Bioware's "Anthem"

So wait, got my first legendary gun last night.... and its.... the same gun as my old ilvl 44 masterwork gun? Not even a unique skin? It's literally the exact same gun except 3 ilvls higher with different traits. I thought every legendary was like a Destiny Exotic with unique skins etc.... wtf??? This goes back to my earlier point that the ONLY way to customize your javelin and aesthetic loadout is through a coloring book javelin painting system, that while very well done and fleshed out, leaves each javelin looking almost identical in construction (how can they be unique, to my knowledge there are only 3 armor "sets" per class in the game). How can the team that provided the paint system, be attached to the same game that designed the armor, unique gun models (or utter lack thereof)/legendary system? Makes no fucking sense.

Man, so excite. Much hype. What are they smoking over at Bioware. Running contracts is okay, GM1 Strongholds are also a good step up in challenge (I'm only ilvl 443 so GM2 is still a little out of reach), but I can't see why anyone would play this for more than a week or two at best after they hit 30. Repetitive, and the "loot chase" isn't exciting at all after I discovered that chasing legendary's is a complete waste of time. There isn't even a decent "Xur" mechanic like in Destiny 1, but why would there be - the legendary's aren't unique in either look nor ability.

There has to be a story of development on this game going on hiatus for like 18 months, because I genuinely can't comprehend how they spent 6+ years working on this, most of those years with a full team (or 2!) of developers, artists, game designers and engineers. Like, if I'm EA I'm asking for receipts and wondering why we paid salaries for work that very clearly wasn't being done. If this is the game that kills Bioware, good fucking riddance. Give Respawn the money and time going forward and bring over the few very talented people still at Bioware (the guy behind the paint system, the guy who designed the weight and feel of the mechs, the guy who designed the combo system, that's it, fire everybody else) and give them time to create a new IP. They shit out Apex in >2 years and it's more polished and compelling than anything in Anthem (I can't stand BR games though so GG).

All in all, I think this title absolutely deserves the 6/10 scores it's universally receiving from the gaming community and hope it fucking tanks today. I got my time out of it, and enjoyed a lot of it - but the narrow design, and a plethora of other major design issues (don't even get me started on the shitty technical issues) leave me feeling jipped.... and I only paid $15!!

Meh, I scored a legendary sniper last night and its trait is it freezes enemies with 5 quick shots(its a full auto quick shooting one) and that thing is OP as fuck.

Springbok said:

So wait, got my first legendary gun last night.... and its.... the same gun as my old ilvl 44 masterwork gun? Not even a unique skin? It's literally the exact same gun except 3 ilvls higher with different traits. I thought every legendary was like a Destiny Exotic with unique skins etc.... wtf??? This goes back to my earlier point that the ONLY way to customize your javelin and aesthetic loadout is through a coloring book javelin painting system, that while very well done and fleshed out, leaves each javelin looking almost identical in construction (how can they be unique, to my knowledge there are only 3 armor "sets" per class in the game). How can the team that provided the paint system, be attached to the same game that designed the armor, unique gun models (or utter lack thereof)/legendary system? Makes no fucking sense.

Man, so excite. Much hype. What are they smoking over at Bioware. Running contracts is okay, GM1 Strongholds are also a good step up in challenge (I'm only ilvl 443 so GM2 is still a little out of reach), but I can't see why anyone would play this for more than a week or two at best after they hit 30. Repetitive, and the "loot chase" isn't exciting at all after I discovered that chasing legendary's is a complete waste of time. There isn't even a decent "Xur" mechanic like in Destiny 1, but why would there be - the legendary's aren't unique in either look nor ability.

There has to be a story of development on this game going on hiatus for like 18 months, because I genuinely can't comprehend how they spent 6+ years working on this, most of those years with a full team (or 2!) of developers, artists, game designers and engineers. Like, if I'm EA I'm asking for receipts and wondering why we paid salaries for work that very clearly wasn't being done. If this is the game that kills Bioware, good fucking riddance. Give Respawn the money and time going forward and bring over the few very talented people still at Bioware (the guy behind the paint system, the guy who designed the weight and feel of the mechs, the guy who designed the combo system, that's it, fire everybody else) and give them time to create a new IP. They shit out Apex in >2 years and it's more polished and compelling than anything in Anthem (I can't stand BR games though so GG).

All in all, I think this title absolutely deserves the 6/10 scores it's universally receiving from the gaming community and hope it fucking tanks today. I got my time out of it, and enjoyed a lot of it - but the narrow design, and a plethora of other major design issues (don't even get me started on the shitty technical issues) leave me feeling jipped.... and I only paid $15!!

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Yep. And I never even knew they flaked out on the legendary guns.

I am about 4 hours in on the trial. I have done my first Stronghold (Level 7-8 one lol). Jesus Christ the loading screens. There is seriously a loading screen to enter a cave. There is a loading screen to enter the forge. There is a loading screen to exit the forge. There is a loading screen to EXIT THE DAMN GAME! They already broke HDR on Xbox One X with the Day One Patch.

Gun play is fine (Standard) and feels good as it should because this has been perfected since 1998 so it better. (I am so tired of hearing "OH THE GUN PLAY FEELS FANTASTIC". That's like me saying "OH MAN HEAT IN MY HOUSE IN THE WINTER IS WORKING SO GREAT!".

Graphically downgraded by far. Completely mislead and false advertised with seamless world (non loading) for the last two years. I won't get into the story because I just skip all of it and I do not care about it anyway. Last night while playing through old friends that forced cut scene was AGONIZING. It went on forever. I went to take a piss, ate a cliff bar, played fetch with the dog, came back and it's still going. And usually I would watch it but guess what? The sounds for the game world were going on OVER the cut scene. I heard my own gun if I pulled the trigger, I heard my reload, I threw a grenade and heard it go off, and I heard people outside warring it up or something. I couldn't hear a thing. That is just flat out COMICAL.

To hear that the legendary weapons on top of that aren't even crafted differently from an art design perspective isn't shocking considering everything else they got wrong with this piece of shit. I want to log in for a few more hours this weekend just to say I was playing a game that destroyed the end of an era with what was once a good, solid, must buy development company. I wish I had more of a tracking sheet of where all the talent there went too, I'd go buy their games right now.

This thing is an absolute 100% fucking joke. And if this doesn't blow the ashes of the name Bioware into the wind I don't know what will.

mkopec said:

Meh, I scored a legendary sniper last night and its trait is it freezes enemies with 5 quick shots(its a full auto quick shooting one) and that thing is OP as fuck.

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Oh it's not that they are bad - it's that I can loot that same gun as a MW and be only 2 lvls lower. How is it that exciting or compelling, and why is there even a legendary "tier"? None of the drops feel legendary.

Derpa said:

Wtf, Anthem scoring lower than FO76 makes no sense even with Anthem's issues.

@ Utnayan
At least you got the improved loading screens, before the early day 1 patch they were WAY fucking worse.

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I cannot even imagine.

And this loading scenario in and out you simply cannot fix without a complete rework. No matter how fast it gets, there will ALWAYS be a loading screen now.

6 years. 4 Stop Starts. And a game basically patched together by multiple divisions not talking to each other in the slightest in 24 months at best. That is what this reeks of.