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Playing Avowed (lemmygrad.ml)

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Thanks to Xbox Game Piss I can try out Avowed until Monster Hunter Wilds comes out.

I am not too deep into it yet. The combat is fun. Though with my bad eyesight it is kinda hard to dodge projectiles. I should look into the accessibility settings for this. My character is a wand toting mage who belongs to Ravenclaw.

The world is somewhat interesting. I think it's too close to the tropey DnD fantasy setting with guns and funghi thrown in but it is alright so far. I have come to not expect too much from AAA games in this department. Writing and voice acting are ordinary too.

Anyone else playing this?

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[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Only thing I really hate about Avowed is that we got this instead of Pillars 3...

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 47 minutes ago

Actually playing Avowed has made me want to try out PoE. It was only while reading about Avowed that I found out that Obsidian made PoE.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

It's at least okay game, definitely way better than the haters make it to be. Feels like the mix of Oblivion and Dragon Age. I don't see it becoming next Skyrim phenomenon though, that would depend on exploding mod secene.

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Yeah I haven't found anything to hate about this game at all. There is a tinge of disappointment sort of like what I felt with Starfield because these are supposed to Microsoft's marquee games to sell the Xbox but they turn out very ordinary.

[–] KrasMazov@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I'm playing it too and so far I'm liking it a lot. Although some dialogue options are a bit lib, I've been enjoying trying to be as anticolonial as I can since the game have a pretty big empire colonization plot so far. Also, Kai is a pretty cool companion, I expected him to be much more different personality wise given how other NPCs talk about him, but he's really level headed and a cool dude overall.

I'm also doing a mage build, but I have a shield and sword as my second loadout. I got a pretty sick flaming sword and it is too cool for me no to use lol.

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I am not able to figure out how my stats (attributes, not abilities) decide which loadout suits my character. Any advice on this? For my harry potter build I am putting stats mostly in perception intellect resolve and dexterity. But I am completely clueless.

[–] KrasMazov@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 20 hours ago

Honestly I'm not too sure either. The impression I get from the points allocation screen is that you just do whatever you feel like doing, so that's what I do. Since I'm mainly a mage I focus more on growing my mana pool and attack speed, but I'm also putting a few points on other stats whenever I feel like it. The only one that I'm not too worried about is the Strength stat since I'm doing pretty okay damage even on the hard difficulty without investing much into it, I think I only have 3 points in it so far.

I don't think you need to worry too much on the stats for a second loadout, it seems that the game wants you to just experiment and use whatever you feel like using to have fun without having to commit too hard to it.