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Anthem - Official CES 2019 Trailer Spotlights Nvidia Tech - MMORPG.com
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Anthem - Official CES 2019 Trailer Spotlights Nvidia Tech - MMORPG.com
During last night's CES 2019 presentation, Nvidia and BioWare showed off a new Anthem trailer that shines the spotlight on the new technology the game will support. The 4K trailer reveals a new Javelin and some impressive landscapes.
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The game is Buy to play. (No subscription req)
All DLC's and future updates/content will be 100% free with weekly new content (they are treating it like a HBO series).
There will be NO loot boxes.
The only thing you can buy in the game will be cosmetics with no added benefits just looks, you know straight away what you are buying no gambling.
In short this beats nearly all other games monetizing wise especially when you try to compare Anthem to it's counter part Destiny2 that charged you 200$ just for playing it 2 years thats excluding all the lootboxes you could buy.
All information i stated here are based upon official posts from Bioware/EA.
actually, that's the system LoL uses, ait?
fine by me, selling cosmetics is a good deal, hope it works out.
"I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!"
That said, I'd also like to see BioWare continue to exist so I hope it does well so they make good on the Dragon Age 4 game they've teased and maybe, just maybe, revive Mass Effect.
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I also don't understand this trend which is sort of new, as in if IPs should live forever. Mass Effect was a great trilogy, I enjoyed every bit of it, loved the ending, can't that be enough? Isn't it better to shelf the old and let something new have a go at our hearts? I'd personally applaud any company that introduces a brand new IP to the world. Of course, I too, would be missing the old worlds and friends that I've made, but I also look forward to future and what dreams may come.
I'm not "barring" myself from anything. I want single player RPGs not forced grouping in a pseudo open world where story takes a back seat to "action combat". Blergh. If I want a coop shooter, I'll go play Destiny 2.
Lastly, the trilogy is over. Shepard's story is over. But that doesn't mean that the Mass Effect IP needs to be over. Nothing I've seen of Anthem so far interests me.
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don't blame the successor.
this is what they could make out of what was left after they crashed ME against a wall i'd say ^^
no one blames overwatch for killing titan, or do we?
"I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!"
Right... because a company turning 180 degrees a few months after they hook millions of players would be unheard of, am I right?
Because EA, Activision, Ubisoft and Bethesda are paragons of virtue who would rather go bankrupt than cheat and lie to their customers in order to gain a quick buck, right?
Because PR blurbs to hype their latest games are to be taken at their face value.
Because players don't have experience with how slimy, greedy and utterly shameless these companies are in their never-ending pursuit to extract *all* the money from you literally any way possible.
They are full of crap, as evidenced countless of times and at this point giving them any benefit of doubt is not only beyond naive, it keeps most of the gaming industry in the disgusting morass that it has been in for the past few years.
This is NOT a successor in any way to ME other than it's sci-fi. Mass Effect was a single player deep roleplaying game with a companion system and branching storylines with decisions having galaxy changing implications. Anthem, conversely, is an RPG-lite with "games as a service" at its core.
I'm sure a lot of folks will love it, but it's just not for me.
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I think you are jumping to conclusions on you're biased hatred cause of the Mass Effect story.
There is no possible way you can even know right now if you like it or not.
The only thing we've seen so far is 1 story quest mission you can't judge the game until you play it and since you do like coop shooters like Destiny2 i think you should give it a fair shot in the free demo that is coming up without having in the back of your mind the whole MassEffect drama.
I play Destiny 2 as a single / duo player shooter with convenient coop at locations throughout the maps since I don't raid or do dungeons and all that.
The story based mission they showed didn't interest me at all given what I mentioned above as my preferred game type. Everyone likes different stuff. For what it's worth, I'd feel the same way no matter who made Anthem.
Different strokes for different folks.
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But what if this coop shooter was way, way better then Destiny 2 (which it might very well be), would you then also not play it (and perhaps even enjoy it?).
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Did you watch the movie Ready Player One? In the movie, a wealthy CEO boss used his wallet to buy a Mechagodzilla to trample everyone. That is the future of gaming. Nothing you can do about it. Rejoice!
So DLCs and updates are free. What about expansions which can be released DLC sized and just as often?
For the record I'm willing to give anthem a try and decide during the free demo as long as it doesn't consist of one small zone. I like the games that let you play anywhere and only restricted by time played, making it easier to get a feel for the world as long as nothing is gated. So far I haven't seen much of a living world, it looks kinda empty but they may be holding back until later to show more.
"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
Hmm... that sounds reasonable but considering EA track record, you can't really blame people for being skeptical (and even hate) towards them.
Bioware may have made promises but let's be real here... they are not the bosses, EA are. The way i see it, they will go one of the following routes (my speculations):
1. They release the game, without breaking the promises they made but they add their sketchy monetizations, weeks later after most of reviews have come out so their metacritic score and initial sales aren't negative affected by "greedy pratices" (Activision Blizzard Style).
2. They release the game, without breaking the promises but they but in a incomplete state with lacking content (which makes more sense since the "free dlc") and release rest content months later (like Battlefield V).
I doubt they would add loot boxes though since they have been become so much a stigma since the battlefront II debacle (thanks EA :P).
But i really doubt EA won't try to do anything sketchy, especially since their stock suffered so much in 2018, they need to boost those profit somehow to reassure investors...
But hey, they might even deliver everything without any strings attached who knows, life is full of surprises, we'll see...
When you love something,someone,you just get tired of it and shelf it?
How often when we finally see a good movie do we walk away saying,thank god that ended,glad it is over?
As to this video,there is no question the graphics are clean,HQ but he should not be using the term "Immersion"when you IGNORE half the scenery which is mostly just generated trees by quickly flying over everything.
Why even create maps,why not just instantly warp from circle to circle and fight the mobs.rinse repeat?
Giving Nvidia props kind of made me laugh,this game is NOT pushing the limits of what Nvidia can do.
To me it looks like flying around Skyforge maps and combat that at least to me looks like it will get boring after a few days.I guess if said poster is happy with that,so be it,i want the enjoyment to last,IF it is enjoyable.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
If you ain't dyin', then you ain't tryin'.