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Title: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Sho Nuff on February 02, 2019, 03:38:55 AM
Name: ANTHEM (R)
Developer: Bioware
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Availability: Demo this weekend, full game later I guess
Systems: Not the Switch
Price: Potentially limitless with the power of unique player customization

THE LORE:
Aliens are attacking!!! You must stop them. Talk to people in first person perspective and they will tell you what is going on. The circle button skips dialogue. Keep pressing it. Also you have a space gun. There are many space guns. Each space gun has a story behind it.

THE FRAME RATE:
25-30 if you're doing something
60 if you're looking at the ground

WHAT GAMES IT REMINDS YOU OF:
Destiny
Destiny 2

IS NATHAN FILLION IN IT:
No

CHANCES OF THERE BEING ANTHEM 2:
(Updated 2/20): 15%
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Sho Nuff on February 02, 2019, 03:39:54 AM
I uninstalled it

Maybe after this game turns out to be really really good in 9 months y'all can scroll back to this post and be like "Sho Nuff is a real motherfucker"
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Rahxephon91 on February 02, 2019, 03:52:20 AM
I thought my PC was decent, but man that first person stuff in the begining felt and ran like shit.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: benjipwns on February 02, 2019, 04:53:41 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyUxqufWoAI25rK.jpg)

h/t nachobro
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: benjipwns on February 02, 2019, 04:54:35 AM
pretend I added "September: Humble Monthly" to that
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on February 02, 2019, 05:47:22 AM
Pretty much, also Bioware has been shit for a decade now almost (Mass Effect 2 -2010 last great game)

Think its safe to say that they are now a has been company like Blizzard
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: MMaRsu on February 02, 2019, 06:08:55 AM
They forgot to enable SSE 4.1 support so game wont boot for me lol
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: duckman2000 on February 02, 2019, 07:22:38 AM
Well, it's sort of fun though.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: benjipwns on February 02, 2019, 09:12:16 AM
Well, it's sort of fun though.
woah let's not get too crazy now
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Human Snorenado on February 02, 2019, 09:32:52 AM
This fails the first test of games for me, which is "do you have to play with other people"

(https://media0.giphy.com/media/26BROxWn8plPKXFVC/giphy.gif?cid=3640f6095c55aa06657649784df9c4ed)
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: demi on February 02, 2019, 09:34:11 AM
You don't have to play with other people though...? You can have activities use matchmaking or not
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Cryo on February 02, 2019, 09:44:19 AM
You don't have to play with other people though...? You can have activities use matchmaking or not
enemy HP is balanced for squad detonation combos, SP is not a fun time
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 02, 2019, 09:52:00 AM
I'll just buy some animu game on the Switch this month instead.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: demi on February 02, 2019, 09:52:11 AM
That's a shame - I'll be buying it on Xbox if anyone here decides to get it
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: duckman2000 on February 02, 2019, 10:23:50 AM
The balance is supposedly different in the actual game, so as to not fuck over people soloing it. The demo feels great when you have a good squad... with mics on.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on February 02, 2019, 11:02:34 AM
I mean most games are fun if played by a group of friends so thats not saying much?
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Rufus on February 02, 2019, 12:28:12 PM
I thought my PC was decent, but man that first person stuff in the begining felt and ran like shit.
It's not your PC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrt8DJ9G-dk
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Svejk on February 02, 2019, 12:55:43 PM
Kept pressing Quick Launch on the map screen while highlighting where I was told to go.... Nothing was happening.. Uninstalled.  Not sure why I wasted my time again knowing I'm not going to get this at launch.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Sho Nuff on February 02, 2019, 01:23:38 PM
I thought my PC was decent, but man that first person stuff in the begining felt and ran like shit.
It's not your PC.

"The quest for 1080p60"...wait, is it 2011
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Rufus on February 02, 2019, 01:42:57 PM
It's high time for new hardware so that this self-inflicted problem can be fixed. :ryker
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: nachobro on February 02, 2019, 07:35:36 PM
Yeah it definitely runs like shit on PC. :( I like the flying though
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: AdmiralViscen on February 02, 2019, 08:17:54 PM
How many worlds the size of the demo environment are in this game at launch?
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: nachobro on February 02, 2019, 08:26:38 PM
was gonna play the demo some more but i've been booted out 3 times just trying to do freeplay, so i guess not :lol

also i guess a bunch of the pc graphics settings don't actually do anything :lol
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: nachobro on February 03, 2019, 01:22:33 AM
finally got the game to work...by playing it on xbox. :doge ran through a few missions and its kinda fun, shooting feels good but still a bit stiff but it feels better once you loot some better gear. there's some customization in it too, i was able to make a decent looking Raider mech

(https://abload.de/img/2-2-2019_10-22-36_pm-6aj0a.png)
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: MMaRsu on February 03, 2019, 06:23:15 AM
How many worlds the size of the demo environment are in this game at launch?

There is only 1 world?
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: AdmiralViscen on February 03, 2019, 09:14:56 AM
How many worlds the size of the demo environment are in this game at launch?

There is only 1 world?

Really? The map I’m seeing in the demo is the entire game??
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: MMaRsu on February 03, 2019, 09:21:42 AM
https://screenrant.com/bioware-anthem-game-map/
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: tiesto on February 03, 2019, 11:14:15 AM
Bioware, EA, multiplayer, heavy monetization... this game seems to have a combination of everything that would turn me off a game.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Positive Touch on February 03, 2019, 12:44:09 PM
this game feels like something that should've came out in 2014 or 15 my god. i can't believe how fucking bland it all feels.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Human Snorenado on February 03, 2019, 02:23:32 PM
You don't have to play with other people though...? You can have activities use matchmaking or not

Now, I know this may seem completely out of left field, but just hear me out... what if you DON'T HAVE TO buy every fucking game that comes out?
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Himu on February 03, 2019, 02:29:40 PM
RIP BioWare. At least we got BG2 HD before they became fart dust
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Nintex on February 03, 2019, 02:54:40 PM
You don't have to play with other people though...? You can have activities use matchmaking or not

Now, I know this may seem completely out of left field, but just hear me out... what if you DON'T HAVE TO buy every fucking game that comes out?
All that the bire ad money  :mynicca :whew
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: demi on February 03, 2019, 04:47:38 PM
You don't have to play with other people though...? You can have activities use matchmaking or not

Now, I know this may seem completely out of left field, but just hear me out... what if you DON'T HAVE TO buy every fucking game that comes out?

