/v/ - Video Games

The same reason why nobody talked about it before it came out. Who the hell's interested for Destiny 3 - made by bioware this time?

Don't even acknowledge it, make this the most true flop in video game history, to the point even /v/ won't acknowledge it.

My only hope is that this flop kills this studio for sure and we get another round of salt like with the Blizzard layoffs

>FarCry New Dawn

>Metro: Exodus

>Anthem

Is this the flop bukkake ?

"Get Glitched!" This is actually a real line in the game.

There is a game story lockout where you can't progress in the main story until you beat certain challenges like get 50 ultimate kills for these tombs.

There is an actual quest where you have to open 15 chests, and if you are in a team, the opening of chest is not shared between the group. Each player has to open 15 chests to just progress.

This is added to the fact that the AI is still stupid, the game story is horrible and it still has bugs like disconnection issues and sound bugs that likely won't be fixed until it actually comes out on the 22nd.

>Is Anthem a confirmed flop?

Yes. It was obviously shit, you could tell from the E3 reveal. It didn't change between then and now.

it's not out, it's on (((early access)) with (((origin access)))

With EA now having a f2p BR Cash cow, Bioware are so fucked.

Oops. Forgot to mention but there are a ton of loading times and between missions, you are going to have to do a lot of walking and talking around the base which you slowly move at a brisk but still slow pace. You have to talk to the people because they give you rep for doing so that you'll need for endgame to unlock "clean" gear. I think that is what it was called. You have to grind through dialogue.

>>16129713

>grind through dialogue

truly we have reached peak gaming

>>16129698

hold up you mean to tell me.

a game that almost didn't get fucked with by EA's corporate side, and didnt get any abnoxious marketing… is doing better? HMmmmm what a revolutionary idea, let the game devs develop the game, cuz thats their job :o

its almost like the people running the company are complete retards and everyone would be better if they all got fired

>>16129403

spanish is such a filthy and disgusting language

>>16129791

Games were flopping left and right before this shitty fad. Remember Watch underscore Dogs 2?

>>16129508

New Dawn is just a stand alone expansion pack. Can't really say it's too much of a flop when it barely cost anything to make. Division 2 like

>>16129746

mentions will be a total flop though.

>>16129831

Hard to say since New Dawn is still pretty expensive, and also came out a lot closer to the game it was built off of. Unlike Primal, it's not being subtle about being a copy. Whether it does decent or not, it can ripple to people grow tired of seeing Far Cry yet again rehashing the same setups and villain archetype.

So if this flops bioware is officially over?

>>16129866

EA will most likely keep the Bioware name around but it's likely they'll liquidate the Edmonton studio/merge it with another and keep the name Bioware for a studio like Bioware Mythic.

>>16129876

A lot of indians are losing their jobs then.

>>16129871

Rather harrowing to think something as barebones as this was made with half a decade or so of preparation.

>>16129362

Apex Legends came out and is the new Epic Battle Royale Streamer Hype Game™

>>16129898

Destiny lore is unnecessarily obscure and convoluted for a shoot'n'loot game.

It failed to pull Warframes's pre-potato style of lore.

And apparently D2 took a even bigger shit by ignoring or downplaying shit from 1.

>>16129959

>Destiny lore is unnecessarily obscure and convoluted for a shoot'n'loot game.

Afaik it was a lot simpler initially but they massively rewrote it at some point because they decided to drop most of the original concepts and reuse them later for DLC. That's another bizarre thing about it, it feels like the story was hacked up with a butcher knife later for DLC.

>>16129362

It's not out yet. There's a 10-hour demo for those who have Origin/EA Access. It's weird because those who bought the game can't play it yet.

So far it's worse than the demo/beta from a few weeks ago.

>EA panics that their stocks have fallen

>EA releases Apex with a massive marketing campaign of streamers

>It's largely a slap dash job but done by competent devs based on a pre-existing platform

>EA releases the assured flop Anthem in a vacuum that they themselves created assuring no sales

>A month from now when EA implements it's micro-transactions on APEX the game will be dropped by everyone

>European legislation cuts down even their FIFA money

>EA dies despite making billions because 'muh shareholders'

A man can dream.

>>16129963

That's another thing I noticed with Destiny is people seem to undervalue storytelling. Like whenever fans of the game try to defend it's shit premise/lore/story they go "Well it doesn't matter it's just there for superfans people just wanna lootnshoot" when it doesn't even do that well.

The story to Destiny was clearly cut up for DLC and sequels and was made to just never end. Like there's no clear villain, no clear goals, no clear protagonist, no clear supporting characters. Even Nathan Fillion stated he doesn't think Bungie actually killed off the only character any of the fans like Cayde 6 and will probably bring him back. It's written more like a soap opera and not like an actual story. Soap operas have a similar structure where no one character is actually that important in the grand scheme of things and can be written out or swapped with another almost identical character at a later date. It's weird to me nobody criticizes it for having a story structure that's exclusively designed to just keep going on forever perpetually for endless new sequels.

Imagine for instance if another game did this like Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. Where you don't get to the last mission End of the Line until the game's third sequel in a DLC. And by the time you do this mission it's not even end the story because in game 2 there's a new big villain that is an even bigger deal. Also CJ is a mute and they swapped Tenpenny's voice actor because they didn't want to keep paying Samuel L Jackson. Fans would just go "who cares what loot can I get off his body" like that's all that matters. What shiny gun did Samuel L Jackson drop.

>>16129963

I'm pretty sure all of that shit happened when the game got entirely fucking re-written and re-made about a year before Destiny 1 came out.

>>16130060

Warframe and destiny raped an abortion that EA oversaw and bioware coded into existence

>>16130060

Mass Effect Andromeda with The Division and Destiny game mechanics.

>>16129403

it warms my heart that the shitting on that game was global.

Unless there is more levels after what I believe is the last mission where you return to the heart of rage, you are literally replaying the tutorial mission but with different enemies. I guess it makes sense but with how rehashed the contracts and story missions are with tons of timegates and loading screens, you would think there would be something at least new but I guess not.

Also a player doesn't get loot if they're downed when a boss is taken down in a group which seems like a huge oversight. Probably fixed in the actual release patch.

>>16129995

I seriously don't understand marketing.

I can't believe there are actually people who will look at this chart and think "How convenient. There are so many options for me to play the game early" instead of being disgusted at the jewry.

How do normalfags even exist?

>>16130165

>How do normalfags even exist?

As a cattle

>>16130208

W-wait, people finished the story within the 10-hour trial?

>>16130215

That would be hilarious

I can't comprehend playing this game.

Everything about it looks so absolutely boring, the aesthetic is the most generic i can imagine, the gameplay is just bang bang shotboom

I would pay money NOT to play this game. I really feel like gaming is the lowest form of art, it's like a coma fever dream of armored men shooting bugs and shit.

>>16130208

>they pulled another ME3

I can't even find it in me to be angry at how lazy this is, I really hope bioware can just be put down now.

>>16130253

>the gameplay is just bang bang shotboom

Not even. Wolfenstein 3D had better gun sounds than this shit.

>>16130215

That would be a special magical kind of fuck up on par of Bethesda if that was the case, but I think it was the pc normal niggers who had bought that origin bullshit, they got the game yesterday.

>>16130253

It's not the fault of the medium in itself. Just the time we're living in. The medium is laying host to the new era of dime novels.

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>>16130292

With a good fireteam I think it might be possible.

>>16130301

It could be, not that I would know I not planning to ever touch this trash.

Still, I would like to play through the single player of Destiny 1 before it gets shut down. FPS are basically dead, so might as well try something weird which had potential.

>>16130304

You don't want to. I played the Destiny Demo and it was horrifically bad on a basic shooting mechanic level even before the loot. The weapons you get are so weak they make Half Life 2's look like the BFG in comparison.

>>16129362

>Isn't this game supposed to be out by now?

According to the release spreadsheet, the only people with access to it now are PC players - which is no-one since it requires an Origin account, and Xbutts who also pay to have an EA Access account, but they only get 10 hours with it before they're locked out until general release.

These are the kinds of 4D chess move high level decisions that earn those CEOs seven figure bonuses.

>>16130165

>I seriously don't understand marketing.

It's easy. You overwhelm the customer with tiered option packages, and then put pressure on them by restricting availability so that there is a fear that they're missing out on content or experiences if they don't have the game day one or aren't on par with their friends.

In the face of that - the hope is that the average consumer will just throw their hands up in the air and buy the most expensive "complete" package. Of course, those packages are no longer "complete" either since they don't want to run the revenue stream dry immediately - so these days there's often multiple "ultimate" options with exclusive content to encourage purchase of the missing items from the other ultimate tier packages. Also, multiple season passes.

>>16130383

If I was John Lasagna or whoever runs EA now I'd want the demo of this shit to have as limited of a potential audience as possible too.

>>16130404

>demo

lol companies don't put out demos, they run """"beta"""" tests instead

>>16130401

>the hope is that the average consumer will just throw their hands up in the air and buy the most expensive "complete" package

Marketing guys believe the consumer settles for the middle-tier package.

>>16130404

>I'd want the demo of this shit to have as limited of a potential audience as possible

1. Or you would want to show them ONLY the heavily cinematic and polished beginnings.

2. Which is what happened with the Conan MMO: fully voiced starter island that reviewers played, then shit afterwards.

3. MMOs die at the endgame after all, the start is always safe and much more cared after.

>>16130475

>MMOs die at the endgame after all

What? My experience with MMOs:

>great start to draw you in everything is cool

>mindless, soul crushing grind from then on for months

>finally reach end game where there's some other shit to do than just grind because it becomes where all the DLCs are shat out

>quit anyway because it's still shit

>>16129737

That's the thing when even the spics are making fun of you, it's a special kind of low.

>>16130510

Well, part of the process is this idiotic idea that 'endgame' is just 'raids' for MMOs. So people get lured in by an interesting setting and world, only to find that they have absolutely no interaction with or affect on that world. And rather than see development effort going to fix that people see more raids getting name made specifically to give a new dress to no-lifers with a slightly bigger number.

>a recycle of the quarian dlc for andromeda where the one planets map is turned into a looter shooter 5 years later

>why does nobody care?!?

Its a mystery alright.

>>16129857

Far Cry never had twin female niggers as villains before, so you can't rightly say it's the same villain archetype. They're even anarchic instead of authoritarian like usual.

>>16129737

I really hope you never witness the absolute horror that is portuguese, then.

>>16129737

That's not fair - it's the language of Cervantes and Borges, after all. Embed related: http://anagrammatically.com/2008/01/31/borges-and-i-borges-y-yo/

Seeing how the language tends to get used in America now, though… that's another story.

>>16130765

I still remember giving money to Project Gorgon on the fact that they had NPC relationship mechanics alone. If it wasn't for Blizzard and their shitty practices we could have so many more interesting mechanics like that instead of hundreds of 'levels'.

>>16130804

>instead of hundreds of 'levels'.

That's an insult to levels, call them playgrounds.

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>>16130797

Still, though, as long as it's the language itself that's being talked about, note how closely related French and Italian are to Spanish.

Embed related has a man speaking French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian, and I'd bet that by ear alone one might find it difficult to even tell when he stops speaking one language and starts speaking another, but the key thing is - you don't have the same opinion on French and Italian that you have on Spanish, do you?

>>16130812

How about hallways?

I mean, I think one in WoW once had a locked door you could bypass with a rogue who actually leveled lockpicking (this was the only thing in the game for that aside from shitty chests) or if you killed an optional boss they had a chance to drop a key to an alternate path. Aside from that they're often just hallways that at best loop back on themselves.

>>16130804

They also raped the idea of MMO expansions. Gone are ones that actually, you know, expand the world outside of adding a tiny little subzone to the overworld while making everything before it obsolete. There was one particular zone addition in FFXI I loved where it was just this little river near one of the starting cities that was pretty much pointless but made for an insanely good low level grinding spot if you could get enough people to pull away from the other more populated areas.

>>16130812

I 'unno, I think "playground" implies there being a bit more going on in them than there actually is.

>>16130820

Eh, can't call em hallway they have square rooms. How about one of those shape and lock toys? You know, the ones that are like barns with holes in the roof you need to put shapes through?

>>16130821

>MMO expansions

For any genre not just MMOs. xpacs are now considered stand-alone games and bite sized content updates that used to be free are now considered DLC.

>>16130836

I dunno, dumb toy for babies? Hell, most bosses in them are just simon says while hitting keys in a pattern.

>>16129871

Correction anon, Destiny and Destiny 2 actually sold pretty well (millions of units), but because Activision had crazy sales targets, it 'underperformed.' Remember that BO4 also underperformed shareholder expectations because it only sold like 5.5m during its first few days

I'm not saying Destiny isn't shit, but the game was a commercial success; Activision just had insane expectations and wanted their own Fortnite-level success.

>>16130861

I'll have you know splitting the game into three full priced chunks over the course of 5 years was a very innovative move Gamefreak is no doubt hitting themselves over not doing sooner.

>>16130891

This, normal cattle will buy any piece of shit as long as there is fake hype generated by fucking shills, look at apex legends for example.

>>16130923

I forget, didn't Bioware get bought up by EA because some shady fuck left EA, became the lawyer behind their ownership, sold it to EA and then went back to working for them? Am I thinking of someone else?

Not that it matters, I'm willing to bet not a single employee at Bioware now was there before the acquisition.

>>16130952

Sounds like the kind of shady Jewish shit they would do.

At least the game has some okay power armor porn.

>>16131098

I bet even that is astroturfed.

>>16131098

How the fuck do you tell it from any of the other ones though?

The endgame grind against the valor trial is another timegate grind where you have to do 100 World Events, 25 Strongholds, 25 Quickplays and 25 Contracts. Has there ever been a bigger grind to get to endgame than this? And that isn't even the last one. There is a ??? mission after that as well. Maybe you're a sadist but during this early betatesting access, you'll probably lose your sanity if you tried. Quickplays are the ones you do with random missions online. Problem is that you can get into a story mission which you can't skip the cutscenes of and you know how "riveting" the story is to listen to. That means it's possible for new players to experience the story out-of-order. You can also go into a glitched instance where you can't even complete it because the original person the instance was made for dropped out.

