Main Betting Thread (http://vizioneck.com/forum/index.php?topic=6810). Give a high, medium, and low prediction. Please see the main thread for a breakdown of how scoring works.
Anthem for PlayStation 4 Reviews - Metacritic (https://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/anthem)
IE you expect it to get a 95 so you set that as your middle. Then you set 97 as your high because you don't think the game has a good chance of scoring above that. Then you set 88 as your low because you don't expect the game to score lower than that.
Feel free to post predictions and edit them up till reviews start coming in.
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I'm gonna be optimistic since impressions from many are saying its much better than the demo and the story is pretty good. Shall see though.
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I'm gonna be optimistic since impressions from many are saying its much better than the demo and the story is pretty good. Shall see though.
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83
Yeah I read some impressions and it does seem like the demo was a poor reflection on the game. Upped my ranges a bit.
Edit: actually seems opinion has lowered significantly as people progressed so I'm lowering my prediction :P
Reviews starting to arrive now, although I think they'll be slow coming in.
3/5 from TechRadar
6.9/10 from Boomstick gaming.
Not a great start. I put my low-end as 71 thinking it couldn't possibly be lower than Andromeda. Well... that might have been a mistake.
dang! Oh well still being positive. i know i'll love my time playing it so no worries though.
Reviews starting to arrive now, although I think they'll be slow coming in.
3/5 from TechRadar
6.9/10 from Boomstick gaming.
Not a great start. I put my low-end as 71 thinking it couldn't possibly be lower than Andromeda. Well... that might have been a mistake.
You miggt end up winning with the closest score though.
Multiple games underwhelming huh
hopefully the sites actually taking their time to really play the game for a decent period will give higher scores. Maybe won't happen, but it would be nice if it's not a total disaster critically. But if it is, but still sells a lot and bioware lives on, hopefully they see they are best at single player RPG's. Don't fix what wasn't broken.
hopefully the sites actually taking their time to really play the game for a decent period will give higher scores. Maybe won't happen, but it would be nice if it's not a total disaster critically. But if it is, but still sells a lot and bioware lives on, hopefully they see they are best at single player RPG's. Don't fix what wasn't broken.
Well from what I've read there isn't really enough game to put a decent amount of time into. Story is a lot shorter than you'd expect for a game like this, and endgame is almost non-existent at launch, and what there is is apparently very repetitive. Game is still fairly buggy and unoptimised, with some weird oversights in design in many areas. Long loading screens all over the place.
I really have no idea what they've been working on for so long... it sounds like a game which was rushed out in a year.
Well from what I've read there isn't really enough game to put a decent amount of time into. Story is a lot shorter than you'd expect for a game like this, and endgame is almost non-existent at launch, and what there is is apparently very repetitive. Game is still fairly buggy and unoptimised, with some weird oversights in design in many areas. Long loading screens all over the place.
I really have no idea what they've been working on for so long... it sounds like a game which was rushed out in a year.
this staggered release they have been doing with it is weird too. But yeah I think if they would mash Mass Effect and Anthem together they could have had something freaking amazing.
Gadgets 360 5/10
Gamersky 7/10
JeuxActu 7/10
We now have an opencritic score and with only 4 reviews its at 62. Very poor start.
Ars Technica (https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/02/anthem-game-review-honestly-its-not-finished/)review: Wait until EA finishes the game, if that ever happens.
Big oof.
So Crackdown and Anthem destroyed in reviews, Far Cry not faring much better... Metro pretty much the only of the big releases from mid February that actually reviewed well, but that series has never that big in the first place... you know I actually appreciate that they were given some extra time to get away from these releases and to polish up the game a bit more but I think Days Gone would have been fine if it stuck to it's original Feb 20th release date :D
So Crackdown and Anthem destroyed in reviews, Far Cry not faring much better... Metro pretty much the only of the big releases from mid February that actually reviewed well, but that series has never that big in the first place... you know I actually appreciate that they were given some extra time to get away from these releases and to polish up the game a bit more but I think Days Gone would have been fine if it stuck to it's original Feb 20th release date :D
Yeah maybe it would, although anthem could still be a huge launch. General audience seems fairly interested.
