I would say places like this also tends to be more cynical and negative towards certain things. I expect this game to do really well in the mainstream. You just gotta find out if you will enjoy it or not and not focus too much on the negativity.
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Anthem - Full 20 minute E3 Gameplay Demo
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I would say places like this also tends to be more cynical and negative towards certain things. I expect this game to do really well in the mainstream. You just gotta find out if you will enjoy it or not and not focus too much on the negativity.
I am a big loot whore, so if the loot loop is good and the content is there, I will play it. I got burnt on Destiny because Bungie promised so much and delivered so little. Combat too same and too much recycled stuff. Anthem could turn out the same but I will give it a shot anyway. Roll on a alpha/beta.
This. Everything about it looks so... forgettable and lacking personality. There's some potential with the background lore but that's not what gets people to grind for hundreds of hours.
Yup, me too. I've been playing MMOs since my early teen days. I'm planning to play all Destiny 2, Anthem, and The Division 2. Bring them on.
Loot is in my blood.
"E3 Best Action Game Winner" according to people who would be impressed by some keys being jangled on a string, the same people who showered Evolve and Spore with every award they could find.
Why even bother posting a reply like this if you're not going to address anything I said? Kindly go bother somebody who cares.
You can turn those numbers off.
Game looks great to me from what we've seen so far. I'm just worried about content, seems to be an issue with many of these types of games. That was the main reason I stopped playing Destiny 2 even though the gameplay was really fun. Let's hope Bioware can nail this.
Also the same people who showered The Witcher 3, BOTW, Uncharted 4, etc with awards at E3. That argument goes both ways and useless.
Yep. My point exactly. They'll throw awards at whatever gets trotted out in front of them.
I'm sure we will be doing a lot of radiant delivery missions. You'll probably hear that line a lot.
Your right it sounds right out of destiny. It actually made me feel like it was destiny for a sec lol.
10 pages so a fair amount of interest for the game. I don't think resetera has a Destiny bias as such, it's just all the fans "hide" in the OT, and all the down in the dumps people post in the gaming threads :-)
I'll be up for jumping in to anthem and seeing what it's like. Very difficult to tell about loot and longevity until you get quite deep into a game.
I agree that the gameplay looked slow, and not *that* skill based, but who knows what the other classes are like? A lot of people that played the demo were pleasantly surprised so hopefully it's got some magic "feel".
Roll on Feb 19!!
I'll be up for jumping in to anthem and seeing what it's like. Very difficult to tell about loot and longevity until you get quite deep into a game.
I agree that the gameplay looked slow, and not *that* skill based, but who knows what the other classes are like? A lot of people that played the demo were pleasantly surprised so hopefully it's got some magic "feel".
Roll on Feb 19!!
Well, they also throw awards at something they've played and you have not. And people who've played it says it does feel really fun.
Now that you mention it, it could trivialise majority of encounters.
Unless they adapt modifiers like Grounded from destiny that made you take more damage when airborne
Looks great to me,give me an option to turn off those numbers or make them the size of the smaller white ones that pop up,those big yellow ones are too much...why are they bigger though,indicates combo or critical hits I guess...?
incredible visuals, and incredibly boring gameplay.
hard to judge from a 20min demo but hope the story has some bioware magic at least.
hard to judge from a 20min demo but hope the story has some bioware magic at least.
Evolve was so fun, it's biggest problem was that you needed 5 people of perfectly balanced skilllevel or else either monster or hunters would be totally OP.
Still sad it died but i got my 100 hours out of it :(
Okay, but looots of people were excited for Evolve. It wasn't like publications were going out on a limb there. People who played it at E3 booths loved it too. The issues became apparent after release. If you want to say, "Yeah people really like Anthem now, but it's not guaranteed to be great!" then that's a reasonable statement, I guess, but we can only go off what we have at this time.
This looks really...uninspired to be honest.
Wha? The structure of this is nothing like MonHun outside of 4 people playing together.
Wha? The structure of this is nothing like MonHun outside of 4 people playing together.
The boss fight looks nice but the way through doesn't look compeling in regards to the combat.
Also, they should have chose something else than spiders for the first show of their game.
Also, they should have chose something else than spiders for the first show of their game.
You're confusing endgame with the "hard" parts of endgame. When people play Destiny and complete the campaign and reach lvl 30. They don't just immediately head into heroic and nightfall strikes and never do anything else.
Think back on your time playing Destiny (assuming you played at least one of them), pretty much anything you found yourself doing on a semi regular basis after reaching lvl 30 on your characters, be that rep grinding, daily missions, hunting ghosts, pvp, activites during patrol mode, normal/heroic/nightfall strikes, raids. Literally all of this falls under "endgame".
Strikes were the grouped pve portion of the endgame. And normal versions were the easy version of it. And Strongholds looks to be to Anthem what Strikes are to Destiny so far.
Gamble on Twitter:
"A few people mentioned that the gameplay demo looked a little easy. That footage was with pro BioWare players (our best) with high level gear. That was intentional so they didn't die during their 100 live demos. You will be challenged. You will be shot in the face a lot."
"A few people mentioned that the gameplay demo looked a little easy. That footage was with pro BioWare players (our best) with high level gear. That was intentional so they didn't die during their 100 live demos. You will be challenged. You will be shot in the face a lot."
