The single-player first-person shooter has become somewhat of a lost art. Risky trends have pushed the genre into multiplayer territory where they all fight to the death to be the last one standing. It's a battle royale of battle royales. Bethesda Softworks has been almost the sole arbiter of the bigger budget solo shooter, a club that Ascendant Studios is joining with its first title, Immortals of Aveum. Trading AK-47s for mystical gauntlets has not forfeited its identity as a first-person shooter, as this clever swap has allowed it to become one of the freshest debuts the genre has seen.
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https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/review/889984-immortals-of-aveum-review-ps5-worth-buying/
Read the full review here:
https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/review/889984-immortals-of-aveum-review-ps5-worth-buying/
analise em video no canal :
https://youtu.be/PWvCXtObPC8?si=Xt643JR18_3K3Lbv
Guys, vamos falar hoje de Immortals of Aveum. Será que vale a pena? Será que está bom? Será que está ruim? Então, sem mais delongas, vamos conversar sobre isso.
E bom, Immortals of Aveum, desde seus primeiros trailers, vem chamando a atenção, não somente minha, mas também do público gamer em geral. No início, ele parece um pouco estranho, mas depois, com o tempo, quanto mais você explora e joga o game, mais divertido ele vai se demonstrando ser. Porém, a experiência como um todo, a gente vai falar sobre ela detalhadamente ao longo da analise que acaba deixando a desejar, principalmente falando dos nossos gráficos e também da questão do desempenho. Afinal, inicialmente eu joguei o game no PC, mas infelizmente tive que migrar para o Xbox Series S por uma falta de desempenho aceitável.
Falando um pouco da nossa história, ela segue um molde de histórias que a gente já viu em diversos jogos. A gente tem o nosso protagonista, Jak, e sua cidade é completamente devastada por um personagem que quer acabar com todos os reinos de Aveum e transformar tudo em uma única região. Obviamente que nosso protagonista vai se unir aos Imortais, que são um grupo de pessoas com o objetivo de impedir que tal feito aconteça.
E aqui na nossa história, a gente já vê uma coisa muito comum: o nosso protagonista perde tudo em um desastre por conta do vilão principal, A gente se motiva por conta disso a impedi-lo em seus planos e em seguida devemos fazer de tudo para poder superar e impedir que tal coisa aconteça. Isso é basicamente o clichê do clichê de qualquer jogo médio de videogame. O nosso mundo do game é repleto de magia, e algumas pessoas despertam um tipo de magia diferente, caracterizada pelas cores verde, azul e vermelha. E obviamente, como um segundo clichê, o nosso protagonista é especial, afinal, ele consegue ter esses 3 tipos de magia diferentes. Obviamente, sendo a pessoa ideal para acabar com o vilão principal.
A nossa história do game vai se desenrolar de maneira linear. Apesar de existirem diversos personagens secundários que vão dar muito acréscimo à nossa história, o game é linear, seguindo sempre uma ordem cronológica, liberando os capítulos conforme você vai fazendo eles. E isso é algo que eu sinceramente acho muito bom. Eu gosto de um game que se mantém linear. Não acho ruim. Como disse, existem alguns personagens secundários que vão amarrar melhor a história, além de ter também algumas quests secundárias opcionais e alguns desafios como dungeons para você conseguir novas habilidades.
E falando da parte do combate em si, o game é, eu diria, até inovador nessa questão. Afinal, ele tenta ser um "shooter", porém ao mesmo tempo ele é um "shooter" diferente, eu diria. Como eu disse anteriormente, nosso protagonista pode usar 3 tipos de magias, e esses 3 tipos são fundamentais na hora da gameplay. Afinal, o vermelho serve para combate em curta distancia, o azul para combate a distância, e o verde é um tipo de arma que é a mais usada normalmente, servindo apenas para atirar mesmo. É mais fácil entender jogando ou assistindo a um vídeo.
Obviamente, essa divisão de cores nas skills e a diferenciação de habilidades não servem apenas para isso. Afinal, no game existem diversos inimigos onde você vai ter que mudar as cores da arma para, por exemplo, dar mais dano, quebrar um escudo com tal cor de arma e também, claro, resolver alguns puzzles onde você precisa utilizar as cores corretamente para poder prosseguir no game.
No combate em si, há diversos inimigos divididos entre básicos e chefes. Alguns desses básicos, como dito antes, possuem escudos, e a batalha contra os chefes é até épica e legal. Porém, nem tudo são flores. Embora o game seja intrigante nas suas primeiras 5 horas de gameplay, é basicamente isso. Então, a gente tem 3 tipos de habilidades que já vão estar disponíveis desde o início. Então, se você, por acaso, começou a jogar o game e por acaso não gostou do estilo da gameplay, habilidades, etc., que, no caso, foi o meu caso, muito dificilmente você vai ficar preso ao game em relação à sua gameplay. Basicamente, você vai fazer as mesmas coisas o tempo todo em relação ao combate do game. Então, é muito fácil você ficar enjoado com a gameplay do game. Porém, de maneira geral, o game é até que aceitável na gameplay. Eu, que sinceramente, não curti tanto, principalmente porque o game é clichê na história, clichê na sua gameplay e combate, e também teve um ponto que contribuiu demais para eu enjoar dele, que foram os inimigos que, basicamente falando, são as mesmas criaturas quase sempre. Obviamente, ao longo do game, vão sendo introduzidas outras criaturas. Porém, logo, logo, essas novas criaturas passam a fazer parte do loop de mais do mesmo, e vai assim até o fim do jogo. Os chefes, como citados anteriormente, eles têm uma variação gostosinha, porém, com o passar do tempo, como você já está enjoado do combate, já está enjoado dos mesmos inimigos, quando chega um chefe novo, você já fica de saco cheio ali também, porque os chefes são demorados.
