Not in a year where the Ace Combat 7 soundtrack also hit!
It's pretty amazing though, but I find it a bit predictable at times.
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Not in a year where the Ace Combat 7 soundtrack also hit!
It's pretty amazing though, but I find it a bit predictable at times.
Yeah, I had a similar experience. I had to pop off a few world events, chest openings, and then played a couple of Strongholds to get my revives.
Still awful game design, but not in any way insurmountable even playing solo.
The disconnects from the game's servers are a bigger issue, I just got disconnected from a late game mission right near the end, and its beyond infuriating.
Oh for sure, but I'd hazard to guess that most people who play games like this finish the story and then rarely stick around for the endgame. I don't think they'd want people completing the story during the trial 10 hours and dropping it straight after, so effectively "gated off" the later missions by putting in an unnecessary grind in hopes you'll buy the full experience.
What!?!?
I barely even hear any music in this game at all. Nothing about it stands out. Can you link to some vids of examples because I'm really curious to know where you're coming from.
It's not at all. Anyone spending 4 hours or more on that set of challenges, even if they hit the bug where no previous progress in them counted, I just can't see what they're doing, it's bizarre. The game is just telling you "go do these things that you do in the game anyway, explore the world a bit", but the way they communicated that was pretty crap, it could have been a lot slicker.
Put game on solo, pick up little side missions in Tarsis, go do them and have fun. An hour or so later you've got a load of the stuff crossed off without even trying... then go do a freeplay session and mop up... certainly not making pen and paper lists and ticking stuff off like some said, lol. The chests one is maybe the worst problem... but with endgame in its current state, you could argue it is getting you in the mood for GM3 chest farming runs tee hee.
I haven't played the game. Just listening to the soundtrack.
I agree that the combat is really good and the best playing of them all, but everything else around it is so bad. I believe the combat being as good as it is is the only reason it's going to manage reviews around a 7/10.
There's going to be some drastically different opinions on these questions.
Campaign is anywhere between 10-20 hours.
Story is better than Destinys but not by much.
Game doesn't work well solo at all. Even the mission structure has multiplayer in mind and a lot of things you have to do take far too long for no good reason when playing solo.
I think the sound design is just god awful in this game. I skipped around that vid and it sounds good, but I'd be hard pressed to remember any of it in my 20 hours of play time.
sarah schachner does amazing work. asscreed origins would have been my top score of 2017 if it wasn't for nier
As someone who really enjoyed my time with vanilla destiny i have to say i'm enjoying this game quite a bit.
It feels much like the simple pleasures of destiny which had a solid foundation and just gave you a lot of things to shoot and it felt fun while you were doing it. (opinions may vary of course)
It does however feel like 2 games smacked into one which is it's biggest fault. There's the shoot things open world mission part.
And the Hub word talk to characters BioWare part, and honestly they don't mix well in this case. And one is done A LOT better than the other.
I wish there was a little less story cause it's just so criminally average and stopping me in my tracks in the middle of a mission to give me a 5 minute cutscene isn't really what i want out of a game like this, or any game really.
Some of the characters are surprisingly well done with some really great voice work, so that kind of helps in case of story terms.
I hope once the campaign is finished i can stop with the talking to all the characters in the fort after every mission. But from what i've read endgame is thin right now. But i'm still hopeful.
It feels much like the simple pleasures of destiny which had a solid foundation and just gave you a lot of things to shoot and it felt fun while you were doing it. (opinions may vary of course)
It does however feel like 2 games smacked into one which is it's biggest fault. There's the shoot things open world mission part.
And the Hub word talk to characters BioWare part, and honestly they don't mix well in this case. And one is done A LOT better than the other.
I wish there was a little less story cause it's just so criminally average and stopping me in my tracks in the middle of a mission to give me a 5 minute cutscene isn't really what i want out of a game like this, or any game really.
Some of the characters are surprisingly well done with some really great voice work, so that kind of helps in case of story terms.
I hope once the campaign is finished i can stop with the talking to all the characters in the fort after every mission. But from what i've read endgame is thin right now. But i'm still hopeful.
I expect this to sell extremely well then fall off a cliff in terms of staying power and EA's *expectations* for its continued money making.
I'd say it will meet EA's expectation of 5-6 million by March
I disagree here, but I get that some of the things I enjoy in the game are different than most.
I find the challenge and feeling of me vs the world in solo far more engaging than co-op or playing with randoms, but it works best as Storm. Solo lets me take time to interact in Tarsis and go explore the world at my own pace. Missions feel as tough and tense as the dialogue wants it to be. Playing with randoms is just asking for the story to get broken and bypassed, play in a more organised squad and sometimes the dialogue can't even keep up with the pace that tasks are getting rinsed at.
Just exploring all the nooks and crannies of the world, finding the hidden areas, collecting the little codex thingies, taking the time to be in the world and see it - I like all this stuff, so for me the game works best in solo at this stage. When I'm level 30 and want to go hunting for gear (and hopefully not just open chest after cheat in free play) I'll be making it as hard as possible and teaming up again to playing the stuff that needs team coordination.
Vanilla Destiny was my favourite Destiny for just those reasons.
According to Origin, I put 24 hours in.... and I haven`t finished it yet.
But I´m taking my time, I do every side quest and talk to every NPC possible.
In its core, the story is a pretty traditional fantasy-sci fi-plot but there are some interesting ideas. Biggest difference for me is, that it´s presented way better compared to the other looter-games imo. Talking to NPC´s gives you a sense for the world, cutscenes are epic and there`s a lot of lore.
For the first time in a looter, I actually find the lore to be interesting and care about the characters.
I think the game works fine solo and I found freeplay to be much more entertaining this way.
For me the best was to play is solo, so I don`t have to rush the hub area-stuff, but I mostly choose coop with randoms for the missions.
