Thanks again to @VonVivianoV on Twitter for the Terrors of the Library title cards! I do plan on reviewing the Marvel's Avengers game... but the library has a waitlist on it and I'm number 15. I cut a bit of the skullduggery in the game's development for time, but a few more highlights: - Anthem's development builds were so unstable that Bioware couldn't play-test the game past basic QA - Bioware's different studios deeply mistrust one another and are led by people with giant egos, so when the Old Republic team that had experience with MMO's tried to help with the game, they were told to piss off. - There's a specific example you can point to for how not being able to redo the cutscenes boned the team: the quest with Sentinel Dax has a scene where her Javelin is inexplicably and abruptly destroyed offscreen, only to be perfectly fine before and after. - Almost immediately after this review went live, it was announced that 2 new ships are coming to Star Wars Squadrons- officially meaning the EA budget title has already gotten more post-launch support than Bioware's massive Triple-A release.
I'm aware I'm being a persistent pain in the putz for this... but can you find out if "Sonic 06" is part of your library's game repertoir as well? also: when are you bringing back that old "You're A DUMBASS!!!" segment? I miss it...!
Jesus, that telling the Old Republic Team to piss off is just.... Wow. People who have experience in what your trying to want to help since their not really doing anything at the moment, and you tell them to piss off? Just what the fuck?
Can you play anthem without ps plus? I dont have the money for the subscription and was hoping that i could play the story and solo missions without it, no other ps game i own has required ps plus tbh
So, at the end there with the jab at the "Final Fantasy XIV is good now!" crowd, to the crowd's defense, Final Fantasy XIV was basically a completely different game after Naoki Yoshida took over. There is just a teensy, tiny, little, itty bitty problem with the crowd's mentality. Yoshi-P, lord and savior of Final Fantasy, is a man with personal experience as an avid player of online games (including FFXIV's rival, World of Warcraft), and a designer of other successful games (Dragon Quest, primarily). He saw the OG FFXIV, looked at its competitors, recalled all the time he'd spent playing other MMOs and online games (he's an avid gamer), and said "We're gonna do it MY WAY." Yoshida cracked the whip and laid out an incredibly tight schedule over the course of two years for rebuilding Final Fantasy XIV Online from the ground up. He had an exact vision in mind, and he was (and is still) a very competent leader, even able to navigate the utterly arcane minefield that is Square Enix higher-ups and representatives to get his way. Yes, he had to crunch his team heavily to achieve it, but it wasn't out of laziness, it was because Square gave them a deadline of two years and he knew everyone could do it with some direction. So, here's where the problem comes in. Remember, that teeny tiny little GIGANTIC PULSATING CANCEROUS problem I brought up before? Bioware doesn't have a Naoki Yoshida. Bioware doesn't have a functional company structure. Bioware doesn't even have their competent writers anymore. Bioware. Has. NOTHING. Yoshida crunched his team out of pure necessity; he already had the game they were going to make in mind, it just had to happen extremely quickly. Not only that, but he was a competent leader. Bioware, meanwhile, crunches their employees into complete mental breakdowns and works them to the brink of death...because of utterly incompetent leadership. There's nobody with a vision (of anything other than piles of money), they don't have anything to unite them, and they have no direction; this is the point where I will reiterate what was said in the video, that being Bioware itself didn't actually know it was making Anthem until the E3 hype trailer was released. EA was shockingly forgiving with the development of Anthem, but even they eventually had to put Bioware under the sword with a hard-and-fast deadline. That's the only time Bioware actually managed to actually start making a game. It took a gun to the company's head before they actually made the game they had started over half a decade ago. So when the woodworks' crowd comes clambering out to kick and scream about A Realm Reborn being a successful relaunch of FFXIV Online, it's important to remember the context under which it was made. That sort of second wind is lightning in a bottle; it took the perfect storm of a legend-to-be with a vision, Square Enix getting temporarily distracted with a shiny object long enough for a good game to be made under their noses, and a playerbase that was genuinely willing to return and give the game a second chance. Even under the philosophy of "Never say "Die"", I'm going to say it: Anthem will NEVER achieve A Realm Reborn's legendary revival status. There isn't a game to salvage, there was no vision in the first place, there is simply nothing to work with. Even A Realm Reborn still references parts of XIV Online and uses it as a base. What could Anthem do to make any of what it has workable? What can Bioware do to pull its collective head out of its ass? There's a very simple answer: Nothing. Nothing will be enough. Bioware has bled all of its talent. Anthem is dead. EA is on high alert, especially with how they keep getting sued up the ass in Europe. There's simply nothing that can be done; Bioware will close before 2021 is over, and it will be nobody's fault but their own at this point.
See, that's the thing. For every Final Fantasy XIV or Star Wars: Battlefront (EA) II, there are at least 30 games that never have that never get fixed or whose playerbase is long gone, even after the game is good
As of the beginning of this year, all services for Anthem have been terminated and no effort will be made to fix or maintain the game for the indefinite future. The game is defacto dead.
Anthem ultimately was an example of utter hubris. They announced it before they even knew what they wanted it to be, only what they didn't want it to be, spent years getting nothing useful done, then subjected their workers to abusive crunch and called it 'Bioware Magic' to cobble something together for the release date. Then add all the usual corporate lies; it was the start of a 10 year journey for them (which is why it was dead in barely 2), they had a road map to improve it post-launch (from which almost nothing was done before they gave up), plus lest we forget the 'gameplay trailer' that featured elements that were nowhere to be seen in the game they actually released. Bioware entered into a genre the Anthem development team had absolutely no prior experience in, while barring the one division with any comparable experience from helping, spent years wasting time, then subjected their workers to sickening levels of crunch and figured it'd all work out because they're Bioware. Nevermind Bioware has no history of looter shooters, the games they made before were (mostly) great so Anthem would be as well. Now they're cutting multiplayer from Dragon Age 4 because its somehow gotten through to them that a company that found success making single player story focused RPGs, should make one of those.
I have an issue with the whole "it will get fixed later" excuse. If you're gonna release an overly broken, glitch-filled, poorly optimized mess, why even bother releasing it to begin with? That's what beta testers are for. Don't just dump an unfinished mess and expect people to eat up your shit. Games like Superman 64, Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing, and Ride to Hell: Retribution are examples of rushed development and bad optimization, but at least they didn't require an internet connection. And when your game is so bad that I'm defending Superman 64, you seriously fucked up.
AAA publishers look for any excuse to make more money for less work, and releasing barely functional games with no content under the vague promise that "it'll be good later!" to sucker people into wasting money on microtransactions is their current scheme because they can't rely on loot boxes anymore. And sadly because publishers never learn their lesson it'll take another Battlefront II level disaster for this live service crap to go away.
Looks like Marvel's Avengers is learning that lesson the hard way too, since 96% of players have abandoned it. Ouch. But seriously, to hell with live-service or games as a service shit fests. Give us complete, polished games at launch and if you want to add DLC later that's fine, just don't chop off content from that main game and sell it separately as DLC. That shit grinds my gears.
@@AlphaZeroX96it's an infamous licensed game based on Superman The Animated Series, where it's notoriously broken, such as ungodly bad controls where you can barely beat the first level. The rest of the game doesn't fare better.
Sad thing is... Avengers could've been great. The gameplay could use some work but it's fine as a beat-em-up. If single player was first and then multi, it would be way better and possibly more interesting. It's fine as a game... Then I played Astral Chain (and I still play it), which is also a 3D beat-em-up with exploration. And it has so much charm, fun and soul that, well... It's literally what I wish Avengers was.
@@shis1988 Honestly, Platinum Games (formerly Clover Studios) could've made a kickass version of Avengers... no... an incredible Marvel Ultimate Alliance game instead of Crystal Dynamics... maybe...
