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Post by NRieh on Feb 4, 2019 12:04:48 GMT
I've been in this thread since earliest announces. Now that I've played some demo, I have more to say. The expectations had never been high, to begin with, so I can't say I'm disappointed. Sadly, I can't say that I'm positively interested either.
What drives me crazy - even after playing for couple of hours I DO NOT KNOW whether this game has any single-player (story) content or not. The 'freeplay' areas did not work due to the multiple server errors - I got rebooted back to fort many times, but the only quest\mission I was given IS obviously meant for multiplayer. The possibility to initiate a private session is there, but it had been designed for four. It's possibly doable as a single on 'easy', but there's no way it's going to be any enjoyable. Story does not blend too well with the multiplayer, and BW should have known that. SWTOR almost had it right at some point, but, SWTOR had story reserved exclusively for SP, not vice-versa.
Any attempts to explore or browse around are going to pull one away from the 'mission zone', we get a loading screen and a teleport to the party as soon as someone else triggers the objective. Many people would just rush forward, same as people had spacebared through the story in SWTOR dungeons. Too bad, because the only available quest chained seemed interesting enough to me - it had it's charm, and that's the right way to work with the NPCs.
More salt to the wound - the dialogues. I'd prefer to have an auto-speech rather than this joke of a 'roleplay'. Not that I expected much, but that was close to insulting. Those RT\LT options are totally useless for PC characterization. Basically, it's 2 neutral lines that do not express or change things.
I'm not buying the game before we find out about the single-player content. What we've got, and what we haven't. So far, most of the reviews and posts about this topic are controversial, and my own experience with the game does not help much. Going to play some more as part of the OriginAccess trial (hopefully, their add was not misleading, and we do get 10 hours to spend), and going to see. May be then I'd know for sure.
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Post by lennybusker on Feb 4, 2019 12:33:39 GMT
I've been in this thread since earliest announces. Now that I've played some demo, I have more to say. The expectations had never been high, to begin with, so I can't say I'm disappointed. Sadly, I can't say that I'm positively interested either. What drives me crazy - even after playing for couple of hours I DO NOT KNOW whether this game has any single-player (story) content or not. Did you play the quest chain from Matthias? The three missions involving finding the Manifold and the events after that? That is (a slice of) the story content. When you launch those missions, if you leave the matchmaking setting to Public it will join you with other players during that mission. If you set it to Private you will run them solo (or with any other players you've invited to your party). In between the missions you will have events to watch in Fort Tarsis, and you will be solo while watching these. You can't set matchmaking to Private for Freeplay or for Strongholds. That's how the story works.
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Post by NRieh on Feb 4, 2019 13:30:52 GMT
Did you play the quest chain from Matthias? The three missions involving finding the Manifold and the events after that? That I played, yes. And from what I saw, that content is clearly DESIGNED for the party MP. Playing MP content solo is rarely fun. At best, it would be looong and tedious due to the lack of DPS and combos, at worst it might become unplayable. Looks like my worst expectations are true, their 'yes, you can play solo' was actually 'we're going to make your solo experience as unbearable as possible. So that you'd team up with a random party eventually and shorten our matchmaking'.
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Post by Kappa Neko on Feb 4, 2019 13:58:25 GMT
Locking solo players out of freeplay is a big middle finger that I hope they correct. Otherwise, Bioware never said playing the campaign solo would be fun, it's doable though. Doesn't sound like you'd be happy with the purchase.
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Post by Conquer Your Dreams on Feb 4, 2019 14:29:42 GMT
I don't think Anthem is designed for solo play at all. Of course there will be campaign, but i do believe it will be short add-on just like campaigns for Battlefields.
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Post by saandrig on Feb 4, 2019 14:39:03 GMT
I don't think Anthem is designed for solo play at all. Of course there will be campaign, but i do believe it will be short add-on just like campaigns for Battlefields. Yeah, but a short add-on to the 3 Strongholds, a daily quest and monotone Freeplay... I mean what is the main game here? Because all of these things feel like add-ons.
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Post by Conquer Your Dreams on Feb 4, 2019 14:49:19 GMT
I don't think Anthem is designed for solo play at all. Of course there will be campaign, but i do believe it will be short add-on just like campaigns for Battlefields. Yeah, but a short add-on to the 3 Strongholds, a daily quest and monotone Freeplay... I mean what is the main game here? Because all of these things feel like add-ons. I do not know to be honest.
