Eternity Avowed - Obsidian's first person action-RPG in the Pillars of Eternity setting - coming February 18th

[Yoomazir]

Xisters, we won!

 

[Dark Souls II]

Holy shit, this thing literally makes you choose pronouns in the character creation So that's why they embargoed the character creation screen for the reviewers.

 

[GloomFrost]

Why though? Why are they trying to hide that? Pillars 2 and Outer Worlds were already woke as hell almost on the same level of degeneracy as BG3. Everyone knows that nuObsidian got nothing to do with old based Obsidian and is just another company that makes slop for "gaypass modern audience".

 

[cpmartins]

Why though? Why are they trying to hide that? Pillars 2 and Outer Worlds were already woke as hell almost on the same level of degeneracy as BG3. Everyone knows that nuObsidian got nothing to do with old based Obsidian and is just another company that makes slop for "gaypass modern audience".

Because the cattle ain't chewing the poisoned cud anymore. And that worries them.

 

[cioran]

Why though? Why are they trying to hide that? Pillars 2 and Outer Worlds were already woke as hell almost on the same level of degeneracy as BG3. Everyone knows that nuObsidian got nothing to do with old based Obsidian and is just another company that makes slop for "gaypass modern audience".

Do not underestimate the "boiling frog" syndrome.

 

[Infinitron]

Pillars 2 and Outer Worlds were already woke as hell almost on the same level of degeneracy as BG3.

I suspect you didn't play The Outer Worlds.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Pillars 2 and Outer Worlds were already woke as hell almost on the same level of degeneracy as BG3.

I suspect you didn't play The Outer Worlds.

Strong womyn characters everywhere, asexual companion whose quest is about hooking them up in a gay romance, cartoonish evil corpos etc etc.

 

[Infinitron]

Pillars 2 and Outer Worlds were already woke as hell almost on the same level of degeneracy as BG3.

I suspect you didn't play The Outer Worlds.

Strong womyn characters everywhere, asexual companion whose quest is about hooking them up in a gay romance, cartoonish evil corpos etc etc.

No. Romances.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Pillars 2 and Outer Worlds were already woke as hell almost on the same level of degeneracy as BG3.

I suspect you didn't play The Outer Worlds.

Strong womyn characters everywhere, asexual companion whose quest is about hooking them up in a gay romance, cartoonish evil corpos etc etc.

No. Romances.

Nah, instead you get to be matchmaker for gay asexual womyn. Not woke at all, eh?))

 

[jackofshadows]

No. Romances.

No player romances. A cuck simulator, basically.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

I don't care too much about romances either way, but claiming that having romances is what makes a game woke is silly. Give me good companions, romance or no romance.

 

[Infinitron]

I don't care too much about romances either way, but claiming that having romances is what makes a game woke is silly.

It is what allows a game to be "almost on the same level of degeneracy as BG3" (fucking the bear)

 

[Heroic Liberator]

I don't care too much about romances either way, but claiming that having romances is what makes a game woke is silly.

It is what allows a game to be "almost on the same level of degeneracy as BG3" (fucking the bear)

And having companions is what allows having woke companions. It's not romance that's the issue, but the writers behind it.

 

[Camel]

I don't care too much about romances either way, but claiming that having romances is what makes a game woke is silly.

It is what allows a game to be "almost on the same level of degeneracy as BG3" (fucking the bear)

Tell us how romances allowed the Witcher 1 and KCD to be "almost on the same level of degeneracy as BG3" (fucking the bear)".

 

[Infinitron]

I don't care too much about romances either way, but claiming that having romances is what makes a game woke is silly.

It is what allows a game to be "almost on the same level of degeneracy as BG3" (fucking the bear)

Tell us how romances allowed the Witcher 1 and KCD to be "almost on the same level of degeneracy as BG3" (fucking the bear)".

Strange logic. I'm saying that your game can't be as degenerate as BG3 if it doesn't have player romances/sex. It doesn't follow that any game with romances will be as degenerate as BG3.

And yes, Heroic Liberator, if a game doesn't have companions at all, then it also can't be degenerate like BG3. We judge games by what's there, not by what the writers maybe could have done or wanted to do. "Maybe that amputee could have been an Olympic marathon runner!"