Not sure what matchmaking has to do with anyone buying this game. Or are you just talking out loud again you're so cute~
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 03, 2019, 04:50:33 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyUxqufWoAI25rK.jpg)

h/t nachobro

Or free with ea access in a few months as well
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: thisismyusername on February 03, 2019, 05:22:50 PM
RIP BioWare. At least we got BG2 HD before they became fart dust

That wasn't even them, it was another studio. ??? :lol
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Himu on February 03, 2019, 07:51:21 PM
RIP BioWare. At least we got BG2 HD before they became fart dust

That wasn't even them, it was another studio. ??? :lol

Praise be it wasn’t them
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 03, 2019, 09:16:50 PM
RIP BioWare. At least we got BG2 HD before they became fart dust

That wasn't even them, it was another studio. ??? :lol

Praise be it wasn’t them

Ya, all the Infinity Engine remasters were done by Beamdog, which was founded by former Bioware dudes Trent Oster and Cameron Tofer.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on February 04, 2019, 02:29:09 PM
Are those names for real?  :lol
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: MMaRsu on February 04, 2019, 02:38:17 PM
Anthem already getting out hyped by Apex Legends  :heh
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Nintex on February 04, 2019, 03:41:25 PM
Can't believe EA send Anthem to die. After they send Mass Effect: Andromeda to die.
They could've just sat on the game for a few months to not launch it at the same time as Apex Legends. 
:huh
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: benjipwns on February 04, 2019, 04:21:59 PM
I think they're thinking it's two separate markets.

Black Ops IIII couldn't prove there's multiple markets in the BR/FPS split because it was the same game.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: nachobro on February 04, 2019, 04:24:15 PM
i think a pve only loot shooter is appealing to a different market than a 3v3 pvp only BR game
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 04, 2019, 04:58:58 PM
Are those names for real?  :lol

If you think that's something, check out the full list of Bioware founders:

Ray Muzyka
Greg Zeschuk
Trent Oster
Brent Oster
Marcel Zeschuk
Augustine Yip
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Raist on February 04, 2019, 07:12:13 PM
Quote
BioWare is a Canadian video game developer based in Edmonton, Alberta. It was founded in May 1995 by newly graduated medical doctors Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk, alongside Trent Oster, Brent Oster, Marcel Zeschuk and Augustine Yip.


The fuck :lol
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: benjipwns on February 04, 2019, 07:14:32 PM
IIRC they still practiced part-time until like around Jade Empire or something

Augustine Yip is also a MD
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 04, 2019, 07:18:49 PM
At least one or more of them went back to doctoring after the EA-buyout, from what I remember.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: tiesto on February 04, 2019, 07:29:49 PM
At least one or more of them went back to doctoring after the EA-buyout, from what I remember.

One of the founders has a web show about craft beer:
https://www.polygon.com/2013/1/28/3924078/bioware-greg-zeschuk-beer-diaries
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: nachobro on February 05, 2019, 10:26:52 AM
Grabbed a key for $25 so I'll be in there for better or worse :doge
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: thisismyusername on February 05, 2019, 11:46:58 AM
Grabbed a key for $25 so I'll be in there for better or worse :doge

(https://media.giphy.com/media/1M9fmo1WAFVK0/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 05, 2019, 11:54:06 AM
He just couldn't wait 6 months for it go F2P
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: nachobro on February 05, 2019, 12:02:18 PM
i had fun with the demo and have three other friends who are bored of wow/destiny :yeshrug
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: MMaRsu on February 05, 2019, 12:19:25 PM
i had fun with the demo and have three other friends who are bored of wow/destiny :yeshrug

So now let's play something that's exactly the same

great idea  ???
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: HardcoreRetro on February 05, 2019, 12:52:37 PM
Nah, don't worry dude. It's different.

This has no style to call its own.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: nachobro on February 05, 2019, 01:19:32 PM
So now let's play something that's exactly the same

great idea  ???
yeah welcome to mmo/loot game players :lol
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Nabbis on February 05, 2019, 03:08:10 PM
Wish they just made more Dragon Age.  :-\
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: HardcoreRetro on February 05, 2019, 04:23:16 PM
They mentioned they are working on Dragon Age 4 at the game awards.

Edit: Unless you're looking for more like Dragon Age Origins. Then it's probably better to look at Obsidian, Inxile or Larian's output.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Nintex on February 05, 2019, 05:29:38 PM
https://twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/1092910958131986434 (https://twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/1092910958131986434)

 :neogaf

(https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/mobile/000/016/729/large.jpg)
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: kingv on February 05, 2019, 06:01:03 PM
Anthem seems to have had a reverse hype cycle. The closer it gets to release the less hype it has.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on February 06, 2019, 08:23:27 AM
Anthem is this month? I thought it was years away

Kind of funny to hear its still so rough  :lol
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: HardcoreRetro on February 18, 2019, 10:55:31 AM
I'm liking what I'm hearing about the loading screens.

Sonic 06 levels.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Nintex on February 18, 2019, 06:40:48 PM
Looking at the videos of the YouTubers have started to pop up it seems that the gaming industry is really doing a bad job of explaining the following to the gamers at large.

1. Game development has not gotten 'easier'. In fact it got much more demanding and difficult. Sony and MS even upped the difficulty by adding Xbox One X and PS4 Pro into the mix
while at the same time demanding that everything runs on Xbox One S and PS4 as well.

2. Online games are harder to build than offline games. The Anthem shown at E3 might've actually existed and ran on Xbox One X at one point.
But getting all the environment animations, players, enemies and NPC's synced up between multiple players is an entirely different story.

