@@warforge3850 I've seen video popping up claiming enlisted is better the paleword but sadly alot of people are sell outs enlisted is a mid game at best and so many content makers can't be trusted so many content makers sell out and promote a game or product that's crappy.
To this day, I still shed a tear anytime I see anything about Anthem. There was SOOOOO much potential and it was an absolute blast. It really had an opportunity to dethrone Destiny. The devs were highly engaged with the community in Discord and on Reddit. They all seemed REALLY proud of it as it was discussed. First few weeks were amazing! Then the end game boredom set in and next thing you know it's 2024 and I'm in a comment section waxing poetically about how much I wanted this game to Succeed
I am so beyond words being right there with you in that, I still tear up to no joke, there was something special about anthem I literally hated the hate on this game....
EA is King at leaving money on the table, after killing a game with poor leadership, and preditory cash shops. It hilarious, because if they just did a rewind of EA about two decades they could literally become the center of gaming again, I often wonder at the lack of intelligence these so called AAA company's display, their shareholders are absolute idiots.
MFs are still playing the game and hopping in it and it's dead! WTF does that tell you EA... WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU! Anthem doesn't need a 2.0 update. IT's needs a full blown sequel, built from the ground up in a better, easier to work with engine for this type of game, and all the lessons learned from what Anthem 1 needed. There's no doubt it would be a successful live service game
It was so broken, but after a few years ive recently started playing it again on xbox. I was surprised to see it still having players. Had to start over, to relearn controls. And immediately remembered how much i enjoyed the gameplay itself. The combat and how powers play off each other. I just wish it would get support, there is still potential in the game
I remember playing in the demo and having a sense of awe, and within 30 minutes, thinking something like "ok, the core gameplay is really good, but why does this game feel so hollow to play...". It seems clear the devs were forced to make a pretty game, that looks great in gameplay videos, but has almost no depth to it. Which is doubly sad coming from Bioware, a studio that made it's name on deep games.
I'm hoping that the trend of AAA games falling off because bad development and the want for finished games leads to Anthem 2 or a reboot. EA has the money to support and make it work especially with the Destiny team disbanding after the final shape. Now is prime time to build up and get a top tier product to hit in 2027.
i keep saying that Bungie should buy the IP and make it theirs since it has everything just neesd fleshing out and making something of the Shaper events and story
@@gqahy you're the stupid people EA wanted to sell the game to not us who saw that it was going to be a dumpster fire sold as 'ez money' with a banger trailer
I don't really watch gladd but he became famous because he soloed destiny 1 raid not on controller but using a set of rock band drums as the input device he's one of ten people in the world who beat every destiny 2 raid in the first 24 hours including the last wish raid which only twelve people in the world beat on day one long story short he's such a god tier gamer that he would never need to cheat to beat any pve content developed by any studio in the history of video gaming
Anthem is my guilty pleasure. I come back every year or so & I always enjoy it for a while. It will always be my #1 game i wish was given a 2nd chance by the studio.
Anthem really was a sort of amazing that’s never been done since ngl. You felt like you WERE your mech. The customization was truly amazing. Gunplay was also pretty good. I just wish they’d made ONE expansion for it. All it would’ve needed was development
@@luckymango1963warframe does a better job of making your mech feel personalized and unique and its free to play by a solo developer studio, anthem was a failure for the budget and standards of high quality it could achieve. It had potential sure but it was never good/great
I remember people were complaining that the flight duration was too short. I equipped some parts that increased the heat gage and used the cooling effects of environmental water and was able to fly around the map for an hour without touching the ground.
20:05 it’s so wild that this TH-camr and thousands of other people know about this guy that broken all these records but I’ve never heard of him even once. They say it’s a small world but honestly it’s huge 😂
Thanks for putting this one out, Evan. I didn't get into Anthem until a few months after the launch, by which time most people had left the game. I kept playing it up until EA pulled the plug, and stopped playing after that because I was pretty heartbroken. Anthem 2.0 or Anthem Next looked like it was going to be fantastic. I still hold out a little bit of hope that it ends up getting revived and made into the game it could have been. It probably won't, but stranger things have happened....
