SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Higher quality version of Avowed's key art via Xbox (looks dope as hell).
Love this artwork. The game seems pretty good. Obsidian hasn’t disappointed me yet, so we’ll see.
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Avowed Releases Fall 2024 - New Gameplay Revealed | Xbox Direct 2024
Love this artwork. The game seems pretty good. Obsidian hasn’t disappointed me yet, so we’ll see.
CamHostage
Member
I really don't think it's wildly reconceptialized though; the style was always going to be stylized, really look at the trailer and see.
In that teaser, there was just some cool poetry and then a descent into a dark cave (which the game has, albeit maybe not pitch-black to the point you can't see anything unless a dragon breathes fire in the next cavern over...) It evoked a mood that set people's imaginations alight, but what was actually in the teaser wasn't much content and it wasn't stylistically photorealistic and it certainly wasn't gameplay and it wasn't telling a story (unless you want to consider the arrow the protagonist of a flying journey from castle to lair?) and it was no less generic whether you thought it was a grim-dark fantasy setting or a color-rich fantasy setting we're seeing in some of these biomes shown in the full gameplay sequences.
We imagined more than what was really there back in 2020.
Previous comparison shots:
(*I'll ding my own point here by showing that goofy statue in the chamber room, but even the original teaser statue was stylized, and the nymph statue shown in the same clip looked perfectly normal so they may be some reason why that one statue is so dorky-looking.)
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Ribi
Member
it comes down to how much wieght you put behind the objects youre swinging and the animations the enemies have to being hit in certain areas. It can be good but relies on heft
Kokoloko85
Member
Looks like turd tbh
Jinzo Prime
Member
The animations and impact effects are god awful. The world looks lifeless, like all the decals have been turned off and the wind set to 0.
James Sawyer Ford
Member
Hard pass on this. Looks like a Bethesda game, which Starfield proved...I really can't anymore. This isn't 2006.
Mister Wolf
Gold Member
Does Elder Scrolls have hit-stop/stun lock on its melee attacks? Because this game definitely does.
An RPG maker made an RPG? Absolutely Haram!
Such a weird post, especially when their last two games were very well received.
Stuart360
Member
Yeah it was a very weird post, with the game being set in a universe that Obsidian are very well known for.
Been a few of these random and weird posts today in various threads from the showcase. Its almost like people are just copying and pasting posts from their 'Shitposts for Xbox threads' folder.
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TheDarkPhantom
Member
Some of the clunkiest, boring looking combat I've ever seen, art style looks like a 1st person Torchlight. I guess if this is what the Xbox fan base thinks is "great" then they deserve everything they get 
Indy looks solid so Xbox *might* deliver one noteworthy game in 2024.
Indy looks solid so Xbox *might* deliver one noteworthy game in 2024.
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TheGodfather07
Member
I like the visuals but something looks off. Like everything is stiff. I also didn't like outer worlds so I'm not expecting much from this either.
CrustyBritches
Gold Member
Looks promising for PrayDog’s UE mod.
bender
What time is it?
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
The only thing that stood out to me as something I would change is the hit-pauses (I don't know what the actual term is) which some games do, there's a brief pause in momentum whenever a hit connects.
I don't know why games do that.
Phase
Member
I think it's a placeholder, maybe pending.
TheGodfather07
Member
The tone isn't what I expected from the initial reveal trailer. I thought it would be a realistic looking game with a mature tone. I was hoping for a skyrim but more mature and brutal weighty combat. It seems to be total opposite instead.
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Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
It looks so generic. Like the sort of game they would use in an action movie where James Bond is getting beat up through an apartment building and he's backpedaling in front of a kid playing this.
Its RPG as if designed by ChatGPT.
Its RPG as if designed by ChatGPT.
Torrent of Pork
Banned
Oh God, the people from 20 years ago that wanted every game to be some depressing shade of sepia are back. Hide your color palette people, the shit-brown people are back.
Punished Miku
Gold Member
Obsidian is a small AA dev. This isnt a situation where they were given a fully functioning combat system and game engine from a much larger dev like Bioware or Bethesda. They are building this by themselves.
