Are we gonna ignore the fact that Avowed looks like a Kinect game from 2015?

Only interesting thing about it is the possibility of good writing

And for that to happen, you need the OG Obsidian team, which you don't have anymore.

It's easy to ignore lies and bullshit.

Which is exactly what "...Avowed looks like a Kinect game from 2015" is. Man that's not even a hot take, just nonsense.

Also I just spent a few hours with Outer Worlds and that was a decent looking game. Not cutting edge, mind you...but good enough. And you know what? It runs well! It's well optimized! I'll take that over some "next-gen" bullshit riddled with bugs and poorly optimized every day of the week.

I hope so too. As I said, been playing Outer Worlds lately, and the writing in that game is amazing. Not just the quality, but how it is implemented; they give you so many options, I love it. Like that first mission with the power control. Most games would be like "Hey you can help the hippies, or you can help the corporation" but Outer Worlds says you can help one or the other but you can also overthrow the corporate leader if you want, so it's a compromise.

It's the kind of nuance you don't really see in writing anywhere and I really enjoyed that.

And they put that effort into seemingly all the dialogue. From your companions to the side quests to the main story. It's all great.

Yeah me too, I'm happy with "good enough" these days. Art direction and performance count for much more in my opinion.

@hardwenzen: horseshit. The writing in outerworlds is great.

Wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut? We played a completely different game, then. There was absolutely NOTHING in common with actual proper writing we've seen in New Vegas. Outerworlds writing was what we call "millennial writing", it was trash from the grounds up. Not a single interesting character, not a sinlge interesting questline. Shit story, it was all a forgettable mess of a video game. And from the little we've see of Avowed, the writing seems like a 6/10 at best.

@hardwenzen: we very often play different games

You sure you didn't mix up the game with Outer Wilds? A game that is actually well written?

Agreed, most games today looks "good enough", what matters is if the game is fun to play...

Dude, the writing is excellent. As far as RPG's with dialogue choices and multiple endings, it ranks as some of the best.

Spoken like a true champ

It looked pretty good to me, visually. The animations looked kind of janky, though.

@mrbojangles25: yup

I'm only interested because it's a pseudo-sequel to Pillars of Eternity.