The game’s director would not oppose a sequel to Avowed, so Microsoft may finally give Obsidian Entertainment a chance.

Avowed’s early results are good, but this weekend could change that, as it may not be able to attract many players yet. There will probably be more concurrent players on Steam today and tomorrow than there were on Friday (understandably, there are usually more people playing on the weekend), but in any case, Avowed director Carrie Patel told Bloomberg that the studio is very pleased with the results so far.

“I feel like I’ve learned so much in the last four years that I wish I had known at the beginning of this process. It’s definitely been a job where the highs are really high and the lows are really low. Normally, when you step back and reevaluate your creative direction and put together a new vertical slice and revised production schedules, you’d do that with a very small team. We did not have a very small team at that point. A lot of the lessons we learned as we were building Avowed, we would have ideally learned on a small scale with a real pre-production,” Patel said.

The director went on to discuss the reboot (the Skyrim-style open world will be replaced by a smaller world similar in size to the studio’s previous games, set in 2021), and hinted that she’d be happy to work on a sequel to Avowed: “With every game, you think, ‘Okay, we can’t climb every mountain – which ones are really worth the effort for us?’ We knew from The Outer Worlds that we could make a really great game with ‘open zones’, and that also has some advantages in terms of allowing you to really theme your areas more clearly and intentionally, and provide a sense of progression as the player goes from one environment to the next. Now that we’ve built this wonderful world and we’ve built this team strength and muscle memory around the content and the gameplay in this world, I’d love to see us do more with it,” Patel added.

Patel had previously worked on Pillars of Eternity, and probably had Eora’s world in mind (Avowed is in that universe, as is PoE), but it’s ultimately up to Microsoft.

Source: WCCFTech