CosmicComet
Member
Nah we just dont like this cartoonishly saturated shit.
It's first trailer was a perfect tone to use art wise and they dumped it for some reason.
ByWatterson
Member
Heart_Attack
Member
I like what I saw. Pretty much 3D Pillars of Eternity.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
They dumped it because it was turning out too much like a derivative of Skyrim, they wanted their own spin on the game.
Torrent of Pork
Banned
'colors other then shit-brown, or puke-green exist'
"Oh God, it looks like Fortnight!"
It looks fine dude.
demigod
Member
Y’all talking about “stagger”?
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Maybe, it's not specific to enemies.
It's whenever a hit connects, there's a micro-pause in the action, a lot of JRPG's do this too. The Mana game they showed in the trailer also had this.
demigod
Member
Ahhh ok not it then.
digoutyoursoul
Member
One positive I will say is I love that box art . Gorgeous.
CosmicComet
Member
It looked way cooler than Skyrim color palette wise.
Pimpbaa
Member
The Outer Worlds was fucking awful!
Jinzo Prime
Member
It's called hitstop or hitstun. It is used to add impact to melee combat, but I don't think Western devs do it very well. God of War (2018) has a whole system built to handle hitstop, and I still didn't think it was great.
reinking
Gold Member
I agree with those that love the box art. It looks great. I can get past the artistic changes if the game play is good. However, that weird Private Nauki character they showed was awful. If that is what they chose to show, I am not that confident this game is going to win me over.
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CosmicComet
Member
nah, the art style looks about as gross as the outer worlds did, which they also made and makes my confidence in this game even less.
Outer worlds sucked.
Not_A-Cop_Maybe
Member
Calm down Zack Synder.
Games are allowed to have different colors for the different biomes. Wear some sunglasses and play if you need it to be more dark.
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
Looks almost exactly like The Outer Worlds visually and tech wise, which is super disappointing cuz it's basically a past gen game on UE4. I mean, not everything should be Frozen Wilds, but I also can't say that I like the gameplay either. All in all, pretty much the same story as with The Outer Worlds - it's just totally not for me all things considered... and it's fine, plenty of other games to play.
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rhodesianshepard
Member
I kind of don't get the hype for Obsidian. They have not made a true AAA game since Fallout 3. The Outer Worlds was pretty good for a lower budget game. The story arch and different branching paths were fun, but everything else, from the combat, ai, animations, and graphics was really mediocre.
Once Microsoft purchased Bethesda, I thought Obsidian would really shine with bigger budgets. This deep dive trailer just doesn't cut it for me. Everything mediocre about The Outer Worlds is shown in this trailer. It also seems like a disservice to the developers to highlight the obvious mediocre combat systems and not focus at all on the actual RPG elements of the game, which is what Obsidian is actually good at.
Once Microsoft purchased Bethesda, I thought Obsidian would really shine with bigger budgets. This deep dive trailer just doesn't cut it for me. Everything mediocre about The Outer Worlds is shown in this trailer. It also seems like a disservice to the developers to highlight the obvious mediocre combat systems and not focus at all on the actual RPG elements of the game, which is what Obsidian is actually good at.
sachos
Member
Uhmmm, im not sure about this one. Always skeptical of first person melee combat since i played Skyrim back in the day, looks kinda clunky. Art style is also different than what i originally imagined the game to be based on the reveal trailer, looked way more dark aesthetic. Hope its great!
Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
Of course. "When everyone plays, we all win." /s
ResilientBanana
Member
It’s a demo.
Redefine07
Member
Meh , looks average the combat animations are bad AI is bad also those guns looks silly in this universe , I will try it on gamepass.
MidGenRefresh
*Refreshes biennially
Lip sync, animations, this, that. New Vegas is one of the best games ever and it looks like a potato.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
it will.
March Climber
Member
I really like the mix of Zeno Clash/Morrowind style they're going for with the environments and color palette. They should have leaned into it more though with the NPC designs they showed.
Zeno Clash series for reference:
Fredrik
Member
Such a distraction. Can’t unsee it.
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