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Anthem: 8 Minutes of Freeplay Expedition Gameplay (World Events, Lore, and Bosses) - IGN First
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Wow, this is looking incredible. This is the first video to really sell me on it. The wait will be long and arduous.
The enemies all look extremely easy too. Moment to moment you'll be spending 95-99% of your time flying around as Iron Man blasting health bars that offer literally zero resistance. The boss fight offered mild resistance but barely. This is not Horizon or Monster Hunter or even EDF. Once you get past the beauty of the game there is seemingly no depth or challenge.
If by rough you mean non-existent. They literally just stand there and get shot.
It's mind boggling how people can write off an entire game from an 8 minute video from IGN.
I think it'll be better for people to give the open demo a spin than try to compare to other games. It's not quite any of them.
Challenge is going to be higher difficulty level missions and Elder game. Not free roam open world.
It feels like a bigger budget Warframe.
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lol exactly what I thought.
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lol exactly what I thought.
I didn't say I wrote it off. I like flying through pretty environments with friends. Don't let your mind be boggled so easily!
That's just how some enemies are in games. Destiny has things called Walkers that ironically dont move much at all.
I can see how someone gets this idea from the footage. Hoping there's more challenge and mechanics to fights in higher difficulty and dungeon type areas/activities.
the maneuvering looked extremely fun. the player looked like they were having fun just jumping anf flying about and thats my kind of shit.
They're familiar it's likely just concern trolling. The amount of unique enemy behaviors for mobs and rarer enemies displayed in such a short video is promising for fights on higher difficulties.
WF is also a pedal to the metal endless sprint/flying through levels and completely stomping enemies. Outside of some world bosses. I appreciate Anthem's pace a bit more from what I've seen.
Agreed. WF has some great sliding and zipping through the world moments. A real Ninja experience.
If Bioware can support Anthem even 10% of WF, it will be massive.
my exact thought.
if this controls as smoothly as it looks its a buy for me
wf controls very smooth
These videos are doing the opposite for me.
I just need to play the open demo to see what its like
I just need to play the open demo to see what its like
Yeah, I feel next to nothing watching these so far. If it feels good, I'll be down. Maybe.
It controls great. They nailed that. But people will see when the demo hit. The moment from shooting to hovering to flying feels awesome.
Games are almost never played at higher difficulties for pre-release footage. It's harder to demonstrate when you're trying to survive every second lol.
There's even 3 tiers of difficulty above 'Hard' for Anthem. I'm sure there will be plenty of challenge.
There's even 3 tiers of difficulty above 'Hard' for Anthem. I'm sure there will be plenty of challenge.
lol. you've made up your mind about this game haven't you eh.
anyways for depth i'm looking for something similar to wf in having a lot of options or 'spec' to mod out a particular javelin
e.g modding damage, ability duration, crits etc etc.
also activities that force you to play different or mod/spec different (optional i guess, some dont like this)
i'm not worried about enemy variety (yet) as this seems to be a huge world
Warframe seems cooler. Releasing a game with only 1 biome is not a good idea. I'm not feeling this game. I would prefer another titanfall.
I still have some linger concerns with the flying but at the very least it opens up the level design without bogging it down with awful platforming or a ton of fixed interactions like climbing a ladder or riding an elevator. I'm very curious about it feels to play.
did we get different alpha versions then? shooting and movement felt clunky and imprecise. flying and abilities were nice though.
It's not so much easy, but everything I've seen (and I've admittedly not been closely following the game) are boring enemies standing out in the open waiting to be to annihilated.
yeah totally forgot about war frame they are similar
dont know what is that I will give it a look.
totally different destiny doesn't feel or play like this.
I see thank you.
yes they feel and play totally different also destiny does not feel as fluid and mobile as this.
basically this, which honestly i'd be ok with if there was some interesting story driving all of it. from what i know so far that isn't the case.
Hopefully the AI is still being worked on. Currently the enemies just don't fight back so if you multiplied their health and damage x10 it would still be a cake walk if this footage is anything to go by.
I mean, if I set the game to Easy in Diablo 3, some of the enemies barely even attack or move crazy slow. In Torment X, I'm constantly fighting to stay alive with elites trying to trap me in corners and such, or get around me to use fire chains to kill me, or any number of other strategies and the AI in that isn't even particularly great.
I just don't think it's worth being hugely concerned over, right now. Obviously the difficulty in these videos is probably the lowest they can set it so they can actually show off abilities and such. If they release footage of an endgame raid that looks this easy, then sure we can start being a bit concerned.