Remarkable how they have made it look so woeful.

Verecocha wrote:

Well I’m looking forward to it! Be an enjoyable little campaign I imagine! That’s what I’ll be getting it for.

Vere keeping up his PMA for every single possible retail release for anything ever released on anything ever.

I actually think this looks pretty good (from what little I've seen) but I just don't have the time generally.

tigerswiftly wrote:

That this has so little buzz speaks volumes about AAA games, really. And Bioware's last few games too.

There's probably plenty of buzz somewhere, just not the places we go! AAA games are presumably still worth the gamble for companies at the moment, they have a chance of becoming huge earners

Cross post from deals thread.

Anthem preorder £32.85. Xbox, PS4 and PC
Add to basket to get that price (shows on page as £42)

https://www.shopto.net/video-games/ps4/PS4AN04-anthem

There will be a demo if you want to have a go yourself.

Available from...
Preorders, EA Access and Origin Access customers 25th to the 27th of January.
Everyone else 1st Feb.

Also.. Twitter quoted as 'no cross play at launch'... if it actually does make some cash I can see them opening it up at some point in the future to multisystem play but take that with the necessary NaCl.

This is absolutely nothing like Destiny. It's more like Diablo and The Division. This is pure power fantasy with stats, builds loads of skills and loot. Lots of loot. I'm still more interested in The Division 2 but I will give this a go. But yeah, don't be going into this thinking it will be like Destiny because it's really not.

Yeah and it looks like they have put it in the game as well.

Pffffft

I'll prob buy it too but like fuck I'll MP

FUCKIN YAS

LivDiv wrote:

It looks as though they have really focussed on creating a fleshed out city that involves decision making and npc interaction to levels that appear to be very Bioware. .

Except that it's not though is it?  The hallmark of Bioware titles used to be the conversations you could strike up with your party members.  These would lead to side quests and a deeper understanding of the world in which you dwelt in.  There's none of that here. And 'decision making' has been stripped down to two choices.  Not even a dialogue wheel. There's no main story that can sway with your 'decisions'.  No ending that you can determine.  Players actions don't effect the world.

Let us face facts.  Bioware died with ME: Andromeda .  What's left is a husk,from which EAware crawled out of.

Ok, maybe not very Bioware but more so than something like Destiny.
You do have a team in this, people will react to you differently based on your responses. Quests wont be locked/unlocked based on interaction choices but they are given in an organic way by quest givers.

Let's be honest as well, your decisions in Bioware games never really did affect the world. You may have chosen which NPC lived or died based on a choice of two but I can't think of any decision in KOTOR or ME that made any real impact on the world.

Worth noting core Bioware employees moved from Andromeda to this. I'm not saying that will mean it will be better but it could.

Trust me I would rather have had EA hand Bioware the Star Wars license like Rey handing Luke his lightsaber and said "make us an RPG", but that's not the case, but this certainly doesn't look like the fuck that was ME:A or FO:76.

There are things to admire with Anthem.  I like the first person dialogue stuff; those npc character models look brilliant -i just wish they were part of a massive RPG.  Which of course this isn't.  But I get it, this is just Destiny in Iron Man suits.