You can also be mismatched with players that are not up to your level. Say your level 30 with an upped power gear. You can also be matched with a player that is level 9 and they won't be of much help since the enemies will be scaled to you if you are the initiator. You'll get players that can possibly deal 0 damage to an enemy. Funny thing is, being that the game is heavily aimed at co-op, at the moment, you would gain more experience playing with randoms than forming a squad. Also, the quickest way to level is jumping into quickplay and hoping to be in a mission that is close to ending since a lot of missions can take up to 20-40 minutes all the way through.

Also, if your teamed up with a player that isn't even at your level or just an all around troublemaker, you can't kick them out since according to the community manager, "Kicking is toxic behavior". That release day patch better be some kind of magical fix-all because there is a lot of problems with it during this early release.

>>16131151

You kidding? The brand has been pretty synonymous with garbage for nearly a decade now. They're just diversifying the kind of garbage they output now.

>>16131157

Being synonymous with garbage falls in line with the aforementioned decline in quality, anon

>>16129791

PvE and PvP are different markets. They intersect but not fully, there are are place for both at the same time.

>>16131169

I'd say there's quite a distinction between a drop in quality and games so bad they practically become the main event.

>>16130816

>by ear alone one might find it difficult to even tell when he stops speaking one language and starts speaking another

Bullshit, even if he hadn't told us the language it was easy enough to recognize the difference between French and Spanish as well as Portuguese and Italian. Admittedly it was difficult to tell Spanish and Portuguese apart, but that makes sense since even though their meanings are different they use a lot of the same words.

The use of different conjunctions and prepositions help give it away, but the accent is almost a part of the language and it usually gives it away immediately.

Anyway the reason nobody likes Spanish is because of its bastardization by Central and South America.

>>16131318

The best part is the OK button. It just seems so demoralized.

>>16130891

Probably because they dumped like 100+ million into its marketing budget. At that point you need to make Fortnite bucks to even justify continuing the franchise from a business standpoint.

>>16131501

The fuck is wrong with you

>>16130258

Who is this semen demon?

>>16131522

I pre ordered Metro Exodus than they went to Epic so i changed it to the anthem pre order of equal value.

With metro i was paying an extra 40 bucks for a fucking compass with no game logo or anything on it. Looks like it was from a fucking store.

I want to support them in hopes it will be a nail in the coffin of Bungie and destiny 2 tbqh

>>16131563

That didn't answer the question, you mouth breathing retard.

>>16131563

>I want to support them in hopes it will be a nail in the coffin of Bungie and destiny 2 tbqh

YOU ARE THE DUMBEST MONKEY NIGGER ON THIS BOARD

>>16131568

Ive been tested multiple times. Docs found nothing retarded with me

>>16131575

see

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>>16131577

Doctors fuck up sometimes, you are the fucking proof.

>>16131563

If you had spent that money to buy specialty order Brazilian scat videos that would be a less disgusting use of your money.

>>16131589

Is it wrong for me to wish bungie to go under? With anthems release it will splinter what little cash flow bungie has left from destiny 2 and 1. Destiny 2 isnt making much money anymore and will make even less after the release.

And since activision pulled out of bungies corpse as a publisher they are even more so with less money than before anthem.

Anthem will flop, i have no doubts about it. But being able to bring bungie down as Bioware rears its head one last time before EA euthanizes it will bring me a lot of pleasure

>>16131623

>Hurr durr I am gonna give money to EA to make sure to harm budgie, instead of not giving anyone my fucking cash like a smart person.

Fuck off to reddit, they seem to be more your speed.

>>16129898

For how cucked Gearbox is, they at least understand single player and how to make a decent loot system.

Everyone else fails in that they just have a select few guns, and everything else is handled through stats with no variation on how a gun looks. Borderlands at least cobbles together guns from different parts that confer different advantages/disadvantages,then slaps on the manufacture's style over it.

And one more thing specific to Destiny. At least Borderlands has action skills directly related to shooting things.

>mfw looking at Destiny 2's skills

>it's all just various melee options

at least the game is fun to watch people rage at with all of the bugs and CTD's.

>>16131639

This way i can feel good about it when they both tank though. If i dont give them any money than i would have not contributed to their demises

>>16131635

that would only kill 10 maybe 15. This way all the cucks at bioware that will now have to find new jobs will go broke and even possibly homeless or starve. Same with bungie

>>16131501

HIV isn't necessarily the end of your life. AIDS is unpredictable, for many people it doesn't come for decades, and even if it does with proper life management you might still have a long and happy time on earth. A diagnosis isn't a death sentence.

>>16131623

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>>16131501

Is your enter key stuck or something fag?

>>16131501

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>>16131657

Hello reddit

>>16131672

It's like hyper-reddit spacing

>>16131673

>quoting an (((adam sandler))) film

>>16131684

To be honest, it was the best I could fit for this shit, granted I have been awake for the past 28 hours, so there is that.

>>16131692

it got a giggle out of me

>>16131693

it would take less effort to just not press enter nine times

>>16129959

>It failed to pull Warframes's pre-potato style of lore.

The bait-and-switch still hurts.

a fucking shame that Apex Legends has negated all the losses made by Bioware and Dice over the last few years, if it wasn't for that EA might of had to sell some shit

>>16130008

Apex is only needed until the next financial report they make to the shareholders. Then they have to come up with something else, or anticipate the drop in their stocks and use it to their advantage. They are kikes first after all.

whatever content is there is just shallow waste of time, literally, theres no motivation to anything, oh all of sudden Dominion is here shoot these guise!, what? why? its over and nobody remembers why it happened,

enemies dont even talk back and its over quick unless it makes you grind for no good reason

Destiny atleast has some long missions

theres nothing here, strongholds are just for clearing and pointless puzzles, "raids" are just strikes

>>16131771

And by the way, where the fuck did that game come from? Last month I'd never heard of it then all of a sudden "IT'S TITANFALL 2.5! BUT NOT REALLY! BUT EVERYONE LOVES IT!"

>>16131948

It's a battle royale game backed by a huge publisher that released like two weeks ago. What's the mystery?

>>16131948

Not every game is announced at E3 and marketed to hell and back.

people are to busy having free "fun" with apex legends

Did it really? Yay! Hopefully (((Bioware))) gets shutdown.

>Shit thread with no content about a shit game

>Still gets 100+ replies

THANKS MARK

>>16132092

>expecting /v/ to not discuss shitty games they hate

>>16132124

"/v/"

Yea, sure.

Here's the ending with the final boss fight.

>>16129403

>Andromeda

>Implying Mass Effect 1 wasn't total shit

It was ok but it wasn't good, 2 was total trash and I didn't touch 'andromeda' with a 10 ft pole

>>16132291

Could someone give a tl;dw?

>>16129737

/pol/ comments on language

>Illa terra est bella. L

<1488 Aryan tongue of the Gods. Actually a Nordic language.

>La tierra es bella. S

<Goblinspeak disgusting filthy gibberish.