@@christopherwashi it's why it makes me upset. This could have been great, but they wanted it to be online and even that is broken because you have a healer and you need Iron Man to get rid of snipers easily as well... Balancing wasn't the issue.
What people don't understand about FFXIV is that, they didn't "fix" it, they scrapped the whole game and made an entirely new one that vaguely followed that previous one's story. A Real Reborn wasn't a mega patch, it was a new game altogether so stop saying that these kind of games can "make a comeback" with enough updates, sometimes you just have to know where to cut your loses and start anew.
You know what I'm reminded of when people bring up the argument of "They fixed it now; the game is good" (aka the For Honor Defense)? Final Fantasy 13. "The game gets good once you get out of Cocoon!" (Which is 25 hours in.) To quote Spoony, "Why can't it be good NOW?!"
7:00 Of all the comparisons to Warframe, I feel this is the most telling. Not only can I pause the game in solo, I can leave it for 8 hours and not be kicked. And that game is free!
I know this game has been out and did it's rounds, but I still really wish Crunch time in game development wasn't blown off as "part of the job", really disrespectul to not worry about the people making a game for you
Crunch is abuse of your workers and an indictment of leadership for not managing the development schedule better. Plus after a certain point its just stupid because after so many hours, people's efficiency just tanks anyway, so your not getting more work done, you're just getting burned out employees.
Well tbh i dont like warfame that much, takes way too long to get anything and most things are kept behind micro transaction platnum (i used to play warframe alot) not that anthem is any good 😂 atleast you can play warframe online without having to pay
Funny how Anthem shovels in so much lore into the game, nevermind that lore isn't the same as narrative. Just look at what happened to the Dark Universe (at least the DCEU has the first Wonder Woman movie and Shazam) and The Order: 1886. It's one thing to create an immersive world, but there has to be a way to implement a story into it without lumping it into rampant exposition. I'm a big fan of Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto franchise, the games have several lore by way of fictional radio ads and instruction manuals, but the reason why they work is because the games themselves have an actual story surrounding them. Even one of Rockstar's lesser-known games like Manhunt have better lore than Anthem, though I'm one of the few pedantic guys that is willing to give Manhunt some merit.
You're right in how you should find a balance between world-building and actual storytelling since you want enough info to know what's going on but not too much so that it feels like your back at school.
@@ALIEN-DUDE manhunt doesn't relky have vat lore it just story if a guy who killing other guys with plastic bats and punches and and fighting gsy BDSM guys anthem has a developed lore and world in it
Has there been even one great "Live service" game? Even Destiny, that cursed game that started this 10 year bullshit (at least it was the first game I heard using such stupid language that wasn't just an MMO), was just... ok. Pretty much any other game taking on that accursed mantle was a complete dumpsterfire.
I get the feeling that all the corporate executives that actively support “LIVE SERVICES” saw Spaceballs, which ACCURATELY predicted the true nature of “LIVE SERVICES” mentality. The whole “release now, fix it later” came from what Spaceballs called “Instant Cassettes”, in a sense, they’re out in stores before the products are finished. This came out during the 1980s btw. If even Mel Brookes could predict the failure of “LIVE SERVICES” and all who support them DECADES before video games became mainstream, you know the industry as a whole has FAILED. Better to burn the whole thing down and start again. The Second Great Video Game Crash is not only inevitable, it’s imminent. My prayers go out to all who truly love video games and want to see this industry return to prosperity and glory. But it can’t do that with the current hierarchy alive and intact.
God, BioWare was fallen so hard over the past decade. At least we'll always have the old classics they made already, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is probably my favorite game made from them.
Blizzard, Bethesda, bioware they are all a product of their age. When a company has been around for as long as they have people retire, people join, things change. Even Activision was originally founded to counter the evil overlords Atari. Cd project Red for example is currently where bioware used to be during the Baldur's gate days. Where blizzard used to be during the broodwar, Diablo 2 days. Give cdpr 10-15 years when the current Devs retire and new people join:) nothing lasts for ever. Eventually everyone ends the same way lol.
@@xyr3s Jeez... might as well take whatever good graces are available from those gaming companies. Mine is Naughty Dog... or shall I say NaughtyDruckmann... you know what I'm talking about...
@@youtube-kit9450 I know, CDPR literally destroyed their reputation in just *ONE* week. Even Bethesda took several months after Fallout 76's initial release to tank theirs as bad as it did with the embarrassing scandals and controversies. All that's missing is the announcement of a "Cyberpunk First" subscription for $100 a year, and at this rate that could be by this Friday haha.
@@JamesTobiasStewart Until they are the last company on Earth then no one can stop them from forcing crappy games with crappier microtransactions down our throat
Sorry to burst your bubble but considering Dragon age 4 is being made with anthem's skeleton as a base and one developer called it "Anthem with Dragons"... Its safe to say that unless every Human resource that knows frostbite can work on it, it will become the anthem 2.0 we dread
@TwistedGamer probably for the best, better games have been canned and never released. And the fact that this dumpster fire was allowed to be released in the first place is proof of that. Sometimes it’s better to abort a trash heap and start from scratch. Whenever a great game is released, a dozen bad games had already been made and scrapped in the making of it. Some concepts are better off not explored.
Remember Jade Empire? A good and interesting story based game with multiple endings and romance choices? What happened to the old Bioware? Also is Anthem good now?
Coming back to this what could be an interesting way to handle the villain would be if he was like Owen. He was considered worthless within his faction because he couldn't use their armors. So he took control of his own destiny and forcibly made the armor work through modifications and has been modifying his for decades which makes him nigh invulnerable thanks to how often he upgrades whenever anyone can manage to hurt him. He is seeking the Anthem of Creation as an end goal to take command of reality and make a world he deems fit having become so bitter at the state of things and still bitter that after all this time you as a rookie can be someone special inside your own faction. You were born able to use your suit while he worked so hard to get to where he is and he finds it insufferable you are somehow gaining enough power to start matching him. He becomes a god entity with the Anthem of Creation and begins reshaping the world while screaming in rage about the system you're a part of and how long he has put in to reaching this goal and even talking about Owen and saying that those on top like you would look down at him and smother him in the crib just because you can. You don't need much to make a villain who is an evil invincible asshole have some character and by making him be this extremely bitter asshole who has become exactly what he hates and can't realize it you would have a villain with only some dialogue changes have the potential to be at least somewhat memorable even in your few interactions by building him as someone who just keeps adapting and has a bitter streak. Then by killing him you somehow have managed to put yourself on a lot of people's radars by managing to kill an infamous asshole and bam you can even have post game content be different jobs you're hired on to do because your reputation makes you a valuable hire. Simple, effective, takes less than 7 years to come up with, and even helps work with a live service game's content feed. But no legendary Bioware with their many writers and EA giving them time to work on the game managed to bungle around so long EA was in the right for once to argue to speed a game along. Because if you're still not even in full production/development after half a decade then you're not making a project you're making a Duke Nukem Forever.
this is the problem with online games, you need to connect to it, if you dont have internet, or a shity connection in general, you pretty much cant play the game, or have special unlockables
I've played Anthem, I've beaten Anthem once...I quit Anthem, and have had months of regret getting it ever since. Bioware did say that they are rebuilding the game from the ground up and will make it the game it was suppose to be...but until then, this game makes Hunt Down the Freeman look like its Game of the Year material
It just utterly disgusts me that EA would abuse their employees like that. Just despicable. Anyway, great review! Been waiting for this one, and you didn’t disappoint!
I'm still sore over how they shut down Visceral Games. Not only were the sale expectations EA set for them ludicrously high, but EA themselves were responsible for why Dead Space 3 turned out the way it did. Hearing the ideas Visceral had for 3 and 4 and that Star Wars game they were working on will always leave a hole in my heart.
