Avowed

Avowed is a pretty good RPG. Staying true to the lore of it's predecessors Pillars Of Eternity I n II. The game is leaning more towards POE II, with lots of colours and modern day (western DEV) graphics style (generous amounts of purple, pink etc.) as well as lighter stories and lore, instead of POE I which was more gothic, dark (no purple and pink, more like graphics of eastern DEV/old school western DEV) and mature. The game is divided into maps, which are "open world" - but you have to travel between them with a loading screen, like in older games (Baldurs Gate or even Pillars Of Eternity etc.). The story is pretty good and lore accurate for the world, the voice acting and writing is very good, although it's marred by corporate checklist "woke". Avowed is taking place in the frontiers, that has fallen on hard times, but we see a surprising amount of women as soldiers, captains and leaders - and they all look like they just left a nail saloon - they're not dirty and covered in mud and blood. So far all the leading roles have been woman, except one leader, which was a gay/metro sexual ambassador. There have been 4-5 "love stories" in lore bits etc., and 4 of them were lesbian, while one was not. These things are really immersion breaking and reminding the player, that they are playing a game, made by a studio, bought by a big corporation, that wants to ham fist a bit of the current popular policies into the game, even though they do not match the game world, at all. I hope Obsidian are allowed to make Avowed II the way they want, without (Microsoft, presumeably) ordering them to hamfist, current day policy into the game. The gameworld, lore, graphics, story, combat etc., is there, the biggest con for this game is the immersion killers.

Kötü yorumlara aldanmayın gayette güzel bir oyun. Millet beklentilerini ebelerinin amına çıkardıkları için herkes kötülüyor oyunu ama gayette yeterli güzel bir oyun. Evet woke öğeleri barındırıyor olabilir ama gözünüze sokmuyor illa.

very fun for a first playthrough. been wanting to come back for a 2nd but am struggling yes, still good tho

오픈월드 게임 할거없나 해서 했는데 50퍼 이상 세일할때 사면 그냥저냥 할만한듯 더이상 할 오픈월드 AAA 게임이 없다는 전제 하에

I was looking forward to this game, since I liked the two pillars of eternity games, and a first person game in the same world sounded great. However, considering the lukewarm reviews I waited until a sale, and finally played it. It exceeded my expectations. It's a fun game, the world is beautiful, and the story is engaging. The combat and mechanics took some getting used to. It became fun after a while, when I understood how it worked. I found it fairly easy at normal difficulty, and even the boss fight I had no troubles with (though I saved my potions for boss fights, and had about 30 or so, instead rely on food during the game). IMO this game is undervalued, it's worth playing especially if you are into action RPG and the pillars of eternity games.

Avowed isn’t a terrible game, it's just aggressively mediocre. I played it for 19 hours or so and had a decent time but felt no reason to keep playing. The best way to describe Avowed is as what a vibe coding tool would generate if you asked it to create the most generic fantasy-themed first-person RPG possible. I imagine the prompt being “take Skyrim but remove all the charm and sense of adventure.” You’ll constantly be fighting the same comically generic set of enemies over and over again: evil soldiers, bandits, bears, lizard people, etc. in a combat system that can most charitably be described as ‘servicable’. Avowed tries to break up the monotony with some emotional moments but they fall flat because the game does nothing to earn your emotional buy-in. I found myself completely not caring about the world or its inhabitants. That may be fine for a shooter but it's a death sentence for an RPG. Likewise, Avowed tries to offer some element of ‘choice’ but it just feels tacked-on. Unlike in games like the Witcher, where choices were difficult because there were compelling reasons to pick different options, the choices in Avowed are essentially all between ‘good person choice’ and ‘bad person choice’. Eventually I found this gameplay loop as engaging as the cold, dead eyes of my character, who stares lifelessly into the distance during every cutscene. Give this one a miss. There are better uses of your time.

我的黑曜石第一部作品，以前在xbox上玩过天外世界1，没玩下去

Great game! Reminds me of playing Skyrim as a kid with a fresh twist on it. It has a pleasant similarity to Baldur's Gate 3 without some of the more complex DnD mechanics. I would recommend. My only problem is the jitteriness of walking animals, sometimes (like chickens for example) they look like they're just sliding across the ground while doing a too slow walking animation. It breaks the emersion for me, but it's a small issue in an otherwise beautiful game.

Fun Game, Really like the familiar voice actors.