillars franchise. I loved the first two and would love to continue my time in eora. Haven't dived in yet mostly because of the price tag, waiting for it to get to at least $60
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Diehard might be pushing it, but I liked PoE1 and loved 2, even playing through the second game twice so I could try it out in turn-based mode. I'm really enjoying it but for different reasons than I enjoy Pillars. Sometimes games are worth $70, and I'm personally finding this one to be.
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I'm absolutely loving it, the combat is great, love the world and graphics, love the exploration.
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I found it the first RPG-ish I have spammed skip on the dialogue. Which felt odd to me, since I always sink into a RPG (even if this is a action game with RPG elements), but Avowed just felt a bit too surface-deep to me. It might not help that I booted up Kingdom Come Deliverance II around the same time...which reminded me of booting Phantom Liberty when Starfield came out.
It's a good game, though. Solid, just not for me I think. I much preferred the writing, setting and mechanics (not to mention the atmosphere!) of The Outer Worlds.
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For me it was just the writing. I could only take so many variations of “ha ha corporation bad.“ And I agree with them! I just needed a new joke after the 30th variation of the same punchline.
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Refunded. Would have been a mediocre game 10-15 years ago. What a dead world.
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I really liked Avowed. It’s the first RPG since Skyrim that gave me a similar feeling. I’m almost finished with it, currently 45 hours in, which makes it the first game I’ve played this much in the last five years.
That said, I agree that it’s a bit shallow, and the story isn’t as strong as Skyrim’s. The combat actually reminded me more of Horizon Zero Dawn than Skyrim. It’s not on the level of Baldur’s Gate 3 or Skyrim, but for me, it’s easily deeper than Fallout 4, Fallout 3, or Starfield. The combat is really fun and engaging—I played as a wizard, and it was a blast.
I have to admit, I skipped some dialogues toward the end of the game because a lot of them felt like filler rather than meaningful interactions. Still, I’d rate it an 8/10 and definitely recommend it.
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I'm sorry, Skyrim combat is deep?
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I mean a lot of it takes place underground
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No, I meant the overall depth of the game, not the depth of the combat. I don’t think Skyrim has deep combat —maybe I didn’t phrase it clearly.
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The price tag exists solely to drive people to subscribe for Game Pass. With the kind of content the game offering, it's a perfectly good 40 dollar game, not a 70 dollar one. A good spin-off to the PoE franchise while still moving the world forward.
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I thought it was okay
Huh...
Finished the main game twice
Well, we must have very different definitions of "okay," then. That sounds like it was more than okay if you could go through the whole thing twice!
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Well, it's a gametype/genre I tend to enjoy greatly. First round was the "blind go", second round I wanted to see what can be done differently and what kinds of different outcomes there are. IIRC not much changes when doing stuff differently. Admittedly the second round around was bit of a slog - I think I played it through, but not 100% of it.
To me the "okay" means more of a "more fun than not". The game isn't great by any means, but it's not also off-putting to play, but I don't feel like I need to re-install the game ever again. Also, the game isn't terribly long either.
But, opinions, everybody has them.
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Soooo... I think I'm about to leave the first proper map. The voices aren't as bad as I thought at the beginning. Some NPCs have stronger accents than others, taking the backstory of the island to account it totally makes sense since a lot of people are coming from different regions.
I love the comments from the companions every time you stumble across a new region, street, house. It really lets you feel like they know the way around and you're the visitor.The story picks up a notch and gives enough choices for every mood. Also it lets you remember some of your choices and opens new ways to solve some quests.
Combat feels better and better as more you dive into. All weapons are viable and are well balanced. I started as a heavy two hand melee but now my second loadout is a book with a pistol...The map design is really really nice IMO. You really have to take a look behind everything to find something. The loot is plausible. Enemy placement don't feel off.
After all it's a good solid game. Maybe not a full priced one but for 10-20€ off a really nice worth to be played one.
I hope it doesn't fall off the more you play..Performance got worse in Paradis but still is around 90 in my case.
