Avowed’s best feature is to be silent

I already have two different admitted games that I juggle with. What can I say, I am engaged in RPG RPG and I have too many ideas to allow lying. See also: My four different dishes, all incomplete, Baldur’s Gate 3.

In one of my avowed races, I am a prudent sorcerer. Old, attentive, in peace with his fate in life and desperate to balance all things. In the other, I am a little ad * CK. I defend the will of the Adonyre Empire with an iron fist – or more precisely, a golden pistol and a book of arcanic spells – and to reprimand each passer -by with as many sarcasm as possible. The two games are very fun, but the first is almost impossible to reproduce in any other game.

Sarcasm is the easy solution

Almost all RPGs these days allow you to be a little sarcastic p * ohead. There will generally be a nice dialogue option, a small unpleasant dialogue option and an option for sarcastic dialogue. Some games will even throw an intelligent joke to show your brain or an option based on skills or history, depending on the capacities and tradition of your character.

I understand. It’s funny to run to Big Bad and say something Sarcy and Provocateur. Sometimes it can go too far in the Whedon-Esque to a snack, but generally it is very fun to read, otherwise necessarily to choose. My inquisitor -like character Rude Dude will choose them, but I will not usually do it in other Playyrroughs RPG.

Usually it would leave you the choice to say something nice or say something horrible. You know, the poor little street sea urchin approaches you and asks for a room. You can be the noble Knight who empties their handbag in their bowl, or you can kick them at the sidewalk, spit on it and a sachet of tea their corpse. Avoyed allows you to say nothing at all.

You say it better when you say nothing at all

[Nod solemnly.]

[Stare quizzically.]

[Remain politely silent.]

Avowed is a masterclass to leave the NPCs speaking. My wise old wizard can just stay there and absorb people’s problems, never pass judgment and keep a calm poker face throughout. I do not let know where my sympathies lie, I do not make hasty conclusions, and I certainly do no sarcastic joke.

I am told that Lost Records: Bloom & Rage also allows you to miss the timer on the dialogue options in order to remain silent. Good records, bloom & rage.

I’m playing a patient character, but I also liked to have a more patient way to play. I find myself hearing people more often and given their point of view. It was incredibly enriching.

I have played enough RPG in my time to know that most of the “bad guys” you meet in secondary quests will have ulterior motives. Maybe they fly bread to feed their family. Maybe they killed a loving husband because he slept with their wife. Maybe the baron who has enlisted your help is abusive to his wife and daughter. There is always more in a side quest that initially meets the eye.

I have always had a “hearing both sides” approach from side quests. Usually, it turns out that the person who has made an uninsured attack is racist against Lizardfolk or has a personal vendetta against children or something, but sometimes there is also a torsion. So, like any good detective, I collect all the information before making my decision.

None of this is true for the nightclub, the exception that proves the rule. This is because, no matter how you play it, Harry du Bois is Never A good detective.

While avoiding instant judgments, sometimes I made decisions before making decisions before, or at least to offer sympathy to a culprit because I do not want to start a fight by choosing the option of aggressive dialogue. Avoyed allows you to say nothing, and it’s perfect. Perfect for the wise assistant Aedyrean, I am a role -playing game. Perfect for me.