Avowed - 6/10 GS, 80 MC

Wow, that sucks for you. I can't say I feel the same. I guess take a break and see what happens.

Yea, you need a break, maybe climb a mountain or two.

Probably what Indiana Jones should have received.

I’m still going to play it on Gamepass.

Don't tease me.... I'm climbing kilimanjaro in July.

Xbox studio's will be happy with the overall meta 80.

Eurogamer's review makes it sound pretty good. Unambitious, more AA than AAA, but solidly entertaining.

I'll probably play it just because I like the Pillars setting.

It seems that that main gripe some have with the game is balancing issues and gear drops, which can be fixed with a patch pretty quickly.

I feel he needs to complete Getting over it with Bennett Foddy at least twice indeed

Never really looked into the game, so had no expectations. Might give it a try on GP once it's been patched up a bit.

Nothing to offer in terms of innovation. It’s not a surprise. Gamespot’s review is spot on.

Avowed is not a 6 everyone knows it. At worst it's a 7 but for most an easy 8.

This is an absolute classic example again how fake biased SonySpot taxes Xbox in review scores because the fake GS reviewers are all PS nerds and we all know it so Xbox gets a huge tax on GS and we all know it.

Looks like a mid game. KCD2 is still a better RPG.

This game would probably make the cardinal sin of entertainment. Being average.

@sakaixx: Um the last release before this game scored a 9, seems cows only remember the low scores for some reason, but I'm not sure why hmmm 🤔

Another massive failure of the Xbox brand of games, hardly news. Nobody bothers with their platform anymore, it's closer to the WiiU in total hardware sales that it is to the Ps5.

@girlusocrazy: For me the bullet points reads like an 8 minimum. I mean the combat and the traversal system/world is great and to me that's what I care about.

But goes on to say that you need to upgrade your weapons, well duh that's just like EVERY other game that has weapons, and the story being dull isn't a bad thing.

So the combat amd gameplay is great, but the story is dull, sounds like a good game to me.

Me personally, I'm going to wait until I see the gameplay out in the wild before I decide if I'm going to buy it.

@xbox7204life: Avoid FLOPPED and it will cause MAJOR damage to the already STRUGGLING Xbox brand. Lems will NEVER recover from this absolute MEGA FLOP!!

I'm currently playing Avowed and it's nowhere near a 6 it's easily between a 7.5-8.5 range. Fake SonySpot Taxing the Xbox as usual.

It's absurd how this obvious Cow SonySpot reviewer says great gameplay and combat but complains about having to upgrade your gear like WUT??? Duh yes you need to upgrade your character to fight enemies and harder enemies. This reviewer is totally fake and clearly a Sony fanboy that is butthurt about having no games and paying full price for games on PS and butthurt about the Joke State of Play yesterday so he went all ham butthurt and Taxed Xbox again as normal.

Just pay attention to Metacritic and all the other more reputable scores that are between 7-9 range they are far more accurate and fair.

@uitravioience: Everything Sony have made this gen seems to have flopped and they’re doing ok, so I doubt this bizarre review will harm anything.

@sealionact: I'm sorry, I can't hear you over Astrobot being the GOTY 😎

ROFL people acting like a 6 is a bad score and the e nd of the world.

Well, sucks to be you folks that refuse to play it. I'll enjoy the hell out of it still.

Ya, it's really fucking sad, to put it bluntly.

A 6 isn't a bad score. It isn't a "60% good, 40% bad" score.

It's just a colourful woke game that gets boring quick. Lems were so hyped for this game just because it's not on Playstation. Remember back then when The Medium was like the 2nd coming of jesus for them?

Looks like a Game Pass filler at best, and reviewers are reporting that the game is kinda broken mess.

Like Redfall, I bet most people won't even remember this game exists in a few months. I just hope MS doesn't ax Obsidian for massive layoffs like they did Arcane, Tango, and other studios.

@mrbojangles25: Gaming is all about other people telling what to like. Get in line.🙃

Ahh, there we go. All it took was one bad review for the goblins to build up the courage to call it woke. You guys normally hang around in the shadows until a hate bandwagon builds up, and then pretend that the bandwagon has something to do with your cause.

