Although groundbreaking, Skyrim is approaching its ten-year anniversary. Avowed patch notes will need to push the first-person fantasy genre far beyond where it was a decade ago if it's going to compete with The Elder Scrolls series. If Avowed is going to take things to the next level, it needs dungeons that blow Skyrim 's out of the wa

Hopefully the potential return of mega-dungeons will give each dungeon a more unique personality than those found in games like Skyrim . To make them more unique, Avowed 's dungeons should have their own puzzles which require more thought than matching the symbols on a Dragon Claw to those on a puzzle d

Obsidian Entertainment's Avowed will take the studio's world of Eora from the Pillars of Eternity series while transforming the franchise's format into a first-person RPG. While fantasy fans were quick to draw comparisons between the upcoming game's trailer and The Elder Scrolls series, the Pillars of Eternity universe has some bizarre features that are sure to make it stand

Avowed is set in the same world as Obsidian's Pillars of Eternity CRPGs . In Pillars of Eternity , some dungeons are not designed to be completed in a single run through. In the first game, for example, players come across the 15 story "mega-dungeon" the Endless Paths of Od Nua, which gets progressively more difficult the further the player descends, requiring them to return throughout the story. Avowed could find success combining elements of Skyrim 's and Pillars of Eternity 's dungeon des

Pillars of Eternity was deeply invested in exploring the metaphysical side of Eora. The player character was a Watcher, a person who can see people's past lives. Who exactly Avowed 's protagonist will be and whether they'll be a Watcher remains to be seen, as does Avowed 's investment in concepts like The Wheel which dominated the plots of the isometric R

It appears that significant progress has already been made developing Avowed 's dungeons. Fans can only hope that Obsidian chose to keep some of the unique dungeon design found in Pillars of Eternity . It may seem risky to move away from the Elder Scrolls formula , but those risks could be just what helps Avowed step out of Skyrim 's sha

Obsidian has become an extremely productive developer with several projects in the pipeline at the moment. While some of these games are unlikely to be released for a few years, many fans are excited about what the studio has in store for the gaming industry. Since Microsoft bought Obsidian , it seems that the team has been ramping up development, and with Microsft behind them, it seems as though it has more resources accessible to them than ever bef

In fact, while many consider Avowed to be a threat to The Elder Scrolls' dominance over the first-person fantasy genre, the game is far more likely to put Obsidian in peril if it doesn't end up drawing enough players. Avowed is set in the world of Eora from Obsidian's Pillars of Eternity CRPGs, and the move to the more mainstream first-person format was partially motivated by a desire to attract a broader player base to the studio's critically successful but financially struggling ser

Announced in July 2020, Avowed is a first-person action-RPG that's coming at an unspecified date, and it looks set to be one of Obsidian's largest projects ever. Avowed was immediately compared to Skyrim , thanks to its fantasy setting and first-person perspective, but Obsidian have a large well to draw from to make it stand out as a more unique title. The game is a spin-off of Obsidian's RPG series Pillars of Eternity, and it's set in the same world. Where Pillars is a classic throwback RPG, Avowed is very much set to take a more action-orientated spin on the world of E

With the release of Murder on Eridanos, Obsidian can move on and reassign its resources to the several other projects it has in the works, with at least one of them being large in scope. The Outer Worlds was a huge success for the company, and there is a chance that Obsidian will look to follow-up with a sequel at some po

Many of Eora's inhabitants worship specific gods in the hope of avoiding the lottery and being directed to a certain existence. The god Galawain, for example, uses the souls of his devout followers to create monsters. In Pillars of Eternity , it is revealed that all Pale Elf souls go to the god Rymrgand, who prevents their souls from losing essence to entropy, but also exclusively reincarnates them as Pale Elves. This revelation causes many Pale Elves to "awaken," or remember past lives. One clan even attempts to enter Rymrgand's realm and die for good. This is not the first time the mortals of Eora have attempted to affect The Wh

Avowed doesn't ensure the success of The Elder Scrolls 6 , but it does make the gargantuan task Bethesda faces living up to fan expectations just a little bit more manageable. Avowed 's success could be just as beneficial to Bethesda in the long-run as Obsidian, providing a far more recent template for a popular first-person fantasy RPG Bethesda will be able to work off of with a large budget and several years of development time. The competition could be good for RPG fans as well, preventing the first-person RPG genre from becoming stagnant and creating a wider variety of stories and setti