Buggy Loop
Gold Member
This is Indiana jones again
Lots of gloom and doom and then
GUH
The game is good?
Bookmark it
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Obsidian nuked the Community section for Avowed on Steam
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This is Indiana jones again
Lots of gloom and doom and then
GUH
The game is good?
Bookmark it
Mattyp
Not the YouTuber
For me, I will not buy avowed. I dont like any game that has any push and force narrative of twisted gender ideology( misuse of pronoun crap) That is my choice and moral decision. I dont care if it sells allot or get great reviews. Buy it if you want it. And as for kingdom come 2 Im having second thoughts. I might rather buy Dynasty warriors origin. But still thinking about it.
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simpatico
Member
I hope you’re right Buggy! Longtime Obsidian fan.
sharp weiner
Member
I do t know much about this game because I don’t care. But I hope the steam
Forum is whatever so that people can do what they want
Forum is whatever so that people can do what they want
digoutyoursoul
Member
Have you read Windo….Xbox Era’s 9/10 review too?
Elon is the Hulk Hogan of video games, he's popular, everyone's like him but his strength is second tier.
MarV0
Gold Member
Steam community forums are absolutely fantastic. Got a question about some random super niche game? You'll always find some fellow addict there that will help you.
On controversial games you won't find a funnier place. Extremely creative trolling topics competing for Steam points that are full of users from all over the world throwing google translated insults at each other. What's not to like?
I'll sorely miss Steam community forums when they eventually get sanitized.
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TransTrender
Gold Member
Going as well as you'd imagine.
I also learned a new word, Cacophobia, and it's funny in this context.
Cacophobia Mode :: Avowed General Discussions
Hi everyone! Due to my fear of ugly people, I’m completely unable to play Avowed. Some of the character designs are too unsettling for me to handle. I was wondering if the game includes a cacophobia mode in its accessibility options to make the characters more visually appealing. Adding such a...
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Jaybe
Member
Game pass is just a group buy lootbox where the games your money goes to are scored against Microsoft’s DEI checklist, err “product inclusion framework”.
Product Inclusion
Accomplishing big things starts with one step - the opening of a single door. What door will YOU open today?
developer.microsoft.com
Far better to support studios and games you like by buying their games directly
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
T4keD0wN
Member
Theres nothing to reverse, they were probably just doing maintenance/updating stuff, its been working again for over an hour
Buggy Loop
Gold Member
xrnzaaas
Member
They should delay it to April or May, they're looking like much quieter months and this game needs that to get noticed. February is still packed - people will be playing KCD2 for weeks, Civilization 7, Yakuza and Monster Hunter are also getting released. And in March you have the AC behemoth and Atomfall.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
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rofif
Can’t Git Gud
idk we will see.
With indiana, the voices were mostly positive aside from 1st person hate.
I finished the game and it was good. no complaints. Not my goty 2024 but a very good game
Laptop1991
Member
I don't remember any well known big studio ever doing this, we need these childish, arrogant idiotic people out of gaming asap, i bet the art director was involved, it's ridiculous!.
It's back so it wasn't for long!
It's back so it wasn't for long!
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Buggy Loop
Gold Member
I don't recall you in the debates so you avoided the drama I guess
But this says it all
This is the state of youtube grifters..
rofif
Can’t Git Gud
yeah.... grifters and haters are going insane nowadays. I hate this crap.I don't recall you in the debates so you avoided the drama I guess
But this says it all
This is the state of youtube grifters..
If at least goo game received so much attention too. But no. It's quiet about good stuff after release and rather loud about almost everything pre release
Maybe there was a tiny bit of worry but It looked semi legit from day1. I was just not very excited because it was 1st person but I bought it on steam and finished nonetheless to prove myself wrong
Heimdall_Xtreme
Hermen Hulst Fanclub's #1 Member
If it's only with women, I accept it.
ShadyAcshuns
Member
Fuck this game.
ManaByte
Gold Member
Don’t you know that’s legitimate criticism?!?I don't recall you in the debates so you avoided the drama I guess
But this says it all
This is the state of youtube grifters..
PurePlatinum
Member
Imagine getting caught up in culture-war bullshit over the most boring looking game imaginable. If it was revealed after release that AI wrote and drew the graphics for this entire game I wouldn't be surprised.
bitbydeath
Gold Member
Steam is PC.
RickSanchez
Member
i can't tell if this is sarcasm or real.I also learned a new word, Cacophobia, and it's funny in this context.
Cacophobia Mode :: Avowed General Discussions
Hi everyone! Due to my fear of ugly people, I’m completely unable to play Avowed. Some of the character designs are too unsettling for me to handle. I was wondering if the game includes a cacophobia mode in its accessibility options to make the characters more visually appealing. Adding such a...steamcommunity.com
Edit: Ok yes, cacophobia seems to be a real thing. Sheesh. Now it will get used to take the piss all over.
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bbeach123
Member
Aw shit I guess I have mental illness now .Going as well as you'd imagine.
I also learned a new word, Cacophobia, and it's funny in this context.
Cacophobia Mode :: Avowed General Discussions
Hi everyone! Due to my fear of ugly people, I’m completely unable to play Avowed. Some of the character designs are too unsettling for me to handle. I was wondering if the game includes a cacophobia mode in its accessibility options to make the characters more visually appealing. Adding such a...
WhiteWaterM00se
Member
I don’t know why people are down on this game. It seems like Skyrim for a modern audience. It looks like one of the better games coming to Xbox in the last 36 months.