Back on topic though, maybe I'll grab this game. If it has any lore connection to Pillars of Eternity 2's cliffhanger then it might be worth it.

It's been called woke for ages.

What makes this game woke?

Did anyone here pay to play it on the first day that it's available to play, or waiting for the day 6 Game Pass release?

I think it's because it has choices for pronouns.

It's hard to keep track of what's woke these days 🤔

Damn, it is six days from now. I guess I will be waiting since I am already in the middle of a game.

From what seen the thief/stealth is regressive and garbage.

Games look visually shit as well.

All the while increasing game prices like they deserve it.

It can't possibly be that.

These guys said Baldurs Gate 3 wasn't woke because the pronouns were optional and you could kill all of the same-sex couples.

So unless Avowed forces you to pick a non-traditional pronoun combination or forces you into a same-sex relationship...it isn't woke, according to their logic.

Care to clarify how it's woke?

How can the game be woke and get a 6/10 here?

Whether the game deserves a 6/10 or a 10/10, ether way I'm not interested at all in playing it.

read the review, not surprised.

I liked videos of the combat but was never really enticed by ANY other part. Many gamers that have given early reviews and impressions on YouTube have sais combat is great but story and characters are meh.

Thank Tao for gamepass LOL

You know what, the other reviews sold me on it. Just installed it. I'll try it later tonight.

Hardly surprising, it looks off from the gameplay trailer

Alright Phil, cross this one off the list ... Along with Hellblade 2... And Starfield I guess.... Am I missing any of the so called xbox "bangers"" ??

Oh yeah, Indiana Jones! That came and went (one and done) 🙄 plus it's coming to PS5

This game is really gross looking. They should try hiring some artists.

@Planeforger:

As soon as you log out of SW and open the game up.....it's a 80 meta great game....enjoy

@uitravioience:

Thanks to Phil Playstation is an xbox 🤣😂

Enjoy indie for 70 dollars,I played if for free

Ooof

I really like the look of it, I'll be playing it for sure. But hey what do I know? I'm currently enjoying Dragon Age The Veilguard (great world and combat) and it has apparently been confirmed as garbage by most people even though they have never played it.

So yeah, it seems I'm doing games all wrong.

A word on the reviews: the positive reviews seem to agree the first 6 hours are nothing out of the ordinary but the game gets much better the further you get into it. It might explain some of those bad reviews...

People everywhere are so tired of fake news, fake reviews and fake awards.

Fake off GS. lol :P

I have played about an hour of this so far. (just got to Paradise)

It is not a 6, I would say 8ish is a fair score. The game play is fun, the graphics are good. I am playing in the 40fps mode since I have a 120Hz TV with VRR and it runs smooth.

The GS reviewer's complaints about gear and enemy scaling is kind of silly, isn't that pretty much every RPG where the enemies get harder and you need new ger to defeat them? I notice no difference in that regards to games like Elden Ring

A shame but the masterpiece of kingdom come will fill the void.

I'm a bit further, and I agree - it's feeling like an 8 so far.

I'm enjoying the hand-crafted world. It has almost a Morrowind feel to it - maybe not in the scope, but in the way that everything is traversable and there's stuff hidden everywhere in all directions.

I'm also digging the lore. I'd forgotten how rich this setting was. It's a little, uh, dense with minor characters from the previous games, but I can definitely forgive that. It's more Pillars of Eternity and that can only be a good thing.

The combat is fine, too. Not amazing, not terrible. A bit clunky, but I'm playing a wizard so I appreciate it isn’t lightning fast. I'd put it somewhere on the lower end between Skyrim and Dark Messiah. The free-form skill system seems pretty good, too, even if it does feel odd that Might increases your wand damage.

The island itself is giving me Risen vibes. Again, familiar but not unwelcome. I don't know how well it'll shape up to any of these games I keep referencing, but I'm keen to find out.

Being GOTY didn’t stop Astrobot from selling floppy numbers.
Sorry bud, Sonys output is shockingly threadbare and when they do release games, Cows arent buying them like they used to.
Thems the facts.