Are you considering buying Anthem? (Mass Effect thread version)

Can't say anything on BG1, since I only had a 33k modem back then and didn't even try. That's why I was singling out NWN.

BG1 and NWN MP are exactly the same as BG1 and NWN SP. Getting jumped by a horde of gibberlings in BG1 works the same way whether the party is controlled by one player or six.

So my question is what "horde mode" actually means, beyond getting jumped by a bunch of critters.

No, but just becauseI'm not interested in Anthem. Not to do with MEA.

Make no mistake, I'm as salty as the next guy, but boycotting Anthem will not send the message of "we want moar Mass Effect". At most, it will say "we don't want Anthem". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The pre-release "hate-train" against facets of DA4 has already started.  My prediction is the unbased criticisms of it will all but kill a lot of potential for it long before it's released much in the same way ME:A was effectively killed based merely on the premise of leaving the Milky Way long before any of the details of the story or who was writing it or anything else about it was knowable.  ME:A was set up in such a way that it would have had to been absolutely perfect to overcome all that pre-release negativity.  If the fan base follows the same path with DA4... setting it up such that it will have to be perfect to be even remotely satisfying... then the odds of it also failing to impress are significantly increased.  I keep hoping the fans will refrain from setting things up that way... but I'm not optimistic based on what I'm already seeing on that forum.  People are so adament about being negative so they won't be disappointed that they set themselves up to be disappointed long beforehand... and the disappointment becomes a  self-fulfilling prophesy... the bar set so high that Bioware can't help but not overcome it... and knowing that they are unlikely to overcome it only discourages them and ultimately kills their creativity as well.

Of course, we'll just have to wait to see what happens... but that's my prediction right now.

I hate multiplayer focused games on principle.

Nope.

The hate train really gained speed with the E3 Presentations that showed the awful animation. A great majority of ME3 ending haters were looking forward to a clean slate, unfortunately we got a game that will go down in infamy.

We were reading different posts on the old BSN then.  I saw lots of of posts pre-release "hating" the premise of the game, hating on the story before anyone knew what the story was about and particularly hating the fact that we were going to Andromeda.  Posts were largely focused on how lore-breaking the whole thing was and basically predicting that it was impossible for Bioware to write a ME story... The tech wasn't there, the money wasn't there, etc.  I saw a number of posts basically telling people to not be optimistic about this game long before E3.  You can still hunt up all sorts of these sorts of comments made in response to news articles written before E3.  You can also detect negativism is some of those articles... For example,


(Rock, Paper Shotgun article dated March 30, 2016 - www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/03/30/mass-effect-andromeda-details-slip-out/) - a full year before release) and 2 whole months before E3 2016.

The negativity exists long before the animation issues and development issues were brought to light.  I'm not suggesting a conspiracy... although it's popular to accuse me of that.  The negativity happened and it had it's own effect.  It wasn't all animations... a lot of people were just never going to get on board with this game.

Isn't condoning illegal activities again the rules here?  Mods?

Pirating is theft, and theft is illegal and immoral. Discussion of it should result in bans.

Sure I'm still salty about the treatment of ME:A and you can't tell me that Anthem didn't effect ME:A's development, but I not boycotting Anthem because of it. My seething hatred of Destiny and like games is the reason.

I don't think ME:A's shortcomings are due to purposeful self-destruction, but I definitely think that ME:A was given to an C-grade, unproven studio so BW proper could work on Anthem. I would bet my bottom dollar that ME:A would have scored 9/10s across the board had BioWare proper developed it instead of wasting their time on a mindless Destiny clone.