Avowed best game 2025?

[-Paxton- BugDiver 4th FRE Regi]

Monster hunter wilds 955,646 In-Game
Avowed 3,441 In-Game

[DaS]

Originally posted by -Paxton-:

Originally posted by DaSkippa:

AS far as monster hunter goes, it's biggest headwind seems to be optimization. If I'm reading the tea leaves right they released a benchmark to test performance on your rig that doesn't appear to be an accurate reflection of how the game performs on that same rig.

If true how fast or how slow they correct that will likely determine it's future.

Game also has a million people in it. Just by the numbers there is going to be a % of people that don't know how to use their own rigs it's just a given. Just %4 is a lot of people.

thats why playing games with your benchmark may not be the wisest idea. I'm seeing reports of current gen cards having issues, that ran fine in the benchmark. Sure some of it's likely driver related. But it's starting to look like a snowball rolling downhill.

EDIT you don't get a 2nd chance to make a 1st impression

Also an invalid benchmark tool makes it a lot easier to get a refund beyond the 2 hour rule. Since any benchmark that doesn't actually reflect the game it's bench marking is by definition a false advert. You can make the argument that troubleshooting the problem kicked you over. If it's reasoned enough with steps taken, it's an area Steam/Valve in the past has been forgiving of.

From comparison video's I'm seeing it appears the benchmark was optimized differently than the tittle itself was......that is incredibly stupid if accurate

[NomadTR]

Originally posted by Johnny_B_80:

Same obsessed trolls making the same threads day after day, just letting us know they're sad individuals with no life. Haven't you moved on to the next thing to hate yet, or are you waiting for your Youtube daddy to tell you where to go? :p

mad?

[Janthis]

Originally posted by NomadTR:

Originally posted by Johnny_B_80:

Same obsessed trolls making the same threads day after day, just letting us know they're sad individuals with no life. Haven't you moved on to the next thing to hate yet, or are you waiting for your Youtube daddy to tell you where to go? :p

mad?

no u

[Toriva]

Never heard of this Monster Hunter game. Looked it up: 47% positive reviews on Steam

This shows once again that player count doesn't matter at all when you deliver a terrible game. Avowed has a small community, but at least 77% of the players like the game.

Imagine releasing a game, getting 1 million players, and more than 500.000 people think your game sucks, lol.

[The Big Weeb]

I'll be playing both.

A hoonter must hoont

[XartaX]

Originally posted by Toriva:

Never heard of this Monster Hunter game. Looked it up: 47% positive reviews on Steam

This shows once again that player count doesn't matter at all when you deliver a terrible game. Avowed has a small community, but at least 77% of the players like the game.

Imagine releasing a game, getting 1 million players, and more than 500.000 people think your game sucks, lol.

Everyone I've seen actually say the game is amazing so far. The negative reviews come from people complaining about the optimization. As someone with a 4090 custom water loop cooled system, so optimization doesn't matter to me at all, I'm excited to try it out this weekend.

[The Big Weeb]

Originally posted by XartaX:

Originally posted by Toriva:

Never heard of this Monster Hunter game. Looked it up: 47% positive reviews on Steam

This shows once again that player count doesn't matter at all when you deliver a terrible game. Avowed has a small community, but at least 77% of the players like the game.

Imagine releasing a game, getting 1 million players, and more than 500.000 people think your game sucks, lol.

Everyone I've seen actually say the game is amazing so far. The negative reviews come from people complaining about the optimization. As someone with a 4090 custom water loop cooled system, so optimization doesn't matter to me at all, I'm excited to try it out this weekend.

Part of me wonders if the people complaining about optimization are playing with the high res texture pack when their machine can't eke it out.

[DaS]

Originally posted by The Big Weeb:

Originally posted by XartaX:

Everyone I've seen actually say the game is amazing so far. The negative reviews come from people complaining about the optimization. As someone with a 4090 custom water loop cooled system, so optimization doesn't matter to me at all, I'm excited to try it out this weekend.

Part of me wonders if the people complaining about optimization are playing with the high res texture pack when their machine can't eke it out.

may be, Those packs do indeed have a different recommended config. so if peeps didn't read that that is on them. but as I stated earlier there is a lot of flack as well regarding how the base game install doesn't reflect benchmark performance on identical rigs and settings. That is a problem, not only from a sales PR standpoint, but it is also an area Valve tends to be forgiving with regarding refunds, since it constitutes a false advert by steams own tos. Even back when Steam didn't DO refunds as a rule this was an area they made allowances for.

EDIT I can almost promise you it's had a cooling effect on 1st day sales as a lot of people are now in the wait and see camp, and there is likely a time limit b4 they wander off to something else.

I would also caution those devs from using the "upgrade your rig" defense TH tried that with SF and it backfired.( a number of successful (late) refunds used that clip and a screen shot of the recommended settings for a quick turn around) Your minimum/recommended config label is accurate, or it isn't. Your benchmark tool is either accurate or it isn't. This is not something you should ever ever "pad" unless you really really like handing out refunds. As it's easy to document, and easy to show a bad faith agreement. Most things in gaming can be subjective, this far less so with a little due diligence on the users end.

My gut tells me the recommended for the base game is low balled, what they have labeled seems awfully low to me for this game(it's incredibly asset intensive). If i'm correct the blow back isn't really surprising, or undeserved. 2k series,hell I would a thought mid 3 was iffy, for this in recommended just seems off(minimum sure, but not recommended)...what were they running in their test set up a 4 M clock? It wasn't a stock card I can promise that, not if they got anything close to what I would consider a "recommended" performance curve. And if so I have absolutely no sympathy at all for them for the resulting push back. Say what you mean, mean what you say

[Quacksalber]

So go and play that game.

[hush]

he cannot afford it LOL

[AdahnGorion]

I would not even list it in top 20 so far.

[Janthis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yhacyXcizA

[tmaddox]

I am positive that for some people this game will be their Game of The Year.
I am positive that others will choose MH: Wilds.
I am positive some will choose Kingdom Come Deliverance 2.
I am positive that many will choose games not yet released.

I don't need some media outlet, The Game Awards or other players to determine my opinion for me.

[hush]

Originally posted by XartaX:

Originally posted by hush:

western people mindset. monster hunter is huge in asia.

They primarily play it on consoles (because that's where it originates). We're comparing Steam numbers. On PC it was always a niche (but popular within its niche) game. It was only with the Return to Worlds campaign that it started having a consistent concurrent playerbase around 100K (getting into Skyrim territory. Skyrim exact numbers are difficult to track because of 5 billion editions and ways to play). Now with wilds having 1 million + concurrents is the first time we can finally say it fully broke into the mainstream PC market (if it doesn't crash the next few days).

Edit: Since you added more to your comment. Sales isn't the same as concurrent playerbase. Skyrim sold more than 60 million units by 2023.

you just disproved that monster hunter is niche. cmon man be consistent with your point

[Metadigital]

Why do people care about this kind of thing?

Anyway, Avowed is getting better reviews.