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gently caress, when I saw the reveal trailer for this my first reaction was "this is a Destiny clone" and because I find absolutely nothing at all appealing about Destiny I guess I'm out for this one. Only Bioware games I still look forward to since ME3 are their Dragon Age games. Inquisition was fun (though padde dout by needless filler poo poo) but I have an unnatural predisposition to liking anything that has elves and dwarves in it, so maybe Dragon Age is actually bad and they should stop making those too.
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marshmallow creep posted:I said this in the Mass Effect thread but it really is an impressively boring trailer.
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limited posted:I think it's the faux-game chat that does it for me. It's just so eye-rollingly awful. I don't think anyone at this point is honestly fooled in these things that actual people are playing. It might as well flash up a big subtitle BE EXCITED HERE!!!111 instead of actually showing something exciting. Agree, if it's anything similar to what happens on Destiny voice chat with my pals will be about saying how much EA sucks.
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Jun 16, 2017 11:08
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limited posted:I think it's the faux-game chat that does it for me. It's just so eye-rollingly awful. So it's realistic online game chat?
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Jun 16, 2017 11:23
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Schubalts posted:So it's realistic online game chat? No, because there's zero ethnic slurs.
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Jun 16, 2017 11:39
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Schubalts posted:So it's realistic online game chat? If there isn't someone claiming that Alienware is the best thing ever and someone else getting angry at them then it's not realistic game chat.
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Jun 16, 2017 12:24
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DancingShade posted:If there isn't someone claiming that Alienware is the best thing ever and someone else getting angry at them then it's not realistic game chat. I'd bang that Alien-ware 
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Honestly, maybe it was just the faux nature of the trailer, but eh. Despite being claimed as an open world, as soon as they landed the whole area was super linear. The treeline on either side was too large to look like they could cross it, so they spent the entire trailer following a super linear path. Which raises serious questions as to how the game is built. Is it a "true" open world and this was just a E3 demo area they set up? Is it actually a series of landing zones you choose to land in, and they just dropped the UI for the whole landing zone system to make it look larger? UI looks awful. When they do the AoE rocket attack it just looks janky and unpolished. I can't imagine a setup of what that guys screen looked like when he fired the mortar either. Again it could just be E3 mockups, but don't show your E3 mockups when they look that bad. Enemies have no visual outlines. They blend in far too easily with the world around them. Maybe this is supposed to be Vietnam PTSD simulator 2018, but I kinda doubt that's what they are going for. In the Division the enemies are colorful and stand out against the stark backdrop. In Destiny the enemies are medium sized and stand out due to level design/placement. In the trailer I could barely make out the enemies even as they were swarming an area to attack. It wasn't until they used the lockon rocket did you really get a feel for how many people were there. If the world visuals compete that much with the enemy design, it's a problem. Presumably no companions, no talk of a narrative though obviously it'll be there. No focus on the things Bioware is actually "good" at doing. That's worrying. I realize this is an E3 trailer and they probably set up a linear zone to show off the game, but this game is coming out in a year, and has already been delayed several times/worked on for fiveish years. If they are still in the mockups for E3 phase, they have some serious problems ahead of them. They should already be able to show real ingame gameplay, real ingame quests, real ingame areas with no problems, because they should be nearing the point they finish up the core systems and start working on polish/presentation. So either we have a game that's NOT coming out in a year ( in which case what the gently caress have they been doing ), or this is actually a real ingame quest ( in which case what the gently caress have they been doing. ). The worst thing I can say about this game is I can't actually imagine how it plays.
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Jun 16, 2017 13:43
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If there is one thing I have learned about the videogame community, it is that one single reveal video can generate forum threads upon threads and months worth of salt.
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AceOfFlames posted:No, because there's zero ethnic slurs. That, or, when the guy's like "I'm going to try out my new Blahblah MK II" the other player would begin complaining about how poo poo that weapon was and how they were going to gently caress up their pristine strat for running that instance. Part of me gets excited about the prospect of playing the game shown in the demo, but for the game to provide that kind of experience it would need to be SP and Bioware would have to pull of some Westworld-grade poo poo. Bioware can barely craft palsied characters whose faces threaten to slide off the model during awkward sex scenes, so I doubt we're getting more than a sour dollop of turned vanilla yogurt: the game.
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Jun 16, 2017 15:21
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I only talk to my friends in a video game with the deepest of batman voices and as laconically as possible.
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Glenn Quebec posted:I only talk to my friends in a video game with the deepest of batman voices and as laconically as possible. I emit a constant low whine, like a leaky tire that was bullied in school.
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Jun 16, 2017 15:31
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Well personally I hope this game is good. Seems a little derivative.
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mysterious frankie posted:I emit a constant low whine, like a leaky tire that was bullied in school. "Eeeeeeeeee" "Yes take C." Picks the wrong dialogue wheel option and does not get to have a fade to black sex scene with the only female blue aliens.