Potential because you could fly around in a looter shooter? It had nothing going for it. It's the equivalent of swinging around and double/triple jumping through levels in Suicide Squad - Kill the Justice League. That's not fun gameplay merely going for spectacle, especially when the gameplay loop sucks. It's like putting icing on a cake made of dung. The game exists as much as it has some pretty superficial level stuff but when you sink your teeth in the real disgusting flavor sets in.
@@blaket1841 What's the matter, did somebody break your little heart? Everyone loves to bitch,, moan, whine, and complain about everything, I swear. You probably never even played the game before, and even if you did, nobody cares if you liked it or not. Don't give yourself that much credit.
I really wanted anthem to go well and have a come back , But EA killed it. I haven’t trusted or bought a new EA game since. Honestly If they decided to go back to this concept and work on it again, I’d give it another chance.
@@xRichieeex You sound like the expert on meat riding, because I never even brought it up. Have you always had this fixation with meat riding? Sounds kinda gay IMO, but then again, it sounds like a you problem.
Yes. That's why I don't think the 2.0 would've saved the game, the core story/npc interaction was beyond bad. Can't really fix that at a later stage. Whole story and clunkyness needed to be jettisoned.
I lay awake at night thinking about what this game couldve been if the 'vid didnt hault production on anthem 2.0. Lord knows id still be playing if the updates never stopped.
They probably know if they did a “anthem 2.0 announcement”, it’d probably have more attention than the release. If they’re doing anything, they’d keep quiet
The comment of Anthem being “Destiny Lite” was actually why I was so attached to it. It reminded me of the game that was essentially my childhood. I met all my friends through Destiny, and made so many memories because of it. So when Anthem dropped, all of us were hyped beyond comprehension. And even with all of its problems, we toughed it out because our thought process was, “Destiny had a super rough start, but it found its footing eventually. So let’s give Anthem that same treatment.” But as we can all see via the video, it didn’t find its footing. I still have Anthem installed and there are some days where I boot it up just to fly around the map. I of course crash after like 5 minutes of play, but it gives me a bittersweet nostalgia. (Granted I think my crashing issue is because I’m on an old Xbox One) It still pains me to see what happened to this game.
My friends and I toughed it out really hard. One of the big new missions that dropped, someone possibly causing a new cataclysmic storm and the player has to stop them. Well the level wasn't loading right for me, not all the landscape loaded in, I could see only half the enemies, couldn't help with any of the puzzles, but we still figured out how to get me around collision boxes I couldn't see to get me to the boss fight where all I could do was watch a cut scene and do add-clear.
@@drakkenmensch destiny is my favourite game of all time and also my most hated game of all time. If they had given this game another 6/8 months of development and not rushed it out I will say a lot of destiny players would have taken a good break from destiny to play this
Dude when I could play the game I loved it. I remember at one point loading into something and I sat there for a bit looking at the loading screen then I put a stop watch on. By the time I pressed stop OVER 40 MINUTES HAVE PASSED
Even after all these years, I still have hope that this game will make a return... Because even after the updates stopped, people kept playing. Almost every open game you enter has people inside. This game can make a come back and succeed. I hope it does one day
@@Derivedwhale45not the devs fault. Maybe they were not extremely passionate about working free overtime for years, but the fact people enjoyed the engine there just was not enough content means it wasn’t bad development. This was purely EAs fault for not having a plan, and constantly changing the plan, and then getting mad that the game lost money and probably made someone high up look bad.
@@mikeskirk The " not having a plan" part was 100% on Bioware. This is all public info at this point. Bioware wasn't even going to keep the flying until the EA oversight dev told them to keep the flying cause thats what made the game feel fun Bioware devs didn't even know what game they were making until they saw the EA reveal trailer and said "oh, so that's what the game is going to be". Cause that trailer wasn't even taken from any existing gameplay and was totally made just for E3. They still didn't know what type of game it was going to be up until EA turn the screws and said "alright, you got 2 years to figure it out and release it, cause it's been 4 and yall still haven't figured it out yet"
Let's say you produce music. Now let's say that everyone says your music sucks, literally EVERYONE. Now, how much do you think you're gonna keep making the same music now?
