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BioWare's new IP: Anthem

polonyc2 said:
I normally hate co-op but I found it fun in Anthem...the biggest issue with this game was that it got really repetitive quick...there wasn't enough content or maps...the overall mechanics were really good (graphics as well)

RIP Anthem...you had so much potential
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It had a good foundation when it comes to gameplay, they just didn't have anything to actually play.
 
thecold said:
It had a good foundation when it comes to gameplay, they just didn't have anything to actually play.
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I enjoyed just flying around the map killing the random enemies as an Iron Man cosplay...doing the co-op missions was fun in the beginning but got boring quick as it was the same maps and layout...the game did offer up a nice challenge as well in co-op...too bad they never fully fleshed out the game...seems like it was half finished when they released it
 
I just finished the first mission, and I have to say it's not that bad.
Movement is good, flying is different then I thought it would be but still cool.

Gunplay is good and tight as a Ranger.
The hub scene is kinda weird, reminds me of Destiny 2
HDR isn't that good though.

Performance is great, even though it kicks the shit out of my CPU, even max settings @ 4k I was hitting 80% CPU usage and 100% GPU usage and averaging around 110-125fps.
Had all my cores hitting the mid 80's, even Cyberpunk didn't do that.

I look forward to getting back into it again tomorrow.
 
polonyc2 said:
game...seems like it was half finished when they released it
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Because it was.

What we know about the development of the game is that despite the years it was being worked on, under two years out they had very little to show for their efforts. The game was directionless and what we got was squeezed out of the EA turd cutter in about 18 months. At the same time, Andromeda had similar problems. Essentially, during that time BioWare had something of a management crisis on its hands. Casey Hudson had departed during that time as did a lot of writers and other talent.
 
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Reloaded ANTHEM to play for the first time since late 2019. Still very pretty and handles great but PVE after finishing the main story bores me so I plan on uninstalling again soon.

Real shame as it was gorgeous with lots of potential and I would still like to see a sequel.

PvP would have been interesting I think.

RIP ANTHEM.
 
TangledThornz said:
Reloaded ANTHEM to play for the first time since late 2019. Still very pretty and handles great but PVE after finishing the main story bores me so I plan on uninstalling again soon.

Real shame as it was gorgeous with lots of potential and I would still like to see a sequel.

PvP would have been interesting I think.

RIP ANTHEM.
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As a long time SWTOR player I can tell you with certainty that you don't want BioWare anywhere near PvP. It would have been a shit show.
 
Comixbooks said:
This thing still stuck on the EA Orgin launcher?
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I uninstalled it as the PvE bores me as I previously explained but I was also having HDR issues too. Oh well. Very pretty game still and I will miss its Iron Man like game play.
 
BioWare should have made Anthem 2...take the lessons learned from the first game and use it to make a better sequel
 
polonyc2 said:
BioWare should have made Anthem 2...take the lessons learned from the first game and use it to make a better sequel
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The problem is Anthem very little name recognition. What name recognition it does have isn't good. The game had a lot of potential, but like all the recent BioWare projects since Andromeda, it suffered from mismanagement and all the problems that you get when no one can appropriately steer the ship. Developing a live service game that's a sequel of a live service game that bombed horribly makes no sense from a business perspective. It isn't ever going to happen. A single player story focused RPG or stand alone shooter in the Anthem universe would make more sense first, and then if another game set in that universe did well a sequel might have some chance of actually being viable. That's the only way I could see something like that working. Even so, its a risky proposition that EA would almost be foolish to entertain.
 
I'd still like to see something using the flight and action mechanics of ANTHEM. I'll miss that the most I think.
 
polonyc2 said:
I enjoyed just flying around the map killing the random enemies as an Iron Man cosplay...doing the co-op missions was fun in the beginning but got boring quick as it was the same maps and layout...the game did offer up a nice challenge as well in co-op...too bad they never fully fleshed out the game...seems like it was half finished when they released it
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that pretty much sums up my experience.
 