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Arglebargle III posted:Well personally I hope this game is good. Seems a little derivative. I respect that. However, bitching and moaning is more fun than living in hope.
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My feelings about this game vis-à-vis Andromeda is that it's like that Star Trek episode where Kirk gets split into two people; one's a rapist and a drunk, and the other one can't make decisions. BioWare took all the people who knew how to make a Mass Effect game and told them to make a Destiny clone, and told a bunch of other people to make a Mass Effect game, only really more like No Man's Sky, until they changed their minds about that. So they ended up with a Mass Effect game that, while decent enough, has characters that look like rear end (how they let a game go out that has literally every asari besides Peebee look like America's safety prom date--including the one voiced by Natalie "I'd pay $100 for a pint of her bath water" Dormer--is beyond me), while the veterans make a game that looks gorgeous but doesn't offer anything that I can't get by buying Borderlands for $5 on Steam. They could have together made something that would have kept the original franchise together, but nooooooooooo.
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The main thing that bugs me about loot shooters is how unfun they are if your friends aren't playing at the same pace. Take some time off and you become a drag on the group. I don't want to play a 5 hour raid ever and if you don't raid you can forget playing with a group that does.
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Arglebargle III posted:The main thing that bugs me about loot shooters is how unfun they are if your friends aren't playing at the same pace. Take some time off and you become a drag on the group. I don't want to play a 5 hour raid ever and if you don't raid you can forget playing with a group that does. Agreed. A friend and I jumped back into the Division a few weekends back and he was about two levels of ahead of me, near cap, and I was basically made of paper and shooting spit-wads while trying to help him on his missions.
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Arglebargle III posted:The main thing that bugs me about loot shooters is how unfun they are if your friends aren't playing at the same pace. Take some time off and you become a drag on the group. I don't want to play a 5 hour raid ever and if you don't raid you can forget playing with a group that does. 
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Jun 16, 2017 16:04
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I can't wait to fly around as Bioware Sci-Fi Iron-Man. ...Although War Machine might be a more appropriate comparison.
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mysterious frankie posted:I emit a constant low whine, like a leaky tire that was bullied in school. If this game doesn't have a robot voice effect, I'm not playing.
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Dying is not an excuse to leave the project, Corey!  http://www.pcgamer.com/amp/bioware-veteran-corey-gaspur-lead-designer-on-anthem-has-died/ quote:BioWare has announced that Corey Gaspur, a longtime designer at the studio whose credits include Mass Effect 2 and 3, and the upcoming online shooter Anthem, has died.
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Don't speak ill of the dead by mentioning that they worked on sonic chronicles
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limaCAT posted:Dying is not an excuse to leave the project, Corey! Wow that's a pretty solid resume. The mass Effect 3 combat was the only unquestionably solid part of that dumpster fire.
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Aug 25, 2017 19:48
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Has there been any other info on this game lately?
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Nov 7, 2017 20:03
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I am sure Bioware is being smothered under a pillow as we speak.
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I looked through some YouTube stuff and literally every single video is people speculating on the E3 footage and so I’m gonna say “No” and maybe word got out that Destiny 2 has low retention and the studio is rethinking their multiplayer space opera strategy.
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For all its flaws, I loving love the Division. Everything in it just clicks with me. Destiny 2, not so much.The shooting stuff is fine. It's everything else I don't like. If Anthem is somewhere in between them, I think I'd be happy.
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I got into Division for a bit but hadn't made it to level 25 before I got tired of it. I got into it again a bit later, but it was hard to stick to.
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Bust Rodd posted:I looked through some YouTube stuff and literally every single video is people speculating on the E3 footage and so I’m gonna say “No” and maybe word got out that Destiny 2 has low retention and the studio is rethinking their multiplayer space opera strategy. After how Andromeda went they're probably rushing to jam in all the story beats and assets they'd been planning on using for Andromeda 2 or Andromeda DLC
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It's almost a certainty that development on anthem has taken minor detours in the wake of Destiny 2, responding internally to what works and what doesn't. I'd be surprised if it's out earlier than late 2018.
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having just beat me:a, and having beat da:i like four times (i know) I'm now 100% sure I know what an:them has to offer. it's gonna be a bunch of big open zones, combat taken directly out of me:a, quest givers with full voiced acting, professional / sarcastic responses, and a small handful of missions that change the outcome of later missions. if they do something like they did with SWTOR and give me eight bioware stories on top of all that, I'll buy it day one. But I honestly think they've forgotten how to MAKE bioware stories, and expect this to have a plot far thinner than andromeda. SWTOR is an ugly mix, an old school bioware game built on top of an old school MMO. Anthem is probably going to try and be a mix of both (well, a mix of an old school bioware game and a loot based shooter) and fail to be either.
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I'm hoping that it's a mix of Diablo's loot and class builds and Destiny's action and gunplay. Basically The Division in space future time please.
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Digital Osmosis posted:But I honestly think they've forgotten how to MAKE bioware stories, and expect this to have a plot far thinner than andromeda. Impossible
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