Avowed

I'm playing it as a pure Wizard and, unfortunately, I'm not really able to make much use of the different spells on account of how the combat system works.

Kai is an okay tank for fighting one thing, but even in boss fights you are often swarmed with lots of enemies. The teammates also do dog shit damage so I have to do the lions share of the DPS but also be in a position to keep myself alive since the one healer teammate is fucking awful at this. (Which is hilarious as it's virtually impossible to kill a bad guy that is being healed by a single xaurip healer). I have to have the health drain and the shield self spell so I'm pretty much stuck with that first unique grimoire you find. For a couple bosses the magic-bow is a must use spell so swap it out for that but I haven't even touched some of the cooler looking spells yet and I'm nearly level 20.

Argarth said:

The original video is fucking hilarious, subbed lol. Asmon talks too much.

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Qhue said:

I'm playing it as a pure Wizard and, unfortunately, I'm not really able to make much use of the different spells on account of how the combat system works.

Kai is an okay tank for fighting one thing, but even in boss fights you are often swarmed with lots of enemies. The teammates also do dog shit damage so I have to do the lions share of the DPS but also be in a position to keep myself alive since the one healer teammate is fucking awful at this. (Which is hilarious as it's virtually impossible to kill a bad guy that is being healed by a single xaurip healer). I have to have the health drain and the shield self spell so I'm pretty much stuck with that first unique grimoire you find. For a couple bosses the magic-bow is a must use spell so swap it out for that but I haven't even touched some of the cooler looking spells yet and I'm nearly level 20.

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Shouldn't need the health drain even on PotD, and the shield doesn't need the cost/cd reduction from a grimoire so just stick 2 points in it and call it good enough. Greater Elements is the best overall book imo, I'd put Minoletta's Conduit + Gtr Elements in the main set, and then either a melee weapon or a pistol in the offhand with whatever random grimoire you have with spells you like. Best grimoire for offhand in the long run is Eilara's unique but you don't get it until the ass end of the final zone. On the bright side, at least that means it will drop as legendary unless you've gone horribly wrong somewhere along the way. Prior to that I'd use Aurochs-Skin once you get it (may want to look up the location on that one, since it was well-hidden in a spot I don't think you can return to after leaving).

Just don't waste upgrade materials on anything you aren't using forever, even at the very end of the game and having min-maxed all my upgrades, I still only ended up with one fully maxed out weapon and two that were legendary but with only +1 in the final tier. There just isn't enough wood in the game for ranger or wizard builds, it's fucking retarded. I guess wizards have it a bit easier though, since greater elements grimoire maxes out at superb+3, and there's really no point to upgrading the unique one past legendary+0.

As for companions, you just need to cast their skills manually using the radial menu. Kai can sort of just do his thing, but Giatta absolutely needs to be micromanaged.

krismunich said:

The whole queerness discussion aside it still amazes me that games like Ultima VII (released 1992...) had more content, NPC schedules, dynamic interaction with objects, 200 different NPCs with unique portraits and dialogues and came on a handful of 3.5 floppies. How a company with all those tools, capacities and manpower in 2025 manages to release such a boring and sterile RPG is beyond me.
I played through the MSQ (took me 15 hours on normal) and nothing is exciting, remarkable or worth to experience, sadly. Also if you are going to have tiring companions let the player choose to venture alone, please.
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All you have to do is learn that most of these games that are failing are hitting a "reset" after 2-3 years of development. Then they are racing to complete content for the next 2-3 years chasing whatever reason that caused the reset to happen in the first place. Im not a dev, so I dont quite understand why it is good for the life of a single player game to go from UE4 to UE5. But I could understand it in say, Ashes of Creation, because the game looks phenomenally better now and is an MMO. Where the game will HAVE to look as good as it can for as long as it can. But that pretty much wiped out a huge swath of content they had in the early Alpha's.

This game, for some reason, went through a reset and Asmongold showcases it with earlier trailers in that video. They went from a darker, grittier, atmosphere to almost this Hipster Disney type of art. I dont necessarily see anything wrong with it, but its just not to my taste in art direction and .. I dont think Im alone.

Other resets that could be comparable are like Anthem. They worked on that game for 6 years, and developed just the game we got in 18 months of that 6 years. If we look at Mass Effect: Andromeda, guess what? Another project worked on for 5-6 years and also given the ultimatum at the 18 month mark. Another one? Dragon Age Veilguard was in development for 10 fucking years, with most of that spent as project Dragon Age Dreadwolf. Actual development time is somewhere less than 4 years. They did the reset at 4 years from Dreadwolf to Veilguard. But then they had an additional reset somewhere along the line in the 4 year time span. Why? Who fucking knows. But I bet that if they would have stuck with Dreadwolf - what was originally teased all those years ago, this forum full of gamers would have loved it. Same with Avowed. Same with Anthem. Same with Andromeda.

The fag shit, woke shit, SJW shit... Thats going to be WAY more obvious when the entire weight of the package is significantly smaller. Or what we're really barking at with these games is that the management of these projects is fucking awful and these people continue to lead projects over and over and over, failing upward.

so why is kingdom come 2 selling so much better (2m+ copies first week) than this game? I didn't play KCD2 (or 1), not much interest really in medieval realism games. but i saw it has some woke shit in it like gay romance and christians being villains, i assume its minor shit since people mostly like the game a lot it seems.

Is it really way more complex/systemic than avowed? both seem similar combat/gameworld/story wise. neither seem to talk down to audiences like dragon age, avowed does seem more basic and younger-skewing (dialog wise), is that basically it?

spronk said:

so why is kingdom come 2 selling so much better (2m+ copies first week) than this game? I didn't play KCD2 (or 1), not much interest really in medieval realism games. but i saw it has some woke shit in it like gay romance and christians being villains, i assume its minor shit since people mostly like the game a lot it seems.

Is it really way more complex/systemic than avowed? both seem similar combat/gameworld/story wise. neither seem to talk down to audiences like dragon age, avowed does seem more basic and younger-skewing (dialog wise), is that basically it?

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KCD2 and Avowed only overlap in the fact that they both have RPG in the name. Avowed is like babies first RPG in comparison so they serve two different core audiences.

spronk said:

so why is kingdom come 2 selling so much better (2m+ copies first week) than this game? I didn't play KCD2 (or 1), not much interest really in medieval realism games. but i saw it has some woke shit in it like gay romance and christians being villains, i assume its minor shit since people mostly like the game a lot it seems.

Is it really way more complex/systemic than avowed? both seem similar combat/gameworld/story wise. neither seem to talk down to audiences like dragon age, avowed does seem more basic and younger-skewing (dialog wise), is that basically it?

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This is WAY more shallow than KCD2. I still havent even been to the wedding in KCD2. Just watch someones playthrough video and make your own judgement if you dont want to sail the high seas.

Utnayan said:

Haha this guy is awesome.

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His D4 coverage was spot on at launch.

Its okaaay

I hit the wall. This is not a good RPG. As a Borderlands type game with tons of weapons it might be great. Bow is lot’s of fun, but I’ve been using the same bow and dagger all game. RPGs should have lootz I care about, but upgrading just seems better. And cut 90% of the dialog.

Still playing, though. Bow sniping at range and then shield + fire dagger when they get close. Due to great world design it’s still ok, but it’s just an FPS at this point. With Gamepass definitely try the first hours, they are pretty good.

Edit: btw, my gayger counter: