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The first of Two "Story Expansions" hits on Sept 9. I need to get a move on my game backlog.

During the big Xbox Games event today, Obsidian Entertainment announced the new Avowed. This game is set in the same world as Obsidian's Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2. It is looking like Obsidian's take on Bethesda's Elder Scrolls game. Since their take on the Fallout Games (both Fallout: New Vegas and Outer Worlds) were better than Bethesda's latest entries in Fallout, here's hoping they have a good go at beating them on Skyrim.

Well, that's more interesting. The humor in this trailer is good. (Also keep an eye out for the Battletoad Easter Egg). It looks like this game is launching into Xbox Game Preview and Steam Early Access and people that play will have a say in how the game ends up? Looks like a game as a service approach. Should be interesting. As an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscriber, I'll have this and be able to take a test drive.

Yes, though custom images like you see on mine and Northie's are a special feature for promoted author groups. (Promising, classic, signature)

It has reviewed well and they have already announced season 2.

I noticed

Well that's horribly annoying! https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B08BNKN33V/ It's not coming to the US until November and it's going on some obscure ad-supported Amazon sub-company. I didn't even know IMDB had a TV channel service until I saw this. Just let me buy it, damn it.

None of which has anything to do with the game. Please keep the societal commentary stuff in the Pit and stay on topic here, which is the game.

The astute among you might have noticed I left off part of the game's name. That's because, that name is the only thing that appears to have anything to do with Assassin's Creed. Starting with the Ancient Egypt Simulator "Origins", followed by Greece "Odyssey", Ubisoft has been focused on making historical light RPG/combat games and slapping the Assassin's Creed label on it. The game looks interesting enough, but I'm pretty turned off, frankly, by the lack of stealth, simpler mechanics. They are no longer games you can just drop into and play. Managing all this RPG stuff takes focus and dedication. I stopped playing Odyssey when I kept getting killed by a dog and kind of lost interest in it. You hardly feel like an powerful bogey man when the family pet wipes you out. I'm sure I'll play it some day, but the feeling of meh I got from Origins just accelerated downhill with Odyssey. Valhalla is not on my day one list, which will be the first A/C game since AC2 that is true for.

I tried that... the topic was shifted to medical issues and a famous doctor that went to his high school...