Além disso, o game também conta com um sistema meio RPG, Basicamente, a gente tem equipamentos e as árvores de talentos que, de maneira geral, funcionam muito bem.
Agora chegamos ao que, na minha opinião, é a pior parte do game disparada: a parte gráfica e, falando também do desempenho geral do game. Afinal, eu testei no PC e joguei nos consoles. E já falando da parte sonora do game, eu achei ela ok. Ta, galera, não vamos nos aprofundar muito nisso, porque ela pouco faz diferença aqui. Para mim, nesse jogo, a única coisa que foi ponto negativo comigo foi o fato do game não ser dublado em PT-BR em pleno 2023...
E bom, graficamente falando, Immortals of Aveum traz um visual que é até aceitável, por estar sendo feito na Unreal Engine 5.1. A gente estava imaginando algo muito mais superior do que está sendo entregue aqui no game. Afinal, em diversos trailers, ele se mostra de fato assim. Porém, na prática, não é isso tudo. Para não dizer que nada impressiona no game, para mim o grande destaque são as expressões faciais dos personagens, que são de fato incríveis e muito bem feitas.
Porém, como o game tem um desempenho duvidoso, isso acaba até mesmo afetando a única experiência que seria genuinamente superior no game, porque em diversos momentos, principalmente em cutscenes, é possível notar umas quedas de frames bem bruscas, o que acaba atrapalhando completamente a fluidez das expressões, o que seria algo muito bom. Isso falando da minha experiência com o Series S, que foi até ok, ta, galera? Porém, eu tive diversos problemas com texturas sendo mostradas com baixa resolução, bugs visuais e de iluminação, quedas de frames, isso quando o jogo simplesmente não resolvia travar de vez. Agora, pega esses detalhes dos bugs e coloca no PC, só que três vezes pior. Esse era o nível da experiência que eu tive nos computadores. E detalhe, galera, que meu Series S custou 1.800 reais, enquanto meu computador custou por volta de 6,7 k. Então, o game está bonito? Está, está lindo, mas nada justifica o desempenho medíocre que o game apresenta, tanto nos computadores, principalmente nos computadores né, como também para os consoles, que apesar de sofrerem menos, ainda sim estão com um desempenho medíocre. Então, a otimização geral do game é ridícula. Obviamente, o game vai ter atualizações que vão melhorar o desempenho, porém a primeira impressão é a que fica, né, gente? Então, é ridículo um game que custa 300, 400 reais chegar dessa maneira, um absurdo total.
Immortals of Aveum é um jogo com muitos problemas em quase tudo que se propõe a ser. Porém, se fosse somente pelo fato dele ser um game genérico ou algo do tipo, que de fato ele é, isso seria um dos seus menores problemas. Há muitos problemas de otimização, tanto nos consoles como principalmente nos computadores. E sinceramente, para um jogo que tenta bater de frente com jogos triplo-A do mercado, esse aqui certamente não vale nem um pouco o seu dinheiro. Mais tarde, daqui a um ano, se não me engano, ele deve dar as caras em serviços como EA Play/Xbox Game Pass, e aí sim vale a pena você testar. E eu tenho certeza que a experiência que você vai ter lá nesse futuro vai ser, sem dúvidas, muito melhor do que a minha aqui no lançamento. E eu fico com uma certa pena desse jogo, porque, se não me engano, esse estúdio é um estúdio novo, e você consegue, em meio a tudo isso, ver uma certa dedicação. Você consegue ver uma futura qualidade em seus trabalhos. Porém, como o mercado de games tem o péssimo hábito de vender as coisas rapidamente e marcá-las como se fossem algo de outro mundo e mega revolucionário, como a Unreal Engine 5, e somando assim esquecendo coisas básicas como uma história legal, uma gameplay única, desempenho gráfico, etc., vai sempre acontecer essa mesma situação uma atrás da outra. Então, realmente uma pena, esse jogo tinha muito potencial.
Pontos Positivos:
- Expressões faciais incríveis.
- Combate é divertido até certo ponto.
Pontos Negativos:
- Inimigos muito repetitivos.
- Otimização no lixo: bugs, travamentos, quedas de frames e tudo que há de ruim.
- História clichê demais.
Versão usada para análise: Xbox Series S/PC.
https://youtu.be/PWvCXtObPC8?si=Xt643JR18_3K3Lbv
Guys, vamos falar hoje de Immortals of Aveum. Será que vale a pena? Será que está bom? Será que está ruim? Então, sem mais delongas, vamos conversar sobre isso.
E bom, Immortals of Aveum, desde seus primeiros trailers, vem chamando a atenção, não somente minha, mas também do público gamer em geral. No início, ele parece um pouco estranho, mas depois, com o tempo, quanto mais você explora e joga o game, mais divertido ele vai se demonstrando ser. Porém, a experiência como um todo, a gente vai falar sobre ela detalhadamente ao longo da analise que acaba deixando a desejar, principalmente falando dos nossos gráficos e também da questão do desempenho. Afinal, inicialmente eu joguei o game no PC, mas infelizmente tive que migrar para o Xbox Series S por uma falta de desempenho aceitável.
