Avowed

If you're hesitant to buy it because of comments like "the cities feel dead," "the game is shallow," or "the NPCs are bad," just ignore all that and form your own opinion. It was the best thing I did. I'm absolutely loving the game. It feels like playing a new Elder Scrolls for the first time. The world is massive and constantly makes me want to explore every corner of it. The colors are beautiful, the environments are diverse, and the landscapes are breathtaking. My only real issues are technical ones. The animations are pretty weak and lack any real sense of impact or weight. Sometimes it even feels like a mobile game. I'm not saying it needed to be a super realistic Soulslike, just a bit more engaging and satisfying. The same goes for the third-person movement. It often feels like the character is sliding across the ground. The footsteps look slow, but the character moves way too fast, which creates a strange disconnect. Overall, it's a great game. Playing it has felt like being a teenager again and experiencing Skyrim for the very first time.

Ondra's Titties! Obsidian made the Pillars universe not like eating hay! One of the things I like about this is that they did it by "showing not telling" and shoving a gorillion people, facts, and dates at you. Nope, just "You have shrooms on your face. This island has shrooms errwhere. People are also getting shrooms on their faces but go nutso. Also, Shark Garrus." The combat is delightfully open, and the multifaceted stats (there's no "STR" or "MAG" but an offense stat that calculates damage for everything, which is a really neat idea for hybrids). Sword and board for some really good FPS(wording)? Sure. Pistol and Grimoire for MAX BOOM BOOM? Sure. I also liked how nothing happens from behind unless it's got a callout or you saw them already aggro on you, which I guess works in this kinda well. But one thing I enjoy about it is that the game ends just as the bag of tricks empties. There's no "I did this puzzle" or "more parkour to open the gate again". Just, final battle and credits. That's good restraint.

This game is good, finished it today. The writers did a good job giving you freedom in the "politics" decisions and their consequences, and interactions with your companions. Only drawback, there is a punishing mechanic that requires meta gaming, related to progression of weapons and armor. Would play a follow up, played past games in the same universe with different engines/technologies.

PC version - Good game, bad port. I'll change my recommendation to yes if they ever patch it. Game-wise, it is well-written, acted, and the art direction is top notch and the RPG elements allow for great character builds. That's not the problem. If you release a buggy game, you'll get bad user reviews. If you get bad user reviews, the game won't sell. If the game doesn't sell, you won't have the money to fix the bugs. See how that works? Has an INFURIATING known bug where your keyboard completely freezes up during combat. Leaves you to watch helplessly as the enemies have their way with you. They've know about this for over a year and haven't fixed it, so apparently they think this is perfectly acceptable. Sometimes I wonder if they even have UX for PC ports. Now with Microsoft laying off Obsidian employees like a slaughter, it's unlikely ever to get fixed.

Put simply; this game is a lot of fun. Avowed shines the most in the moment to moment action game play and the level/area exploration and looting. I completed my first place doing magic which is a blast. Avowed manages to avoid one of the great pitfalls of early game magic builds which is having to few abilities. You get grimoires (spell books) that you equip as a weapon and each book has it's own preset spells to use from. You can later spec into what ever spells you want or you can use those points for other things and rely on the books. I thought this was great way to balance the magic system. I did a second playthrough with the ranged weapons and that was a lot of fun. My first playthrough I picked all of the "nice/good" options and on my second playthrough I went with the "mean/evil" options. Besides the major story beats, storylines do not deviate to much. My third final playthrough was a new game + on the hardest difficulty which was reasonably challenging. The story is decent. Good at some points, boring or predictable at others. It is fine for what the games wants to do and doesn't get in the way of what you want to do. This is not a deeply rich RPG in the sense of how you interact with the world and NPCs. It has satisfying combat and exploration and a lot of options for how you want to do that. I definitely recommend this game.

Un buen juego

Super RPG Fantasy un vrai plaisir, interactions dynamiques, plein d'exploration et de PNJ cool, plein de détails, une histoire prenante et un gameplay mobile et super adaptable en fonction du style de jeu (mage, corps a corps, distance etc.) Franchement un plaisir ET le jeu est stable avec de bons FPS.

I would recommend this game if you can get it for 30 dollars or less.

Un super jeu! Je trouve la DA magnifique, agréablement colorée, ça change de tous les jeux en teintes de gris et marron. L'histoire est prenante et les persos très intéressants, alliés comme antagonistes, mais ne spoilons rien. Niveau gameplay, c'est très fluide et on peut faire ce qu'on veut ! Alterner double pistolet et épée longue, ou autre combos d'armes (pas de gameplay vraiment furtif cependant, on peut devenir invisible, mais au premier assassinat, tous les ennemis nous entendent) L'arbre de compétence est relativement bien fournis avec des bonnes idées de compétences, ceci dit je conseil un mod qui augmente le nbr de points, sinon vous en avez vraiment peu

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