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It's Destiny 2 with flying. Voice in your ear? Check. Three classes? Check. Super abilitt? Check. Other abilities on cooldown? Check. I could go on, but I cba.

I went into this game with an open mind despite a lot of concerns previous but having spent some time with the demo, the game seems even worse than I expected. I take note that this demo is an 'older build' that for some reason the developers have provided us with as a selling point but I can't see substantial enough changes that will improve the game dramatically towards release and beyond. The game is nowhere near on par with the likes of The Division or Destiny so staying with those is a much safer bet. They aren't groundbreaking either but at least they are content-laden and highly established brands. Anthem demo breakdown + Some impressive looking areas visually + Pretty solid combat mechanics - Horrible UI and menu functionality - Long loading screens - Loading screens triggered by other players ahead that interrupt your play - Enemies that stand still and/or disappear - Messy battles - Guns feel a bit tame - Flat atmosphere - Bland environments that are largely empty - Poor up close textures - Uninspired story and characters - Controls are a bit cumbersome off the ground - Fort Tarsis is devoid of things to do - Shallow foundation - Expensive - Endgame content concerns I think this game will probably need a serious amount of support post-release along with some significant content dropped regularly to keep it fresh. I am deeply worried that after seven years of work that this is the end product with such a seemingly limited package marred by fundamental flaws and shortcomings. Even Warframe seems to do a lot better across the board. The Division and Destiny despite their issues were highly immersive and very environmentally impressive but Anthem feels very lackluster and unspectacular.

Is it Marouane Felinei missing his home pitch?

Posting some nice content from Kotton and here's some basics to understand some of the things he refers to. 1. There's currently half a dozen maps to jump in, and you can play them live or practice them with AI only. 2. On average you have 45 minutes in each map before you need to find the extraction point 3. If you die you lose all the gear you brought in 4. If you don't extract in the time limit, you are classed as MIA and lose all the gear you brought in 5. You can loot in each map and there are 6 traders between games with whom you can buy and sell new gear/weapons 6. There's also an online flea market for players to trade between each other (using in game currency) 7. Some players go in with a knife or hatchet only, to just loot shit and escape, they are known as hatchlings (we all do it at some point) 8. You can play (though it has a cool down period) as a member of the AI Scavenger faction but this doesn't boost your stats 9. You do have a 'gamma' container which has a few slots and where the gear contained will not disappear should 3 or 4 happen 10. You can insure your gear, and have it returned to you but if another player finds your dead body and loots it in game, no insurance recovery is possible. 11. Usually you get dropped in a map with a dozen other players (at separate locations unless you've formed a squad) with AI Scavs spawning shortly after and at regular intervals. 12. The traders give you missions to do. I might record me doing my latest one. I have to go to the Customs map, go to a truck in a particular part of the map (that so happens to have loads of AI Scavs patrolling), pick up a gold watch from inside the truck cabin and extract with it. For this |i will receive experience points, money and an AK74U or some variety of AK, I forgot. The game is anal about weapon detail. That'll do for now @Diddums eh

So much is now riding on endgame for most games being created right now and after seeing SkillUps tweet earlier, tbh it's pretty concerning for me. I want to give the game a go but I'm worried it'll be extremely repetitive and very shallow pretty quickly. Wondered what other peoples thoughts are?

That “10 year plan” was a bullshit line spun by them. That was just to sell their product, Bungie has been making it up as they go along when all of their scapegoats on pst generations of consoles went out the window with D2. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Pitch invader at the Everton game today

3rd person Density with unsatisfying flying ability. No thanks. Sent from my SM-G955F using Tapatalk

This trend in video gaming was made popular thanks to mobile games. The 5% of a player base considered whales makes micro-transactions profitable enough that the other 95% of the community doesn't matter to them outside of the initial sale of the game. Unfortunately without legal intervention that loot boxes are tied to gambling there's no reason to remove them; they print money which is bad for us who care about video games. The total monies I have spent as the years go on in video games continue to decline. I will never pre-order a game again unless there's a nostalgic value to me personally. While I do not care about micro-transactions that are purely cosmetic, I can't ignore that it's a Pandora's box. I personally am not a fan of the Fortnite seasons methodology, but I can admit it's the best form of a lootbox, showing what's inside and the clear progress to achieve everything; I just don't like to be nickle and dimed. The gimmick that these micro-transactions fund future content has been proven to be absolute bullshit time and time again by everyone minus Digital Extremes (Warframe). Destiny Eververse got us nowhere, nothing. I could potentially make a case for Epic Games & Fortnite because of the rotating game modes and game updates. As always, vote with your wallet, cause a stink and denounce shady business practices online. I don't see a light at the end of the tunnel until famous game studios break apart and form their own grassroots, make one or two amazing games, only to sell out and repeat the cycle. When a game studio is controlled by a board of executives rather than the developers and passionate staff it's doomed; all about counting beans. The next step we are seeing is game launchers. I am still an avid fan of Steam only because their 30% reduces to 20% based on milestones of units sold. (Epic takes a 15% cut, so really that 5% to me as a consumer is not worth it as I now have to deal with a subpar game launcher) But that 5% means something to the c-suite.

Ah ok, tried it in steam but used the wrong bit to redeem the code. Got it now thanks very much.

Most of these games end up being pretty solid about one or two years after release. I'll wait until it's a completed game.

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I think we're all dumb if we think that when video games were suddenly made it was for the pure fun of the gamer. Their business that want to make profit and some companies also want to make fun awesome video games to be remembered. It's never not without profit in mind. The consumer now has super high unrealistic expectations in my eyes for the most part. We want an incredible amount of content for a AAA title, that we pay once and thats it - that demand is really hard to find. At the same time, game companies know that gamers will keep buying games regardless as they want to be entertained. It also works off a lot of nostalgia and routine. A lot of simple game folk are happy with their yearly FIFA and CoD titles. Look, if microtransactions goal was to help pay for developers and new content within the game in cool with that. I think some games do that, some others don't. We'll never know if we don't see their finer details on how they spend money. However, buying cosmetic shit is just dumb. I enjoy emotes and shit like that but the models that pay off are ones that you don't have to spend a penny but if you choose to, you can buy early an emote or skin. No random RNG shit though. That's where Overwatch annoy the crap out of me. Most people let them pass as you never pay for anything in that game....but you don't get DLC. You get a new character very rarely and a new map sometimes. Woop. The PvE shit for 3 years has been the exactly the same. At least some others recycle content and try to make it a little more interesting.

The issue is people are dumb. No-one I know or ever seen has said they like loot boxes or ever come up with a succesful arguement for why they’re good. Every discussion is around this games loot boxes are terrible, this other game does it better for whatever reason. Like battlefront loot boxes were terrible and OW do them better. So what? that’s like saying crabs is better the chlamydia - you still want neither. It is simple marketing, if no-one bought them then they wouldn’t be in the game. So if no-one likes them why is anyone buying them!? The only reason I’ve come up with is people are dumb. The same applies to F2P games - look how much games like Candy Crush or Clash of Clans made/make by people playing a ‘free’ game.

You can extract any time! Sent from my SM-G955F using Tapatalk

Finally got my hands on this I’m in love it’s been a blast so far I can’t wait to see what is in store

I’m really late to this one but I’m really digging it! The control is spot on. Graphics and music are good and the story so far is fun. I like all the various side missions and collectibles you can look around for. Batman approves this game. 👍

Free DLC coming in February https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/resident-evil-2-remake-is-getting-three-free-dlc-stories-starting-in-february/ Also 79% of players started as Leon https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/79-percent-of-resident-evil-2-remake-players-chose-leon-for-their-first-playthrough/