Avowed - Official Gameplay Trailer

Explore the Living Lands, a mysterious island filled with adventure and danger.

[LordoftheCritics]

Skyrim Mod Collection: The Game

[anast]

Pretty much. It's a let down for sure.

[Snookies12]

Man, gotta say I was actually very underwhelmed by this footage... It just doesn't look great to me. Maybe that's just me? We'll find out when it actually launches, I suppose.

[MadLad]

Yeah. I was definitely expecting more here. It's Obsidian though, so I'm still optimistic for the game.

[RpgSama]

The game I'm sure will be good as a whole, Obsidian is a great developer, but the graphics and gameplay looked really dated.

[Goosejuice]

Ya graphic it's very eh. But I did enjoy outer worlds a bit so will give this a go.

[bababooiy]

The art style has that dollar store toys vibe to it. Even down to the text its all so cheap..

[RpgSama]

@bababooiy

LOL, now I cannot Unsee it!

LOL

[randomvoice]

Thought the same. Obsidian is always remained in Bathesda's shadow. Really thought this game would put them in the same class but it feels like Outerworlds in medieval times.

[__SteakDeck__]

@randomvoice The problem with Obsidian is that they’re more quantity over quality. That’s not to say that their games aren’t quality. But they have too many teams imo, they need to scale their teams back. Have 1 or 2 teams.

[Lifexline]

Graphically not the most impressive but it’s obsidian so very excited for this.

[-Foxtrot]

I hope Obsidian aren't stretching themselves too thin

I would have rather see one big team focused on one project

With how great Starfield looks I wonder why Microsoft greenlit them doing The Outer Worlds 2, another Sci-fi RPG game flying to other planets and the like, Starfield looks like The Outer Worlds but on steroids so why do a sequel to it?

You'd think Microsoft would give Fallout to Obsidian and let Bethesda focus on Starfield and The Elder Scrolls. By the time we get a new Fallout from Bethesda it could be another 10 years.

They managed to do New Vegas within such a short development time and resources, imagine what they could do now.

[Lightning77]

For me it was the graphics I think the gameplay can be fun though.

[RaidenBlack]

The game felt like a colorful Elder Scrolls and since the next ES6 is wayy far off ..... this might just be a great substitute next year? Lets wait for more news on this one.
Hopefully, since its made with Unreal Engine, might ship with less bugs than Bethesda's RPGs?

[Shadowsteal]

They should have never revealed the game with the CGI teaser that mimicked how gameplay would look.

Now that we have gameplay, not only has the art direction changed, but it looks really underwhelming.

[bababooiy]

It originally looked like a proper dark fantasy world, now its all plastic toy soldiers. I loved that initial trailer and for me this is definitly the biggest letdown of the showcase.

[RpgSama]

Looks really low budget, like when the big spider is coming at you looks very cartoonish, before this proper reveal it looked like a more serious ES.

[Magog]

Exactly. Such a letdown in comparison. It went from Tolkien to Fortnite.

[repsahj]

Exactly! Yes the graphics can be 4k but the texture is very old gen. Maybe if we didn't saw Immortals of aveum gameplay, we will be impressed a little bit about this game.

[Tacoboto]

The lighting does look like something is disabled in the darker areas, but if the game actually looks like this at the 4K60fps of the trailer on Series X, I can't be more excited. The gameplay itself with Obsidian's writing and attention to detail - oh man. This is my second pick of the show behind Clockwork Revolution

[shadowT]

not sure, a bit surprised

[SPEAKxTHExTRUTH]

I need to see more before I have an opinion. It looks like Skyrim with cartoonish graphics.

[randomvoice]

This was the biggest let down in my opinion. Had high expectations and got Skyrim PG edition with cartoonish graphics. Seems like a Redfall all over again.

[staticall]

Not a fan of this changed art style. And melee looks kind of clunky. That ice spell at 1:37 looks off, like it just paused all the animations after axe hit and some shards are floating in midair. Lip sync is off too.

Not trying to be too critical, but that first trailer was looking much better (i know it was CGI and i'm not talking about the graphics here, they're servicable), this feels like a downgrade. Really hoping that Obsidian will not disappoint.

