Development Info Avowed Deep Dive at Xbox Developer Direct 2024

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

omg please make it stop

 

[Peachcurl]

The combat bit looked decent _for a game of this type_.

The dialog and characters... uhh... okay, I guess I can say I'm not surprised?

 

[whydoibother]

The combat bit looked decent _for a game of this type_.

Literally Skyrim.
Zero physical feedback for attacks. Enemies don't stagger, aren't pushed back, your sword doesn't deflect from their mass, I bet it feels awful. No weight at all.

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

It's like they used the color palette from The Outer Worlds. Horrible. Also, dual wielding wands is so fucking silly.

I am tri-wielding wands right know-what-Iamsayin?

 

[agris]

The combat bit looked decent _for a game of this type_.

Literally Skyrim.
Zero physical feedback for attacks. Enemies don't stagger, aren't pushed back, your sword doesn't deflect from their mass, I bet it feels awful. No weight at all.

That’s not true at all, the game froze for 250 ms every time a strike landed !

 

[Iluvcheezcake]

Lame and uninteresting

 

[Peachcurl]

The combat bit looked decent _for a game of this type_.

Literally Skyrim.
Zero physical feedback for attacks. Enemies don't stagger, aren't pushed back, your sword doesn't deflect from their mass, I bet it feels awful. No weight at all.

I agree with the first part of your statement, that's why I said decent rather than great. Skyrim also had decent combat (it was crap in other departments). And if avowed is as memable, I guess everyone profits?

 

[La vie sexuelle]

Ha! When I said that after Baldur's Gate 3, developers would add pretty girls to games, no one believed me.

The entire dialogue model, animations and colors scream "BG3". Postponement of the premiere must have been a consequence of aesthetic changes. So Josh's original vision, where every woman looks like a dry lesbian, has been buried.

I wonder what else they changed?

 

[Peachcurl]

Ha! When I said that after Baldur's Gate 3, developers would add pretty girls to games, no one believed me.

Wait, where are the pretty girls in the video?

 

[luj1]

Few observations from the vid,

- combat looks rough
- game looks unfinished overall
- looks like a reskin of Outer Worlds
- these devs speak as if they are retarded and reading from a script
- everyone seems scared
- you cannot sense any love and passion that went into this project... looks like someone is forcing them to do it
- they are boasting with basic stuff and presenting it as something which is OH MUY GERD
- lip sync is very bad but who cares for that
- biomes aren't distinct enough (i.e. volcanic and tropical biome looks too similar)
- in some weird way it reminds me of MMX? (must be the plastic looking assets)
- reminds me of like a downgraded version of Amalur (which came out in 2012)

 

[Iluvcheezcake]

Also whats with the cringe and general uneasiness of people talking in front of the camera, looks like they are in front of a firing squad

 

[Butter]

?

 

[Peachcurl]

Also whats with the cringe and general uneasiness of people talking in front of the camera, looks like they are in front of a firing squad

Not everyone is comfortable in front of the camera. Especially not in this field.

In fact, that might even be intentional, to make it seem less like an advertisement. Though the obvious reading from a script would really be over the top in that case.

 

[adddeed]

I like how they're proudly presenting the player being able to freeze and shatter someone, Painkiller's shotgun had that ability back in 2004..

 

[luj1]

Also whats with the cringe and general uneasiness of people talking in front of the camera, looks like they are in front of a firing squad

Noticed that too

There is 0 love and passion in this company

Someone like Ken Rolston has 20 CHA compared to them. And he is like 70 years old with more passion.

 

[whydoibother]

What's with people complaining the devs are too ugly, too uneasy in front of the camera, too vaginal? Complain about the shitty gameplay instead.

 

[La vie sexuelle]

Ha! When I said that after Baldur's Gate 3, developers would add pretty girls to games, no one believed me.

Wait, where are the pretty girls in the video?

"Pretty" not in the sense that I like it very much, but that an attempt was made to make it pretty.
I won't give you the timestamp because... this video is already private.

 

[luj1]

What's with people complaining the devs are too ugly, too uneasy in front of the camera, too vaginal? Complain about the shitty gameplay instead.

Well you wanted democracy and women with penises. Now anyone can say what they want, right?

 

[Peachcurl]

I won't give you the timestamp because... this video is already private.

Conveniently, I haven't rated the OP post in this thread yet.

*clicks enthusiastically*

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

Gotta say, this game looks really good. I hope it has better writing than The Outer Worlds, and I hope the RPG mechanics are not as anemic and braindead.

 

[Viata]

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You are making a game and this guy comes and slaps your project, what would you do?

 

[Viata]

I like how they're proudly presenting the player being able to freeze and shatter someone, Painkiller's shotgun had that ability back in 2004..

Hexen had it 30 years ago...

It's because they don't play old games like that. Their metric of comparison is literally the triple A games released last year.

 

[whydoibother]

I won't give you the timestamp because... this video is already private.

Conveniently, I haven't rated the OP post in this thread yet.

*clicks enthusiastically*

They made the original upload private, and uploaded it again here


Does anyone have the old upload to compare? Or say what's different from memory?
I doubt they re-uploaded it just to purge the negative comments, they can do that manually and individually.

 

[Shin]

If The Outer Worlds was the beginning of the end for Obsidian, this is certainly the second act.

 

[Late Bloomer]

Does anyone have the old upload to compare? Or say what's different from memory?
I doubt they re-uploaded it just to purge the negative comments, they can do that manually and individually.

This is the most likely answer.

I guess it's the ESRB rating, the original rating was E for everyone, apparently it's results in some negative comments.