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Typical EA crapfest it appears.
Not entirely fair... it's made by Bioware.
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Typical EA crapfest it appears.
Actually they didn't honor thatIf you got a free copy with your overpriced RTX card, now you know why...
Question is who calls the shots on how things are done.Not entirely fair... it's made by Bioware.
Bioware died with the B team that did all the work on ME3's multiplayer and, apparently, built everything but facial animations for Anthem on a game called Andomeda... With no Kevin Sorbo... Honestly, has anyone noticed how close to Andromeda that this game actually is? Six years spent drawing a jungle and no time on quality control. Jesus, on my PC it's a bug riddled, immersion breaking shit festival. I got, maybe 60-70 hours deep and all that's left are a bunch of masterwork and legendary drops that still don't work right. Content is almost non-existent and I've explored all the world has to offer. It should have been a 30 dollar title.Not entirely fair... it's made by Bioware.
Question is who calls the shots on how things are done.
The game feels like it had more substance, but things had to be cut so it can be sold later.
Gotta remember the paid for Prothean DLC that was shipped with Mass Effect 3 on DVD
Bioware died with the B team that did all the work on ME3's multiplayer and, apparently, built everything but facial animations for Anthem on a game called Andomeda... With no Kevin Sorbo... Honestly, has anyone noticed how close to Andromeda that this game actually is? Six years spent drawing a jungle and no time on quality control. Jesus, on my PC it's a bug riddled, immersion breaking shit festival. I got, maybe 60-70 hours deep and all that's left are a bunch of masterwork and legendary drops that still don't work right. Content is almost non-existent and I've explored all the world has to offer. It should have been a 30 dollar title.
The Bioware of old is long dead. I don't know why people keep trying to say otherwise.
Nick, I totally noticed that as well. A lot of the facial animations are almost as bad as the wooden ones in Andromeda. There are a couple people they focused on in the game, the rest are no better than Andromeda with better flesh tones. It's amazing this didn't get the same level of hatred... Oh, wait... It is being hated upon even worse. Gotta hand it to EA, with a couple (and I mean like 1-3) B team devs they managed to pretty much fix most of the broken Andromeda issues. That game is rather playable now, not perfect or great, but playable. Anthem has the ENTIRE A Team, whatever was left of the B Team and god knows how much other talent from across EA it launched in a broken state. Now, EA has paired down the dev team on Anthem to the "Post Launch" team. So, expect that most of the people that built the core, broken game to be gone already. They likely put what's left of Montreal's B Team on post launch content and bug fixes.I was wondering why Anthems facial animations looked oddly familiar, holy shit are they bad and inconsistent.
Typical EA crapfest it appears.
That's a good point. A field test. If it doesn't catch on, they drop it like a bad habit. If it does, and it starts making money they know they now have another platform they need to clone the shit out of to make more money.I dunno, it seems EA really pushed the envelope it appears. They usually release buggy / BETA games, but this one appears to be especially bad.
It's like they were testing just how far they could push their Early-Access-as-Retail model. No, that's not really an official thing for them, but it might as well be as their Games-as-a-Service is essentially early access.
There's a gem in here. I picked it up and honestly enjoy the in-game parts a lot. I love the mobility based shootybang, it's a blast.
But man, they really did ship it too early. There's just so much which needs more time in the oven. I assume this is EA killing the studio, intentionally or not. 2 months more, and they could have fixed almost all the glaring problems. For a game 6 years in development, that's a damn shame.
I still hit the dailies for some fun, because I really do love my little whirling ball of death in yoga pants (Interceptor).
EA milks every franchise and intellectual property they get their hands on. If the Development Studio makes a few games that fail to meet their expectations, they face a threat of shut down. BioWare has Dragon Age: Inquisition, Mass Effect Andromeda, and now Anthem. While they still have a lot of life in them and have brought EA numerous great games, the threat is all too real. I however don't think they are done. EA only has DICE and BioWare left. Although DICE makes the amazing Frostbite engine, they can barely make a Battlefield game anymore. If they shut down BioWare, they would have almost no game library left to sell.
I think what will be more likely is the senior management of BioWare might get the axe.
What thread are you reading? Because I don't see anyone white knighting this game in this one.Even if you like the game , why is anyone trying white knight or defend this trainwreck for a AAA release "years in development" ?
Someone needs to update that comic for Respawn, it's only a matter of time.
Anthem 3 IOT edition: Total house lockdown edition
Did you mean to say Respawn, because if so I don't really follow your logic. They recently launched a massive hit of a game, and while we don't know what the lootbox revenue has been like, I imagine its not bad. Why would they be facing the EA chopping block?
I like Anthem, but I only love games that don't take a steaming shit on my immersion factor that actually have content in them. This does both of the latter. I would have liked it a lot more if it was truly stable and it didn't feel like the devs never did any Quality checking or balancing prior to launch. Maybe it the pilot skills were in at launch to allow you to feel like the meat under the armor meant something and maybe... ya know... the game they actually showed... not this (still looks good... but) lower resolution version of their ultra high quality original game. Jesus the original imagery was breathtaking, looked real, this looks like a video game.I really want to love Anthem. Played the alpha and the betas and the demo and now retail, all on PC. The alpha ran flawlessly for me. The first beta caused random BSODs and CTDs. The second beta weekend and the demo weekend still had CTDs but I never saw a BSOD. Retail hit, still getting random CTDs but no bsod yet. The CTDs have stayed consistent, I either get no error message just a CTD or I get a CTD with the dx error in the support thread on Reddit. The crashes are extremely random, I can get them as soon as the game loads to the attempting to connect screen to get the menu all the way to playing for 2hrs and then getting the CTD. I have not been able to play the game longer than 2hrs in one sitting due to CTD.
