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Avengers’ Story Campaign Is Bigger And Better Than I Expected (Kotaku/SPOILERS)
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I'm confused as to why people thought that this would be similar to Anthem; simply because Anthem was also a GAAS?
Can you actually just play the campaign, though? Like, story mission after story mission until the end? I got the impression from pre-release stuff that a certain amount of side stuff and grinding was all but mandatory.
Some yes, it's when appropriate (for instance, the beta mission where you can be kamala or hulk to hunt down the shield vault, it's very early on, but you can play as either and matchmake with someone playing the other).
I'm only about to get the fourth character but I expect as you get farther it will be more true rather than less.
You can. The single player campaign is a very traditional experience
I can see that but still feel like they should have talked about it more, especially after the generally mixed reactions for the beta. CoD campaigns are very short and most people come to those games for the multiplayer, but their marketing always puts the story campaign front and center since it looks cinematic and makes for good trailers.
A solid 12-15 hour cinematic single-player campaign isn't that different from the Arkham games or Spiderman PS4 and you get that here plus all the GaaS multiplayer if that's your thing.
Great to hear that the game turned out well, I loved what Crystal Dynamics did with Tomb Raider and I'm excited to finally see Kamala in a big cinematic game.
the voice actors are just so...bleh
I don't hear characters, I hear the same whitebread voice actors in AAA videogame
Where is Eric Loomis, Vanessa Marshall, Brian Bloom? Could they not get these people to voice Tony, Nat, and Steve? surely they can't be more expensive or as busy as North, Bailey, and Baker
Depends on what you mean by playstyle
Nothing right now is going to like....make you a god mode character but there are a lot of buffs to abilities, mostly increased damage/duration which can make you a more efficient killing machine.
Um....no
The beta was very lack luster and was not a good representation of the game at all.
You can't blame people for that. Plus there is still bugs like clipping through buildings you can't despawn out of.
dude people have been hating on this every trailer thread. It's rough, combat looks boring as hell, graphics suck, lol no raids day 1 this is a disaster. I mean of course I'm surprised people like it now.
This is disappointing news.. for my bank account.
I will pick it up on PlayStation when it hits £30,
I will pick it up on PlayStation when it hits £30,
Yes, but we're they wrong? I already have a feeling you won't agree but yeah, the initial trailers were not flattering, many weren't initially sold. That's fine. The beta definitely won over a lot folks, moreso than nay, since they actually had the opportunity to play it and of course, with the new improvements both mechanically and visually that put the older promo material to shame.
At the end of the day, why does it bother you how someone else feels about the game to THIS degree? Most folks even admit the initial trailer(s) were not the best.
The beta made it obvious this game was going to have a good story. I don't know wtf everyone else was seeing.
Still holding off for reviews. I've been burned by these type of claims before. Nothing from that beta really did it for me.
tbh i was confused on why people didn't see the potential in the beta as well. Both story missions were great.
Huh... Wasn't expecting that, though I never really had any thoughts on the story before. Aside from, well, Cap is obviously not dead and it's cool that Kamala is the lead. The beta was pretty fun but the last mission I did (I played as Hulk for this Hulk character mission thing?) kind of completely soured my experienced and I just stopped playing even though I still had time left. Really glad to hear the story's actually good though as these are characters and a world I love. I'm still probably gonna wait til the PS5 to get this, but I'm looking forward to it a bit more now.
Helps too that Kate looked (and sounded) awesome in the newest trailer.
Helps too that Kate looked (and sounded) awesome in the newest trailer.
Because Anthem was also very perfunctory and by-the-numbers. I think that's where the comparison comes from.
Glad to hear. This will probably be a Christmas game for me (still have a bit of a backlog to get through), but early impressions from the beta were killing my enthusiasm. Glad the single player, which is the part I care most about, is making a better impression.
The A-Day demo blows, I'll give you that. But the two story missions were solid. How people thought "This game will be garbage" after playing them is...baffling.
Campaign is definitely better than I personally expected.
I still wouldn't say that this game is great from a purely gameplay perspective so far (I'm about 4 hours in), but the actual writing and story that's going on is holding my interest.
I feel like this is a game that can certainly ramp up to greatness but so far I'm not feeling that way about it. It is definitely still feels like it's remaining toned down on the difficulty a bit, playing on Normal. I also don't feel like the systems are gelling together in a way where there's a clear use for all my tools just yet, but I could see it getting there eventually. I hope it gets there eventually, then this game might be really quite awesome.
I still wouldn't say that this game is great from a purely gameplay perspective so far (I'm about 4 hours in), but the actual writing and story that's going on is holding my interest.
I feel like this is a game that can certainly ramp up to greatness but so far I'm not feeling that way about it. It is definitely still feels like it's remaining toned down on the difficulty a bit, playing on Normal. I also don't feel like the systems are gelling together in a way where there's a clear use for all my tools just yet, but I could see it getting there eventually. I hope it gets there eventually, then this game might be really quite awesome.
On one hand, there's a difference between a good story in general and a good story for a multiplayer GaaS title. Lot of people were most likely expecting the latter, myself included. The fact that the game actually has what amounts to a standard campaign is quite surprising.
On the other hand, people did say some real stupid shit in their attempt to be non-stop negative. "What kind of story uses story cards for transitions" like c'mon shouldn't have to spell that out for ya.
The funny thing is that Anthem spent a lot of time trying to hype up its story. Felt like I saw so many dev diary style videos prior to launch essentially saying "hey! we figured out how to do a story in a GaaS framework with the BioWare touch!!" and then was careful to not actually show big cinematics or story moments (because they didn't actually have anything to show).
With Avengers, they've shown so so soooo little about their story content that it made it seem like they basically had the equivalent of what Anthem had for a story. In actuality, they just have a regular linear cinematic well told story WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT PEOPLE WANTED IN THE FIRST PLACE. They could have just easily advertised this and had the best of both worlds. You got all your GaaS stuff if you want it and a straightforward narrative action game that is well produced. It seems like with recent war tables they are finally starting to get their marketing in order, but jeez, what a missed opportunity to sell their own game.
when they said that each story for every hero is free then I knew that the story would continue very well and start great. If it was paid i'd be more iffy possibly.
The beta was just a corridor beat em up with next to no story elements at all, it was the definition of generic.
the missions directly after A-day proved there was more to this game, why they didn't focus on that idk. I mean i know why they wanted the end game gamers to know there was more than just a campaign because that's the people who stick around.
Those moments in the beta fell flat for me. Good to know that the story is really well done.
Square is trying so hard to make people hat this game, The marketing team on this game isn't doing it any favors.
I was so ready to write off this game until I saw combo videos that made it look more like a solid character action game (Like DMC, Bayonetta, etc)
Now hearing that the story is actually good? I'm convinced this could be a solid GotY contender.
I was so ready to write off this game until I saw combo videos that made it look more like a solid character action game (Like DMC, Bayonetta, etc)
Now hearing that the story is actually good? I'm convinced this could be a solid GotY contender.
If people didn't notice the story that's on them. Shit was plain as day. Bruce's discussion with Kamala let me know they were trying to tell a proper story.
Their relationship works so well. I agree that the Beta clearly indicated there was more to the story than what we had seen. Specifically the interactions between Bruce and Kamala post story missions.