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Avowed devs details the game's character creator and shows some of their creations
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Buggy Loop
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I'll probably make a full face one where we don't even see the eyes.
Were the new screenshots that got uploaded to Steam store shown yet?
Jigsaah
Gold Member
Are the gods all....flowers or fungi?
You are always a godlike attached to an unknown god.....its part of the story, but you can switch off the godlike features if you dont like them......and you will look like a normal person.
As normal as youve decided to make your character atleast.
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
Nope.
Theres like 10 types or something.
They stated that part of the mystery is we dont know what godlike we are.
Hopefully fire or moon godlike is an option down the line because come on.
March Climber
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So far from all of the gameplay showcases and previews I'm not seeing this yet, as all I've been seeing are odd landscapes with odd but purposeful color design (It is very beautifully ugly much like Zeno Clash), creatures that look alien in design, and NPC's that also look alien in design. Nothing about this, so far at least, screams standard fantasy nor does it remind me of any Tolkien or D&D or other standard fantasy stuff that would make me think of something like this:
Which the above images do appear standard to me. Avowed's art on the other hand reminds me more of when Katsuya Terada used to draw Zelda art and it looked otherworldly (look it up to see what I mean), or maybe Morrowind-esque.
Edit: By me saying all of this, I don't think Avowed looks bad. Nor do I think Zeno Clash looks bad. Nor Morrowind. To me it's good that all 3 stand out.
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Jigsaah
Gold Member
Yea that's sick. What a weird post by the devs.Nope.
Theres like 10 types or something.
They stated that part of the mystery is we dont know what godlike we are.
Hopefully fire or moon godlike is an option down the line because come on.
T4keD0wN
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Ok, but if its the part of plot then wouldnt it have to be predetermined, in which case we might not actually end up having a lot of choice? Or perhaps itll be variable based on choices.
Buggy Loop
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10 types was PoE lore. Avowed I believe has 1 type of godlike you start with as it is linked to the story. The fungi infest almost everything, bears, etc.
There were godlikes that were missing from PoE as not all dieties have shown what their touch on godlikes end up looking as but I think personally for Avowed its gonna be a new diety, a false one, a corrupted one, an old one or something of the like.
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
If they have element-like variations like shown (never got into POE) then I'd guess it'd be one that somehow can take on the affinities of any of the others (maybe some kind of predecessor to them all) to tie it to the player choice and gameplay character development. Lol @ folks harping about the funny examples they show (and ignore how other characters look good and you'll be able to match that, duh), like the first thing folks made with stuff like the oh so srs Souls/Ring/whatever games' character editors wasn't the stupidest faces they could stretch to because the values go that high/low...
Folks just froth and hate, Ninja Gaiden 2 Remake's thread has posts like "some nobody nowhere important said this character has smaller titties" which is so easy to verify rather than take the word of a random idiot/AI but nope, gotta rush & claim the outrage. Freaking Stellar Blade got hate ffs, lol...
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Buggy Loop
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What the hell. The screenshots dropped today are so much higher quality than any captures we saw. Did they sandbag the game visuals?
Piggoro
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Bullshots
What the hell. The screenshots dropped today are so much higher quality than any captures we saw. Did they sandbag the game visuals?
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
What the hell. The screenshots dropped today are so much higher quality than any captures we saw. Did they sandbag the game visuals?
Damn, looking good!
UE5 putting in the work.
Buggy Loop
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Or PC
I still see SSR artifacts for the water so I don't see why they would waste time making bullshots
There were few good captures during the preview as somehow they let the media capture themselves the footage, when typically this is handled by marketing sending snippets for media to use, curated and approved footage like any other studio would do
The best capture I have seen from that preview is from colteastwood, timestamped
All previews also are from starting area so the diversity of the rest of the map is not something we've seen in a long time in Avowed's media.
I mean almost all the preview we see peoples running around the starting area with the worst fucking footage capture and at noon where the sun is boring. The above capture I felt was one of the better ones.
The UE5 Lumen seems to shine when there's indirect lighting or when the sun is not like noon
MayauMiao
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They all look like suffering from early stage of syphilis.
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
Are you touched?