Falando um pouco da nossa história, ela segue um molde de histórias que a gente já viu em diversos jogos. A gente tem o nosso protagonista, Jak, e sua cidade é completamente devastada por um personagem que quer acabar com todos os reinos de Aveum e transformar tudo em uma única região. Obviamente que nosso protagonista vai se unir aos Imortais, que são um grupo de pessoas com o objetivo de impedir que tal feito aconteça.
E aqui na nossa história, a gente já vê uma coisa muito comum: o nosso protagonista perde tudo em um desastre por conta do vilão principal, A gente se motiva por conta disso a impedi-lo em seus planos e em seguida devemos fazer de tudo para poder superar e impedir que tal coisa aconteça. Isso é basicamente o clichê do clichê de qualquer jogo médio de videogame. O nosso mundo do game é repleto de magia, e algumas pessoas despertam um tipo de magia diferente, caracterizada pelas cores verde, azul e vermelha. E obviamente, como um segundo clichê, o nosso protagonista é especial, afinal, ele consegue ter esses 3 tipos de magia diferentes. Obviamente, sendo a pessoa ideal para acabar com o vilão principal.
A nossa história do game vai se desenrolar de maneira linear. Apesar de existirem diversos personagens secundários que vão dar muito acréscimo à nossa história, o game é linear, seguindo sempre uma ordem cronológica, liberando os capítulos conforme você vai fazendo eles. E isso é algo que eu sinceramente acho muito bom. Eu gosto de um game que se mantém linear. Não acho ruim. Como disse, existem alguns personagens secundários que vão amarrar melhor a história, além de ter também algumas quests secundárias opcionais e alguns desafios como dungeons para você conseguir novas habilidades.
E falando da parte do combate em si, o game é, eu diria, até inovador nessa questão. Afinal, ele tenta ser um "shooter", porém ao mesmo tempo ele é um "shooter" diferente, eu diria. Como eu disse anteriormente, nosso protagonista pode usar 3 tipos de magias, e esses 3 tipos são fundamentais na hora da gameplay. Afinal, o vermelho serve para combate em curta distancia, o azul para combate a distância, e o verde é um tipo de arma que é a mais usada normalmente, servindo apenas para atirar mesmo. É mais fácil entender jogando ou assistindo a um vídeo.
Obviamente, essa divisão de cores nas skills e a diferenciação de habilidades não servem apenas para isso. Afinal, no game existem diversos inimigos onde você vai ter que mudar as cores da arma para, por exemplo, dar mais dano, quebrar um escudo com tal cor de arma e também, claro, resolver alguns puzzles onde você precisa utilizar as cores corretamente para poder prosseguir no game.
No combate em si, há diversos inimigos divididos entre básicos e chefes. Alguns desses básicos, como dito antes, possuem escudos, e a batalha contra os chefes é até épica e legal. Porém, nem tudo são flores. Embora o game seja intrigante nas suas primeiras 5 horas de gameplay, é basicamente isso. Então, a gente tem 3 tipos de habilidades que já vão estar disponíveis desde o início. Então, se você, por acaso, começou a jogar o game e por acaso não gostou do estilo da gameplay, habilidades, etc., que, no caso, foi o meu caso, muito dificilmente você vai ficar preso ao game em relação à sua gameplay. Basicamente, você vai fazer as mesmas coisas o tempo todo em relação ao combate do game. Então, é muito fácil você ficar enjoado com a gameplay do game. Porém, de maneira geral, o game é até que aceitável na gameplay. Eu, que sinceramente, não curti tanto, principalmente porque o game é clichê na história, clichê na sua gameplay e combate, e também teve um ponto que contribuiu demais para eu enjoar dele, que foram os inimigos que, basicamente falando, são as mesmas criaturas quase sempre. Obviamente, ao longo do game, vão sendo introduzidas outras criaturas. Porém, logo, logo, essas novas criaturas passam a fazer parte do loop de mais do mesmo, e vai assim até o fim do jogo. Os chefes, como citados anteriormente, eles têm uma variação gostosinha, porém, com o passar do tempo, como você já está enjoado do combate, já está enjoado dos mesmos inimigos, quando chega um chefe novo, você já fica de saco cheio ali também, porque os chefes são demorados.
Além disso, o game também conta com um sistema meio RPG, Basicamente, a gente tem equipamentos e as árvores de talentos que, de maneira geral, funcionam muito bem.
Agora chegamos ao que, na minha opinião, é a pior parte do game disparada: a parte gráfica e, falando também do desempenho geral do game. Afinal, eu testei no PC e joguei nos consoles. E já falando da parte sonora do game, eu achei ela ok. Ta, galera, não vamos nos aprofundar muito nisso, porque ela pouco faz diferença aqui. Para mim, nesse jogo, a única coisa que foi ponto negativo comigo foi o fato do game não ser dublado em PT-BR em pleno 2023...
E bom, graficamente falando, Immortals of Aveum traz um visual que é até aceitável, por estar sendo feito na Unreal Engine 5.1. A gente estava imaginando algo muito mais superior do que está sendo entregue aqui no game. Afinal, em diversos trailers, ele se mostra de fato assim. Porém, na prática, não é isso tudo. Para não dizer que nada impressiona no game, para mim o grande destaque são as expressões faciais dos personagens, que são de fato incríveis e muito bem feitas.