3. Game development has gotten crazy expensive. The "FULL 60 DOLLARS!!" outrage is uncalled for because this same pricepoint has been kept since at least 2008 while labour costs
and pretty much all other development costs have gone up. Games have not gotten more 'expensive'. New ways of monetizing are not being used to fund the development of the current game but allow for development of the next
game. They have to make money from the existing product beyond the initial purchase because copies sold will not cover the minimum of 3 - 4 years of development of the next game.

4. It is clear to me that between Crackdown 3 and Anthem more publishers are looking for 'Netflix' 70/100 type games. They just want to push out content to their subscribers. These are not games meant to last 50 hours but
rather bite sized entertainment which you might boot up at any time when you feel like it. They are 'good enough' but not 'amazing' on their own. MS and EA didn't pick the right games for this approach though.
Anthem was considered a new AAA+ benchmark in gaming (which it seems, it was never meant to be) and Crackdown 3 of course 'the power of the cloud 6 years in the making'. All while Sumo was chugging along building a flashy open-world action game.

There seems to be a big disconnect between what the 'influencers' and gamers think the goals are of games like Anthem and what the actual goals of the publishers are.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 18, 2019, 07:14:07 PM
Also, it's apparently not that good.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: mormapope on February 18, 2019, 07:35:49 PM
I forgot there was an OT  :doge

(https://www.pablocenter.org/images/events/die-hard.jpg?1538950350)

Just kidding, this shit is gonna die hard brehs.

Playing the ten hour trial on EA Access. Playing on Xbone X, installed on an external HD. Played all major Bioware releases except DA:I and ME:A.

Pros
Game can look very pretty depending on the lighting and environment. Abilities in combat look spectacular.

Abilities are satisfying to use as the Storm class. Cooldowns are quick, can hover longer in combat. Lightning ability is great for AoE.

The majority of story stuff can be skipped. Most cutscenes and all dialog options can be skipped.

Combat is fun when everyone is spamming abilities. Matchmaking with randos is usually pretty efficient.

Cons
Incredibly bland cast of characters, worst cast in a Bioware game easily. First person stuff in the main fort is complete fluff. Give less of a shit for the characters versus something like Destiny or Diablo (pretty damning imo).

Game's visuals are very inconsistent. Character models, the Javelins, animations in general, look really outdated. Mass Effect Andromeda looks better after all it's patches, and has better animation across the board.

Loot has been total shit. No excitement for what you'll get from enemies. Leveling up unlocks more slots to equipe passive modifiers. All abilities can be loot drops, crafting seems to level up existing abilities? All armor is cosmetic.

Enemy design is bland. Mission design is bland (not surprising, but good loot would offset this, and vice versa).

Performance on Xbone X is fucking terrible. Turning off motion blur and chromatic aberration, you can see just how juddery and inconsistent the framerate is. Doesn't matter if you're staring at a tree or neck deep in red crab monsters, it runs horrendously.

Load screen nirvana.

Verdict

If this was free to play, I could consider this to be decent competition against Warframe, a decent start that could lead to something great. As a $60 game, god damn, you can buy a lot more enjoyable games.


My take on it. Unless there's a major overhaul or expansion planned, avoid for the foreseeable future. I've enjoyed dumping time into Destiny as a franchise, and Diablo 3. Anthem does have a slightly addictive flavor to it, but I don't foresee a rewarding endgame.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: HardcoreRetro on February 19, 2019, 03:59:53 AM
The writing for one of the female characters in the hub was great. She keeps bitchin on about wanting to pet some animal and then later on goes on about her own pets. She starts crying if you tell her to shut up and just give you a fucking mission.

Fantastic.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 19, 2019, 01:36:13 PM
The writing for one of the female characters in the hub was great. She keeps bitchin on about wanting to pet some animal and then later on goes on about her own pets. She starts crying if you tell her to shut up and just give you a fucking mission.

Fantastic.

Thanks, Anita!
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: MMaRsu on February 20, 2019, 12:49:50 PM
Dont buy this crap yall
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: nachobro on February 20, 2019, 01:45:36 PM
i already did! suck it, eurotrash!
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: MMaRsu on February 20, 2019, 01:59:03 PM
Have fun playing a broken boring game then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhe76p6Tiro&t=1s

 :doge
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: nachobro on February 20, 2019, 02:02:23 PM
had a good time with the demo, can't really pretend to care what a random youtube video says :yeshrug
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: MMaRsu on February 20, 2019, 02:07:40 PM
Well that guy finished the game and he's a big Bioware and lootshooter fan so I assume he knows what he's talking about.

His biggest points

-loadscreens everywhere, wanna see your inventory? loading screen. Want to equip a new weapon? 4 loading screens. Decide you don't like that weapon? Another 4 loading screens to change it back.
-Feels very repetitive, even more so than something like Diablo 3 or Destiny. This because the game has only a few missions, which you need to replay over and over to level. Those other games hide that feeling by just being better games. Having more varied and interesting missions and or structure.
-The endgame is weak, there are only 3 "raids" or "dungeons". And one is just the last mission you are supposed to replay  :lol.

He basically says that Bioware had a lot to learn from lootshooters from the past, to improve on that and make a great loot shooter.

Instead they didn't learn from any of Destiny's faults, and the game is even worse than that game supposedly.

Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on February 20, 2019, 02:12:05 PM
Loading screen to see your inventory? Id like to see that  :lol

Also Mmrasu: no one that has played any bioware stuff beyond ME2 has any illusions to where they stand now.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: MMaRsu on February 20, 2019, 02:17:48 PM
I totally agree, I loved Bioware back in the days.. I have not even played Mass Effect 3 due to all the bad word of mouth. And I really enjoyed Mass Effect 2 ( except the shitty RED VEINS ALL OVER MY SCREEN WHEN GETTING SHOT AT WTF )

But yeah they haven't made a good game in years as far as I'm concerned.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: nachobro on February 20, 2019, 02:36:55 PM
yeah you have to go through a loading screen to get to the forge (how you set equipment loadouts). kinda annoying but fixable, can just speed the load time or add in a "test/training area" where you can try out weapons before going on a mission. easy enough. not being able to change loadouts mid mission is kinda silly but also fixable.

people also seem really upset that you have to go back to the base/forge to see what gear you got post-mission but i'm not seeing how that's different than decrypting engrams in destiny ???
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: paprikastaude on February 20, 2019, 02:39:17 PM
Xbox marketing has a GAF review thread-esque meltdown  :doge

https://twitter.com/XboxQwik/status/1098220698152034304
https://twitter.com/XboxQwik/status/1098241534451802113
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: nachobro on February 20, 2019, 02:40:41 PM
 :holeup

if i made co-marketing deals for this and Fallout 76 I'd be mad too :lol
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on February 20, 2019, 02:47:58 PM
I wonder how big of a flop this will be

F2P within a year?
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: nachobro on February 20, 2019, 02:50:12 PM
I imagine some clever math will be used to make it not look so bad. They gave away keys to it for every 20 series Nvidia card sold so they can count those as sales. That's how I got the game, a resold gfx card key. Plus they can count EA/Origin Access as sales probably.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Positive Touch on February 20, 2019, 02:56:37 PM
mass effect 3 was mostly a great game please eat my ass guys
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: The Sceneman on February 20, 2019, 03:20:32 PM
I agree. The multiplayer was the shiiiit. Story had lame ending but who cares you still got to shoot aliens in the face for 20 hours.

Actually if this is my metric for a good game maybe Anthem is up my alley, lol
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Svejk on February 20, 2019, 03:22:26 PM
Falling down is faster than flying down...  Dem phyziczzzz

https://kotaku.com/in-anthem-falling-is-faster-than-flying-1832759800
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: nachobro on February 20, 2019, 03:43:14 PM
I agree. The multiplayer was the shiiiit. Story had lame ending but who cares you still got to shoot aliens in the face for 20 hours.

Actually if this is my metric for a good game maybe Anthem is up my alley, lol
The combat does feel a bit like ME3 MP + ME:A
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Nintex on February 20, 2019, 03:54:13 PM
I see Kotaku is doing another hit job on a quality Bioware product.
That's some dumb shit.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: HardcoreRetro on February 20, 2019, 04:03:18 PM
Do you work at EA?
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: bork on February 20, 2019, 11:59:27 PM
I'm liking what I'm hearing about the loading screens.

Sonic 06 levels.

Worse!

https://twitter.com/Nitomatta/status/1098409197773848576
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Dickie Dee on February 21, 2019, 12:43:55 AM
https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1098308824577044485
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: kingv on February 21, 2019, 01:05:07 AM
I feel like the load screen times are not much worse than destiny 2... they are just more static and boring
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: bluemax on February 21, 2019, 01:26:10 AM
I wonder how big of a flop this will be

F2P within a year?

Rumor has it if they don't have 1mm DAU by end of March they'll get hit with layoffs. Probably gonna get layoffs no matter how it performs.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on February 21, 2019, 01:41:39 AM
I'm liking what I'm hearing about the loading screens.

Sonic 06 levels.

Worse!

https://twitter.com/Nitomatta/status/1098409197773848576

Tbf sonic 06 wasnt bottlencked by xbox one specs
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: nachobro on February 21, 2019, 09:06:17 AM
pc with ssd :rejoice
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: MMaRsu on February 21, 2019, 12:11:57 PM
That video was pc  :lol
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: nachobro on February 21, 2019, 12:24:29 PM
i got faster load screens than that during the beta. :yeshrug that person should invest in tech from this decade.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Rufus on February 21, 2019, 12:27:16 PM
Says it was on an SSD. :idont

https://twitter.com/Nitomatta/status/1098415103748128768

But hold on, they originally claim they compared it, implying they created the comparison. :thinking

But then there's also this?

https://twitter.com/Nitomatta/status/1098429660822523910
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: nachobro on February 21, 2019, 12:31:09 PM
makes me wonder what outlet they got it from, cause i don't have a top tier pc and still have yet to see any load screen that long
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: MMaRsu on February 21, 2019, 12:53:20 PM
(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/406371602482069508/548198235534131221/Screenshot_20190221-124237.jpg)
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: nachobro on February 21, 2019, 12:54:42 PM
funny thing is there's plenty to bag on in the game without having to make up load time videos and claim you created them

- no waypoints on map
- no notice on map of public events
- no text chat on pc
- loads to get to the forge
- two endgame missions
- no numerical character stat breakdown
- nothing story
- hard has the same enemy ai as normal

but hey it'll keep me busy. i'm enjoying playing it with friends and will be in tonight. some of the complaints i see are just goofy though. oh the missions are similar...you mean just like every mmo and destiny and division and other loot games? maybe this genre just isn't for you lol
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: demi on February 21, 2019, 01:05:51 PM
spoken like a destiny player
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: nachobro on February 21, 2019, 01:10:44 PM
i honestly should have gotten into destiny and division earlier. :lol they scratch the itch that i used to get from wow/mmos pretty well (and wow kinds sucks now so it doesn't hold my attention for long)
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: MMaRsu on February 21, 2019, 01:15:22 PM

 oh the missions are similar...you mean just like every mmo and destiny and division and other loot games? maybe this genre just isn't for you lol

Come on man stop this bs. It's obvious that other games try to diversify their missions and mission structure. Destiny 2 learned a lot from the missions in Destiny 1 right?

I mean I dont really care but I don't think that "this genre isnt for you" is a valid defense, since these complaints come from people who actually love this genre.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: demi on February 21, 2019, 01:22:36 PM
I think Anthem may be worth visiting down the road - it's clearly going to have growing pains like D1 did - but we will see I guess.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: nachobro on February 21, 2019, 01:26:51 PM
most destiny missions seem to be "walk through this sewer looking tunnel shooting dudes and eventually fight a boss". division has a bit more variety but it's just adding on "hold F next to this generator/computer/scanner" to the mix. most missions in these games seem to be their version of "kill x kobolds" in wow. i'm not even complaining on that front. it's just some shit to do while chatting with people in dickscord or watching stuff on giantbomb.