[__SteakDeck__]

@staticall I wonder if the B team is making this and the A team is making Outer Worlds 2. I’m not saying that this is going to be like Redfall, but this is what happened with Redfall. There B studio made Redfall while their A studio is working on something else.

[Shadowsteal]

Actually the Redfall studio was the A studio, they made Dishonored, Dishonored 2, and Prey. A number of staff didn't want to make a multiplayer game and left which resulted in Redfall launching in such a poor state.

[C4rnos]

@Shadowsteal, Arkane Lyon was not working on Redfall, that was Austin- the B studio, and now.. likely the *not even a studio*.

https://www.xfire.com/arkan...
A source just in case it's needed; I'm sure the next effort will be a much better, single player experience.

As for this game however, I believe despite the graphics, the world and story within is such a dense and genuinely interesting place to be, same world as Pillars of Eternity after all and hopefully it keeps some of that depth, lore and characters within.

[__SteakDeck__]

I know Obsidian is a big studio. But which team is making this? I wonder if the B team is making this and the A team is making The Outer Worlds 2.

[Christopher]

Some of A Team is helping with https://n4g.com/news/255476...

[outsider1624]

Well..that was..unexpected. did they change the graphic art style or something. Was it like this during their reveal?

[ZeekQuattro]

Looking forward to this.

[potatoseal]

Disappointed by this one unfortunately. Any hype I had is gone. Got my eye on Fable though

[maniacmayhem]

Considering Pillars of Eternity wasn't an eye pleaser, not sure why people were expecting this one to be some graphically artistic masterpiece.

[anast]

I was excited for this, but it looks jank.

[ApocalypseShadow]

Too bad Microsoft isn't into VR. This would actually be a good candidate for it on an Xbox headset.

[gleepot]

The gameplay looks awesome, the graphics and animations need some polish. But to be fair, every elder scrolls game has looked like butt but they are all fun.

[Chriswheeler22]

I find Obsidian are essentially the Piranha Bytes of the US. Eurojank really. Great concepts and ideas but never really feels great overall

[talocaca]

Curious to see how many of these games ACTUALLY release next year given Microsoft's track record .....

[miccasx]

Exactly.

[Ninver]

Looks trash. The hype killed it before it was even a thing.

[DivineHand125]

If someone told me this was a ps4 and Xbox one game, I would believe them. I was expecting it to look close to the CGI trailer we saw 3 years ago.

I just finished playing Burning Shores and now I am playing through God of War Ragnarök. The visuals of those games look a generation ahead of this. I will still wait to see more of this game, but it doesn't look that far graphically from the Outerworlds which came out 4 years ago.

[talocaca]

It looks like a focus group turned into a game 😅 I'm surprised there's no dinosaurs.

[Profchaos]

After years of waiting for gameplay.... I let out a audible wtf

They didn't say it was avowed going into the trailer so when it started to roll I seriously thought it was some average indie game filler it wasn't until the trailer said avowed I was like wtf

[nmbr1esq]

If it only had 3rd person option...hopefully a mod will come.

[lellkay]

visually underwhelming, but still expect this to be a good game.

[CrimsonWing69]

Yea, I'm crazy underwhelmed by this.

[poppatron]

The first trailer that came out all those years ago, when the camera shifts to first person in that cave, I really thought the graphics would be more comparable to that in the final game. Probably very silly of me for sure. I’m still looking forwards to learning more. My concern isn’t that it may just be obsidians version of elder scrolls, that would be great! My concern is they take that idea and stick it in an outer worlds format. That I wouldn’t like

[AmUnRa]

That was 90% CGI and 10% gameplay what could not touch the CGI. Dont let them fool you with the frace....ingame. It was the ingame engine but thats NOT gameplay...infact most games of the show was marked as ingame not gameplay.
The whole show was meeeh.

[glenn1979]

I will judge the game when its out, other than I don't care

[S2Killinit]

Looks wise its kind of a let down.

[Tzuno]

cheap and not needed