I played Fallout 76 at launch, and while the game certainly has its problems, it was far more playable than Anthem.
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Anthem Review Thread
- Thread starter Earvin Infinity
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How would you define 'playable'? Fallout 76 had multiple videos of game breaking bugs floating around the internet before it was even released.
Maybe they can; but Anthem has always seemed mediocre to me from the start. I'm only going by anecdotal evidence, but I just don't see the hype for Anthem outside the small specific communities (OTs threads across different forums or specific subreddits). Keep in mind I wasn't really seeking it out, but I keep up with gaming news pretty much daily across multiple sites and rarely did I see Anthem being posted about positively outside of its reveal. The only times I would see Anthem news bleed over into my general gaming feed was negative reactions to the early demo they released.
And I like Bioware a lot and they've made some really outstanding games in the past. I mean if it weren't for EA placing some lofty expectations on what I presume over a game they at least heavily influenced Bioware to create (Or at least the type or genre), I think they could go on to make another great game. But the horror of Bioware's fate on the chopping block is grimly entertaining when it's EA who seems like it's trying as hard as it can to crash and burn. Apex Legends was just a lucky fluke among many failed attempts to chase trends.
We'll see what happens; but I was expecting Anthem to land at a 75%-80% review scores but maybe the less than stellar reviews won't have as large of an impact and Bioware will continue to soldier on but the anticipation of how this plays out is one of the reasons I keep up with as much gaming news as I can. I love the success stories like with Resident Evil 2 (2019) this year as much as the tragedies of companies making horrific flops like Artifact.
Dammit now you've got me imagining a (competent) Xenoblade X looter shooter. Want.
Hoping this comes to SwitchJust posting these unrelated gifs of the seamless Xenoblade X on the Wii U back in 2015
Nintendo plz, one of the only 2 Wii U games I want, besides Wind Waker HD
Game was released before it was ready but I kinda can understand EA. This is second game in a row for BioWare where they spent years developing it and still wasn't ready for release. EA had to say "release it" at some point. If you spend 6+ years on a game and this is all you have then another year or two wouldn't help that much. Something is wrong with production at BioWare, maybe it is engine, maybe it is lack of vision or something entirely different but it is currently big issue for BioWare and EA has to do something.
We've gotta stick together now. It's getting dire.
By the homeworld I wish to return to someday. ;_;
"This $60 thing doesn't work and isn't good but it might be someday maybe!"
Very anecdotal, especially when it comes to GaaS games.
The first Destiny was shat on at GAF, so was Ghost Recon Wildlands. Both games turned out to be huge hits for their respective studios.
Not saying that Anthem will be a resounding success though (although I think it will sell very well)
I don't see the Bioware logo anywhere here. https://www.ea.com/games/dragon-age
Still sounds like this is a trigger for some kind of legal clause allowing EA to scrap them and absorb IPs etc.
Still sounds like this is a trigger for some kind of legal clause allowing EA to scrap them and absorb IPs etc.
Shame it took so damn long to get to the point of flying in X.Just posting these unrelated gifs of the seamless Xenoblade X on the Wii U back in 2015
Also I loved the Battle Music, it's like a cheap, poor English knockoff Linkin Park with and I love it.
Also never forget "Uh, yeah, Uh, yeah, uh uh uh" the greatest town theme of all time.
Though to be fair I think the X soundtrack is overall great and doesn't get the praise it deserves, Uncontrollable especially is a bop.
Oh man, I want this game too.
Nintendo please. A mix of monster hunter, Xenoblade, and Diablo.
For starters, I could walk from one end of the map to the other and enter my inventory menu at any point without encountering multiple loading screens in quick succession. Also, on the day Fallout 76 released, on its actual goddamn release day and not some insane eight-day window that was marketed as some weird "pay this way to play the live game early", there was a significant patch that eliminated a number of the crazier issues people encountered during the public beta period. That's not to say that the game was anywhere close to perfect by any means, because there were still a crazy amount of bugs at launch. But the game was playable.
Just noting, it's not unheard of for a studio to basically completely overhault a game's systems over time. Just look at Warframe compared to its launch back in 2013 and now. It's almost a completely different game. But AAA publishers don't have that kind of patience.
