Eternity Avowed - Obsidian's first person action-RPG in the Pillars of Eternity setting

[GrainWetski]

Riveting dialogue options

Where is the unhinged chaotic evil option?

RPGs are only about different options of bending the knee to degenerates since KCD 2.

 

[Necrensha]

So now that Obsidian aren't constricted by Bethesda's shitty framework, will they start making technically polished games, yes?

 

[Infinitron]

Avowed (credited) narrative team:

Earliest Obsidian design credit, according to Mobygames:

Kelsey Beachum: The Outer Worlds DLC (2020)
Kate Dollarhyde: Pillars of Eternity II (2018)
Zoe Franznick: Pentiment (2022)
Paul Kirsch: Tyranny (2016)
Daniel McPhee: The Outer Worlds (2019)
Carrie Patel: Pillars of Eternity (2015)

John Cotto: Pillars of Eternity II (2018)
Josh Sawyer: Neverwinter Nights 2 (2006)

For the rest, this is their first major role at Obsidian. A few of them have notable backgrounds, however:

Cash DeCuir was a Disco Elysium writer and as stated now works at George Ziets' Digimancy Entertainment.
Cassandra Khaw is a rather infamous individual who wrote for Wasteland 3 and amusingly is also credited on Wadjet Eye's Unavowed ("Special Thanks").
Jay Turner is a BioWare veteran who worked on Jade Empire, the Mass Effect trilogy and also Sword Coast Legends.
Seth Dickinson was a writer on the Destiny games at Bungie.

 

[Alienman]

Cassandra Khaw, the cannibal?

 

[GloomFrost]

This game is shit. But the question is. What is shittier?

• No Cipher, Druid, etc abilities
• The dumbed down trees for the only 3 classes
• The writing
• The UI
• The lack of Blunderbuss, crossbows and polearms
• Or what.

What is the worst decline in this game?

- highlighting every thing you can pick up on the minimap radar
- your combat depends largely on your gear upgrades rather than on your actual actions
- treasures make a certain sound when you are near them
- chests have different colours - blue, purple, yellow according to their rarity
- no option to equip stuff for your companions
- niggers and females EVERYWHERE

That and also having one of the lead developers telling us straight in the face that he hates white males (core target audience that actually buys games) and will do everything he can to make the game as degenerate as possible. So whenever you pay money for it (doesn't matter if its gaypass or steam sale) try to remember that.

 

[Tenebris]

The writing overall would be more tolerable if Obsidian would just knock it off with every women being a girl boss. Deadfire overdid it and Avowed is no better. Who's the one pulling this shit? Carrie? Kate?

 

[Sherry]

Hi.

Miriamele moves along with Garryck after their chit-chat with the prisoner. The insult still frustrated Miriamele and she wondered if her arrival to the Living Lands would be any better. At this moment it did not matter that much, for they still had to continue their search of a way off this island and get to Dawnshore. The prisoner had mentioned something about a boat, so that was Miriamele's goal. The journey was a rugged one, requiring strength and dexterity to maneuver, dip and climb across chasms, rock walls, and damp tunnels.

ONWARD!

Miriamele was getting close to someone or something, for the journey the two took across the landscape, had a trail of dead Aedyrians leading the way. In a clearing ahead was a single Aedyr mumbling to himself over the bloody remains of another well-armored man. He spoke of voices, raised clenched fists and swore of having to defend himself from others who raised their hand against him!

At that moment a thumping sound caught Miriamele's attention. A padded boot slipping on a loose pebble caused her gaze to glance behind her. Indeed, it was ROT AWAY woman!

Unbelievable! Outrageous! Egregious! Preposterous!

Gosh I tried to put an arrow in her head for that INSULT "What is that you've got on your FACE?!" and left her in that cell to ROT AWAY. like wtf WTF!!! An entire conversation to choose if I should set her free, but FIRST I have to find the key to the cell because it's somewhere around (don't forget to listen for the magical jingly sound to find it!) AND SHE COULD HAVE PICKED HER CELL DOOR LONG BEFORE I GOT THERE? OMG!!! It's like two different people wrote this portion idk why because right? GOSH!

