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Anthem is out now! Is it Great! (Edited) 2-22-19

So it's officially out now what do you think?
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  • [quote]Can someone tell me if it's worth 62$?[/quote] Can't answer that for you. People value money differently. Is it fun to play? Hell yes, if you take the time to learn about its combat system, and allow the game to be the "superhero" game that it is....rather than demanding that it be a conventional shooter. Between the closed alpha, the two demos...and playing all the way through the campaign on PC last weekend, I've spent about 50 hours with the game. Here's my take on it....and you can make your own mind up. 1. The game is not a shooter. The foundation of combat is the use of your abilities. So if Destiny is you spam your guns until you have your abilities available...and save your abilities for bosses and big plays....Anthem is you spam your abilities and then shoot your guns to continue to damage enemies until your abilities recover from their (very short) cooldowns. If you try to turn it into a pure shooter, you won't be able to do enough damage. 2. The flying is an ESSENTIAL part of combat. Its not a truck or a bus to get you from one fight to another. If you try to turn the game into a boots-on-the-ground shooter you will be overwhelmed by the number of enemies the game throws at you. 3. If you embrace this about the game, you'll find it unique and VERY FUN gaming experience. The feeling of jumping off a cliff and free falling for hundreds of feet before turning on your jets and flying off is unlike any other I've had in gaming. So is zipping off up into the sky to get away from enemies...stopping on a dime to hover above them...and then rain down destruction on them like a helicopter gunship. 4. Other than the multiplayer aspects, its a typical Bioware game. So the story is an integral part of the campaign and so is interacting with NPCs for lore and to advance the stories. 5. . The complaints about content are unfounded. The people complaining about content are thinking like Destiny or MMO players...and their notion of an end-game is limited to a "pinnacle" activities like raids. The game is designed like Diablo 3, such that THE ENTIRE GAME IS THE END GAME. Instead of being like Destiny and racing through content once that becomes irrelevant while you grind a small number of end-game activities. Anthem is a game where the end game is like this spiral staircase where you play until you complete...increase the difficulty and the quality of rewards....playing through again.....up the difficulty even more for even better rewards. While this is salted with activities like Contracts, Legendary Contracs, and Strongholds. If you just grind the three Strongholds over and over again like a Destiny player...you're missing the point. 6. BioWare has also outline a series of FREE updates that will continue to add content to the game that is scheduled to start in March and mapped out for the entire year. BioWare has already demonstrated an abiltity to make rapid changes and additions to the game. I played through the entire campaign last week end. It took me about 20 hours, and I wasn't taking a particularly leisurely approach to it. I figure I could have easily gotten another 10 hours out of it if I wanted. At 25 hours I'm only level 22 (out of 30), only focused on gearing up ONE of the four javelins. Haven't even run two of he strong holds yet. Only started to get my first purple (Epic) gear drops...there are two levels of gear quality above that. I still have yet to unlock the 4th Javeln...which doesn't happen until level 26. So I can EASILY see myself settling into the grind and the increases in difficulty (which actually makes the AI smarter and more aggressive....not just bigger bullet sponges)....and getting HUNDREDS of hours out of this game with just what its shipping with. Because the game plays RADICALLY different depending on what javelin you use. Bottomline. The game has its issues....as any new IP of this level of complexity inevitably has. But Anthem is laying a foundation---as a loot-game---that is better than Destiny's at the moment. I had fun playing the game, and didn't find myself missing Destiny at all. That makes it worth the money I spent on it.....going away. YMMV. Hope this helps.

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    • I’ve been having fun. Because of playing it with friends I haven’t gotten very far into its story though

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    • I'd like to try it myself but I'm going to watch some real gameplay and check out some reviews (with a grain of salt) first. In the end I'll probably pick it up but I'll maybe wait a couple weeks for it to go on sale first.

