Avowed

Main Character is shot dead in a Custscene right after the first quest. Seemingly no way to avoid it. Yeah, sure the game revives you, yada yada.... but I don't care. Character is dead, immersion broken. Game Over. Time for something else. Was a fun little trip, felt a bit console-ish gameplay wise and has a lot of (highlighted) parkour jump & run passages. Funny how you can sometimes climb one rock, but not another smaller one. Not sure if the game opens up to be more open world later. Rather predictable thus far, and surprisingly easy (was about to up the difficulty to maximum when i died). Camera movement feels extremely fast. Probably an entertaining game for a while - me, I think I'll return to Oblivion instead. Ps: also the game asks for the admin password on every startup, followed by a 1 minute re-calibration of shaders. Seems the game assumes every pc user to be stupid enough to permanently use admin rights.

It’s not elder scrolls. Stop expecting it to be elder scrolls, and you’ll like it a whole lot more. It’s closer to, like, dishonored or dark messiah in terms of gameplay

15h in and until now its the best first person RPG ive played since Morrowind. Will update the review when i finished it but damn i wish i didnt listen to all people trashing this game and making me miss out for a year

Avowed is good but could have been great after many minor tweaks gameplay is awesome (for an action rpg) the main story and most of the major side-quests are pretty good, but more and more of the really goofy flaws emerge when you do 100% of the content and/or your roleplaying vision doesn't align with whatever the developers intended why is giatta calling me her friend when i'm constantly degrading everything she stands for and (vaguely) insulting her at every opportunity? i hate her let me kill her (and all other animancers) or at least let me throw her out of my party why is almost every dialogue option related to steel garrote either insulting them or staying silent while they're being insulted by others? you allow me to fight by their side you allow me to (mostly) justify their actions you allow me to kill others on their behalf why can't i be nice to them for 99% of the game? why are all companions so accepting of my actions? what do you mean 'most of the time we agree', i'm literally your antithesis i stand against you at every opportunity you hate my nation and wish me gone i allowed your homeland to be destroyed why do you call me your friend??? why does the random abortion side-quest have so many dialogues and branching paths compared to most other quests? and why is there no path in which i can say "my government's law is good and i agree with it"? why can i, at most, say: "i don't agree with it, but it's the law, i'm sorry"??? i'm literally the mouthpiece of the empire why can't i argue in favor of its law? why i, the envoy of the empire, engage in fetch quests for random dudes in the middle of nowhere? shouldn't my quests be... bigger, by orders of magnitude? couldn't you come up with, like, anything? i'm pretty negative above, but Avowed is mostly good and i recommend it, especially to already existing fans of Pillars of Eternity, even if only to learn what happened after the second game

I tried to like it but I feel like nothing in the game lives up to its trailers. They give the feeling of high impact and varied gameplay. Most of it for me was just spamming my left mouse button. Sometimes a dodge or spell. The companions are there, the story is a thing, the character builder is well it exists. Maybe I'm a bit harsh but even though you can be a sycophant of an evil empire the game kinda feels awkward if you do because of how the companions are all goody twoshoes who aren't of the empire. Honesly if this game had an extra companion that would actually be an empire loyalist and you get them at the start it would likely have felt way better already. If you enjoy 100% exploring a map then this game is a fun 7-8/10. If you don't care for it then it is a 6-7/10 at best. For me it's a 5 since I didn't like the spammy combat nor the companions nor the story direction nor the supposedly tropical setting that never really had an impact on the world. Conclusion: I wanted to like it and expected something like dark messiah mixed with skyrim and the game just never grabbed me. (Stopped playing after act 2)

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starts good, everything else mid