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Have they said yet if Avowed will have multiplayer or not? I much prefer having just single player. However, many of the large companies are obsessed with multiplayer, so it wouldn't surprise me if it had co-op.

Too late! You never know. They could include both. I am going to be an optimist on this.

I saw this article today: Avowed Likely Playable In First & Third-Person Like The Elder Scrolls Games. Hopefully it will be!

That would work for me. I played both Skyrim and Fallout in 3rd person.

There are a fair number of upcoming AAA 3rd person games if you include action games/action rpgs as well: Dragon Age 4, Horizon Forbidden West, Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Project Athia, Assassin's Creed, just to name a few. It also seems likely Fable would be 3rd person (because the previous games were), but I guess we will see. I am assuming Bethesda will continue having both 1st and 3rd person in upcoming games.

Some games, including Skyrim, which Avowed is being compared to, have the option of using either 1st or 3rd person. Grounded, Obsidian's most recent game, has that option as well. Obsidian may or may not include this feature in Avowed. However, it is a possible direction they could decide to go in.

Different people experience things differently. 1st person might be immersive to you, but to me it is not immersive at all.

From what I've seen so far I didn't get the idea that Avowed would be an MMO. There's not much info out yet, though. Also, for me there is no immersion in 1st person, so that depends on the person.

I haven't played Grounded, but I looked it up, and it has the option to play in 3rd person or 1st person even though it was made by a very small team. Fallout New Vegas can be played in 3rd person as well!

Agree! It would be very disappointing if it turns out that Obsidian is now only making 1st person games.

Did Fallout 4 have this issue as well? This is not something I focused on when playing the game, so I don't remember for either, really. I also play a number of AA games, so having a few visual bugs is not the end of the world for me. I would rather have the third person option, even if it has a few bugs, so that I can play!

Obsidian is owned by Microsoft now, so hopefully they will have the resources to include 3rd person as an option.

Some games such as Skyrim have both. If it does have both, I don't want to not get the game because I thought it didn't have 3rd person. And I love chocolate-covered strawberries.

Yes, in 3rd person I can create a character. The character might act how I would want to act or might act completely differently, depending on the character.

I have problems visualizing the character in first person as being myself, and so I feel completely disconnected from the character and the game to the point that it isn't worth playing. The only time I can do first person is VR where I have enough visual input to think of the character as myself. Otherwise, I have to see the character I am playing to enjoy the game.

I don't play 1st person games. Does Avowed have the option to play in 3rd person like Skyrim?

I consider Fig's business practices to be unethical. Going forward, I will be sticking to Kickstarter for backing games.

The investors take on all the risk but have many limits on returns, including limits on what they receive returns on (no returns on console sales, etc.) and limits on how long they receive returns. Investors get no sales information, and Fig can sell their publishing rights and end returns at any time, even if the return is less than 100%. I consider it a scam, but at very least Fig is a very bad investment in general, even if a few games may see good returns.

Fig investment is such a scam.

Hopefully they will have 3rd person for future games, then, if they can't add it to this one. I don't buy games that are first-person only. Now that they are owned by Microsoft, they should have plenty of funding for future games.

Agree. Please add third person. I don't like first-person games.

Seems strange. I didn't have to pay COD.

I feel that way, too! I decided to wait until everything is out to play (and then I will get all the bug fixes and free content as well). Usually, I like to play games right away, but with the way Obsidian releases content, I think it is best for me to wait.

I am most looking forward to importing my pc and seeing the returning companions again. I like games where the same pc spans multiple games. I am also looking forward to the following: Playing through the main story and quests Companion quests, interacting with companions, and relationships Quest choices/consequences Seeing the improved visuals and spells VO

I am glad that the game is single-player only. At least in recent games multiplayer tends to take priority over single player when the two are combined, and the single-player experience is hurt because of it (for a number of reasons, such as combat and other systems being designed around multiplayer, rewards being exclusive to it or requiring excessive grind to get them in single player, or even quests/story content being gated behind it). For these reasons I prefer single player games to remain single player only.