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Post by river82 on Mar 1, 2019 8:31:14 GMT
Best way is to test/play the game by yourself, you are the one playing it, not some person somewhere. Second person from the game industry that has dished out really crappy advice. Sure, in this generally time poor world the best way to spend that incredibly limited time would be to test every game, movie, tv show, book that you're interested in, because that's a 100% realistic goal. If that was an option to begin with people wouldn't read reviews. I would alternatively advise to find people who's opinions you trust, in the general community if you want, who has played the game and listen to them. And only if those people have you excited, to take the leap. Live play videos (to address the idiotic comments from Microsoft's vice president) are of limited and specific use, to watch only when you know exactly what you want to find out.
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Post by Unicephalon 40-D on Mar 1, 2019 8:36:41 GMT
Best way is to test/play the game by yourself, you are the one playing it, not some person somewhere. Second person from the game industry that has dished out really crappy advice. Sure, in this generally time poor world the best way to spend that incredibly limited time would be to test every game, movie, tv show, book that you're interested in, because that's a 100% realistic goal. If that was an option to begin with people wouldn't read reviews. I would alternatively advise to find people who's opinions you trust, in the general community if you want, who has played the game and listen to them. And only if those people have you excited, to take the leap. Live play videos (to address the idiotic comments from Microsoft's vice president) are of limited and specific use, to watch only when you know exactly what you want to find out. Of course you are right, about the people whose opinion you trust. I was just generally saying how low the quality of the reviews are/were (I think they are still?). I still stand behind the best way to to know is play it yourself. Nobody else, and especially videos cannot tell you how it FEELS to play it + theres always the bias of reviewer. For me I will not of course test every game movie tv show - only those which REALLY interest me. They are quite rare these days ...
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Post by ioannisdenton on Mar 1, 2019 9:35:20 GMT
Once upon a time, there was no need to make topics about this regarding a Bioware game. I bet you never were satisfied with any bioware game. I bet In Me2 days you d still be overcritical.
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Post by Ieldra on Mar 1, 2019 10:08:16 GMT
Once upon a time, there was no need to make topics about this regarding a Bioware game. The question is, was that because the games were better, or public reaction was better? These days, you may not be able to trust gaming journalists, but you can trust an increasingly hair-triggered gamer public even less.
Since Anthem isn't my kind of game, I have no stakes in it, but I know some of the criticized aspects would be relevant for me if it was. Apart from the technical issues, the big downside, at this point, appears to be that it's a live service game where the initial content offering is not substantial enough to draw enough people in. And the lack of any meaningful gameplay/story integration.
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Post by correctamundo on Mar 1, 2019 10:08:37 GMT
The bunny has been drumming like its batteries are sponsored by EA ever since being switched on. Which is fine. The game can only get better in the best case. But ignoring the overall feedback won't make it go away. I don't think anyone of relevance is ignoring valid and useful feedback. If it's a numbnut playing the Storm boots on the ground firing his guns then yeah, ignore is prudent.
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Post by Kroitz on Mar 1, 2019 10:43:18 GMT
I echo the sentiment. You should enjoy a game in spite of it's reception.
I also think the meta-critic score is a fair assessment of the state Anthem was delivered in, which is a downright mess that no comparision to the launch of late-state competitors like destiny 2 and warframe can excuse. Trendchasing late is a an unfair game, tough luck, a game always competes with it's contemporaries and not their shadows.
The enjoyment of a game should never be questioned by reception. A potential purchase on the other hand. I wouldn't recommend the game in it's current state, even if I'm still enjoying the odd stable session.
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Post by nanotm on Mar 1, 2019 10:52:08 GMT
Because that's what they call themselves, Lenny. I'm not being defensive, I'm just stating my opinion in stark contrast to all the hate-filled trashing and bashing that is posted online by people/gamers and entities (read: companies....ie IGN, Joystik, MetaCritic and whatever else is out there. Companies whose employees are paid to play and review and/or critique games in order to write and sell articles) and or sway public opinion about a given type of media (in this case, a game called ANTHEM) But if you want to think that what I said is a jab, go to it. Feel free. I take it your aware that a bunch of those publications are owned by finance houses (groups) that also own competing games companies and there all upset with EA for refusing to join the group and being too expensive to just buy... so there trying their damnedest to sink the share price and buy them up... I actually think its funny just how hard they trash on EA games and then give fantastic reviews for other stuff thats not even half as completed (like NMS) * and yes I am aware of the problems that anthem has, some of them are downright annoying but in the main my biggest problem is with my pc /router causing connection errors (thats where the logs indicate is the biggest problem) many of those errors are caused by my router constantly being port scanned (again its in the logs) I suspect some of the reasons why the game is appearing buggy are also down to the connections getting overloaded in a similar fashion.... and some of the reasons are its just got some bugs in it like every other game out there (and lets face it TW3 and skyrim both had massive game breaking bugs some of which are still there)
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Post by Gileadan on Mar 1, 2019 11:25:04 GMT
Because that's what they call themselves, Lenny. I'm not being defensive, I'm just stating my opinion in stark contrast to all the hate-filled trashing and bashing that is posted online by people/gamers and entities (read: companies....ie IGN, Joystik, MetaCritic and whatever else is out there. Companies whose employees are paid to play and review and/or critique games in order to write and sell articles) and or sway public opinion about a given type of media (in this case, a game called ANTHEM) But if you want to think that what I said is a jab, go to it. Feel free. I'm sorry for picking you out and sort-of-derailing your thread, but I'm genuinely curious. Hate is a very powerful emotion. If I hate something, I think the world is better off without it and I actively want it gone, better today than tomorrow. What do you think qualifies as hate when it comes to professional game reviews? - Pointing out a game's flaws? - Exaggerating said flaws? - Focusing on the bad more than the good? - Disagreeing with you whether certain aspects actually are flaws? - Disagreeing with you about the overall quality/fun factor of the game? - Stating that they want the game to fail completely and ideally take BioWare or even EA with it? As far as I'm concerned, only the last one qualifies as (rather irrational) hate, but how many professional reviewers said that? I haven't read that many reviews, but I'd be surprised if any professional reviewer made such a statement.
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Post by shinobiwan on Mar 1, 2019 11:46:22 GMT
Obviously every single gaming media outlet is in on a conspiracy to get Bioware. It can't possibly be that the vast majority think Anthem is a bad game and OP is in the minority, that's crazy talk.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Mar 1, 2019 11:54:01 GMT
Obviously every single gaming media outlet is in on a conspiracy to get Bioware. It can't possibly be that the vast majority think Anthem is a bad game and OP is in the minority, that's crazy talk. 5 stars on PS Store, and still top seller on said store....I'm sorry whos the minority?
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Post by cypherj on Mar 1, 2019 12:07:31 GMT
Once upon a time, there was no need to make topics about this regarding a Bioware game. The question is, was that because the games were better, or public reaction was better? These days, you may not be able to trust gaming journalists, but you can trust an increasingly hair-triggered gamer public even less.
Public reaction was different. Social media has definitely changed the game as far as reviewing anything. It's easier for people to be heard, reviews reach more people, and you're no longer just reading reviews. I remember I used to always go to gametrailers to watch reviews because you could see video examples of what the person was talking about. Now any person goes on Youtube and makes a video, so it's easy to pile on when something goes wrong. On the flip side though, had the game been in better condition the same mechanism would be causing the game to sell much better, and people to sign up for the Origin subscription.
Do some people have agenda, sure. Does everybody have an agenda, obviously not.
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Post by cypherj on Mar 1, 2019 12:23:58 GMT
I will read reviews and watch videos, as well as get the opinions of 2 or 3 friends that I trust. People who have the ability to say "I like this, but you may not", or "I don't like this, but it may be your type of game."
That was not needed in this case, as I have the premier subscription that already pretty much pays for itself with me playing Madden and FIFA every year. So I got the Legion of Dawn edition.
The game has flaws, some bigger than others. Saying the only flaws are loading screens and bugs is like saying Andromeda's only flaws were facial animations and bugs. But make no mistake, loading screens are Anthem's facial animations, but sadly, I don't think they can be fixed as easily. I counted how many it took to do like a 7-8 minute mission. 9 loading screens, and luckily there were no tether teleports, or you'd be talking double digits.
As far as the game.
- Content is lacking, with not much variation between the content is does have.
- Terrible missions design. One of the best aspects of the game is the flight, but the missions take no advantage of this. It's guard this spot, collect this many of this item, horde mode. If this game took advantage of the verticality in missions, had aerial combat, or more so PVP aerial combat, people would be overlooking a lot of this other stuff.
- Gear acquisition. Loot drops are terrible, most of the stuff is absolute crap. Nothing is boss specific. Then if you want to craft, it takes too many resources to make something. I can take all the resources I've accumulated so far, counting the money I got from the LOD edition and could make maybe one high level item. I'm a person who likes crafting and will do it in any game that has it, so this is doubly disappointing to me. The system is not viable.
