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Anonymous08/08/25, 14:02No.3821741A challenge for Avowed enjoyers
People will be quick to say "the reactivity isn't the point, it's not meant to be like Skyrim" but let us not forget that the world reacting to the player's actions, whether it be physically or otherwise, is seen as a hallmark of any good RPG. Saying "it doesn't need to be reactive" for an RPG is like saying "it doesn't need to have satisfying shooting" for a first person shooter.
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Anon08/08/25, 14:15No.3821752
Reactivity in a role-playing game isn't object physics. Your approach to games is like a child playing with toys.
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Anon08/08/25, 19:20No.3821924
Avowed is a shit game, but it's not a shit game because cups don't fall over when hit with a sword.
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Anon08/08/25, 21:45No.3822054
Ah, yes, my favourite genre - Reactive Physics Games.
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Anon08/09/25, 01:49No.3822246
>"it doesn't need to be reactive"
that's true, but it would be a better game if it was.
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Anon08/09/25, 01:54No.3822247
Is there any side quest in Avowed on the level of Elder Scrolls best side quests? Ofcourse noAvowed is not even better than Fallout 4, let alone Oblivion or Skyrim.
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Anon08/09/25, 05:27No.3822409
It adds nothing and 99% of people don't care because it serves no purpose. The performance and QA costs isn't worth it.Meanwhile, the best combat system in a first person RPG is in fact very relevant and is what Avowed has. But tards focus on petty pointless shit as usual on this board, because people here don't play games.
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Anon08/09/25, 09:59No.3822494
Part 1
there is a reason that these comparison videos don't exist outside of vs-TES-games space
the reason is that in fact almost no other RPG-adjacent games do that even though they could off
it doesn't add gameplay value and it only adds tedium (and you know it)That's it
there are physics in the engine out of the box, the items are pinned intentionally specifically not to cause the tableware-flying-around-the-room shitshow that is present in TES games
and we know that because they forgot to pin some of the items in place (picrel from my playthrough)
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Anon08/09/25, 10:11No.3822498
>go to buy something in a shop
>everything on the counter goes flying because the shopkeeper got too close
>shopkeeper doesn't react
>grab something to drag it back onto the counter
>instantly get a bounty for theft transmitted to psychic guards and the shopkeeper starts screaming for help
Wow, much immersive, very RPG
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Anon08/09/25, 10:14No.3822500
I have never willingly hit an item in skyrim.
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Anon08/09/25, 10:18No.3822503
oh that was actually oblivion nvm. you guys are still retarded tho
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Anon08/09/25, 10:28No.3822515
None of that is player reactivity.
If you want to be extremely generous, the physics in Elder Scrolls is at best "I guess that's neat" once and you never think about it ever again, until it just becomes annoying when items slide down hills, get lost or just behave in very unrealistic ways which takes you out of the experience.
If physics could be removed in Elder Scrolls to improve even a single thing like combat, writing, quests or actual player reactivity I would've dropped it in a heartbeat.
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Anon08/09/25, 13:02No.3822595
Of course world reactivity matters. Dropping items on a table inside your home and them being there 50 hours later matter. Finding a bandit's corpse on the road you killed half an hour ago matters. Being able to follow every named NPC's personal schedule then rob their house matters. You might hate it but it's true, and it's why no matter how many people seethe about it there hasn't been a Skyrim Killer™ yet
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Anon08/09/25, 19:45No.3822807
>immersive sim, like Skyrim
Fuck off
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Anon08/09/25, 19:50No.3822810
>let us not forget that the world reacting to the player's actions, whether it be physically or otherwise, is seen as a hallmark of any good RPG.
Uhhhh..... what? What??? What are you even fucking talking about.
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Anon08/09/25, 19:53No.3822813
Not even comparing it to Skyrim, the second I saw that table in the top clip not react I would never look at them again.
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Anon08/09/25, 19:58No.3822816
I find it hilarious THIS is the hill shitposters want to die on when they want to hate on Avowed.
No combat, not quests, not world design, not narrative, not dialogue system, not writing, not characters, not skills and skill trees, etc.
No, smacking bread. That is by far the most important thing in a good RPG. All those games you like that don't have it anon? They're all shit.
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Anon08/11/25, 06:39No.3824072
Not paying 60 dollars for it but the game does look fun, I look forward to buying it on cdkeys for 15 bucks in 5 years.
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Anon08/11/25, 11:24No.3824217
The enemies and combat are more reactive in Avowed, which matter more than some clutter which is only there to get blown away during fighting enemies.
In fact they do have reactive clutter in some niche scenes, like the top of the lighthouse which I could cherry pick if I cared about spergs here.Avowed is an ok game with some decent combat and builds, it's dragged down by woke/campy/reddit bullshit, and likely DEI hiring leading to poor design choices.
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Anon08/11/25, 15:10No.3824301
How come they still haven't ported these animations to Skyrim yet
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Anon08/12/25, 12:15No.3824916
Avowed is garbage but holy shit this bait is somehow even worse.
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Anon08/12/25, 12:39No.3824926
it's like /vrpg/ is trying really hard to be worse than /v/ and /b/ combined
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Anon08/12/25, 12:43No.3824931
>Avowed enjoyers
No such people exist. I have seen precisely one (1) jewtuber "defend" Avowed by saying "erm, it's not as heckin' bad as the RACIST ANTI-WOKE CHUDS CLAIM!!", simply for contrarianism and anti-anti-woke street cred. It's PatricianTV
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Anon08/12/25, 13:51No.3824992
damn
this level design talk has made me want to replay the game
but I'm waiting for the NG+ to be included with the 1.6 patch
which is only scheduled to release in september
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Anon08/12/25, 17:03No.3825105
Skyrim has 0 reactivity besides the guards' small comments, why would you even compare them on that? It's one of the things I hate it for.