It DOES work. The problem is, everyone wants a tailor made experience, and instead of going to the other game for fulfillment, they'd rather complain and bitch and moan about how this game had "so much potential." All these complainers just need to get over it and move on if they don't like it. Fucking internet.
Evan, just wanted to express my gratitude to you because I love all of your videos. No notification on my phone ever gets me more excited than an upload from you. You truly have a natural gift for storytelling and I will always watch your videos regardless of the content you are covering. Even if these videos aren’t as popular as your destiny videos right now, they will be in the future. Keep doing what you are doing and it will take you farther than you can imagine.
Man I loved everything about it , graphics flight control shooting and abilities. So much promise . Killed me to learn it was scrubbed and left for dead. I still log on time to time
This was a great breakdown of what is probably one of the biggest tragedies of game releases in the last 20 yrs. I've been gaming for 45 years, and to this day, ignoring all the other issues with the game, I have NEVER had as enjoyable an action combat/traversal experience as Interceptor combat in Anthem. The other classes not so much, but Interceptor, with the full speed melee and the mod that let you reload every 3 dashes, was the best and most fun and frenetic action combat I had ever seen. Not to mention just how crisp and accurate the flying was. With a controller you could literally 3 way dash in a triangle and stop on a dime right on top of some 400 ft spire to just take in the environment. And the weight you felt of your javelin ever time you landed was perfect. If only anything else about the game was as epic as the combat and traversal. It not only could have been real competition for Destiny but could have influenced the ARPG/action shooter spaces for decades. Instead we got EA being EA. I can't even hear the number 1.3 anywhere without feeling a wave of disappointment which usually lasts about 11 hours. If you know, you know...unfortunately.
I was a Destiny player shopping around for "destiny killers" around the time Anthem came out. I never played but it's sad to hear just how much we're missing out on with its development being cancelled.
I agree intys combat was great and it's one of my favorite Java too. But imo storm and ranger were just as good, colossus was only 1 I couldn't get into. Ranger had so many build options also like intys and storms did too honestly but every1 just hopped on the binary star/steam vent meta train. But storm had some absolutely amazing weapon builds as well like with ToT or wyvern sniper, avenging herald, death from above etc. Not to mention able to get ralnalrs blaze tics to ridiculous lvls. But yes the combat/flying for those 3 javs was best time I've ever had in a video game prolly and I don't even like shooters for real so it's amazing anthem held my attention from day 1 to months after shut down and actually recently bought again after 2yrs and restarted accnt and am having a blast now again
I have over 1k hours in Anthem and I loved every second of it!🚀 The story was lackluster, but I don't play looter shooters for the story, just the combat and making a fun build. I moved on to Outriders afterwards and that was fun, but not as much as Anthem. I still have Anthem installed on my hd too.
@@relax5367 The endgame was indeed lackluster. It was the combat and the flying mechanics that kept me, it was super fun to play. I made a poison melee Interceptor build, and the adrenaline rush of getting the gear I needed to make the build was addicting. I don't play any looter games for the story, even though it does help with immersion I just play for fun and it's not like I played it all day long, I played for only a few hours, then moved on to other games before playing Anthem again, until my build was completed.
That just crazy how much time u put in that bare bone game i have like 70-100days (should check it) on ark which is my most played game and u got 1000h on anthem just mindblowing
I played anthem a few days ago. I really wish they were able to finish anthem 2.0 bc there is a lot to like about anthem and where it could go. Everything is there, it literally just needed more time in the oven
I was so hyped when I first found out about Anthem when I was in college and loved playing it when it came out. Was a bit sad there wasn’t much content and got really excited about 2.0 then really sad when I found out it had been scrapped
I would also like to point out the comment of "all 12 of you" kind of made me feel special like you were talking to me personally so thank you for that
Anthem had the best flying mechanics of any game I've ever played. I'm glad to see the DNA of those mechanics will be used in a future iron suit game. The things that killed Anthem for me were: - Load times. My god! - Weak story. - The CONSTANT hens in a pen radio chatter. It was mind-numbing. - Performance issues Anthem: A squandered greatness.