- Enemy AI is terrible, with not much variation or special tactics involved most of the time. On increased difficulties thier tactics don't change, they just have more XP and do more damage.
- Story/Characters - I didn't expect much because this isn't a SP RPG. Having said that, it still isn't really good even with lowered expectations. It started getting decent at the end, so I'm hoping that future releases will pick it up at that level.
There's more, but those are my main gripes. A lot of this stuff can be fixed, some will take more work that others. I played FF XIV at release, and to see the game now is night and day. I hope Bioware can do something similar with Anthem. But right now, if someone asks me should they pick it up, I tell them to wait.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Mar 1, 2019 12:26:30 GMT
The question is, was that because the games were better, or public reaction was better? These days, you may not be able to trust gaming journalists, but you can trust an increasingly hair-triggered gamer public even less.
Public reaction was different. Social media has definitely changed the game as far as reviewing anything. It's easier for people to be heard, reviews reach more people, and you're no longer just reading reviews. I remember I used to always go to gametrailers to watch reviews because you could see video examples of what the person was talking about. Now any person goes on Youtube and makes a video, so it's easy to pile on when something goes wrong. On the flip side though, had the game been in better condition the same mechanism would be causing the game to sell much better, and people to sign up for the Origin subscription.
Do some people have agenda, sure. Does everybody have an agenda, obviously not.
See above post, on console at least, it's selling just fine lol
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Post by Coronavirus on Mar 1, 2019 12:34:05 GMT
Some people will go to extreme lengths in their mind to convince themselves they aren’t suffering from buyer’s remorse.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Mar 1, 2019 12:35:19 GMT
Some people will go to extreme lengths in their mind to convince themselves they aren’t suffering from buyer’s remorse. Some people will go to extreme lengths in their mind to convince themselves no one is buying a game that tons of people are buying.
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Post by Coronavirus on Mar 1, 2019 12:36:17 GMT
Because that's what they call themselves, Lenny. I'm not being defensive, I'm just stating my opinion in stark contrast to all the hate-filled trashing and bashing that is posted online by people/gamers and entities (read: companies....ie IGN, Joystik, MetaCritic and whatever else is out there. Companies whose employees are paid to play and review and/or critique games in order to write and sell articles) and or sway public opinion about a given type of media (in this case, a game called ANTHEM) But if you want to think that what I said is a jab, go to it. Feel free. I take it your aware that a bunch of those publications are owned by finance houses (groups) that also own competing games companies and there all upset with EA for refusing to join the group and being too expensive to just buy... so there trying their damnedest to sink the share price and buy them up... I actually think its funny just how hard they trash on EA games and then give fantastic reviews for other stuff thats not even half as completed (like NMS) * and yes I am aware of the problems that anthem has, some of them are downright annoying but in the main my biggest problem is with my pc /router causing connection errors (thats where the logs indicate is the biggest problem) many of those errors are caused by my router constantly being port scanned (again its in the logs) I suspect some of the reasons why the game is appearing buggy are also down to the connections getting overloaded in a similar fashion.... and some of the reasons are its just got some bugs in it like every other game out there (and lets face it TW3 and skyrim both had massive game breaking bugs some of which are still there) Complete and utter tin hattery right here. Are the illuminati in on it too? Just trying to keep a good company like BioWare down because they threaten the status quo man. Put down the joint.
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Post by Coronavirus on Mar 1, 2019 12:38:10 GMT
Some people will go to extreme lengths in their mind to convince themselves they aren’t suffering from buyer’s remorse. Some people will go to extreme lengths in their mind to convince themselves no one is buying a game that tons of people are buying. I’m sure plenty of people bought the game, hence buyer’s remorse ya wally. Don’t worry even Right on Ricky got burnt when he bought No Man’s Sky so nobody’s perfect.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Mar 1, 2019 12:47:22 GMT
Some people will go to extreme lengths in their mind to convince themselves no one is buying a game that tons of people are buying. I’m sure plenty of people bought the game, hence buyer’s remorse ya wally. Don’t worry even Right on Ricky got burnt when he bought No Man’s Sky so nobody’s perfect. 4 and half stars, Looks like no one has buyers remorse to me... Oh and look at that, Anthem is the #1 Game on PS Store, and LoD Version is Number 6! But please...please keep telling yourself everyone hates it. Maybe one day you'll convince yourself.
