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Avowed Announced (Obsidian new AAA RPG, Xbox Series X and PC, same world as Pillars of Eternity)
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Given the trailer and narration, I will make an educated guess and say this will be a prequel set in Aedyr in which the first animancy experiments spiral out of control, creating the undead shown in the trailer.
Really really pumped to see Obsidian take a crack at this style of RPG with real AAA funding behind their back via Microsoft.
New Vegas was great but obviously suffered from technical issues and Outer Worlds really showed it's smaller budget.
It being set in the Pillars universe which is already pretty rich is just icing on the cake.
New Vegas was great but obviously suffered from technical issues and Outer Worlds really showed it's smaller budget.
It being set in the Pillars universe which is already pretty rich is just icing on the cake.
Really enjoyed the way they presented the magic in this trailer - I hope the gameplay keeps not only the sigil/rune work but that shweeeeeeet fuckin flame effect must be in this game. So gud...
Yeah, the Woedica flags on the castle seem to support that.
No, but CGI trailer says "long ways out" ...so ...2023 - 2024?
Even if the game IS being pitched as cross-gen, I'd like to take the time to remind everyone how Cross-gen worked last generation. For example:
Titanfall: Respawn made the XBO version, and contracted Bluepoint to figure out a way to make it work on X360.
Forza Horizon 2: Playground made the game, and contracted Sumo Digital to find a way to make it work on X360.
Shadow of Mordor: The game came out a month and a half later on last-gen, and when it did, it launched without the Nemesis system, because Monolith realized they couldn't make their vision for the game work on last-gen.
Dying Light: WB eventually canceled the 360 and PS3 versions when they realized it couldn't work on last gen. The developers will make their games the way they want to make them, with Series X/S in mind, and THEN some poor soul of a development studio will find a way to get it on last gen, even if it looks a little bit like trash.
Even if a game is targeting cross-gen, everything we learned from last generation says that it won't be the Series X version that gets compromised, it'll be the Xbox One version, if it comes out at all. There is little to no evidence to suggest that the next gen versions of these games will look worse or be reduced in scope just because they want the game to also exist on last-gen hardware.
Titanfall: Respawn made the XBO version, and contracted Bluepoint to figure out a way to make it work on X360.
Forza Horizon 2: Playground made the game, and contracted Sumo Digital to find a way to make it work on X360.
Shadow of Mordor: The game came out a month and a half later on last-gen, and when it did, it launched without the Nemesis system, because Monolith realized they couldn't make their vision for the game work on last-gen.
Dying Light: WB eventually canceled the 360 and PS3 versions when they realized it couldn't work on last gen. The developers will make their games the way they want to make them, with Series X/S in mind, and THEN some poor soul of a development studio will find a way to get it on last gen, even if it looks a little bit like trash.
Even if a game is targeting cross-gen, everything we learned from last generation says that it won't be the Series X version that gets compromised, it'll be the Xbox One version, if it comes out at all. There is little to no evidence to suggest that the next gen versions of these games will look worse or be reduced in scope just because they want the game to also exist on last-gen hardware.
Fairly curious to see what Obsidian can do with Microsoft's money. Pillars and The Outer Worlds were fine but felt rushed and incomplete. Especially Pillars 2, the main story was basically an after thought.
Can't say I care much about the lore of Pillars of Eternity. I played both games to completion and can barely remember a thing about the world and story.
Can't say I care much about the lore of Pillars of Eternity. I played both games to completion and can barely remember a thing about the world and story.
I shall grit my teeth and wait patiently then. I've waited so long to a sequel or spiritual successor to Skyrim. A few more years won't hurt
That'd be sweet as hell, but I think it's best to assume it's going to be more of an Elder Scrolls style game.
Unfortunate, but understandable. Sawyer gave a lot of years to Pillars already and got close to burning out it seems. He's a really creative guy so let him work on some smaller passion projects for a time. He had more than a few really cool ideas he's talked about before.
Understandable, he will be busy with balancing Deadfire's turn-based mode for the next five years.
Oh shit, that's a really good guess. I'm usually not a fan of prequels, but the PoE lore is so interesting that it bypasses my prequel qualms.
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The Outer Worlds was not AAA.
Private Division was funded to make AA games.
Bought both pillar of eternity games on steam though my phone. Gonna start the first one later tonight
Just a heads up, while I liked both of them the first one is the weaker of the two, so if you ain't liking the first one skip it and go to the second. It's superior in every way IMO.
I guess that's their take on Elder Scrolls the same way Outer Worlds was their take on Fallout? All indications are that they'll be more ambitious than they were with Outer Worlds thanks to the MS backing, but I'm cautiously optimistic until we see gameplay or hear more specifics. Still at least it's a setting and style that interests me
You're in for a treat, they're fantastic games with an amazing world. Just take your time and really immerse yourself in the world and characters.
It was a pre-rendered trailer of nothing, we don't even know if it's going to try to be Elder Scrolls.
It's kinda weird to me that people take threads like these as opportunity to air the good old "Morrowind was the last good TES game" which I've seen repeated for the sake of it for well over a decade.
I'm just glad we get another high profile game in this genre.
I'm just glad we get another high profile game in this genre.
It really is just stupid, we've seen essentially nothing and after Outer Worlds I don't exactly have an abundance of confidence in Obsidian to pull off something as ambitious as a TES game. I really wouldn't mind if this were some sort of dungeon crawler actually.
That's the really baffling thing to me. TES is such a popular IP ... but no one even dares trying to copy it? Like why?
Understood!
That was my plan! I've read lots of reviews about the first two games and everyone always praised the world and setting as extremely interesting. So I plan to take it slow and go through and take everything in.
same
At most, he probably gave them the equivalent to the setting Bible, as well as telling them stuff about it and whether it fits within his established canon, or if he cares if they deviate a little from it.
Well it has a shit ton of potential. Hopefully Obsidian and Microsoft put there full weight into it.
I am 100% behind Obsidian becoming Xbox's own Bethesda Game Studio. One, they don't take a fucking decade+ to make a game, plus they're better written and have less bugs.
It still baffles me that Skyrim will be 10 years old next year and the next Elder Scrolls game, Bethesda's flagship series, will still be years away.
It still baffles me that Skyrim will be 10 years old next year and the next Elder Scrolls game, Bethesda's flagship series, will still be years away.
As the design director for the studio I assume he's happy to give feedback or help with lore where needed. He's invested in the game being as good as it can be, and that includes making sure it won't throw us lore nerds into a tizzy.