For me personally experiencing Anthem was just flying and shooting things - that's all.
Well, at the end it's just a shooter so i don't think we should look for some depth in here.
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Post by cankiie on Feb 4, 2019 14:52:04 GMT
From what I have heard from reviewers. The game is better with friends. Mind you, those would be the same reviewers that tend to bash the phrase "The game is better with friends" Because as it stands, even hurling poop is a funny activity with friends. In this case they justify the phrase with the simple fact, it is clear as day that the game is designed to be played in a party from the way the mechs operate, and how the mobs operate... and to be honest, that is fair I think. Not every single game has to be a single player only title.
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Post by PillarBiter on Feb 4, 2019 15:09:48 GMT
I don't think Anthem is designed for solo play at all. Of course there will be campaign, but i do believe it will be short add-on just like campaigns for Battlefields. They LITERALLY said it wasn't designed that way, only that it was possible.
Why are you 'thinking' it?
Also, it baffles me that on the one hand people want difficulty, but on the othe rhand if they make a multi game available for solo and it's difficult, that also causes... grievance. Although I'll admit to bullet sponging being more prevalent in solo and that is indeed not fun.
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Post by jrpN7 on Feb 4, 2019 15:21:26 GMT
Solo play was freestyle mode which is open world and is also something I hate.
Ultimately though, I LOATHE the style of play that BioWare has set up for Anthem. It's a story where you are a freelancer hero or whatever given a mission (which lacks depth to begin with because they give us no reason to care) and suddenly you're forced into multiplayer where everyone is doing the same mission you're doing which goes against the grain of you being the hero or whatever. It was so annoying that while I was figuring out what was going on, other players made it to the checkpoints and activated some thingy and the mission continued on. I wasn't given any chance to take in the setting or the objective of the mission.
Anthem so far has turned out to really be the exact opposite of my cup of tea. 5 hours in on a 10 hour demo and I got bored.
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Post by PapaCharlie9 on Feb 4, 2019 15:39:31 GMT
The game is NOT balanced for Solo, you are not gonna have fun alone tho Biowate said you CAN play it alone but the reality is that what they meant is "you can play it alone BUT we are gonna make sure you are not gonna have a good time so you can give up and play it like we wanted you to" CHALLENGE ACCEPTED! I'll prove them wrong and enjoy myself playing solo. I won't be religious about it -- if some BSNers want me to tag along, I'll be happy to.
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Post by Conquer Your Dreams on Feb 4, 2019 15:47:20 GMT
I don't think Anthem is designed for solo play at all. Of course there will be campaign, but i do believe it will be short add-on just like campaigns for Battlefields. They LITERALLY said it wasn't designed that way, only that it was possible.
Why are you 'thinking' it?
Also, it baffles me that on the one hand people want difficulty, but on the othe rhand if they make a multi game available for solo and it's difficult, that also causes... grievance. Although I'll admit to bullet sponging being more prevalent in solo and that is indeed not fun.
Cause i am not reading every twitt and every article regarding Anthem like a Bible ?
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Post by Camel on Feb 4, 2019 16:54:10 GMT
A very revealing video of what was promised in trailers with a supposedly "in-game footage" and what is in the real game.
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Post by acehilator on Feb 4, 2019 18:42:35 GMT
The reduction in foileage/ground quality and NPC behaviour are super annoying. Gotta downgrade so it runs on effing consoles. I guess regular PS4/XBOX1 couldn't even run Fort Tarsis as originally shown.
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Post by General Mahad on Feb 4, 2019 19:27:06 GMT
I don't think Anthem is designed for solo play at all. Of course there will be campaign, but i do believe it will be short add-on just like campaigns for Battlefields. So it's not a BioWare game then.
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Post by General Mahad on Feb 4, 2019 19:29:35 GMT
From what I have heard from reviewers. The game is better with friends. Mind you, those would be the same reviewers that tend to bash the phrase "The game is better with friends" Because as it stands, even hurling poop is a funny activity with friends. In this case they justify the phrase with the simple fact, it is clear as day that the game is designed to be played in a party from the way the mechs operate, and how the mobs operate... and to be honest, that is fair I think. Not every single game has to be a single player only title. True, but if the developers say that is can be done completely solo then we expect a meaty single player experience.
