80 on Metacritic, It's a massive success

[Clint NoNerdyW✪✪D]

I thought all "woke" games are supposed to be an automatic failure? The anti woke crowd are well and truly mudded here, the narrative that progressive games will fail automatically is well and truly in the bin. Metacritic is all that matters and the game is GREEN and a must play, so objectively the game is a massive success. It must be burning up the chuds who now have to wait for a new game to troll with that toxic negativity. It also means pronouns are welcomed if it's a generally favourable reviewed game.
PS: I got the game for free on gamepass and i'm loving it, will be RPG of the year for sure.

[LazyJoeBeard]

Origineel geplaatst door Taritu:

I hated Veilguard and I love this. They're both ARPGs, but Avowed is way better.

Its not hard to be better then veilguard.

[LazyJoeBeard]

Origineel geplaatst door archonsod:

Origineel geplaatst door Scyriz:

Avowed is prob going to be the same thing, we just don't know how big of a failure it is until we find out the budget.

$70 - $80 million. If it were entirely dependent on sales it'd be looking at around 1 million to break even and 2 million to be considered successful.
It's Gamepass though so sales are likely to be irrelevant, it'll be down to how many people play it on GP and for how long. Good luck getting any kind of numbers from Microsoft on that score though.

The platform takes a % cut so it would need about 1.5M to break even, 2M would make a profit but I do not think that would be considered a success.

[Tachyon]

Origineel geplaatst door OldSage:

here is a good honest review of the game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VGD1qJ9a1k

Gods, that static, lifeless town... I loved one of the comments on the YouTube page from someone called Abbab21...

In KCD2, I saw an npc with some sick gear, waited until he finished his shift, followed him home and later that night picked his lock and stole the gear.

2 in game days later I was riding through that town again wearing the armor when I hear someone say "hey...that looks just like my... STOP THIEF." I was then arrested by the same guard in his literal PJs, and the other guards literally called me a dumb ass for being stupid enough to wear stolen gear back in town. After that I was labelled a thief by the locals, and they would make snide comments and the guards wouldn't let me loiter at night without threat of arrest.

Then there's this game, where hollow NPCs stand idle forever, while you take stuff right in front of them without reaction.

[Merluzza]

Origineel geplaatst door Clint NoNerdyW✪✪D:

Origineel geplaatst door Dracula, Redheads Supremacist:

I wish it the same level of success as Dragon Age: The Veilguard™. Definitely earned it.

It was trolled by fascists who had no intention to play it unfortunately.

Those damn fascists. First they start a war that kills 75 million people, and now they give poor review scores to mediocre games by studios that put propaganda above quality.

btw, 25% more people worked in this game vs skyrim yet the majority opinion is that it's an empty open world, is it really that bereft of content?

[Jeffer'son Airship]

Origineel geplaatst door Stj.Srex:

Veilguard failed simply because EA worked with SBI, witch they rly didnt need to,

SBI had nothing to do with Veilguard...

[Geopi]

80 on Metacritic based on critics, which we all know are very biased and bought. There are no player reviews yet but from everything I've seen it's a pretty mediocre experience. More of aa 6/10 than an 8/10

[Space is the Place]

Origineel geplaatst door Geopi:

80 on Metacritic based on critics, which we all know are very biased and bought. There are no player reviews yet but from everything I've seen it's a pretty mediocre experience. More of aa 6/10 than an 8/10

Yeah you are right, the 2 hour negative reviews, those are the ones we need to focus on, clearly no bias or hidden agenda in those. LMAO

[Black Hole]

Just look at the 360 era animations...

[General Plastro]

Scores are not out yet, why are we even care about the paid shills of "critic reviews"?

Steam user review is a far better gauge atm, this game sits at 81% approval by the Obsidian hardcore fans (the people who pre-ordered the premium edition).

Lets see how it will fare when the general audience gets their hands on the game tomorrow and the days that follow.

As someone who refunded this game, it sat below my expectations, this is a 30USD game, not a 90USD one. The game tries to go for more gameplay heavy experience (which is boring IMO, if i want a first person fantasy game, there are better options) while sacrificing the story and dialogue options.

Its somewhat the same problem i had with Outer Worlds, it sits between a RPG and a FPS and doesnt do either that well.

Obsidian Studios should really just stick to doing isometric RPGs, they are not the next bethesda and Avowed is worse than Morrowind/Oblivion and Skyrim.

I plan to re-purchase this game when its under heavy discount or if miraculously this game gets heavy mod support to put it on par with the TES games.

[Gvyomar]

"Massive success"...
For the love of christ, OP, the game only been alive 4 days approx. Don’t count your chickens before they hatch :D

[General Plastro]

I will say this, Avowed has this "fantasy shlock" setting that is pleasant to anyone who enjoys B/C-tier games as a "guilty pleasure" (i do...lol). This is a far cry from the Pillars of Eternity setting, almost like a parody of itself, but just like i love schlocky games like Two Worlds and this.

[Space is the Place]

Origineel geplaatst door General Plastro:

Its somewhat the same problem i had with Outer Worlds, it sits between a RPG and a FPS and doesnt do either that well.

I can both agree and disagree with this statement.

Yes, it´s similar to Outerworlds, for me this time around since I was already ready for it it didn´t came has a shock, while with Outerworlds I left myself go with the hype and didn´t enjoyed that much, didn´t even got the DLCs or finished more than 2 playtroughs I think. I´m willing to even say that while I do like combat more here, so far I remember more player agency on choices (a staple of any game pretending to be RPG, that´s why I never liked Souls Like or Zeldas being tagged RPGs). It is to me personally a game to play on console, and I don´t mean it on a dismissing way or because my PC just can´t handle it if I don´t get a new graphic cards and processor, until DLCs up the RPG elements if they do and the extension of the game (as I feel just like with Outerworld unless you get into exploration and side questing, it´s a kind of short experience) and mod support is added, for me personally, I just feel I rather play it on console with no pretensions just one hour a day.

But with all that being said, I still think it´s good and I feel Obsidian can perfect this amalgam of genres into something more strong. This would only be the second game they made in this style, and while tons of people keep mentioning Fallout NEw Vegas, the reality is that game was made under another company code, it´s not 100% their game, and when it comes down to gameplay, mechanics, or even genre; all those were already there from BEthesda and they had to follow those guidelines. They need to find a better compromise between the multiple genre mechanics, probably commit to more unique takes on the RPG elements and they really need to iron out some of the narrative elements since that´s what made Obsidian famous, and in here it just feels like with Outerworld, like the mixture of wacky and serious elements doesn´t gel well and nothing is particularly dramatic or funny.

But all of this can only happen if they continue persevering. They have now the chance for DLCs on this one and still are developing Outerworlds 2 which I think it´s suppose to come this year as well? I expect at least one schedule change so let´s say early 2026 just in case. I think patience when a dev it´s dwelving into new territories it´s key if we really want products that nock it out of the park. And off course this doesn´t mean they should abandon their C-RPG, or something like Pentiment which was awesome and it was a fantastic idea that devs do smaller proyects to rest and try new ideas.

[Kriss_Hunter_TTV]

Just wait one day and reviews will update massively 😂

[Fidelio]

zhester

[Sgt. Flaw]

You know what the word chud is but you don't know this is a meme post that makes you look like an ass? Also, why jester farm on dry land?

I don't know OP lol....good luck

My take from the reviews as we all know the score means nothing:

A little better than Vielgaurd but no where close to KCD 2