EA was innocent. They always were idiot, it was all Bioware fault here n they became pussies for abandoning projects ever since n they'll do it again soon kiddo
So I've been playing destiny sense dark below in d1 and played anthem on launch. If anthem had had better connectivity and more content then two dungeons and a reskin of the final mission it is the game I would have left destiny in a heart beat. It's mechanics are genuinely fun. I still boot up anthem every now and then just to fly around and play for a day.
So glad somebody did a deep dive into this game from the destiny community. Although I never considered anthem a ‘destiny killer’ but rather the Battlefield-to-Destiny’s Call of Duty. A game of similar genre, but I felt it looked and played better. The tragedy is it was never given a chance. Thank you so much for doing this video. I have always loved your commentary.
Damn, ya had to go and break my heart with this? This game was so freaking good with so much potential. What a great world and experience. Seriously, just bring it back and do the content right this time around
Fuck man I’ve never played a game that felt so damn good to shoot and fly . Everything was perfect beside the content. If I were EA I’d use what they have and make another game . An Ironman like game would be amazing.
probably my favourite game i ever played but it couldn't last with the issues. and everyone stopped playing . i just started playing it again with my son and its absolutely amazing for now.
In quarantine there wasn’t a better game to pass the time(when it worked anyway) me and my mates had a blast maxed out all of the classes did everything there was and that was it but man what a time we had
I honestly miss Anthem, the issues It had on release regarding loading screens and connection issues were rough as fuck. But after awhile and It actually became playable me and a couple friends had a fairly good time playing It, the main Issue we had at the end was content. We were just running the same raid over and over again ( If you played the game then you know which one I'm talking about ), It tilts me to no end that they just decided to pull the plug after announcing the re-release 2.0 thing.
I've spent more than 600 hours playing this game. I managed to complete everything, but there was no further task to tackle at the end. It was then that I returned to Destiny.
really sad that Anthem never got its second shot. I was a consistent Destiny player who played Warframe off and on when it came out, and I was willing to jump ship for the possibility of something better. After it flopped I didn't give it much thought. I quit Warframe for good some after that, and I haven't played Destiny in 2 years and don't plan on picking it back up either. A sci-fantasy looter-shooter with powered flight and cool iron man suits would scratch an itch for me no game has in a while.
Anthem was something I was really passionate about. It was a looter shooter after my heart. I still go back to play through it once in a while. Really sucks how when new gamers entered the scene they settled for gamble mechanics and fortnight skins. Anthem marked the end of an era. One that I'm so glad I got to be apart of
Eh, if you go back and read a lot of the stuff written about it's development, it was Bioware that botched it. EA had to get them to put flying back in the game, they were going to cut it out to save development time.
BioWare damned it, EA kept it alive, you can read it up on the Anthem Reddit. Over the years tons of ex devs started to share there expierence, but BioWare lied over and over to EA. I know does not sounds like EA but the articles actually exists.
I’ve never been and probably never will be hyped for a game like I was with Anthem. Sooo much potential….the gameplay is some of the best I’ve ever played in a game.
I loved this game so tragically much. I watched this all the way through...... then (at the end) was depressed again, much like the day 2.0 was canceled...thanks for the memories 😢
I really really liked the Anthem gameplay. My friends and I really got into the combo system with abilities and elements. We could layer our attacks on top of each other for great crowd control or massive damage. Too bad it was cut so short.
I used to order the premium deluxe editions of games just cause i liked the extras that they gave. I can honestly say that after Anthem i never spent the extra money for stuff and just played the base games. This one broke my heart with the amount of "what could be" inside of it that never came to light.
i remember being in HS getting the upgraded version of the game only for it to fail. truly a heart break. i’ve been coping since that this game would make a comeback
The thing I hated most about anthem, was when they said they would be doing a big update a couple of months before they released it…the said it’s cancelled and they’re giving up on it permanently. Fucking sucked because I never stopped playing since release, I even play it now from time to time.