>>16130816

This guy isn't a native speaker. Portuguese actually sounds completely different than that. Believe it or not, it sounds more like Russian/Polish than a Romance language.

>>16132562

for a slav portuguese sounds more like some arab speak

t slav

>>16130986

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>>16130958

That was Nokia. Some fucker left Microsoft, became CEO of Nokia, axed all of their in-house OS-es (like MeeGo, which was praised by pretty much everyone who used it), signed a deal with Microsoft to release only Windows-mobile smartphones, drained the company well enough, then sold the mobile division to Microsoft and then went back to work for them.

It really confuses me, how industries that become popularized grow to lose the things that made them popular in the first place. What is it with Corporations shifting from serving a customer, or following the ideas of a person that is intune with what potential customers want, to serving investors and doing everything that an investor wants? Are their memories really so short that they forget what led to their success in the first place? For real, it's so mind blowing. You build up and create and make things because you think they're cool, and then you listen to this person, who came to you because they have no idea how to create, they give you boat loads of cash, and you sit, and listen, and execute their bad ideas and weak corporate schemes. Why would anyone ever listen to an investor? If their ideas were really so good, they'd have made the product themselves. What the fuck are these people doing listening to people who have no idea about anything that they're funding.

>>16132661

Suits in corporations meet investors much more often than they meet customers.

>>16132590

>for a slav portuguese sounds more like some arab speak

Because Portuguese and Spaniards are Moors.

>>16132668

Claptrap isn't likable in BL1 but in BL2 I want to rape him to submission he's so fucking annoying.

>>16132543

teraformers from long ago are busted and make monsters.

in tutorial you go into one with the aid of cripple Maori and magic nig lady but everybody else dies and you can't close the breach (because these are really just that mechanic from Dragon age inq.)

two years later you grind missions for 10 hours and get a mcguffin to go back and close it yourself. I guess it wasn't all that dangerous after all since it was left alone for two years.

last boss fight is some dude who jumped into the thing and turned into a monster ghost guy who you shoot for 15 minutes while jumping over his electric wave when magic nig lady tells you to jump over it in case you can't see half the screen fill with lightning.

ending is yay diversity wins then a quick throwaway scene where you find out in the dlc you will fight blue versions of tart gilled assassin dude from mass effect.

Torturing myself watching the most generic and boring fucking story imaginable.

Didn't think this was possible but they don't have a stats page. Sure you can compare equipment with one another but you can't compare how overall it improves your character. You just have to trust those percentages are doing what they do. Also, again, they will put it into the release day patch like everything else.

>>16132397

>Implying Mass Effect 1 wasn't total shit

>It was ok

Pushing hyperbolic negativity into everything doesn't showcase your epic grasp of /v/ culture, anon, it just makes the whole board more retarded than it already was.

>>16133727

He says as he gets personally offended over someone indirectly challenging his shit taste and thinking sage is a downvote.

>>16133688

Luciano comes to mind

Pretty sure it’s a bad sign when they start rolling out more cinematic game trailers than gameplay

>>16132397

For the time (early 2000s), ME1 was a pretty good game. People tend to forget that it was supposed to be closer to Star Trek with cardboard sets and rubber-masked ayys than some grand space opera that nu-Bioware pretended it to be.

ME2 was good at parts but painfully rushed. Keep in mind that the ME2 dev time is also when EA bought Bioware and began to pump in their cancer.

>>16132661

> What is it with Corporations shifting from serving a customer, or following the ideas of a person

It's not the corporation shifting, it's the company. Once you go public, you serve the investors.

>>16134191

Yeah, that one. I wanna swallow it whole.

>>16132668

>not destiny after TTK

>not division 1 after they fixed shit for free

>>16131958

didn't they even say they did it on purpose since any other way would have them earn shit repeatedly till launch and the game having bad rep before anyone played it?

>>16132668

Borderlands 2 becomes infinitely more enjoyable once you put the volume down to 0%.

>>16134191

Looks like a slut.

>>16136241

That bait is getting stale, faggot.

>>16136300

I mean, when you think about it:

>FPS, so ideal for short attention span

>RNG up the wazoo, so skill matters little. Everything from weapon placement to health kits is effectively randomised for every game

>lets people do that "OMG DID YOU SEE ME HEADSHOT THAT NIGGER?" shit every once awhile due to aforementioned RNG

>no team, so you can blame everyone and everything and feel good about it

>>16136300

You're playing something against 20, 30, 50(? I don't actually know the playercounts) players in a wide open deathmatch where weapons are randomized. It's absurdly low stakes and low skill so it allows for any faggot to run around like a headless chicken and still have fun, and gives an incentive to the turboautists and streamers to strive for a win so that they can claim skill.

I actually wouldn't mind the premise if it had some interesting gameplay like neat movement abilities.

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>>16129714

>You have to grind through dialogue.

It's just like my Japanese porn games!

>>16136315

>like neat movement abilities

Can't have that goy. We'll also remove big stomping mecha as well, wouldn't want you to have fun, now would we?

Now enjoy our multicultural cast of ugly creatures.

>>16129362

>why is nobody talking about it

even the normalfags i work with have expressed zero interest in it, and every last one stated that it's because battlefield 5 either insulted them directly with their truly god-awful prerelease marketing or because they're still mad about battlefront 2. personally i think it's just because anthem is very clearly bioware's apology to EA; it's shallow, uninteresting and "safe" in that it's not really pushing the SJW envelope like they usually do and it's a very safe setting where the player can pretend they're iron man or whatever. people, even the retards who normally eat up the EA flavor AAA garbage, are starting to realize that their games are boring and bad and they can get the exact same amount of entertainment out of other games.

>>16129791

i also believe it has a lot to do with this. a completely free game is the biggest thing in the world right now, and another completely free game is a close second. i think people are beginning to realize that instead of just shoveling whatever shit falls out of a AAA studio's asshole into their mouth without question they have options and can choose to spend their money elsewhere, or not at all

>>16133988

It looked like ass and played like shit. By 2007 a shitload of third-person shooter had been released already, so there's no excuse why the controls are so clunky and the gameplay so stiff.

There's no fucking reason why there's no ship-to-ship battles, or why all textures are muddy feces and everyone looks like they're covered in vaseline. I actually tried to play the game upon release and remember feeling nauseous at how ugly everything looked and just how slowly it played.

Much like with battle royale, I will never understand why so many people still pretend ME did anything particularly well.

>>16136367

>with their truly god-awful prerelease marketing

Which I find very fascinating. I mean, BFV wasn't any more pozzed than what they see on TV regularly or most other games, so why exactly did normalfags find it so grating?

>bioware's apology to EA

If nothing else it just feels like something EA ordered BioWare to make during the height of the Destiny craze, only for them to realize they had made a huge mistake when Destiny exploded in Activision's face. And yes, it's a boring piece of shit that does nothing new, the whole "Iron Man" gimmick is underutilized and they did a bad job of hiding it, plus people had their fill of the gameplay with the two Destiny dumpster fires.

>it's not really pushing the SJW envelope

Considering it's another "the whole cast is mystery meat" shitshow I'd say it does, it's just that people have become so used to it they barely notice it anymore.

