Avowed review and Metacritic roundup — Here's what critics are saying about the new Xbox RPG

[Windows Central]

The reviews are in for Obsidian Entertainment's Avowed, so here's what critics think of the latest Xbox RPG.

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[fjtorres5591]

Fwiw: the game ratings I've seen are proportional to the time played.
The worst was a 6/10 over 10 hours that was particularly disappointed by the main quest and found the combat dreary.
In contrast the best reviews came from 50-70 hours focused on exploration and side quests. Which is how I play.
I think I'll like.

 

[GraniteStateColin]

Fwiw: the game ratings I've seen are proportional to the time played.
The worst was a 6/10 over 10 hours that was particularly disappointed by the main quest and found the combat dreary.
In contrast the best reviews came from 50-70 hours focused on exploration and side quests. Which is how I play.
I think I'll like.

Starfield is the only game I've played where playing it longer led to increasing frustration with the game, and for me, that was 100% because of the repeating randomly placed points of interest. The second time I saw one I had done before, I said, "Oh cool, this will be fun. Nice that I get another go at it." The twentieth, I was so annoyed I left the area without entering.

For other RPG games that don't have repeating assets like Starfield, longer play generally leads to increasing enjoyment.

Yeah, giving a big RPG game a low review after only 10 hours of play is a bit ridiculous. I suppose you can get a feel for the gameplay UI and some of the more common mechanics within a few hours, so maybe it's fair if that's the nature of the objections, but 10 hours in an RPG is like 10 minutes in a lot of other games.

 

[Bluphoenicks]

pc version is 79 on metacritic