It's certainly turning into a fine couple of days for rumours. We've got a potential Street Fighter 6 reveal on Sunday, whispers that Dragon Age 4 is closer to release than we thought, and now Windows Central's Jez Corden, a man who's got a history with insider info, reckons we could see Obsidian's fantasy RPG, Avowed, landing on Xbox in the first half of 2023.
Speaking on Boxenburger's World of Gaming podcast, Corden shared his views on where the upcoming Xbox exclusive is at development-wise:
“I expect we’ll see [footage of] that game this year because like I said, last year, it looked pretty damn ready. There were some things that weren’t implemented…there were some effects that weren’t implemented, some textures that weren’t implemented. There was some lighting that clearly wasn’t finished or ready to go."
"But it looked – the gameplay looked solid. It looked playable and ready to go…I think we’ll probably see the game revealed this year and then maybe like a launch…maybe Q1, Q2 2023.”
Set in the Pillars of Eternity universe, Avowed is being developed at the same time as Obsidian is also working on a follow-up to The Outer Worlds, and with just a very short announcement trailer to officially go on so far, we'll have to live in hope, take these rumours with a pinch of salt and keep on holding out for some big info drops in the coming months.
Looking forward to Avowed? Reckon we could see it as soon as Q1/Q2 of 2023? Let us know below.
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See it when it happens and if it’s top end AAA
Just the same as Starfield.
We don’t want an half done single plain environments campaign like Halo Infinite, was enjoyable but soon got samey and dull.
When is the last time Xbox release anything in the first half of a year. Seems like they always just release stuff at the holiday season together
Really hyped for this one! Huge fan of the pillars of eternity series and hope it transfers over well to this first person style.
Xbox Needs to confirm some first party games for this year that are not Starfield. Stop announcing things to early.
@Chaudy it would be good if they start planting some release “flagpoles”.
And yea open worlds really need to be good at this point. I just started the first Horizon Zero Dawn game and it’s essentially just a slightly more polished Ubisoft game (granted it’s over 4 years old). Hope Avowed is good.
Obsidian always delivers on quality game experiences. I have no doubt that this will be a great game to play. 2023 is going to be crazy.
Of course I'm looking forward to Avowed. Their western RPG dominance this gen after their acquisitions is a big reason why I have a Series X.
Can't disagree with @Chaudy though. While 2023 could be the year Xbox finally starts delivering on the potential of these acquisitions. Not to discount the last quarter of 2021, but the rest of the year wasn't good and neither is a lot of 2022 shaping up to be very good yet as their only major AAA release coming is Starfield. If they have a couple of surprises for this year, then things will come around, as one major game late in the year isn't enough.
this is obsidian they should take their time they are known for rushing and releasing buggy broken games
Huge fan of Pillars of Eternity so I'm really looking forward to this game!
now thats what i wanna see.
I’m excited by this but hoping it’s nearer the scope of things like Skyrim and the Witcher than The Outer Worlds. The latter was a good game, and I’m looking forward for the sequel, but want something a bit meatier here.
I'm real hyped about this. Last one I let myself get like this over was Scalebound though, and we saw how that shaped up.
This year is definitely not at the moment a vintage AAA Xbox year.
It will be Sony and Nintendo that easy dominate 2022 if all goes to plan on what we currently know.
Also xbox seem to release the big hitters always at Christmas and very little big AAA wise over the rest of the year which is not a good strategy, this strategy and the lack of big games so far 2022 is why there are literally and I mean it tens of thousands series s sitting on shelf’s in UK shops.
Even the series x when stock drops hangs around for days until sold out. It’s all slowly down for Xbox early 2022.
Exclusive big AAA Games, sell consoles, console sell gamepass.
Microsoft will make no ground in 2022 on Sony and Nintendo. 2023 onwards who knows.
@I_want_avowed I was looking for your comment!
@themightyant
I would love this, but don't expect it. Given the size of Obsidian, and that they are working on multiple projects I would expect a more condensed version of Skyrim ala Outer Worlds. We'll see though. I expect a good time either way.
@Rmg0731 2020 had a spread out year for Xbox Game Studios with games releasing throughout the year though this isn't the norm. It's pretty standard for there to be 1 game around February/March and then the next release is in fall/holiday.
@Royalblues teaser trailer looked great…shame the game is said to look more cartoony in reality now
Q) Looking forward to Avowed? Reckon we could see it as soon as Q1/Q2 of 2023?
A) Regardless of whether the rumoured date here is true or not, I hope that there will be plenty of space between Avowed's release and the Fable reboot's release. Both games have my attention and I hope they both not only continue to grasp my attention, but are released far enough apart from one another so I can give both games my attention.
So yeah, I look forward to Avowed based on what I know.
@CaptainCluck haha
Two big exclusive RPG's in about 6 months would be massive for Xbox.
So want this man!
I managed to get through pillars 1 to introduce me to the world ready for this game, probably going to skip 2 (not a huge isometric RPG guy and I think I've seen enough of the world to get the jist of its world).
Really looking forward to Avowed, the near future looks very cool for RPG fans with starfield, fable, outer worlds 2, final fantasy 16, dragon age 4 (please be good), elden ring, steel rising and this which is nice considering last gen lacked a bit in this department in my opinion
I'm more hyped for this than TESVI.
@Akimi I don’t expect it to be the scope of those games. But hoping it is wider in scope than Outer Worlds, which was a really good game but relatively linear/wide design for the genre rather than open.
@themightyant
Ah yeah, I definitely agree. These types of games are so much about discovery for me. Give me unique amazing places to explore. Likewise I hope Outer Worlds 2 is more ambitious.
Hopefully Obsidian has been able to expand under Microsoft, because it seems like they are working on a lot. Avowed, Outer Worlds 2, Grounded, Josh Sawyer's 16th century European game. Pre-production on Fallout New Vegas 2?
@trev666 It's mostly due to publishers giving them bull*hit deadlines
I didn't know this was set in the Pillars universe. I just became infinitely more interested after reading that. What an awesome idea!
Funny how every week Pure Xbox makes an article from something said on the Xbox2 Podcast on Rand Al Thor19's channel and only ever give Jez the props.... Rand Al Chop Liver as always hahaha. If you watch the show you know. N don't think that I mean that Pure Xbox is the only site that does this, it is practically industry protocol to make articles out of nuggets Jez drops on the show and never give Rand any name drop or anything lol
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