>>16136386

Replaying KotOR, even that wasn't very good

>AI is beyond horrible, at the start of combat it will randomly, stand there dumbfounded for a turn, aggro distant enemies or fill their action queue with random crap

>voice acting has no direction and will rapidly change emotions per sentence and no consistency in pronunciation

>to the point even Malak's own minions aren't sure if his name is based on malice or moloch

>and a large chunk (especially on Taris) of the NPCs have hilarious fake accents for no reason but to sterotype them

>right next to characters talking about how racism is wrong

>serious imbalance between Jedi and non-Jedi

>loads of dialog options that don't actually do anything

>>16136406

And the story was pure fanfiction tier, where the player is stuck playing as the faggot writer's snowflake Mary Sue. Seriously, Revan is such a fucked up character:

>Sith but totally not evil and consumed by the Dark Side

>all the evil things he did were part of his cunning plan to save the galaxy

>most powerful force user around

>charismatic leader and orator

>superb general

>peerless fighter

>master engineer

>everyone he meets likes him

To say nothing about BioWare pulling a Disney on Star Wars before Disney did it, and by that I mean how they took all the iconic stuff from Star Wars (Star Destroyers, Millennium Falcon, Stormtroopers, droid duo, etc.) and made cheap knock-offs out of them because "that's Star Wars" to the hamster brains behind this project. It was also a massive step back in terms of gameplay compared to Baldur's Gate and other IW games. The interface is shit, the game is clearly designed around a gamepad, getting a good overview of the battlefield is nearly impossible because the camera sticks so close to your party members and the combat lacks good feedback.

>>16136442

What I found most insulting about KotOR's writing was the plot being about an extinct race of aliens that built a superweapon that the villain plans to use, and the plot is just finding pieces of a map to this superweapon conveniently placed around the places you happen to land when you visit each of the planets. The only part of the entire game that was remotely inspired was the okay Revan plot twist, but they didn't really do much with it or go into the implications. Why isn't this technique the default way to treat criminals? How is this not a common thing in the SW universe?

>>16136454

Proplem whit plot twist was that, jedi should have created fake memories/background for revan. Make it so that player characters has something going but maybe make it so that he was injured so thats why hes hazy. That way plot twist is even more effective and make jedi's little bit more desperate to take things so far.

You could have campfire moments whit carth about mandalorian war and how disappointment they were when whole thing went hell.

If they ever make motor film that how it should be handled.

>>16136454

>Why isn't this technique the default way to treat criminals? How is this not a common thing in the SW universe?

I imagine because it's a difficult thing to do. Then again, this begs the question, why exactly are the Jedi leaving a very dangerous, very powerful Sith Lord alive? It's obvious they lack the means to contain him, so why not kill him outright?

Hell, why is he even a grunt in the army of the Republic? Why didn't they just put him on some backwater planet to plow a field, while surrounded by Jedi agents to make sure he doesn't do anything fishy?

>>16136472

The biggest issue for me is how everyone is okay with it once it's revealed who the PC is. This is a guy that has committed plenty of war crimes himself, either directly or his underlings did, I would expect somewhat more hostile reactions.

>>16136522

Except BioWare were the ones that came up with the Old Republic and the shit in it, so being a fanboy cocksucker trying to defend their creative bankruptcy won't work.

>>16136259

>biggest new ip launch fucking ever

>ongoing support for 2 years literally fixing everything for free getting a lot of goodwill back

>company in general not raping your ass with microtransactions or pump&dump games

>people buying division 1 on sale in preparation for 2

<IT'S TOTALLY GONNA FLOP GUYZ XD

>>16136293

>>16136430

don't forget bf5's battle royale is supposed to come out next month or sth, and that game is already considered a flop (at 7 million sales), EA must have been pretty desperate shitting on both bioware and dice this way. but then they kept them around long enough while they got more and more retarded, dice going off the deep end with bf5 probably didn't make them any friends.

>>16136454

>finding pieces of a map to this superweapon conveniently placed around the places you happen to land when you visit each of the planets

that's just for plot convenience, do you want to play or watch a story about a guy meticulously collecting scraps over fucking decades to find a macguffin just because it would be more realistic? and even if they go this way they'd do it in a montage or exposition dump. no one likes watching some dude sit in a library going through books for hours, so it doesn't really matter anyway.

that's the same as complaining about map design not being realistic (something I notice far more often, like how did they fit all those crates through the door or who kept those torches burning?). sure, it's silly but there's a reason for it.

>>16136548

>biggest new ip launch fucking ever

It's still a shit game shat out by the ZOG propaganda machine.

>do you want to play or watch a story about a guy meticulously collecting scraps over fucking decades to find a macguffin just because it would be more realistic?

I'd want a story that wasn't a glorified treasure hunt, or at least did a better job of hiding it. The plot of KOTOR is barebones and about as basic as it gets for a story. The only "novel" idea was the Revan twist.

>>16136561

>shat out by the ZOG propaganda machine.

>nigger kill simulator

?

>I'd want a story that wasn't a glorified treasure hunt, or at least did a better job of hiding it.

almost all rpgs are glorified treasure hunts for a macguffin. "we need X to defeat the big bad", plus it's star wars, I don't think people expected high literature. might not be a good game but it's not a bad game either, nostalgia did the rest (and some of them were probably glad it wasn't about another skywalker with dealing with the empire)

>>16136565

>so the clunkyness could easily be excused

No, it can't, and especially because it's a TPS. Stiff animations and controls are far more noticeable in a TPS than in an RPG or FPS game. Considering Gears of War had come a year before there's really no reason why ME keeps playing like shit. It's not like TPS games are a new invention, BioWare wasn't tasked with reinventing the wheel, just to copy other successful games in the genre and they couldn't even do that without fucking it up.

>it's an rpg first with very good world building

It's about as generic as sci-fi gets. Any schmuck that watched an episode of Stark Trek would know what it was about. I'm not trying to be demeaning, but I genuinely don't get what's so captivating about the setting. Any modicum of exposure to science fiction made in the past 30 years would make it all look predictably cliche.

>and a good amount of potential both in the setting and gameplay

We already established the gameplay was shit, both as an RPG and a TPS. As for the story "potential", you're the chosen one that has to fight an ancient evil, just like in every other BioWare game.

Hell, Baldur's Gate had a more interesting premise than that, since at least the story wasn't about saving the world but murdering your siblings until you sit on your father's throne, and even then they failed to execute the idea well.

>that being said, bioware was never that good in combat design or getting the best out of the engines they used

That's not an excuse. If a bunch of Slavs with potato powered PCs can shit out a better looking game then there's really no reason why BioWare so consistently drops the ball. I mean, their art and music department are pretty competent, as is whoever directs their VA, it's when they need to model/animate/design gameplay that it all goes to shit.

>>16136572

>almost all rpgs are glorified treasure hunts for a macguffin

But they do a better job of hiding it. KOTOR was so in your face that it outright said you need to go around collecting map pieces to get to the McGuffin. Hell, that's another "Disney before Disney" moment right there, only that it's not Luke they're after.

