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Air quoting reviews, stop the whining, "modern reviewers" as streamers or influencers who the gaming pubs see as more lucrative n beneficial these days for their end.
I normally don't bother replying in threads like this but I am. He isn't wrong why should I trust the opinion of a "reviewer" and "professional" that can't play the game properly versus a streamer who is playing with skill and in depth like say Gothalion? I know this forum is quick to dick stomp all over any Microsoft personal.
But I've seen some real idiot reviews this guy sure he works for MS but he plays all kinds of stuff and dude can play.
Play it if you like if you don't then don't move along it's pretty simple.
This is 100% true. The game does a piss poor job of teaching you how the various systems and perks work. IN fact, most of the time it's non-existent.If a reviewer didn't know how to do a combo, is that the reviewer's fault? Or the games fault for not teaching combos clearly?
I cant even, really what the hell
Edited for editorial content."objective reviews"
Here is an objective review of Anthem:
Anthem is a game of the video variety. It was developed by Bioware and published by Electronic Arts. You can play it on a game platform and use that platform's controller mechanism to play it. It has video graphics and sounds.I cannot give you a concrete release date because apparently being out, fully playable and open to further spending does not constitute a release, thus this is considered a subjective quality of the game, so it doesn't belong in this review. No score.
Have fun. (Not with the game tho, because "fun" is subjective, just have fun in general.)
Thanks for the reply, from all I've read it definitely sounds like the lack of on-boarding of the combo system is just one of the numerous critical issues the title has... it just seems that unfortunately this one has become a focus for the discussion.I think that's maybe what Anthem wants to be, but it's not quite there yet. Maybe it will be. The frustrating part of the combo system is that when you understand how it works, it's pretty cool and a neat wrinkle to the combat system, but the game's tutorial never explains how it works, you only pickup on its existence from item descriptions, and you need to dig through a menu to find out a proper explanation (or look up a YouTube video). How does that happen for something so critical to high-level competent play?? Whether or not a reviewer should/shouldn't put all that together, the way Anthem doesn't even acknowledge one of its own combat systems is highly indicative of other design oversights.
Retweeting Crapgamer is the worst, understand people who are passionate about your brand but a guy like that who acts like a 12 year old console warrior is just toxic. Not to mention he has made racist comments in the past. Not a good look.Those two are always up to get some wars going on... Especially retweeting Fanboys posts...
Yeah whats wrong with these people, i understand some of their games review pretty bad but this isnt the way to improve things.Did you see the one from Phil that I posted a few pages back? I thought that was even better.
I don't do reviews either but trying to say there is no value in reviews is yikes. Also so called modern reviewers show just how much of a mess this game is atm -
lol what kind of "formatting" puts quotations around a random word for no reason
Yeah whats wrong with these people, i understand some of their games review pretty bad but this isnt the way to improve things.
I think it should be done more. If someone does a crap job then they should be called out on doing a crap job. Simple as. Feelings will be hurt on both sides but right now it only seems to be ok for journo's to criticize everything but people can't criticize those journo's in response. Its a complete joke. You would expect journalists to hold high standards for their work and make sure every avenue is covered in their reviews. It's their responsibility to give a fair an unbiased review and make any subjective criticisms be known and identified as being subjective.
I've seen combo come up I thought it was like if u playing storm u freeze enemy and a teammate hits with their special afterWhat the hell is a combo? oO
Ive played Anthem since it released on Premier last week.
The game haven't told me anything about combos.
I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a reviewer to look for a combo system in a game with extensive melee combat. I can't really speak to the particulars of Anthem, but even Klepek says that they are mentioned somewhere in the menus.How can you engage with a system if you were never aware of it's existence?
Great, now I'm gonna get fired for not hitting my word quota.
Apparently Mike Ybarra does:
Unless someone is going to argue that he's discrediting that as well.
wow game reviewers are even more powerful than i thought if they have mind control abilities.
To be fair the vast majority of game journalists (and You Tubers) are untalented hacks.
Oh shit forgot to do that. Thanks. Added a spoiler tag.
Patrick went digging for an explanation after he saw "Aura Combo" mentioned on a loot item he picked up. The game doesn't tutorial this rather large mechanic by all accounts and that is pretty piss poor design.I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a reviewer to look for a combo system in a game with extensive melee combat. I can't really speak to the particulars of Anthem, but even Klepek says that they are mentioned somewhere in the menus.