Porém, como o game tem um desempenho duvidoso, isso acaba até mesmo afetando a única experiência que seria genuinamente superior no game, porque em diversos momentos, principalmente em cutscenes, é possível notar umas quedas de frames bem bruscas, o que acaba atrapalhando completamente a fluidez das expressões, o que seria algo muito bom. Isso falando da minha experiência com o Series S, que foi até ok, ta, galera? Porém, eu tive diversos problemas com texturas sendo mostradas com baixa resolução, bugs visuais e de iluminação, quedas de frames, isso quando o jogo simplesmente não resolvia travar de vez. Agora, pega esses detalhes dos bugs e coloca no PC, só que três vezes pior. Esse era o nível da experiência que eu tive nos computadores. E detalhe, galera, que meu Series S custou 1.800 reais, enquanto meu computador custou por volta de 6,7 k. Então, o game está bonito? Está, está lindo, mas nada justifica o desempenho medíocre que o game apresenta, tanto nos computadores, principalmente nos computadores né, como também para os consoles, que apesar de sofrerem menos, ainda sim estão com um desempenho medíocre. Então, a otimização geral do game é ridícula. Obviamente, o game vai ter atualizações que vão melhorar o desempenho, porém a primeira impressão é a que fica, né, gente? Então, é ridículo um game que custa 300, 400 reais chegar dessa maneira, um absurdo total.
Immortals of Aveum é um jogo com muitos problemas em quase tudo que se propõe a ser. Porém, se fosse somente pelo fato dele ser um game genérico ou algo do tipo, que de fato ele é, isso seria um dos seus menores problemas. Há muitos problemas de otimização, tanto nos consoles como principalmente nos computadores. E sinceramente, para um jogo que tenta bater de frente com jogos triplo-A do mercado, esse aqui certamente não vale nem um pouco o seu dinheiro. Mais tarde, daqui a um ano, se não me engano, ele deve dar as caras em serviços como EA Play/Xbox Game Pass, e aí sim vale a pena você testar. E eu tenho certeza que a experiência que você vai ter lá nesse futuro vai ser, sem dúvidas, muito melhor do que a minha aqui no lançamento. E eu fico com uma certa pena desse jogo, porque, se não me engano, esse estúdio é um estúdio novo, e você consegue, em meio a tudo isso, ver uma certa dedicação. Você consegue ver uma futura qualidade em seus trabalhos. Porém, como o mercado de games tem o péssimo hábito de vender as coisas rapidamente e marcá-las como se fossem algo de outro mundo e mega revolucionário, como a Unreal Engine 5, e somando assim esquecendo coisas básicas como uma história legal, uma gameplay única, desempenho gráfico, etc., vai sempre acontecer essa mesma situação uma atrás da outra. Então, realmente uma pena, esse jogo tinha muito potencial.
Pontos Positivos:
- Expressões faciais incríveis.
- Combate é divertido até certo ponto.
Pontos Negativos:
- Inimigos muito repetitivos.
- Otimização no lixo: bugs, travamentos, quedas de frames e tudo que há de ruim.
- História clichê demais.
Versão usada para análise: Xbox Series S/PC.
Olm dalga mı geçiyorsunuz. Minimum 2080 istemek ne. PS4 gibi 1050'den güçsüz bir konsolda biz Tlou 2'ler oynadık alooooo. Low ayarlarda oyunu oynayamadım bile. Allatan EA Play Pro alıp denedim. Star Wars da hala düzelmediyse 150 tl'yi çöpe atmış olacam amk
Finished Immortal of Aveum, really fun experience.
PROS: Solid gameplay, good boss fights, level design is also good, Visuals are also good and story by the end of it win me over middle part was rough, the sound track is banging Not gonna lie flaw less imo.
CONS: Enemy variety is lackluster, visually game lacks distinct art style, got alot of fidelity but 720p and unstable fps really hinders it(not optimised well), biggest flaw of the game is it's MCU type writing like if it don't have that this game would've easily had a good chance of being great.
Solid 7/10, recommend it.
PROS: Solid gameplay, good boss fights, level design is also good, Visuals are also good and story by the end of it win me over middle part was rough, the sound track is banging Not gonna lie flaw less imo.
CONS: Enemy variety is lackluster, visually game lacks distinct art style, got alot of fidelity but 720p and unstable fps really hinders it(not optimised well), biggest flaw of the game is it's MCU type writing like if it don't have that this game would've easily had a good chance of being great.
Solid 7/10, recommend it.
As an Unreal Engine 5 tech demo, its bursts of visual brilliance and seamlessly embracing the exhilarating gameplay elements reminiscent of DOOM Eternal. However, the storyline treads a fine line between success and failure. Its serious moments are indeed engaging, but its humor often fails to hit the mark. Ultimately, my experience boils down to one crucial factor: the sheer enjoyment I derived from navigating its campaign, eclipsing all other considerations.
Game was much better than people said it is. Its an okay 6.5-7/10 Boomer magic shooter. I enjoyed my time with it it's a fun time for 1 playthrough don't listen to bandwagon haters always try the game out yourself or atleast inform yourself about it from gameplay videos.
Only played the trial but that trial was like 2 hours long and I wish we got less of these 7/10 games where 7/10 means "very fun to play but everything else is dogshit", thought it was meant to be the other way round. Combat is really nice but everything else is so souless that I can't imagine seeing this on sale and saying "yeah I'll dedicate 10 hours of my life to that"
Great graphics and Gina Torres. Everything else is meh.
