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

[BundleOfSticks]

Unfortunately for Obsidian I don't self-insert in rpgs, because a grotesque fungoid fag would be ideal for that.

 

[Infinitron]

The real question I need answered is why are autistic people so hypnotized by this company in particular?

RPG Codex was started by a group of Black Isle Studios and Troika Games fans, and Obsidian started as a Black Isle successor company and hired two of the founders of Troika. Obsessing about Obsidian is part of this community's DNA.

What can change the nature of an RPG Codex?

Answer: The absolute state of Obsidian's decline.

We're in the "why even talk about their games?" phase with some people still huffing copium, but soon it'll be like with Bioware and Bethesda, we'll all know we talk about the games just to point and laugh.

The difference between Obsidian and those companies is that BioWare and Bethesda never made a Pillars, never made a Pentiment. With these types of niche titles, Obsidian signaled that they still wanted to be #OurGuys, even if they weren't always successful at it.

We'll see if they continue to experiment with such projects in the future or if it's PopamoleSidian from here on out.

 

[AwesomeButton]

No one collectively signals anything. Individually, Carrie Patel neither understands nor cares about RPGs. Pillars ended up being worth playing because of KS constraints put on Josh.

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

Kai refers to this character with "he/him" pronouns. It's wild that in 2025 you don't know if that's a bug or the developer's intention.

do i understand this npc and quest correctly? she wants to fuck a xaurip?

 

[Maldoror]

The difference between Obsidian and those companies is that BioWare and Bethesda never made a Pillars, never made a Pentiment. With these types of niche titles, Obsidian signaled that they still wanted to be #OurGuys, even if they weren't always successful at it.

Pentiment being great and Pillars 2 being very good are the only reasons I have a shred of hope someone at Obsidian (coughJoshcough) can pull them into making good games.
But I also thought my time with The Outer Worlds was well spent and that it was a pretty good deal of fun albeit not great.

 

[Urthor]

Indiana Jones's peak was a little over 12,000 https://steamdb.info/app/2677660/charts/

Indy bombed too. There is a reason MS never published any sales number, only the "player" number that's about everyone who tried it on GP.
Indy had great critical reception and word of mouth, so maybe it drove some new gamepass subscribers. I doubt that will be the case for Avowed.

Okay now that's GENUINELY really sad.

The fact a game like Indiana Jones can bomb is beyond crazy.

 

[aweigh]

Obsidian signaled that they still wanted to be #OurGuys

Like when Avellone raped those women.

 

[aweigh]

Indiana Jones's peak was a little over 12,000 https://steamdb.info/app/2677660/charts/

Indy bombed too. There is a reason MS never published any sales number, only the "player" number that's about everyone who tried it on GP.
Indy had great critical reception and word of mouth, so maybe it drove some new gamepass subscribers. I doubt that will be the case for Avowed.

Okay now that's GENUINELY really sad.

The fact a game like Indiana Jones can bomb is beyond crazy.

bruh that indy game is boring as fuck. did you actually play it? I played it. what a snoozefest.

 

[Abu Antar]

Indy bombed too. There is a reason MS never published any sales number, only the "player" number that's about everyone who tried it on GP.
Indy had great critical reception and word of mouth, so maybe it drove some new gamepass subscribers. I doubt that will be the case for Avowed.

Games that bomb get studios closed or at least part of their workforce laid off. We saw this with Arkane Austin and Redfall and Bioware with Veilguard.

As far as MS is concerned, the gamepass players were sufficient enough to consider it a success. That's why they're hiring for about a dozen more new positions https://www.machinegames.com/careers

Studios that fail don't get rewarded with more money.

Veilguard wasn't the first BioWare game to "bomb".

 

[Nifft Batuff]

I don't care if a game bombs or it is a success. In both cases the devs and publishers altogether will take the wrong lessons from it.

 

[Yosharian]

The difference between Obsidian and those companies is that BioWare and Bethesda never made a Pillars, never made a Pentiment. With these types of niche titles, Obsidian signaled that they still wanted to be #OurGuys, even if they weren't always successful at it.

Pentiment being great and Pillars 2 being very good are the only reasons I have a shred of hope someone at Obsidian (coughJoshcough) can pull them into making good games.
But I also thought my time with The Outer Worlds was well spent and that it was a pretty good deal of fun albeit not great.

What the fuck is wrong with you

 

[iguana_trader]

Hey kiddo, want some mushrooms?

Don't know who she reminds me of, but somehow, I got the urge to Go Get Physical in a gym full of gay muscle men. BRB.

 

[Maldoror]

The difference between Obsidian and those companies is that BioWare and Bethesda never made a Pillars, never made a Pentiment. With these types of niche titles, Obsidian signaled that they still wanted to be #OurGuys, even if they weren't always successful at it.

