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Will Anthem be a flop?

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Bioware needs a hit. Badly. Early impressions are.mixed at best. Will Anthem be a flop?
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It looked okay when I watched the Dev trailer, or whatever.

Seems the flops anymore are the games that lack a compelling stoeyline. Idk if Im compelled enough to try to find out the secret tech of the ancestral "Sacred" or whatever their name is. Will wait to see.
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Tommy_Hawk wrote: Sun Feb 10, 2019 5:27 pm It looked okay when I watched the Dev trailer, or whatever.

Seems the flops anymore are the games that lack a compelling stoeyline. Idk if Im compelled enough to try to find out the secret tech of the ancestral "Sacred" or whatever their name is. Will wait to see.
Storytelling and world building used to be the best strengths of Bioware too. They were originally an RPG studio. Just seems like EA has maybe pushed them further and further away from the development team they used to be.
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YBBR wrote: Sun Feb 10, 2019 3:19 pm Bioware needs a hit. Badly. Early impressions are.mixed at best. Will Anthem be a flop?
Yes. It's already getting hated on. I thought it looked generic from the first time they showed it.

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YBBR wrote: Sun Feb 10, 2019 7:12 pm
Tommy_Hawk wrote: Sun Feb 10, 2019 5:27 pm It looked okay when I watched the Dev trailer, or whatever.

Seems the flops anymore are the games that lack a compelling stoeyline. Idk if Im compelled enough to try to find out the secret tech of the ancestral "Sacred" or whatever their name is. Will wait to see.
Storytelling and world building used to be the best strengths of Bioware too. They were originally an RPG studio. Just seems like EA has maybe pushed them further and further away from the development team they used to be.
Yup. Baldur's Gate, and its sequel, Baldur's Gate 2 is one of my all time favorite games. Icewind Dale and Neverwinter Nights were pretty solid too. KOTOR looked fun, although I never had an Xbox, so I would just play it occasionally at my buddy's house. Yep, Bioware had some BANGERS back in the day.

Like Teh Tube says, anything EA these days feels gutted.
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I don't trust Bioware at all after Andromeda, maybe even as far back as ME3 (which was a good overall game with an ending that was exactly what they said it wouldn't be). I have zero interest in Anthem - maybe will look to pick it up later if it gets fixed after release (aka user paid beta).
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They should have never pulled resources from Andromeda to work on this game IMO. Andromeda wasn't a terrible game, but it wasn't really Mass Effect either and you could tell since the main team that did those was put in Anthem. BioWare outsourced a lot of Andromeda and it wasn't what it should have been.

I don't know if Anthem was a smart move. I hope the next Dragon Age game happens and is good.
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Sergeant Rubetube wrote: Mon Feb 11, 2019 1:04 am
YBBR wrote: Sun Feb 10, 2019 3:19 pm Bioware needs a hit. Badly. Early impressions are.mixed at best. Will Anthem be a flop?
Yes. It's already getting hated on. I thought it looked generic from the first time they showed it.

I don't touch anything with a EA logo on it.
I'm with you here. I avoid anything EA. Don't even play Madden anymore because they've ruined it.
I can't wait until the NFL license is pulled from EA.
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salamander wrote: Mon Feb 11, 2019 12:04 pm
Sergeant Rubetube wrote: Mon Feb 11, 2019 1:04 am
YBBR wrote: Sun Feb 10, 2019 3:19 pm Bioware needs a hit. Badly. Early impressions are.mixed at best. Will Anthem be a flop?
Yes. It's already getting hated on. I thought it looked generic from the first time they showed it.

I don't touch anything with a EA logo on it.
I'm with you here. I avoid anything EA. Don't even play Madden anymore because they've ruined it.
I can't wait until the NFL license is pulled from EA.
They need competition like when 2K was able to make an NFL game. Exclusive rights ruins sports games. They have nobody to push them to be better.
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salamander wrote: Mon Feb 11, 2019 12:04 pm
Sergeant Rubetube wrote: Mon Feb 11, 2019 1:04 am
YBBR wrote: Sun Feb 10, 2019 3:19 pm Bioware needs a hit. Badly. Early impressions are.mixed at best. Will Anthem be a flop?
Yes. It's already getting hated on. I thought it looked generic from the first time they showed it.

I don't touch anything with a EA logo on it.
I'm with you here. I avoid anything EA. Don't even play Madden anymore because they've ruined it.
I can't wait until the NFL license is pulled from EA.
Why do you think that'll happen? The Madden franchise is horrendous but an absolute cash cow. Doubt the NFL cares about the quality of it and probably will keep giving the license to EA as long as it keeps bringing in the money it does.
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Back to Anthem... Has anyone picked it up? Impressions? The reviews seem pretty brutal.
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I wanted to want this.. especially after all the hype. But the streams and articles I've read about it just sound awful.
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I also wanted a Destiny with perhaps a better story like with people from Bioware.

