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One of the biggest choices to make inAvowedis deciding your preferred fighting style.

It’s no small thing considering how many options are available.

Teaming up with Kai from the the Avowed Big Preview in battle, using a big hammer to fight a skeleton in a robe

This month, we’re diving into the highly anticipatedupcoming Obsidian game.

To find our coverage, visit theAvowed Big Preview hub.

We attempt to take that into every facet of design," Dollarhyde says.

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We really have the same ethos for all of our RPG titles.

It’s not just marketing speak.

It really is the most important thing to us."

Avowed screenshot of a character in Dawnshore drawing a bow and arrow, poised to fire

“It makes them fun to play.

It makes them fun to design,” Dollarhyde adds.

And have a go at create those experiences for them?

An axe-wielding Xaurip takes aim at the player from the the Avowed Big Preview

Genuinely, it’s very fun."

“One of our mantras [at Obsidian] is ‘choice and consequence’,” Paramo tells me.

“And again, with all the different…

Avowed screenshot depicting combat with a corrupted plague bear, the protagonist wielding a sword and a magical spellbook

I’ve been calling them slots.

But making a freedom-driven combat system comes with its fair share of challenges.

Do we not want to?

Avowed screenshot of a character wielding dual pistols

‘,” Paramo explains.

“And just saying, ‘how about what if we tried not restricting them?

And now what do I have to do?’.

A massive fireball explosion engulfs Chieftain Grithin in Avowed

“Obsidian has such personality-driven games,” Matzenbacher says.

And then it has this high personality element.

For a while in development, you are the sword player, right?

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You are the thing that you’re wielding.

3 hours in, here’s the 10 things we love most about Avowed so far.

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