I think Anthem may be worth visiting down the road - it's clearly going to have growing pains like D1 did - but we will see I guess.
them committing to free content updates is what convinced me to get in cheap now. we'll see how long that practice actually lasts but it seems their first content update will be in march.

playing division 1 to pass the time til anthem has basically convinced me to get division 2 though, assuming it'll run well on my pc :lol
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Nintex on February 21, 2019, 02:00:20 PM
I don't understand where people got the idea that Anthem would have story and gameplay.
It is nothing more than a loot shooter.

You shoot stuff, it dies, you get loot. Getting to fly like Iron Man is like icing on the already stuffed cake.

Loot shooters are pretty much the crack cocaine scraped from the streets of interactive entertainment products.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: nachobro on February 21, 2019, 02:01:14 PM
and i'm gonna be playing three of them at once like some disgusting junkie :aah
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: MMaRsu on February 21, 2019, 02:01:53 PM
Except the loot in this game sucks and is nothing more than a stat increase, no cool new weapons or ability's, or armor with stats.

Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Mr Gilhaney on February 21, 2019, 02:02:50 PM
is anthem good?

(https://i.imgur.com/8QE7C8P.jpg)
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 21, 2019, 02:06:06 PM
Wait for Outer Worlds instead.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: nachobro on February 21, 2019, 02:11:02 PM
Except the loot in this game sucks and is nothing more than a stat increase, no cool new weapons or ability's, or armor with stats.
what? all your javelin abilities other than the ultimate are based on the gear you have equipped
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: MMaRsu on February 21, 2019, 02:14:10 PM
Yeah but every upgrade is just a stat increase instead of a change to your abilities.

It's like playing Diablo 3 with the basic ability's that just increase in damage over time, not how you use them or what they do.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on February 21, 2019, 03:53:33 PM
(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/406371602482069508/548198235534131221/Screenshot_20190221-124237.jpg)

Sounds a lot like destiny
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Rahxephon91 on February 21, 2019, 06:45:07 PM
I don’t really understand your defense of the game Nintex.

Where did people get the idea that it would have a story? From Bioware themselves? From the game’s obnoxious Fort Tarsis talk to people to advance shit. I’m sorry saying bs like it was never meant to have a story as a defense for the story being shit is lame. The game has a focus on world building and it’s story.

Oh EA intends it to be a 70 MC game that people quickly play and leave has no basis in reality for a GAS game meant to last for a long time.

Game is ok. Can look pretty amazing on PC. Shooting can be pretty fun. In the end it has the same problems that I have with these games. Just kind of boring missions and simply the fact that I don’t care about loot. Still at least the gameplay is fun.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: HardcoreRetro on February 22, 2019, 05:35:28 AM
*Looks at the current metacritic*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGlo9LzmOME
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: MMaRsu on February 22, 2019, 03:30:30 PM
According to ACG the loading on a SSD is 1 to 2 minutes, with a M2 cutting it down to 45 seconds.

And as the game progresses the loading times increase...

 :-\
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Raist on February 22, 2019, 04:25:53 PM
Reviews average tracking quite lower than ME:A :lol
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on February 22, 2019, 04:34:03 PM
Why did EA put Westwood etc down but Bioware is allowed to carry on?
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: paprikastaude on February 22, 2019, 04:38:55 PM
Why did EA put Westwood etc down but Bioware is allowed to carry on?

you think they carry on after this :umad
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Nintex on February 22, 2019, 04:44:33 PM
Lay-offs could be possible but EA is fast running out of studios and if they signal that they will end BioWare it is almost certain that Microsoft would pick them up.
So at this point, I expect it all depends on what is currently in the pipeline and if that is promising or not.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Rufus on February 22, 2019, 04:47:55 PM
A lot of pressure to put on the next Dragon Age.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Nintex on February 22, 2019, 05:36:46 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8snFkIwJOWI

Angry gamer can't appreciate Majestic Loading screens  :comeon
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: benjipwns on February 23, 2019, 01:42:15 AM
Why did EA put Westwood etc down but Bioware is allowed to carry on?
well in that specific instance, the disaster was called Earth & Beyond

iirc, they did allow almost the entire studio to move to EA LA if they wanted
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Bebpo on February 23, 2019, 08:24:01 PM
I was at lunch today at a restaurant bar and one of the guy servers walked by to the other servers and was like "I was up until 5am playing Anthem last night, THAT GAME SUCKS" and then another guy server was all "Yeah, did you play the beta, that game's terrible" and then a 3rd male server chimed in "Yeah, I picked it up and it's so bad" and then the one gal server just sorta stood quietly looking at her 3 co-workers like what the fuck is up with this nerd talk.

Just made me wonder when games will eventually be more inclusive. My friend group hangouts are similar where all the guys will talk about some latest videogame and all the girls just sit there and wait for the guys to stop talking about games so they can join the conversation.

Anyhow that doesn't have much to do with Anthem but it also does.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: bork on February 23, 2019, 08:33:59 PM
I was at lunch today at a restaurant bar and one of the guy servers walked by to the other servers and was like "I was up until 5am playing Anthem last night, THAT GAME SUCKS" and then another guy server was all "Yeah, did you play the beta, that game's terrible" and then a 3rd male server chimed in "Yeah, I picked it up and it's so bad" and then the one gal server just sorta stood quietly looking at her 3 co-workers like what the fuck is up with this nerd talk.

Just made me wonder when games will eventually be more inclusive. My friend group hangouts are similar where all the guys will talk about some latest videogame and all the girls just sit there and wait for the guys to stop talking about games so they can join the conversation.

Anyhow that doesn't have much to do with Anthem but it also does.