Anthem gamers listen up!
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tried it didn't catch my attention.
I don't think I will
@@warforge3850 I've seen video popping up claiming enlisted is better the paleword but sadly alot of people are sell outs enlisted is a mid game at best and so many content makers can't be trusted so many content makers sell out and promote a game or product that's crappy.
I'm redeveloping anthem
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To this day, I still shed a tear anytime I see anything about Anthem. There was SOOOOO much potential and it was an absolute blast. It really had an opportunity to dethrone Destiny. The devs were highly engaged with the community in Discord and on Reddit. They all seemed REALLY proud of it as it was discussed. First few weeks were amazing! Then the end game boredom set in and next thing you know it's 2024 and I'm in a comment section waxing poetically about how much I wanted this game to Succeed
I am so beyond words being right there with you in that, I still tear up to no joke, there was something special about anthem I literally hated the hate on this game....
Waste of money and people’s time
Same here, I still feel like if they brought back a 2.0 I'll still give it a try.
Destiny dethroned itself lol
Yeah nah as a devote destiny player and as someone who LOVED anthem, it stood absolutely no chance
The fact that we are still talking about this means EA is just leaving money on the table
Bro! Sooo true 👍
EA is King at leaving money on the table, after killing a game with poor leadership, and preditory cash shops. It hilarious, because if they just did a rewind of EA about two decades they could literally become the center of gaming again, I often wonder at the lack of intelligence these so called AAA company's display, their shareholders are absolute idiots.
Exactly this it's not too late the game had and still has incredible potential 😔
Just copped the legion of dawn edition for 4 bucks.. amazing game
MFs are still playing the game and hopping in it and it's dead! WTF does that tell you EA...
WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU!
Anthem doesn't need a 2.0 update. IT's needs a full blown sequel, built from the ground up in a better, easier to work with engine for this type of game, and all the lessons learned from what Anthem 1 needed.
There's no doubt it would be a successful live service game
Dude i was literally just thinking about how much i miss anthem in class like thirty minutes ago. Now I have to redownload it.
it's a crispy $4 :)
There are no servers online. I don't think you can play anymore dude
Considering people are commenting they are currently playing it and the games still up for purchase on EAs app I think you might be wrong.@@Jeremy9697
@@Jeremy9697The servers are still on. But very few people are playing that game. EA said they will keep the server on but won't bring any updates.
@jeremycarneal5896 they are online
It was so broken, but after a few years ive recently started playing it again on xbox. I was surprised to see it still having players. Had to start over, to relearn controls. And immediately remembered how much i enjoyed the gameplay itself. The combat and how powers play off each other. I just wish it would get support, there is still potential in the game
I agree. I'm holding onto hope.
I remember playing in the demo and having a sense of awe, and within 30 minutes, thinking something like "ok, the core gameplay is really good, but why does this game feel so hollow to play...". It seems clear the devs were forced to make a pretty game, that looks great in gameplay videos, but has almost no depth to it. Which is doubly sad coming from Bioware, a studio that made it's name on deep games.
We're still playing it, cuz the gameplay is incredible. And it deserve more, this game just can't die.
What kind of potential?
It will forever be a shame, since the core ideas, the flying, the combat, the "concept" of what this game could have been were awesome.
if only
I'm hoping that the trend of AAA games falling off because bad development and the want for finished games leads to Anthem 2 or a reboot. EA has the money to support and make it work especially with the Destiny team disbanding after the final shape. Now is prime time to build up and get a top tier product to hit in 2027.
i keep saying that Bungie should buy the IP and make it theirs since it has everything just neesd fleshing out and making something of the Shaper events and story
THEY LEGIT BOUGHT IT
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its called anthem reloaded,bungie bought it and told us in a post like 4 ish weeks ago
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@@darkomenz794
Please no!
Bungie already ruined Destiny and I'd hate to see such a heavily monetized version of Anthem.
I enjoyed watching this. Thank you.