@@DinoDave150 Yeah, if there’s one thing that EA’s good at, it’s leaving giant gaping holes in the hearts of gamers. Mass Effect 3, Mass Effect Andromeda, Dead Space 3, Star Wars Battlefront II (the new one), and so on.
Really disappointing to see Bioware having fallen so low. KOTOR, Jade Empire, and the original Mass Effect (not played 2 or 3 yet) are all great games, and it's sad to see that their latest was just... this. And there's the usage of crunch, which is just terrible for people's mental health.
One of your best videos dude. I just want to say thanks and great work since I think you should get a lot more views than you do. These types of videos are a dying art form.
No word of a lie, Jadow, but every time you upload a review, I get excited to see what gets thrown at you; you're an awesome reviewer, you definitely deserve more attention, bro!
The plot is dirt simple and near nonexistant but stuffed with a shitton of useless lore and info dumps to try to make it look deeper a.k.a. every cheap tactic that bad writers rely on to attempt and fail to sugar coat the fact that their stories suck.
Lore and worldbuilding are very important, but not at the expense of the actual story told and the characters in the present. If you have the fucking most amazing lore and worldbuilding ever but your current characters and story suck... JUST FUCKING GIVE ME A GAME TAKING PLACE WHEN THE LORE WAS HAPPENING.
To be honest, I'm surprised Anthem didn't get the Tony Hawk Pro Skater 5 treatment... (I.E. Servers shutting down, The game being bricked and the game pretty much being a collector's item.)
Funny enough, I never grew up with Bioware's games. I found out about about the company after watching big boss's video on EA talking about the problems that this game and Mass Effect: Andromeda had. I will say that I recently purchased the Mass Effect: Legendary Edition and am absolutely loving it. Sad to see what Bioware had become, but in the very least I can see that they were at least trying to salvage the franchise to warrant getting excited about the next Mass Effect game.
Jadow, you really do provide some very funny content during what is a very boring day for me. Also, I think the crappiness of the story in Anthem sucks even harder when you consider Bioware literally wrote one of the absolute best plot twists of any game when they made Knights of the Old Republic. They also made one of the most emotional trilogies with Mass Effect that really got you invested in the lore, characters, and story.
I'm just still so happy you're reviewing games. Most reviewers I find that are really good and or funny seem to have abanden their channels. You should review Dragonball GT: Final Bout, the voice acting is another level of cringe, and the computer controled players can sometimes be really overpowered too
I love the review, its so good 😊 I no joke ordered a copy online right after i watched this for the third time lol, the one class i was interested in was the storm class javalin tbh
@@elin111 Yup. The same thing is happening to Avengers where players will likely not care about the new hero at this point or barely play before dropping the game again. The problem with live service is your game will fail if you can at least get a good amount of dedicated players since numbers fluctuate all the time.
@@kosmosfan01 The problem with live services is that the concept is little more than an excuse to release blatantly unfinished games and promise "it'll be good eventually!" but because the game is crap the first time everyone drops very quickly. And the vague promise of it becoming "better" are tied to whether or not people are spending enough money on microtransactions. Tons of games come out constantly, people are not going to play the same crap game forever hoping that it eventually becomes worth it when they could be playing any of the other games that came out since many of which are far better.
@@elin111 True. The roadmap isn't going help because that content might get delayed or be disappointing because all that waitinf needs to be for something significant and not seasonal events and battle passes.
All of those are just means to keep people playing the game longer so that they can keep milking the microtransactions longer. Big publishers can't rely on loot boxes anymore so now they're pushing heavier this "live service" crap as a substitute method to milk money out of people and thankfully it's not working.
Now that Mass Effect is getting a remaster, are you reviewing those? Seeing how those went from a massive epic adventure to retconning everything you did to make ME2 and then spit, piss and shit on its players for 3 and then... To Andromeda.
0:41 This is where I started chuckling. 0:52 This is where I started laughing. 0:58 THIS IS WHERE I STARTED DYING XD! 1:16 I haven't even gotten far into the actual review and I know this will be an amazing video.
Live service games are getting really repetitive. BioWare management really messed it up with their incompetent and unforgiving approach in keeping their employees sane. Very few games turn out good when in development hell/crunch
Never got why people got so hyped about "Live service". Back in my days we just called it "MMO" and it wasn't anything revolutionary, and as we saw so far, every single live-service game was a shallow, money-grabbing, mtx-riddled boring repetitive grindfest. Glad people slowly are catching on. Singleplayer games still stay the best games out there.
37:17 - 39:02. There is also the fact that live service games tend to be like a three course meal where you're forced to eat literal shit for the starter, it doesn’t matter how good the rest of the meal is. YOU. ARE. NO. LONGER. HUNGRY.
Just discovered you. Not sure if it's up your alley game wise, but I highly recommend playing the Just Cause 3 dlc story missions. One of them literally turns you into Iron Man, to a degree where I audibly asked "How has an Iron Man not been made yet?" The dlc also proves just how pointless Anthem's "one good element, the flying" truly was/is.
Glad u did a video on this, since I can't play the game anymore due to EA shafting my account and making invalid, that goes for all EA games too. Not missing this game one bit ever since I maxed out my interceptor.
Oh you haven't seen the extreme coping they seethe. "The servers are active!" or "Don't criticize if you haven't FINISHED it!" or even "I'd rather play this than Arkham!". You can't fix stupid.
It's called Terrors of the Library because my local library (with like books and stuff) actually has a lot of video games to check out, and pretty much every one I try is horrible. They get a few of the big releases, but mostly it's a dumping ground of unwanted games.
Did you see the part where some of the Bioware employees think their fellow workers might have killed themselves because they left one day and never were heard from by any of them ever again? Don't know if it's true but the game's development was hellish enough to cause serious mental harm. I have no idea how EA let Anthem sit around in such a state for so many years. And considering FF14 comes from Square and Square runs on literal madness the fact Bioware claimed they would do one means they missed that FF14 was expensive and a miracle. Anthem should have been so cool, an Iron Man looter shooter should be awesome. Like if the weapon classes weren't just assault rifles and SMGs and more unique like maybe blade launchers and maybe an elemental based rapid fire weapon that lays on status effects rather than pure damage. But no because Bioware is ran by people who are stuck sniffing their own endlessly recycled praise they couldn't see that starting a game development full scale at a decent time was a smart idea. Crunch on that scale is a damning failure of management, and the fact that CD Projekt Red on Cyberpunk has been supposedly doing death march crunch yet the game is still being so hyped makes me worried that it will keep being seen as a good thing by people that don't understand working programmers to death doesn't solve shit.
I am, but I'm still number 15 on the reserve list for it at the library (meaning it's been about a month and I haven't budged on it). So it'll be a while.
@@Darklordjadow1 My older brother was about to buy the game but as soon as I told him it's an online game he said "To hell with that crap!" and threw the game back into the shelf. That was my good deed of the day.
evil faction called the dominion (rip off of star trek deep space 9) and a guy called the monitor (ripping off infinite crisis, at this point the comic)
The real Bio-ware developers left the company after Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age Inquisition. The ones that made this game are just posers with the company name and rep. (kinda like modern Bungie).
the bad guys are called The Dominion, and are lead by The Monitor, BAAAAAAD idea ripping off star trek deep space 9 and DC Crisis on Infinite Earths (comic and tv event)
Fortunately i didn't make the mistake of buying this shit, this whole javelin armor that can fly concept had me hyped, and then the game was released.... The bricked consoles are true, i had a friend who's ps4 literally crashed to oblivion and couldn't work at all because of this trash game but thankfully the console was still under warranty and he got it replaced, this is a first i have never heard of a game turning a console into a rock
Pretty depressing to see Bioware fall from grace with suuuch a brutal impact with the ground. After Dragon Age Inquisition... it's so depressing to see what they have become. And speaking of Bioware, planning to play Mass Effect 3 soon. Gotta see how the Trilogy saga concludes. To remember why they were once called the Kings of RPG's.(also to reunite with Garrus and Jack) And yeah, I'll brace for the endings too. See if they're really that bad. But at least I'll be playing one of their last good games.
