Avowed Launches As Steam's # 1Top Seller In The US And Worldwide

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• rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m going to play it, but I’m certainly not buying it for 70€.

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  • Blxter@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yea this game is a 3+ years down the road for me kinda game. I also want to play the pillars games first even if I don’t HAVE to.

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    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I expect Avowed to be a worse game than PoE 2 for my taste, which is one of my favourite games of all time! Definitely worth playing those, especially since Avowed is set only a few years after PoE 2.

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    • Faydaikin@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’ve only completed the first Pillars game and it’s an ok game.

      A bit linear for a crpg in my opinion, but the story is pretty good. Like, you only really have a couple of choices that have any consequenses.

      So not top tier crpg, but ok. But that’s just my unsolicited two cents.

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  • shani66@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, I’ve heard really bad things, at least as far as what i expect from an established RPG franchise and developer. it’s not gonna be worth more than $30 from what I’ve seen.

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    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s pretty much impossible to replicate the tactical combat of an isometric CRPG in a first person game, so yeah, it’s definitely more similar to a Elder Scrolls. Though it looks like the combat in Avowed is at least somewhat intricate and entertaining (a low bar that Elder Scrolls games keep missing).

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• edg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I love Pillars of Eternity so I bought it immediately. Unfortunately, even though it has a platinum rating on ProtonDB I can’t get it the game to even run in EndeavorOS.

  On another topic, while trying to get the game to launch I went to the Steam community page for Avowed and it was full of incel like posts claiming the game is woke and shit, or that even queer people weren’t supporting a woke game. I don’t look at community posts very often and was shocked that these kind of people are still around and can be so vocal without pushback.

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  • senorblackbean@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Steam > Settings > Library > Disable Community Content = On

    Community content has always been garbage. Save your bandwidth and sanity.

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  • Eyedust@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hmmm, strange. I guess you could try ProtonUp-Qt and inject GE’s newest Proton in and see if that works. Also, there are some games that wouldn’t run for me until I installed the Steamworks Common Redistributables from the tools page in my library. Threw me off recently because I swear that the last time I was on Arch those autoinstalled after switching my compatibility over to Proton.

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  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ignore steam forums. They were always a horrible kid’s playground. Since the term woke emerged, it’s totally bonkers. They really go nuts these days when you can’t choose man/woman but body type 1/body type 2. How could anyone give a damn about such things if the game does not suck? Like in kingdom come 2 where you could do a lot of things that finally lead to one gay scene. And then they complain about that. It’s an RPG. Stop doing gay things if you don’t like gay 😁

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• Faydaikin@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There’s been quite a few titles that launched as “#1 Seller” that underperformed lately.

  So yeah, I’ll happily dispute this as a sign of success.

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  • UprisingVoltage@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah, the game has around 15k concurrent players on steam as of now.

    Definitely not a strong start. For context, it has the same concurrent players of The Elder Scrolls Online, a 10+ Years old live service

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    • Faydaikin@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      We’ll no doubt see that number jump a bit over the weekend, but atm it’s anyones guess if it will do well or not.

      So I wouldn’t crack any party poppers just yet.

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• Matshiro@szmer.info ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Skyrim is still much better with a lot of attentions on details. So yeah, this game will either die in few weeks or will need a big discount.

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  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Be fair. Skyrim without mods is a horribly boring bug-fest of yesteryear. But with mods (and a lot of work putting into modding it correctly and WORKING) you’re right.

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• VerseAndVermin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Have any Linux users had luck getting it to work through Battlenet? I still got a few months left on my three years of Xbox membership. I got battlenet running through Steam and got it to install the game, but it reports a problem updating when trying to launch.

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What does Battlenet even do for a single player game? And I thought Battlenet was exclusive to Blizzard games … ?

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    • VerseAndVermin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Battlenet has it. I’m not sure why, maybe it is a sign of things to come for Microsoft? I couldn’t very well try the Microsoft Store as it has 0 compatibility with linux.

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  • Blxter@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This games on battlenet? But try running via bottles,h eroic games launcher or, lutirs instead that might work better not sure.

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    • VerseAndVermin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I guess its worth a try. The only downside is I think each time I try I need to download the 70ishgb game. I will give bottles a shot.

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• peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I still don’t get what it is?

  It looks like a mix of Oblivion and like Dishonored with no explanation of it’s progression system

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  • HornedMeatBeast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’ve played a few hours of it and I can’t quite explain it myself.

    Best I can do is it is a mix of a few games, and I thought it would feel clunky like New Vegas and The Outer Worlds felt, but it feels smooth.

    You can play first person so it is like an Elder Scrolls type and also third person which kind of feels like Enshrouded to me, minus the base building and survival aspects.

    It feels like a modern take on TeS games, almost a mix of FPS in it as well and its mechanics. Like you can grab edges and pull yourself up.

    I’m enjoying it so far, playing on Game Pass so I haven’t dished out the full amount for it.

    I’d classify it as an action RPG.

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    • shani66@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      So, how’s the writing?

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