Also we've only had about 5 scored reviews and the "day one" patch seems extensive. I see this landing in the 70s, which is okay and good enough for a game like this.
5.5/10 from flickeringmyth, will go on open apparently. Maybe it won't reach 70 after all ;D
I'm really suprised how bad it is scoring. It looked fun and cool in a lot of ways. Should have at least been a C game.
I'm really suprised how bad it is scoring. It looked fun and cool in a lot of ways. Should have at least been a C game.
Yeah and it seems like it is fun and cool, but coming from Bioware no one expected that the story would actually be really bad and really short, which would have redeemed it. The only positives I've seen are graphics, sound design and gameplay. And everything else is pretty much unanimously disliked.
It takes Destiny's poor mission design and turns it into a new level of shame. And co-op gameplay doesn't redeem it like in Destiny, as apparently co-op seems like it was an afterthought and this game was designed to be SP. If you're with your friends you miss a lot of the dialogue due to how the game delivers it, for example. Seems like Bioware did want to make a SP game but EA forced them to make it a GaaS destiny like game. Real shame. It doesn't help that the game is quite broken right now, and the day one patch will fix a lot of that, but most reviews seem to only be mentioning the bugs as a small thing and the rest of the game is still poor.
And decisions like loot and xp only being given and shown to you once you finish an expedition/ mission. If you have to leave halfway through or you DC, you get 0 rewards. There's also a loot limit so you have to stop at some point and go load back into the hub zone to check it all and then go back out. The loading screens are awfully long as well.
I've heard the phrase "game designed in a boardroom" and the like too many times already.
Man, how the fudge is this a bioware game? Its completely backwards.
Finally another review from a major site... and its a 7/10 from Destructoid. Review: Anthem (https://www.destructoid.com/review-anthem-543071.phtml)
3 scored reviews on meta now that are all 70s, not a single score higher than 70 for it yet either.
Will end up around 65 imo
I don't think any of us will be within range lol
Best reviewer has the part 1 up.
Will end up around 65 imo
I don't think any of us will be within range lol
Depends how many reviewers wait for day one patch and how good that patch is
Anthem wants to take the title of worst game of 2019 from Crackdown 3.
Best reviewer has the part 1 up.
Depends how many reviewers wait for day one patch and how good that patch is
No way a patch can increase the score that much. If it could, why didn't EA delay the release a few days?
No way a patch can increase the score that much. If it could, why didn't EA delay the release a few days?
The game needed to be done a while ago. Game gets approved by platform holders, discs are stamped, and boxes make their way to stores. A day one patch could easily be a month of work.
No way a patch can increase the score that much. If it could, why didn't EA delay the release a few days?
EA were never going to delay. Anthem is only out now because EA want it to be. Bioware knew it wasn't ready, but EA didn't care. And they forced anthem to be put on this early access shame they've been pushing even thought its clearly hurt the game more than anything. EA are clueless, that much is clear.
And I think the patch could help a lot, there's a very long list of issues being fixed and people's experiences are being quite negatively affected by these right now. I'm not saying the patch will do anything crazy, but it might help the game reach the 71+ to put it in my range :P
Mike Ybarra, Corporate VP of Xbox, says critics of an Anthem area are "whining" and it is "embarrassing to review with such a lack of knowledge" | ResetEra (https://www.resetera.com/threads/mike-ybarra-corporate-vp-of-xbox-says-critics-of-an-anthem-area-are-%E2%80%9Cwhining%E2%80%9D-and-it-is-%E2%80%9Cembarrassing-to-review-with-such-a-lack-of-knowledge%E2%80%9D.100839/)
Anthem Review - No I In Team - GameSpot (https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/anthem-review-no-i-in-team/1900-6417093/)
6/10 from Gamespot
Also the "day one" patch has gone live, apparently loading times are much improved. Guess we'll see if it makes a difference.