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Post by Ieldra on Mar 1, 2019 12:49:24 GMT
Does everybody have an agenda, obviously not. Of course not. What's new is that social media makes it possible that anyone's voice can reach across the net, and people with either agendas or out-of-control emotions usually shout the loudest, thus reach most people, while the more restrained voices reach fewer people. And both ideological rigor and disappointment are always felt more keenly than satisfaction. Which is why the discourse often appears to be dominated by the politically extreme and the insane.
Like everywhere else, social media has been as much a curse as a boon (if not more so) for the reception of games.
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Post by cypherj on Mar 1, 2019 12:50:00 GMT
Public reaction was different. Social media has definitely changed the game as far as reviewing anything. It's easier for people to be heard, reviews reach more people, and you're no longer just reading reviews. I remember I used to always go to gametrailers to watch reviews because you could see video examples of what the person was talking about. Now any person goes on Youtube and makes a video, so it's easy to pile on when something goes wrong. On the flip side though, had the game been in better condition the same mechanism would be causing the game to sell much better, and people to sign up for the Origin subscription.
Do some people have agenda, sure. Does everybody have an agenda, obviously not.
See above post, on console at least, it's selling just fine lol
My post had nothing to do with current sales good or bad. I just said had the game been in better condition at launch, it would have gotten better reviews, better word of mouth. This is turn would have turned the social media machine it it's favor and increased sales and subscriptions.
Like it not, some people do buy things based solely on reviews, some based solely on scores without even digging into the reviews. Unless you're saying a better reception would not have meant more sales, I don't know what you're disagreeing with.
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Post by lennybusker on Mar 1, 2019 12:53:03 GMT
Yeah, it's tough to be a #1 seller when your competition at the moment is GTA V and R6 Siege. Which we all know just came out last week and are thus selling like hotcakes.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Mar 1, 2019 12:53:18 GMT
See above post, on console at least, it's selling just fine lol
My post had nothing to do with current sales good or bad. I just said had the game been in better condition at launch, it would have gotten better reviews, better word of mouth. This is turn would have turned the social media machine it it's favor and increased sales and subscriptions.
Like it not, some people do buy things based solely on reviews, some based solely on scores without even digging into the reviews. Unless you're saying a better reception would not have meant more sales, I don't know what you're disagreeing with.
I'm saying the sales are looking good, regardless of the reviews. Weather or not the sales would be "better" is unknown, because Anthem is already the #1 Seller on Console regardless.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Mar 1, 2019 12:55:32 GMT
Yeah, it's tough to be a #1 seller when your competition at the moment is GTA V and R6 Siege. Which we all know just came out last week and are thus selling like hotcakes. People buy GTA5 all the time, because GTA Online. It's a never ending Live Service behemoth that more and more people flock to everyday. As for Rainbow 6? it's a very popular title, just released a new Season of content that brought in droves of new players. But please, keep making excuses to justify your opinion.
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Post by cypherj on Mar 1, 2019 13:08:23 GMT
My post had nothing to do with current sales good or bad. I just said had the game been in better condition at launch, it would have gotten better reviews, better word of mouth. This is turn would have turned the social media machine it it's favor and increased sales and subscriptions.
Like it not, some people do buy things based solely on reviews, some based solely on scores without even digging into the reviews. Unless you're saying a better reception would not have meant more sales, I don't know what you're disagreeing with.
I'm saying the sales are looking good, regardless of the reviews. Weather or not the sales would be "better" is unknown, because Anthem is already the #1 Seller on Console regardless.
Sales are relative. EA said they wanted to sell 6 million in the first couple of weeks. If the current sales don't translate into a pace that will reach the 6 million in the first couple of weeks than the sales aren't good from their perspective. If EA was expecting Anthem to bring a certain amount of people into the subscription service, and that doesn't happen, then the sales aren't good.
Also, for a game like this, or any game in the games as a service era, it's not how many people buy the game it's how many people continue to play it. That's why I hope thry clean up the issues before the player base dwindles down.
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Post by shinobiwan on Mar 1, 2019 13:18:14 GMT
Yeah, it's tough to be a #1 seller when your competition at the moment is GTA V and R6 Siege. Which we all know just came out last week and are thus selling like hotcakes. People buy GTA5 all the time, because GTA Online. It's a never ending Live Service behemoth that more and more people flock to everyday. As for Rainbow 6? it's a very popular title, just released a new Season of content that brought in droves of new players. But please, keep making excuses to justify your opinion. I chuckled out loud at this. "Duck season, fire!" Classic Looney Tunes.
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