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[Freeman76]

Nope, pretty sure the shooting sucked. But I'm glad you feel qualified to tell me what I experienced.

If you think the shooting in ME trilogy sucked you dont enjoy shooters and shouldnt be playing them. Sure it had a few areas for improvement but to say it 'sucked' is just childish bullshit and sums up game forums precisely as far as Im concerned, full of ignoramuses who talk shit.

 

[00ich]

Crtl+F "Dirge" brings no results.
Why?

 

[Ozymandias013]

It is different. You're not paying for new content...

well,we have to wait and see about that,after all this is EA,doesn't matter what Bioware says,and the stuff they are bragging its free ,feels more like the ways other games are doing with the season thing

 

[hariseldon]

If you think the shooting in ME trilogy sucked you dont enjoy shooters and shouldnt be playing them. Sure it had a few areas for improvement but to say it 'sucked' is just childish bullshit and sums up game forums precisely as far as Im concerned, full of ignoramuses who talk shit.

Your childish rage at someone having a different opinion to you just sums up game forums precisely - right down to the ad hominem at the end. People can like different things, perhaps you need to step away from the keyboard, meet some people and learn that.

 

[Arun1910]

Well, I'm enjoying it... But that's cause of Origin Premier. I really like the environments and the combos/powers/customisation. The Shooting isn't exactly terrible, but I find myself comboing off powers more than shooting for sure.

I only have 8 hours however, but I had a really fun 8 hours and hope I get quite a few more. For the £15 I spent on premier, I feel like I'm getting my moneys worth.

 

[Smoke6]

Damn I have the game pre ordered and so does a buddy of mine and this is not sounding good.

We played/play a TON of destiny 1 and division and this was to hold us over til division 2 drops. Whoever says division failed never played more than 30mins of the game or played at all!

 

[Bkdk]

I think EA will just focus on apex legends and FIFA from now on and will basically stop releasing AAA titles like valve, wonder if they will start buying exclusives from origin and just warn profits this way, no risk, loads of reward.

 

[SkinnerSw33t]

Damn I have the game pre ordered and so does a buddy of mine and this is not sounding good.

We played/play a TON of destiny 1 and division and this was to hold us over til division 2 drops. Whoever says division failed never played more than 30mins of the game or played at all!

If you liked Division and Destiny, I bet you'll like this a lot. All the negatives aside, the gameplay and loot grind are fun.

 

[Pat-Man Jones]

I just cancelled my pre order the other day and put the refund on Metro Exodus! Great decision.... After playing the 10hr trial on EA Access my opinion is the game is alright but the limited flying and constant overheating management killed it for me... I pre ordered for the flying alone.

 

[Sakura Doritos]

The shootingg is very competent. The sniping is great. But this game lives and dies with power combos. You can build your jav. Accordingly. Rhurikan is the only guy I trust putting out content for a Anthem ATM. His Dark Souls background and focus on mechanics really shine. He has exposed the late game combo building to those who can't play games 13 hours a day.

It looks to be the same type of game Warframe turns into at the high level in regards to gear and powers.

I'm addicted to this game now. Even the EA bullshit hasn't ruined it for me.

Edit: meant is not isn't

 

[Smoke6]

If you liked Division and Destiny, I bet you'll like this a lot. All the negatives aside, the gameplay and loot grind are fun.

Thank you!

I'm gonna keep my pre order and play the game.

 

[Raven117]

Destiny was the only game of the type to reach massive success and the only one to that even today.

Division failed.
Anthem failed.

Division is one of Ubisofts best selling games....

 

[Plague Doctor]

The long loading screens are meant to give it a classic retro feel.

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

Already being heavily discussed in the OT.

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/anthem-ot-fly-you-fools.1472363/page-9

All i can say is yikes. RIP Bioware.

Don't we gotta wait for sales figures before we start burying anybody

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

Well it's EA and I hope every of those greasy couch potato weakling who bought or worst pre-order YET again an EA games will be ripped-off, in fact just in life in general.

A little harsh?

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

Nope, pretty sure the shooting sucked. But I'm glad you feel qualified to tell me what I experienced.

I'm gonna tell you how to live and you're gonna love it! No questions asked

Edit: whoa triple post? Sorry.

 

[DanielsM]

A little harsh?

People are very gullible in today's world, its starting to get to where you can't feel sorry for the people that keep buying snakeoil over and over. Then they get on twitter to complain, its very strange. These people are really the ones fueling the bad quality so at some point you have to say you're getting exactly what you want. Why should EA and the rest of the companies produce quality products? I'm actually to the point of being on their side. LOL

 

[VertigoOA]

Zelda's framerste ran in single digits at launch. Had no dungeons, trash story, and was essentialyl Nintendo's attempt at a bethesda game with watered down souls combat and one interesting enemy type. Perfect 10s.