Also, if Anthem 2 ever releases, I'll try it out purely out of respect for what the first one could have been
and people like you with that mentality are the reason we all keep getting ripped off
It had so much potential. I was so excited for Anthem 2.0.
But bioware became cowards the moment they gave up on that idea n has been cowards ever since
@@Derivedwhale45people we’re trying to make them release it way before it was supposed to do it’s really the peoples faults
@@gqahy
Sure, buddy. It’s our fault 😒
@@gqahy you're the stupid people EA wanted to sell the game to not us who saw that it was going to be a dumpster fire sold as 'ez money' with a banger trailer
I second that
Dude, the amount of people who knows about that Glad-guy is soooo miniscule! Most of us play the games, without following the streaming world.
I don't really watch gladd but he became famous because he soloed destiny 1 raid not on controller but using a set of rock band drums as the input device he's one of ten people in the world who beat every destiny 2 raid in the first 24 hours including the last wish raid which only twelve people in the world beat on day one long story short he's such a god tier gamer that he would never need to cheat to beat any pve content developed by any studio in the history of video gaming
That's inaccurate af. It killed this game and has nearly killed others since.
Anthem is my guilty pleasure. I come back every year or so & I always enjoy it for a while. It will always be my #1 game i wish was given a 2nd chance by the studio.
wdym i come back every year or so thought the servers were shut down
@xiixukiyo1095 no, they're still up. At least they were the last time I played.
They should just port it over to No Man’s Sky.
@@nrhurley117i wish they would sell the IP for those ironman suits and the flight coding to Helldivers 2 lol
I have over 800 hours in Anthem. I just fell in love with the world and the combat, the music is fantastic too.
I REALLY hope and i bet 1000´s of you guys too.. that someone takes this game and makes it great again. Enjoyed it so damn much
It IS great. If you enjoyed it so much, why isn't it great?
It was soooo good though. Just fell off so fast. The flying and combat was a blast. Just no content…
Anthem really was a sort of amazing that’s never been done since ngl. You felt like you WERE your mech. The customization was truly amazing. Gunplay was also pretty good. I just wish they’d made ONE expansion for it. All it would’ve needed was development
@@luckymango1963warframe does a better job of making your mech feel personalized and unique and its free to play by a solo developer studio, anthem was a failure for the budget and standards of high quality it could achieve. It had potential sure but it was never good/great
last I remember was that the systems were horrible and while the combat was good, the enemy encounters sucked
I remember people were complaining that the flight duration was too short. I equipped some parts that increased the heat gage and used the cooling effects of environmental water and was able to fly around the map for an hour without touching the ground.
It was a mile wide but an inch deep
20:05 it’s so wild that this TH-camr and thousands of other people know about this guy that broken all these records but I’ve never heard of him even once. They say it’s a small world but honestly it’s huge 😂
If they honestly were to pull a no man sky where they do a "re-release", I'd jump back in a heartbeat.
As would I.
They would probably want another 50 quid off us to play it though. Wouldnt stop me though lol.
I'd take a week off it it launched tomorrow.
I'd definitely play agian
Shut up and take my money already
Thanks for putting this one out, Evan. I didn't get into Anthem until a few months after the launch, by which time most people had left the game. I kept playing it up until EA pulled the plug, and stopped playing after that because I was pretty heartbroken. Anthem 2.0 or Anthem Next looked like it was going to be fantastic. I still hold out a little bit of hope that it ends up getting revived and made into the game it could have been. It probably won't, but stranger things have happened....
Anthem gets a click and a like from me. Such beautiful gameplay. God, the potential was insane.
Worst part is the wasted potential, I loved the gameplay so much, sucked to see it never get expanded upon.
Potential because you could fly around in a looter shooter? It had nothing going for it. It's the equivalent of swinging around and double/triple jumping through levels in Suicide Squad - Kill the Justice League. That's not fun gameplay merely going for spectacle, especially when the gameplay loop sucks. It's like putting icing on a cake made of dung. The game exists as much as it has some pretty superficial level stuff but when you sink your teeth in the real disgusting flavor sets in.