There was a four-in-one disc that I found for uber cheap, and instead of having four games on one disc, it straight-up installs four separate games onto your PS4. It's very annoying. And yes- for a future video.
Remember when it kept bricking and crashing your hard drive in the past? Yeah, for a while, it'd brick your console and you'd need to rebuild your hard drive.
Yeah, hearing that alone would have made me not want to buy it, everything else be damned. If I can't play a singleplayer game and not pause it whenever I want, fuck you.
Shouldnt it be terrors the video game store? Libraries have books NOT video games However, They arnt scary in the first place and video game & movie stores are dead
Highlights: The game refuses to work lest you have a fine to play it... Oh boy. Getting punished for eating? MAKE A PAUSE BUTTON! "THIS LOSER COULD'T SCARE A FERRET!" That mess of a quest that is stopping dead till you've wasted your life waiting for objectives. Or as it is called Tomb of the Legions. How to form squads with only one person: you can't. "Big deal. I've heard the anthem too. (music plays)" "BIOWARE MAGIC!" "Even Anthem doesn't want to play Anthem!" His explanation of why Anthem was a mess. Edit: Oh golly. That game... Two bland characters and a time portal.
Wait wasn't that already shut down? nevermind that was the beta which i did play. it was...... eh. not great but had some good ideas. edit 2: actually that was transformers universe.
Personally I didn't mind the dumb story, the flying (Which I actually enjoyed) or the microtransactions. I did enjoy playing it... for about 3 days before I realised "Wow, this is really boring. I'd rather be playing Hitman 2"
My bigger question with the Kotaku PS5 article is, who was the jackass that read that and went "yep we'll publish this! Totally no problem with this article that directly insults and guilt shames the very people who would want to read it!"
What kills me about it is that I know from experience that if you do what he says and just angst over real-world problems, too guilty to do anything for fun (his strawman argument can apply to all movies, TV, and sports too), it would drive you insane! Having hobbies and being able to enjoy things in life isn't entitlement, it's being a functional human being! But judging by tweets his attitude is that if you disagree with him, then you're part of the problem and it means his shit's working, so there's not going to be any penetrating that ingoramus skull.
@@Darklordjadow1 A big reason that DC's obsession with being overly grim dark and the stupid fanbase shitting on anything that isn't angsty or "edgy" bother me is because that also fuel that mindset that "you have to angst about everything all the time color and personality is for pussies!"
This is one of the many reasons why I never use Twitter. I honestly hate the recent political climate, simply because of how one-sided everything is and because people are complete assholes about their opinions. Like when people calling others sexist for not liking Ghostbusters 2016 or A Wrinkle in Time, assuming Joker is for edgelords and potential school shooters, and slandering the Sonic movie for having homophobic slurs, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Of course, Kotaku reviewing the PS5 and Xbox Series X is just as idiotic, with the PS5 review steering into political BS and the Xbox Series X having "too many holes."
I remember playing the demo and noting that the graphics were really beautiful when exploring the world, but it's kind of like gold plating a turd. It might look good at first glance, but inside is pure crap.
@@garretts6678 When I order for myself I get sausage, black olive, and pineapple. Unfortunately Papa Johns- like many big chains- does not have green olives.
Thanks again to @VonVivianoV on Twitter for the Terrors of the Library title cards!
I do plan on reviewing the Marvel's Avengers game... but the library has a waitlist on it and I'm number 15.
I cut a bit of the skullduggery in the game's development for time, but a few more highlights:
- Anthem's development builds were so unstable that Bioware couldn't play-test the game past basic QA
- Bioware's different studios deeply mistrust one another and are led by people with giant egos, so when the Old Republic team that had experience with MMO's tried to help with the game, they were told to piss off.
- There's a specific example you can point to for how not being able to redo the cutscenes boned the team: the quest with Sentinel Dax has a scene where her Javelin is inexplicably and abruptly destroyed offscreen, only to be perfectly fine before and after.
- Almost immediately after this review went live, it was announced that 2 new ships are coming to Star Wars Squadrons- officially meaning the EA budget title has already gotten more post-launch support than Bioware's massive Triple-A release.
I'm aware I'm being a persistent pain in the putz for this... but can you find out if "Sonic 06" is part of your library's game repertoir as well? also: when are you bringing back that old "You're A DUMBASS!!!" segment? I miss it...!
Jesus, that telling the Old Republic Team to piss off is just.... Wow.
People who have experience in what your trying to want to help since their not really doing anything at the moment, and you tell them to piss off? Just what the fuck?
If they ever release a battlefront 3 it better be a sequel to the original instead of EA's lootbox 2
@@Mobysimo that deep mistrust also killed Mass Effect Andromeda
Can you play anthem without ps plus? I dont have the money for the subscription and was hoping that i could play the story and solo missions without it, no other ps game i own has required ps plus tbh
So, at the end there with the jab at the "Final Fantasy XIV is good now!" crowd, to the crowd's defense, Final Fantasy XIV was basically a completely different game after Naoki Yoshida took over.
There is just a teensy, tiny, little, itty bitty problem with the crowd's mentality. Yoshi-P, lord and savior of Final Fantasy, is a man with personal experience as an avid player of online games (including FFXIV's rival, World of Warcraft), and a designer of other successful games (Dragon Quest, primarily). He saw the OG FFXIV, looked at its competitors, recalled all the time he'd spent playing other MMOs and online games (he's an avid gamer), and said "We're gonna do it MY WAY."
Yoshida cracked the whip and laid out an incredibly tight schedule over the course of two years for rebuilding Final Fantasy XIV Online from the ground up. He had an exact vision in mind, and he was (and is still) a very competent leader, even able to navigate the utterly arcane minefield that is Square Enix higher-ups and representatives to get his way. Yes, he had to crunch his team heavily to achieve it, but it wasn't out of laziness, it was because Square gave them a deadline of two years and he knew everyone could do it with some direction.
So, here's where the problem comes in. Remember, that teeny tiny little GIGANTIC PULSATING CANCEROUS problem I brought up before? Bioware doesn't have a Naoki Yoshida. Bioware doesn't have a functional company structure. Bioware doesn't even have their competent writers anymore. Bioware. Has. NOTHING.
Yoshida crunched his team out of pure necessity; he already had the game they were going to make in mind, it just had to happen extremely quickly. Not only that, but he was a competent leader. Bioware, meanwhile, crunches their employees into complete mental breakdowns and works them to the brink of death...because of utterly incompetent leadership. There's nobody with a vision (of anything other than piles of money), they don't have anything to unite them, and they have no direction; this is the point where I will reiterate what was said in the video, that being Bioware itself didn't actually know it was making Anthem until the E3 hype trailer was released.
EA was shockingly forgiving with the development of Anthem, but even they eventually had to put Bioware under the sword with a hard-and-fast deadline. That's the only time Bioware actually managed to actually start making a game. It took a gun to the company's head before they actually made the game they had started over half a decade ago.
So when the woodworks' crowd comes clambering out to kick and scream about A Realm Reborn being a successful relaunch of FFXIV Online, it's important to remember the context under which it was made. That sort of second wind is lightning in a bottle; it took the perfect storm of a legend-to-be with a vision, Square Enix getting temporarily distracted with a shiny object long enough for a good game to be made under their noses, and a playerbase that was genuinely willing to return and give the game a second chance.