But we most hold developers accountable!!!

 

[MayauMiao]

Angry Joe lost his temper over the loading screen. It was hilarious.

 

[Solarstrike]

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

What if the game sells very well?

 

[M0G]

What if the game sells very well?

They're all dead Dave.

 

[prag16]

BioWare needs to do something that's clearly in their wheelhouse for their next game. No more Open World Frostbyte fetch quest busy work simulators - dial back the quippy smart-ass characters. Do something smaller and more focused instead of another overly ambitious story that's never backed up in any meaningful way by gameplay.

Something like Andromeda (well preferably a somewhat streamlined version of it) is exactly what's in Bioware's wheelhouse. Not this pseudo-MMO Destiny style nonsense. I enjoyed my 70 hours with Andromeda (well, most of them anyway... far too much filler content as I alluded to... definitely needed streamlining and when I eventually do another playthrough it'll be of the ~40 hour variety, not 70+), but it's a shame what might have been, had it been given the proper attention from the A team. It could have been a masterpiece.

 

[Woo-Fu]

People, EA already killed Bioware. How many of the leads who made that studio what it was are still there? None?

 

[Mokus]

What if the game sells very well?

What makes you think that Anthem will sell over 10 million copies?

 

[Raven117]

The load screens during missions are kinda trash.....Other than that. I am enjoying my time with it.

 

[ethomaz]

5/10

https://gamingbolt.com/anthem-review-the-songs-we-sing

 

[mckmas8808]

5/10

https://gamingbolt.com/anthem-review-the-songs-we-sing

This is bad.

 

[azz0r]

This was obvious from the 10 minutes I spent on the demo.

 

[shark sandwich]

Zelda's framerste ran in single digits at launch. Had no dungeons, trash story, and was essentialyl Nintendo's attempt at a bethesda game with watered down souls combat and one interesting enemy type. Perfect 10s.

But we most hold developers accountable!!!

LOL I see we've reached the "attack other games to try and deflect criticism away from this game" part of the review thread.

Anyway it's down to 63 on Opencritic now with 19 reviews. Makes me glad to see that critics aren't giving EA a free pass.

 

[Fake]

5/10

https://gamingbolt.com/anthem-review-the-songs-we-sing

Damn. Another strike.

 

[ethomaz]

Zelda's framerste ran in single digits at launch. Had no dungeons, trash story, and was essentialyl Nintendo's attempt at a bethesda game with watered down souls combat and one interesting enemy type. Perfect 10s.

But we most hold developers accountable!!!

Not even close and I'm somebody that didn't like the new Zelda direction.

Zelda for Switch deserves the praise... good gameplay, good open world, good events, etc... the game was really better than most games released today.

 

[Jigsaah]

EA...shut down Bioware.

Microsoft....BUY BIOWARE!

 

[Texas Pride]

Destiny was the only game of the type to reach massive success and the only one to that even today.

Division failed.
Anthem failed.

Division not being on the scale of Destiny's sales wise isn't indicative of failure. I still like Destiny more than Division but its definitely not a failure. EA releases games on a schedule instead of when they're finished. The market is rejecting this and rightly so. They need to adapt or die. I'm good with a world where EA fucks off into oblivion.

 

[ethomaz]

Division not being on the scale of Destiny's sales wise isn't indicative of failure. I still like Destiny more than Division but its definitely not a failure. EA releases games on a schedule instead of when they're finished. The market is rejecting this and rightly so. They need to adapt or die. I'm good with a world where EA fucks off into oblivion.

It was a failure at launch.

EA worked a lot to make a comeback to the game and they ended having success.

Anthem can be the same but right now it is a failure.

Destiny was the opposite... while there are gamers that hated some flaws the game had it was instantaneous success at launch and for at least 3 or more years.... it started to lose stream with bad decisions with D2 (even so it is still bigger than any other similar game).

 

[Dr. Claus]

Destiny was the only game of the type to reach massive success and the only one to that even today.

Division failed.
Anthem failed.

Division failed at launch, but it received steady updates that made the game genuinely enjoyable. The same can't be said for Destiny 1 which still feels liked a failed attempt at a FPS Diablo game.

 

[Texas Pride]

It was a failure at launch.

EA worked a lot to make a comeback to the game and they ended having success.

Anthem can be the same but right now it is a failure.

Destiny was the opposite... while there are gamers that hated some flaws the game had it was instantaneous success at launch and for at least 3 or more years.... it started to lose stream with bad decisions with D2 (even so it is still bigger than any other similar game).

Division had some shortcomings no doubt. But opinions being what they are I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Anthem has Destiny and The Division to learn from and they still managed to fuck it up. That's impressive.