They are showing you the extent of the character creator.
If you want to make a bland white male then make a bland white male.
Giving you the choice to make whatever dull character you want is the best of both worlds...........western devs keep failing.
What is "western game visual design and art style"?
Like Indy:
Or Silent Hill
Or Plucky
Or Space Marine 2
Or Outlaws
Or Ghost
Or Senua
Mister Wolf
Member
What the hell. The screenshots dropped today are so much higher quality than any captures we saw. Did they sandbag the game visuals?
Could be Hardware Lumen shots.
vaibhavpisal
Member
Games look best close to release.
Even 6 month old footage looks much worse than release.
Hollywood Hitman
Gold Member
I'll still play it but I gotta admit that Matt hansen is a real piece of shit, puts a bit of a pit in my stomach supporting a game attached to individuals like that. But he isn't the whole representation so I'll let it slide.
Killjoy-NL
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How did that work out for Tango?
Danjin44
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Well most of the time (not always) they mostly go realism visual they are boring ass character designs and even games they go my stylize like Borderlands or Fable I still find the character design ugly as fuck, but that’s just my taste.Are you touched?
They are showing you the extent of the character creator.
If you want to make a bland white male then make a bland white male.
Giving you the choice to make whatever dull character you want is the best of both worlds...........western devs keep failing.
What is "western game visual design and art style"?
Like Indy:
Or Silent Hill
Or Plucky
Or Space Marine 2
Or Outlaws
Or Ghost
Or Senua
For example I’m MUCH prefer Sekiro’s asthetics over Ghost of Tsushima, no question.
Hudo
Gold Member
I know GAF will say it looks like shit, but I think it looks quite good.I'll probably make a full face one where we don't even see the eyes.
Were the new screenshots that got uploaded to Steam store shown yet?
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
That's a huge huge generalization.
Its the same as people who say all Asian games look the same, its little girls with huge tits and anime faces.
But at the same time Resident Evils are Asian games and have none of the tropes.
DirtInUrEye
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I hope they don't bow to the perma-enraged contingent with the upcoming Fable instalment. I actually like that the character looks like a bit of dork in that game, it suits the whole raison d'être of the Fable fiction. She looks like a sympathetic character to me, who will obviously rise up to be more powerful than her folk estimated. I'd rather play that than another Bro RPG at the moment. Plenty of other games have still got hot chic third person action for those who are anchored by their dick to that kind of thing. I hope Fable stands out a bit more though.
GymWolf
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Models look ok, but it still gonna have that stilt, wooden digital acting during chitchat with npcs.
Horizon 2 is more than 3 years away, cyberpunk is even older and no game has been even close to their chitchat tech, when half of your game is talking to zoomed up characters that should be a fucking priority, they are asking for 70 dollars, not an indie price, step up your fucking game, this is not 2000s anymore.
You don't even need to mocap all the dialogues, horizon doesn't do it neither.
Horizon 2 is more than 3 years away, cyberpunk is even older and no game has been even close to their chitchat tech, when half of your game is talking to zoomed up characters that should be a fucking priority, they are asking for 70 dollars, not an indie price, step up your fucking game, this is not 2000s anymore.
You don't even need to mocap all the dialogues, horizon doesn't do it neither.
Dr.Morris79
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SimTourist
Member
What's up with all the mushrooms?
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
That one screenshot of her making a funny face mid animation is all thats going around.
But the character actually looks good with more neutral facial expressions.
If we get to pick between male and female again, ill probably actually choose her.....depending on who the face model is for the male.
I can only imagine how much anti-woke hate Fable, 2 and 3 would get if they came out today.
Yet people are gonna paint some revisionist shit and tell us Fable bent the knee and became woke.
When in truth it was always "woke".
March Climber
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Out of everything people have complaints about on this forum, this specifically is eventually going to be more of a problem for me over time in RPGs.
There has to eventually be a better solution for this as graphics become more and more detailed. It can’t just be a handful of dev teams, like Kojipro or Rockstar for example, who care about cinematography and physical presence/physical purpose in dialogue scenes of 30+ hour games where two characters are talking.