A fun setting and story. While combat starts off strong it really falls off as it just doesn’t develop anywhere interesting.
I originally abandoned this and didn't plan to go back to it, but eventually it occurred to me that I could just switch to easy mode for the bitchass fight that was making me rage out, and see what the rest of the game had to offer.
I had really high hopes going into this. It landed with no fanfare whatsoever and immediately disappeared beneath the wheels of the parade of once-in-a-generation releases this year. It looks really cool; the magic effects are bright and colorful, like fireworks. I figured in a stacked year like this it's like James Bond vs Godzilla; it doesn't matter how good you look in a tux when you're just gunk between a giant lizard's toes. I saw hidden gem potential and on balance I think it more or less delivered on this.
My first impression was quite good, as well. The characters are all memorable and likable, and the worldbuilding felt plausible and fleshed out without being cumbersome. The combat takes its cues from Doom 2016 and Eternal and all the pieces are in place for a really strong movement shooter.
I love the active shield mechanic. I think this is the most innovative and potentially impactful new idea I've seen in a shooter for a long time. The way it works is you can toggle your shield on and off. When it's on, you move slower (maybe like 60% speed?) but you don't take health damage. Health damage requires consumables to replenish and you can only carry a few at a time, so preventing it is a big deal. The shield has its own health, kinda like Halo's shield; if you take a few hits and turn off the shield, it will regenerate quickly. However if you keep the shield up long enough for it to lose all of its health, it will break, meaning it recharges quite slowly.
As you can imagine this quickly becomes a big part of combat. This isn't a cover shooter, and you're usually being flanked if not completely surrounded, so avoiding damage entirely just through movement is usually a losing battle. Knowing when to activate your shield and when to let it recharge is a really fun skill to build and knob to tweak your playstyle. You can pursue upgrades that add effects like damage or a knockback when the shield breaks that give you even more options.
Unfortunately, I found it hard to use the shield optimally. This is a game with a lot of buttons to juggle. It also has awful default controls that seem to depend on the player having two right thumbs, and does not offer any options for button remapping. I put two paddles on my Xbox Elite controller and this made things much more playable. It didn't solve the big problem, though, which is that there's just too many actions the player has to be constantly cycling through. I found the manual health and mana replenishment in particular to be a real chore. I remember a Diablo 3 dev once talking about how they wanted to give the player fewer, but more interesting choices. Manually clicking a button when my mana or health gets low may add tension and difficulty, but it's not interesting, and it distracts from the genuinely fun stuff like the shield and weapon swapping.
When I go full sweat mode and put on four paddles for high level Doom Eternal it's because I genuinely need all ten fingers for that experience. Every digit has a different, mission-critical tool for its flexible combat loop. The high complexity makes the game fill my brain like a gas, occupying every space; when it all comes together it's downright euphoric. Unfortunately, Immortals of Aveum gums up its toolset with chores. Manually sprinting, reloading and replenishing resources just slows everything down, and gives you really deflating ways to mess up (like dying with a bunch of unused health crystals).
I also had problems with the movement options. I found the blink teleport to be extremely unsatisfying. For one thing, the distance is laughably paltry. I kept waiting for an upgrade that never came. It's so short that in first person perspective, when everything close to you is off-camera so you have no easy frame of reference, it often looks like you're not moving at all. The worst part, though, is that it's a simple teleport and imparts no additional speed or momentum. And it cancels your already-finicky sprint, making it a really unreliable escape tool.
I never realized how critical the mantle is to Doom Eternal's moveset until I tried playing without it. It makes precision platforming much, much easier, because you can just aim your camera at a ledge and dash toward it. In Immortals, you can only guess when you're above a platform, unless you point your camera straight down at the floor which you never want to do in a game like this, especially midair, with a thumbstick. I was constantly over- and under-shooting ledges that I was aiming for.
Incomplete information wasn't just a problem with the platforming. In later levels fast-moving enemies are introduced, and they're dark-colored against a dark background with HDR-reinforced bright fireworks effects for the magic constantly flashing around. It got very hard to read the action in these fights.
It's also a looter shooter, which I find tedious. I don't like spending time dinkin around in my inventory. Ditto for the crafting and upgrade systems. I heard an interview with Bret Robbins, the game's director, who said he pretty much just threw in everything he thinks is fun in video games. Which, you know, fair enough that's probably exactly how I'd do it. But it also explains why it felt so crowded with mechanics. I felt like in this loot stuff there were too many choices that weren't different enough from each other to be interesting.
I would love to see this game iterated on more because it really does have some cool stuff going on. And Gina Torres, come on. It's absolutely unfair of me to compare this to Doom Eternal so much, and I definitely think there's plenty of room for movement-based shooters that aren't quite as tuned. And honestly if you're a shooter mechanics nerd like me it's probably worth picking up on sale to mess around with the shield; it is super cool. Come for the fireworks, stay for the crunchy shooter mechanics.
At the end of the day, though, I think what I appreciate most about Immortals of Aveum is that they went so all-out with the production values on a brand-new IP. Pretty sure I've said it before but it bears repeating: gusto goes a long way for me. I don't think big swings all need to be home runs. I think Immortals of Aveum, despite its terrible name and other flaws, earns its place in the canon kind of on the Duke3D side of the shooter tree, alongside The Darkness, Riddick and Bulletstorm: blemished but still brilliant gems that were made with a lot of grit and passion. I'd buy another Aveum game.