@@blaket1841 these guys are easy to please
@@blaket1841 What's the matter, did somebody break your little heart? Everyone loves to bitch,, moan, whine, and complain about everything, I swear. You probably never even played the game before, and even if you did, nobody cares if you liked it or not. Don't give yourself that much credit.
I really wanted anthem to go well and have a come back , But EA killed it. I haven’t trusted or bought a new EA game since. Honestly If they decided to go back to this concept and work on it again, I’d give it another chance.
That sounds more like a you problem than an EA problem.
@ Ayo imagine meat riding for EA 😂
@@xRichieeex You sound like the expert on meat riding, because I never even brought it up. Have you always had this fixation with meat riding? Sounds kinda gay IMO, but then again, it sounds like a you problem.
Had high hopes and deep deeeeep down... I still do
God the story plot continues to make me break out in hives, but the transition from ground to flight still gives me a serotonin hit
Yes. That's why I don't think the 2.0 would've saved the game, the core story/npc interaction was beyond bad. Can't really fix that at a later stage. Whole story and clunkyness needed to be jettisoned.
Could be worse. It could be like Dragon Age Veilguard!
I lay awake at night thinking about what this game couldve been if the 'vid didnt hault production on anthem 2.0. Lord knows id still be playing if the updates never stopped.
Me as well I was so excited for this gsme.
Is that really what keeps you up at night? Wow..., just wow.
I keep popping back from time to time and hope I see news of anthem 2.0 coming. I always get the same sad news
They probably know if they did a “anthem 2.0 announcement”, it’d probably have more attention than the release. If they’re doing anything, they’d keep quiet
The comment of Anthem being “Destiny Lite” was actually why I was so attached to it. It reminded me of the game that was essentially my childhood. I met all my friends through Destiny, and made so many memories because of it. So when Anthem dropped, all of us were hyped beyond comprehension.
And even with all of its problems, we toughed it out because our thought process was, “Destiny had a super rough start, but it found its footing eventually. So let’s give Anthem that same treatment.” But as we can all see via the video, it didn’t find its footing. I still have Anthem installed and there are some days where I boot it up just to fly around the map. I of course crash after like 5 minutes of play, but it gives me a bittersweet nostalgia. (Granted I think my crashing issue is because I’m on an old Xbox One)
It still pains me to see what happened to this game.
Announcement: "This will be a Destiny killer!"
Development: "THIS IS NOT DESTINY!!!"
Release: "Where are all the Destiny players?"
My friends and I toughed it out really hard. One of the big new missions that dropped, someone possibly causing a new cataclysmic storm and the player has to stop them. Well the level wasn't loading right for me, not all the landscape loaded in, I could see only half the enemies, couldn't help with any of the puzzles, but we still figured out how to get me around collision boxes I couldn't see to get me to the boss fight where all I could do was watch a cut scene and do add-clear.
@@drakkenmensch destiny is my favourite game of all time and also my most hated game of all time.
If they had given this game another 6/8 months of development and not rushed it out I will say a lot of destiny players would have taken a good break from destiny to play this
Dude when I could play the game I loved it. I remember at one point loading into something and I sat there for a bit looking at the loading screen then I put a stop watch on. By the time I pressed stop OVER 40 MINUTES HAVE PASSED
Sounds like a you problem to me.
Even after all these years, I still have hope that this game will make a return... Because even after the updates stopped, people kept playing. Almost every open game you enter has people inside. This game can make a come back and succeed. I hope it does one day
Bungie picked the game up and now working on it as Anthem Reloaded
@@Mistake152 I pray to God this is the truth
@@a-sylva Not true.
It's owned by ea and bioware ...why would Bungie have anything to do with it ? Think about it he's trolling you @@a-sylva
@@Mistake152 that is false.. only thing about it was the vid that Aztecross made which is a fake TWAB. Bungie is not buying the Anthem IP.
As much as i love your destiny videos ive really enjoyed watching your evolution into a video game historian.. Im here for it my dude.. great work!
