It’s not the easiest task, quantifiably speaking, to gauge exactly how successful a game has been when it’s released from day one on Xbox Game Pass in addition to a regular release but all signs point towards a “so far, very good” reception for Avowed, the highly-anticipated fantasy RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Microsoft Studios. […]
The numbers are an 81 on Open Critic, 77% positive on Steam player reviews, and about 6M people played, mostly through Game Pass.
There is a large contingent of people who don’t like romance mechanics in their RPGs, often for the reasons she states in the article. Obsidian doesn’t do it often in general.
Resounding success, barely anyone touched it outside game pass.
The publicly available data for those 6M comes from mimdgame, which is as reliable as divination.
Give me an example of an Obsidian RPG romance option where the character becomes a yes person? My argument is that reason is bullshit, either that or we hear it from the director that they believe Obsidian doesn’t have the talent to write such characters. You know what, that actually makes sense, the talent is not there, clearly.
They should change their motto to: Obsidian, making mobile games for simpletons
They told people to play it on Game Pass, and that’s where people played it. Mimdgame is about as reliable as divination (source: Viri4thus) even though it’s in line with what we can measure for Indiana Jones and Call of Duty? 6M (a two week old number) is about 1/6 of Game Pass’s subscriber base. Although I guess it’s more like 5.5 since they probably sold a little less than half a million by now.
It’s not an opinion I hold. It’s an opinion that Obsidian developers have seemingly held for a long time. They’d be likely to try to avoid the things that they criticize romanceable NPCs for.
Do you actually enjoy video games? I’ve only ever seen you being miserable and claiming that you don’t enjoy the ones you’re talking about because you’re just too darn smart to enjoy them.