I had really high hopes going into this. It landed with no fanfare whatsoever and immediately disappeared beneath the wheels of the parade of once-in-a-generation releases this year. It looks really cool; the magic effects are bright and colorful, like fireworks. I figured in a stacked year like this it's like James Bond vs Godzilla; it doesn't matter how good you look in a tux when you're just gunk between a giant lizard's toes. I saw hidden gem potential and on balance I think it more or less delivered on this.
My first impression was quite good, as well. The characters are all memorable and likable, and the worldbuilding felt plausible and fleshed out without being cumbersome. The combat takes its cues from Doom 2016 and Eternal and all the pieces are in place for a really strong movement shooter.
I love the active shield mechanic. I think this is the most innovative and potentially impactful new idea I've seen in a shooter for a long time. The way it works is you can toggle your shield on and off. When it's on, you move slower (maybe like 60% speed?) but you don't take health damage. Health damage requires consumables to replenish and you can only carry a few at a time, so preventing it is a big deal. The shield has its own health, kinda like Halo's shield; if you take a few hits and turn off the shield, it will regenerate quickly. However if you keep the shield up long enough for it to lose all of its health, it will break, meaning it recharges quite slowly.
As you can imagine this quickly becomes a big part of combat. This isn't a cover shooter, and you're usually being flanked if not completely surrounded, so avoiding damage entirely just through movement is usually a losing battle. Knowing when to activate your shield and when to let it recharge is a really fun skill to build and knob to tweak your playstyle. You can pursue upgrades that add effects like damage or a knockback when the shield breaks that give you even more options.
Unfortunately, I found it hard to use the shield optimally. This is a game with a lot of buttons to juggle. It also has awful default controls that seem to depend on the player having two right thumbs, and does not offer any options for button remapping. I put two paddles on my Xbox Elite controller and this made things much more playable. It didn't solve the big problem, though, which is that there's just too many actions the player has to be constantly cycling through. I found the manual health and mana replenishment in particular to be a real chore. I remember a Diablo 3 dev once talking about how they wanted to give the player fewer, but more interesting choices. Manually clicking a button when my mana or health gets low may add tension and difficulty, but it's not interesting, and it distracts from the genuinely fun stuff like the shield and weapon swapping.
When I go full sweat mode and put on four paddles for high level Doom Eternal it's because I genuinely need all ten fingers for that experience. Every digit has a different, mission-critical tool for its flexible combat loop. The high complexity makes the game fill my brain like a gas, occupying every space; when it all comes together it's downright euphoric. Unfortunately, Immortals of Aveum gums up its toolset with chores. Manually sprinting, reloading and replenishing resources just slows everything down, and gives you really deflating ways to mess up (like dying with a bunch of unused health crystals).
I also had problems with the movement options. I found the blink teleport to be extremely unsatisfying. For one thing, the distance is laughably paltry. I kept waiting for an upgrade that never came. It's so short that in first person perspective, when everything close to you is off-camera so you have no easy frame of reference, it often looks like you're not moving at all. The worst part, though, is that it's a simple teleport and imparts no additional speed or momentum. And it cancels your already-finicky sprint, making it a really unreliable escape tool.
I never realized how critical the mantle is to Doom Eternal's moveset until I tried playing without it. It makes precision platforming much, much easier, because you can just aim your camera at a ledge and dash toward it. In Immortals, you can only guess when you're above a platform, unless you point your camera straight down at the floor which you never want to do in a game like this, especially midair, with a thumbstick. I was constantly over- and under-shooting ledges that I was aiming for.
Incomplete information wasn't just a problem with the platforming. In later levels fast-moving enemies are introduced, and they're dark-colored against a dark background with HDR-reinforced bright fireworks effects for the magic constantly flashing around. It got very hard to read the action in these fights.
It's also a looter shooter, which I find tedious. I don't like spending time dinkin around in my inventory. Ditto for the crafting and upgrade systems. I heard an interview with Bret Robbins, the game's director, who said he pretty much just threw in everything he thinks is fun in video games. Which, you know, fair enough that's probably exactly how I'd do it. But it also explains why it felt so crowded with mechanics. I felt like in this loot stuff there were too many choices that weren't different enough from each other to be interesting.
I would love to see this game iterated on more because it really does have some cool stuff going on. And Gina Torres, come on. It's absolutely unfair of me to compare this to Doom Eternal so much, and I definitely think there's plenty of room for movement-based shooters that aren't quite as tuned. And honestly if you're a shooter mechanics nerd like me it's probably worth picking up on sale to mess around with the shield; it is super cool. Come for the fireworks, stay for the crunchy shooter mechanics.
At the end of the day, though, I think what I appreciate most about Immortals of Aveum is that they went so all-out with the production values on a brand-new IP. Pretty sure I've said it before but it bears repeating: gusto goes a long way for me. I don't think big swings all need to be home runs. I think Immortals of Aveum, despite its terrible name and other flaws, earns its place in the canon kind of on the Duke3D side of the shooter tree, alongside The Darkness, Riddick and Bulletstorm: blemished but still brilliant gems that were made with a lot of grit and passion. I'd buy another Aveum game.
Platinum #57
+Some fun ideas and the game world had some interesting potential.
+The 'gunplay' is solid.
-Suffers badly from 'MCU' style writing and humor that ultimately falls flat.
-Encounters in the later half of the game are extremely chaotic due to way too much happening with spell effects aka 'visual diarrhea'.
