That’s him trying to get in the top three on the training mission in titanfall 2.
Which is rough
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That tutorial level is so good
(I mean, he could also just watch one of the many incredible demonstrations uploaded on YouTube, at which point it simply becomes a test of mechanical execution
Getting that time on console is rough, you need really good dual stick movement to line up shots while keeping momentum
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Also, incredibly liberal use of grenades helps reduce some of the need for Quake-like precision aiming while movingand just makes targeting hidden enemies less of a pain
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Boy Jeff did a really good job steering me away from Anthem. I wasn't going to buy it now anyway, but damn. I basically blame EA, I'm sure they wanted this thing out the door as soon as possible, content be damned. And if they completely cannibalize BioWare as a result... well fuck them.
We've seen games like these make big turn arounds. The Division. Siege. It can be done with time and care, and BioWare has done it before with TOR. I think they can do it again, but EA doesn't seem to have that kind of patience anymore. I'd like Anthem to be good and successful, for the very simple reason that rooting for games to be bad is stupid, and the more good games, the better.
I am hoping we can say some really positive things about this game 6 months down the line.
I mean, the game isn’t without value and there’s definitely fun to be had if you appropriately set your expectations. Like launch Destiny and the Division, there are a lot of people having fun despite all of the structural issues that will hopefully be addressed over time.
Jeff gets a bit carried away sometimes in ways that remove any room for constructive conversation or opposing views. With the position he was taking here Jason was in a position where he almost came off as embarrassed to actually being enjoying the game. Jason was right that Jeff was being more than a little hyperbolic when he said that BioWare “utterly failed” on delivering on the iron man power fantasy. All I can think about when I’m playing is how awesome Anthem is at making me feel that way, utterly powerful, in ways that I almost feel like I must be playing a different game than he is.
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Everything Jeff said is on point, but I'm still nterested in Anthem
Something makes me wonder if EA is actually going to commit to long term support for this game if it doesn't do the business they need it to right out of the gate though
And that's the real issue -- Bioware had numerous examples of bungled launches for loot shooters to look at, and somehow, they appear to have taken precisely zero lessons from them. It makes me wonder if (much like their last two games) they were in another life-or-death struggle with the Frostbite engine again, and they were only really able to devote time to getting the moment-to-moment gameplay working and had to scrub a lot of their mission design and loot plans before launch
I mean when Jeff said he thought Destiny 1 at launch was a better game, that felt like a scathing indictment
The problems that Anthem has currently are also exacerbated by the way critics and reviewers tend to play and experience games these days. Episodic content tends to not fair as well since it’s harder for those groups to block off more time in the indeterminate future that could be devoted to other releases, and playing all of the content in one huge go usually makes the smaller bug/ inconveniences (like having 8 load screens to do basically anything) grate that much harder. I don’t think this will kill BioWare, but EA is definitely doing them dirty by releasing this the way they did.
I feel like I'm playing a completely different Anthem than Jeff. Yeah, the game has problems but it's also a lot of fun. Maybe once I complete the story and reach the gear grind I'll feel differently. For now though the $15 I spent for Origin Access feels like money well spent. I may find that after a month I've had my fill and can pick the game up at a discount come March when the first episode drops.
I wonder what class Jeff played. They all play very very differently and offer a lot of variety on how you approach encounters and use the powers. Good chance he played Ranger which is by far the least interesting class (pretty much generic shooty man with guns and grenades). As an Interceptor I rarely if ever use my guns. It's all about using my powers to creating explosions with primers and detonators and zipping all over the place melee attacking. It's incredibly fast paced and kinetic. As a Storm you raid down proverbial hellfire from above setting up primers for teammates or doing the nuking yourself. I have not had a chance to play Colossus yet but everything I've read sounds like it's great.
The Devs have been extremely open about the issues with the game, and honestly feel like they're dedicated to making things better as soon as possible. They're active on the Anthem Reddit and on other social media, and they seem to be taking to heart the complaints the community has.
I don’t think you get to keep playing the game after the early access period without paying for the full game. Could be wrong though.
Edit: Yeah after checking around, you basically paid $15 for a very-nearly-done beta/demo of Anthem. If you don’t pay $60 ($54? I think there is a 10% discount) for the full game, you’ll be locked out on Friday.
