PuppetMaster
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R.I.P Bioware.
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Anthem reviews are starting to drop [literally]
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ClanOfNone
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lmfao, lower than Fallout 76 is pretty damning. I actually enjoyed my brief time with the PC beta, but I've got zero problems waiting for a lower price and more content.
shark sandwich
tenuously links anime, pedophile and incels
If I’m on the fence about a game, and I check out the game’s review thread, and see the fans doing things like:
- whining that reviewers are holding the game to an unfairly high standard, or are otherwise irrationally biased against this game or genre
- trying to deflect criticism by attacking other games (hurrrr Breath of the Wild has SINGLE DIGIT FRAMERATE but critics gaven IT good scores)
- doing whatever they can to try and “refute” negative criticism
It just completely turns me off the game.
Seriously, you guys aren’t doing the game any favors. Tell us what you like about the game. Don’t act like an enraged fanboy.
- whining that reviewers are holding the game to an unfairly high standard, or are otherwise irrationally biased against this game or genre
- trying to deflect criticism by attacking other games (hurrrr Breath of the Wild has SINGLE DIGIT FRAMERATE but critics gaven IT good scores)
- doing whatever they can to try and “refute” negative criticism
It just completely turns me off the game.
Seriously, you guys aren’t doing the game any favors. Tell us what you like about the game. Don’t act like an enraged fanboy.
Chairman Tickles
Banned
Mehnthem.
This is not looking good for Bioware. I believe their fate is sealed.
This is not looking good for Bioware. I believe their fate is sealed.
Allnamestakenlol
Member
Current metacritic score (63) mirrors my overall impressions of the game.
Holammer
Member
Extra Credits had a recent video where they made the case that Destiny's marketing and failure to deliver a consistent experience ended up helping Warframe instead. By the looks of it, it's possible that EA/Bioware bungled it up so badly that we're going to see a repeat which ends up benefiting Digital Extremes again.
Hendrick's
If only my penis was as big as my GamerScore!
God damn I love JE. If this could come back and be good, I would be happy as fuck.That would be glorious.
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Hari Seldon
Member
I'll wait for teh game to be free to try it like Destiny 2 lol.
blackjon24
Member
Can't wait for the destiny/divison crowd to tell us how amazing this game is a year from now.
We've been over this before
We've been over this before
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Woo-Fu
Banned
Absolutely no future for single player titles.
Review scores aren't a 1:1 with profit.
What I find interesting about that chart is graphically anthem has been placed at the bottom when it isn't in terms of score.
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Very true, we live in a strange world, Elon Musk creates lemons, but he has a fart app in it....people with his broken POS still want to give him money. Quality doesn't always win.
Bagofdicks
Neo Member
This was my most looked forward to game when it was first revealed...then as more info dropped and i realized it wasn't a deep singleplayer action rpg and more of a destiny type game i lost all of my interest.
Still slightly surprised the score is low though
Still slightly surprised the score is low though
Rhazer Fusion
Member
Dragon Dogma was created by Capcom. Do you mean Dragon Age? As a matter of fact, aren’t they coming out with a new Dragon Age game?
Mokus
Member
Resident Evil 2 and Kingdom Hearts 3 launched earlier in January, and both singleplayer games...
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Fake
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For me the focus of the tweet is the picture.
Yeap, both KH3 and RE2 are singleplayer games and KH3 is my favorite 2019 so far. For me I still good playing singleplayer games... And some offline multiplayer, most of than splitscreen.
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To be fair, KH3 (and the whole series) have the worst story of all those titles.
Psykodad
Banned
I like the sarcasm, but there's truth to that.
Although I highly doubt Anthem is gonna pull off a similar comeback.
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HagglesworthMD
Member
Destiny & Division both sold really well and received favorable Metacritic scores.
Anthem is getting destroyed by critics and Youtubers,.
Dthomp
Member
But but but you're supposed to just skip all the dialog and then be confused onto what's going on and just say "bad game"
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
I think that's the problem..... not with gamers, but with the game type.
I don't think too many gamers playing loot based titles are going to be sitting there watching cut scenes. More interested in getting back to kill swarms of monsters asap for rare drops.
A developer expecting hoards of gamers to be fast paced for loot chases, and then change to snail pace and listen to dialogue is asking a lot.
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SlashBringingHasher
Banned
so how many more bad games bioware makes before EA closes the door on them?. am not surprised its even worse than Destiny. lol. they probably started working on the game the minute destiny was announced. direct orders from EA HQ. "make a GAAS shooter with space stuff guys".
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Dthomp
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You're not wrong in that, although I do think gamers are to blame a bit here too. They just want to hate, they are mad it's a Bioware game with apparently no story, cause they don't want to watch/listen/seek it out, even when there is story cause "mah bruh, guns!" I did purchase this tonight but honestly won't have the time to sit down with it until tomorrow but I look forward to seeing how the story plays out and how it continues with the planned DLCS and activities.
Boss Mog
Member
Lets not forget about the Zune
Just because Metro Exodus scored higher doesn't actually mean it will sell better than Anthem, in fact I would still expect Anthem to outsell it quite handily.Absolutely no future for single player titles.
