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Post by bigbad on Sept 17, 2019 20:37:54 GMT
Welcome to maintenance mode.
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Post by bigbad on Apr 4, 2019 13:04:02 GMT
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Post by bigbad on Apr 2, 2019 17:36:44 GMT
And just like that, Jason Schreier is once again Public Enemy No. 1 at BSN. Feels like old times. Well if that's the case BSN needs to get their heads out of their assess, because Schreier speaks truth. I agree.
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Post by bigbad on Apr 2, 2019 17:27:10 GMT
And just like that, Jason Schreier is once again Public Enemy No. 1 at BSN. Feels like old times.
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Post by bigbad on Apr 2, 2019 17:16:14 GMT
I'm honestly LOLing at the people shitting on Schreier here. Apparently some folks never learned anything after the MEA drama.
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Post by bigbad on Mar 27, 2019 0:00:12 GMT
Bioware, ya done fucked it up again!
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Post by bigbad on Mar 26, 2019 13:32:25 GMT
I payed for Origin Premier. Played through the lackluster campaign and didn't enjoy anything about the game enough to start grinding, so I uninstalled. Only when the game is much, much better and much, much cheaper would I consider spending money on it again.
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Post by bigbad on Mar 19, 2019 19:38:39 GMT
"We launched a game that so many of you tell us is really fun at its core, but we also had a degree of issues that did not reveal themselves until we were operating at the scale of millions of players." Almost stopped reading there. These are not issues of scale, these are fundamental design issues that should have been readily apparent to anyone who has even glanced at previous loot games. This post smacks of the Andromeda blog post that was released shortly after launch. I seriously doubt this game is going to improve materially. It honestly feels insulting to hear them say such obviously false things. PR is gonna PR, but still. Have some goddamn standards, Bioware.
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Post by bigbad on Mar 18, 2019 22:53:18 GMT
This is a good one.
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Post by bigbad on Mar 15, 2019 18:04:09 GMT
They already have though. The main dev team has moved on and the Live Services team has taken over. That reminds me, didn't anyone else think it was hella weird when at the game awards, the interviewer asked Casey a question about Anthem, and Casey started hyping up Dragon Age instead? I wonder if they started shifting their eggs to that basket even before launch. Seems plausible. Whatever else they might be, they're not dumb. They knew exactly what the state of the game was when it launched. Maybe they felt that devoting serious resources to it would not provide a good return on investment. Who knows, though.
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Post by bigbad on Mar 15, 2019 15:21:16 GMT
Anyways, this game won't be finished with next 12 month either. Pretty sure the game is already finished. As in kaput.
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Post by bigbad on Mar 14, 2019 20:48:40 GMT
ME3MP was done by Bioware's Montreal office, as was Andromeda. Bioware Montreal was terminated, and some but not all of its employees were brought into EA Motive, also in Montreal, to work on different projects. Meant Montreal, sorry. So many studios names out there I mix shit up quite a lot. They created Rocket League afterwards. A mulitplayer game with millions of players that is doing well for years. For ME3's multiplayer they did the technical stuff to actually make it work, they balanced grinding vs. reward so that people liked to keep on playing it, etc. Interesting... I wonder if that had something to do with the fact that MEAMP is horrendous compared to ME3MP. Probably, because it feels like if a whole new team did that one and not the exact same people. I think you're onto something. I never understood how MEAMP managed to be so shitty compared to ME3MP (other than jet packs messing with movement diversity). This could help explain it.
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Post by bigbad on Mar 8, 2019 0:28:40 GMT
Yep, and they did advertise that to consumers: They're spouting a buzzword they know gets RPG players excited while at the same time know the phrase is vague enough that they can point to a small, meaningless choice and technically go "look it's in there" while RPG gamers who look for C&C look at them like they've sprouted an extra head ... a head talking nonsense. Whatever. This is why nobody pays attention to marketing anymore. This feels apropos:
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Post by bigbad on Mar 6, 2019 19:53:39 GMT
Because it literally does more damage than the high level gear. It's not moot at all, are you just being purposefully dense? It has no useful inscriptions and adds nothing to your build. I don't think I'm being dense. This news is just more overblown bullshit to whine about, an outrage over nothing. If people are dumb enough to play the game with level 1 weapons for 6 days until it's patched, they can help themselves. Meanwhile in the rational world, this appears to have zero impact. Anthem is never wrong. It can only be wronged!
