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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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tacosanonymous@lemm.ee
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Skyrim is one of the best games. Avowed looks similar but prettier and less janky. The comparison is giving it positive attention.

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Zahille7@lemmy.world
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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.

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jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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I always felt like Skyrim was… fine. People lost their minds about it but I never thought it was actually that good.

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tacosanonymous@lemm.ee
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Yeah, vanilla was kinda meh. It was hilariously breakable and infinitely moddable though.

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fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
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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.

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therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip
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Skyrim is an awful game, I hope Avowed will become it’s own thing instead of being compared to that garbage game

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Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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“awful game” what is with this rhetoric that people no longer have an in between? A game is either a masterpiece or “awful” these days, why?? Why can’t a game just be fine or good but not great? Why must things be one extreme or another? Saying Skyrim is “awful” just makes you sound stupid honestly

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therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip
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Alright. Skyrim is a terrible game

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ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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Then if this game is compared to Skyrim, be prepared to hate it?

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BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee
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its so terrible that every single game reviewer gave it near perfect or perfect scores. like the one japanese game reviewing magazine that gave skyrim the first ever perfect score for a western game

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Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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I mean I hated elder rings and I thought it was trash, but I know there’s no way that a game that popular is terrible, so I say “it’s not for me”. If you want to live in a stupid world without nuance, have at it.

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swag_money@lemmy.world
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incorrect

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chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
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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.

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Renacles@lemmy.world
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The original Unreal Engine is from '95

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chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
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Unreal 5 is only 2 years old.

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BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee
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thats too old im not playing on that crap

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Renacles@lemmy.world
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Creation 2 is 1 year old.

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sean_lemmy@sh.itjust.works
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Weird. It reminded me of Outer Worlds (an Obsidian game)

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Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
9 points

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

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loutr@sh.itjust.works
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I liked it a lot, although the DLCs were far more memorable than the base game.

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Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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Ah, didn’t know it had DLC. I just picked up a base copy from my local library

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Default_Defect@midwest.social
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I dropped it after the first planet, it just never really clicked. I’m hoping Avowed doesn’t give me the same reaction.

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Grass@sh.itjust.works
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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

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Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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If you’re gonna make an open world first person fantasy game, it’s gonna get compared to Skyrim no matter who you are

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