 

[Heroic Liberator]

And yes, Heroic Liberator, if your game doesn't have companions at all, then at also can't be as degenerate as BG3.

You're missing the point. As long as there is ample narrative writing, regardless of the form it takes (e.g. companions, romances etc.), the sort of woke shit that fills the game is ultimately a product of the writing and not of the mechanics. Would BG3 have been any less degenerate if the whole bear sex nonsense was something that played out between two NPCs rather than between the PC and a companion? Personally I'd say no.

 

[Roguey]

Why though? Why are they trying to hide that?

They weren't, this is just clickbait.

Baldur's Gate 3, which sold tens of millions, had pronouns and a nonbinary option. Most people don't care.

Oh no, it has the same option as one of the best selling RPGs in recent history. Zzzzzzzzzz

 

[Dark Souls II]

Pillars 2 and Outer Worlds were already woke as hell

I don't remember PoE2 being woke. It was shit, it was one of the worst role-playing RPG games that I've ever played in my life, it had a terrible story & writing all along, but I'm rather sure all of that was due to the developers being retarded, incompetent & untalented, as opposed to them being eager to please the DEI gods.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

I don't remember PoE2 being woke.

I agree. Didn't strike me as particularly woke either, unlike TOW. Which is not to say that it didn't have its fair share of cringe characters, but yeah.

 

[jackofshadows]

Baldur's Gate 3, which sold tens of millions, had pronouns and a nonbinary option. Most people don't care.

There was a similar story, wasn't it? No pronouns bs in the EA version but then boom - it appears in the release one. I wonder about the pre-prelease journo one but they wouldn't disclose that anyways.

I agree. Didn't strike me as particularly woke either, unlike TOW.

There were pansexual companions which is something in itself, strong if somewhat obfuscated anti-colonialism agenda and plenty of soy in general but yea it still wasn't as bad as TOW with all the fucking dykes and other sheit (troglodykes as the new term goes lul).

 

[Roguey]

I don't remember PoE2 being woke. It was shit, it was one of the worst role-playing RPG games that I've ever played in my life, it had a terrible story & writing all along, but I'm rather sure all of that was due to the developers being retarded, incompetent & untalented, as opposed to them being eager to please the DEI gods.

Deadfire was a bit too libtarded in its approach to homosexuality which felt a bit too 21st century. They hand-waved it a bit.

All these devs are liberal. As Tim Cain says, wokeness didn't start yesterday. Their values change with the times.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

strong if somewhat obfuscated anti-colonialism agenda

I think that they did a pretty good job of providing varied factions that all had their pluses and minuses. And the native faction aren't the objectively good guys since you can't really change their backwater system even if you side with them, only at most have their backwards tribal monarchy give some more alms to the poor in the capital. Meanwhile monocled RDC replaces their mudhuts with longhouses, stops Vailian predation in the region and integrates them within Rauatai as equal citizens of a common Aumaua heritage.

 

[Roguey]

No pronouns bs in the EA version but then boom - it appears in the release one.

They patched it into the EA version about a year before release, the queers had a celebration over it https://gaymingmag.com/2022/12/baldurs-gate-3-adds-non-binary-option/

 

[Heroic Liberator]

>gaymingmag

 

[Dark Souls II]

I don't remember PoE2 being woke. It was shit, it was one of the worst role-playing RPG games that I've ever played in my life, it had a terrible story & writing all along, but I'm rather sure all of that was due to the developers being retarded, incompetent & untalented, as opposed to them being eager to please the DEI gods.

Deadfire was a bit too libtarded in its approach to homosexuality which felt a bit too 21st century. They hand-waved it a bit.

All these devs are liberal. As Tim Cain says, wokeness didn't start yesterday. Their values change with the times.

I don't remember that, was probably optional. I avoided recruiting all the companions that felt obnoxiously woke at first sight (like that furry gnome thing they REALLY wanted you to add to your party early on).

I was also probably distracted with the fact how shit the overall narrative was. Literally in the intro video they disclose the whole story (you will go to place X to deal with god Z), and then there are no mysteries, no questions, no turns of events through the whole game. You go to place X and deal with god Z by picking one of 8-10 dialogue options to get a different ending (none of your choices made throughout the game matter).