I agree. But the poster I replied to said it was great at launch, which is just wrong.
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Anthem Review Thread
- Thread starter Earvin Infinity
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I agree. But the poster I replied to said it was great at launch, which is just wrong.
I recalled in Division 1 you couldn't actually bump into other players out in the game world outside the dark zone. Can you in division 2?
I would argue that Division is more of a shared world than any of the other GaaS MMO-lites. And to answer yes, seems to be the same system as Divison 1 from what I played in the Beta.
You could bump into other players in Division 1 in the safe houses/camps as well.
True. I still remember when Massive came out and admitted that "protection from elites" trait actually increased the damage you took from elites because someone put a minus sign where a plus sign should have been.
There was a lot of mistakes made in the first months of The Division, but they did turn the game around extremely well.
Play Destiny 2 if you want a loot shooter fix. It has content, story, lore in the menus, and raids.
Yeah! Oh my god I thought it was just me!
I felt like I was getting a headache, or at least feeling uncomfortable with those pulsing lights. I'm not even epiletic (I've been tested for it). That to me is damn crazy.
I know games tend to have warnings nowadays but I have never had a game do that to me, not even those JRPGs or even Wipeout HD's Zone mode.
I was looking back to ME2 reviews on Metacritic. It has 98 in the 360. 97 of them are 9+, with one, weird review with a 75 score. Anthem best review is a 76...
It does put things into perspective.
It does put things into perspective.
The only other game I've ever had this problem with was... Mass Effect 1 (I don't remember it ever being a problem for me in ME2, and I didn't play ME3).
Anthem is worse than ME Andromeda, for sure. At least Andromeda had an actual story, Anthem just spouts meaningless lore at you without contextualizing it with an actual plot. And I want/expect a good story/plot/characters with a BioWare game. Anthem is the most boring slog of a game ive played in a long while. And I almost want it to fail just on principle but then EA might close the studio and we may never get another shot at another Mass Effect game again. Sigh.
What? lol
This game doesn't even have basic PVP let alone BR. I can't even imagine how this would run on xbox with 100 players. The game cant even hit 30 fps with 4 players doing PVE.
Oh shit, now i can't unsee that.
I wonder if this is Anthem's attempt of trying to make each shot feel more "impactful", to give it that certain oomph.
Like - in Destiny - gunplay feels satisfying and impactful because shooting enemies' weak spots just looks and feels great. Headshotting 5 Dregs in a row with your handgun just feels fantastic, even the hundredth time you do it.
Having watched a lot of Anthem gameplay and most guns - even when used against 'weak' enemies look like pea-shooters. The enemies barely visibly react to being shot (unless they go down), do they?
this tomb mechanic is about to make me uninstall this game..what a piece of shit design choice.
With all the bad press this game is getting and how popular BR has become over the years now, I could eventually see this game getting a mode like that sometime next year in a massive update if they can fix the online problems.
Ok so you think that Bioware would make a BR on a game that wasn't even build with a PvP mode in mind ? A game that runs @ 30fps on consoles with 4 people ? Come on.
I'm both mystified and mortified that Joe apparently will have so much to say about this...
So just in time for them to miss that boat, as well. You might be on to something lol
It probably will do a strong first couple of weeks, then tbd if it keeps a strong tail.
It doesn't even make sense in the context of the game. A tomb doesn't think I'm worth to enter unless I prove I've opened 15 chests?
What a heroic task!
You are worthy! Here's your... 2 green items. Now you are ready to face what's next!
Anthem never grabbed me and the load times along with the fact you can't change a loadout in-mission made this game feel more archaic than it should.
The sad thing is that during the betas I never felt I was playing a game that was better than Andromeda. Anthem is kind of different ofcourse, a loot shooter, but feels just as bland and sloppy. I wonder how this will pan out for BioWare.
I guess I stick with Warframe for that loot shooter itch.
The sad thing is that during the betas I never felt I was playing a game that was better than Andromeda. Anthem is kind of different ofcourse, a loot shooter, but feels just as bland and sloppy. I wonder how this will pan out for BioWare.
I guess I stick with Warframe for that loot shooter itch.
Well in an ideal world Early Access would be the right way to do it anyway but yeah sadly some people will buy inferior unfinished products day one no matter what.
Let me sum this up: "Thanks I hate it!"*
*I wanted this game to be good because BioWare was once my favorite dev. I literally cried when EA bought BioWare and you can call me a nerd if you want. Unfortunately, all my fears have been realized.
Just a guess from watching Joe for quite awhile. I could be wrong!
It's of course opinion, but I don't think it is wrong at all. No launch is perfect, but The Division had a great launch. It reviewed well and I had a ton of content to play. I really had no complaints.