BioWare, the developer responsible for Mass Effect and Dragon Age, has returned with its first new series in over a decade, Anthem. It's a pretty big departure for the RPG-heavy studio: a jetpack-fueled, action-first online "looter-shooter." And after a disastrous demo launched weeks ago, we wondered whether we'd even get a playable game.
BioWare's multiplayer shooter Anthem was terminated this week because EA no longer wanted to maintain servers for people to play the game on, and without them, no one can play the game. But the former executive producer of Anthem has revealed that BioWare had technology working, close to the game's release, that would enable us to host our own servers to play the game on.
I'd be fine just playing it as a localhost and dumb as rocks AI bots. Just give me the choice.
BioWare and EA had previously said the game would be accessible to those who owned it until it shuts down on January 12.
Time flies (like a Javelin suit): there are only 10 days left to play BioWare's ill-fated multiplayer game Anthem before the servers are switched off, presumably forever.
In my opinion, Anthem was a good IP that was worthy of a no man's sky or cyberpunk 2077 treatment.
To this day, their sub reddit is active and I was able to get into a game quickly a few weeks ago when I booted it up.
It is a shame EA and Bioware didn't want to give the game the overhaul it needed to turn it into a competent looter shooter.
I wholeheartedly agree. If ANY game deserved to get the rework/relaunch it deserved it was this one. More than literally any other. Even over FFXIV, No Mans Sky etc.
I just finished this up a couple days ago. Although it's a bit repetitive and the story is meh, the game feels great to play. Even if you can only hop on the game for a couple hours before it shuts down, I think it's worth it.
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They can spend billions to buy or get bought but they can’t spend a fraction of that to fix or overhaul a game that could have been truly special, smh.
Lots of reviews coming out now that are not scored I didn't think we had a final version yet.
. still impressions of reviewers are not great
Of the reviews that have scores so far, the highest is a 7.
7, 7, 6.9, 6, and 3/5 stars are the scores as of today. Not looking too good and some of the unscored/in progress reviews are questioning why it has mistakes and problems that other games in the same genre have fixed already.
Not to mention how ridiculous the grinding and difficulty spike is later in the game, which some side quest-style tasks taking hours to complete and you need to complete all 16 of the tasks to unlock further story missions. Along with that, the game has no sense of when to take situations seriously, the comedy is stuck at almost 100% the whole game.
Bioware isn't the Bioware of old, and Mass Effect: Andromeda/Anthem prove that. EA shareholders are going to "love" the negative press this is getting/going to get, considering how Battlefield V, Battlefront II, and FIFA 19 underperformed in recent months.
It seems the Anthem criticisms are similar to those of Crackdown - the games lack depth; the action is good initially, but gets repetitive and boring quickly.
Loot shooters are designed to consume all your freetime and money. I dont like when a game feels like a job no thanks.