Jeff is definitely drawn more to the guns then the powers - possibly from not just finding powers that really felt fun or just because the dude likes guns - and the guns really aren't exciting - a little better once you get to masterworks but still not really - especially compared to other loot shooters - so I get where he is coming from.
And I mean he's right - you have a bunch of mobility powers compared to other loot shooters but most of the time using them doesn't actually empower your shooting or powers - it's just kinda fun - and that'll wear off eventually.
I don’t think you get to keep playing the game after the early access period without paying for the full game. Could be wrong though.
Edit: Yeah after checking around, you basically paid $15 for a very-nearly-done beta/demo of Anthem. If you don’t pay $60 ($54? I think there is a 10% discount) for the full game, you’ll be locked out on Friday.
That's not how it worked for any other EA game on Origin Access Premium? Like I can go play Battlefield V or Sims 4 or what have you right now AFAIK
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Even despite the trouble I’ve been having with Anthem, Jeff is just straight up exaggerating. He didn’t want to find anything redeemable in it, this isn’t super uncommon for him to do. I can’t help but compare his Anthem reaction to how much milder he is about Crackdown - which looks like a 25% finished first batch 360 game. Both games available through fifteen dollar subs, which in Crackdowns case was super mitigating but they didn’t say shit about wrt Anthem.
I don’t think you get to keep playing the game after the early access period without paying for the full game. Could be wrong though.
Edit: Yeah after checking around, you basically paid $15 for a very-nearly-done beta/demo of Anthem. If you don’t pay $60 ($54? I think there is a 10% discount) for the full game, you’ll be locked out on Friday.
That's not how it worked for any other EA game on Origin Access Premium? Like I can go play Battlefield V or Sims 4 or what have you right now AFAIK
Never mind my earlier comment, you’re right.
Fuck this naming convention though, or trying to search for info about it on a phone.
Even despite the trouble I’ve been having with Anthem, Jeff is just straight up exaggerating. He didn’t want to find anything redeemable in it, this isn’t super uncommon for him to do. I can’t help but compare his Anthem reaction to how much milder he is about Crackdown - which looks like a 25% finished first batch 360 game. Both games available through fifteen dollar subs, which in Crackdowns case was super mitigating but they didn’t say shit about wrt Anthem.
There are reasons for people to have game pass if they already own an Xbox outside of crackdown, this might be the first and only thing someone might be downloading origin for (it certainly was for me, and would be the only game I’d have on the launcher if not for Apex). Also, the access program for unlimited play doesn’t exist on the Xbox, and doesn’t exist at all on PlayStation.
Even despite the trouble I’ve been having with Anthem, Jeff is just straight up exaggerating. He didn’t want to find anything redeemable in it, this isn’t super uncommon for him to do. I can’t help but compare his Anthem reaction to how much milder he is about Crackdown - which looks like a 25% finished first batch 360 game. Both games available through fifteen dollar subs, which in Crackdowns case was super mitigating but they didn’t say shit about wrt Anthem.
Jeff called Crackdown 3 "mediocre" "boring" and "not good" and literally said if you already have gamepass then maybe check it out because it won't cost anything, but otherwise it's not even worth the $10 to subscribe to gamepass in the first place.
That's a terrible recommendation, no matter how you slice it.
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Even despite the trouble I’ve been having with Anthem, Jeff is just straight up exaggerating. He didn’t want to find anything redeemable in it, this isn’t super uncommon for him to do. I can’t help but compare his Anthem reaction to how much milder he is about Crackdown - which looks like a 25% finished first batch 360 game. Both games available through fifteen dollar subs, which in Crackdowns case was super mitigating but they didn’t say shit about wrt Anthem.
There are reasons for people to have game pass if they already own an Xbox outside of crackdown, this might be the first and only thing someone might be downloading origin for (it certainly was for me, and would be the only game I’d have on the launcher if not for Apex). Also, the access program for unlimited play doesn’t exist on the Xbox, and doesn’t exist at all on PlayStation.
The game being available for $15 is only on PC
Didn’t know it was only pc but it’s still available for 15 at any rate though. You’re mistaken in an earlier post btw - it doesn’t stop being playable through origin subscription on Friday. And while it doesn’t have the same library as gamepass there’s not zero reason to have EA access... they do have quite a few games.