Anthem Review - No I In Team - GameSpot (https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/anthem-review-no-i-in-team/1900-6417093/)
6/10 from Gamespot
Also the "day one" patch has gone live, apparently loading times are much improved. Guess we'll see if it makes a difference.
Ain't reaching 71 lol
(https://i.imgur.com/vxQb4pd.jpg)
So the day one patch fixed a lot of bugs and improved load times but also introduced quite a few new bugs it seems. People who were clinging to hope that the patch would fix the game were totally wrong.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnthemTheGame/comments/asw3e5/day_zero_patch_bugs_megathread/
And a 5/10 from Gaming Bolt https://gamingbolt.com/anthem-review-the-songs-we-sing
So the day one patch fixed a lot of bugs and improved load times but also introduced quite a few new bugs it seems. People who were clinging to hope that the patch would fix the game were totally wrong.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnthemTheGame/comments/asw3e5/day_zero_patch_bugs_megathread/
And a 5/10 from Gaming Bolt https://gamingbolt.com/anthem-review-the-songs-we-sing
The dream is dead
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Some very good points here. This type of game seems like the dream mesh of genres. I remember when Destiny was first announced and my hype was beyond belief, but this is just so true of all of these games at launch. Destiny 2 forsaken is apparently a brilliant game, Bungie have found the way to make it work. As have Ubi with The Division, which is in a great state now. Warframe is one of the most loved games now as well. Yet Anthem has learned nothing from these games and is launching possibly even worse than any of them, making the same mistakes they did with some new even worse mistakes.
5.5/10 from PC gamer, 7/10 from Digital Fix.
Opencritic is down to 62 after 10 scored reviews. Meta is on 67 after 8 reviews.
(https://i.imgur.com/Onk2DJp.jpg)
fudgy lol.
PS. Meta is down to 65.
(https://i.imgur.com/Onk2DJp.jpg)
fudgy lol.
PS. Meta is down to 65.
Dylan?
Dylan?
The game was called Project Dylan until they officially named in Anthem for its reveal in 2017. PS4 dashboard still thinks its called Project Dylan. I can't remember why exactly it was called Dylan, something to do with Bob Dylan?
Anthem Review - IGN (https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/02/21/anthem-review)
6.5/10 from IGN, and this reviewer seemed more positive than most. Yeah, this ain't hitting 70.
I'm watching the giant bomb video and will just post some impressions as I go through.
Nice looking city.
Entering the exoskeleton should be seamless with the mission select stuff popping up as a first person hologram/HUD so that it feels like you really walked into the thing.
I like the look of the map. HZD 3D.
Oh gosh it is slow to load.
I really really dislike the exoskeleton just being a marker in the city. They aren't even trying to make it feel like it's anything more than a menu popup button.
Flying looks dope and the world looks great from afar.
Gameplay sure flows like destiny from fight to fight.
Story is non existent feeling.
I understand the scores.
2/5 from The Guardian
2.5/5 from Fandom
6/10 from Metro GameCentral
5/10 from PC Invasion
7.6/10 from Everyeye.it (first positive)
7/10 from 3D Juegos
etc...
59 on opencritic now (16 scored reviews), 62 on metacritic (18 reviews).
2/5 from The Guardian
2.5/5 from Fandom
6/10 from Metro GameCentral
5/10 from PC Invasion
7.6/10 from Everyeye.it (first positive)
7/10 from 3D Juegos
etc...
59 on opencritic now (16 scored reviews), 62 on metacritic (18 reviews).
Just wow
It's dead
Shame. If they did this game as a single player with the same concept in world desgin and gameplay it would have been much better IMO. But EA killed this project it seems.