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Post by bigbad on Mar 6, 2019 19:08:38 GMT
Oh man, got my own video test of epic vs level 1, it's hilarious. Jesus christ this game. streamable.com/1tkauSweet Jesus. Bioware, what have you done?
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Post by bigbad on Mar 6, 2019 18:09:27 GMT
Anthem really is something else.
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Post by bigbad on Mar 6, 2019 14:46:08 GMT
Because the product shown (and promised) in the marketing is a far cry from the product that was actually delivered. It's not very complicated.
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Post by bigbad on Mar 6, 2019 14:44:17 GMT
In response to being shown some of the many features used in marketing that were absent from the game, Ben Irving says: It takes some serious gall to label dishonest advertising as transparency.
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Post by bigbad on Mar 6, 2019 1:38:58 GMT
Jetpacks killed Mass Effect. They largely left single player alone because who cares about SP balance, but they annihilated the fun of multiplayer due to jetpacks. We went over and over this in the MP subforum for MEA, the reason why powers were shitty, combos were shitty, guns were shitty, and enemies all had laser-guided smart munitions was all jetpacks. Not that it'd be impossible to make jetpack combat balanced without removing all of the fun, but if I had to pick grounded combat that was as fun as ME3MP versus the abomination of MEAMP and Anthem, gimme that cover shooter all fucking day. This is so true. ME3MP was vastly more fun than MEAMP. The movement diversity that was killed by jet packs was one reason for this.
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Post by bigbad on Mar 3, 2019 20:00:56 GMT
Watching those silly clips of ME3MP is more fun than playing Anthem.
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Post by bigbad on Mar 1, 2019 23:43:56 GMT
Not having to pay would still not entice me to want to keep playing the game, at least in it's current state.
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Post by bigbad on Feb 28, 2019 0:21:59 GMT
Yea, and they keep expanding the Vault and not just with EA titles. It acts as a pot sweetener - 'even if I don't like this or that game, I will have access to all those different titles for a time; quite a bargain'. The fact that tons of folks already paid for the access to try out anthem is going to be used as a booster I am sure. EA got their money, whether it's a 1,000 cuts at 15 dollars or a few hundred deep gashes at 60. Or in some cases, both. In my case at least, every Bioware game in recent memory has been an immediate buy, including a pre-order of the deluxe edition of Mass Effect: Andromeda (poor decision). This time, I decided that I would only shell out $15 to try it out. I got through the campaign and immediately uninstalled and canceled origin premiere. So, what normally have been a $60-80 purchase was only $15 for me. I will absolutely not spend another dime on Anthem until A) the game is much better and B ) it's selling at a steep discount.
Depending on how many people like me there are, Origin access premiere may not end up making up for lack of actual game sales.
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Post by bigbad on Feb 24, 2019 20:03:58 GMT
SW:TOR and Anthem have some strong similarities that are kind of disturbing. Both games are on-line and were in development for a long time. Both games have an end game that is poorly thought out and underdeveloped (SW:TOR hasn't improved all that much in 7 years) Both games campaigns can be gotten through quickly if you know what you're doing and don't take your time. Both games can't retain end game players Both games have end game gear grind... In short Bioware have learned jack shit in how to do an on-line game in the seven years they've had SW:TOR live... That said I enjoy both games well enough and I've certainly gotten my monies worth out of SW:TOR and I'm sure that will prove true for Anthem. I haven't played SWTOR in years, and I certainly wouldn't defend the direction it went after a couple years post release (where you became the "outlander" or whatever), but damn I had loads of great fun with that game. Lots of warm (slightly drunk) memories of raiding with guildies, etc.
Honestly, playing Anthem has made me want to download SWTOR and play through a couple of the stories again.
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Post by bigbad on Feb 24, 2019 18:05:27 GMT
Welp, I finished the main story in around 15 hours or so and didn't feel like grinding boring, poorly designed missions over and over again to get lackluster loot. Just uninstalled and canceled Origin Premiere (trying the game was the only reason I signed up).
I really wish Anthem was a good game. But it just isn't.
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Post by bigbad on Feb 23, 2019 22:45:04 GMT
Since we're griping here...
Neeson Giles is the worst, most obnoxious and useless character that Bioware has ever created. Whoever wrote him and decided to stick him in a place that you walk past all the time should honestly be fired.
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