Avowed first review 9.5/10

[Alekde]

https://www.notebookcheck.net/A-glowing-Avowed-review-leaks-ahead-of-tomorrow-s-embargo-date.960188.0.html

[Morgrum]

Originally posted by Danger Bay:

so many blocked accounts in here, absolutely seething mad lmao

bad troll is bad

[hush]

Originally posted by Nightmarian:

Originally posted by hush:

it got glowing reviews from mainstream reviewers, did it flop? and it was labeled woke

It really wasn't though. A handful of people were mad it had gay content, which is objectively silly. You can't point at an extreme minority and use that to express the majority.

In fact, it's ironically one of the most 'conservative' games in existence, and even plays its gay romance as immoral and criminal.

It's funny people are calling it woke while 'team woke' is defending it lmao. Goes to show how pointless this dumb war is.

yeah it's one of the most conservative game but it's still lambasted by culture warriors as woke due to presence of gay relationship and dark skinned guy in the game

[Foxrun]

Originally posted by Morgrum:

Every game releases with 9.0 to 9.5 ratings from game writers now.

Even Starfield had amazing reviews.

Lol, SF did not have amazing reviews.

[Roger_Dabbit]

Originally posted by RORSCHACH:

Originally posted by Roger_Dabbit:

You lead quite the sad existence bud.

Yet he is talking about the game while you are talking about him.

I think he is mostly right, a 5/10 seems fair.

... About a game that hasn't come out yet, and he's talking authoritatively about the experience despite having... Not experienced it.

And so are you. Like I said: sad existence.

[Morgrum]

Originally posted by hush:

Originally posted by Nightmarian:

It really wasn't though. A handful of people were mad it had gay content, which is objectively silly. You can't point at an extreme minority and use that to express the majority.

In fact, it's ironically one of the most 'conservative' games in existence, and even plays its gay romance as immoral and criminal.

It's funny people are calling it woke while 'team woke' is defending it lmao. Goes to show how pointless this dumb war is.

yeah it's one of the most conservative game but it's still lambasted by culture warriors as woke due to presence of gay relationship and dark skinned guy in the game

The Saracen..... I think hes supposed to be a Saracen looks like one of the highlights of the game to be honest.

[hush]

Originally posted by Morgrum:

Originally posted by hush:

yeah it's one of the most conservative game but it's still lambasted by culture warriors as woke due to presence of gay relationship and dark skinned guy in the game

The Saracen..... I think hes supposed to be a Saracen looks like one of the highlights of the game to be honest.

but they hate because they believe saracen doesn't exist in that time frame and only caucausian and slavic exists during medieval times.

[Sparse_tell]

Originally posted by Scyriz:

So its Veilguard 2.0 basically where none of the 1st reviews from anyone can be trusted, saw that coming a mile away. The game looks like a 5/10 at best gameplay wise from what I've seen so far, and thats before adding in the woke garbage they shoved in it, which is going to be alot more than pronouns.

JW if the game is actually good, and it has unanimous praise from even your favorite reviewers. At what point would you open your mind to the idea it might be fun

[Teh_Guy]

Originally posted by RORSCHACH:

Originally posted by Teh_Guy:

How can you say it's 5 if you never played it?

It looks worse than Veilguard and Veilguard was a 6.

Looks a lot better than veilguard and veilguard only redeeming quality was that it worked

[AdahnGorion]

I don't think anyone takes game journalist seriously now a days...
We all remember the scandals at ganespot etc.

[FlaffWaffle]

Obsidian never misses.

[Morgrum]

Sixty percent of the time, it works every time.

[Zapmaster]

This looks great, reminds me of Gothic 2. I might get it.

[archonsod]

Originally posted by Nightmarian:

It really wasn't though. A handful of people were mad it had gay content, which is objectively silly. You can't point at an extreme minority and use that to express the majority.

The best part is it's content you actively have to work for. Reminds me of the old anti-pron Christian brigade; I assume they're all going down the Hans romance route and frantically screenshotting those hard male bodies going at it for "research purposes".

Originally posted by Foxrun:

Lol, SF did not have amazing reviews.

85 Metacritic. Though the scores are pretty varied, I think most places had it as a 7, but there's a few 9s that drag it up and not many 4 or lower to counterbalance those.
Seems pretty accurate to me. Most of the complaints can basically be boiled down to 'it's Skyrim, in space' and most of the praise can equally be boiled down to 'it's Skyrim, in space'. Haven't played it myself, but I'm guessing it's a case where fans of how Bethesda do things like it while those who aren't didn't.

[BingusDingus]

Hopefully the game is good, obsidian usually makes pretty good games. The marketing has absolutely ♥♥♥♥ the bed on this game however, doesn't help either that the game they originally pitched to the world isn't what they ended up making, I very much preferred the dark fantasy style of the world reveal trailer.

[bshock]

Some random review "leaks" that claims its a masterpiece a day ahead of the $90 early access version.

Sure, Jan.