AVOWED - Obsidian's Skyrim clone set in the Pillars of Eternity setting

[Infinitron]

https://avowed.obsidian.net

 

Edited July 23, 2020 by Infinitron

[Theonlygarby]

Is it actually pillars of eternity setting?  It doesn't seem like it

 

Edit: nope it definitely is in eora 

Edited July 23, 2020 by Theonlygarby

[DozingDragon]

So it looks like it's set in Aedyr, right? Broken crown of Woedica (with a sword through it?), mentions of an empire, and oaths. 

[Volourn]

1st person? Skyrim clone? You are becoming nu BIO - focusing on subpar games and not actual legit good rpgs.

[Taevyr]

Well, I'm excited to see what Obs'll be able to do with a first-person rpg, though it'll likely be more open world exploration over RP if they're truly going by the skyrim formula. Still, the teaser looks great, they're going forward with Eora, likely either Aedyr or Old Vailia specifically, and I wouldn't mind exploring that world in the most immersive way possible.

I'll be keeping an eye on this one.

Edited July 23, 2020 by Taevyr

[kanisatha]

If this is a competitor to TES, shouldn't it have the option of playing third-person?

I agree the game looks fantastic. The first-person part is the only thing I dislike here.

Edited July 23, 2020 by kanisatha

[Sonntam]

Looks cool! Love the intricate details of the ruins and the animations of the spells look nice. Hyped to see what they do with the story. We are fighting some animated skeletons, but why? Another god needs pacifying?

[Guest]

Could be wrong, but that crown looked unbroken to me. Could be pre-flame broiled Woedica.

Yep, I'm definitely wrong

Is that Aedryan Galawain at 0:29? Like that they snuck in a patch of adra next to his hip for the fans.

Edited July 23, 2020 by Achilles

[Wormerine]

I will be damned. Eora Skyrim after all. 

[Undecaf]

Now just hoping they are able (and willing) to design broader and more multifaceted gameplay & charactersystems than most of it, either directly or indirectly, dealing with combat.

[Leferd]

Only interested if I can make the PC an Orlan grappling-focused monk/cipher with an affinity towards blunderbusses, mind-bullets, and chokes.

[una322]

ah this is great. So happy the PoE world is still alive. They put soo much work into that world as well.  I wonder if you can have a companions. hmn   so happy maybe with this we're get some more  iso Poe games in the future as well.

Take you're time obsidian, make it a big game, Only main issues i had with the outer worlds was it was to short.

[Guest]

16 minutes ago, Undecaf said:

Now just hoping they are able (and willing) to design broader and more multifaceted gameplay & charactersystems than most of it, either directly or indirectly, dealing with combat.

I wonder if any of Josh TT mechanics will become the basis for a classless character system.

[Wormerine]

I wonder if similarity between arrow and DS bonfires are purely cosmetic, or suggest some bonfire mechanic:

[Undecaf]

3 minutes ago, Achilles said:

I wonder if any of Josh TT mechanics will become the basis for a classless character system.

I don't know anything about that TT game of his other than it being in the works. There any merit in it, or is it all still shrouded?

Edited July 23, 2020 by Undecaf

[kanisatha]

39 minutes ago, Wormerine said:

I will be damned. Eora Skyrim after all. 

Told ya'

So excited for this game.

[Hurlshort]

I don't think it is clear that it is only first person at this point. The Outer Worlds was a fairly small project and that was the explanation given for why they didn't include a 3rd person camera. This is hopefully a bigger project with MS funding, so it may be 3rd person as well. Hard to judge based on a short announcement trailer.

edit: Although the website does firmly say first person RPG, so what do I know?

Edited July 23, 2020 by Hurlshot

[kanisatha]

22 minutes ago, Achilles said:

I wonder if any of Josh TT mechanics will become the basis for a classless character system.

I wish classes could remain, but I can see it going classless, especially if there is no party and you are trying to gather many different abilities into one character.

But I'm also hopeful that at least some form of companions, like in TOW, will be included.

[kanisatha]

1 minute ago, Hurlshot said:

I don't think it is clear that it is only first person at this point. The Outer Worlds was a fairly small project and that was the explanation given for why they didn't include a 3rd person camera. This is hopefully a bigger project with MS funding, so it may be 3rd person as well. Hard to judge based on a short announcement trailer.

Yes this is what I'm pinning my hopes on as well.

[kirottu]

First person > isometric

[Theonlygarby]

Josh Sawyer says he is not working on Avowed at all....  What is he working on!?  I'm so confused...  Is there another game in development?

 

I'd be very happy if we were getting POE3 as well as avowed 

Edited July 23, 2020 by Theonlygarby

[Undecaf]

49 minutes ago, kirottu said:

First person > isometric

I wouldn't say so by default. It's the gameplay design that decides that.

[kanisatha]

Well, since @Shyla is asking us to "speculate, imagine and dream ..." about this new game here, here's my dream for this game:

Please include a third person option.

Please include companions in some form.

Please keep the PoE class system.

[Dodo00d]

We need romances, Outer World had none and the ones in POE 2 were bad.

Very important do not remove the race option and the firarms!

[kirottu]

18 minutes ago, Undecaf said:

I wouldn't say so by default. It's the gameplay design that decides that.

First person is the default. Everything else is just inferior.