We've have come to the realization these are not the Baldur's Gate people, or the people who made KOTOR, or our beloved Mass Effect. They've just been too gutted by EA.
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They're all trying to cash in on loot or battle royale games.. which is so stupid and one of the reasons I think Fortnite is the worst thing to ever happen to gaming.
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Abe Froman wrote: Tue Feb 26, 2019 7:16 pm This feels like a strange time to be a gamer. Look at all these big companies that really just need to not make any stupid changes to their formulas piss success down their legs. Blizzard, Bethesda, Bioware... Could someone go see if Bungie is still okay? This could be a "B" thing.
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I got this for like $12. It's installing right now. Apparently they overhauled everything, so it should be decent. I guess the gameplay is fun.
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I got it for $4aud. They are apparently doing a major major update, to the extent it is basically completely rebuilt and turned into Anthem 2, sort of what happened with No Man's Sky.

I won't play until that update occurs.
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LordNu wrote: Tue Jan 21, 2020 9:25 pm I got it for $4aud. They are apparently doing a major major update, to the extent it is basically completely rebuilt and turned into Anthem 2, sort of what happened with No Man's Sky.

I won't play until that update occurs.
Yeah, that's what I meant to say. You get to be Iron Man, fly around in a suit and stuff. It seems alright. I played for about an hour.
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News on the new Anthem update. Re-engineering the whole game: https://www.kotaku.com.au/2020/02/biowa ... of-anthem/
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LordNu wrote: Mon Feb 10, 2020 9:55 pm News on the new Anthem update. Re-engineering the whole game: https://www.kotaku.com.au/2020/02/biowa ... of-anthem/
The 'flying around like Iron Man' part of the game is pretty cool, but everything else about the game I find pretty soulless.
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Abe Froman wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2020 9:20 am
LordNu wrote: Mon Feb 10, 2020 9:55 pm News on the new Anthem update. Re-engineering the whole game: https://www.kotaku.com.au/2020/02/biowa ... of-anthem/
Let it die.
I don't get Bioware's priorities with this game. They said they are working on a new Dragon Age which is awesome, but why dump money into this game that is all but dead? Not many people I've heard are playing it at all. You'd think they would stick to their bread and butter and keep Mass Effect going. The last one (Andromeda) wasn't a bad game at all despite the fact that they pulled most of the ME team off it to work on this disaster.

Just admit this game was a mistake and focus on the games that made BioWare great. A new Knights Of The Old Republic would be awesome too.
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Herky wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2020 10:21 am
Abe Froman wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2020 9:20 am
LordNu wrote: Mon Feb 10, 2020 9:55 pm News on the new Anthem update. Re-engineering the whole game: https://www.kotaku.com.au/2020/02/biowa ... of-anthem/
Let it die.
I don't get Bioware's priorities with this game. They said they are working on a new Dragon Age which is awesome, but why dump money into this game that is all but dead? Not many people I've heard are playing it at all. You'd think they would stick to their bread and butter and keep Mass Effect going. The last one (Andromeda) wasn't a bad game at all despite the fact that they pulled most of the ME team off it to work on this disaster.

Just admit this game was a mistake and focus on the games that made BioWare great. A new Knights Of The Old Republic would be awesome too.
I skimmed through an article which basically described how EA fucked over Bioware. I think they really wanted to create it, and this is an FU to EA for fucking it up.
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It seems the biggest problem is that they have the resources, just that EA is making them, and every other team, shove games out the door before they are ready to make financial quarters look good.

That's not really how games work anymore. The majority of the people purchasing games are much better informed and knowledgeable and aren't really looking for cookie cutter shit with 1000's of bugs and the game being half baked. That's not a good experience and you get bit one too many times with this scenario and say maybe I'll hold back on this until someone I trust says it's worth a damn.
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They killed the revamp of this game a couple days ago. Servers are still up but this game is functionally extinct. Anthem was a flop and eventually will be no longer playable. However long that takes.
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Yeah, it flopped :/ Waste of $4.
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FWIW, it's because of this awful game that EA is allowing Dragon Age to be single player only and not always online.
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Abe Froman wrote: Sat Feb 27, 2021 8:22 am
YBBR wrote: Fri Feb 26, 2021 5:12 pm They killed the revamp of this game a couple days ago. Servers are still up but this game is functionally extinct. Anthem was a flop and eventually will be no longer playable. However long that takes.
Too bad. The screen shots I saw of the world mad it look kinda cool graphically.
The game sucked, butt the game play was fun–Iron Man-esque, flying around shooting stuff, or landing and doing melee-mechsuit attack stuff.

Hopefully EA puts these resources into improving all their other shitty games. Hopefully a real developer picks up where this game left off, and does an Iron Man game or something, where its open world flying around shooting stuff.
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Fuck online. I had fun with Destiny and Destiny 2, and Fallout 76 isn't bad, but single player still sells.
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Sergeant Rubetube wrote: Mon Feb 11, 2019 1:04 am
YBBR wrote: Sun Feb 10, 2019 3:19 pm Bioware needs a hit. Badly. Early impressions are.mixed at best. Will Anthem be a flop?
Yes. It's already getting hated on. I thought it looked generic from the first time they showed it.

I don't touch anything with a EA logo on it.
Same. I'll get Madden every 5 years but that's only because it's literally the only football game on the Market.
It's been 32 years since one of MN's four major sports teams has been to the Championship/Superbowl.
Every single year is failure until we win one. 4 teams, 32 years. That's roughly 128 consecutive failed seasons.
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