Pentiment being great and Pillars 2 being very good are the only reasons I have a shred of hope someone at Obsidian (coughJoshcough) can pull them into making good games.
But I also thought my time with The Outer Worlds was well spent and that it was a pretty good deal of fun albeit not great.

What the fuck is wrong with you

I like things that you don't like. Deal with it, retard.

 

[Mauman]

I want a tl;dr of the story.

Are the fundamentals good and can it be salvaged?

I read a basic plot synopsis out of boredom.

The game actually shits on it's own cosmology.

Basically

Spoiler

the whole "gods must be created by ancient magics and whether that's a good thing or not" deal is completely destroyed due to the fact an actual naturally made god pops up (that's what you are a godlike of). The manufactured gods took offense to that and walled up the poor bastard and there's some evil magic fungus scourge leaking out of the cage

Like, what the fuck was the point of the previous two games if you're going to do that?!

 

[iguana_trader]

Hmmm, does not sound that bad in my opinion, but that depends on how are they going to go forward with it, whether it is gonna be contained to this one game or

spoiler

they will start adding new real gods. Might be a war between "AI" gods and real ones? If in a future title the real one win, it will be just another D&D offshoot, so they have to be careful here.

 

[Morgoth]

Indiana Jones's peak was a little over 12,000 https://steamdb.info/app/2677660/charts/

Indy bombed too. There is a reason MS never published any sales number, only the "player" number that's about everyone who tried it on GP.
Indy had great critical reception and word of mouth, so maybe it drove some new gamepass subscribers. I doubt that will be the case for Avowed.

Okay now that's GENUINELY really sad.

The fact a game like Indiana Jones can bomb is beyond crazy.

The fact that a Reaganist action-hero icon has bombed should have been expected.

But Toddler has weird taste, and he always gets what he wants.

 

[Maldoror]

I want a tl;dr of the story.

Are the fundamentals good and can it be salvaged?

I read a basic plot synopsis out of boredom.

The game actually shits on it's own cosmology.

Basically

Spoiler

the whole "gods must be created by ancient magics and whether that's a good thing or not" deal is completely destroyed due to the fact an actual naturally made god pops up (that's what you are a godlike of). The manufactured gods took offense to that and walled up the poor bastard and there's some evil magic fungus scourge leaking out of the cage

Like, what the fuck was the point of the previous two games if you're going to do that?!

I thought recently that a fitting end to the Watcher's story in Pillars 3 would be a fight against the gods themselves. Should let you spare or destroy each of the gods after a cool boss battle against them, reminiscent of the way the Watcher chooses to spare or destroy souls throughout the franchise.

 

[Agesilaus]

Is rymrgand given a lead role in this game or is it shit

 

[Wesp5]

The fact a game like Indiana Jones can bomb is beyond crazy.

It might have been their own fault! It's a rather slow paced adventure kind of game and you need a raytracing card as minimum? Yes, many players have them, but also the adventure kind of people? Also older CPUs are not supported and crash without even a warning which I had to learn the hard way. Things like these limit the appeal of a game quickly...

 

[Hydro]

Man, the writing nowadays. Can’t help but recall how cool and simple the Baldur’s Gate main plot line was. It seems that Obsidian still tries to pull off something similar focusing on the Gods theme while completely missing the core of the story. Poor schmucks are a pale shadows of what they try to mimic.

 

[Daedalos]

Is it not reasonable to assume, that alot of people are playing on gamepass compared to Steam for this game or?
And waht about battle.net? Blizz doesnt release numbers either.

 

[Maldoror]

Is it not reasonable to assume, that alot of people are playing on gamepass compared to Steam for this game or?
And waht about battle.net? Blizz doesnt release numbers either.

Probably reasonable. I am very skeptical about playtime retention on Gamepass though.

Why is it even on Battle.net? When did Blizzard start putting other publisher's games on their platform?

 

[Morgoth]

Is it not reasonable to assume, that alot of people are playing on gamepass compared to Steam for this game or?
And waht about battle.net? Blizz doesnt release numbers either.

Probably reasonable. I am very skeptical about playtime retention on Gamepass though.

Why is it even on Battle.net? When did Blizzard start putting other publisher's games on their platform?

Phil's policy is to put out MS games on as many platforms as possible.

 

[Curious_Tongue]

Did this get released?

 

[Yosharian]

The difference between Obsidian and those companies is that BioWare and Bethesda never made a Pillars, never made a Pentiment. With these types of niche titles, Obsidian signaled that they still wanted to be #OurGuys, even if they weren't always successful at it.

Pentiment being great and Pillars 2 being very good are the only reasons I have a shred of hope someone at Obsidian (coughJoshcough) can pull them into making good games.
But I also thought my time with The Outer Worlds was well spent and that it was a pretty good deal of fun albeit not great.

What the fuck is wrong with you

I like things that you don't like. Deal with it, retard.

Haha! Seriously though, you think TOW is good.