Even under the philosophy of "Never say "Die"", I'm going to say it: Anthem will NEVER achieve A Realm Reborn's legendary revival status. There isn't a game to salvage, there was no vision in the first place, there is simply nothing to work with. Even A Realm Reborn still references parts of XIV Online and uses it as a base. What could Anthem do to make any of what it has workable? What can Bioware do to pull its collective head out of its ass?
There's a very simple answer: Nothing. Nothing will be enough. Bioware has bled all of its talent. Anthem is dead. EA is on high alert, especially with how they keep getting sued up the ass in Europe. There's simply nothing that can be done; Bioware will close before 2021 is over, and it will be nobody's fault but their own at this point.
See, that's the thing. For every Final Fantasy XIV or Star Wars: Battlefront (EA) II, there are at least 30 games that never have that never get fixed or whose playerbase is long gone, even after the game is good
At the very least we can have fun watching EA get in more and more hotwater.
You might as well play Destiny that's a better game
As of the beginning of this year, all services for Anthem have been terminated and no effort will be made to fix or maintain the game for the indefinite future. The game is defacto dead.
Anthem ultimately was an example of utter hubris. They announced it before they even knew what they wanted it to be, only what they didn't want it to be, spent years getting nothing useful done, then subjected their workers to abusive crunch and called it 'Bioware Magic' to cobble something together for the release date.
Then add all the usual corporate lies; it was the start of a 10 year journey for them (which is why it was dead in barely 2), they had a road map to improve it post-launch (from which almost nothing was done before they gave up), plus lest we forget the 'gameplay trailer' that featured elements that were nowhere to be seen in the game they actually released.
Bioware entered into a genre the Anthem development team had absolutely no prior experience in, while barring the one division with any comparable experience from helping, spent years wasting time, then subjected their workers to sickening levels of crunch and figured it'd all work out because they're Bioware. Nevermind Bioware has no history of looter shooters, the games they made before were (mostly) great so Anthem would be as well.
Now they're cutting multiplayer from Dragon Age 4 because its somehow gotten through to them that a company that found success making single player story focused RPGs, should make one of those.
That's why I hate the term 'live service.' If you're game is an MMO, call it an MMO.
I have an issue with the whole "it will get fixed later" excuse.
If you're gonna release an overly broken, glitch-filled, poorly optimized mess, why even bother releasing it to begin with?
That's what beta testers are for. Don't just dump an unfinished mess and expect people to eat up your shit.
Games like Superman 64, Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing, and Ride to Hell: Retribution are examples of rushed development and bad optimization, but at least they didn't require an internet connection.
And when your game is so bad that I'm defending Superman 64, you seriously fucked up.
AAA publishers look for any excuse to make more money for less work, and releasing barely functional games with no content under the vague promise that "it'll be good later!" to sucker people into wasting money on microtransactions is their current scheme because they can't rely on loot boxes anymore.
And sadly because publishers never learn their lesson it'll take another Battlefront II level disaster for this live service crap to go away.
Looks like Marvel's Avengers is learning that lesson the hard way too, since 96% of players have abandoned it. Ouch.
But seriously, to hell with live-service or games as a service shit fests. Give us complete, polished games at launch and if you want to add DLC later that's fine, just don't chop off content from that main game and sell it separately as DLC. That shit grinds my gears.
What's Superman 64? Why do people keep bringing it up? Why do people keep beating a dead horse?
@@AlphaZeroX96it's an infamous licensed game based on Superman The Animated Series, where it's notoriously broken, such as ungodly bad controls where you can barely beat the first level. The rest of the game doesn't fare better.
I'd originally call this the "Iron Man at home," but given how the recent Avengers game turned out, well...
Sad thing is... Avengers could've been great. The gameplay could use some work but it's fine as a beat-em-up. If single player was first and then multi, it would be way better and possibly more interesting. It's fine as a game...
Then I played Astral Chain (and I still play it), which is also a 3D beat-em-up with exploration. And it has so much charm, fun and soul that, well... It's literally what I wish Avengers was.
@@shis1988 Honestly, Platinum Games (formerly Clover Studios) could've made a kickass version of Avengers... no... an incredible Marvel Ultimate Alliance game instead of Crystal Dynamics... maybe...
@@shis1988 Avengers is a game thats rip in two. Its got no set identity. The gameplay is a cool concept. A looter brawler set in the marvel universe.
@@christopherwashi it's why it makes me upset. This could have been great, but they wanted it to be online and even that is broken because you have a healer and you need Iron Man to get rid of snipers easily as well... Balancing wasn't the issue.
@Trevor White Not exactly a high bar.
What people don't understand about FFXIV is that, they didn't "fix" it, they scrapped the whole game and made an entirely new one that vaguely followed that previous one's story. A Real Reborn wasn't a mega patch, it was a new game altogether so stop saying that these kind of games can "make a comeback" with enough updates, sometimes you just have to know where to cut your loses and start anew.
Pretty much. Now they got to go back to the drawing board for a redo because they messed up royally in so many parts of development.
You know what I'm reminded of when people bring up the argument of "They fixed it now; the game is good" (aka the For Honor Defense)? Final Fantasy 13. "The game gets good once you get out of Cocoon!" (Which is 25 hours in.) To quote Spoony, "Why can't it be good NOW?!"
7:00 Of all the comparisons to Warframe, I feel this is the most telling. Not only can I pause the game in solo, I can leave it for 8 hours and not be kicked. And that game is free!
It really says something when Titanfall 2, another EA title, was the better mech game.
I know this game has been out and did it's rounds, but I still really wish Crunch time in game development wasn't blown off as "part of the job", really disrespectul to not worry about the people making a game for you
Especially when people literally DIE to get the game out.
Crunch is abuse of your workers and an indictment of leadership for not managing the development schedule better. Plus after a certain point its just stupid because after so many hours, people's efficiency just tanks anyway, so your not getting more work done, you're just getting burned out employees.
@@shis1988 yeh be jse bioware was acused of human rights abuses and toxic workplace environment
Anthem? Oh, you mean worse Warframe that you need to pay money for just to get it?
Well tbh i dont like warfame that much, takes way too long to get anything and most things are kept behind micro transaction platnum (i used to play warframe alot) not that anthem is any good 😂 atleast you can play warframe online without having to pay
When that "Anthem" song came on, all I could think of was that Sigma from overwatch trailer of him screaming "What is that melody!?!"
It's The Anthem by Good Charlotte.
I first heard it because it's in Donkey Konga 2.
Funny how Anthem shovels in so much lore into the game, nevermind that lore isn't the same as narrative.
Just look at what happened to the Dark Universe (at least the DCEU has the first Wonder Woman movie and Shazam) and The Order: 1886.
It's one thing to create an immersive world, but there has to be a way to implement a story into it without lumping it into rampant exposition.
I'm a big fan of Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto franchise, the games have several lore by way of fictional radio ads and instruction manuals, but the reason why they work is because the games themselves have an actual story surrounding them.
Even one of Rockstar's lesser-known games like Manhunt have better lore than Anthem, though I'm one of the few pedantic guys that is willing to give Manhunt some merit.
Manhunt has a pretty interesting story, it's manhunt 2 that has the shit story
@@ALIEN-DUDE That's true.
You're right in how you should find a balance between world-building and actual storytelling since you want enough info to know what's going on but not too much so that it feels like your back at school.
@@ALIEN-DUDE manhunt doesn't relky have vat lore it just story if a guy who killing other guys with plastic bats and punches and and fighting gsy BDSM guys anthem has a developed lore and world in it
Around 6:00 with the being dragged to waypoints, which look like RINGS, I really wanted to hear "Oof, bad idea to slightly rip off Superman 64"
And this is why I'm always skeptical towards live service games.
Has there been even one great "Live service" game? Even Destiny, that cursed game that started this 10 year bullshit (at least it was the first game I heard using such stupid language that wasn't just an MMO), was just... ok. Pretty much any other game taking on that accursed mantle was a complete dumpsterfire.
