ANTHEM - failed Destiny clone from BioWare

[Viata]

InXile.

 

[thesheeep]

Get woke go broke.

True, but doesn't apply to this game. I mean, the game has so many problems that its wokeness state is just irrelevant in comparison...
Compare it to Breach, for example. From what I gather, people like it a lot more and.. well, just look at the characters there. That game is wokeness incarnate, and still seems better.

Breach requires installing spyware just to play it

You mean EAC?
Take off your tinfoil hat, EAC isn't spyware, it just checks your PC for known hacking/cheating programs while you play. There is no other way to reliably prevent hacking/cheating, which is why almost every (online and/or competetive) game uses it.

 

[JarlFrank]

 

[Viata]

The right thing is to let it die.

 

[A horse of course]

The right thing is to stop playing videogames you overgrown manchildren.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Get woke go broke.

True, but doesn't apply to this game. I mean, the game has so many problems that its wokeness state is just irrelevant in comparison...
Compare it to Breach, for example. From what I gather, people like it a lot more and.. well, just look at the characters there. That game is wokeness incarnate, and still seems better.

Breach requires installing spyware just to play it

You mean EAC?
Take off your tinfoil hat, EAC isn't spyware, it just checks your PC for known hacking/cheating programs while you play. There is no other way to reliably prevent hacking/cheating, which is why almost every (online and/or competetive) game uses it.

Are you British by chance?

 

[thesheeep]

Get woke go broke.

True, but doesn't apply to this game. I mean, the game has so many problems that its wokeness state is just irrelevant in comparison...
Compare it to Breach, for example. From what I gather, people like it a lot more and.. well, just look at the characters there. That game is wokeness incarnate, and still seems better.

Breach requires installing spyware just to play it

You mean EAC?
Take off your tinfoil hat, EAC isn't spyware, it just checks your PC for known hacking/cheating programs while you play. There is no other way to reliably prevent hacking/cheating, which is why almost every (online and/or competetive) game uses it.

Are you British by chance?

Besides me not being British, what does that have to do with anything?

 

[BlackAdderBG]

Get woke go broke.

True, but doesn't apply to this game. I mean, the game has so many problems that its wokeness state is just irrelevant in comparison...
Compare it to Breach, for example. From what I gather, people like it a lot more and.. well, just look at the characters there. That game is wokeness incarnate, and still seems better.

Breach requires installing spyware just to play it

You mean EAC?
Take off your tinfoil hat, EAC isn't spyware, it just checks your PC for known hacking/cheating programs while you play. There is no other way to reliably prevent hacking/cheating, which is why almost every (online and/or competetive) game uses it.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

You could probably apply to everything since the first Mass Effect. But this, and there previous two games feel like they've got it the worst.


If this was like a Dynasty Warriors game it'd be more like a Earth Defense Force game, and it'd be a hell of a lot more interesting than what they've made. The more I see of this, see some of these enemy encounters, the more I think EDF should have been the basic model for this game. You pick your jobs and shit on some mission select screen where you can quickly look at everything important, you get sent out into big EDF style stages jam packed with enemies and destrucable environments, you amass tons of crazy weapons and power armor parts. They want to do some hub area with some open environment thing that players can fuck around in as well...whatever.

Even more than before it's really sounding like they should have thought of ways around the loading screens. They had a real problem with running the player into tons of needless loading in Andromeda from what I saw of that game too.

I mean, there you go. Lost planet with the iron man suit.

The open world is unplayable, the de-sync is horrific. I'm wondering if it's because they're pairing me with yanks.

Also...

Pre-order cancels must be enormous.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

 

[Alienman]

Where the fuck is that from? JarlFrank

 

[HoboForEternity]

Do the right thing. Release bioware from their misery

 

[Haba]

PLS NO BULLY MY EA STOCK.

Buy Anthem today!

 

[JarlFrank]

Where the fuck is that from? JarlFrank

Someone posted this screenshot on a Discord server so I don't know the source

 

[fantadomat]

How is Gggmanlives a shill?

Why does he have to delete it?

For not paying his shilling dues to the overlord!


It is an older video of him shilling for EA.

 

[thesheeep]

Get woke go broke.

True, but doesn't apply to this game. I mean, the game has so many problems that its wokeness state is just irrelevant in comparison...
Compare it to Breach, for example. From what I gather, people like it a lot more and.. well, just look at the characters there. That game is wokeness incarnate, and still seems better.

Breach requires installing spyware just to play it

You mean EAC?
Take off your tinfoil hat, EAC isn't spyware, it just checks your PC for known hacking/cheating programs while you play. There is no other way to reliably prevent hacking/cheating, which is why almost every (online and/or competetive) game uses it.

You do realize there is a difference between being able to cause harm to your computer and actually doing it?
If EAC did anything harmful to (non-cheating) users like just sharing personal information, they'd long be out of business.

Every single game you install, every piece of software, could, if the programmers intended, cause serious harm, including gathering lots of data about you. Except if you ran everything inside a VM or another "safe" environment like Docker.
They don't (well, barring the odd "uninstalling this game deletes your hard drive" ), because it would be stupid by the devs to do anything like that.
Therefore, any such "SPYWARE!!!!!11111" screams just make you look either like a complete tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist or just plain guilty. After all, if you aren't doing any cheating in online game X, what exactly are you afraid of? Nobody cares about your porn collection.
In the history of anti-cheat systems like EAC or BattleEye, there hasn't been a single valid argument made against them that were not just technical issues (a bug in EAC causing a game not to start, etc.).

If you think what EAC does qualifies as spyware, then you'd have to say the same about pretty much every AV system. Oh, and Windows itself (and OSX, and some linux distros as well...). And consequently, you should reject all of them.
Singling out EAC is just weird.