ROT AWAY NOW!

How about that, Ilora.

Her eyes light up (yeah) when she sees the mace I've got for her
My metal mace (pop, pop, uh huh)
She likes the way I swing my metal mace
Can't wait to see how big her welt gets (mm)
She wants to taste some of my metal mace (delicious)
Can't wait to see it crush in her face (OH!)

Stupid quest outcome. Stupid song. Good riddance!

Thanks,
Sherry

 

[Raghar]

"People think fampyrs are boring, what shall we do?"
"Add more gay fish and black people!"

The official name of species is "fishnigger"... ...developers said so.

The writing overall would be more tolerable if Obsidian would just knock it off with every women being a girl boss. Deadfire overdid it and Avowed is no better. Who's the one pulling this shit? Carrie? Kate?

Can you list all writers of Avowed?
Writting looks like a teenage girl fanfiction, if writers responsible for the homoerotic fanfic were males, that would be a problem.

 

[Herumor]

Can someone spoil the entire main story for me?

 

[Rieser]

Pretty bad game this. Combat is surprisingly not that bad (at least as a mage-type), but otherwise I can't think of many positives to say. More appealing than Veilguard, but so was my stool this morning.

 

[Yosharian]

Can someone spoil the entire main story for me?

It's the same as Veilguard

 

[Grampy_Bone]

The writing overall would be more tolerable if Obsidian would just knock it off with every women being a girl boss. Deadfire overdid it and Avowed is no better. Who's the one pulling this shit? Carrie? Kate?

They aren't allowed not too. Not only girls have to be girl bosses but men have to all be soyboys too.

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-...t-inclusion-actions/help-customers-feel-seen/

Are you reinforcing any negative gender stereotypes?

• Are you unnecessarily introducing gender & gender barriers into your code or design?
• Are you creating playable female characters that are equal in skill and ability to their male peers. Are your female characters equipped with clothing and armor that fits their tasks? Do they have exaggerated body proportions?
• When the story allows, do you show male characters who display a full range of emotions, including joy, sadness, and vulnerability?

 

[Morgoth]

Barely a minute into the game and he runs into an invisible wall. Skyrim this is not. Also wtf is that character creator. I can see why the art director was miserable and wanted to kill himself.

It never was meant to be Skyrim, dumbfuck.

 

[luj1]

 

[Morgoth]

"at least at first"

 

[ColonelMace]

Cash DeCuir

holy shit what a name

 

[luj1]

"at least at first"

"it never was meant"

 

[Voids]

A rpg for the console generation. Nothing more nothing less.

 

[herpenis]

worth a pirate?

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

Daily reminder to your conscience from Porky: this turd that shouldn't even be mentioned in polite society has 333 pages. An excellent modern indie RPG like Drova Foreskin has 33 pages. Ya'll bitches need to level up.

And before some tard here tells me "oooohh disasters are more fun to talk about", Afouled was not a disaster. From the moment it was announced everyone here knew it was gonna be shit.

 

[Infinitron]

Cash DeCuir

holy shit what a name

Yeah, sounds like a character from the game he wrote.

Digimancy is a strange amalgamation of former inXile devs, Disco Elysium writers, and also some people who worked on the game Phantom Brigade. Maybe someday they'll do something besides contract on Obsidian games.

 

[markec]

Barely a minute into the game and he runs into an invisible wall. Skyrim this is not. Also wtf is that character creator. I can see why the art director was miserable and wanted to kill himself.

It never was meant to be Skyrim, dumbfuck.

 

[SugarBone]

•Simulations.
Basically there’s none. So I can understand why usual Bethesdatards are so disappointed with Avowed, I don’t care as much, just hoped they’d made a non-linear exploration game, but so far you always has a MQ to guide you.

What's the point of a Skyrim clone with bad sim elements?

 

[herpenis]

these "successor of X" are always such dishonest bullshit articles
the only people capable of making any successor to any series are the original creators of said series
i hate game journos so much it's unreal

 

[Necrensha]

Avowed is the Dark Souls 3 of Skyrim-likes.