I always found that rather gimmicky. I get adding updates to a game, but it's always mismanaged DRM and connection issues.
I get the feeling that all the corporate executives that actively support “LIVE SERVICES” saw Spaceballs, which ACCURATELY predicted the true nature of “LIVE SERVICES” mentality. The whole “release now, fix it later” came from what Spaceballs called “Instant Cassettes”, in a sense, they’re out in stores before the products are finished. This came out during the 1980s btw. If even Mel Brookes could predict the failure of “LIVE SERVICES” and all who support them DECADES before video games became mainstream, you know the industry as a whole has FAILED. Better to burn the whole thing down and start again. The Second Great Video Game Crash is not only inevitable, it’s imminent. My prayers go out to all who truly love video games and want to see this industry return to prosperity and glory. But it can’t do that with the current hierarchy alive and intact.
God, BioWare was fallen so hard over the past decade. At least we'll always have the old classics they made already, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is probably my favorite game made from them.
Blizzard, Bethesda, bioware they are all a product of their age. When a company has been around for as long as they have people retire, people join, things change. Even Activision was originally founded to counter the evil overlords Atari. Cd project Red for example is currently where bioware used to be during the Baldur's gate days. Where blizzard used to be during the broodwar, Diablo 2 days. Give cdpr 10-15 years when the current Devs retire and new people join:) nothing lasts for ever. Eventually everyone ends the same way lol.
@@xyr3s Jeez... might as well take whatever good graces are available from those gaming companies. Mine is Naughty Dog... or shall I say NaughtyDruckmann... you know what I'm talking about...
@@xyr3s Who needs 10-15 years when you can have 4 weeks from when you made your comment
@@youtube-kit9450 roflmao xD
@@youtube-kit9450 I know, CDPR literally destroyed their reputation in just *ONE* week. Even Bethesda took several months after Fallout 76's initial release to tank theirs as bad as it did with the embarrassing scandals and controversies. All that's missing is the announcement of a "Cyberpunk First" subscription for $100 a year, and at this rate that could be by this Friday haha.
Dude I got to tell you your reviews haven’t gotten old in the 4 years I started watching :)
Thanks! Glad to hear that I age like a fine wine.
@@Darklordjadow1 you realy do jadow, plz dont stop with the quality content.
As anthem showed budget =/= quality :)
BioWare truly has fallen hard. Hopefully they get their shit together for Dragon Age 4.
EA has pretty much removed all the tallented people
bioware is dead already its just a name now and theyw ill be shut down soon
It's what EA does, buys a company, forces them to do something completely outside their wheelhouse, then blame them when it fails and shut them down.
@@JamesTobiasStewart Until they are the last company on Earth then no one can stop them from forcing crappy games with crappier microtransactions down our throat
Sorry to burst your bubble but considering Dragon age 4 is being made with anthem's skeleton as a base and one developer called it "Anthem with Dragons"... Its safe to say that unless every Human resource that knows frostbite can work on it, it will become the anthem 2.0 we dread
@TwistedGamer probably for the best, better games have been canned and never released. And the fact that this dumpster fire was allowed to be released in the first place is proof of that. Sometimes it’s better to abort a trash heap and start from scratch. Whenever a great game is released, a dozen bad games had already been made and scrapped in the making of it. Some concepts are better off not explored.
Anthem is really the lowest point for Bioware.
@ScepticalCynic ME2 was still a popular, profitable game and DA2 wasn't that big of a title to warrant utter hatred.
Remember Jade Empire? A good and interesting story based game with multiple endings and romance choices? What happened to the old Bioware? Also is Anthem good now?
@@TheDarkUmbreon8623 Jade Empire was awesome.
@@HolyknightVader999 Yesh!
Oh
Coming back to this what could be an interesting way to handle the villain would be if he was like Owen. He was considered worthless within his faction because he couldn't use their armors. So he took control of his own destiny and forcibly made the armor work through modifications and has been modifying his for decades which makes him nigh invulnerable thanks to how often he upgrades whenever anyone can manage to hurt him. He is seeking the Anthem of Creation as an end goal to take command of reality and make a world he deems fit having become so bitter at the state of things and still bitter that after all this time you as a rookie can be someone special inside your own faction. You were born able to use your suit while he worked so hard to get to where he is and he finds it insufferable you are somehow gaining enough power to start matching him. He becomes a god entity with the Anthem of Creation and begins reshaping the world while screaming in rage about the system you're a part of and how long he has put in to reaching this goal and even talking about Owen and saying that those on top like you would look down at him and smother him in the crib just because you can.
You don't need much to make a villain who is an evil invincible asshole have some character and by making him be this extremely bitter asshole who has become exactly what he hates and can't realize it you would have a villain with only some dialogue changes have the potential to be at least somewhat memorable even in your few interactions by building him as someone who just keeps adapting and has a bitter streak. Then by killing him you somehow have managed to put yourself on a lot of people's radars by managing to kill an infamous asshole and bam you can even have post game content be different jobs you're hired on to do because your reputation makes you a valuable hire. Simple, effective, takes less than 7 years to come up with, and even helps work with a live service game's content feed. But no legendary Bioware with their many writers and EA giving them time to work on the game managed to bungle around so long EA was in the right for once to argue to speed a game along. Because if you're still not even in full production/development after half a decade then you're not making a project you're making a Duke Nukem Forever.
"Dad, can I have the new Iron Man VR game?"
"Son, we have Iron Man VR at home."
Iron Man VR at home:
this is the problem with online games, you need to connect to it, if you dont have internet, or a shity connection in general, you pretty much cant play the game, or have special unlockables
I've played Anthem, I've beaten Anthem once...I quit Anthem, and have had months of regret getting it ever since. Bioware did say that they are rebuilding the game from the ground up and will make it the game it was suppose to be...but until then, this game makes Hunt Down the Freeman look like its Game of the Year material
yes.
28:24 He looks like blind Kanan Jarrus from Star Wars Rebels.
It just utterly disgusts me that EA would abuse their employees like that. Just despicable. Anyway, great review! Been waiting for this one, and you didn’t disappoint!
I'm still sore over how they shut down Visceral Games. Not only were the sale expectations EA set for them ludicrously high, but EA themselves were responsible for why Dead Space 3 turned out the way it did. Hearing the ideas Visceral had for 3 and 4 and that Star Wars game they were working on will always leave a hole in my heart.
@@DinoDave150 Yeah, if there’s one thing that EA’s good at, it’s leaving giant gaping holes in the hearts of gamers. Mass Effect 3, Mass Effect Andromeda, Dead Space 3, Star Wars Battlefront II (the new one), and so on.
"This is the third time I've checked this game out from the library"
Jadow, why do you hurt yourself by having this take up space in your home?
Really disappointing to see Bioware having fallen so low. KOTOR, Jade Empire, and the original Mass Effect (not played 2 or 3 yet) are all great games, and it's sad to see that their latest was just... this. And there's the usage of crunch, which is just terrible for people's mental health.
One of your best videos dude. I just want to say thanks and great work since I think you should get a lot more views than you do. These types of videos are a dying art form.
No word of a lie, Jadow, but every time you upload a review, I get excited to see what gets thrown at you; you're an awesome reviewer, you definitely deserve more attention, bro!
The plot is dirt simple and near nonexistant but stuffed with a shitton of useless lore and info dumps to try to make it look deeper a.k.a. every cheap tactic that bad writers rely on to attempt and fail to sugar coat the fact that their stories suck.
Lore and world-building mean nothing unless there's good characters and story to explore it with.
Lore and worldbuilding are very important, but not at the expense of the actual story told and the characters in the present.