 

[ODESZA]

I still want to play it. But now I don't want to buy it right away because it will be 50% off or some crap by march 31.

 

[ethomaz]

Division failed at launch, but it received steady updates that made the game genuinely enjoyable. The same can't be said for Destiny 1 which still feels liked a failed attempt at a FPS Diablo game.

How Destiny has a failed attempt if it had success since Day 1?

It did had flaws but it was massive success.

 

[VertigoOA]

In no way did division fail at launch. Was very successful. I don't even like it much but it's nonsense to say otherwise.

Imbalances, dark zone whining, connection errors and things of the like don't often mean a thing long term for these games. Especially exploits, it's par for the course

Did it not stay popular for more than a month? Well neither did monster hunter... but that's a success no? And division had much better player rentetion that monster hunter

 

[Dr. Claus]

How Destiny has a failed attempt if it had success since Day 1?

It did had flaws but it was massive success.

Destiny wasn't a success since Day 1. From launch until Taken King people were actively shitting on the game, ripping it to shreds, and openly admonishing Bungie for the BS they pulled. What bizarro world did you come from?

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

In no way did division fail at launch. Was very successful. I don't even like it much but it's nonsense to say otherwise.

Imbalances, dark zone whining, connection errors and things of the like don't often mean a thing long term for these games. Especially exploits, it's par for the course

I plugged about 300 hours into Division. From what I remember it only failed in terms of endgame content (was pretty much just DZ) which I think was addressed after a few updates.

 

[Saruhashi]

Zelda's framerste ran in single digits at launch. Had no dungeons, trash story, and was essentialyl Nintendo's attempt at a bethesda game with watered down souls combat and one interesting enemy type. Perfect 10s.

But we most hold developers accountable!!!

Wow.

I guess those Anthem review scores aren't the best then?

Bu-but Zelda was really bad you guys!

 

[ethomaz]

In no way did division fail at launch. Was very successful. I don't even like it much but it's nonsense to say otherwise.

Imbalances, dark zone whining, connection errors and things of the like don't often mean a thing long term for these games. Especially exploits, it's par for the course

Did it not stay popular for more than a month? Well neither did monster hunter... but that's a success no?

Division best shape was after some years when they release a big patch.

It was a loot game that had basically no end-game or rewarded the player to play it... that is basically a failure for a loot game.

At launch a lot of articles was posted about how they failed.

 

[AlexxKidd]

Mike Ybarra just called, said all these reviewers are newbie scrubs.

 

[ethomaz]

Destiny wasn't a success since Day 1. From launch until Taken King people were actively shitting on the game, ripping it to shreds, and openly admonishing Bungie for the BS they pulled. What bizarro world did you come from?

It was a success since day one.

Even Polygon had to admit it.

"Let's get this out of the way now: Destiny is a hit game. It sold impressive numbers, it's keeping players engaged, and it continues to be a topic of conversation in the major gaming media. Activision has successfully launched a new franchise, and will continue to support it in the coming years."

 

[VertigoOA]

Division best shape was after some years when they release a big patch.

It was a loot game that had basically no end-game or rewarded the player to play it... that is basically a failure for a loot game.

At launch a lot of articles was posted about how they failed.

Now it's a a "failure as a loot game."

Division was very successful no matter how you spin it?

Failed how? To address the ridiculous and never end whining of gamers? A a particular weapon is a bit overpowered those same players will scream to the high heavens about it.

Fact is. Had a a huge debut. Strong player rentetion and went on to continue being played for 3 years.

The division was very successful

 

[Insane Metal]

EA...shut down Bioware.

Microsoft....BUY BIOWARE!

Yes, Microsoft is doing great with all those studios they acquired, like Rare!

 

[VertigoOA]

It was a success since day one.

Yup. Bitching about destiny is a thing anywhere but actual destiny topics. The bitching, driveby shit posting always existed.

Thankfully both destiny games are absolutely amazing, current D2 is arguably the very best destiny (it is...) and will continue to be great.

Jokers Wild ... March 11th. The champ will show these scrubs how it's done... or are we gonna scream at the sky about 8$ dlc again

 

[Texas Pride]

Now it's a a "failure as a loot game."

Division was very successful no matter how you spin it?

Failed how? To address the ridiculous and never end whining of gamers? A a particular weapon is a bit overpowered those same players will scream to the high heavens about it.

Fact is. Had a a huge debut. Strong player rentetion and went on to continue being played for 3 years.

The division was very successful

The end game aspect left a lot to be desired but they improved the game and learned a lot in the process. I think calling it a failure is more fiction than fact. The fact we're getting a sequel tells me it met expectations somewhere.