Grizzled Ghost
Member
"Mr. Spencer, I've got bad news. We're $19.99 short for that Avowed deal."
ZoukGalaxy
Member
Obsidian nuking, that irony.
Can't wait the nuclear winter sales of the game
Can't wait the nuclear winter sales of the game
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ryantetric
Neo Member
It's become pretty rampant. Sucks to see the gaming forum I've been on for damn near 20 years turn into threads about what's "woke". I don't even post much but jesus christ its exhausting to read.
Pimpbaa
Member
Gamepass really is the Netflix of gaming!
DownLikeBCPowder
Member
A modernized GameFaqs forum on steroids (any and all titles have their own board)!
Grizzled Ghost
Member
The same concept worked great for IMDB before they decided they didn't want to spend the few bucks a month to keep the servers going. I still miss those boards.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Weird why they canned it.
I almost never used the forum but I did a few times asking for help identifying some old TV ads and TV shows I forgot. Success. It seemed like a chill forum the times I used it. I even remember one question where I saw a show and racked by brain looking at episode guides of Outer Limits, Amazing Stories, etc... Couldnt find it. Then someone mentioned that episode came from an Alfred Hitchcock 80s series. Thanks bud.
Googling it, one of the points was there was too much trolling and they couldnt keep up moderating. And then the forum was supposedly out of date technologically, and other mediums were gaining popularity. So add it up and they decided to bail.
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Bumblebeetuna
Member
No shit. I remember like a few days or so before release the narrative on GAF was because Indy had such a short window between review embargo and release, it meant the game was a rushed turd full of bugs and MS was desperate to release in the 2024 window. That take aged like the Concord season pass.
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bighugeguns
Member
I think I've spent the equivalent of a small car's worth on Xbox, that commitment and fandom ended yesterday, I'm out of the ecosystem. I also won't ever recommend Xbox, or Playstation for that matter, to any of the multitude of financially active parents and young professionals I interact with who always seek my opinion on games, who knows how much would be lost to those interactions alone over a 5-10 year span going forward. See ya.
EDIT: If you allow and in some cases even encourage this much negativity and strife to grow in your spheres of creativity, in YOUR industry, you're only going to end up surrounded by negative people, the greedy, and liars, how is that a happy environment to enjoy the creativity of gaming? It takes something beautiful and twists it until nobody looking for healthy escapism even wants it (Rightfully so, good for them!). There's no humility and grace, I think because of this Nintendo is on the most powerful footing it's ever been at this moment and will pulverize these forces of petty darkness this year. Xbox and PlayStation's conduct are a beautiful example how things, very simple but very powerful things, like humility and grace can't be paid for, you can throw all the money in the world at it, its simply not bought, it's earned.
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Fess
Member
Why do you think the character in question is gay then?
It’s polygons, a 3D model, it’s not a real person, and someone at the studio adds a story to the character, and choose to state that he’s gay.
Why?
Everything is done for a reason, it’s not nature choosing a different path, a 3D object don’t turn gay during the creation, it’s 100% deliberate, a developer choice.
I’d say it’s either about catering to a lbtq crowd, for whatever reason, or a personal reason to use the medium as a platform to wake the world up that lbtq people exist.
Isn’t that the definition of woke?
Anyhow, as long as they don’t preach like Veilguard it should be fine. Devs just need to realize that they can’t feed a progressive western world view to a world wide audience and expect everyone to gladly eat it up. I don’t see any of that in real life, I see it in movies and games. So if I was a dev I would have a progressive slider in the settings menu. Then people could choose for themselves if they want to turn it all off or crank it up to 11.
Hudo
Gold Member
I think it has been confirmed that there's no romance.
hyperbertha
Member
Xbox seems strapped for money. If they had so much money to throw around hellblade woulda been a longer more substantial game, with actual gameplay improvements
Nickolaidas
Member
Who knows? The protagonist of my webcomic was a lesbian. I made her a female because I wanted the lead character to begin as non-threatening as possible - a young girl - and end up becoming the most powerful sorceress on the planet by the end of the series. I made her gay because I wanted her to be secretly in love with her female best friend and her best friend being as oblivious to it as possible because she would never imagine her bestie to be sexually attracted to her. There was no LGBTQ virtue signaling involved, no agenda. Being anti-woke doesn't mean you don't want to see a single gay person in media, ever.
But this is what woke culture did. It made us so averse to LGBTQ representation that people consider games woke simply for having a gay NPC. It's like we went to fight at Vietnam, and now we are back home and the second we see an Asian, we get PTSD panic attacks.
It's fucking sad.
vaibhavpisal
Member
Its walking sim perfected.
This is exactly what they would’ve made. For more money, it would be an hour longer. Thats it.
Its a pixel perfect execution.
Hudo
Gold Member
But Obsidian didn't make Hellblade. I don't get where Hellblade got into the mix all of a sudden. Ninja Theory had quite a lot of time and money and ended up putting out Hellblade 2. I think that's more the fault of Ninja Theory than Microsoft or Obsidian.
The Cockatrice
Banned
Said no one ever.
vaibhavpisal
Member
Digital Foundry said it in their best graphics of the year video.
I get criticism of the game.
But thats what devs wanted to make.
It is not video gamey cause there is no pressure to make a game that sells.
I would say thats true creative freedom.
The Cockatrice
Banned
If they wanted to scam Microsoft, they succeeded considering the years it took for a walking sim tech demo.
VulcanRaven
Member
I wouldn't be suprised of closing it if its full of anti-woke complaining and trolling from people who aren't even going to buy the game.
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