If you have the fucking most amazing lore and worldbuilding ever but your current characters and story suck... JUST FUCKING GIVE ME A GAME TAKING PLACE WHEN THE LORE WAS HAPPENING.
The last 3 Anthem players realllllly got the magic over their head
To be honest, I'm surprised Anthem didn't get the Tony Hawk Pro Skater 5 treatment... (I.E. Servers shutting down, The game being bricked and the game pretty much being a collector's item.)
This channel is gonna blow up!
One can only hope!
Basically, if Warframe was on a budget and lacked creative design and lore
lets not forget that warframe is bloody free.
Calling this 2019’s biggest gaming failure is generous. More like this is the biggest gaming failure of the generation
Funny enough, I never grew up with Bioware's games. I found out about about the company after watching big boss's video on EA talking about the problems that this game and Mass Effect: Andromeda had. I will say that I recently purchased the Mass Effect: Legendary Edition and am absolutely loving it. Sad to see what Bioware had become, but in the very least I can see that they were at least trying to salvage the franchise to warrant getting excited about the next Mass Effect game.
Lmao i love your commentary, I laughed quite a few times. It reminds me of the old G4 X-Play reviews. I'm subscribing for more!
Jadow, you really do provide some very funny content during what is a very boring day for me. Also, I think the crappiness of the story in Anthem sucks even harder when you consider Bioware literally wrote one of the absolute best plot twists of any game when they made Knights of the Old Republic. They also made one of the most emotional trilogies with Mass Effect that really got you invested in the lore, characters, and story.
I'm just still so happy you're reviewing games. Most reviewers I find that are really good and or funny seem to have abanden their channels. You should review Dragonball GT: Final Bout, the voice acting is another level of cringe, and the computer controled players can sometimes be really overpowered too
I love the review, its so good 😊
I no joke ordered a copy online right after i watched this for the third time lol, the one class i was interested in was the storm class javalin tbh
Legends say that they are still working on Anthem 2.0 to this day.
And by the time it's finished assuming it ever gets done no one will care because everyone already moved on to better games.
@@elin111 Yup. The same thing is happening to Avengers where players will likely not care about the new hero at this point or barely play before dropping the game again. The problem with live service is your game will fail if you can at least get a good amount of dedicated players since numbers fluctuate all the time.
@@kosmosfan01 The problem with live services is that the concept is little more than an excuse to release blatantly unfinished games and promise "it'll be good eventually!" but because the game is crap the first time everyone drops very quickly. And the vague promise of it becoming "better" are tied to whether or not people are spending enough money on microtransactions.
Tons of games come out constantly, people are not going to play the same crap game forever hoping that it eventually becomes worth it when they could be playing any of the other games that came out since many of which are far better.
@@elin111 True. The roadmap isn't going help because that content might get delayed or be disappointing because all that waitinf needs to be for something significant and not seasonal events and battle passes.
All of those are just means to keep people playing the game longer so that they can keep milking the microtransactions longer. Big publishers can't rely on loot boxes anymore so now they're pushing heavier this "live service" crap as a substitute method to milk money out of people and thankfully it's not working.
and remember:
if it's a bug, it's actually a surprise mechanism
Now that Mass Effect is getting a remaster, are you reviewing those? Seeing how those went from a massive epic adventure to retconning everything you did to make ME2 and then spit, piss and shit on its players for 3 and then... To Andromeda.
Ok man, we get it, Krystal is your waifu, you are risking in people calling you furry with that.
Meh; they already say that anyway. Might as well poke the bear... and get a nice room decoration at the same time.
@@Darklordjadow1 Makes semse. Just don't poke the bear too much or it will bite hard.
This game has regularly gone on sale for $5 brand new. Still not interested in trying it.
For the record, BioWare has officially announced version 2.0 has been cancelled sometime in 2021
0:41 This is where I started chuckling.
0:52 This is where I started laughing.
0:58 THIS IS WHERE I STARTED DYING XD!
1:16 I haven't even gotten far into the actual review and I know this will be an amazing video.
Live service games are getting really repetitive. BioWare management really messed it up with their incompetent and unforgiving approach in keeping their employees sane. Very few games turn out good when in development hell/crunch
Never got why people got so hyped about "Live service".
Back in my days we just called it "MMO" and it wasn't anything revolutionary, and as we saw so far, every single live-service game was a shallow, money-grabbing, mtx-riddled boring repetitive grindfest.
Glad people slowly are catching on. Singleplayer games still stay the best games out there.
37:17 - 39:02. There is also the fact that live service games tend to be like a three course meal where you're forced to eat literal shit for the starter, it doesn’t matter how good the rest of the meal is. YOU. ARE. NO. LONGER. HUNGRY.
I can't wait for Darklordjadow1 to review Mulan 2020. It recently got released onto RUclips for $20
Screw that; come December 4 it'll be free on Disney plus
@@Darklordjadow1 Your gonna plan to review Mulan 2020? HOW AWESOME IS THAT
@@ambroseburnside1950 Actually I hadn't planned on it. Haven't seen it yet to make a decision
Just discovered you. Not sure if it's up your alley game wise, but I highly recommend playing the Just Cause 3 dlc story missions. One of them literally turns you into Iron Man, to a degree where I audibly asked "How has an Iron Man not been made yet?" The dlc also proves just how pointless Anthem's "one good element, the flying" truly was/is.
Fantastic job jadow. A+ work.
Glad u did a video on this, since I can't play the game anymore due to EA shafting my account and making invalid, that goes for all EA games too. Not missing this game one bit ever since I maxed out my interceptor.
They could've ripped of Red Eclipse's jetpack and parkour since they actually work
They could have used *their own combat* from Mass Effect: Andromeda-it was the only good part about that game!
Apparently the 12 or so Anthem fans left somehow were surprised that Anthem is dead.
Oh you haven't seen the extreme coping they seethe. "The servers are active!" or "Don't criticize if you haven't FINISHED it!" or even "I'd rather play this than Arkham!". You can't fix stupid.
Haven't played this game but the story seems like it screws up on the basic level of "show don't tell"
so why IS this show called Terrors of the Library? do you actually check out games from your local library like its a Blockbuster? Librarys do that??
It's called Terrors of the Library because my local library (with like books and stuff) actually has a lot of video games to check out, and pretty much every one I try is horrible.
They get a few of the big releases, but mostly it's a dumping ground of unwanted games.
@@Darklordjadow1 thats pretty amazing
Sees the title
Me: Oh No
Dude this my first video I'm watching of yours and fuck man is it entertaining got my notification an sub👍🤙
Did you see the part where some of the Bioware employees think their fellow workers might have killed themselves because they left one day and never were heard from by any of them ever again? Don't know if it's true but the game's development was hellish enough to cause serious mental harm.
I have no idea how EA let Anthem sit around in such a state for so many years. And considering FF14 comes from Square and Square runs on literal madness the fact Bioware claimed they would do one means they missed that FF14 was expensive and a miracle. Anthem should have been so cool, an Iron Man looter shooter should be awesome. Like if the weapon classes weren't just assault rifles and SMGs and more unique like maybe blade launchers and maybe an elemental based rapid fire weapon that lays on status effects rather than pure damage. But no because Bioware is ran by people who are stuck sniffing their own endlessly recycled praise they couldn't see that starting a game development full scale at a decent time was a smart idea. Crunch on that scale is a damning failure of management, and the fact that CD Projekt Red on Cyberpunk has been supposedly doing death march crunch yet the game is still being so hyped makes me worried that it will keep being seen as a good thing by people that don't understand working programmers to death doesn't solve shit.
You're a bit late to that. Gamers™ see devs as their slaves already. Hell, games need to be specifically what Gamers™ say or it's bad.
Never saw that coming. Great terror
I hope you do a review the new spiderman game
I'm definitely planning to play it; will probably review it while I'm at it.