She could be a huge nerd and just put on her workplace face- A few weeks back at work I was helping someone and she asks me if I like video games, then proceeds to tell me how she has this whole multi-PS4 setup at her place just to play multiplayer Destiny, was asking me about the whole Diablo mobile debacle, and wanted to know if I thought she might be able to get away with having PS4 remote play software installed on her work laptop.   :lol  Never would have guessed she was so into the vidya.  Found out she's also big into cosplay and was a guest at Dragoncon once or twice.  You never know!
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Nintex on February 24, 2019, 07:03:28 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AJsKyh0x7w

In ways this looks like the Wind Waker a lot of wasted potential.
At some point Joe has to grind to open a tomb. Find chests, finish a number of missions etc. to progress further.

So he enters the tomb and it's literally just 1 room with an item to collect.

The strider things we've seen in the trailer apparently don't move around also and a lot of stuff simply happens in cutscenes and is not playable.
Looks like they vastly had to reduce the scope of this game to make it run on base Xbox One and PS4 systems.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: nachobro on February 24, 2019, 12:18:33 PM
The newest patch fixed crashing/loading bugs for PC but also dropped everyone's FPS by like 10 :lol

I think I made a mistake rolling with the big tank mech but it sounds like I'll be able to swap between mechs with the next mission I finish. Definitely would like some other QOL improvements but there's been two patches already so they at least seem committed.

Also I'm not really getting the complaints around the tomb stuff. It's a little MMO grindy but I had a lot of the challenges halfway or more done right when I unlocked the quests cause the game tracks everything you do anyway. The hardest one is probably Titan kills since I've not seen any outside of a mission but you only need 3 of those.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on February 24, 2019, 04:16:47 PM
Looks like they vastly had to reduce the scope of this game to make it run on base Xbox One and PS4 systems.

Lol if u believe this is scaled back due to hardware limitations not ea/bioware shithousery
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: kingv on February 24, 2019, 04:31:19 PM
The scope of games hasn’t really changed since 360 games imo.

There are very few games that I can think of that could not have been largely realized on the 360 just with worse graphics.

Honestly I am not sure I can even come up with one.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Nintex on February 24, 2019, 06:25:20 PM
Xbox One has about 5GB DDR3 RAM available for games and a 2013 GPU. The hardware is pretty much as old as the GameCube was when the Wii launched.
To give an example of how far behind the Xbox One is in terms of specs compared to modern machines.

I'm pretty sure the Xbox One X could handle more but Microsoft and Sony have set the rule that everything needs to run on both PS4/Xbox One as well as PS4 Pro/Xbox One X.
Had Anthem been a PS4 Pro/Xbox One X/PC only game it would've probably turned out better.
In fact some early 2017 Xbox One X demo material (like Anthem) show signs that this 'rule' wasn't there from the beginning and that demo's like Anthem were made with just Xbox One X specs in mind.
(remember that at some point Microsoft considered to not do an 'Xbox One X' upgrade type thing but launch it as a 'next gen' console instead)

Also don't underestimate the additional resources required for optimizing online play both on fast wired internet connections as well as wifi.

As for the 'scope' not changing. I don't agree with that at all. Online play on Xbox 360 was mostly limited to small maps. Open world games with online play weren't that common either.
I recently looked back at some Xbox 360 games and some really don't hold up anymore.

Anthem seems like something that should've been kept for next gen. A killer launch title and BioWare would've had the time they needed to get it perfect(like they had with the original Mass Effect) plus it wouldn't have been limited by the current gen hardware.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on February 25, 2019, 01:23:12 AM
No
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on February 25, 2019, 02:04:05 AM
Edit: also lol that Mass Effect was perfect, it was alright, more like a proof of concept installment, what was great was the promise and hope future installments would be better. While ME2 improved on a lot of things and was "the better game" it wasn't a better Mass Effect and really showed Bioware was done doing rpgs and complex games. Dragon Age wasnt brilliant either btw, but it also gave that sense that the next one would be better which also did t happen. Dragon Age 2 was like a mod done by fans that should have been cut half in size and released as an expansion maybe. DA3 was an abomination offline mmo only the most autistic people could enjoy. Mass Effect 3 was a direct to dvd sequel of a blockbuster movie (like that Russian Die Hard we never talk about).
Mass Effect 4 is DA3 in space.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Raist on February 25, 2019, 05:07:47 AM
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-02-25-anthem-physical-sales-half-mass-effect-andromeda
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Huff on February 25, 2019, 08:41:59 AM
want to play a better, cheaper anthem?

destiny thread is that a way
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: nachobro on February 25, 2019, 09:00:32 AM
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-02-25-anthem-physical-sales-half-mass-effect-andromeda
hey #1 still #1
 
:rejoice
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: kingv on February 25, 2019, 12:15:50 PM
Xbox One has about 5GB DDR3 RAM available for games and a 2013 GPU. The hardware is pretty much as old as the GameCube was when the Wii launched.
To give an example of how far behind the Xbox One is in terms of specs compared to modern machines.

I'm pretty sure the Xbox One X could handle more but Microsoft and Sony have set the rule that everything needs to run on both PS4/Xbox One as well as PS4 Pro/Xbox One X.
Had Anthem been a PS4 Pro/Xbox One X/PC only game it would've probably turned out better.
In fact some early 2017 Xbox One X demo material (like Anthem) show signs that this 'rule' wasn't there from the beginning and that demo's like Anthem were made with just Xbox One X specs in mind.
(remember that at some point Microsoft considered to not do an 'Xbox One X' upgrade type thing but launch it as a 'next gen' console instead)

Also don't underestimate the additional resources required for optimizing online play both on fast wired internet connections as well as wifi.

As for the 'scope' not changing. I don't agree with that at all. Online play on Xbox 360 was mostly limited to small maps. Open world games with online play weren't that common either.
I recently looked back at some Xbox 360 games and some really don't hold up anymore.

Anthem seems like something that should've been kept for next gen. A killer launch title and BioWare would've had the time they needed to get it perfect(like they had with the original Mass Effect) plus it wouldn't have been limited by the current gen hardware.