I tried it after it went free-to-play. The balance was terrible. I had a 100% win rate as the monsters, even after 15 or so games as them.
Hunters had to be all coordinated and shit to have a chance while all the monster needed to know was, "Go for the support hunters first."
This really looks boring. I hope EA are making Titanfall 3. Or at least, I hope Respawn are doing something really cool. Cos this isn't doing anything for me.
No. Endgame activities are not just things you do at the end of the game. They are activities you do to progress your character now you are at max level.
You advance your character through gaining power, the only way to do that once at the cap is to get better gear. Better gear drops or is earned from Endgame activities.
If we assume Strongholds are equivalent to Strikes/Dungeons, I wouldn't run a normal Omnigul Strike, or a normal Gnomeregan Dungeon, if I'd just hit the cap. I'd do the first tier of Endgame activities such as an entry level Heroic for example.
So in this thread we have a lot of people complaining about an easily modifiable UI issue. I'm assuming that everyone in this thread has actually played video games before and so would know that modifying UI settings through a menu is a relatively easy thing to do.
I don't understand anyone who thinks this looks boring. If nothing else it has actual class synergy through the combo mechanics, which is something it has over Destiny or The Division.
I don't understand anyone who thinks this looks boring. If nothing else it has actual class synergy through the combo mechanics, which is something it has over Destiny or The Division.
Yeah, the impressions on here are wildly different from elsewhere. Everyone I know at work that has seen this gameplay snippet can't wait for this game to come out.
yep, the problem with evolve, especially at high skill levels, was that when all hunters were high skill, the monsters were actually underpowered but if even just one hunter wasn't up to snuff, the monster was usually OP
Yep. Basically, people who actually play video games. So true.
I've realized that for many people, posting about video games is really their hobby.
Just wanna point out that most of the things I mentioned advances your character in some way or offers some kind of progression, hence why people do them after reaching max level.
Also, given that everything can scale from lvl 1 to 30 in Anthem, it kinda means that any Stronghold will be able to serve as a lvl 30 stronghold, unlike something like Gnomeregan.
Anyway here's what the wowwiki lists as part of the endgame - http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/End-game
Covers everything from gear improvement, to rep grinds, leveling professions, pvp, achievement grinding
And here's the Guild Wars 2 wiki of "endgame" - https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Endgame
Mention a host of things under different overarching categories
People do all kinds of stuff once the leveling process is complete. A large part of it is character gear progression for sure. But there's pretty much always things not related to direct power that also serves as a big part of the endgame experience for people. In Destiny 1 you had the ghosts to hunt for and the cosmetic rewards to get. In WoW you got people spending far more time grinding achievements, farming transmog fear, mounts, pets for pet battles than the handful or hours it takes them to do the raid each week.
It looking boring has nothing to do with game or class synergy. If that's the vibe people get, no one should fault them. For that observation.
For now the gameplay loop seems to be very linear and limited, outside of class based possibilities.
They try so hard to convince us that this isn't Destiny,but all I could think of when watching the video was Destiny.
You have a very liberal usage of the term "Endgame". Again, things to do at the end of the game is not "Endgame" content.
If Bungie suggested collecting dead ghosts was an endgame activity they'd be laughed out of town.
Its a term exclusively used for content to increase your characters power. Not for transmog, not for pets.
And back to the original point, a normal difficulty dungeon with a "tutored" level 1 group member is absolutely not endgame content.
and yet when they reviewed it....it got an average rating of 76 on meta and 74 on open critic
but boy........they must have showered it with 95's!!!!
Hah, you couldn't be more wrong.
Part of the World of Warcraft endgame is grinding Reputation for faction specific rewards, be they mounts, battlepets/companions, toys, or cosmetic gear. This is something that you can only do once you reach max level (in Legion, especially, with mounts and what not being acquired from Emissary Quests that don't unlock into you hit 110).
Endgame isn't just stuff that gets you more and better gear.
Controls were the least of my concerns. Again buying this day one but hoping the game is more fun than it looked in that video.
No one seemed to take any serious damage or came close to dying. There was no real threat or need for close coordination outside of the combos. Gameplay I saw consisted of overpowered javelins hosing down seemingly weak enemies with all the bullets and combos. What happens when you lose all your health? Can you be revived or repaired? Does difficulty scale with level?
Edit: I do hope they keep this game pve only. I think pvp really fucked up balance in destiny. Exotics sometimes feel not so exotic.
Seriously? It's a structured demo. Nobody ever plays a demo on the hardest difficulty setting. Never mind that you could see the player Javelin take hits and go "in the red".
I think my post above for Gamble's Tweet will alleviate some of your concerns. They intentionally gamed it so the players couldn't die (gave them high level equip, etc).
I'm sure there's some of that going on but saying it looks boring isn't exactly wrong at this point.
Sigh. Son I've been playing MMOs since Ultima.
Grinding Rep in itself is not an "activity" it's more of a tool to drive you into activities. Guess which activities give more rep? Yep, you guessed it, Endgame activities such as heroic dungeons and associated raids and world bosses.
You still have to have other things to earn from Endgame activities as the grind for power is finite.
Back to the point again however. We have not, as yet, seen any of Anthems endgame content (other than the Titan flyby) and therefore cannot make a judgement on it.
Yeah figured that was the case. I'm really hyped for this game but I think they've done a pretty medicore job of showcasing the gameplay thus far.