>I don't think people expected high literature

And then KOTOR 2 came out. Also, there have been quite a few Star Wars stories that tried a little bit harder to mix things up a bit. The setting of TOR is as generic as Star Wars gets. There's pretty much nothing unique about it despite being set 4000 years in the past and BioWare having nearly absolute creative freedom.

>it wasn't about another skywalker with dealing with the empire

Instead it was Edgelord Stu dealing with the Not-Empire.

>>16136482

The Jedi were to faggoty to stop Malak, especially after Revan had done half the work for him weakening the Republic.

The wanted to mindwipe Revan probably knowing and planning for the fact that he would feel the force again, since they couldn't or didn't cut him off from it.

They wanted Ravan to fight for the Republic and the Jedi to destroy Malak.

>>16136653

Why not just hire the dude that did the Iron Man designs for the movies? I mean, that's the look they were going for, might as well hire someone competent to do it.

>>16136594

>Considering Gears of War had come a year before there's really no reason why ME keeps playing like shit.

again, different genre, bad developer. gears is pure tps, me is an rpg with tps combat. could it be better? definitely. was it the main focus? no.

> Any schmuck that watched an episode of Stark Trek would know what it was about.

and most schmucks didn't so it was all fairly new and exciting. it doesn't need to try to re-invent the wheel and there was still plenty of mystery and options of how it could go. also space opera rpg, doesn't matter how much scifi there is around in other genres or mediums.

>We already established the gameplay was shit, both as an RPG and a TPS. As for the story "potential", you're the chosen one that has to fight an ancient evil, just like in every other BioWare game.

and it's still about the sum of it's parts, on each own it's easy to shit on almost any game. gears has convenient chest-high walls everywhere, is linear as fuck, stereotypical characters, literally being brown&grey etc.

same for chosen one and ancient evil, it's neither good or bad, plenty of stories did it better or worse, just doing it doesn't make it bad.

>That's not an excuse. If a bunch of Slavs with potato powered PCs can shit out a better looking game then there's really no reason why BioWare so consistently drops the ball.

you can't really compare slav magic to leafcucks, but then people don't expect good gameplay and good stories from bioware. it's the same as capeshit, would never win an oscar (oh wait…), but plenty of people enjoy it and pay money for it as a whole.

I mean I get the same with stalker or gothic, plenty of fans and I think I get why people like it so much, but never could get into it myself.

>kotor

haven't played in ages (and played it the first time years later actually) but don't remember it being offensively worse (or better really) than other games. collecting shit was normal even then, as part of the story or otherwise.

being bland is also ok for a first entry. it had enough star wars in it to still be star wars without feeling like a rehash (same way people felt about TFA for some reason which fucking sucked). new IP is always risky so playing it safe is pretty common, but still had more jedis people always dig, chicks to romance and mandalorians being new (most people only watch the movies, just the way it is) and not be another "underdog rebels vs almighty empire", especially as an RPG, and that's probably why people remember it so fondly, not for being a good star wars story or rpg, but being a star wars rpg with a "new" setting and characters

same with the protagonist and villain being just different enough that it's not too obvious for most people, but those are pretty common traits anyway so what options were there?

>>16136293

>Titanfall 2 got cucked by EA by being released inbetween CoD and the new BF so less people would buy it

>Now Respawn is returning the favor

The starforge is literally how politicians think 3d gun printing works just an infinite Lazer gun machine

>>16136675

>>16136676

Zampella wanted TF2 to be released around the same time as the new CoD (as a "fuck you" to Activision). It could've worked if DICE didn't push the release date of Battlefield 1 back to the same launch week.

>>16129403

>>16129737

I can sub this shit if you want

>>16136676

>thinks devs actually have the right to talk officially on major platforms

wow

>>16132729

Those fucking retarded writers (probably Burch) honestly thought that if they acknowledge the fact that the robot is annoying he all of a sudden stops being annoying and they magically become good at their job.

>>16132543

>45 second loading screen

>cuck with a shitty voice filter gives you Encouragement™

>fly through a giant empty corridor like the Krogan places in ME2

>shoot enemies from outside their ranges in this giant empty environment

>find a big room with a stone giant who stomps on the ground and makes you jump over the shockwave like he's a boss from a bad PS2 platformer

>you can just over over everything while picking away at his giant health bar

>encounter level design which features things such as "no-flight zones," although the wizard class can still hover because it doesn't count as flight lol

At this point, you literally repeat one of the generic "hold out until you collect 10 mini-mcguffins" missions which have comprised most of the game's grindy gameplay cycle. I wish I was joking, but it's the same 3D models, same terminology, same pace.

>fight some epic enemies, including

<BRUTES

<FURIES

<or both at the same time

>see a brief, terrible cutscene which contains more jargon than a Microsoft Excel handbook

>aw yeah, fellow gamers, now it's time to fight THE MONITOR

<he's a giant that stands around and sponges bullets

<this continues for about 10 minutes

>another shitty cutscene where your happa friend crushes THE MONITOR with his spaceship

>magical negress puts her hands on a glowing sphere and lets the player character pull a magic plug from an outlet

>you did it, you beat da game :D

>now collect further loot and replay all those missions over again

>>16132661

Once your product is good enough, the developers making it are no longer responsible for growth and profit. At that point, marketers and suits are responsible for growth, and they have no idea why products sell in the first place. Embed related (don't have the webm on this computer, sorry).

>>16137000

>pic 1

Neat; I didn't have that one saved yet.

>>16137182

Burch is just a cuck brainwashed by Marxism like all the rest, but he's in a uniquely visible posibition. Remember the "memelands 2: meme lands" dialogue? Remember him bragging about making his writing worse so he could have more representation/stereotypes?

>>16132661

>>16134088

This is why you don't go public.

>>16137354

Which is weird because the games Apex is based on don't have the same art direction.

>>16137364

It's the same corporate approved artistic design shit to attract all manner of shitskins and chinks

It's why they all look the same and are as inspired as flour.

Globalism is a disease

>>16137561

I thought that's what the game was going to be? Weird.

>>16137625

Isn't that dude going to prison for like 50 years?

>>16137625

I get really sad for people who tattoo their face.

>>16137636

Yes.

>>16137647

You mean the ones getting the tattoo or the ones giving?

>>16134173

D-d-demo sempai?!

>>16137625

Didn't that faggot die? Or was it the other retarded zoomer mumble rapper?

>>16137821

he went to jail for molesting a 14 year old

>zoomer

You're as big of an underage and literal nigger as he is

>>>/cuckchan/

>>16137734

getting.

>>16137797

>>16137840

When this much marketing is involved, a red flag instantly pops in my head and I only have to conclude that it's a massive compensation for lacking quality. Also, people should stop falling for the marketing meme, giving them an insanely inflated budget harms everything. I know I speak of an ideal world where the upper echelons of publishers wake up and stop listening to those retards who contribute nothing to the development process, but a man can dream.

>>16137821

>zoomer

Kill yourself faggot.

>>16137903

>it's a massive compensation for lacking quality

It is, game is Destiny clone, is full of bus and has no content

>>16137354

>>16137375

the funny thing is the ugly "women" are backfiring on them. i watch some normalfag streams on twitch and even those fags are questioning why women in games from the west look like dogshit. RE2 was a slap in the face for a lot of normalfags regarding character design and started waking them up.