+Some fun ideas and the game world had some interesting potential.
+The 'gunplay' is solid.
-Suffers badly from 'MCU' style writing and humor that ultimately falls flat.
-Encounters in the later half of the game are extremely chaotic due to way too much happening with spell effects aka 'visual diarrhea'.
I had a good time with Immortals of Aveum but the gameplay is extremely let down by the narrative and writing and it simply overstays its welcome.
I like the look of this game. There are a lot of flashy VFX flying around and the environments are beautiful and (though pretty generically fantasy) look impressive. Most of the enemy designs are surprisingly simple in a way that didn't really work for me though.
This is a first person shooter with the guns flavored like magic. Blue is your rifle, red is your shotgun, green is your smg. It all works really well and some color matching with enemy types makes it play a lot like Destiny. The movement is fun though not quite as kinetic as Doom 2018, I still enjoyed running around these arenas picking my targets and taking them apart.
Over the length of the game there really isn't enough introduced and I did get tired of the fights by the end. I didn't feel much compulsion to explore the open world after I had beaten the game.
This is a narrative heavy single player game and it really drops the ball here. The narrative is fairly generic though unnecessarily convoluted, with a couple of obvious twists and nonsensical motivation for most of the characters. Characters do things or refuse to do things obviously to further the plot, with no real attention paid to what that character's motivations might actually be.
Add to that writing that is like really badly done MCU dialog and this game becomes sort of a chore to get through. It isn't even that the characters are all annoying or intolerable (though some definitely are), the writing itself simply doesn't deliver, lacking the character and charm that, despite being vapid, MCU characters have.
There is a big swing at a lore heavy world here, but it is heavy handed and mostly ignorable. Characters drop 5-6 proper nouns on you per sentence, most of which are unimportant and just serve to remove your ability to understand what is even going on. Despite that, the world is pretty cool to just hang around in.
Immortals of Aveum needed to improve its focus and reign in the writing, but it is fun to play through despite that. If you want a fairly unique feeling first person shooter to blast through and you have already played both Doom games, it might be worth a shot.
I like the look of this game. There are a lot of flashy VFX flying around and the environments are beautiful and (though pretty generically fantasy) look impressive. Most of the enemy designs are surprisingly simple in a way that didn't really work for me though.
This is a first person shooter with the guns flavored like magic. Blue is your rifle, red is your shotgun, green is your smg. It all works really well and some color matching with enemy types makes it play a lot like Destiny. The movement is fun though not quite as kinetic as Doom 2018, I still enjoyed running around these arenas picking my targets and taking them apart.
Over the length of the game there really isn't enough introduced and I did get tired of the fights by the end. I didn't feel much compulsion to explore the open world after I had beaten the game.
This is a narrative heavy single player game and it really drops the ball here. The narrative is fairly generic though unnecessarily convoluted, with a couple of obvious twists and nonsensical motivation for most of the characters. Characters do things or refuse to do things obviously to further the plot, with no real attention paid to what that character's motivations might actually be.
Add to that writing that is like really badly done MCU dialog and this game becomes sort of a chore to get through. It isn't even that the characters are all annoying or intolerable (though some definitely are), the writing itself simply doesn't deliver, lacking the character and charm that, despite being vapid, MCU characters have.
There is a big swing at a lore heavy world here, but it is heavy handed and mostly ignorable. Characters drop 5-6 proper nouns on you per sentence, most of which are unimportant and just serve to remove your ability to understand what is even going on. Despite that, the world is pretty cool to just hang around in.
Immortals of Aveum needed to improve its focus and reign in the writing, but it is fun to play through despite that. If you want a fairly unique feeling first person shooter to blast through and you have already played both Doom games, it might be worth a shot.
At one point a character drops the line "he's right behind me isn't he?" and I knew right then I just couldn't spend any more time on a game with dialogue that made me want to drive my head through my monitor.
Enjoyed my time with this game. Unique spin to the FPS genre with a lot of cool ideas. Falls short in a lot of places, but hoping this gets a sequel to improve on these. Good performances by the cast, story feels inconsistent at points. Overall would recommend.
Immortals of Aveum is probably a game a lot of people will skip this year. Considering what it's going up against it's hard to blame anyone for doing so. But between crazy ambitious games like Zelda and Baldurs Gate, it is pretty nice to have a simple but competent shooter that doesn't overstay its welcome. I would easily recommend Immortals to someone needing a downtime game or looking for something quick once it goes on sale.
you know... the game is actually fine! just am not a huge fan of the trend of modern games looking 14% better than ps4 games but requiring a $3000 pc to play with the kind of performance any normal human being would deem acceptable.
It may be asking a lot for minimum requirements, but it still looked pretty good on the lowest settings with a 2060 super. The only issues I experience were some choppy cut scenes and a single crash the entire playthrough. Shooting magic was a blast and smooth, easy to understand the crazy amount of things you can do at the same time.
Check out my entire review here: https://youtu.be/5e8v3zdPeyM
Check out my entire review here: https://youtu.be/5e8v3zdPeyM
Fun gameplay mechanics fucked up by shitty storytelling
Well, first off the gameplay was good, storyline was meh, optimization was bad for PC, liked the hand. She is such a dope character, I wish this game was promoted more because many more people should experience the gameplay this game had. I loved the whole magic concept but I wish the story was a little bit better and optimization was better also. Overall decent game, I would wait till it's on sale though.