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Even despite the trouble I’ve been having with Anthem, Jeff is just straight up exaggerating. He didn’t want to find anything redeemable in it, this isn’t super uncommon for him to do. I can’t help but compare his Anthem reaction to how much milder he is about Crackdown - which looks like a 25% finished first batch 360 game. Both games available through fifteen dollar subs, which in Crackdowns case was super mitigating but they didn’t say shit about wrt Anthem.
Jeff called Crackdown 3 "mediocre" "boring" and "not good" and literally said if you already have gamepass then maybe check it out because it won't cost anything, but otherwise it's not even worth the $10 to subscribe to gamepass in the first place.
That's a terrible recommendation, no matter how you slice it.
At least as far as the quick look goes he’s still saying I guess check it out if you have gamepass and I did like these things about it. Then for Anthem you can all but hear him boil and the vitriol is fully engaged from the start.
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He’s free to do whatever he wants but it’s getting kind of old to me.
Even despite the trouble I’ve been having with Anthem, Jeff is just straight up exaggerating. He didn’t want to find anything redeemable in it, this isn’t super uncommon for him to do. I can’t help but compare his Anthem reaction to how much milder he is about Crackdown - which looks like a 25% finished first batch 360 game. Both games available through fifteen dollar subs, which in Crackdowns case was super mitigating but they didn’t say shit about wrt Anthem.
There are reasons for people to have game pass if they already own an Xbox outside of crackdown, this might be the first and only thing someone might be downloading origin for (it certainly was for me, and would be the only game I’d have on the launcher if not for Apex). Also, the access program for unlimited play doesn’t exist on the Xbox, and doesn’t exist at all on PlayStation.
The game being available for $15 is only on PC
Didn’t know it was only pc but it’s still available for 15 at any rate though. You’re mistaken in an earlier post btw - it doesn’t stop being playable through origin subscription on Friday. And while it doesn’t have the same library as gamepass there’s not zero reason to have EA access... they do have quite a few games.
I said I was wrong about Premier in the post above the one you've quoted here.
I went and looked at info on Xbox Game Pass, and it appears to only be $10 a month, and includes games from a variety of different publishers, not just Microsoft, or MS-affiliated studios.
My personal opinion is that there are going to a much larger number of people who have gamepass because they primarly game on the console, and see it as a rather cheap way to expand their library. They're already there and invested on the platform, what's another 10 bucks, basically. For the PC, the giantbomb guys discuss regularly how X is a gateway drug into getting people to install Y storefront (see Fortnite, Epic).
Oh man, if you have problems watching someone have difficult with solving game puzzles, especially because they're missing something, then be careful with the latest RE2 playdate, because it's loaded with that. I eventually degenerated into yelling at my TV and I don't often do that.
Oh man, if you have problems watching someone have difficult with solving game puzzles, especially because they're missing something, then be careful with the latest RE2 playdate, because it's loaded with that. I eventually degenerated into yelling at my TV and I don't often do that.
I am eternally glad that stuff like this bothers me literally not at all, even when it's a game I love/know really well.
This isn't a dig or anything, I know it annoys people a lot, but since I'm completely immune to it I get to enjoy all kinds of terrible playthrough entertainment!
No it was a special side mission in COD4. You did have to play quickly and you had a limited amount of time to do it in on the hardest difficulty, but it wasn't a time trial because you either finished it or you died.
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He seems like the obvious next hero to get the Batman/Spider-man treatment.
I know there's that GTA IV mod where you can play as Iron Man, though. Fly around the city, shoot laser beams at cars, etc.
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What's this, I wonder.
They're going to play Shadow Warrior 1 & 2.
Is that the Dead Space guy in the thumbnail? I know Rorie talked about wanting to play Dead Space 3 recently
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Which is rough
(I mean, he could also just watch one of the many incredible demonstrations uploaded on YouTube, at which point it simply becomes a test of mechanical execution
Getting that time on console is rough, you need really good dual stick movement to line up shots while keeping momentum
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We've seen games like these make big turn arounds. The Division. Siege. It can be done with time and care, and BioWare has done it before with TOR. I think they can do it again, but EA doesn't seem to have that kind of patience anymore. I'd like Anthem to be good and successful, for the very simple reason that rooting for games to be bad is stupid, and the more good games, the better.
I am hoping we can say some really positive things about this game 6 months down the line.
