Avowed Review - Too Close To The Sun - Gamespot

Avowed's impactful and satisfying combat is undone by a widely unbalanced upgrade system and an uninteresting story that wastes its potential.

[lukasmain]

Never really had high hopes for this game since it's first reveal. It's just a game that has been done so much better so many times before.

[Old McGroin]

An 8/10 from 60 reviews on Metacritic is a pretty good score.

[lukasmain]

Yeah you're right. But there's just some points in certain reviews that are painting a picture that I'm not interested in. So I didn't have high hopes and it's seems I was right. Hopefully others will like it. Might check it out when it's been fully beta tested.

[RaidenBlack]

New Vegas also had a divided initial reception, critics said meh but players ... well you know its cult following.
Not saying it'll reach New Vegas level but these RPG games garner their following abit later.

[Gamingsince1981]

Check anyone not biased and you will see it's a broken junky mess, even saves stop working. It should be a 4 out of 10 max it's that busted.

[Profchaos]

To be fair Microsoft pulled the same stunt with starfield they invited reviewers with no real reputation to review it who gave it high scores same happened here

[Reaper22_]

Why did you choose this particular review to post about it? There are other ones that gave this game a better score posted right here on the this site as well. Don't fall for the clickbait stuff. Did you read it?

[lukasmain]

I didn't read it. I watched it and I watched IGN's video review too. It's obviously not click bait. I don't like the gear system from what I've seen of it especially. Too repetitive with enemy types. Exploration is not the best either. There are other reasons that I don't need to explain. Man I really hope you enjoy playing it if you decide to. I'm sure a lot of people will love the game. It does look amazing with some of it's graphics. I wish character models looked better when compared to the other graphics in the game.

[Gamingsince1981]

Reaper try the game yourself when you get the chance, it's broken as heck lol, it's got busted quests that can't be finished, saves stop working, it rando crashes often changes areas, but enjoy 😉

[Profchaos]

GameSpot is reputable there's lots of 10s for this but you'll have never heard of the reviewer

[Profchaos]

It's reveal was cool but it's gameplay reveal not so much

[Scissorman]

Woof.

[Tacoboto]

So IGN loved the writing but thought everything else was meh, but GameSpot thought the writing was meh and the combat is good?

Ok

[LucasRuinedChildhood]

Gameplay-wise, their opinions are actually quite similar.

GameSpot said that there are often "frustrating slogs" and they strongly dislike the upgrade system. They like the combat but they do have some issues with the overall gameplay, tbf.

IGN liked the core combat. They said that "Fighting with melee weapons and magic feels smoother and more competent than it does in many similar fantasy RPGs" which is pretty much the same as what GameSpot. They said that things like the enemy variety are very poor.

I'm not seeing any big contradiction on gameplay

[PhillyDonJawn]

Odd, every other review said the story is the highlight of the game

[Si-Fly]

I’ve just been watching a Giant Bomb live stream where they’re waxing lyrical about how fun the combat it 🤷🏼‍♂️😂 I’m glad it’s on GP, I wanna try it for myself.

[anast]

You can burn down your companions house and they will act like nothing happened...

[Abear21]

I wonder if this was a $50 title would it have scored better?

[andy85]

Not quite the GOTY we've been promised for ages from certain faces here then. 80 certainly isn't a bad score though ill give it a pop when I've finished what I'm on

[Destiny1080]

internally, reviewed very well

[TheColbertinator]

Game of the Year. Stand back everybody.

[OlderGamer17]

Another one, and Xboxfanboys defending it like clockwork.Lets face it...its a mediocre game

[DivineHand125]

There is a reason Xbox didn't feature the game at their developer direct even though it was only a few weeks away.