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PostRe: Anthem (XB1/PC/PS4) - out now!! Day "One" Patch out now.
by Hexx » Fri Feb 22, 2019 1:33 pm

Still oddly tempted by this

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by rinks » Fri Feb 22, 2019 5:18 pm

Same. I still reckon I’d get something out of it.

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by Jingle Ord The Way » Fri Feb 22, 2019 5:59 pm

Yep! A new love for Destiny 2! :lol:
Maybe I'm being too hard on Anthem..so much wasted potential though.

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PostRe: Anthem (XB1/PC/PS4) - out now!! Day "One" Patch out now.
by BOR » Fri Feb 22, 2019 7:28 pm

Will this one of the games which will be better in six months time?

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by Pedz » Fri Feb 22, 2019 8:50 pm

After EA kill Bioware? Unlikely.

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by Met » Fri Feb 22, 2019 10:41 pm

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PostRe: Anthem (XB1/PC/PS4) - out now!! Day "One" Patch out now.
by Dual » Sat Feb 23, 2019 7:51 am

Is this a bigger flop than Fallout 76?

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PostRe: Anthem (XB1/PC/PS4) - out now!! Day "One" Patch out now.
by Godzilla » Sat Feb 23, 2019 8:00 am

For marketing I don't think anything could ever beat Fallout 76. It was one mistake after another.

Anthem was a lot of expectation that didn't reach its potential. If a new studio had released this and it had no micro transactions, or was free to play with cosmetic transactions it might have been huge.

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PostRe: Anthem (XB1/PC/PS4) - out now!! Day "One" Patch out now.
by BOR » Sat Feb 23, 2019 8:25 am

Another patch is coming tomorrow apparently to fix some more issues and HDR.

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by Lagamorph » Sat Feb 23, 2019 9:58 am

I hope they fix the mouse pointer bug on PC. It stays on screen after pretty much every time I accept a mission or pick up something to add to the Cortex. It also has a habit of appearing at the start of cut scenes and just sticking in the middle of the screen. The only way to get rid of it is to open the menu, move the mouse around and sometimes have to click it, which you can't do in cut scenes since the key for the menu will skip the cut scene.

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PostRe: Anthem (XB1/PC/PS4) - out now!! Day "One" Patch out now.
by rinks » Sat Feb 23, 2019 12:33 pm

Ord wrote:Yep! A new love for Destiny 2! :lol:
Maybe I'm being too hard on Anthem..so much wasted potential though.

I never even started D2. I was tempted again the other day, but every time I look into buying it, the confusing mass of DLC, expansions and bundles puts me off.

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by Tafdolphin » Sat Feb 23, 2019 1:20 pm

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Ord wrote:Yep! A new love for Destiny 2! :lol:
Maybe I'm being too hard on Anthem..so much wasted potential though.

I never even started D2. I was tempted again the other day, but every time I look into buying it, the confusing mass of DLC, expansions and bundles puts me off.


Destiny 2 base.

Forsaken (all the other expansions come with this)

Annual Pass (basically a subscription for the next year of endgame content)

That's it.

EDIT: Actually, just checked. You can get the Forsaken Legendary edition for £24 right now (down from £40) that includes everything except the annual pass (which is also on sale at the moment, £21 down from £30). So if you wanted literally every piece of content, including future content for the next year, it's £45.

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PostRe: Anthem (XB1/PC/PS4) - out now!! Day "One" Patch out now.
by rinks » Sun Feb 24, 2019 1:51 pm

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rinks wrote:
Ord wrote:Yep! A new love for Destiny 2! :lol:
Maybe I'm being too hard on Anthem..so much wasted potential though.

I never even started D2. I was tempted again the other day, but every time I look into buying it, the confusing mass of DLC, expansions and bundles puts me off.


Destiny 2 base.

Forsaken (all the other expansions come with this)

Annual Pass (basically a subscription for the next year of endgame content)

That's it.

EDIT: Actually, just checked. You can get the Forsaken Legendary edition for £24 right now (down from £40) that includes everything except the annual pass (which is also on sale at the moment, £21 down from £30). So if you wanted literally every piece of content, including future content for the next year, it's £45.


Cheers. I just had another look on the Xbox store. All the individual components, and five different packages. Figured I’d get Forsaken + Annual Pass package, £41.99. But it doesn’t include the base game - says it needs to be bought separately. Go to base game - “Not sold separately”.

