Avowed Looks Good
0There are plenty of reasons to be excited about Avowed, the new fantasy action role-playing game from Obsidian, the studio that brought you Fallout: New Vegas (I’ll play it! I have it installed on my Steam Deck!) and the grandly anti-capitalist The Outer Worlds.
(There are reasons not to be excited, as well. This is a magnificent opening to a review:
Avowed is almost good, but there’s something so resigned and workmanlike to its quest design and storytelling that it often feels like dog-eared chorelist of Obsidian must-haves, ticked off so aimlessly that the result is a bit like having an RPG described to you by someone late for a bus.
But no game is for everyone!)
One obvious reason to be excited about Avowed is that Obsidian is a well-regarded studio, and one false move these days can get your studio disbanded or gutted. It’s never safe to say it can’t happen, but Obsidian is in good shape, to go by the mostly glowing reviews. You like to see it, am I right? Development of The Outer Worlds 2 continues apace.
Avowed has had to tamp down comparisons to Skyrim, the most successful (and most ported) fantasy action RPG ever produced on planet Earth, but I haven’t heard “Avowed” and “Skyrim” in the same sentence in a while, so maybe they wriggled free of that. If it’s The Outer Worlds with magic and swords, that’ll be just fine.