It may just be a coincidence, but I'm experiencing the same issues on every gaming PC in my house that uses an nvidia graphics card, 1080ti, 1080 and 1070. The gaming PCs in my house that are running RX 590 and Vega 56 have not experienced any of the issues.
The biggest video game sales holiday is Christmas. The second biggest is Easter. Guess which one of those you miss if you spent two more months fixing things?
…… Now that I think about that a little while the lockdown part would suck... having a game that tied into IOT devices would be neat. Lights in the room dim and go bright along with the game. If you have multiple home assistants they intelligently play audio to go along with the game to give even more realism than surround sound. Of course that would require one to actually be willing to put all the IOT devices in their house, but from a immersive standpoint that would be neat. Up until Anthem 3 comes outs takes control of everything, locks all your doors and windows, crashes and permanently locks you inside.
EA was pretty good when they released Pinball Construction Set but have gone downhill from there.
Honestly, I am a bit skeptical of the story. I wonder if anyone on this forum has had their PS4 or XB1 crash. Not saying it hasn't happened, but as much as we play both consoles in this house, neither one needs an excuse to crash.
I also wonder how many people bashing the game have actually tried it. I will admit, when the reviews started hitting, I told a few people I heard it was shitty and wouldn't be buying it. I was bummed, because my wife and I were looking for a decent loot shooter to play after finally getting tired of Borderlands 2. After pouting for a little while, I decided to check out some non-mainstream reviews, which cast the game in a much different light. Since I'm such a cheapskate when it comes to games... usually waiting 6 months or more to buy... I figured I'd saved enough over the years, and decided to take a chance with this one. I ended up getting my wife and me a PC copy at $42 each through Eneba. We've been playing it ever since with no significant bugs to speak of. The only bug I've experienced is a single server disconnect the first time I was in town, during the tutorial. Hardly worth even mentioning. It runs smooth as butter at 1440P on my GTX 1070 / Threadripper 1950 (wife has a 1070 also, and an i7) and is definitely a fun game.
I've seen this with a few games lately, especially with EA games. It seems like all it takes is a bad review or two, and people start coming down on the title like an angry swarm. The same thing happened with Battlefield V and The Division (both of which me and several others in my family have played the shit out of).
Trust me, I hate EA as much as the next guy (still angry at the pay-to-win bullshit they did with SWBF 1 and 2), but I don't think they did that horribly with this one. Nearly every game nowadays has its bugs... especially on PC (just look at the patch history and/or video card driver change logs). This game to me is actually less buggy than the last few PC games I've played at release (I still scream at Killing Floor 2, despite STILL playing it with friends and family). I can't help but feel that this whole stupid hate fest is a combination of 1) people jumping on the hate bandwagon in spite of never actually playing the game, and 2) the boring ass direction games have been taking lately, with most cutting down, or completely leaving out any single player / co-op campaigns.
No man... you got me. I'm lying to you. I just figured I'd come in and troll you. You. Specifically. Mission accomplished.If you don't think they did that horribly on this one....I have to question whether YOU have actually played it. This game needed another 6-12 months just for content.....let alone the bugs.
No man... you got me. I'm lying to you. I just figured I'd come in and troll you. You. Specifically. Mission accomplished.
After a few hours of play, I still haven't seen any significant bugs (save for the one server disconnect in town). So far, the biggest irritation has been the inability to truly pause... unless I just haven't figured that out. If I'm playing alone, I don't see why I can't pause. I also don't like the inability to replay the missions. My son wanted to see the tutorial again, but it's pretty dumb that they don't have that option (though I hear they're going to add it).
I'm wondering if the people that are seeing the more serious bugs and/or disconnects are playing online. I rarely play games online, and when I do, it's with people I know and am friends with. So far, it's just been either me playing alone, or playing with my wife. Also, in the ultimate twist of irony... could it be that the console versions are buggier than the PC version?
Yeah... it does suck. I mentioned Killing Floor 2, which was actually released as a beta. Eons later, it's still buggy AF. It's still a fun game, but man.50 gorillion people can't be wrong though! Battle Royale, the pinnacle of gaming..
Remember when games had no updates and were meticulously tested before pressing to disk/floppy/etc? How funny to see us as beta testers these days.
Remember when games had no updates and were meticulously tested before pressing to disk/floppy/etc? How funny to see us as beta testers these days.
Pretty sad to have it freezing up on consoles on launch..
They need to seriously invest in testers and wait until it's solid.
Imagine a AAA game that launches with no problems..... Now that's imaginary.
I would have to disagree. ME3 was still a good game. And do not forget how good Dragon Age is!
But Bioware has brought out 2 fucking shit games in a row. 3 overall shit games if you include SWTOR......I think Biowares time has passed.
Also keep in mind even Kev Levine and several other stated you can make a game for under 7mill as a AAA title, but online games like destiny and anthem cost significantly more this isn't a small uhhhoohhh this is probably a 30mill or more turd.Why do you think that? They have enough budget for multiple titles at once. A single failure(or even multiple) is not a bankruptcy situation. It will only "be the end" if they fail to sort their house out.