I wonder why these games take so much time to develop and make content for.
Shame. If they did this game as a single player with the same concept in world desgin and gameplay it would have been much better IMO. But EA killed this project it seems.
I wonder why these games take so much time to develop and make content for.
Yeah I imagine Bioware's original vision would have had this much more similar to their older games, with a proper story.
It must have gone through some severe development hell to have this little content, most of it fairly low quality, after 6 years of dev.
Yeah I imagine Bioware's original vision would have had this much more similar to their older games, with a proper story.
It must have gone through some severe development hell to have this little content, most of it fairly low quality, after 6 years of dev.
Destiny and The Division suffered same issues. Low content at launch. But they both had top notch gameplay.
This is following the same steps that both those first games had. Though after Destiny 2, and The Divisions updates which made it a really strong game. So anthem looks much worse.
Destiny and The Division suffered same issues. Low content at launch. But they both had top notch gameplay.
This is following the same steps that both those first games had. Though after Destiny 2, and The Divisions updates which made it a really strong game. So anthem looks much worse.
Destiny at least had a PvP mode, varied environments (4 planets?) a story that lasted a decent amount of time, good enemy AI etc. Can't speak for The Division but it had stuff like the dark zone with PvP or whatever that was called.
Anthem just kind of sucks. Its only got one environment and everything looks the same, no PvP, very short story, AI is terrible which makes gameplay basically braindead with no strategy to it at all. Its as barebones as it could possibly be. Add on to that the loading screens, no inventory and the myriad of other issues its created for itself...
This isn't following the footsteps of Destiny and Division. It's a lot worse than they ever were.
(https://static.mydealz.de/live/threads/thread_large/default/1339313_1.jpg)
So this is real.
First couple missions of the game are pretty much like a single player story. Not sure why we cant just have the best of both worlds. A dope singleplayer story and then have the freeplay/strongholds/contracts be co-op in the open world.
But i'm loving it so far
I wouldn't score it that low as of now. It's a solid 8.5 for me right now. But could go either way later on. Love the lore too.
Woah when did opencritic's website get a redesign? It's so confusing now.
Woah when did opencritic's website get a redesign? It's so confusing now.
At least a couple of months ago I think. I've already got used to it :P
It was better before though.
Longest angry review ever.
(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/406371602482069508/548198235534131221/Screenshot_20190221-124237.jpg)
Some very good points here. This type of game seems like the dream mesh of genres. I remember when Destiny was first announced and my hype was beyond belief, but this is just so true of all of these games at launch. Destiny 2 forsaken is apparently a brilliant game, Bungie have found the way to make it work. As have Ubi with The Division, which is in a great state now. Warframe is one of the most loved games now as well. Yet Anthem has learned nothing from these games and is launching possibly even worse than any of them, making the same mistakes they did with some new even worse mistakes.
I agree all these games had big flaws at launch but not at the level of Anthem.
Destiny = story telling was bad but gunplay was unbelievable good and end game was saved by VoG
The Division = story and gunplay were fine but end gaming content was almost inexistent
Warframe = story and end game content is good but the gunplay/gameplay is bad and performance was shame
Anthem = well you can sun everything and add bad performance with ridiculous loadtime for everything... well the only think not bad in the game is the gunplay I guess
I agree all these games had big flaws at launch but not at the level of Anthem.
Destiny = story telling was bad but gunplay was unbelievable good and end game was saved by VoG
The Division = story and gunplay were fine but end gaming content was almost inexistent
Warframe = story and end game content is good but the gunplay/gameplay is bad and performance was shame
Anthem = well you can sun everything and add bad performance with ridiculous loadtime for everything... well the only think not bad in the game is the gunplay I guess
Indeed, Anthem is the worst of them all. It made pretty much every mistake that the others made at launch + even more of its own new mistakes.