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StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
100% agree. Follow the leader. So much for creativity.
Over the years, looks how many shooters trended to Call of Duty-ish gameplay. Even Crysis copied their 3-5-7 killstreaks in Crysis 3 (I think). Was even the same shit like 3 = UAV, 5 = Missile Strike, 7 = some kind of aerial attack.
Stuart360
Member
It has some quite interesting npc's, some very writty exchanges as well at times. One npc made me laugh out loud tonight. I alsmo met an old woman who lost her son 10 years earlier and couldnt accept it, some interesting dialogue choices came up.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Unless it's something like Big Rigs Racing, video games to me are just like that saying at work...... "You're never as bad as it seems, and never as good as you think"
Mokus
Member
That is very true, but we have to consider the greed at EA.
If Metro Exodus sells 2 million copies, it will be considered a success. On the other hand, if Anthem sells 5 million copies for EA it will be a flop
woigemok
Banned
Well EA did post their estimation around ~5 million copies in this quarter.
ROMhack
Member
Everything is better with friends though. I could get dropped into the desert with no water and have to walk 50 miles to the nearest spring and it'd be more tolerable with a buddy by my side.
I don't know what my point is but yeah, dumb things are fun with friends.
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AV
We ain't outta here in ten minutes, we won't need no rocket to fly through space
It's fundamentally the same game. Might gain/lose a couple of points for performance and control scheme, but it hardly matters.
cars_on_Mars
Neo Member
That was expected. They call Anthem beautiful, but empty. Too few people play it as it has some bugs and minuses. Anyway, it's better than Fallout 76.
Coulomb_Barrier
Member
User Score under 3.0
Pretty good for loading screen simulator
Technical issues alone are bad enough, let alone everything else. What has EA done to Bioware?
I was watching a 2016 presentation by art director of Bioware on concept artistry yesterday. The guy has been there since Jade Empire. I wonder what strain he has been under from top down by EA suits telling him what they want and what criteria needed ticking off.
woigemok
Banned
I think Bioware itself is part of the problems
Shit writing + Anita the SJW master influence
Shit mechanics progression
Shit gameplay structure
Shit AI
Shit optimization
The only good thing is the gunplay.
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Coulomb_Barrier
Member
Well the character designs he was showing seemed completely uninspired or stuck in the 2000s. It seems gameplay and mechanics are similarly stuck in the past looking at their last 3 games.
The Scrivener
Member
Modern games journalism needs to get its act in gear.
They've made a six to be basically worth the same as a zero.
The fact that 7/10 means a game is shit in their books is shockingly representative of gaming journalism.
We need to push back and demand games be given fair reviews. i.e. not click their links.
The UK magazine Edge was the only one to ever get it right, a game had to be very good to get a 7.
The modern media version is all just about click bait scores.
They've made a six to be basically worth the same as a zero.
The fact that 7/10 means a game is shit in their books is shockingly representative of gaming journalism.
We need to push back and demand games be given fair reviews. i.e. not click their links.
The UK magazine Edge was the only one to ever get it right, a game had to be very good to get a 7.
The modern media version is all just about click bait scores.
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angelic
Banned
That won't ever change, it's the delicate balance of reviewers needing publisher access and paid ads. A 6 is shorthand for "it's shit" in the way that readers get the message, but publishers don't get too upset.
The greatest magazine of all time, Amiga Power, used the full percentage scale, and it was amazing. They once game a game 2%, as in 2/100, with the comment of we made it 2% not 1% so it didn't look like a joke, and that the game really was worthless. The publishers had a fit, and it was beautiful. Please note the box on the left comparing what the game was worse than, including the Rodney King beating, and a war. This was a nationally published mag in the UK.
http://amr.abime.net/review_932
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The Scrivener
Member
You didn't finish the story!
The publishers had a fit, moved jobs to IGN, and by 2019 turned the whole industry into feminazism.
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
Fuck, I was hoping that this would be the game that launched Bioware back into contender talk....
Dammit....
Dammit....
ethomaz
Banned
I’m in the Destiny’s crowd and I didn’t like Division at launch and it continues not liking it today... nothing changed.
Destiny is the opposite my most memorable gameplay experience this gen happened in first year of the game that was absolutely amazing... VoG was a game by itself.
The yearly updates on Destiny just go one step forward but two step back to the point Destiny 2 was not memorable anymore.
Loved Destiny from week one.
Destiny could relaunch Destiny Year 1 to player <3
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JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
This has been an issue in gaming journalism for much longer than people realize. I still remember CliffyB getting upset that Jim Sterling gave Gears of War 3 an 8, which to Jim meant the game was good. Jim commented that people had become accustomed to expecting games to graded on a 7-10 scale instead of a 1-10.
Interestingly though, Mass Effect 3 is the game that showed me how in bed publishers were with reviewers, not because of the ending, but because Jessica Chobot was put in the game and she had no business being in there.
For me, I have always considered an 8 to be a good game with some imperfections.