Maybe the Monitor was embarrassed by his height, which is why he grew a bit taller.
Holy shit. That fan art as soon as the video starts scared the fuck out of me.
Perhaps this game is the employees getting back at the corporation.
I remember buying this and destiny thinking these were gonna be great games boy was I wrong lol
Man i was waiting for this reveiw
Are you going to review that Avengers game?
I am, but I'm still number 15 on the reserve list for it at the library (meaning it's been about a month and I haven't budged on it). So it'll be a while.
By then the game might already be dead. There's like barely any players left.
@@elin111 96% of the game's players have quit. It's dead already.
@@Darklordjadow1 My older brother was about to buy the game but as soon as I told him it's an online game he said "To hell with that crap!" and threw the game back into the shelf.
That was my good deed of the day.
@@elin111 You my friend, are a good brother.
Another core example as to why EA is one of, if not the worst game company on the planet, outside of Konami and Activision.
Don’t forget Ubisoft, Bethesda, Gearbox, and GameMill
This game had A LOT of advertising hype when it was first announced, and it's amazing as to how shit it actually is.
evil faction called the dominion (rip off of star trek deep space 9) and a guy called the monitor (ripping off infinite crisis, at this point the comic)
Think you deserve some fun after this one. You mentioned that you liked Doom 2016 in your duke nukem review, what about Doom eternal? :>
I'm a good chunk of the way through Doom 3; I could finish that game and do the review...
@@Darklordjadow1 To quote Senator Palpatine, "Do it."
@@Darklordjadow1 sweet
The real Bio-ware developers left the company after Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age Inquisition. The ones that made this game are just posers with the company name and rep. (kinda like modern Bungie).
Wow I didn't realize how barren anthem was, Jesus
the bad guys are called The Dominion, and are lead by The Monitor, BAAAAAAD idea ripping off star trek deep space 9 and DC Crisis on Infinite Earths (comic and tv event)
So this review makes me have a bit of a burning hatred towards BioWare and Crunch Time. That's a first
Fortunately i didn't make the mistake of buying this shit, this whole javelin armor that can fly concept had me hyped, and then the game was released.... The bricked consoles are true, i had a friend who's ps4 literally crashed to oblivion and couldn't work at all because of this trash game but thankfully the console was still under warranty and he got it replaced, this is a first i have never heard of a game turning a console into a rock
Pretty depressing to see Bioware fall from grace with suuuch a brutal impact with the ground. After Dragon Age Inquisition... it's so depressing to see what they have become.
And speaking of Bioware, planning to play Mass Effect 3 soon. Gotta see how the Trilogy saga concludes. To remember why they were once called the Kings of RPG's.(also to reunite with Garrus and Jack)
And yeah, I'll brace for the endings too. See if they're really that bad. But at least I'll be playing one of their last good games.
Why do you have so many "The Simulation" games? Is that for a future review?
There was a four-in-one disc that I found for uber cheap, and instead of having four games on one disc, it straight-up installs four separate games onto your PS4. It's very annoying.
And yes- for a future video.
@@Darklordjadow1 Probably easier to manage trophy lists or whatever.
Remember when it kept bricking and crashing your hard drive in the past? Yeah, for a while, it'd brick your console and you'd need to rebuild your hard drive.
Is that Terrors of the Library title card new?
It debuted with X-Men Destiny. A viewer of mine on Twitter made it for me.
@@Darklordjadow1 How nice of them.
I love Terrors of the library
Not being able to pause while playing by yourself is probably the most simple and annoying problem in a video game
Yeah, hearing that alone would have made me not want to buy it, everything else be damned.
If I can't play a singleplayer game and not pause it whenever I want, fuck you.
Shouldnt it be terrors the video game store? Libraries have books NOT video games
However, They arnt scary in the first place and video game & movie stores are dead
No, because these are all games I found at the library.
why does this visually remind me of Warframe...
because it's similar, and now is also suffering similar pitfalls except it was more on grind that is a mountain of it.
Highlights:
The game refuses to work lest you have a fine to play it... Oh boy.
Getting punished for eating? MAKE A PAUSE BUTTON!
"THIS LOSER COULD'T SCARE A FERRET!"
That mess of a quest that is stopping dead till you've wasted your life waiting for objectives. Or as it is called Tomb of the Legions.
How to form squads with only one person: you can't.
"Big deal. I've heard the anthem too. (music plays)"
"BIOWARE MAGIC!"
"Even Anthem doesn't want to play Anthem!"
His explanation of why Anthem was a mess.
Edit: Oh golly. That game... Two bland characters and a time portal.
That's why the old console ports of Minecraft are still superior. The pause menu button, and get this, will pause your game in singleplayer.
Can't wait for the same issues to worm their way into transformers with Transformers Online!
Wait wasn't that already shut down?
nevermind that was the beta which i did play. it was...... eh. not great but had some good ideas.
edit 2: actually that was transformers universe.
I've never been this early before. And I love that is for this specific review.
Personally I didn't mind the dumb story, the flying (Which I actually enjoyed) or the microtransactions. I did enjoy playing it... for about 3 days before I realised "Wow, this is really boring. I'd rather be playing Hitman 2"
I don't know if it's really crutch time or is it the wretched journalism that's trying to stoke the fears of us all. Or both!
This game is basically Borderlands in third person and not good
Yeah if the world was generic and weapons were all white quality trash, and no vechicles.
Not only a great review, but a great break down.
My bigger question with the Kotaku PS5 article is, who was the jackass that read that and went "yep we'll publish this! Totally no problem with this article that directly insults and guilt shames the very people who would want to read it!"
What kills me about it is that I know from experience that if you do what he says and just angst over real-world problems, too guilty to do anything for fun (his strawman argument can apply to all movies, TV, and sports too), it would drive you insane!
Having hobbies and being able to enjoy things in life isn't entitlement, it's being a functional human being!
But judging by tweets his attitude is that if you disagree with him, then you're part of the problem and it means his shit's working, so there's not going to be any penetrating that ingoramus skull.
@@Darklordjadow1 A big reason that DC's obsession with being overly grim dark and the stupid fanbase shitting on anything that isn't angsty or "edgy" bother me is because that also fuel that mindset that "you have to angst about everything all the time color and personality is for pussies!"
This is one of the many reasons why I never use Twitter.
I honestly hate the recent political climate, simply because of how one-sided everything is and because people are complete assholes about their opinions.
Like when people calling others sexist for not liking Ghostbusters 2016 or A Wrinkle in Time, assuming Joker is for edgelords and potential school shooters, and slandering the Sonic movie for having homophobic slurs, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Of course, Kotaku reviewing the PS5 and Xbox Series X is just as idiotic, with the PS5 review steering into political BS and the Xbox Series X having "too many holes."
Or when a reviewer gives a SpongeBob game a 2 out of 10 for not beating a simple puzzle.
Unexpected Dune reference
Best line ever! in 28:32
I remember playing the demo and noting that the graphics were really beautiful when exploring the world, but it's kind of like gold plating a turd. It might look good at first glance, but inside is pure crap.
This makes me want a iron man game
Well there is Iron Man VR.
@@DinoDave150 yeah but I don’t have VR
@@easymb3069 Well, I guess you could play the tie-in games to the first Iron Man film, but I assume you'd want something more recent.
Where did you order the pizza from?
Papa Johns. They have a special if you order after the local sports team has won, so I have an account and rewards with them.
Sounds delicious!
@@garretts6678 When I order for myself I get sausage, black olive, and pineapple.
Unfortunately Papa Johns- like many big chains- does not have green olives.
@@Darklordjadow1 Glad to know I'm not the only one who likes pineapple on pizza!
@@garretts6678 My ex likes Pineapple and Pepperoni. That's a little too odd of a combination for me, but yes; I love pineapple on pizza