>>16137962

>MK10

*MK11

>>16137962

> Angela Anaconda.

Jesus fuck didn't think I'd meet a maplefag who remembers this fucking show.

>>16137962

>Every mouth breathing retard is hyping up MK10

no one is

>>16137962

Canadian television was fucking weird in the 90s and early 00s.

>>16137971

>Maplefag

This cancer was broadcasted in a shitton of countries including my Yuropean one.

It was my first taste of your country and I already hated you leaffaggots by then.

>>16137986

Plenty of weird shit at the time for every age group.

Now msot shit on both TV and the internet is by the numbers mediocrity

>>16137971

krautcucks got it, too

t-thanks for your stellar exports, canada ;_;

>>16138004

>krauts

Nigger half of Europe had put up with that trash thanks to faggot CN executives

>>16137625

>retarded

literally, I remember reading that his IQ is barely 60

>>16138036

Well they only have to repeat the lines their producers give them. Even better to pick a retard and take all his money too.

>>16138036

Only high IQ people listen to this masterpiece

>>16137962

Is this a manifestation of the anglo's resentment of the quebecois?

>>16137962

Holy shit I remember this show

>>16130926

You aren't wrong in general, but Apex is free, so the barrier to entry was low like with Fortnite.

>>16138214

I'm not a fucking leaf

Now post some more of that artist, his lines, coloring and shading are top tier

I don't have any friends that play games and even I heard of it outside of the internet. And it isn't even out yet. And I don't even live in a first world country obsessed with gaming and luxuries.

So it's probably not going to flop.

>>16138233

>image

A fan of my garbage art, I see?

Looks like you can just glitch the game by going ahead of when your designated to go. Happened during the "Ursix, Your Six" (not its real name but the line you'll remember it for) mission. If you fly ahead of the part where Faye hasn't done analyzing after discovering the dax camp, the mission stops working and you have to quit out. Not even manual respawn will help. You would think they would test that but I guess that'll be fixed in the release day patch.

>>16138303

Post more

>>16138358

Many thanks

That Nokia one is really cute

>>16138429

Did he died?

>>16138488

Not from that encounter, no. The nigger was actually very civilized about it.

>>16138604

>The nigger was actually very civilized about it.

Source?

>>16137842

>>16137907

Sorry word police, but people have been spouting that word here for awhile. My bad that I didn't realize it's a cuckchan term, because I was never an actual fucking user. I've been browsing 8chan since its inception.

What would you like to me say? Generation Zyklon?

At least we get to see if there are enough dyke couples that adopt boys to force them to transition that actually play games to prevent a gayme from biogayware from flopping

>>16139105

>I've been browsing 8chan since its inception.

Nu/pol/ might as well be an offshoot of cuck/pol/, even /tv/ makes them look good

>>16139296

I think it's because burger cartoons were more expensive to syndicate outside the US or something

>>16138214

>>16138225

IIRC the artist is Conoghi.

>>16139296

Likely had something to do with the inherent weirdness of Canadian animation (NFB of Canada short films are notorious for being trips, in particular) combined with broadcasters being forced to reserve a certain amount of Canadian content, which varied from medium to medium. There are many Canadian animations which didn't need to appeal to the mainstream in order to be seen/profitable.

>>16139409

Between the betas of DIV2 and Anthem, DIV2 at least showed to work and not be that fucking broken.

<LOL GOY JUST GIVE MORE SHEKELS

Fuck this bullshit

EA had so little faith in Anthem they release Apex just before and made sure Anthem would fly under the radar of normalfags.

>>16139464

> Anthem would fly under the radar of normalfags

Thanks Carlos

>>16138214

fuck i miss that show. ruby gloom top waifu

>>16139409

>do you guys not have SSDs?

I love when these people betray out how totally out of touch they are.

>>16139670

>majority of players play on console where SSDs do fuck all

it's like they're retarded on purpose.

also the issue aren't long-ass loading screen to cut short but loading screens fucking EVERYWHERE. shaving off 1s of loading screens you have every 30s whatever you do means fuck all for the flow of the game.

>>16139409

also

<I moved my Anthem installation to my computer's Windows drive, which is an SSD. The process took maybe 10 minutes; I had to change Origin's install destination to that drive, and then I was able to right-click Anthem inside the Origin client and move it. Simple.

>not just making a fucking symlink

Is NIIIGAAAH still a thing?

>>16137087

<devs are never active on reddit or their own fucking forum

<literally hundreds of caps around with devs going full retard on twatter/neofag/retardera

first day on the internet?

>>16136761

cod is still a more direct competition, especially IW. battlefield (even the niggered "cod with vehicles" version it has become) only has some overlap with the cod crowd, especially with the ww1 setting

besides, respawn being on a cocktail of meds for the whole duration of tf2 development (can't explain the staggering amount of retardation otherwise), they didn't really need ea to fuck up the game.

>>16139804

>much worse on consoles

Excellent point, anon; hadn't even thought of that. Yeah, aren't most of those HDDs platter-style to save on cost?

They're talking an already middling experience and making it absolutely awful. Too funny.

>>16138642

>>16139160

Kevin Spencer.

>>16131318

>>16131232

>teh Shepard is legend go buy DLC LOL

I'm still mad.

>>16139976

>Cut down Battlefield

Where did my 2 go?

>>16136676

people don't want to accept that Respawn themselves are fucking retarded independent of EA.

>>16137952

>the funny thing is the ugly "women" are backfiring on them.

Not for MK11. There's a huge defense force for it on Twitter right now and anyone who complains about Jade's design for instance get's ratio'd to death.

You give normalfags too much credit. They eat this shit up and don't think for themselves.

>>16139880

>aren't most of those HDDs platter-style to save on cost?

well, sony put HGST in the pros, those aren't cheap. the bigger problem is that consoles (or at least playstations) simple can't utilize a ssd. the only benefit on ps3 was in gran turismo, and only because the devs for some reason decided to have the game use thousands of small files instead of a large resource files you can stream. for anything else it was a low single digit improvement.

ps4 pro (can't remember about slim) fares a bit better, iirc it was a 10-25% increase depending on the game, but still far from the ~50% gain on pc, so not really worth it, although ssd prices fell drastically lately.

no idea about xbone, never looked into it.

all in all I don't remember the beta on ps4pro being that bad, the frequency of loading screens was far far worse than the duration. loading into a map 20-30s longer and then play for 30 minutes is nothing compared to the constant loading screens when you just want to check your fucking loot in a looter shooter. also that fucking slow walking every fucking time for marvel-tier dialogs.

it's just shit design, a ssd can't really fix that.

>>16137636

>>16137719

Actually he's going free for ratting out other niggers in the whole ordeal and seems to be under witness protection so I would assume will be wacked soon.

>>16140231

>it's shit design

Funny thing is anon, is that Bioware probably arrived at the loading issue after exhausting every other possibility.

Aside from Duke Nukem Forever, what other games were infamous for long load times?

>>16140319

Let's hope he ends up dead.