I'm playing it now as a Colossus and I am way too fucking OP to even have fun anymore, guess I shouldn't of done the ass load of side missions that were available. I haven't even installed the Dawn shield yet.

The hub shit is getting old and the map is a lot smaller than I realized at first too. The enemy variety is very small, like 3 main bad guy factions and the rest are native creatures like Titans and shit.

I have weapons that will obliterate shit like I'm the Terminator fighting Kyle Reese, but I win.
 
Dan_D said:
It had potential. That's for sure. Unfortunately, the lack of direction led to that being squandered.
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Thanks to EA's anti-consumer practices, I had the displeasure of having to grind through and finish Anthem last week before losing access to something I apparently owned - 21 hours of my life I will never get back. The game is such unadulterated garbage in its current state that I shudder to think what it must have been like at release before the monster 2.0 patch. Everything about it is pure mediocrity or Tumblr level activist fanfic. I can now see why the only aspect which retarded apologists could raise in defense was "but you can fly around the huge empty pointless map like iron man!?!" - like seriously? Anyone who defended Anthem at release deserves to be mercilessly mocked and opinions on games forever ignored (especially the same retards who went on to defend CringeGuard). I am actually incredulous at how shit this game is....there is no way Bioware could have ever pulled off a No Man's Sky redemption arc without literally rewriting absolutely everything and redesigning gameplay mechanics/systems from the ground up.
 
Blade-Runner said:
Thanks to EA's anti-consumer practices, I had the displeasure of having to grind through and finish Anthem last week before losing access to something I apparently owned - 21 hours of my life I will never get back. The game is such unadulterated garbage in its current state that I shudder to think what it must have been like at release before the monster 2.0 patch. Everything about it is pure mediocrity or Tumblr level activist fanfic. I can now see why the only aspect which retarded apologists could raise in defense was "but you can fly around the huge empty pointless map like iron man!?!" - like seriously? Anyone who defended Anthem at release deserves to be mercilessly mocked and opinions on games forever ignored (especially the same retards who went on to defend CringeGuard). I am actually incredulous at how shit this game is....there is no way Bioware could have ever pulled off a No Man's Sky redemption arc without literally rewriting absolutely everything and redesigning gameplay mechanics/systems from the ground up.
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and yet you played the game for 21+ hours...just like you play every single other EA game and games you go on your crazy rants about...if you really believed anything you say then you would not buy any of these games, yet you buy every single one of them...it makes zero sense...your issue is clearly that you can't afford to buy games at launch so you wait until all these games go on a deep discount and then you jump on it...it has nothing to do with anti-consumer behavior or DEI or any other agenda
 
polonyc2 said:
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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And one of the apologists who deserves to be mercilessly mocked and ignored just showed up for his daily cry session. Your tears are delicious.....keep em coming.
 
CAD4466HK said:
I'm playing it now as a Colossus and I am way too fucking OP to even have fun anymore, guess I shouldn't of done the ass load of side missions that were available. I haven't even installed the Dawn shield yet.

The hub shit is getting old and the map is a lot smaller than I realized at first too. The enemy variety is very small, like 3 main bad guy factions and the rest are native creatures like Titans and shit.

I have weapons that will obliterate shit like I'm the Terminator fighting Kyle Reese, but I win.
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Frankly, the hub is a big reason why I dropped the game so soon. It ran like shit and was an unnecessary inclusion in the game, but I guess they felt the need to include it since Destiny does.
 
Armenius said:
Frankly, the hub is a big reason why I dropped the game so soon. It ran like shit and was an unnecessary inclusion in the game, but I guess they felt the need to include it since Destiny does.
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Performance is stellar for me maxed out @ 4K, I'm around 120-130 at all times while out in the wild.
The engine seems to have a cap of 200 and while I'm in the hub, I'm bouncing off of it like a Civic doing a burnout.
Guess they fixed the performance issues after the fact smh.
 