Open world games with online play were not that common, but they did exist. GTA online and red Dead Online existed. What other open world games with online are there even that people play? Are you counting things like destiny, which released on ps3 and 360


I think most of the deficit in online play last gen was really because very few games used dedicated servers. One of the few series I can think of that has a clearly gimped online on 360 was the battlefield series, which never had the 64 player online afaik. But I also think it never had dedicated servers until this gen.

Certainly, not every game can be simply ported to last gen, but I just haven’t played anything this generation where I said “wow this was truly not possible before”. I’m not really talking about graphics, as those are obviously better but just the idea of “is there anything in this game that fundamentally could not be realized last gen?”

Even the the big games like Red Dead 2. Sure the world might be too big and detailed for a dvd, but fundamentally a very similar experience could be had last gen. This is just different to previous generations st least from my perspective. When I play some 360 games, there’s a lot of them that imo just couldn’t really be done justice on a PS2. GTA5 or Red Dead Redemption just would be fundamentally different games on a GameCube.

In fact, I would say that the most fundamentally unique game in scope I have played in the last few years was basically on last gen hardware. That would be Zelda.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Nintex on February 28, 2019, 03:36:43 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3USYN8kHkG0

One of them played it for 70 hours. jesus  :doge
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: nachobro on February 28, 2019, 03:56:42 PM
That doesn't seem like much. I'm 16 hours in and only level 13, been playing a bit every night. Granted my opinion might change at endgame but I've not had any issues finding anything to do in the game. I got main story and side quests stacked up.

Because of the weird map thing there's no real point in hopping into Freeplay now that I've finished the tomb quests that were supposedly so awful and grindy.

Other than the things I've stated before, I'd like to see the Apex ping system in this game (or really all MP games) cause it'd fix a lot of issues I see with party members just being too dense/not paying attention to get quests completed.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: nachobro on February 28, 2019, 04:01:31 PM
also, #1 in japan :lol

http://www.pushsquare.com/news/2019/02/japanese_sales_charts_anthem_flies_into_first_place_on_ps4
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on March 01, 2019, 12:12:53 AM
Wow xbox is selling 70 units a week  :lol
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Nintex on March 01, 2019, 04:53:40 AM
Wow xbox is selling 70 units a week  :lol
Wow such momentum slow and steady wins the race  8)
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on March 01, 2019, 06:35:06 AM
Its crazy to think the gap between xbox and switch/ps4 is prob widening by like 250k/500k or more a month

No wonder about the rumours of xbox pass coming to everything, ms has conceded the console wars
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 10, 2020, 01:29:19 PM
https://twitter.com/gameinformer/status/1226934867386085377

:neogaf
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Yeti on February 10, 2020, 02:18:27 PM
Wow it’s been almost a full year since someone posted in this thread
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 10, 2020, 07:10:39 PM
It's also been that long since anyone played Anthem.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Svejk on February 10, 2020, 08:07:37 PM
I should pick it up if it's $7 again... just for shiggles... 
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: nachobro on February 10, 2020, 08:11:33 PM
i thought the single player was enjoyable enough for $20 but in retrospect $7 seems more fair
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: bluemax on February 10, 2020, 10:15:16 PM
It's also been that long since anyone played Anthem.

I played it just recently!

The loading times are a mess.

Even for the $5 I spent on this, it's sort of hard to understand why anyone would want to play it over Destiny or Warframe. Unless you like the Iron Man flying I guess.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Chooky on February 11, 2020, 08:40:05 AM
still not sure if i should play the copy i picked up or wait for the reboot
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Svejk on February 11, 2020, 09:09:49 AM
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the "reboot" should be a huge patch for the original sku, kinda like No Man's Sky did, right? 


PSN has this priced at $59.99 atm   :foodcourt
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 11, 2020, 09:43:27 AM
Presumably it's going to be a No Man's Sky/FF14-style massive patch on the base game. I can't imagine that a brand new release would have even the faintest chance of working.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: nachobro on February 11, 2020, 10:08:31 AM
ff14 was a near full redo, not just a patch. this is probably gonna be more like NMS cause EA doesn't have the patience for them to remake the entire game.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 11, 2020, 10:13:05 AM
FF14 was a redo, yeah, but it still stacked on the initial release; you didn't have to go out and re-buy it.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: nachobro on February 11, 2020, 10:27:04 AM
tbf there weren't many of us who bought it in the first place. :lol the plus side was lifetime benefits for 2.0 and beyond
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 11, 2020, 10:58:58 AM
I picked up the original release for a few bucks and then activated it just before the big update.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: nachobro on February 11, 2020, 11:05:42 AM
if you paid for either 2 or 3 months before the sub went away (cant remember which) you got two special mounts (one you had to do a quest for), $10/month sub for life, and a tattoo on your character that shows everyone you were a rube who paid for 1.0

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-QnCDMUYAAFVae?format=png&name=small)
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: who is ted danson? on February 24, 2021, 02:39:11 PM
https://blog.bioware.com/2021/02/24/anthem-update/

They gave up.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 24, 2021, 02:58:42 PM
 :pika
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: paprikastaude on February 24, 2021, 03:07:10 PM
 :juicy
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: bork on February 24, 2021, 03:11:31 PM
https://twitter.com/Spartinel/status/1364658362588094464
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Nintex on February 24, 2021, 03:32:59 PM
If EA didn't have the eternal cashcow EA Sports micro transactions the entire company would've folded years ago.
They're only being kept afloat by licenses. Hell, these fucks couldn't even keep an exclusive Star Wars contract  :lol

I fear what happens to BioWare if the Mass Effect remake is another buggy mess.  :doge
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 24, 2021, 03:39:11 PM
They abandoned Anthem to work on Mass Effect Remastered, so in theory, if Mass Effect Remastered bombs, they'll be forced to release Anthem Remastered. :rejoice
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Pissy F Benny on February 24, 2021, 03:49:22 PM
It would have been more of a shock if they announced that the NEW AND IMPROVED anthem was still coming tbh :trumps
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: benjipwns on February 24, 2021, 04:20:53 PM
All according to ten year keikaku.
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Post by: Great Rumbler on February 24, 2021, 06:11:38 PM
https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1364665339364204551
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: remy on February 24, 2021, 06:31:11 PM
https://twitter.com/Spartinel/status/1364658362588094464
Bioware can't finish their shit
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 24, 2021, 07:00:39 PM
Bioware doesn't have anyone left who knows what they're doing.
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Post by: Nintex on February 24, 2021, 07:06:27 PM
It's really difficult to built games with mostly junior staff and C, D, E tier developers.

