Avowed

It's a solid, old school feeling RPG from Obsidian. The only real complaints I have are about RPG mechanics could be a little deeper and enemy variety, which is the same gripe I have about OW2. Otherwise, has been one of the more enjoyable games to run around and explore in. Running around the first area oddly enough reminded me of the first area of Jak and Daxter, in so far as how the exploration felt. I think as far as a first draft of a new series, it's a fine game, and worth your money, especially as it makes the POE lore super accessible.

Достойная, но затянутая без веских на то причин игра. 4 акт мега душнилово, в остальном шикарно. Лучше вейлгарда на 2 головы.

The story was OK, the visuals and game mechanics were good. What I hate about this game and other stuff put out by these woke companies, is the constant LGBT*)# ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. How many abnormal, sexually confused characters can you pack into one story? I pay to be entertained, not indoctrinated with Progressive immoral and unnatural mental illness. How about making stories for the 99.9% of us who believe only men and women can join to make a normal and not a bought family?

I uninstalled it and bought The Elder Scrolls for the fourth time.

Can easily say this game's story is actually decent, I felt satisfied with the conclusion too. Its unavoidable to compare this with the elder scrolls series and the issue I had with their titles are honestly the ending - I never felt like I was done, even if I did 100% everything. Probably due to the game spitting me out into the world after finishing main quest. Maybe this kind of title suits me better, I can go for new game+ and explore the options I didn't go for last time and simply... complete the experience... probably in a year or so. Skills and combat felt pretty nice and there are certainly more to do there if u deny the god-skills. The only issue I have with the game is how annoyingly often you face spiders, they are everywhere! The best part? Probably the amount of voicelines on your companions, they really make the game more interesting with all the comments and discussions during the campfire moments. Most interesting was when they interacted with each other rather than with me. I've played a lot of games. Dead-hard favourites being Suikoden, Dragon Age (not the latest one, let's forget it even exist) and similar titles. Avowed is among those "feel good" experiences when u are done with the adventure. It also doesn't force u to feel u must play it again, which is also nice to me. It is what it is. A decent RPG. A pretty good start for these devs, I'm curious about what it will be if they make another AAA-title in Eora. Tech issues: Game did crash a few times on me, but not enough to impede my experience - although my rig is a beast tbh.

[i][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/35145066/] My review page.[/url][/i] [i][url=https://www.twitch.tv/nightserg] Follow me on twitch![/url][/i] [h1]The gist of it:[/h1] It's hard to rate Avowed because, honestly, it was pretty fun combat-wise, but for every good thing it does, it also comes with some very repetitive gamey aspects. 👍 [u]The good parts:[/u] +Great combat +Fantastic atmosphere 👎[u]The bad parts:[/u] -Repetitive -Huge pacing issues near the end [h1]Story[/h1] Avowed is set in the Pillars of Eternity universe, a universe that I did not have much love for. Luckily, you don't actually need to play both PoE games, I do have to say that after finishing Avowed, I reinstalled both PoE games. Lore-wise, it's good, there's a lot of cool things in its universe that are nice to read, the problem was the main story, which felt super safe. It suffered the same as Dragon Age Veilguard, as in nothing in the game that happens to your main character is ever sad or amazing. It's a corporate story, if you wanna call it that, and as long as they're under Microsoft's thumb, they'll never change. Anyway, regarding the main story, you play as a chosen one, as you'd expect, and you're tasked with figuring out a plague. I can't say much else because I'd be jumping into spoiler territory, but suffice to say, the game does have decent story choices that will impact your journey's end. The characters you meet are average, with the exception of Garrus(you'll get it), who was fun to have around all the time. Story rating: 7/10 [h1]Gameplay[/h1] Combat-wise, the game was super fun, and probably the best magic gameplay I've ever played. It was super snappy, engaging, and I truly felt like a powerful mage wreaking havoc on the battlefield. Imagine you're the doom guy of the mages. You can also play as a ranger or a fighter, though I'm not sure how fun those two other classes are. Considering the game is in the Pillars universe, it was kinda dissapointing to be limited to only these 3. Exploration is also pretty great, there are a ton of chests and unique items to find to suit your needs, and you do need to explore a lot because upgrading things is super expensive. It's a shame that even this aspect is done boringly, because only unique items can have their unique status effects upgraded, and even those are super basic, such as having a longer range or slightly more damage. Aside from chests and mats, you can also find parts of totems that can massively boost your character stats. It's not a deep rpg, in fact, it's super casual, which may put some hardcore players off. Still, if you enjoy fun combat and looting a ton of samey things, then this is for you. Just be aware of its repetitive nature, it's all the same, unlock region, get the quests from the main town, finish main quest, repeat 4 times. Even the bosses were pretty boring and generic. Coming from a game where you fought Gods and dragons, in Avowed, the most dangerous boss is a huge bear. Gameplay rating: 8/10 [h1]Audio[/h1] It was great to hear Garrus again as a fellow companion, and everyone else also does a fine job of voice acting their characters. It's one great thing Obsidian has done well consistently. The soundtrack was ok, not really remarkable, sadly. As for all the other sound-related aspects, they were pretty decent. Audio rating: 8/10 [h1]Graphics, performance and tech analysis[/h1] The game ran really well aside from lots of travel micro-stutters which are typical of bad UE5 dev implementation. The game does look incredible at times, especially at night. Tons of colorful environments that light up beautifully even at max distances. Great atmosphere as well, level design was also pretty good, with tons of things to uncover. Had a few bugs and crashes, but nothing game-breaking or impactful. Graphics, performance, and tech analysis score: 8/10 [h1]Conclusion[/h1] They charged 80 euros for this at launch so you can imagine why nobody gave a fk about it. It's much cheaper now, and I would def recommend it at its current prices. [h1]Final score: 7.7/10[/h1]

