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[Dai Kaiju]

I know nothing about it other than it looks awesome and everyone hates it.

 

[shaddam]

I bought Brink around the same price, played for a weekend, then sold it with profit. Maybe you will be lucky too

 

[Potato Chip PRO]

Looks can be deceiving....

 

[Ozukar]

The price alone should tell you enough. Honestly its not even worth the time you would spend on trying it out, it's just painfully bland and straight up boring..sadly..

 

[Mista]

Yes the gameplay mechanics are good. Other than that, don’t hope for anything else.

 

[Grinchy]

It's amazing that they made something so unappealing to us that we'd have to put thought into whether or not it's worth $4.

It has to be worth that much, right? Would I even download it if it were free? I dunno.

 

[The Alien]

I saw it advertised for $5 during Black Friday.

Amazed that this game was gonna be 'the next big thing'. It had a 10 year roadmap, etc.

Here we are not even 10 months later and its $4/$5. Crazy industry.

 

[iconmaster]

You get what you pay for.

 

[LaughingStock]

I know nothing about it other than it looks awesome and everyone hates it.

For 3.99? Definitely.
I played anthem for 40 hours give or take. And i was entertained despite its many flaws. The gameplay is good. There's no other game that feels like anthem. Being able to fly is a game changer.
But the gameplay loop is shallow as fuck. Loot is underwhelming. Story is nonsensical mumbo jumbo.

 

[Fuz]

It's not worth your time.

 

[CyberPanda]

If it was given to me free, I wouldn’t touch it.

 

[Nero_PR]

For this price, go for it! Just don't expect anything too fancy. The game is a looker, but it's as deep as a puddle. And if you don't like it, you can find someone that buys it for more than U$5.00. Or you can buy it, and wait for the "Overhaul" of the game...

 

[JORMBO]

I got it for free and feel ripped off.

 

[johntown]

They should be paying you to take it off their shelves.

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

Pretty sure it’s going F2P soon?

 

[waylo]

It's trash. Minimal content, minimal variety in loot, and boring gameplay. Wait for the inevitable F2P launch that hopefully comes with some sort of overhaul, because in it's current state, Anthem isn't worth a dime.

 

[GymWolf]

If you have friends to play with, yes.
Otherwise no.

They talk about a big overhaul, so maybe in a couple of monts is gonna be a good game, who knows...

 

[manfestival]

On one hand I would say yes since the gameplay is actually better than most games. However the overall content is not good.
I am gonna say no. Only because I got to play this free recently and I wasn't a fan of the story progression and many of the core issues remain.
The other reason for no is the fact that there might be a big reboot happening. It may still be years away but it is just better to wait for that than to experience this shell of a game.

 

[prinz_valium]

Yes, if the game goes F2P, you probably get nice stuff for having the purchased copy.
It's just the price of a cup of coffee

 

[bellome]

Anthem is not even worth my time, let alone my money.

 

[Dr.D00p]

If it had a 20hr single player campaign, then yes. But it hasn't, so no.

Online Co-op shooters are fucking shit and the whole genre needs to die ASAP.

EDIT:

I should add I got this game free with my 2080 purchase back in January and still resent the waste of bandwidth it took for me to find this out.

 

[flacopol]

you time in this game cost more than 5 dollars imo , don´t see the price see if your time worth the game

 

[Spaceman292]

I know nothing about it other than it looks awesome and everyone hates it.

Yes, honestly. It's good for at least a couple of hours of fun before the bullshit and boredom kick in.

 

[Spukc]

go for it OP i got it for peanuts
seemed ok imo

 

[DrJohnGalt]

If you have friends to play with, yes. I got mine for $8 a few weeks ago and am enjoying it quite a bit. I agree with the others, there isn't much story (I've just been skipping over everything) but it looks ok and the gameplay is solid. Great game to hang out in a squad of buddies and fly around shooting things. Even if you only stick with it a weekend it's worth the $5.

 

[Dai Kaiju]

Thanks for the advice everyone.

