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Obsidian seems scared people will compare Avowed to Skyrim, but it shouldn't be—the similarities are obvious, but the differences make it compelling (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 44 points 2 months ago

If you're gonna make an open world first person fantasy game, it's gonna get compared to Skyrim no matter who you are

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Skyrim is one of the best games. Avowed looks similar but prettier and less janky. The comparison is giving it positive attention.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I always felt like Skyrim was... fine. People lost their minds about it but I never thought it was actually that good.

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah, vanilla was kinda meh. It was hilariously breakable and infinitely moddable though.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

I played it at a lan party when it first came out. We all had a blast and after a day of playing we had wildly different stories and experiences.

Its an awesome game, and with mods you could get another games worth of fun out of it IMHO, but I don't think its the end game of games like they treat it. It can be better (mods show just some of that potential), and they're are other games.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I would say the same of Tainted Grail, honestly. That game's combat honestly clicks pretty well imo. The two-handing in that game is fantastic.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If they made the same exact game as Skyrim, but in a modern engine that wasn't built on a sandy foundation, it would already be a better game.

It shouldn't be hard to replicate the good while removing the bad. And yet I've yet to see it actually happen.

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lmao is it built on an engine that was a decade old two decades ago and held together with duct tape and a rainbow coalition of unofficial patches? I think Avowed will do just fine.

[–] Renacles@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The original Unreal Engine is from '95

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Unreal 5 is only 2 years old.

[–] Renacles@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Creation 2 is 1 year old.

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee -2 points 2 months ago

thats too old im not playing on that crap

[–] sean_lemmy@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Weird. It reminded me of Outer Worlds (an Obsidian game)

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Decent game but very short and not much to do in it

[–] loutr@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I liked it a lot, although the DLCs were far more memorable than the base game.

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Ah, didn't know it had DLC. I just picked up a base copy from my local library

[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago

I dropped it after the first planet, it just never really clicked. I'm hoping Avowed doesn't give me the same reaction.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

which was like fallout which is already sci-fi skyrim, but with characters and plot inspired by firefly to add that teaspoon of space cowboy to make the medicine go down or something

[–] Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm gonna compare it to garbage if the rumors of the shitty port job hold true...

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world -4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Targeting 30 FPS doesn't mean it's a shitty port.

[–] Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For console maybe...

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So get it on PC. That's where I'll be playing it. Early reports from games media I follow have already said they played it on PC at higher than 30 FPS.

[–] Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm basing my information on the developers own words...they said the target was 30fps... which is lazy in this day and age.

And of course I'll play it on PC... I'd not waste my time on console.

https://wccftech.com/avowed-developers-confirm-30-fps-was-the-target/

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Get it on pc so you can play it on the deck 👌

[–] Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 months ago

That's one option I suppose lol

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I didn't disagree with you on what they said they were targeting, so I'm not sure why you phrased that way. It's not lazy; it's a trade off that you disagree with, but it happens every console generation like clockwork. You can push graphical effects on any machine until it hits 30 FPS, and this is where they ended up on this set of hardware.

[–] Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 months ago

Sorry for the confusion, my response was based on your information from social media reviews. I'm working on finding the exact article I'm referring to.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

I'm pretty sure Microsoft invited the comparison by letting people believe this would be "their Elder Scrolls" before they just bought Elder Scrolls.