You know, what BioWare is famous and beloved for?
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Post by Pounce de León on Feb 4, 2019 19:34:56 GMT
From what I have heard from reviewers. The game is better with friends. Mind you, those would be the same reviewers that tend to bash the phrase "The game is better with friends" Because as it stands, even hurling poop is a funny activity with friends. In this case they justify the phrase with the simple fact, it is clear as day that the game is designed to be played in a party from the way the mechs operate, and how the mobs operate... and to be honest, that is fair I think. Not every single game has to be a single player only title. True, but if the developers say that is can be done completely solo then we expect a meaty single player experience.
You know, what BioWare is famous and beloved for? Let it go, Anthem isn't that kind of game. Or are you just annoyed there is little chance to become upset about gay transsexual lesbian romance?
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Post by mugwump v1 on Feb 4, 2019 19:40:10 GMT
From what I have heard from reviewers. The game is better with friends. Mind you, those would be the same reviewers that tend to bash the phrase "The game is better with friends" Because as it stands, even hurling poop is a funny activity with friends. In this case they justify the phrase with the simple fact, it is clear as day that the game is designed to be played in a party from the way the mechs operate, and how the mobs operate... and to be honest, that is fair I think. Not every single game has to be a single player only title. True, but if the developers say that is can be done completely solo then we expect a meaty single player experience.
You know, what BioWare is famous and beloved for? Aye, a strong, story-driven, singleplayer experience Anthem is not! Game looks manifestly dull. Truly.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2019 19:40:59 GMT
A very revealing video of what was promised in trailers with a supposedly "in-game footage" and what is in the real game. See, this isn't the first time that I notice such thing with Bioware. I remember the first trailer with DA:I, where you have Morrigan appearing, you had equally a sort of demo showed during an event, that felt very good with even features that the full version didn't have, and yet the final game released one or two years after seemed visually less good. It's even more impressive with Anthem. The thing that strikes me the most in the trailer is how in Fort Tarsis it seemed full of life, while in the demo that doesn't really happen, almost lifeless. The environments also seemed having more identity into the E3 trailer.
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Post by General Mahad on Feb 4, 2019 19:43:04 GMT
True, but if the developers say that is can be done completely solo then we expect a meaty single player experience.
You know, what BioWare is famous and beloved for? Let it go, Anthem isn't that kind of game. Very compelling, I'll now totally drop my skepticism and embrace this as the next coming of Shepard.
Drats, you figured me out.
Oh how will I endure without complaining about LGBT content?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2019 19:44:59 GMT
True, but if the developers say that is can be done completely solo then we expect a meaty single player experience.
You know, what BioWare is famous and beloved for? Let it go, Anthem isn't that kind of game. Or are you just annoyed there is little chance to become upset about gay transsexual lesbian romance? Why did you assume that from his post ?
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Post by Pounce de León on Feb 4, 2019 19:46:42 GMT
Let it go, Anthem isn't that kind of game. Very compelling, I'll now totally drop my skepticism and embrace this as the next coming of Shepard.
Drats, you figured me out.
Oh how will I endure without complaining about LGBT content?
Well, there is enough to complain about I feel. From progress throttling to nickel and diming and all kinds of other MP issues. But SP isn't really, when it's designed for 4 players.
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Post by Pounce de León on Feb 4, 2019 19:47:00 GMT
Let it go, Anthem isn't that kind of game. Or are you just annoyed there is little chance to become upset about gay transsexual lesbian romance? Why did you assume that from his post ? His gender.
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Post by General Mahad on Feb 4, 2019 19:48:52 GMT
Very compelling, I'll now totally drop my skepticism and embrace this as the next coming of Shepard.
Drats, you figured me out.
Oh how will I endure without complaining about LGBT content?
Well, there is enough to complain about I feel. From progress throttling to nickel and diming and all kinds of other MP issues. But SP isn't really, when it's designed for 4 players. Yes it is.
BioWare confirmed solo play, I expect a meaty solo play experience.
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Post by 10k on Feb 4, 2019 19:51:38 GMT
Let it go, Anthem isn't that kind of game. Or are you just annoyed there is little chance to become upset about gay transsexual lesbian romance? Really? Is that what you took from his post? It couldn't be maybe he just would have liked an RPG experience instead of a looter shooter experienced? How did you managed to pull that out of your ass.
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