Air quoting reviews, stop the whining, "modern reviewers" as streamers or influencers who the gaming pubs see as more lucrative n beneficial these days for their end.
There is an obvious intent here fam
If you don't find anyone's opinions credible, what the fuck are you doing posting here on Reset?
Nobody is preventing 'journos' from being criticized. Ybarra, an executive for a major videogame company, is being criticizing for calling a review "embarrassing," because the person who wrote it was critical of how the game does not explain all of its mechanics, of note in this tweet, the combo system. I haven't played Anthem and I probably won't, but other's have said the same thing that this reviewer has said -- that the game doesn't do a great job of explaining the various systems at work. This is most likely the review that Ybarra is mentioning:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/02/anthem-game-review-honestly-its-not-finished/
It's a well thought out, well written, balanced review of the game. There doesn't seem to be any "bias" informing this review. It doesn't seem unfair to Anthem. The reviewer writes that some of the gameplay is terrific and has some great moments, but that the game has some key flaws that should have kept it unreleased for a little while longer for them to focus on it. One of those things is that the reviewer notes the, apparently, terrible load times and that many of the systems aren't well explained in the game.
I don't see how being critical of those flaws is embarrassing as Ybarra suggests.
Also, I'm not sure why anybody would think that a videogame review is anything but subjective. Criticism of entertainment and media is subjective by nature because enjoying arts and entertainment is a subjective thing. This reviewer doesn't imply that his review is anything but any other person's review.
The one interesting thing about each class's range of powers is a "combo" system that promises more damage done to your foes if you stack various effects onto them. But Anthem never even begins to explain to players how exactly this works. You'll first learn that combos are in the game when you use your "ultimate" ability, which takes the longest to recharge, and see that attack's explosion of effects covered in the all-caps word "COMBO!" Dig through the game's menus and you'll see a notice that combos exist, but the game never tells you how to equip the right powers so that you can create your own combos.
I look at this system and imagine coordinating with teammates to, say, get one person on ice-weapon duty, another on fire, and another on poisonous gas, and then have pre-mission chats about which order we should fire these powers—somewhat like how combo attacks worked in Mass Effect: Andromeda. Maybe BioWare will add information to help players figure this exact question out. That's not yet in the game.
- I still don't understand half of the power values listed in the game's menus, let alone how to successfully trigger combos with teammates
He's using these quotes to denote a term that has a specific meaning within the context of certain genres. It's neither emphatic nor Trumpian. He's rightfully getting shit in this thread but don't add this totally benign tweet to the evidence file.Huh, so he just always does that. He really is Trumpian.
Today I learned I really don't like Mike Ybarra lol
Huh, so he just always does that. He really is Trumpian.
Today I learned I really don't like Mike Ybarra lol
Translation:
"It sucks that the games we are cross promoting are getting mid reviews"
That Crackdown 3 + Anthem combo probably could have worked out better for MS in terms of critical reception.
Huh, so he just always does that. He really is Trumpian.
Today I learned I really don't like Mike Ybarra lol
He's using these quotes to denote a term that has a specific meaning within the context of certain genres, it's neither emphatic nor Trumpian. He's rightfully getting shit in this thread but don't add this totally benign tweet to the evidence file.
Also I think we can criticize Mike Ybarra's tweets here without trying to compare him to Donald Trump. If Ybarra puts phrases in quotes when he informally writes something, which is a common thing that a lot of people do when they want to emphasize a certain word or suggest something is an uncommon phrase, that doesn't make him "Trumpian." The President of the United States having a basic lack of understanding around communication, tone, and history, and then putting that on display every day, is an embarrassment because he's the leader of the most powerful country in the world and he's incredibly influential because of that position. Ybarra might be a mid-level exec of a videogame company, but him making informal posts on twitter in a particular style, using quotation marks for emphasis, is not "Trumpian."
That diminishes the unprecedented nastiness of Trump, and loses focus on where Ybarra deserves criticism.
(In this post, I put "Trumpian" in quotes because it is a word someone else is using to describe Ybarra. That does not make me "Trumpian.")