• @Nuke_the_whales
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    4417 days ago

    If you’re gonna make an open world first person fantasy game, it’s gonna get compared to Skyrim no matter who you are

  • @[email protected]
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    2317 days ago

    Skyrim is one of the best games. Avowed looks similar but prettier and less janky. The comparison is giving it positive attention.

    • @[email protected]
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      1317 days ago

      I always felt like Skyrim was… fine. People lost their minds about it but I never thought it was actually that good.

      • @[email protected]
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        416 days ago

        Yeah, vanilla was kinda meh. It was hilariously breakable and infinitely moddable though.

      • @[email protected]
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        216 days ago

        I played it at a lan party when it first came out. We all had a blast and after a day of playing we had wildly different stories and experiences.

        Its an awesome game, and with mods you could get another games worth of fun out of it IMHO, but I don’t think its the end game of games like they treat it. It can be better (mods show just some of that potential), and they’re are other games.

    • @Zahille7
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      I would say the same of Tainted Grail, honestly. That game’s combat honestly clicks pretty well imo. The two-handing in that game is fantastic.

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    If they made the same exact game as Skyrim, but in a modern engine that wasn’t built on a sandy foundation, it would already be a better game.

    It shouldn’t be hard to replicate the good while removing the bad. And yet I’ve yet to see it actually happen.

  • @chemical_cutthroat
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    Lmao is it built on an engine that was a decade old two decades ago and held together with duct tape and a rainbow coalition of unofficial patches? I think Avowed will do just fine.

    • @Nuke_the_whales
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      917 days ago

      Decent game but very short and not much to do in it

        • @Nuke_the_whales
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          117 days ago

          Ah, didn’t know it had DLC. I just picked up a base copy from my local library

    • @[email protected]
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      217 days ago

      I dropped it after the first planet, it just never really clicked. I’m hoping Avowed doesn’t give me the same reaction.

    • @[email protected]
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      116 days ago

      which was like fallout which is already sci-fi skyrim, but with characters and plot inspired by firefly to add that teaspoon of space cowboy to make the medicine go down or something

    • @ampersandrew
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      Targeting 30 FPS doesn’t mean it’s a shitty port.

        • @ampersandrew
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          117 days ago

          So get it on PC. That’s where I’ll be playing it. Early reports from games media I follow have already said they played it on PC at higher than 30 FPS.

            • @Noodle07
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              116 days ago

              Get it on pc so you can play it on the deck 👌

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              I didn’t disagree with you on what they said they were targeting, so I’m not sure why you phrased that way. It’s not lazy; it’s a trade off that you disagree with, but it happens every console generation like clockwork. You can push graphical effects on any machine until it hits 30 FPS, and this is where they ended up on this set of hardware.

              • @[email protected]
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                117 days ago

                Sorry for the confusion, my response was based on your information from social media reviews. I’m working on finding the exact article I’m referring to.

  • @ampersandrew
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    617 days ago

    I’m pretty sure Microsoft invited the comparison by letting people believe this would be “their Elder Scrolls” before they just bought Elder Scrolls.

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    -1517 days ago

    Skyrim is an awful game, I hope Avowed will become it’s own thing instead of being compared to that garbage game

    • @Nuke_the_whales
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      2317 days ago

      “awful game” what is with this rhetoric that people no longer have an in between? A game is either a masterpiece or “awful” these days, why?? Why can’t a game just be fine or good but not great? Why must things be one extreme or another? Saying Skyrim is “awful” just makes you sound stupid honestly

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          417 days ago

          its so terrible that every single game reviewer gave it near perfect or perfect scores. like the one japanese game reviewing magazine that gave skyrim the first ever perfect score for a western game

          • @[email protected]
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            317 days ago

            I thought the combat, leveling, story, stability, and scaling were all kind of medicore to bad.

        • @Nuke_the_whales
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          317 days ago

          I mean I hated elder rings and I thought it was trash, but I know there’s no way that a game that popular is terrible, so I say “it’s not for me”. If you want to live in a stupid world without nuance, have at it.