Snake29
RSI Employee of the Year
The screenshots look good, the trailer itself not, so we have to wait.
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Avowed New Trailer Revealed. Coming Early 2024 | Xbox Showcase 2023
The screenshots look good, the trailer itself not, so we have to wait.
digoutyoursoul
Member
Those screenshots are nice, that trailer was underwhelming. Looked like a previous generation game.
In terms of Unreal 5, are we actually going to see some games impressing with this or was it another Keighley hype job
In terms of Unreal 5, are we actually going to see some games impressing with this or was it another Keighley hype job
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Just ban fools like this please.
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
From a pure technical standpoint, the game does not look good. Flat lighting, past-gen assets and models, not so great looking world. I mean, do I expect much from a current gen only game? I don't think I do. Hopefully it'll at least be great and actual RPG game like most of the Obsidian games are, unlike games from BGS.
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PC Gamer just dropped this interview tidbit with Obsidian
Exclusive: Avowed started as Obsidian's Skyrim, but evolved to focus on depth over breadth, 'where Obsidian really shines'
"We backed up and said again: What are we good at? What's our lane?"www.pcgamer.com
some more detail in https://www.pcgamer.com/avowed-rpg-obsidian-preview-magic-interview/
JusticeForAll
Gold Member
Super underwhelming, like a budget Elder Scrolls. What the hell, this is one of the games why I bought a series X, since I usually love this studio (outer worlds was a letdown).
OceanGaming
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Wandering Leopard
Member
The tone and style looks very different from the original (CGI) trailer, not that it's a problem but highlights the issue of showing CGI trailers super early.
Looking forward to seeing more.
Looking forward to seeing more.
I think the tonal and visual shift is what's throwing people off but not a big issue personally. still all means f-all unless the story is fun or good and same about the gameplay
Riky
$MSFT
See
I'd wait to see an area similar to the cave in the original trailer, we were given more outside daylight shots that look really good.
I'd wait to see an area similar to the cave in the original trailer, we were given more outside daylight shots that look really good.
hybrid_birth
Gold Member
This is what happens when you have to run games on series s.
Sony was right. Putting games day one on a subscription service hinders quality.
Sony was right. Putting games day one on a subscription service hinders quality.
Thirty7ven
Banned
This game a big miss, derivative and looked really dated.
dem
Member
Wait until you see it move
ProtoByte
Member
Standards must be really goddamn low if that's "top notch". It looks about as generic as fantasy can get.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
RickMasters
Member
Still looks quite early in development. But I’d imagine it’s gonna be quite polished by the time it’s released. Im usually a fan of their games so I expect it to be good. This and outserworlds 2….. they are quiet busy!
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Grounded and Pentiment in the last couple of months.
Obsidian have been really busy bees.
CamHostage
Member
People had it in their heads what the game was going to look like, but most of that was in their imaginations from how little content actually was in the teaser. There was a castle, a flyover of a landscape, and then a cave with a warrior conjuring magic. Not much "crazy next gen graphics" in there. But it looked nice, the flyover had good terrain, and combine that with how MS immediately started talking about UE5 as soon as that was demoed (this and Hellblade 2 were earmarked as UE5 projects before Epic had even lent UE5 builds out for testing; The Coalition was as far as we know the first to actually use UE5 in its Alpha Point/XB Series workout project, and they didn't get UE5 builds until I believe Nov 2020,) we just filled in the gaps with our minds of what Avowed looked like then and was going to look like in the final.
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That teaser didn't have an indication of the real game's mix of hyper-detail and flat-detail design (that one statue the arrow flies by is kind of in the current style, not really authentically chiseled out of the mountain, but then no cavern looks as starkly lit as the one in the teaser,) but otherwise it's more in sync from then to now than I was expecting. Still an odd art style IMO (and like everybody, I wish they had gotten more out of Unreal and the Xbox Series as a ground-up developer, but conditions are what they are,) but I don't think there's this total 180 downgrade (not that the original was ever real game tech to be graded from...) that has been mentioned a few times in this thread.
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The Outer Worlds looks better than this, even Grounded. The issue isn't only technical.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
They're pretty legit.
Unless you're just shitposting. You're just not just shitposting, are you ?
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don't know who is writing but Carrie Patel is director.
Kacho
Member
Avellone is 100% no. Josh Sawyer probably not since he was working on another project.
near
Gold Member
Isn't she a writer? She's directing this!? This could be interesting.
Chris hasn't been working at Obsidian since 2016 and Sawyer is uninvolved.
(Apart from Studio Creative Director Duties and his work on Pillars of Eternity in general).
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Yoboman
Member
You're saying that looks like this?They're pretty legit.
Unless you're just shitposting. You're just not just shitposting, are you ?
JimmyRustler
Gold Member
Looked nothing like the original CGI trailer… Skyrim competition… 
near
Gold Member
Oh yes, because of that scandal, right? Cancelled?
she was but has moved into directing. directed The Outer Worlds: Peril on Gorgon DLC
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
No it doesn't look like the announcement CGI trailer. But the bigger difference between that trailer and today is the art style, not the fidelity.
But it doesn't look bad either. The pictures are in my last post.
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RickMasters
Member
And they probably have more content in store for grounded. I can really respect that kind of work rate, while making single player games. They are a well oiled machine.
I have faith that avowed will be one of their best yet and even outer worlds 2 will probably build on its prequels, strengths while addressing the first games weaknesses. They are a team that cares about the games they make. I’ve always gotten that impression with their games ever since fall out: new vegas.
Nono, happened long after. He just quit as he wasn't happy at the company (Direction, fellow owners, loved the team though.)
Had a whole summer rage episode about it on the internet like one year later.
He's been cleared recently (with the accusers legally retracting their statement). So, he may pop up in the future again.
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near
Gold Member
Damn. I do not recall reading any of this. I do remember something about him clearing he's name now that you mention it. Thanks for informing me.
Laptop1991
Member
I love these type of games, so i will play it, i spent over a thousand hours in Skyrim, which i assume Avowed will be similar to, but it didn't look that good and a bit jerky and the trailer wasn't great to be honest, but Starfield's trailer last year wasn't received well either, i still want to play the game though.
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Hendrick's
If only my penis was as big as my GamerScore!
Needs the Doom team to come and help clean up combat.
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ResetEraVetVIP
Member
BIG DOWNGRADE.
Negotiator101
Member
Yeah that looks superb but that's not what Avowed looked like in the trailer so now I'm confused.They're pretty legit.
Unless you're just shitposting. You're just not just shitposting, are you ?
AltogetherAndrews
Member
No, it really isn’t.