game runs like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, recommend playing using xbox gamepass. unplayable on PC unless you want to lower settings to bare minimum. And even then, I still dont think this game would run worth playing. Game itself is good. But optimisation is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ terrible.

something felt kinda weird about this game for a while, but I couldn't place it. I ended up playing through the first part of the game a few times to try and put my finger on it, and eventually it jumped out with a side quest about laying out offerings for the dead. you can pick dialogue options during the pickup for the quest that let you question the viability of the ritual, a god tells you in your head that they know for a fact the dead don't care about the offerings and it's a waste, your companions chime in and say "yeah I think with people starving in the city this might not be ideal," you can call out the fact that she must have stolen food from the emergency supplies to get the offerings for the ritual, but in the end you have three choices: yes I will do the ritual; yes I will do the ritual if you pay me; yes I will do the ritual (snarky). I realized then all the things bothering me about the game kinda come down to that, you don't have real choices despite the game putting a lot of effort into making you think you have choices. the main enemy for the first area, the lizard guys? you can see them performing rituals, you find their villages with established permanent infrastructure, you find their artwork, tools, clothing, but they're treated like mindless enemies that you're encouraged to kill, they're just exp fodder. you don't have a choice not to kill them besides avoiding them entirely, and when you are offered direct in-game options to ask questions about them, the answers don't actually matter and you're expected to just keep killing them en-mass. When you get an 'alternate route' for completing a quest? you just go to an off-shoot location where you find a note or something that tells you to go back to where the quest is supposed to happen, then you do the quest normally. If you play out even major conversations a few times and try to pick different options, you'll find that NPCs often end up giving you the exact same lines no matter what you say, only sometimes those lines are weirdly out of place or lacking context because they were designed with a different dialogue option in mind. you don't really have choices, every option routes you back to the same path, and the biggest impact you can have is sometimes you dont get as much money or a special item because you hit a different dialogue option. there's a lot of great design in here, in a way I think it might actually be better if they just made it a linear narrative that didn't try to give the appearance of a huge range of choices so the things it does well stood out better. as it is, the world is made to feel weirdly small and artificial, which in a really weird way is made worse by the MMO over-sized scale of everything. why are most of the doors 15ft tall? anyway, everything microsoft is doing right now is evil, I love you obsidian, best of luck with everything

I wanted to like this game. It looks gorgeous and seemed like it would be a great game to play on sale. Unfortunately it's a stuttery mess. I couldn't even turn a full circle without lagging and fighting was like watching a slideshow.