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I am loving Anthem and Bioware is still an amazing studio.
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"Brigade"
I played the game friendo. It's bad. You like it. That's fine.
The IDEA behind the combat is great.
The actual enemies you fight completely deflate any positivity the combat mechanics could invoke
There ARE games around here that are unfairly brigaded. Anthem is not one of them. It's just a shitty game.
Well he's not smug enough to ignore all the problems like OP did.
Can't say I agree with much, I do think the potential is there to be a good game in a year or so
I like some of Biowares stuff and I think the idea of Anthem is awesome and how it looks but playing that game with the problems that it has is just unacceptable especially after you put out a game like Mass Andromeda. No excuses..
You're allowed to like a game without feeling like a victim of some kind of targeted attack. If other people's opinions hurt you so much you should reconsider posting on a general video game forum.
Posts like this, for any game that's a massive mess, will forever be super weird in my view. Like, you enjoy a game that's massively flawed, that's cool, you have fun. But the whole "Other people are criticizing the game, so I have to create a separate thread specifically to say how much I love it, while hand-waiving all the problems, and jerking off the developer"...Yeah man, it's just weird.
Having this type of attitude towards criticisms is asinine and let's developers/companies off the hook too easily.
Granted some may just be doing it for the hell of it but the game is fundamentally flawed throughout and is behind other titles in the same genre that released years ago in basic ass features. They deserve all the criticism cause the game is seriously behind even what they themselves advertised it being.
Handwaiving all these issues away because "fuck you im having fun and if you complain you're just a troll" is a very shortsighted and terrible way to approach this.
Enjoy what you like, but don't complain when the next big game comes out and is severely lacking cause it's people like you that grease the wheels for these companies so they can keep churning out terrible products and keep making money because once again "fuck you I'm having fun though!".
Didn't happen to OP, so that clearly invalidates all current and future criticism of the game.
Clearly.
No one is stopping you from enjoying it. Congrats you're enjoying a game with a ton of technical flaws I guess tho
Nah. This was my second disappointing purchase from BioWare after Andromeda. It's not even a case of this being some B-team fucking up anymore, it's Edmonton fucking up with an even worse product than what Montreal produced.
BioWare is poopy butt as far as I'm concerned. This cements they ain't shit no more. Have fun with it, but I can't.
BioWare is poopy butt as far as I'm concerned. This cements they ain't shit no more. Have fun with it, but I can't.
The brigade of people who want to like a game but don't from a studio they want to like but don't. Ok.
Don't know if you've noticed but a lot outlets have been shitting on Anthem, not just ERA. There seems to be a correlation.
I'm personally enjoying it also, I play all games for story/lore and I'm finding the lore to be handled way better than destiny/d2. But I can see were people are having a really hard time with it if that's not there thing, I have not seen any bugs but the constant load screens is extremely frustrating, I would rank it personally to me right under diablo 3 and borderlands one and two.
I like it a lot when it works, but it deserves the reviews it received considering the state it is in. Hopefully it gets a chance to grow.
Its just not BW stuff. Era is just overly hateful when it comes to discussing anything they don't like. Its like the need to leave a comment displaying their rage or negativity for things is so powerful they can't help it. If you were to walk into a real life representation of this place it would be a circus.
That being said there's positive corners of era, and good discussions to be had. Just don't disagree with someone.
It's not exaggerated. The game is fun. If you didn't have a good experience with it because of all the bugs, than I would completely respect that. But, outside of the bugs and endgame issues (which every game has post game issues) there isn't much to complain about.
Op is so exaggeratedly positive I really cant believe their intention is not formed mostly by the negativity online and not the actual game quality. Sounds like you are describing a 10/10 game.
Even though negative posts that should go in the OT never have people claiming it "should be in the OT" the positive one, of course, has people saying it should be. OP it's a nice sentiment but your barking up the wrong tree posting this on ERA, the majority here and outside of here have declared it is what it is.
Even if it somehow improved as say... No Man Sky did or Destiny has over the years, the majority of people will only ever refer to it as to what it is right now. The amount of Destiny is dead or Destiny is bad that still exists out there drives me nuts and this game if it survives this will suffer the same fate.
I think the way the story works in this game is exactly what I wanted destiny to do, but they have a long way until they are at Destiny Quality of Life levels for most everything else.
Even if it somehow improved as say... No Man Sky did or Destiny has over the years, the majority of people will only ever refer to it as to what it is right now. The amount of Destiny is dead or Destiny is bad that still exists out there drives me nuts and this game if it survives this will suffer the same fate.
I think the way the story works in this game is exactly what I wanted destiny to do, but they have a long way until they are at Destiny Quality of Life levels for most everything else.
ResetEra.com is just fake news, only website in the world that dislikes this game as there's clearly an agenda vs BioWare.
