Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues

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6.4

Mixed or average reviews- based on 45 Ratings

User score distribution:
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  2. Mixed: 3 out of 45
  3. Negative: 16 out of 45

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  1. Rasman76
    Aug 27, 2018
    6
    So I tried the free trial of this because I was really curious. It may be that I never got into Ultima Online but I just can get into the world Garriot has made. Not because the lore sucks - in fact it's kind of intriguing. It's all the technical issues the game has.

    Pros - Love the skills-based leveling system Tons of housing and crafting possibilities Huge world, interesting    So I tried the free trial of this because I was really curious. It may be that I never got into Ultima Online but I just can get into the world Garriot has made. Not because the lore sucks - in fact it's kind of intriguing. It's all the technical issues the game has.

    Pros -
    Love the skills-based leveling system
    Tons of housing and crafting possibilities
    Huge world, interesting overworld map
    Very challenging, lots of possibilities for roleplaying.
    Intesting PVE questing, makes you really think about how to complete each one.

    CONS
    Horribly optimized and a lagfest in towns and game crashes quite a bit.
    Housing costs HUNDREDS of real-world dollars. This will prevent most players from ever owning one.
    Kind of crap sound effects (not a big deal to me)
    No fast travel and PVP (i've heard) is non-existent for the most part.
    Grindy (to be expected for an old school rpg) in certain areas.

    SOTA has some potential but it just feels really unfinished and the devs seem more concerned about cash shop purchases for virtual real estate and the next "chapter" but aren't doing much about the current bugs, poor gameplay.    … Expand
  2. jsommer7345
    Jul 6, 2022
    7
    I played probably roughly 1,000 hours.
    I was able to max out an Archer character, start a new player guild, and reach the highest forms of PvE. This game is inventive, and the crafting system uses crafting tables and the like for the first time. The graphics are reasonable, and the players I encountered were friendly and helpful. However, this game was full of bugs. The game was largely    I played probably roughly 1,000 hours.
    I was able to max out an Archer character, start a new player guild, and reach the highest forms of PvE. This game is inventive, and the crafting system uses crafting tables and the like for the first time. The graphics are reasonable, and the players I encountered were friendly and helpful. However, this game was full of bugs. The game was largely unpopulated. It is pretty taxing on your computer system; you have to have a decent GPU.    … Expand

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Metascore
58

Mixed or average reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 4
  3. Negative: 1 out of 4
  1. CD-Action
    Jul 6, 2018
    40
    The title says it all. There is a corpse underneath the shroud and the virtues were indeed forsaken. The informal successor to the Ultima series proves that Tabula Rasa was not a one-time slip and Richard Garriott belongs in the past. [06/2018, p.70]
  2. 4P.de
    May 9, 2018
    59
    Quotation forthcoming.
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  3. The Games Machine
    Apr 18, 2018
    50
    Simply put, Shroud of the Avatar is a wreck. It tries to be a single player experience and a MMORPG at the same time, and fails on both counts. Everything is out of time: the combat system is boring, the progression of the avatar is repetitive, and the the graphics would have been OK fifteen years ago.
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