“Good enough for game pass”
Laura brings up some excellent points
- Obsidian shipped on time, after being acquired
- Obsidian already has outer worlds 2 in the works
- Obsidian gets the OW team back together
Avowed may not be a win on its own, but in the context of a MS studio it’s a win, and they cleared their plate to focus on OW2.
I really haven’t understood the reactions I’ve seen to the game. To me it’s a really tight, interwoven, streamlined action-RPG that checks so many boxes for me that other games haven’t tried to touch for years. 9/10 from me personally. It’s been wild seeing the incredibly lukewarm reaction everywhere else.
I’m with you, I’m having a blast, but I think the reactions are because of the idea that it would be a Skyrim type game and… It’s not really even trying to be that. Like you said, it’s an ARPG, the roleplaying is basically just dialogue and most of the game is really well done exploration and combat.
It’s $70 with minimal marketing