Some with the most to say don't own the game
I'm seeing more & more the online based press pandering to what's said on gaming forums and social media, not to upset their clicks and hits to their websites
The game is really good, yes there are a number of flaws, but the game is good and the world utterly spectacular. It's a pretty solid 7 out of 10 imo.
The respawing, when getting separated from your group, sucks ass though
Yeah. This is the only place online that thinks Anthem is a subpar attempt at whatever the fuck EA/Bioware were trying to make.
That's fine if OP is enjoying his time but that game is not something we should be applauding Bioware for.
It's such a damn bummer what happened to Bioware/Anthem. I don't think anyone is happy about the game being just meh.
I own the game. It's bad. 5/10 bad.
Many who own the game don't like it. Crazy.
This is only on the back of three heavily criticised games in a row. People here still sing the praises on ME2, or KOTOR. Even games like Jade Empire have plenty of fans here.
Put it this way. If Bioware released an amazingly well received game, there would be very little resistance to cellebrating that and there would be a sea of "Bioware is back!" posts.
I played about 5 hours of the Division 2, and I think I've gotten more out of it than the entirety of Anthem.
I think the gunplay is better in Anthem, and the skills, and to a lesser degree story, but I don't really care about that aspect in either games.
But it feels like the amount of things TO DO in D2 is vastly superior. The D2 beta feels like a better package in almost every way.
Anthem has maybe a more interesting look when it comes to the world, but you so frequently fly over it that I rarely engage with it. D2 world feels more alive honestly with roaming NPC allies that you can actually call in when fighting control points.
End game is so important to these games.
You just have to ask yourself. What are you doing right now in the end game? Are you just grinding the same strong holds over and over?
I think the gunplay is better in Anthem, and the skills, and to a lesser degree story, but I don't really care about that aspect in either games.
But it feels like the amount of things TO DO in D2 is vastly superior. The D2 beta feels like a better package in almost every way.
Anthem has maybe a more interesting look when it comes to the world, but you so frequently fly over it that I rarely engage with it. D2 world feels more alive honestly with roaming NPC allies that you can actually call in when fighting control points.
End game is so important to these games.
You just have to ask yourself. What are you doing right now in the end game? Are you just grinding the same strong holds over and over?
Battleborn was a flawed game that had the misfortune of squaring up with OW. In a better world, it would still be up and running with an active community.
I beat Anthem and then continued to play for another 10 hours.
It blows my mind how small the game really is.
Contracts are nothing at all, just a tool to set up the end game challenges. Such as having to complete 25 contracts as part of a challenge. The contract itself, is merely a random quest where you go out to about 3 points in the map and kill shit. Sometimes you have to use one of the 3 quest mechanics. Such as gathering the thing and taking it to the other thing, or gathering the other thing and delivering it to the other thing, or my favorite, gathering the things within a time limit.
Strongholds aren't that great either. They aren't nearly as interesting as Destiny strikes, WoW dungeons, or FF14 dungeons. The game is just lacking any kind of dynamic gameplay.
The combo system turned out to be boring, especially compared to how combos worked in Mass Effect 2.
There are minimal skills per class. The loot doesn't leave much to the imagination as far as builds go.
The games combat is fun, but it doesn't have the meat to last right now.
I love Bioware, I love loot games, this game is bad.
I think OP loves the game right now, but one day in the middle of playing it's going to hit him. Unless of course Bioware's updates come strong and quickly.
I hope so, I would love to play more, but there is no point with Division 2, Monster Hunter World, and Destiny 2.
It blows my mind how small the game really is.
Contracts are nothing at all, just a tool to set up the end game challenges. Such as having to complete 25 contracts as part of a challenge. The contract itself, is merely a random quest where you go out to about 3 points in the map and kill shit. Sometimes you have to use one of the 3 quest mechanics. Such as gathering the thing and taking it to the other thing, or gathering the other thing and delivering it to the other thing, or my favorite, gathering the things within a time limit.
Strongholds aren't that great either. They aren't nearly as interesting as Destiny strikes, WoW dungeons, or FF14 dungeons. The game is just lacking any kind of dynamic gameplay.
The combo system turned out to be boring, especially compared to how combos worked in Mass Effect 2.
There are minimal skills per class. The loot doesn't leave much to the imagination as far as builds go.
The games combat is fun, but it doesn't have the meat to last right now.
I love Bioware, I love loot games, this game is bad.
I think OP loves the game right now, but one day in the middle of playing it's going to hit him. Unless of course Bioware's updates come strong and quickly.
I hope so, I would love to play more, but there is no point with Division 2, Monster Hunter World, and Destiny 2.
I think we are all aware of what is going on with Anthem, there is no reason for OP to regurgitate it. for once its nice to have someone stand up and say hey, i really like the game and here's why. This isnt a professional reviewer who's job is to be objective. But Era is the wrong place for such optimism or positive acts.