IGN: 10 Minutes of Hidden Depths Gameplay (updated)

The gameplay looked fun. Nice to see a return of Bioware's patented logic puzzles-lite. I had a good chuckle at the "most ridiculously guarded book ever" line.

The titan at the end didn't look as big as I expected (maybe there's a greater titan?). It also reinforced my opinion that titans really need to be more dangerous given how immobile they are. The players were taking basically no damage from that fight until the adds started flooding in. Maybe make its ranged attacks less dodge-able (though the colossus did get hit by at least one attack...but that was more because he wasn't moving at all), or have some kind of incentive to go close (perhaps with creative placement of weak points) - something so that the hang back and spam dps from range strat isn't so ridiculously effective (and boring).

One last thing - not a fan of Matthias's (sp?) VA. All of his dialogue sounds like he's struggling to physically say the words. He also has exactly one tone that he uses for everything. At the end, when he is ostensibly supposed to be elated, he doesn't sound happy or joyous or even relieved.

I just realized that Matthias is pretty jacked for our resident head nerd. Look at those delts and triceps! I guess he sounds the way he does cause he's always in the gym lifting weights while talking to us.

There's a real 'John Malkovich' thing going on there, isn't there? I like it, in any case, these things often work better when you experience the character in-game.

I think part of the problem is that these guys might not be geared correctly for a weapons-focus. It does seem like abilities in Anthem have a higher skill floor than weapons, but let's hope that with the correct optimizations you can make effective weapons builds.

As for the interceptor looking unskilled, I think that's down to the player here, not the javelin. Just because you can flail wildly to no avail doesn't mean you can never rise above that.

This dev livestream shows a melee-focused interceptor put to more...targeted use. You see a lot more instances of the interceptor flying around and picking off HVTs (snipers, mostly) in 1-on-1 scenarios, which seems to be its strength, as opposed to running headfirst into the main fight. You also see a lot more instances of trying to flank enemies (esp bosses) as well.

Lots of videos appearing now. If i get the interceptor i will not focus on melee with it being so squishy.

The Colossus looked cool howeve byr just throwing enemies aside while charging with the shield.

All that banter you could hear got obnoxious after a while. Combat was more boring in this video, didn't help that the enemies were either bullet sponges or trash mobs, and the player was just bashing on them till they died. Exploration ... I'm not feeling it, but this video wasn't made for that.

Without giving anything away I shouldn't, I would imagine it's very different watching a video edited for pace, and playing a game with broader pacing where such comments are made while you are busy doing other things.

*Sees spider-like creature incoming*

*fires*

*zero damage everywhere*

Dear god... they've found a way to make spiders even more disturbing!!!

Huh, I had the opposite reaction, found Matthias way more authentic than Owen.

So far my Cypher VA performance standings are:

Brin > Matthias >> Owen

Show me where I said ‘current build’.