The amount of hate this game has been getting is kind of astonishing. Gamers are an insufferable lot, that I know, but this time around particularly they seem enraged for a variety of reasons. I did see some mention W word and the like, but mostly just been seeing people trash talking the game without even trying it themselves. Saying things like "this looks ugly", "this looks mid", "boring AF game", but that is the extent of their comments. Every game deserves some criticism, but only from those who have experienced it themselves.
The hate is astonishing to me too. Its an actual full-fledged, well optimized game. I mean, take a look at games like
LOTR Golem or
Skull Island: Rise of Kong. Two games released by major, or at least well-known, studios and were just awful and down right bad execution, not just graphics and janki-ness, but the gameplay, UI, sound, voice acting etc. etc.. There are plenty more,
Concord for one and does anyone remember
Babylons Fall? Yea these two games were so bad they were closed down.
Those are bad games, but you really only saw hate around them around the time before and after their initial release. The way people are ripping on
Avowed or when
Dragon Age Veilguard landed, two games that are decent enough games and even though they have their criticisms, are far superior to the ones mentioned above.
The term "DEI" wasnt thrown around as much even as little as 2-3 years ago and now thats just the catch-all phrase along with "woke" for people to just hate a game without actually playing it. Lets not forget all the fake images and taken out-of-context lines of dialogue displayed around to further get people to dismiss and hate on a game they
never played.
I do get valid criticisms of
Avowed, a 70 usd price tag is terrible for any games basic edition for one, but nowadays, gamers just attach themselves to whatever their friends or favorite youtuber say about the game. Thats why people like Asmon need to go away expeditiously because the amount of biased reviews is at an all time high right now imo.