Avowed
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Cybsled
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Asmon seemed to like it a bit, even if the story was meh. A “girl boss” showed up at one point and he had the option to attack and kill everyone, so he explained that since most games wouldn’t let you do that, he would select that option.
The game at least seems pretty open to letting you play in different ways
The game at least seems pretty open to letting you play in different ways
ronne
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Has anyone played this yet? I'm skeptical it's as 'woke' or whatever that people seem to be claiming cause no one has actually posted any video/gameplay of said wokeness, just vague like 'oh the male NPCs are weak nerds'.
Pillars 1/2 were pretty top-tier in terms of actual RPG world/lore/storytelling, and this seems to be basically the entire same team? Seems weird to me that there would be such a weird swing in to unplayable woke territory after writing characters that were as baller as Durance in the first games.
Pillars 1/2 were pretty top-tier in terms of actual RPG world/lore/storytelling, and this seems to be basically the entire same team? Seems weird to me that there would be such a weird swing in to unplayable woke territory after writing characters that were as baller as Durance in the first games.
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Caliane
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why would that be strange? first, pillars 2 was already deep woke. the entire team has strong ties with crit role. people weren't as sensitive to it back then, as they weren't just inundated with it from all sides nonstop. but it was there.
Also, company culture has changed, as well as general gaming. pillars of eternity 1 came out in 2015.
the entire industry, and comic book industry went off the deep end from 2011-till now. constantly doubling down on the woke insanity.
oh, stephen king wrote nonwoke stuff back in the 80-90s, surely his current work is sane. bro what?
oh, brandon sandersons work in the 2000's was sane, surely he hasn't lost his mind.
oh, coraline wasn't woke, surely Niel Gaimon hasn't lost his mind.
oh, insert every single DC/Marvel comic writer, was writing sane non-woke shit in the 2000's, why would we think they all lost their minds?
Also, Obisian fired, and blackballed Avellone in 2015.
Avellone wrote Durance.
RPG Codex Interview: Chris Avellone on Pillars Cut Content, Game Development Hierarchies and More
Tags: Chris Avellone; Pillars of Eternity; Planescape: Torment; System Shock (Nightdive Studios) Back in 2016, Codex community member Fairfax began a correspondence with RPG writer extraordinaire Chris Avellone, for the purpose of interviewing him about some questions that many of us had at the...
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Talos
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Asmongold covered some of it a few months ago. Pronoun stuff and woke developers. Search "Avowed" on his youtube if you really want to see it.
Mist
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lol yeah it does kinda have the same vibe as EQ2 now that you mention it. (highly derogatory)
Delly
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Not that my opinion holds much water. If I'm being honest I don't care who is making the game and I don't play politics with games. DEI this or that I could really care less if the game is good.
I played the new Dragon Age and it was dogshit from basically most of the perspectives I care about such as combat, graphics (characters/armor sucked but scenery was great), progression felt meh, and just the overall feel of the story/writing was tedious.
I've played Avowed for 6 hours and its very fun so far. Tons of exploration, gear feels good, progression feels good, combat is decent and challenging when you up the difficulty, the graphics are good, the animation is okay-ish, the writing is fucking fantastic and I have bursted out laughing a few times from the options and I'm the sarcastic asshole of my friend group. I've had one crash when I was trying to do some climbing shenanigans and zero other bugs.
There could be some woke or DEI shit later on and if its not too egregious it likely won't even register with me. So far, I haven't noticed it.
Avowed is fun. That is all.
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Tarrant
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The gameplay is pretty easy tbh, the story and voice acting is good and the world is beautiful. I've not experienced any of the bugs or crashes in the review above so I can't really comment on those, my game has been stable. I've not felt like any part of the game has dragged on. The only overtly "DEI" thing I've noticed is the ability to use pronouns I guess and you can disable it, so its whatever? I dunno, I just care if a game is fun as Delly stated above, and so far, its been that.
I would prob rate it a 7/7.5 overall so far.
I would prob rate it a 7/7.5 overall so far.
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ronne
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Lol Avellone writing Durance makes a lot of sense yea. And if they were on board with his blacklisting in general that's probably not a great sign for the direction of the studio.
Palum
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Tarrant
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IGN gave it an A, I gave it s C/C+
I'm sorry you feel like I should be raging over it. Truly.
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Palum
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Ambiturner
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