That's one word.
calling someone retard is what xboxlive is with 12 years old teens like you >>>
wheeee
20 years apart and that what it is
I've seen Witchfire mentioned. Amid Evil would be the benchmark, but it shits on what I saw in that vid from a high perch.
If a game has NPC AI with their own schedules and motivations, lets you steal from or kill anybody, lets you pick up and interact with any object, etc then I would maybe expect some jank.
They didn't, though. Are there less? Sure, perhaps so, but stripped as close to the bone as possible? At least I don't feel that way at all while playing it. Something like FF XVI is a far bigger offender for stripping RPG mechanics, IMO. Not that it matters.
This is a pro-Avowed video and it makes it look like this is an RPG you'd make for someone who's only ever played really simple phone games.
Are you a game director?
Do you understand the full scope of the definition of jank for a game director? I speak with a game director relatively often who worked on a massive immersive sim success in montreal.
It can go from an ogre jumping 200 ft in the air in Skyrim after a shout
or be subtle as fuck and you've lived with it your whole gaming life without
Take Dark souls. Armor. Ton of clipping and vertex bending where it shouldn't happen in any "realistic" scenario but making it realistic would get in the way of fun because it would mean that your movement is limited by what you wear and you would end up with a ton of limitations in builds. So designers didn't limit animation systems based on armor proportions and possible movement range. The game is thus "gamey" and you see the visible seams holding the game together as being.... a game, but for just having a good combat system its something you have to live with, massive armor shoulders clipping in the head and what not. A character movement over terrain. You want realism? Inverse kinematics on the feet that will affect your combat on every little rocks and crags and affect your hip movement and combat? No, jank, animation jank is tolerated because it would make games insufferable.
KCD combat, definition of jank, but unless you plug a VR headset and have VR controllers to move your sword and shield with 1:1 scale, its something you have to live with in gaming.
Fact of the matter is that, there were over a dozen youtuber drama farmers going from a little jank is fine to extrapolating it that the game is broken.
Game is not broken
Homeboy was glazing the fuck out of this game before it was released. Dude doesn't wanna look stupid so he's doubling down. It's great to watch. Very poetic.
Yeah $70 is pretty high for the scope of the game. They've definitely picked a lane of quality combat and exploration at the expense of RPG and Immersion, and the price should have reflected that. At the very least, publishers have still allowed for that $10 discount on PC.
Only til I finish Xenoblade Chronicles X. Don’t worry, the blueberry FUPA guy will return!
I prefer fanboys making out with fanboys but whacha gonna do?
point a camera at themI prefer fanboys making out with fanboys but whacha gonna do?
Yeah personal preferences is a thing, don’t just go after what some jaded YouTuber or critic says, the likelihood of you having the exact same taste in games is miniscule. As with food and music we all like different things, someone rating a mushroom pudding a 10/10 still won’t make me even taste it and I’d rather listen to coilwhine than listen to Taylor Swift.
Dumb question that I've asked before - but where do you find these CCU charts and whatnot for Steam in real time? Poked around some on Steam but didn't see it.
It rhymes, almost like poetry.
Wish they had similar charts for total review rating percentage too, that would be cool to see how it changes over time.
It actually does, if you click on a game then click the review score you can see the chart.
Ohh I see it maybe - is it hidden behind login? I see where it says "sign in to view chart" underneath there in text.
I also think it plays so well cause its xbox game.
Honestly, looking at that chart and thinking it over makes it even worse. It was trending around 11-13k peak during early access, then on release day went up by a massive.. 5k or so..? That seems absolutely terrible. I sure hope this doesn't put Pillars in the dirt forever.
Indy and Hellblade 2 were massive bombs. Avowed is doing fine for it's budget
It's not like it was in full development all those years. Obsidian has under 300 employees. The last 5 years they developed TOW, Grounded, Pentiment, Avowed, and TOW2 later this year. Whatever production hiccups Avowed had, it surely didn't effect Obsidian's output much. And by the sounds of it, these issues occurred in pre-production, which is usually not a big deal, with only a fraction of the development team working on it
Rebooted twice, right?
And it'll be forgotten, people won't even remember it existed at the end of the year. Such a waste of ressources.
It is when you compare to other AAA games. 50-75mil budget. 500k in sales at full price alongside decent Gamepass engagement would most likely be considered a success. The director came out today and said Obsidian was happy with sales