Many EA studios have been bleeding talent for years. Mass Effect Andromeda was really a case of 'this is the best our engineers can do' and that prompted creatives to leave because their vision wasn't brought to life.
People really underestimate just how many great developers working behind the scenes leave the industry after a game or 2 for better terms and wages in other industries or set up their own "I fix your shit" outsourcing shop.
Developers with very little experience, writing sloppy code in unfinished engines in a very small amount of time for inexperienced creative directors with no vision but the advancement of their career has just been a recipe for disaster for a lot of games.

Nvidia's "driver" is basically just a collection of workarounds and hotfixes for specific games to deal with bugs on a hardware or instruction level that the developers couldn't fix in time for release.

My bro always tells me about these things that are just fundamentally broken in Unreal Engine 4 and moving from one update to the next usually means fixing a ton of bugs and stuff that breaks along the way.
But no one is going to judge a game or a developer based on the quality of the code (except other developers), so no one really cares about quality standards in any shape or form.
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Post by: Lonewulfeus on February 24, 2021, 07:27:18 PM
BioWare’s days appear numbered, great job on destroying another awesome developer EA :salute
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Post by: demi on February 24, 2021, 08:36:34 PM
Destiny skates past another one...

The Division
Anthem
Marvel's The Avengers
Outriders
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Human Snorenado on February 24, 2021, 09:32:32 PM
BioWare’s days appear numbered, great job on destroying another awesome developer EA :salute

BioWare peaked with ME2, it's been steadily downhill since and tbh their games were always just kinda "good I guess" as opposed to awesome or whatever. At this point who cares.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Pissy F Benny on February 24, 2021, 10:08:29 PM
I will miss biowares particular brand of stilted dialogue when EA puts a bullet in them soon :tocry
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Post by: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 24, 2021, 10:13:32 PM
Crazy that Fallout 76 outlasted Anthem.
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on February 24, 2021, 10:27:45 PM
It's not hard to see why a game that's main vision was seemingly EA head honchos telling bioware to make them a desinty knockoff was such a giant failure :doge
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Post by: Svejk on February 25, 2021, 07:07:14 AM
Warframe says hi...  And is now pointing and laughing.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: mormapope on February 25, 2021, 07:08:26 AM
BioWare’s days appear numbered, great job on destroying another awesome developer EA :salute

BioWare peaked with ME2, it's been steadily downhill since and tbh their games were always just kinda "good I guess" as opposed to awesome or whatever. At this point who cares.

This was evident when Bioware went from KOTOR, which was pretty good, to Jade Empire, which was a mediocre action game combined with a mediocre RPG. The same thing happened to Dragon Age even. Origins? Pretty good and solid RPG. Dragon Age 2? Mediocre in most ways.

Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Lonewulfeus on February 25, 2021, 07:57:50 AM
BioWare’s days appear numbered, great job on destroying another awesome developer EA :salute

BioWare peaked with ME2, it's been steadily downhill since and tbh their games were always just kinda "good I guess" as opposed to awesome or whatever. At this point who cares.

You’re not wrong, but I’ll always have fond memories of ME1, Kotor and DAO.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Don Rumata on February 25, 2021, 08:14:45 AM
I'm bummed.
Didnt play it, but the flying suits looked cool, i was hoping for them to fix it.
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Post by: MMaRsu on February 25, 2021, 08:32:38 AM
Same
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Post by: BIONIC on February 25, 2021, 09:10:56 AM
They could copy and paste the flying mechanics into the next ME and it wouldn’t be out of place at all  :idont
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Post by: who is ted danson? on February 25, 2021, 09:22:22 AM
MS should buy Bioware and get them to make Halo Infinite

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haloguy x cortana sex scene :whew

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Arby x haloguy sex scene :shaq
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Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Tasty on February 25, 2021, 10:10:49 AM
Haloguy :lol
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Post by: HardcoreRetro on February 25, 2021, 11:28:20 AM
Could've at the very least rebranded the game as EULOGY.
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Post by: who is ted danson? on December 22, 2022, 01:04:05 PM
 :lol
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Post by: Pissy F Benny on December 22, 2022, 01:11:06 PM
:confused
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Nintex on December 22, 2022, 01:45:04 PM
Didn't Halsey castrate the Spartrans?
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: benjipwns on December 22, 2022, 06:06:00 PM
$2 maybe I'll get it :elon
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 24, 2022, 09:40:35 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpUR3moi0CQ
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Tasty on December 24, 2022, 11:47:39 PM
An anthem for a funeral. Call it DIRGE.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 02, 2023, 08:39:29 PM
of Cerberus
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: BIONIC on January 03, 2023, 08:03:20 AM
I bought this shit for a buck eighty.

I probably still won’t play it :lol
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Pissy F Benny on January 04, 2023, 10:32:25 AM
is it on gamepass?
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 04, 2023, 10:37:51 AM
is it on gamepass?

It's on EA Play. so yeah.
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: benjipwns on December 22, 2023, 12:04:23 AM
ONE DOLLAR: https://www.ea.com/games/anthem/buy/pc
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 23, 2023, 01:19:54 AM
I wouldn't buy that for a dollar
Title: Re: The official thread of Bioware/EA's ANTHEM
Post by: Pissy F Benny on December 24, 2023, 01:57:56 PM
I won't even download it for 'free' on gamepass, I need that HD space for other shit :heh