>>16140332

dunno, bioware was always mediocre when it came to utilizing the engines they used, and frostbite seems to be quite capable when used properly. apparently the loading screens in a mission are on purpose so you always stick close to your team, which would be ok if those would be the only ones. also the UI while fancy just seems slow and convoluted, kinda felt off when navigating it.

not gonna lie, if I see it for 10-15 bucks still gonna pick it up just to tide me over till div2, morbid curiosity how bad it really is and I actually liked the dynamic of the ranger combat

>>16140564

Anthem uses Frostbite and it's still a big pile of shit? Tells me that Bioware didn't learn fucking anything working on Andromeda since it also used Frostbite. Maybe they just can't find programmers who don't suck shit and also want to live in Edmonton.

>Anthem for $10-15 before early March

Not going to happen unless the game somehow manages to crater worse than Andromeda. Honestly, I think it will have an even worse fate and simply under-perform and then fade into obscurity while not being noteworthy in any respect. Then, after the dust settles in the wake of Div2, APEX, and Fortnite, you could see some price cuts here. And then you can look forward to playing it with three other people since no one else will be in the game.

>>16140603

>and also want to live in Edmonton

i have a couple of friends there and apparently this is an actual, real problem for the city: it sucks so fucking much that all of the skilled workforce goes to places that are either warmer or less hostile. i can't say for sure, but personally i've passed through it a grand total of three times and every single time i've wondered "who in their right mind would choose this shithole". the weather is brutal, the people are downright hostile, the drivers are retarded and the cost of living is pretty high since the only remaining workforce are rig pigs who have more money than sense

>>16140317

>not beating your wife or daughter blind when they tell you they want to become writers

There's your problem.

>>16136482

>Hell, why is he even a grunt in the army of the Republic? Why didn't they just put him on some backwater planet to plow a field, while surrounded by Jedi agents to make sure he doesn't do anything fishy?

He wasn't. Trask Ulgo (Tutorial dude) mentions he's part of Bastila's personal guard as literally the first line in the game.

I get the impression the original plan was to have him spend time with Bastila and have her probe his mind (in one way or another) to find out how to stop the Sith. The attack on the Endar Spire threw a hydrospanner in that plan and the council just rolled with it when they started sharing dreams and found the map on Dantooine.

>>16140622

Are there any old BioWare devs left, though? I was under the impression that since Gayder left none of the "old" guard work there.

It's not like they were any better since they were the chimps that gave us Dragon Age 2, and KOTOR 1 before that.

>>16140332

>Aside from Duke Nukem Forever, what other games were infamous for long load times?

Sonic 06, though that may have been more for the sheer quantity of them.

>>16140631

I'm sure there are a few, but the new blood (read: pozz) probably outnumbers them. A lot jumped ship when EA took over. The smart ones. They've been getting by on name, just like Blizzard or Bungie. What is it with companies that start with B? Are they cursed?

>>16140649

They were both multitudinous and extremely long, yeah. Just how I like my tentacle hentai.

>>16140695

BioWare was always pozzed, though. I still remember when the Codex chased Gayder out with their mockery of Dragon Age.

>>16140801

>What were they thinking?

Alternating between 'We're so progressive. Look how forward-thinking we are.' and 'We'll show those goobergrabbers that minorities can succeed but only in fiction'

Surprised they haven't started a #everyonesanthem push yet, the cunts.

>>16140801

It's a BioWare game, what did you expect?

>>16136546

>Except BioWare were the ones that came up with the Old Republic and the shit in it.

No they didn't, Bastila is Vima Sunrider dixit Avellone himself, they couldn't re-use the name for legal issues but the most of the setting of KOTOR was written by Tom Veitch for Dark Horse Comics in the early 90's and Michael Allen Horne for the Star Wars RPG of the same time.

They're also the guys that wrote the Dark Empire thing from which A LOT of things is suspiciously similar to the new trilogy…

>>16140695

>>16140631

As far as I know only Mac Walters and Casey Hudson are still there. They're not true "Old Guard," though, and these days are universally despised by people outside the company. Casey Hudson left for a while after ME3 but they brought him back. Patrick Weeks isn't Old Guard either but he replaced Gaider when he left and is just as much of a cuck.

>>16129871

>>Server architecture is inept, always online game that drops connections constantly. Gets shitty reception

Not only that but it's 4 players max per server, even in the free roam mode.

>>16141501

Not even brazilians looks homogeneous due to different rates of mix, if there is a mix at all.

Still needs a huge historical-cultural-political context for this, instead of just "lol its all niggers and browns" like in Anthem's "diversity".

>>16141620

dude everybody should be shitskins lmao

so 4 player server with constant loading screens with horrible singleplayer story where there are no choices or consequences to your actions that leads nowhere but always online grind simulator, except loot is meaningless because guns are crap and feel crap, oh and you got to buy from ingame store to modify your suit

sounds like its set up to fail

>>16141370

I feel like I'm the only one who fucking hated these guys.

>>16129959

I honestly never got why Ditny got praised so much for it's lore. It's so boring otherwise.

>MUH LORE ANON, WHY DONT YOU PLAY IT FOR THE LORE

I legitimately hate this line of argument so much.

>>16141732

They really were unnecessarily shoved in your face for the better part of a decade.

>>16142300

I reported him twice. You even deleted the post where I told people to do likewise.

>>16142304

Are reports broken then? Either way this shit is fucking weird.

Well, that "day one" patch addresses most of the concerns as bugs go so those people who waited for 22nd will get a less buggy game than those who paid early. It'll still be a mediocre game at best. "Story" was written by the C or D team. The core function of flying is gimped by time available for flight and being an easy target in the air to hordes of enemies. Also, the diablo 3 health drops and borderlands 2 constantly in critical health makes sure your grounded to collect and grounded behind cover if you play on anything Hard and above. Only in a looter shooter, can you get loot to make you better but you still feel like your wearing a wet paperbag as armor. It's possible they can improve it in 6 months but the core functions of the game will be hard to fix.

Also, if there are still people talking about the game, does anyone know if that one NPC who talks about her pet or wanting to have a pet voiced by celeb. I could have sworn it sounded like Sarah Silverman or Kristen Schaal at a lower tone. I was leaning toward Sarah Silverman since they got Jack McBrayer and they did work together on the Wreck-It Ralph movies.

>>16129998

I get fatigued watching the gameplay.

>>16142335

>Sarah Silverman

Jesus motherfucking Christ, why

>>16142286

Yes, they were fucking everywhere.

>>16140332

Dragon Age Origins also suffered from long loading screens.

>>16144476

Baldur's Gate II was way better, though making Imoen a child of Bhaal was pretty fucking stupid. But at least they stopped requiring certain companion pairs so that you could actually spec out your party as you saw fit without having to waste character slots on someone's annoying bang-buddy.

TOB was complete trash though

>>16144476

>webm

Fuck damn it what the fuck. Didn't need that at 3:00 ma.

>>16136653

I like those sleek prosthetic legs.

>>16144127

I don't think any Bioware game has had reasonable load times.

>>16129366

Its worse destiny at least destiny is mmo halo with good shooting