I feel exactly the same way. I'm not one to make lots of extra effort in these games yet it was really easy to complete. The chests too, so many of those around. I only struggled with the "repair 3 freelancers" bit since no one was dying. However, play a Stronghold mission and they drop like flies :).
It's not an Early Access game. This is the actual finished product that you can play 7 days early.
hah yes, I just revived sentinels, those guys are always going down - at least they say thank you which is more than you get with randoms :)
The repair objective was actually really easy - I played a mission on Hard mode and just did nothing while my teammates got wounded. Healed 3 times in about 5 minutes then quit the mission lmao
Can you do it in missions rather than freeplay? I heard they only counted in freeplay?
And I'm guessing it will line second hand stores very quickly.
It's up. But reviewers are playing it now, at the same time as the Origin Premium Access became available.
Its definitely some missions, I had only done 30 mins of free play, but most of my tombs were filled in.
My best guess is that the open world parts of missions count, but not the cutoff instanced areas. That said, someone above got their revives in a stronghold mission.
My best guess is that the open world parts of missions count, but not the cutoff instanced areas. That said, someone above got their revives in a stronghold mission.
Oh, I see. Might get some this week then, considering others here already finished it.
I don't know about other reviewers but EA didn't even give me a code so I've been playing it through Premier Access. Finished the story last night but will wait a day or two to have time with the post-game.
If you like playing at your own pace that's all well and good. But how do you feel about dying and having to respawn at a check point without anyone being able to revive you in many of the battles? Or having to pick up 6 pieces of crystal and bring them back to a spot all on your own without flight? Or finding 12 orbs all on your own in very far off locations? These missions happen frequently enough to be really poor for solo play. They're meant for multiplayer and they aren't even tweaked when you have fewer members. The games free play and strong holds even force you to play multiplayer. You can't launch those solo at all. I totally get you like to stop and smell the roses, but the game is not designed around that at all. Even if you were trying to do that in free play nothing's stopping a random player from barging in and following you around.
You can do almost all the Tomb quest in any mission you want. It's just that free play offers things like world events to trigger which you need to beat 5 of.
For the Tomb mission, do you need to do the achievements in the zone itself or does it not matter.
Guys, i have questions about the tomb trials.
It's possible to do the trials in normal missions/expeditions?
I have played a lot of missions but the progress in the menu under trials is overall 0/1, 0/3 and so on.
For example: Complete a mission 0/1. Why? I have completed more missions.
Bug or normal?
It's possible to do the trials in normal missions/expeditions?
I have played a lot of missions but the progress in the menu under trials is overall 0/1, 0/3 and so on.
For example: Complete a mission 0/1. Why? I have completed more missions.
Bug or normal?
Aside from World Events challenge you can do them anywhere you want. Your progress being 0 means you've got the bug so you will have to do it all again :(
Personally, the start of a game ie the early launch stuff, never really bothers me. It's more about the support afterwards that makes me keep playing. I enjoyed Destiny but a very slow drip of content I was actually interested in, put me off. As did the crazy prices of extra content that often proved lackluster.
Diablo 3 launched in a terrible state with a laughable amount of content. Yet, after time and updates, I keep going back for my loot fix.
I hope Bioware and EA doubledown on Anthem and keep pushing to improve. Sure many are not willing to wait for updates etc because they have paid now and want to play now, not in six months time.
Maybe it's because I am more optimistic or that I have sat through many, many games that launch poor and get better. Or I have a Slight addiction to loot games, so I will play anything haha.
Diablo 3 launched in a terrible state with a laughable amount of content. Yet, after time and updates, I keep going back for my loot fix.
I hope Bioware and EA doubledown on Anthem and keep pushing to improve. Sure many are not willing to wait for updates etc because they have paid now and want to play now, not in six months time.
Maybe it's because I am more optimistic or that I have sat through many, many games that launch poor and get better. Or I have a Slight addiction to loot games, so I will play anything haha.
A character stat screen would be nice as well. Kinda fundamental to RPGs.
Can someone explain to me how looting works? It seems like you just get randomly assigned loot at the end of each mission...
I have yet to see something drop, or to loot a chest or get boss loot.... really makes the rewards feel shitty and not special at all to me that way.
I have yet to see something drop, or to loot a chest or get boss loot.... really makes the rewards feel shitty and not special at all to me that way.
It's fine on its own but when practically every other line is a quip like this it gets insufferable fast.
Really? This is dumb. Have played another mission, but still 0/1. So how I can progress? lol.
It's 100% my fault for expecting too much but after the first beta I kinda thought abilities being drops meant an element + skill type combination system. So stuff like Frozen Orbs (Storm) or Burning Dash (Interceptor) being alternate drops for example. Even if they were just visual changes it would add some variety.
Seriously people bring up Diablo but at least Diablo has new abilities and skills with visual changes, supposed to be about the abilities but even they are severely lacking in variety and customisation.
That's weird lol. I have no idea. Maybe restart the game client?
It's not even close to an RPG. If gear customization is all it took to make something an RPG, then tons of games that aren't would be labled as one. It's about as much an RPG as any of the Far Cry games.
Yes. already did it. Maybe I have to do the freeplay mission for the tombs first?
Can confirm. Well, not sure Tyrant Mine was actually required by the story but yeah.
this 100%
it was already highly ridiculous when people kept regurgitating the marketing departments "it is an old build!" stuff, now it is "the day one patch is still out!"
i am asking myself if this is desperation, clutching at straws, naivity or pure delusion at this point...for anyone playing longer than a few years it was more than obvious that there is a train incoming at high speed driving straight into a wall...why people opted to believe the marketing department instead of user experience, well, i don´t know...
people are really setting themselves up for even more disappointment if they think there will be a magical 180 on friday...