Avowed is a fantasy RPG playable from 18 Feb. 2025, by Obsidian Entertainment. Set in the world of Eora, from Pillars of Eternity.
The hate for Avowed has made me realize something.
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I just fucking HATE gaming discourse now. I just got done with a video reviewing the “cope” of a game by saying “they should expect more of themselves”
Honestly? Why? Who does it have to be the best game ever? Why can’t it just be a good romp? People just fucking suck and I’m sad and over it, man
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Honestly I think it's helpful to remember none of this is about gaming and has nothing to do with the games in question.
What we're seeing is a global level slide into extreme partisan rhetoric fueled by both organic and inorganic media algorithms. The same mechanisms accelerating divisive politics are bleeding into every aspect of life.
Watch for key words, trending rhetoric, and viral talking points. You can find them, or some variation thereof, in everything form of online discourse. I'm not arguing for any vast conspiracies, only saying it's an evolving consequence of destabilizing global socio-economics combined with new technology that has allowed propaganda and echo chambers to spread like wildfire.
To clarify further, I'm not at all saying all criticism of this game or others is invalid. Actual criticism has always existed and is absolutely legitimate. It's only the hyperbolic hatred using all the same key words that is nothing but a byproduct of a larger dynamic.
There are many vested interests in the world who trade on, monetize, and utilize humanities capacity for hatred and fear. They've always been commodities, but now they've become one of the most powerful products in the global market.
Straight up hell yeah brother
Also Obsidian has never been known, at least from what I have seen, as one of the best of the best of the industry, but a very consistent studio that always releases very good games, and that's what Avowed is and pretty much all of their games for over a decade now to me, the video the OP is referring to is probably one I also watched, which I only watched because it was in my recommendations on Youtube and since I hadn't been watching any negative discourse on Avowed I decided to see what "that" crowd was saying about the game and unsurprisingly I came across a lot of nonsense and made up videos about how the game is actually performing very bad and making it seem like we just got some mediocre 5/10 game, unsurprisingly it's the same crowd crying about western games and now all praising eastern because "they know what the players want".
It's crazy how these videos on Youtube get hundreds of thousands of views and seem to get recommended a lot to people, I try to mute these as much as I can because they usually don't have anything of substance to say, like I saw one of these same guys today saying that the vast majority of western games aren't doing well besides a few but of course most Japanese and other games from Asia are all killing it which is bs, only really a few games do huge numbers every year.
Edit: One of these guys has a Youtube channel and is apparently a game developer, he has a video titled or it says in the thumbnail that the Avowed director is a diversity hire, usually that's enough for me to stay away and never engage with their content again.
Well said. The fact this game gives you the option to choose your pronoun if you want, or turn them off altogether, and people still get upset and review bomb the game is insane.
There are fucking fish people in the game and mushrooms growing out of our domes. I want to hear actual discourse about this very fun game, not propagated slop.
Remember when you’d just go to the video store and rent a game for a few days based off the package art? And if it sucked, you were just like “well, can’t wait to bring this back and try something else.” Then go back and try something else…while waiting for pizza and sodas. The good days.
Can't you do that with game pass? Except you don't need to wait to return it?
1-10 scale is dead
The time of 1 or 10 is here
People nowadays expect everygame to cater to their own preferences. And if a game has x thing similar to abother game but doesnt have y thing then the game is "unplayable trash" and nobody can dare enjoy it because THEY dont enjoy it.
Like bro whatever happened to just acknowledging that if a game is not for you then its not for you. Doesnt make it bad
Social media is cancer and we would be better off if it imploded
I'm not saying that Avowed is as good as New Vegas, but even New Vegas, the game that's often hailed as the best game ever would get the same treatment as Avowed for being woke if it was released this year.