The cool thing about local record stores is that you can find games like Immortals of Aveum, a game that came out two months ago, for $18 dollars. That's the perfect price to pay for this game, I feel.
You know what? This game is good. I haven't played a shooter in awhile so it was kind of nice, but this is by no means even in the top 20 of shooters of the last decade, or hell even this year, I bet.
There is no denying that it looks great. I'm playing with Performance mode on PS5 and it's smooth as butter. The visual effects of your weapon attacks and the more interesting environments are pretty dang nice. Particle effects people should be very proud.
The story may as well be white noise. I have nothing to say about it. After the prologue I put on my headphones and bumped my own shit while zoning out of exposition. I just don't care. Nobody cares. It's not as bad as Forspoken though.
It's the most mid game in existence. I have nothing good or bad to say about it beyond what I've already stated. No joy. No pain. Just a lukewarm numbness. That is Immortals of Aveum.
I just realized this game is a less interesting Ghostwire Tokyo. I think I should give that game another shot. I'd probably appreciate it more now lol.
You know what? This game is good. I haven't played a shooter in awhile so it was kind of nice, but this is by no means even in the top 20 of shooters of the last decade, or hell even this year, I bet.
There is no denying that it looks great. I'm playing with Performance mode on PS5 and it's smooth as butter. The visual effects of your weapon attacks and the more interesting environments are pretty dang nice. Particle effects people should be very proud.
The story may as well be white noise. I have nothing to say about it. After the prologue I put on my headphones and bumped my own shit while zoning out of exposition. I just don't care. Nobody cares. It's not as bad as Forspoken though.
It's the most mid game in existence. I have nothing good or bad to say about it beyond what I've already stated. No joy. No pain. Just a lukewarm numbness. That is Immortals of Aveum.
I just realized this game is a less interesting Ghostwire Tokyo. I think I should give that game another shot. I'd probably appreciate it more now lol.
Everything about this game is just perfectly fine. there's nothing exceptional, nothing terrible, it's just fine in every respect. the gameplay is fine, the story is fine, it's just ok. buy it for $20 if you're bored and have nothing better to play.
Played some of the trial version and even the introduction is just really uninspired and boring, like the gameplay feels fun and has potential but everything else about the game just totally wore on me.
played the trial. decent gameplay held back hard by terrible preformance (PS5), uninteresting story and subpar graphics. would buy on sale for like $15.
Considering this was a $70 title only a few months ago, I was surprised to see it for $8.99. After spending 20 hours with the game, I understand why and I think even at that price it's still not worth it. Buy a nice latte instead.
Playing on Xbox Series X the game is ripe with performance issues and let downs. Immortals is striving so hard to give you Doom-esque combat but when the framerate is dipping and diving all over the place in a frantic battle, it just doesn't work. I wish my gaming PC was newer to try it, because perhaps the experience would have been better.
"Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off." - Coco Chanel - It's a combat system that just has too much and, at least on a controller, often leads to fumbling in battle. Three main weapons, three off weapons, six magic spells, melee, jump, double jump, hover, dash, sprint, and a grappling hook.... it's just a bit much, and I'd say about 20-30% of these are bland and lackluster. The spell parry ability was a standout favorite though, I really liked that.
Enjoyable characters and great voice acting was likely the only reason I completed this one. I wanted to like the story and the lore more, but it felt bland and uninspiring. As the player I really did not care one way or another how things turned out.
Rook for MVP.
Playing on Xbox Series X the game is ripe with performance issues and let downs. Immortals is striving so hard to give you Doom-esque combat but when the framerate is dipping and diving all over the place in a frantic battle, it just doesn't work. I wish my gaming PC was newer to try it, because perhaps the experience would have been better.
"Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off." - Coco Chanel - It's a combat system that just has too much and, at least on a controller, often leads to fumbling in battle. Three main weapons, three off weapons, six magic spells, melee, jump, double jump, hover, dash, sprint, and a grappling hook.... it's just a bit much, and I'd say about 20-30% of these are bland and lackluster. The spell parry ability was a standout favorite though, I really liked that.
Enjoyable characters and great voice acting was likely the only reason I completed this one. I wanted to like the story and the lore more, but it felt bland and uninspiring. As the player I really did not care one way or another how things turned out.
Rook for MVP.
This is the most mid-game that ever midded. I think it would have worked as a tv show though.
What an amazing game for a studios first run into AAA game development. Great story line, beautiful graphics, satisfying gun play, what is not to like?
This game is the definition of failing to be more than the sum of its parts. If you were to take a 20 minute clip of any point of Immortals, you would see all of the standard components of a modern first person shooter game: light RPG elements, semi-open world areas to explore, chests to loot, gear to acquire, enemies to defeat with a mix of attacks, talent trees, and so on. The problem is that it can never successfully fuse these functional components into something greater.
There's never a sense of "wow that battle was really cool" or an emotional cutscene that truly makes you care about any of the characters. It's all just so utterly rote. The tragedy of this is that you can sense an earnestness in the team that made this to get there, but unfortunately I think they just missed the mark.
There's never a sense of "wow that battle was really cool" or an emotional cutscene that truly makes you care about any of the characters. It's all just so utterly rote. The tragedy of this is that you can sense an earnestness in the team that made this to get there, but unfortunately I think they just missed the mark.
For a first game, the quality is strong, and the passion is visible, but it should have been directed by someone who knows when to stop and say "no".
Pretty good campaign, plots has too many twists, combats pretty fun tho