Sometimes I just feel there’d be more expression and movement simply by cutting the animation and using drawn comic panels instead.
Cakeboxer
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Lol, i indeed only know that one awful/creepy "smile" picture of her. Doesn't look bad and i bet many complainers have "uglier" ladies at home, if at all.That one screenshot of her making a funny face mid animation is all thats going around.
But the character actually looks good with more neutral facial expressions.
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Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
DirtInUrEye
Member
Likely no women at home forever, in many cases.
I don't mind the South of Midnight character design, I've seen worse. I draw the line at Aloy MkII.
TehGoomba7s
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I guess it justifies why it's a 30fps title
bighugeguns
Member
This looks like shit. Sorry, I'm not a marketer, my degree was in visual communication, this looks like shit. It's not offensive, but it's aggressively uninteresting.
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Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
THey showed us fungus people and you find that uninteresting.
YOu arent even remotely intrigued what kind of god would inflict a godlike with these fungal afflictions?
Ive already seen a bunch of theories online what this god is.
And im so ready to find out.
If you want to make a bland character go for it
The beauty of a character creator thats this varied is you can make whatever the heck you like.
Grizzled Ghost
Member
That one screenshot of her making a funny face mid animation is all thats going around.
But the character actually looks good with more neutral facial expressions.
If we get to pick between male and female again, ill probably actually choose her.....depending on who the face model is for the male.
Does she?
I can only imagine how much anti-woke hate Fable, 2 and 3 would get if they came out today.
Yet people are gonna paint some revisionist shit and tell us Fable bent the knee and became woke.
When in truth it was always "woke".
A man in drag played for laughs is not woke. I don't remember anyone getting up in arms over the FF7 Remake section.
It probably did/would happen, but only by the most insincere and performative shit-posters of the anti-woke movement, god bless them.
bighugeguns
Member
I'm sorry, my feedback is contentious because it's the domain of stuff that needs to happen early in these projects. My review of both Fable and Avowed is that I'll have serious fist fights with their art leadership in the parking lot out of 10.
DirtInUrEye
Member
I think so. What do people want her to look like? Lemme guess, one of those mods on nexus that make the playable character look like Bridget fuckin Bardot in chainmail armour.
Don’t be cruel to ai, ai can make way better and more interesting characters than those
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
Yes.
With more neutral facial expressions she doesnt even look that far off the face model.
Wait are you talking about the character or the model.
Cuz I know people got different tastes but no way you think the face model aint good looking?
v
I dont have time to scour the trailer to find her in the exact same poses.
All Fable games had options to be gay and were inclusive of LGBTQ+.
Fom my understand reading into the Anti-Woke being inclusive and gay is Woke.
Fable'25 is being called Woke because the character we have seen isnt a doll like smokeshow.
Then again I dont even fully understand what is woke these days.
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Grizzled Ghost
Member
I don't really care what she looks like but I'm not going to pretend that the current design is attractive.
She's got a wide jaw, bad hair, chapped lips and unflattering freckles.
Fable has always been more Monty Python in it's fantasy aesthetic so making her homely isn't off brand. But, she is homely. At least imo.
Grizzled Ghost
Member
Yes.
With more neutral facial expressions she doesnt even look that far off the face model.
Wait are you talking about the character or the model.
Cuz I know people got different tastes but no way you think the face model aint good looking?
v
I was referring to the character. The model is better looking, but not by a great margin. She looks like she could be Alia Shawkat's brother.
Fair enough, I played the first one almost 20 years ago and don't recall any romance options, except I think you visit a whore house at one point? Never played 2.
If that screenshot was an example of their gay characters though, it certainly looks to have been meant as a joke.
DirtInUrEye
Member
You don't like freckles on a woman?
She is a bit 'homely' side, I'd agree. I suppose she's been designed as a 'plain jane' avatar (my expectation is the character will somewhat blossom before the end). I wouldn't call her ugly though, not at all actually. You should see my brother's bird, that's ugly.
Sometimes normal or 'realistic' looking characters can have strong sympathetic appeal. I think the character looks empathetic, players might warm to her as the gameplay and story unfolds. Well, are least the players who aren't perpetually looking for something to rub one out to.