"Elfroot Syndrome" - Collecting materials in Anthem

It's the hinterland all over again

There are more sparkling things, like the mineral, in other videos. In fact, sparkling things have been around since the very first gameplay shown with the "chest" (which I believe also gave materials).

I am also slightly offended with calling this the "Elfroot Syndrome", something normal shouldn't be called a syndrome. Yes, I find it normal to pick everything that isn't nailed down and horde it in a video game. I do it all the time.

Nah it is arpg all over again. It is what it is. You grind for gear, for mats, for xp.

Videogames failing to teach about personal property since 1980👍

And this is what bothers me about Anthem. I have a love hate relationship with arpg's. On one hand they can be fun for awhile if you just want to mindlessly kill stuff but I get board of the loot grind quite easily. Probably why I utterly loathe Galactic Command is SW:TOR so much. 

? in the immortal words of a Matriarch " if you have to up grade your not doing it right" LOL

Well yeah you have a pick up radius. I guess if your radius is large enough that you can open the node and pick it up by the time it drops that would work for smooth collection, but you would need a pretty significant increase over the base level.

All this talk of loot.... The single most boring played out thing in all of videogames.

I liked getting loot when I was playing PnP games. Then, I enjoyed getting loot in video game adaptations of PnP games.

I've been looting for years. Tired of it. Gameplay and story, fuck the loot.

So, yes, I am tired of Elfroot Syndrome and I hope modern developers take the opportunity to raise their game. Of course, the suits will never allow this.

The more I watch footage, and think about the game, the less interested I am.

Yeah I'm inclined to agree. Don't get me wrong I had fun with the alpha and the gameplay was there and what story we got to play seemed interesting. However after seeing the loot livestream, for want of a better description I'm seriously thinking if I want to buy Anthem because I can do without another endless loot grind. I'm asking myself once I've completed all the story missions would I even play Anthem? Probably not, sad to say because chasing loot gets boring.

Still will give the open demo a go all the same.

WE REQUIRE MORE MINERALS!!!

I'm fine with material collection as long as the material collection animation is quick as possible. I think Warframe did it pretty well actually, as it collects the materials automatically after you break the container boxes, but I'm not sure how well it will work in Anthem because Warframe levels are much more cramped than Anthem's vast open world.

4 years has passed and i still don't have enough blood lotus...

The key thing for me about "Elfroot Syndrome" was the press a button to scan your environment and find the items, not to mention going by the loot video last week crafting has been designed to fill out what piece you don't have and isn't a requirement if you aren't looking for specific things.