 

[Quasicat]

I bought it for $5 last Friday at GameStop as well. I fired it up, got right into a multiplayer game, and then flew the other direction and had so much fun playing it by myself. The only reason why I’m still playing it, is because it’s a lot of fun flying around the pretty big map. At this point, you have it, you may as well install it and give it a shot!

 

[Inuteu]

the reveal was so sweet

its sad what this game became

 

[Inuteu]

the game is free for EA acess subscribers btw

 

[LegendOfKage]

What is your time worth to you? Because I wouldn't spend it playing Anthem.

At this point, buying Anthem is basically like gambling. Maybe it will get fixed, maybe they won't charge for the fix, and maybe it will go back up in price afterwards. That's a lot of maybe, and there are a lot of games worth your time and money right now, so I'd say no.

The same holds true for Fallout 76.

I should also say that I played the beta of Anthem. It's not a good game. Even if they fixed all the smaller issues since then, the game at its core is genuinely bad.

 

[Ixiah]

Buy a cheap Copy incase they do a FF14 and realy do revamp the Game from the Ground up.

 

[Paltheos]

You get what you pay for.

Nah, man. I bought Fallout: New Vegas for a few bucks and had a blast. Equivalent exchange is bullshit.

 

[Bruno_Arrais85]

No, it's truly garbage. Wait until the so called Anthem 2.0 revision.

 

[The Infectious Paradox]

Out of curiosity, who else felt it was going to be crap even at the E3 reveal?

 

[Nero_PR]

Out of curiosity, who else felt it was going to be crap even at the E3 reveal?

After that second E3 where they just talked their way out with showing the bare minimum of game footage. I knew it at that moment the game would be a trainwreck. I played the beta just to cement my expectations.

 

[The Infectious Paradox]

After that second E3 where they just talked their way out with showing the bare minimum of game footage. I knew it at that moment the game would be a trainwreck. I played the beta just to cement my expectations.

I just felt it on the first. Intuition was confirmed on the second.

 

[Krixeus]

That’s $3.99 too much

 

[Insane Metal]

Only if they paid you $3.99

 

[tylrdiablos]

Buy it and throw it on a shelf until the supposed revamp hits.

 

[Zephir]

Bought it for 10€ a couple of weeks ago...plot is boring, it looks nice and I do pushups during matchmaking and loading times, so it's more helpful than I thought

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

Out of curiosity, who else felt it was going to be crap even at the E3 reveal?

After that second E3 where they just talked their way out with showing the bare minimum of game footage. I knew it at that moment the game would be a trainwreck. I played the beta just to cement my expectations.

Unfortunately I was a blind defender of the game leading up to release. I went expecting an epic experience.

Learned a lesson

 

[Lupin3]

Even the game itself became a microtransaction.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Games that cheap could still lead to great fun, I bought Gears 3 for around the same price and that game is in my top 10.

 

[JoeyWestSide]

Story is good with loveable characters and great gameplay, so yes. Everyone wants a story focused bioware but then judge it solely on its post game content, don't listen to those people.

 

[SurprisedPikachu]

No. It's really not.

3/4 of the way through the base game you'll get tomb-gated. You have to unlock a bunch of tombs before you can do the endgame content that came with the game. It's a mess, the loot still doesn't fucking work, etc. I got it for free and I wish they paid me to play it, it's that fucking bad.

 

[MaximusPayne]

The question is: Is it worth the space on your hard drive?

It will be free soon enough OP. I would wait.

 

[Screamer-RSA]

Nope. Use the time to play something good.

 

[nikolino840]

Is not on EA access? You can try

 

[ArthriticZombie]

I think it's worth $3.99 for sure. I do regret paying full price for the collector's edition version at launch but $3.99 is worth it. Some good fun in gameplay to make it worth the price but nothing that will hold you for long. I stopped playing after a week or so. I run a Destiny 2 clan and some of my clanmates played it longer and one dude is a die hard fan that still plays today.

 

[Fbh]

I only played the beta but unless the rest of the game is a massive improvement it's just a boring loot shooter with the same design as every other boring loot shooter.
So I think it's not really about the price, it's about if you enjoy shooting bullet sponges through repetitive missions to farm slightly better gear so you can shoot spongier bullet sponges.