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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 42 points 2 weeks 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 weeks ago

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 weeks ago

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 weeks ago

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

[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks 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 weeks 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.

[-] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

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 weeks ago

The original Unreal Engine is from '95

[-] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Unreal 5 is only 2 years old.

[-] Renacles@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

Creation 2 is 1 year old.

[-] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee -2 points 2 weeks ago

thats too old im not playing on that crap

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[-] sean_lemmy@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] loutr@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Default_Defect@midwest.social 1 points 2 weeks 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 weeks 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

[-] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks 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.

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