Avowed: We Finally Played Obsidian’s First-Person RPG and It’s Fantastic
Avowed: We Finally Played Obsidian’s First-Person RPG and It’s Fantastic
Avowed was a surprising delight to play for the first time. After a lot of questions about the shift in art direction from the teaser trailer, questions about the length, and a combat demo on the Xbox stage that had many asking if the game was earlier in development than expected, we're happy to rep...
I hope so, but I'm nervous. The Outer Worlds also seemed really promising at first but turned out to be so disappointingly bland. Fingers crossed though
I loved The Outer Worlds. The biggest criticism I tend to hear before reading yours is that they wanted it to be bigger, but I really appreciated the focus of it.
To be honest, I'm not even sure if I am criticizing it, in the same sense that i don't really have any criticisms of the colour beige...
It made no impression on me, it had no memorable characters or interesting ideas, I can't even remember the plot despite the fact that im sure i played through the whole thing. The only take away i had was a string of marvel level quips and an extremely thorough understanding that evil corporations are bad...
I was just, disappointed. Thats all. But my impressions are coloured by how much i wanted it to be good after playing falliut 4. Definitely do not let that influence your experience, if you loved it then i believe you 100%
Agreed. I can see this going either way to be honest.
Is there a gameplay video?
It doesn't seem so. I looked on YouTube and someone cut together a lot of gameplay footage from different sources. It's enough to get a sense for the game. It looks really cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhhH_ocfqZw&t=957s
That's great to hear, I really want this game to be good. I want to relive that feeling of playing Oblivion from sunrise to sunset for a week straight.