u/Sullama-Sims90

I have been a gamer since i was an elementary school kid in the late 90s. I was a playstation girl. But i fell out of gaming. Got busy with other life stuff and now I'm returning to it at 36 . But hands down this is literally the best game I've played since ive been back. As a matter of fact, i dare say that its personally my own most favorite game ive played so far.

What I like :

• Im playing normal mode but its not easy. Getting swarmed is a challenge and then theres the giants that come along and hit you like Thor now and again . But im handling them pretty well. Thanks to the amazing fighting powers and abilities.

I will probably change it to hard later. I played half of cyberpunk 2077 on Hard mode.

•The atmosphere and story . I find myself really drawn to Lilith because shes striking and mysterious . I love the old world gothic feel. And overall im super into the fantasy+combat game genre .

•The abilities. A lot of games appear to allow you to earn upgraded abilities but often they hardly make a dent in gameplay. Its total opposite with this game.

Im a 1990 millennial female gamer and have been playing video games inconsistently my entire life. But as a 36 year old I have a renewed love of gaming thats stronger than ever before. So I basically decided to take gaming more serious and invest into it. I like fantasy, so elves, druids, dwarves, magic, futuristic fantasy like cyberpunk (love cyberpunk 2077)....whatever. Its my favorite kind of game. I started with Baldurs Great 3 and its a great, immesrive game but I find AVOWED to be 10 times more fun, despite it not being as heavily praised and endorsed and overshadowed by similar fantasy games. I hate the turn based crap.

I love the combat in Avowed!! The magic spells are fun and powerful and unlike the annoying sytem in BG3, they dont just randomly miss their target. I also hate turn based because its always 4 of us max, and in big battles 20+ of them, so we are essentially unable to fight back while a dozen or more enemeies deplete us. No thnaks. As for Avowed, I deeply enjoy the way the mechanics work. Theres so much to find with exploring. The colorful world that doesnt make me instantly look at it and feel gloomy and depressing is a vibe. Its a vibrant stylistic action game.

Im to the point now where Im OK if I love something and others hate it or call it mid. Even if i dont at all agree with or relate to the reasons why. Not every game others tout as the best things since sliced bread, are even fun for me to play. Like I hated Elden Ring. I hated Subnautica 2. I probably wont like RDR2. I absolutely loathed Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. And even if no one else gets why i connect with and enjoy Avowed,its ok. It doesn't need fixing . Im level 49 , street cred 50 and 92% edgerunner in cyberpunk, so i do enjoy AAA mainstream games, they just aren always better.

edit: I'm also playing Assassins Creed Odyssey and this one is definitely up there with Cyberpunk for me as far as entertainment level, despite being very diferent games.