 

[Loostreaks]

First reveal showed your loot directly in game:

What kind of idiot decided to remove this...in a game that revolves around loot addiction? Diablo 2 did everything better (nearly) twenty years ago.

 

[J1M]

The reason the hub feels dead is because the only place you'd ever walk that slow is a funeral.

 

[Nirvash]

True, but doesn't apply to this game. I mean, the game has so many problems that its wokeness state is just irrelevant in comparison...

Get woke go broke is not because you hire SJW to write story for you.
It is because you hire people on color of their head rather than technical skill they have.

And here we are Anthem 6 years in making that has barely 15 hours of content and even that is stretched with padding.

Nah, main problem was the battlefront lootbox disaster that killed years of development for all the multi titles, is not like you need actual talent to make content for this kind of game.
Like andromeda, i bet current anthem was likely mostly (re)made in the last 2 years or so, rushed and even cut short.

 

[thesheeep]

First reveal showed your loot directly in game:

What kind of idiot decided to remove this...in a game that revolves around loot addiction? Diablo 2 did everything better (nearly) twenty years ago.

You cannot show NUMBERS to gamers in this day and age. Are you crazy?!
If you're lucky, you can get away with geometrical patterns, though.

 

[what am i doing]

totally looks and acts like he's going to betray

You could just say white man in modern biowaste game.

To be fair, he isn't white.

Yes,100% nigger!

He is the only white dude in the whole game....maybe,i haven't played that shit. But he is the only one i have seen,there is some fat cripple fedora tipper mexican.

You know that old image from Germany comparing photos of a German schoolchild to a Jewish schoolchild? That guy right there looks like the Jewish schoolchild as an adult. I can feel my country's industry getting offshored just looking at him.

 

[Space Nugget]

67 on Metacritic, 65 on GameRankings, and 63 on OpenCritic.

UPDATE: 64 on Metacritic, 63.74% on GameRankings, and 62 on OpenCritics.

UPDATE 2 - Electric Boogaloo: 63 on Metacritic, 61.43% on GameRankings, 61 on OpenCritic.

UPDAT3: 62 on Metacritic, 58.75% on GameRankings, 59 on OpenCritic.

UPD4TE: 61 on Metacritic, 58,67% on GameRankings, 60 on OpenCritic.

 

[Boleskine]

https://variety.com/2019/gaming/news/youtuber-says-ea-demanded-takedown-paid-review-1203146117/

EA Denies That It Demanded Takedown of Negative ‘Anthem’ Review
By Liz Lanier

YouTuber Gggmanlives says Electronic Arts paid him to review “Anthem” and subsequently “blacklisted” him for the negative review, which the company denied in a statement to Variety on Friday.

EA denies that the takedown request was due to the negative review, but says it was instead in response to the video not meeting its disclosure guidelines. EA also clarified that it sent Gggmanlives a request to fix the conditions for disclosure to be corrected, and was not asking him to change the content of the review nor did they “blacklist” him. EA sent the following statement to Variety:

“Our GameChangers program is not designed to pay for review content. We don’t believe in that. In this case, the conditions for disclosure for this specific video were not met – which is something we adhere very strictly to – so we asked for it to be taken down and corrected. We’ve not asked for the content of the video to be changed, or ‘blacklisted’ the creator. Our full disclosure rules can be found here: https://www.ea.com/game-changers/disclosure.”

EA has not responded to Variety’s followup questions as of publication time regarding what about the disclosure in the video was not in line with requirements and whether or not any other reviewers received similar requests.

Gggmanlives is a part of Electronic Arts’ (EA) Game Changer Network, which is a community partnership program that “fuses content creators and expert players directly into the game development process enabling early collaborative feedback for improvements,” according to EA. Basically, EA offers access to games for select content creators and players/influencers. Gggmanlives told VG247 that the company went a step further and actually paid him to create an “Anthem” video review.

After his negative review of “Anthem” was posted, Gggmanlives said he was told to take down the video, and to re-upload without EA’s watermarks.

“I’m blacklisted by EA now and had to delete it,” he wrote in a tweet Friday. He then re-uploaded an altered version of the review without watermarks. The review was still not a positive take on the latest title from EA.

“I basically wasn’t allowed to say anything negative about the game if I also had the watermark in because the watermark means EA endorses it and shares it through the Game Changers network or something,” Gggmanlives told VG247 via Twitter direct message. “I really don’t know what it all means. I was just told it was to be pulled down and was basically a breach of contract or something along those lines.”

Gggmanlives was also tweeting out code giveaway details for “Anthem” on Friday, another perk that could be a part of the Game Changers Network (though he only thanked the EA Australia Twitter account).

Lee Williams, who oversees the Game Changer Network in his role as international manager of community engagement with Electronic Arts, commented via Twitter on the matter. He first clarified that Gggmanlives was not “blacklisted” as he said, and that the video takedown request was not related to the content.

“Nobody has been blacklisted by [EA],” Williams wrote. “Our team in Australia asked the video be taken down because some of our conditions on disclosure on sponsored weren’t met. Nothing to do with the content of the video.”

Williams continued in a follow-up tweet.

“We encourage the Game Changers to be honest in their content, it’s one of the most important parts of the programme and the community trusts them because of that honesty,” Williams wrote in a tweet. “Feel free to ask me or any of the game changers about how it works.”

He then shared a link with more information on Game Changers via the EA website.

 

[Steezus]

YouTuber Gggmanlives says Electronic Arts paid him to review

lol, fuck this guy

 

[Night Goat]

 

[fantadomat]

YouTuber Gggmanlives says Electronic Arts paid him to review

lol, fuck this guy

Or he could played them like a chad. At least he chose his audience over the EA money and made a real review. There is a lot worst cunts out there.