Unfortunately, it seems like an end, once and for all. There will be no one to say they're proud of Bioware here, at the end of all things.
Some people's tolerance to garbage have high thresholds depending on how strong marketing and branding are.
More content too. Wasn't a good game by any means, but it worked in its own.... special Fallout 76 way. What I think I mean is that 76 has a far sturdier foundation for the inevitable Taken Radroach expansion.
I still think this will hit about 5 million sales in a month or so. The problem is the legs on it are going to be bad.
As long as you don't let if effect your score it's completely fair to point out that something has potential.
One hundred times this. Review what is there, not what could be.
This is true; it could just be the genre doesn't appeal to me but I do know it's popular this gen. In that aspect I am not in my element when making a prediction.
I'm sure they can always have a sale soon if the game doesn't perform to opening expectations or find other ways to entice players in. Being their first game, I don't presume Bioware's team is going to be as efficient as a team that's launched a previous title or still maintaining their game. I know Bungie is hampered in developing quicker updates by their engine/pipeline so hopefully the same is not true for Bioware.
Yeah I'm not holding out hope for a continuation to Mass Effect. Lets hope they can do justice to DA4 and maybe one day we'll see the potential that Andromeda showed actually being lived up to.
Yeah....no Fallout 76 is complete and utter garbage. A 10/100 type of game. Anthem is not good but at least not that bad.
Well take Mass Effect Andromeda, last patch was 1.10, any further bugs, problems, improvements, DLC, everything was literally abandoned, so tough shit to anyone who bought full price, now they want to do this rodeo AGAIN? Are people goldfish?
"This was the last official update for single player. Unlike prior fixes, this was not called a patch but an update "
Warframe wasn't super shitty when it came out tho, and it wasn't asking people for $60.
This isn't at all true. F76 as a barely functional piece of software aside from how awful it was mechanically.
Excuse me, I'm gonna go cry in the corner. Dammit Bioware...
Andromeda is by far the better game, even at full price. I have no idea what Bioware was doing with all of the time they were allotted unless the majority of the resources went to Dragon Age.
Graphics, bugs, lack of anything meaningful to do. It's a freaking fallout without npc's.
I'm sure there are many reviews of Fallout 76 to explore out there detailing in painful detail why it scored low. But at least with that game, I'm sure there are still patches going out, Bethesda didn't just literally abandon it and stopped updates or any kind of post sale development like EA did with Andromeda. Watch them pull the same shit with Anthem, anyone with any sense wouldn't buy this product with these review scores based on their actions with Andromeda alone.
This post says absolutely nothing.
This post say says a little bit, but I wouldn't classify it as accurate. Sure, there aren't live NPCs outside of Grahm, but there are plenty of questlines to follow, enemies to fight, lore to find, weird things to encounter, and and ways to customize your character out of the gate.
If you want to judge both games on a content volume basis, Fallout 76 clearly has more varied things to see, do, and find than Anthem. How Fallout 76 looks isn't a big deal to me; I'm playing the game on a baseline PS4. And speaking of the PS4, if I played Fallout 76 on launch day, friends online would see I was playing Fallout 76. If I were playing Anthem, friends would see I was playing Dylan (Working Title). (How the hell did that happen?)
damn dude, watching the Easy Allies stream, this looks like the blandest game of all time. At least Crackdown stood out.
Yes, graphics.
Also, gameplay.
And level design.
And the bugs.
76 is a trash fire.
fallout 76 has npcs, it's just you don't care about them or anything
I think some people develop acute amnesia online for the sake of picking up arguments, everyone knows the game was panned critically across the board. What a weird discussion to have.
I'm sure you don't have to dig far to find people defending Andromeda saying that it would be totally fixed by the first DLC as well.
I think there is a chance that you'll see "5 million players" or something to that effect. The thing is, we won't have accurate data without Access and, like all online subs, they'll only provide the most impressive stats.
RIP Bioware i guess.. After this dissapointing release i bet EA will scrap Bioware as well. Wonder where the 6 years of development went too, so much stuff about this games seems borken to its core. The gameplay, the shooting, the looting, the loot, performance, loading screens etc etc.
last time i checked Anthem had articles on The Onion and some phone weather app made fun out of it