Avowed

PS5 players have demanded it!

Weirdly, I find the art style of this game to look more like a next-gen Fable than the Fable reboot, which has gone for a much more naturalistic, realistic look.

I think more time would help with this game.

And hopefully get it to a 99% finished state!

We won't get 60fps until it's ready to port to PS5.

Oh my god, not 30 fps!

New dev walkthrough looks pretty good:

youtu.be/t7IwT91vk2w?si=d0_hBgZCK_iBKBY4

I hope there is a mode for less UI elements like there was in the Pillars games.

Nah, it doesn't look that detailed to be only 30fps. It really reminds me of the business with Redfall which also had issues with framerate because it was an Unreal game and framerate is generally achieved near the end of development from what I've heard from most devs so they'll probably have a performance option but well after release.

Also it’s not as if Obsidian are famed for their high performance rendering chops is it? That’s not their secret sauce and never has been.

Ninja Theory quite the opposite.

Again, sure. But we haven't played it yet and videos don't tell the whole story.

Also, between Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim I've put several human lifetimes worth of play into titles with objectively UTTER SHIT combat. So it's not always the dealbreaker for me.

Basically I'm still excited for Avowed, and I'll take it on its own merits. I'm glad they're still aiming for that AA hinting at AAA space - that's what I love about them, and that's how they can put out more than one game a decade. So I'm sorta pleased that the MS cash didn't just turn them into another AAA visuals factory.

I was just about to make the same point about combat in The Elder Scrolls games. Those games had such great exploration that the combat almost didn't matter. That said, the archery in Skyrim was quite fun, as were the various mage abilities, and of course Fus Roh Dah.

I still find it unbelievable that Starfield involves barely any exploration. I question whether Bethesda even understands what makes their games so popular. I still remain convinced Starfield can be fixed by simply introducing a roguelike 'jump sequence' when travelling to an unexplored system for the first time, filled with random encounters. The player would at least feel like they're treading their own path through uncharted space, and earning a reward for doing so.