I enjoyed Taken King and Forsaken but consider it pretty shallow in terms of gameplay and story, tbh. Standard Destiny, only this time, I actually understood the narrative.
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Anthem Review Thread
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I enjoyed Taken King and Forsaken but consider it pretty shallow in terms of gameplay and story, tbh. Standard Destiny, only this time, I actually understood the narrative.
This.
Nah, there's some good stuff there, just not enough of it for a lot of folks.
From his other channel, Laymen Gaming:
Ok, I just watched the PDP video they did, and explicitly say they're not endorsing or defending PDP and in fact acknowledge his mistakes and that some things he's said in the past is not ok!
What they said in this video is that anyone who recommends a channel (including PDP) shouldn't need to go through every video to vet the channel.
Yeah, I watched it yesterday and think it's one of the best reviews I have seen so far.
If you have valid critisms then you are a hater and don't know what you are talking about apparently. Like I feel I can't have good arguments with those that defend Anthem or any game for that matter that is medicore, half baked and littered with technical bugs. I think as a whole Anthem is extremely divisive for some reason or another and for the life of me I can't figure out why that is.
I agree, it goes back to something I have been saying about anthem for as long as I could remember, I always complained about a lack of mystique - the freelancers were just regular-ass people, compared to say the tenno in WF or Guardians in Destiny , there was no symbol or icon to tie the the universe together like the Traveller or the mass relay, or the halo rings. Not that these things are necessary but they help form an identity. Months before Destiny released it had generated a defines universal aesthetic and tone that was evocative of something grander same with No Man's Sky.
I am really looking forward to what Anthem has to offer, but will wait until a lot fixes are made.
Just watched the Skill Up review, and damn... Never seen review by this bloke before. Does he always do these indepth analysis? Because i really loved the format of it.
Anyone who posts videos about "sjw" is putting out content that is unacceptable.
It's that simple.
That SkillUp review (very well done) pretty much confirms all my fears about this game and why I refused to get too hyped about it. Shame because I was looking for the next game to play like I did in Destiny. The Division 2 won't be it. Guess I'll be waiting for Borderlands 3.
For larger titles that he was really looking forward to, or games he really wants to spotlight, yes. Sometimes he even does written scripts for these reviews with some nice art and puts them up on his Patreon.
Disagree. And I'm sure the loading and bugs will be reduced in a few days with the patch.
Yeah his stuff is basically a better structured less shouty AngryJoe. Not saying i hate Joe but yeah.
If the patch ports the game to a different engine, I'm sure it will be.
Super facts right here folks. That March 31st date is a killer. It's all about the investors. I won't say who I worked for but that date and e3 builds are a nightmare time-line for devs. Content scaled back, crunch and ks's everywhere.
😂😂😂 I do wonder why they said it was seamless open world last year when we know that's not the case. With the amount of load screens it's hard to believe that was ever the case.
Sadly, it seems era has enough support for this kind of thing that they won't be.
Not really, no. I don't agree with their take on it. I just think that to say they now support PDP is incorrect.
Idk what the point of this post is besides to show you haven't read the patch notes and be a poor attempt at a troll.
Never said they supported PDP
I don't watch their videos because they release YouTube content with SJW and sexist and triggered in the titles.
I don't really like talking for other people but umm... I'm pretty sure it was a joke made at the expense of Frostbite. You know, the loading issues being caused by Frostbite being a complete pig to work with.
Why do people constantly overblow the grind for the Tomb quest?
They say "massive checklist", it's not massive at all...
Otherwise, that review is pretty much spot on imo.
That polygon review is how I feel about Anthem. The gameplay is fun but man the other shit is BAD
If you haven't watched the videos, don't comment on what they contain.
Edit: The thumbnails they use are pretty shitty, I agree, but their content is pretty reasonable.
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Great review, I like the fort stuff but on the rest can't complain. The gameplay loop is fun, just need to work on stuff around the edges.
The point is that the nature of how the game is put together and what engine it uses is what determines the frequency and length of the loading screens.
Sure, they say they'll attempt to decrease their length in the Day 8 patch, but that really tells you nothing, plus the frequency will stay. It's not something that can be patched out easily, or even at all.
You can continue to believe in the Jesus Patch that will magically fix everything wrong with the game in 7 days when they didn't manage to do it in 6 years, but your belief won't make it so, I'm afraid.
So every frostbite game has insane loading screens? People assuming everything is frostbites issue are being extremely presumptuous.
Yup dude is trolling. "Day 8, Jesus patch, fix the game in 7 days" nonsense.
Ouch these reviews. Tons of bugs and load times are being fixed friday. I personally love this game so far.
The load times are not the whole issue, it's the existence of the loading screens and the frequency of said existence. The load times are a bit of a red herring in this regard.
Exceptionalism in the games industry never ceases
Absolutely and as a bonus it comes with an approved reading and music list.
Yep, I'm glad you finally see the light.
Bioware did not put out this game in a broken state because they don't care. It's because this is the best shape they managed to hammer it into.
Sure, they might apply some band aids and fix some outright bugs, definitely, but this is the game. This is the product. It's not changing drastically in the foreseeable future.
I could have sworn Polygon used to give scores... But, they didn't score this, or any of their other recent reviews.
"The endgame, the reward for powering through the campaign, similarly suffers from drudgery. Strongholds are considered to be the pinnacle activity in Anthem. Only three Stronghold missions are available at launch, and the third one culminates with shooting a large dude for 35 minutes. There's no strategy; my squad just shoots at the same large dude for 35 minutes straight."
Not every game no, but Frostbite was built primarily for smaller scale games like Battlefield and not for massive, complicated, many interworking features style RPG's. As far as I remember both Inquisition and Andromeda had many of the same issues this game has with handling assets, coincidence? Hell an interview was just released today with Amy Hennig talking about the difficulties working with Frostbite. I would be willing to bet at least a solid year or 2 of Anthem's dev time was spent re-tooling Frostbite to handle a game of this scale better.