Jeff gets a bit carried away sometimes in ways that remove any room for constructive conversation or opposing views. With the position he was taking here Jason was in a position where he almost came off as embarrassed to actually being enjoying the game. Jason was right that Jeff was being more than a little hyperbolic when he said that BioWare “utterly failed” on delivering on the iron man power fantasy. All I can think about when I’m playing is how awesome Anthem is at making me feel that way, utterly powerful, in ways that I almost feel like I must be playing a different game than he is.
Something makes me wonder if EA is actually going to commit to long term support for this game if it doesn't do the business they need it to right out of the gate though
And that's the real issue -- Bioware had numerous examples of bungled launches for loot shooters to look at, and somehow, they appear to have taken precisely zero lessons from them. It makes me wonder if (much like their last two games) they were in another life-or-death struggle with the Frostbite engine again, and they were only really able to devote time to getting the moment-to-moment gameplay working and had to scrub a lot of their mission design and loot plans before launch
I mean when Jeff said he thought Destiny 1 at launch was a better game, that felt like a scathing indictment
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I wonder what class Jeff played. They all play very very differently and offer a lot of variety on how you approach encounters and use the powers. Good chance he played Ranger which is by far the least interesting class (pretty much generic shooty man with guns and grenades). As an Interceptor I rarely if ever use my guns. It's all about using my powers to creating explosions with primers and detonators and zipping all over the place melee attacking. It's incredibly fast paced and kinetic. As a Storm you raid down proverbial hellfire from above setting up primers for teammates or doing the nuking yourself. I have not had a chance to play Colossus yet but everything I've read sounds like it's great.
The Devs have been extremely open about the issues with the game, and honestly feel like they're dedicated to making things better as soon as possible. They're active on the Anthem Reddit and on other social media, and they seem to be taking to heart the complaints the community has.
Edit: Yeah after checking around, you basically paid $15 for a very-nearly-done beta/demo of Anthem. If you don’t pay $60 ($54? I think there is a 10% discount) for the full game, you’ll be locked out on Friday.
And I mean he's right - you have a bunch of mobility powers compared to other loot shooters but most of the time using them doesn't actually empower your shooting or powers - it's just kinda fun - and that'll wear off eventually.
That's not how it worked for any other EA game on Origin Access Premium? Like I can go play Battlefield V or Sims 4 or what have you right now AFAIK
Never mind my earlier comment, you’re right.
Fuck this naming convention though, or trying to search for info about it on a phone.
There are reasons for people to have game pass if they already own an Xbox outside of crackdown, this might be the first and only thing someone might be downloading origin for (it certainly was for me, and would be the only game I’d have on the launcher if not for Apex). Also, the access program for unlimited play doesn’t exist on the Xbox, and doesn’t exist at all on PlayStation.
The game being available for $15 is only on PC
Jeff called Crackdown 3 "mediocre" "boring" and "not good" and literally said if you already have gamepass then maybe check it out because it won't cost anything, but otherwise it's not even worth the $10 to subscribe to gamepass in the first place.
That's a terrible recommendation, no matter how you slice it.
Didn’t know it was only pc but it’s still available for 15 at any rate though. You’re mistaken in an earlier post btw - it doesn’t stop being playable through origin subscription on Friday. And while it doesn’t have the same library as gamepass there’s not zero reason to have EA access... they do have quite a few games.
At least as far as the quick look goes he’s still saying I guess check it out if you have gamepass and I did like these things about it. Then for Anthem you can all but hear him boil and the vitriol is fully engaged from the start.
I said I was wrong about Premier in the post above the one you've quoted here.
I went and looked at info on Xbox Game Pass, and it appears to only be $10 a month, and includes games from a variety of different publishers, not just Microsoft, or MS-affiliated studios.
My personal opinion is that there are going to a much larger number of people who have gamepass because they primarly game on the console, and see it as a rather cheap way to expand their library. They're already there and invested on the platform, what's another 10 bucks, basically. For the PC, the giantbomb guys discuss regularly how X is a gateway drug into getting people to install Y storefront (see Fortnite, Epic).
I am eternally glad that stuff like this bothers me literally not at all, even when it's a game I love/know really well.
This isn't a dig or anything, I know it annoys people a lot, but since I'm completely immune to it I get to enjoy all kinds of terrible playthrough entertainment!
It's pretty much another game compared to the previous levels
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Wasn't the original Breaking Brad him trying to do the CoD4 plane time trial?
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