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Anon08/12/25, 21:40No.3825266
I have never played a game in my life because I could knock bread off a table in it
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Anon08/17/25, 10:53No.3828265
Did anybody notice how the guy shilling Dreadfire 5 years straight on /VRPG/ suddenly dissappeared when Avowed came out?
Do you notice the strange similiarity between this anon relentlessly trying to defend Avowed and him coping about "nooo gay pirates totaly aren't us trying to ram our gay fetish down your throat"?
It's funny when you don't even need forum names to identify some of these troons.
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Anon08/24/25, 00:48No.3832111
slopgame
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Anon08/24/25, 01:13No.3832140
Avowed is just what an average game looks like. I'm not particularly offended that it isn't designed to be played for 600 hours, though it was overpriced. I miss the days when there were just a ton of normal fucking games that came and went and it wasn't a scandal.
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Anon08/31/25, 09:01No.3836261
I figured a way to make this game way more immersive, disable the hud. If you're playing a melee character it's basically useless. You'll know you are low on health when the edge of the screen turns blood red, running out of stamina is pretty fucking apparent when your character starts to breath heavy and wont do shit. Only indicator I have on is the red skull that tells you the enemy is dead and not just stunned. Makes combat way more fun when you actually have to pay attention to things, enemy positions and such. All the little details suddenly pop out of the world.tldr. fuck you I like it turn off the hud bitch
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Anon09/01/25, 10:30No.3836953
>getting triggered over what has become global industry standard and is the pettiest thing ever to get angry over
Imagine being this entitled, spoiled and mentally immature.
Now imagine not being it. Feels good not being an overemotional manchild, right?
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Anon09/01/25, 12:48No.3837019
>does dumb immersion-breaking subversion that’s completely pointless and unnecessary and adds nothing to the game
>heh, why do you even care? Imagine caring about this. U mad bro? triggered, snowflake? If you don’t like it, maybe you should start your own federal reserve and start giving out billions of ESG dollars for propaganda, huh chud??
Stunning and brave.
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Anon09/02/25, 05:49No.3837554
I'm beginning to question wether there's two LLMs trained on a data from some extreme autists rambles having a bitching fight in this thread. No way that shit is organic. We're doomed.
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Anon09/02/25, 19:53No.3837946
Bits and baubles falling around are like dynamic shadows. They aren't important, but they should be a given in a modern 3D game. This is no different than people shitting on Bioshock Infinite for having worse lighting than FEAR. A lot of little things like this make it feel like graphics are going backwards visually despite becoming more demanding, very shitty.
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Anon09/03/25, 01:22No.3838071
As someone who hated Avowed, I disagree with you. It didn't suck because it was missing interactive physics. It's not like being able to hit a bread roll and have it fall would have fixed the game. It could have been good without physics, but it was just a bad game. People just use interactive physics as an easy thing to point out.
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Anon09/03/25, 02:03No.3838087
I really couldn't care if I can set in motion a whole bunch of physics calculations to mess up a table. I'm simply not going to play the game, since it costs triple what it is worth
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Anon09/06/25, 14:31No.3840030
Weird West is the immersive sim/rpg you fags want but I never see you guys talking about it. You go looking for games that don't have the things you want in your wrpgs.
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Anon09/06/25, 15:12No.3840054
you want choices and consequences why dont you live life instead of waiting for a game to program it in
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Anon09/11/25, 10:08No.3842824
still better than troon vegas.
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Anon09/17/25, 08:01No.3845617
>no other relevant rpg on the horizon except bloodlines 2 (lol)
>thinks outer worlds 2 won't sell
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Anon09/17/25, 14:12No.3845721
>spent like ~200 hours in Poe 1+2
>try out avowed
>dropped after just under 2 hours
just couldn't do it. i like the PoE world for the most part, but everything was just so fucking bastardized i couldn't help it.thought about sticking it out just because garrus' VA is in the game but it wasn't enough lel
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Anon09/21/25, 20:01No.3847817
Nobody criticises kotor for not letting you kill and steal everything. I flip my lightsaber around in kotor and it just passes through npcs. What gives?
It just seems like an IQ issue. Avowed bring first person fucked up peoples brains and they forgot what rpgs sre
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Anon09/26/25, 01:59No.3850117
It's cool guys you were all right and good after all just like Luke Mockingjay and Katniss Skywalker and there's absolutely no such thing as woke propaganda in these games just don't go shoot up anyone else out there following the rules of civilization ok.
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Anon09/26/25, 09:18No.3850236
Honestly, who is even making avowed threads, what next forspoken threads? The game doesn't even warrant shill posters.
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Anon10/10/25, 12:31No.3856824
So, what's the challenge? You're a fucking waste of life.
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Anon10/15/25, 12:34No.3859055
>game bad because no bread physics
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Anon10/16/25, 03:10No.3859477
Fior potentially burning to the ground unless you root out a hidden cave of militants that you know are dangerous but have reasons to not blindly murder is a better moment of world reactivity than I think anything any Elder Scrolls game has doneSo much of Elder Scrolls' "reactivity" is so shallow- there's no point to it other than pointing at it and saying "look at what you can do!" Like, it's a meme how comical the implementation of some of these systems is. You can murder people in droves but pay a fine and get off free. You can put a bucket on a guy's head and rob him blind. Quests rarely have serious, world-spanning consequences because that would get in the way of the sandbox. Like ooh look you can jiggle a tankard off of the table in Elder Scrolls but god forbid you throw a barrel at someone like dark messiah let you do in two thousand fucking six. Such dogshit
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Anon10/16/25, 07:08No.3859526
Skyrim isn't an RPG.