CAD4466HK said:
Performance is stellar for me maxed out @ 4K, I'm around 120-130 at all times while out in the wild.
The engine seems to have a cap of 200 and while I'm in the hub, I'm bouncing off of it like a Civic doing a burnout.
Guess they fixed the performance issues after the fact smh.
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When the game came out, it wasn't. The actual game part ran fine, it was just the hub area that ran like shit.
 
As a reminder/update to TaintedSquirrel’s earlier post, anyone interested in playing more Anthem before it permanently goes offline may wish to do so soon as the shutdown date of January 12 is fast approaching.

https://gamerant.com/ea-games-shutting-down-soon-2026-anthem-real-racing-3/

Also getting the axe in 2026 are The Sims Mobile, NBA Live 19, and Real Racing 3. I wish EA would spend more time working on remasters of the Alice games or Clive Barker’s Undying or Dead Space 2 than killing their old games, but fortunately none of these games interest me. I still wish they’d leave them playable and accessible for historical purposes, but EA and others aren’t exactly known for that.
 
I wish I tried this game actually looks pretty cool at the time I still have Sarah S. soundtrack for the game.
 
worth me re-downloading and installing just to play for 3 weeks? I don't think I got very far the first time, years ago. and it would be solo... I remember it looking good but don't recall actually enjoy playing it
 
If they brought the game over to Steam I bet it would be #1 for a few days EA just breaks people ipz
 
Anthem is finally, officially dead

It died as it lived: As a game with pretty fun flying

Today at roughly 2:05 pm EST, almost seven years after launch, Anthem's last few players were unceremoniously booted from whatever launch bays, strongholds, and freeplay zones they lingered in...a popup informed them they'd lost connection to EA's servers...after a lengthy delay, any additional login attempts would fail, citing an "error retrieving Anthem live service data"

Anthem is now officially dead

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third-person-shooter/anthem-is-finally-officially-dead/
 
polonyc2 said:
Anthem is finally, officially dead

It died as it lived: As a game with pretty fun flying

Today at roughly 2:05 pm EST, almost seven years after launch, Anthem's last few players were unceremoniously booted from whatever launch bays, strongholds, and freeplay zones they lingered in...a popup informed them they'd lost connection to EA's servers...after a lengthy delay, any additional login attempts would fail, citing an "error retrieving Anthem live service data"

Anthem is now officially dead

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third-person-shooter/anthem-is-finally-officially-dead/
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Its one of those games I hope someone picks the skeleton up from one day and makes something with it. The games flying and combat mechanics were a blast, unfortunately the good was wrapped in an otherwise mediocre game
 
I'd be interested in a sequel if it didn't have the launch issues like the original had. However, we would be concerned about the longevity of the game though. Thankfully I didn't pay for ANTHEM is it came free with my Gigabyte RTX2060. Those were the days...
 
At this point, it's probably an IP they should want to back away from. It's tainted and it's not like the name really conveyed much anything about the game. That doesn't mean they (or someone else) can't repurpose some of the good things about it, though. The flying and world exploration were pretty damn cool and the gunplay would have been solid if things weren't so damned spongy.
 
TangledThornz said:
I'd be interested in a sequel if it didn't have the launch issues like the original had. However, we would be concerned about the longevity of the game though. Thankfully I didn't pay for ANTHEM is it came free with my Gigabyte RTX2060. Those were the days...
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It was one of those games I subscribed to EA's pass thingy for a month to try it out for $5. I was very glad I did, after a month it became pretty clear it was a good concept in a half baked game.
 
Hopes for an eventual Anthem private server resurrection ignited

Former BioWare executive producer and Anthem project lead Mark Darrah indicated that the tech for running Anthem locally once existed—and could, theoretically, exist again...according to Darrah, Anthem actually had code for running locally—meaning players' own machines would host network sessions that other players could connect to—until very late in development

"Anthem actually had the code for local servers running in a dev environment right up until a few months before launch," Darrah said. "I don't know that they still work, but the code is there to be salvaged and recovered"...

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third...ocally-is-there-to-be-salvaged-and-recovered/
 
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