I had good fun playing through Destiny's story, strikes and raid at launch and even though it didn't hook me to stay it was a good game and I got my money's worth. Warframe I have 50 hours in on PC and I'm still in the early game. Its a very good game and of course its free, so it was well worth it. Gameplay is very fun.
Anthem... well I was getting bored after just a few hours of playing the demo and once I'd finished all the demo's content I was done. Combat feels great for a while but the lack of any intelligence in the AI and lack of any variety in environments or mission design just made the game so boring to play, so quickly. Add on to that the horrible loading all the time and its just bad.
I'm starting to think I don't even want Dragon Age 4 to come out, its clear Bioware has lost all of its talent. DA4 would just be another huge disappointment.
I love Anthem's soundtrack at least.
i'm still of the mind that it's much better than a 60. Story is pretty good though it still has that weird structure these co-op open world game games tend to have, but I like the story a lot more than destiny. Loading times really are not that long, but the amount of them is the most annoying. The stories you can hear and talk about at fort tarsis are great, but sucks they don't lead to different story missions or endings like ME and others.
i'm still of the mind that it's much better than a 60. Story is pretty good though it still has that weird structure these co-op open world game games tend to have, but I like the story a lot more than destiny. Loading times really are not that long, but the amount of them is the most annoying. The stories you can hear and talk about at fort tarsis are great, but sucks they don't lead to different story missions or endings like ME and others.
I get the feeling your opinion will keep dropping. I've read enough reviews and opinions to know that this game just wears you down. Hoping you still enjoy it though, of course!
AJ's review is at 2 million views already, holy crud. Its got a great L/D as well (113k likes to 3.1k dislikes), so people aren't hating on the review either. Legs are not gonna be good for this game, word that the game is meh has reached everyone.
I get the feeling your opinion will keep dropping. I've read enough reviews and opinions to know that this game just wears you down. Hoping you still enjoy it though, of course!
AJ's review is at 2 million views already, holy crud. Its got a great L/D as well (113k likes to 3.1k dislikes), so people aren't hating on the review either. Legs are not gonna be good for this game, word that the game is meh has reached everyone.
yeah we will see. i think i am at the point in the story where it falls off for people. I do feel i'll keep enjoying it so far though.
(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/406371602482069508/548198235534131221/Screenshot_20190221-124237.jpg)
Some very good points here. This type of game seems like the dream mesh of genres. I remember when Destiny was first announced and my hype was beyond belief, but this is just so true of all of these games at launch. Destiny 2 forsaken is apparently a brilliant game, Bungie have found the way to make it work. As have Ubi with The Division, which is in a great state now. Warframe is one of the most loved games now as well. Yet Anthem has learned nothing from these games and is launching possibly even worse than any of them, making the same mistakes they did with some new even worse mistakes.
as a guy who is playing destiny a lot lately,...
...i wouldn't call forsaken brilliant. it is better though. from your picture it basically corrected the "shooter" problem. their is an actual campaign with actual level design and set pieces. not the best campaign in the world but a campaign didn't suck like in the previous releases. it still has all the other problems,.. loot is very grindy and samey. story narrative isn't anything to brag about.
basically i play destiny because the moment to moment gameplay is good and because i have a friend that i have a standing thursday night gaming night date with. there are only so many games that have online gameplay that isn't pvp (a thing we both hate). my friend is kind of poor too so he can't afford to buy a game to
only play a 12 hour campaign worth of co-op. we were playing monster hunter for a while but the co-op in that is frustratingly bad. thus destiny it is!
I pretty much watched all of the Angry Legend video.
And it sounds less like a bad game. And more like a good game with a host of bad design and story issues.
Some of that can be fixed pretty easily with a patch, some of it requires a lot of work.
Longest angry review ever.
And there's still more to say:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3USYN8kHkG0
https://youtu.be/wka5RovFEo8
I want to watch this movie
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Holy crud. I don't think this guy has played any video games.
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Free armor packs for people that buy them, nice!