So, dear ME3MPers, anyone played that ANTHEM demo and wanna report ?

The draw for me is the potential for making Javelin builds.
Before I get terribly bogged down in that, there’s a lot of crap to get first.  Admittedly it was similar with Mass Effect 3, I didn’t really find enjoyment with trying new things until I’d maxed my manifest.  That’s when I started experimenting like crazy and my personal fun factor skyrocketed.  It also helped by that time I had a reliable core group of fellow BSN peeps to party with every day - somebody was always online to dual-carry pubbies in Platinum and have a fun time.
I don’t see myself grinding for dozens/hundreds of hours with optimal setups in Anthem though, I’ll try different things as I go.  But the cyclical nature of do mission, get gear, repeat ad nauseum, mix and match said gear with different characters... it’s oddly appealing.
Yes I know I’m posting an old reply and you probably don’t give a shit what I think.  But I did it anyways.  

Yeah but those guys are all scrubs, and I’ll happily be their lord.  

The funny part is that I'm starting to like the game more now. Don't get me wrong, the issues are still there and some of them super annoying. But I've been doing quick farming runs yesterday and got some pretty nice gear and weapons and the chase for even better stuff and variants is fully on. Just sad that there is so little you can do with it right now. I really wish they can work out the major issues and then deliver more content. A new stronghold every other week would be great. So sad they went the "we wanna do a story-game as well as a multiplayer game" instead of just focussing on one (the multiplayer loot shooter grinding genre preferrably) and do little story missions via strongholds only. But totally optimize every aspect of the multiplayer part.

Well, if ME3MP has taught us one thing it's that a lot of new stuff and changes might be coming. That's why I think Bioware did themselves no favor when they decided to split their ressources and make a lot of things happen with this game. I think the people who wanted a great story will be disappointed and a lot of them despise multiplayer. And the people who wanted a great multiplayer game are a bit disappointed as well because a lot of things are just impractical right now and endgame content is missing as well as maybe more javelins, gear, weapons and other kind of mods. Should have concentrated on one thing and make that awesome instead of what we've got now.

Last night went pretty smoothly for me I gotta say. I had one crash to desktop and the sound bug (which weirdly enough I had only once before the entire time). But yes, it's super annoying and the day before that I had constant server losses and such. In regards to gameplay it's interesting to see the progression. Just 2 or 3 days ago Grandmaster 1 felt like such a huge step up from Hard. Then I managed to do decent on GM1 and last night we totally ripped it apart and started playing Grandmaster 2 - which felt unbeatable just several hours earlier. It's all a work in progress. I have really good components, just no luck with the dice rolls when it comes to the stats I get on these damn things.

Haha, now that's a bit harsh. Anyway; don't wanna personally end with weird indie titles about e.g. dick jousting.


Anthem's fate was quite predictable - when you get incorporated into such publishing behemoth that EA is, all the quirks, little things and tidbits that make certain games stand out will get ironed out in development process order to appeal to widest audience possible (or the lowest common denominator), until you have this gorgeous, but ultimately hollow shell of a game. I just feel EA didn't get the memo about what makes game-as-a-service enjoyable and why do keep people getting back to Division, Destiny or Warframe. There absolutely has to be sense of a solid gunplay (Destiny headshots FTW), interesting places (that Division black friday mall where first contaminated banknotes appeared..), fast interface (Division has best, hands down + Garrus voice to boot), awesome loot (Graviton Lance, anyone?)... Anthem has currently none of that. What is (possibly) even more important, is good word of mouth - remember, Division made more than 330 mil in the first launch week thanks to generally good reviews, yt videos and (in my case) friend recommendation. Again, Anthem has none of that.

On an anecdotal note, I keep playing F76 despite its truly horrible technical state, because the game is genuinely fun and allows for variety of gameplay loops, be it base building, workshop raiding, pvping, even trading on discord for better gear. Anthem, again, has currently none of that, as far as I have played in demo.

As much as I will be sad to see Bioware go (which will happen, let us not kid ourselves), maybe it's a wake up call for industry - market is saturated with mmo lite shooters as it is and players still do prefer traditional SP story-heavy games. Such games of course still exist a do very well: bought a Metro Exodus last week, it just kicks ass.

TLDR: Anthem is the definition of mediocrity; Bioware will burn with it, but maybe it's a good thing...

This is a repost of an image from Anthem subthread. Savage.

Uhm...*raises hand slowly* is this supposed to be Anthem in the bargain bin already?.....i haven't played Anthem, but scores coming in has it landing 6's across the board. I think Anthem probably would have benefited being a new SP IP with new environments and characters...i've seen some critics say that some of the characters you talk to have an interesting background that probably could have been built upon if Bioware was given the chance....the character in question?...i don't know his name but it's that Steph Curry looking dude that you talk to in the game.

Then i did see a clip of the protagonist talking and he stated something that was just about as Cringeworthy as Liam" remark "maybe because i shot him in the face"...it was something along the lines of shooting a bullet up the enemies a$$ or something....just trying to sound cool but falling flat....the banter just sounds really forced. I don't think AAA gaming needs to crash, but it just needs to be creative again and not a blantant cash grab....Spiderman, God of War, Resident Evil 2 ReMake...have shown you can still make quality single player content that sells.


To me Anthem still looks and feels like a game that they didn't really want to make...i feel like developers like this belong with folks like Sony who let these dev's be who they are and give them as much time as they need to craft their work...not a Sony fanboy or anything like that (tho i do like Sony) i'm just saying Kojima has been working on Death Stranding forever, but he has been given time to make sure the game is functioning.....idk maybe Microsoft does the same thing with it's 1st party folks too....it's just that i feel Bioware is being forced to do a game that is not really their fortay...

I think it will probably fare well once it gets going, but even tho this game is further along than how Andromeda was before it was launched, did Anthem maybe needed even more time in the oven before it luanched?....folks are saying there is barely anything in Anthem and that it's repetitive...

You might be right; read somewhere that masterworks weapons are much more interesting than the meh stuff you get before that. Also good on you for enjoying the game; that's how it should be.

But you do understand there's something inherently flawed with the design as a whole, when game grips you only after several (tens of ) playtime hours..? After all, it's a competition for our spare time and there's just always too little of it.

So I can safely continue to be uninterested? O.o


Imma continue anyway, tbh...