Xbox Avowed

[Gee]

Obsidian Announces The Outer Worlds 2 and Brings Largest Update to Grounded - Xbox Wire

For those who are wondering about Avowed, the team is hard at work making something we’re sure fans of our games and the Pillars of Eternity universe are going to love. While we are not showing anything right now, we are looking forward to showing off what we have been working on soon.

 

[Iceman]

Obsidian Announces The Outer Worlds 2 and Brings Largest Update to Grounded - Xbox Wire

It was heavily rumoured to be a no show so I wasn’t disappointed but still I want to see the progress they’ve made on this as soon as possible. Hopefully it’s better than Skyrim!

 

[Gee]

Reading about some spells from the PoE games, like Jolting Touch, being available in this makes me feel giddy.

 

[Iceman]

Reading about some spells from the PoE games, like Jolting Touch, being available in this makes me feel giddy.

I love everything I’m hearing on Avowed. This will be Obsidian finally unleashed on full AAA fantasy RPG with a mega-budget and freedom to do what they want. Like a dream for me haha. It should set a high bar for ES6 to clear.

 

[Iceman]

 

[Deck Rickard]

I started playing the Pillars of Eternity games on GamePass and I’m getting really excited for this. Obsidian is building a pretty rich fantasy world here and this looks to be their Skyrim (they’ve been quick to note the differences between this and Skyrim but it definitely has that feel to it and I mean that in a good way). I hope it comes out early in 2024 because I need a new fantasy action RPG to sink my teeth into. Between this, the Gothic remake and Dragon Age Dreadwolf, 2024 looks to be a great year for my personal favorite game genre!

 

[Iceman]

I started playing the Pillars of Eternity games on GamePass and I’m getting really excited for this. Obsidian is building a pretty rich fantasy world here and this looks to be their Skyrim (they’ve been quick to note the differences between this and Skyrim but it definitely has that feel to it and I mean that in a good way). I hope it comes out early in 2024 because I need a new fantasy action RPG to sink my teeth into. Between this, the Gothic remake and Dragon Age Dreadwolf, 2024 looks to be a great year for my personal favorite game genre!

I’m massively looking forward to this. I love Obsidian and I also love this genre!

 

[Gee]

I started playing the Pillars of Eternity games on GamePass and I’m getting really excited for this.

Great games. It sucks that PoE 2 was a commercial flop. Hopefully under Microsoft they'll get to do a third game.

Speaking of which...

Josh Sawyer would like to make Pillars of Eternity 3, but only if he got a Baldur's Gate 3-sized budget

Obsidian's studio design director also said he might want to return to Pentiment someday, but not anytime soon.

www.pcgamer.com

 

[Iceman]

Great games. It sucks that PoE 2 was a commercial flop. Hopefully under Microsoft they'll get to do a third game.

Speaking of which...

Josh Sawyer would like to make Pillars of Eternity 3, but only if he got a Baldur's Gate 3-sized budget

Obsidian's studio design director also said he might want to return to Pentiment someday, but not anytime soon.

www.pcgamer.com

PoE 2 on a BG3 budget could be amazing! Sawyer seems to have a pretty good deal going where he can make projects like Pentiment when he wants to without having to worry about sales. I'd greenlight whatever he wants lol.

 

[Iceman]

Can’t wait to see a proper deep dive into this one on Thursday.

Xbox to Present Developer_Direct, Returning on January 18 - Xbox Wire

You’re about to get an exciting look at some of the incredible games ahead with Xbox, as we present a new edition of Developer_Direct on Thursday, January 18.

news.xbox.com

 

[Gee]

So, a 3D Pillars of Eternity... Looks like I'll be going dual wielding wands on my first playthrough.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Gotta say… I’m not loving what they showed. The melee combat just looks awkward and weird. Maybe it will feel better in game, I don’t know. But it just makes me wish there was a third-person mode. The wand is straight out of Harry Potter and looks especially silly. There’s a reason why Skyrim, Dragon Age, Elden Ring, etc. use staves instead of wands for magic. They just look cooler.

The landscapes look cool at least. But a lot of the criticisms about the game looking dated after that trailer in 2023 were spot on. Also, the characters look really uncanny valley. That was one of the issues I had with Outer Worlds and it’s disappointing that Obsidian hasn’t improved upon that.

I’m sure it will be good from a narrative standpoint and maybe that’s what matters most. But with Dragon’s Dogma 2, Crimson Desert and other fantasy games coming out that look much, much better IMO, it will be hard for this one to stand out.