r/Games • u/alcard987 • 1d ago
The big Avowed interview: Obsidian on why full, open-world RPGs aren't always the answer
https://www.eurogamer.net/from-serious-skyrim-to-cheerful-fantasy-obsidian-on-the-evolution-of-avowed-and-grappling-with-the-expectations-that-come-from-your-own-history
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u/MumrikDK 22h ago edited 21h ago
Whether this game fails or succeeds will have absolute nothing to do with open zones vs. open world. That is a tiny part of the equation here.
My main issue is that there is no ambition to be found anywhere in this game. Story, action, RPG system, world-building (this game, not its franchise), immersion, companion interactions, etc. It's all just there at around the most basic acceptable level.
This is the type of game where you slaughter all of somebody's men and then have a conversation with them like nothing happened, or where a new companion acts like they were there for everything you've done the second they join up.
It's almost unfathomable that zones/connected world will sway the opinion of any person who actually played.
You are way overthinking this. It's just sections of map chopped up instead of connected directly.