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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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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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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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4 points

Yeah, vanilla was kinda meh. It was hilariously breakable and infinitely moddable though.

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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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5 points

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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If they made the same exact game as Skyrim, but in a modern engine that wasn’t built on a sandy foundation, it would already be a better game.

It shouldn’t be hard to replicate the good while removing the bad. And yet I’ve yet to see it actually happen.

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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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The original Unreal Engine is from '95

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Unreal 5 is only 2 years old.

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Creation 2 is 1 year old.

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thats too old im not playing on that crap

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12 points

Weird. It reminded me of Outer Worlds (an Obsidian game)

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9 points

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

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2 points

I liked it a lot, although the DLCs were far more memorable than the base game.

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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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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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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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