OK, maybe the Legendary collection, like you said (although it’s £27.50 on Xbox). Then if I like it enough, I can buy the Annual Pass later. I’ll just check how much that is... “Not sold separately”. FFS, buying a game shouldn’t be like this. Do they really expect to attract new players?

It seems the only way to get all the content is the complete edition, at £50. And I’ve kind of lost interest again.


I was going to apologise for going off-topic, but well, it’s not as if anyone is discussing Anthem anyway!

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PostRe: Anthem (XB1/PC/PS4) - out now!! Day "One" Patch out now.
by Tafdolphin » Sun Feb 24, 2019 3:53 pm

Whaaaaa... That's crazy. I was looking on the Blizzard store on PC and assumed all formats would be similar but...I definitely don't blame you for dropping out, having to deal with all that. What a load of nonsense.

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by BID0 » Sun Feb 24, 2019 7:56 pm

It's here


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by Hexx » Sun Feb 24, 2019 8:00 pm

I rather like this

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PostRe: Anthem (XB1/PC/PS4) - out now!! Day "One" Patch out now.
by Hexx » Mon Feb 25, 2019 9:24 am

About 4 hours in (Off to see old friends, and done all the Agent/Side stuff).

It's an odd one. I think the traversal is great fun - and your Javalin is just fun to control. I can't see why anyone would be anything but Storm though :D Guns are just your back up if abilities are on cooldown (nice that's a 4th abilitiy solt!)

Combat is pretty easy (on normal) - but spectacular. Hovering over the battle field controlling enemies with ice shards and then blowing them up with lightening bolts is fun. You can feel the Mass Effect influences - but (at least so far) can see why it's not for everyone.

I've done a mixture of solo (campaign) and random (side stuff) and both are enjoyable in different ways (TPing to your group is annoying though). Freeplay seems a pointless mess though. Mix of not enough to do, and what there is to do being hard to find (oh god find 3 ember took so long)

The lack of RPG stuff (or the faux 2 choice approach) is a bit annoying - but I actually like the characters. I think they'd annoy some though. (And the voice acting is a really odd combination Nick Tarabay, Joe Lo Truglio, Kristen Schaal and Catherine Tate?)

I've not found loading too bad (no more so than say, Monster Hunter) but I can see trying new guns/gears later could be a pain (atm it's pretty much just "Go with what's highest2)

Feels (much like ME:A) a solid 7 or 8 game the internet has decided is a irredeemably bad

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PostRe: Anthem (XB1/PC/PS4) - out now!! Day "One" Patch out now.
by Met » Mon Feb 25, 2019 10:51 am

Hexx wrote:Feels (much like ME:A) a solid 7 or 8 game the internet has decided is a irredeemably bad


The problem is that it has the budget and the marketing of a solid 10, is attempting to compete with established games (which is an uphill battle to begin with), is from EA (which is an easier and easier target to hit when it comes to ire), and was released something like 2 weeks after Apex, which has overcome all of those hurdles and is, right now, a juggernaut.

The disastrous beta where they managed to DDoS themselves didn't do it any favours, nor did the hilariously convoluted release schedule.

That's not even getting into the actual gameplay issues, but without them there's still enough to realise EA needed to knock it out of the park and they barely even hit it.

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PostRe: Anthem (XB1/PC/PS4) - out now!! Day "One" Patch out now.
by Hexx » Mon Feb 25, 2019 10:55 am

Met wrote:
Hexx wrote:Feels (much like ME:A) a solid 7 or 8 game the internet has decided is a irredeemably bad


The problem is that it has the budget and the marketing of a solid 10, is attempting to compete with established games (which is an uphill battle to begin with), is from EA (which is an easier and easier target to hit when it comes to ire), and was released something like 2 weeks after Apex, which has overcome all of those hurdles and is, right now, a juggernaut.

The disastrous beta where they managed to DDoS themselves didn't do it any favours, nor did the hilariously convoluted release schedule.

That's not even getting into the actual gameplay issues, but without them there's still enough to realise EA needed to knock it out of the park and they barely even hit it.


I played the beta and was really put off - it was technically a mess and popping you in a random mission was an awful idea.

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by imbusydoctorwho » Mon Feb 25, 2019 2:39 pm

£35 already on Amazon, just three days after launch.
Guess it'll drop to £20 once the Division 2 is out.

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