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      • I'll wait for the division. Been playing anthem all day and it's really not what I wanted. And the endgame isnt there. But for those who enjoy, more power to you

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      • Edited by SpongyMallard7: 2/23/2019 12:47:09 AM
        Here's a roadmap for any who already bought it. Hopefully EA doesn't kill the game and shutdown BioWare because of the pretty bad reviews. It will be interesting to see console reviews because I heard it runs worse on the OG PS4 and Xbox One. https://www.ea.com/games/anthem/acts

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        • Few hours in and I’m enjoying the game. It’s not game of the year but if goes on sale it’d be a pretty decent purchase.

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        • had fun this morning before work, cant wait to get home and continue playing. It's nice having multiple games to bounce between again.

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          • You mean Anthemy?

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          • So far the only defenses I've seen for the game are "I'M enjoying it!" And "Everyone else is just a cynical bandwagoning EA hater!" That last one being a bit odd since the majority of the people I've seen that didn't enjoy Anthem have enjoyed Apex Legends...

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            • Id w8 a bit

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            • Edited by Rhynerd: 2/21/2019 11:46:33 PM
              From what I can tell, Anthem will probably need a year or two to be worth that price, much like the games before it in this subgenre of shooter games. That being said, I’m watching play the final mission on the first grandmaster difficulty as an interceptor and they’re having a friggin’ blast and interceptor looks like a whole lotta fun. In short, the core gameplay looks good but it seems like it’ll need some more work and/or content.

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            • I've played 40 hours of it tell me what you wanna know specifically? Yes I've had a number of different bugs happen from falling out of fort tarsis to having to restart mission because of connection issues or level just not loading. Progression wise briefly similar to destiny you will have a power level like the gear you equip will each have their own power and a cap on what you can wear/use. Customization is really Bare I've found 3 sets of armour and different types of textures to apply to each but thats about it with slapping on a random tag. Game play- Weapons are ok not good but not bad either as you'll probably be wanting to use your abilities more than fire your gun. Missions are somewhat Bad many will have you go to location to location only to backtrack between them. Annoying things during the mission is the loading screen when your seconds out from the location you'll have seconds to get there before it sends you into a load screen. Strongholds are Anthems equivalent to Destiny strikes there good however at the moment there are only 3 of them and one of them is the endgame mission so kinda lack lustre trying to grind them all out with little variety. Overall not worth the full price and even less if you don't have friends to play it with. As once the main story is finished all thats left is the massive grind to sort challenges.

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              • I've seen a lot of mixed reviews at the time that im posting this. I'm personally in 'wait and see' mode right now but the combat does look like lots of fun. [spoiler]also I heard your character actually [b]speaks[/b] instead of having a dead silence hero.[/spoiler]

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                  give me $62 and I’ll play it for u n I’ll let u know how it is

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                  • Thicc boi master race.

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                  • [b] [/b]

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                  • Dunno, gonna find out tomorrow morning. [spoiler]also... gezundheit![/spoiler]

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                  • Way too many loading screens

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                    • I got the EA premier acces thingy for €15 just to try it out, I can always cancel it and only lose €15 (I won't, I was planning to but I saw they have C&C Generals and I love that game and lost my disk, but that is beside the point). I enjoyed it, it was fine, it is pretty average, not the trash some say it is but it is also not great...it is painfully mediocre. Which IMO is a shame considering this is Bioware's A game. It is not bad, entertaining enough but not that special or intresting.

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                      • Nope, the games loot system is broken, only way to get MW items are to walk around. [spoiler]also im surprised a mod is allowed to play games other than d******?[/spoiler]

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                        • It's not.

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                        • Maybe a year from now.

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                        • Edited by SGT Bronson: 2/20/2019 11:44:19 PM
                          Its another mass effect andromeda. Some people will enjoy it and we shouldn't make fun of those people. Its not theirfault they're autistic.

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                          • It has potential but... Wait. The latest update fixed some bugs but there are still some issues.

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                          • I haven’t played but metacritic Is throwing up a giant red flag with reviews

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                          • https://youtu.be/fhe76p6Tiro

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