There is something that feels off about avowed. I only played it for a few hours, and it’s like eating generic brand chocolate.

I can’t quite put my finger on what it is about the game. Now that I think about it, the land seems kind of empty. In Skyrim, there is always something around. Even if it’s just a goat.

This game has little patches of enemies here and there. It also feels a bit linear so far. I’m probably not going to play anymore as everyone I play this, it just makes me want to play Skyrim again.

Maybe I can find a mod that gives me an avowed style want weapon. I really like how the want looks and works.

There are very different goals between these games. This is an action RPG where your whole character sheet is focused on combat, not unlike Dark Souls even in level design. The systems of Bethesda's games have sounded good to me on paper in the past, but in execution, they've always felt like they aspired to be what Larian is doing now and had very few actual benefits. They let you steal anything you want in this game because it was more relevant to this game's loop.

I'd say mid too about Outer Worlds, but the first half is above average IMHO. It's the second half which felt half baked and lowered my appreciation.

I'd prefer some developers set their mind on a good/great 20h experience if they don't have the budget for more, instead of trying to align themselves with the big players.

Unfortunate. Love obsidian but their first person games have been a bit meh

The difference is what people want from their games. If you want a living open world with NPCs who react to stuff. You're going to have a bad time with Avowed. But if you don't care about that stuff. Avowed is the game for you.

Perhaps expectations of it being like some other thing instead of being its own thing.