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Avowed |OT| Is an oath worth the weight of a crown?



The context is just a minnmax interview where he also asked her what her favorite games are (OMG ! different answers than Avowed???) if she's fine with a little jank, that peoples are extrapolating to Avowed. Is she wrong?

The previews from over 2 months ago almost everyone said its polished as fuck.

Games have all a little bit of jank. KCD, STALKER, Witcher 3 are the definition of euro-jank. A game without any bit of jank is too much into simulations and then you have peoples complain its too slow, Red Dead Redemption 2 comes to mind (still with jank).


I do think the dev coming out and commenting on the jank like this is weird and in general should be avoided. With that said I agree overall games like this are going to have jank it is what it is.
 
A game without any bit of jank is too much into simulations and then you have peoples complain its too slow, Red Dead Redemption 2 comes to mind (still with jank).
RDR 2 has horrible jank.

They way aim cursor jumps and move all over the place, how am I supposed to play that? Its a freaking shooter.
 


The context is just a minnmax interview where he also asked her what her favorite games are (OMG ! different answers than Avowed???) if she's fine with a little jank, that peoples are extrapolating to Avowed. Is she wrong?

The previews from over 2 months ago almost everyone said its polished as fuck.

Games have all a little bit of jank. KCD, STALKER, Witcher 3 are the definition of euro-jank. A game without any bit of jank is too much into simulations and then you have peoples complain its too slow, Red Dead Redemption 2 comes to mind (still with jank).


Sounds pretty clear to me. Plus she admits dual-welding maces is broken in a bad way.
 

Buggy Loop

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Majukun

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not even sure I can run this with my laptop 2060..but since it's free with gamepass I can afford to try
 

adamsapple

Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
not even sure I can run this with my laptop 2060..but since it's free with gamepass I can afford to try

2060 w/ DLSS should get you good mileage.

The game's minimum requirement is 1070.
 
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Buggy Loop

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not even sure I can run this with my laptop 2060..but since it's free with gamepass I can afford to try

Hopefully the game ships with DLSS transformer straight out the gate but otherwise a swap of it, and running in performance mode it should be ok.
 
Title is just a reminder of what could have been. Biggest downgrade in history.


How? There's not any gameplay here, and you're positive this game does not have cave environments?

I feel like people are hating just to hate, it looks rather good. Unlike a lot of the reveal footage which looked very stiff.
 
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I've never understood putting people on ignore either. Like okay you've got a different opinion to me, but I'm not going to block you - just won't choose to converse with you - surely that's all it needs.
I have a very small handful on ignore here and usually those people have just decided to make things personal with name calling

But anyway great OT cormack12 cormack12
 

notseqi

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I've never understood putting people on ignore either. Like okay you've got a different opinion to me, but I'm not going to block you - just won't choose to converse with you - surely that's all it needs.
Stop being reasonable, I hate you or something, waa waa.
 

Majukun

Member
2060 w/ DLSS should get you good mileage.

The game's minimum requirement is 1070.
well i checked the benchmarks and a 2060 laptop is slightly worse than a full 1070

but good to know I can play it

Are you planning to use something like Lossless Scaling? It might double your frames.
maybe, I'm not too bothered about graphics, I just need it to run well
 
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adamsapple

Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Didn't realize it was out so soon. Xbox pre-loads are a no-go for Comcast customers. Day 1 patches usually make you redownload most of the data anyway.

Yeah I'll also download the night before the general release. Learnt this lesson the hard way with STALKER 2. Multiple 130GB downloads before release.

Just wait a few hours before it comes out to download the latest patched version on their CDN.
 
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Pop

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So 5 days early access on a game that will be "free" with gamepass

Its cooked. They know sales will be shit
 

Arsic

Loves his juicy stink trail scent
Few things:

-OP this OT looks like dog shit on mobile

-Do gamepass get access on February 13th?
 

adamsapple

Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Romance in games is shit anyway who want it, except in Saints Row 4 where it was hilarious.

The only really good example of games with player selection romances I can come up with is re-romancing Liara in the Shadow Broker DLC in Mass Effect 2.

It's a real good moment and builds on the first game, and Liara is not available in the base ME2 game so its an extra 'reward' seeing the dedicated cut-scene.

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SJRB

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O my god they're doing the "play five days early if you drop an extra 20 bucks" thing.

The standard edition is 70 euros on Steam??

RIP in peace, Obsidian.
 

Hot5pur

Member
They should have asked if the writing was better than the outer world, their last similar game, being better than veilguard is the lowest bar.
True. Outer worlds writing went pretty hard. I remember a segment about meditation and the "self", got super philosophical and was actually quite good. Obsidian knows how to cook for sure.

Looking forward to this game, probably will give it a go through gamepass. I think Microsoft is hitting its stride with their releases ,with many titles in that 8/10 zone. Will be interesting if they can knock it out of the park with anything in particular.
 

Hudo

Gold Member
The only really good example of games with player selection romances I can come up with is re-romancing Liara in the Shadow Broker DLC in Mass Effect 2.

It's a real good moment and builds on the first game, and Liara is not available in the base ME2 game so its an extra 'reward' seeing the dedicated cut-scene.

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It also helps that she is definitely pushed by BioWare, since she is the reason why Sheperd is alive.
 

Buggy Loop

Member
O my god they're doing the "play five days early if you drop an extra 20 bucks" thing.

The standard edition is 70 euros on Steam??

RIP in peace, Obsidian.

I don't understand the logic?

The play early for extra cash is a FOMO play by publishers to get extra cash and that play only works if they are confident the game is good and reviews well. There's no FOMO if a game is shit.

Its a shit practice honestly.... but I've fallen for it this time. I'm honestly in dire need of a fantasy RPG and I've been waiting on one since BG3. I resisted Indiana Jones' one but this one I spent the money to play early. So they just got extra cash for no other reasons than FOMO. I'm sure they're happy there's peoples doing/considering it.
 

BigBeauford

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O my god they're doing the "play five days early if you drop an extra 20 bucks" thing.

The standard edition is 70 euros on Steam??

RIP in peace, Obsidian.
To be a glorified beta tester at that. Some of these games have had shit launches for those paying more. I believe Outlaws and Suicide Squad are some that come to mind.
 
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