Could have been the best game ever just due to the movement alone. Sad to see it was given up on😔
And it's all bioware fault both devs & leadership 100%
I wish it had AI teammates and a deeper story. Then it would’ve been complete.
@@Derivedwhale45not the devs fault. Maybe they were not extremely passionate about working free overtime for years, but the fact people enjoyed the engine there just was not enough content means it wasn’t bad development.
This was purely EAs fault for not having a plan, and constantly changing the plan, and then getting mad that the game lost money and probably made someone high up look bad.
@@mikeskirk The " not having a plan" part was 100% on Bioware. This is all public info at this point. Bioware wasn't even going to keep the flying until the EA oversight dev told them to keep the flying cause thats what made the game feel fun
Bioware devs didn't even know what game they were making until they saw the EA reveal trailer and said "oh, so that's what the game is going to be". Cause that trailer wasn't even taken from any existing gameplay and was totally made just for E3.
They still didn't know what type of game it was going to be up until EA turn the screws and said "alright, you got 2 years to figure it out and release it, cause it's been 4 and yall still haven't figured it out yet"
Let's say you produce music. Now let's say that everyone says your music sucks, literally EVERYONE. Now, how much do you think you're gonna keep making the same music now?
I still think about this game to this day... Such a crying shame, so much potential
Potential to do what exactly?
I want to live in a world where Anthem worked. That game's traversal and combat were peak fun.
When I die and go to heaven, I hope I live in that world as well...I really wanted this game to succeed, so badly I did
Different timeline and roaches aren't afraid of you there.
@@DrSnipe83me Disney prince singing to my roach friends playing Anthem in VR together
@@nailinthefashion as they chitter along.
It DOES work. The problem is, everyone wants a tailor made experience, and instead of going to the other game for fulfillment, they'd rather complain and bitch and moan about how this game had "so much potential."
All these complainers just need to get over it and move on if they don't like it.
Fucking internet.
Give cyberpunk developer this game and wait 2 years and you got the best game ever. Honestly I was in love with this game and played alot!!
The game is fine. Everyone wants "the perfect game" but when one IS released, everyone's will find SOMETHING they don't like about it.
Evan, just wanted to express my gratitude to you because I love all of your videos. No notification on my phone ever gets me more excited than an upload from you. You truly have a natural gift for storytelling and I will always watch your videos regardless of the content you are covering. Even if these videos aren’t as popular as your destiny videos right now, they will be in the future. Keep doing what you are doing and it will take you farther than you can imagine.
this made my week stealth thank you
Man I loved everything about it , graphics flight control shooting and abilities. So much promise . Killed me to learn it was scrubbed and left for dead. I still log on time to time
The flying and combat was so solid and so smooth
i loved anthem and im to this day hoping it gets a 2nd chance with more time in development.
It won't.
This was a great breakdown of what is probably one of the biggest tragedies of game releases in the last 20 yrs. I've been gaming for 45 years, and to this day, ignoring all the other issues with the game, I have NEVER had as enjoyable an action combat/traversal experience as Interceptor combat in Anthem. The other classes not so much, but Interceptor, with the full speed melee and the mod that let you reload every 3 dashes, was the best and most fun and frenetic action combat I had ever seen.
Not to mention just how crisp and accurate the flying was. With a controller you could literally 3 way dash in a triangle and stop on a dime right on top of some 400 ft spire to just take in the environment. And the weight you felt of your javelin ever time you landed was perfect. If only anything else about the game was as epic as the combat and traversal. It not only could have been real competition for Destiny but could have influenced the ARPG/action shooter spaces for decades. Instead we got EA being EA.
I can't even hear the number 1.3 anywhere without feeling a wave of disappointment which usually lasts about 11 hours. If you know, you know...unfortunately.
I was a Destiny player shopping around for "destiny killers" around the time Anthem came out. I never played but it's sad to hear just how much we're missing out on with its development being cancelled.
I agree intys combat was great and it's one of my favorite Java too. But imo storm and ranger were just as good, colossus was only 1 I couldn't get into. Ranger had so many build options also like intys and storms did too honestly but every1 just hopped on the binary star/steam vent meta train. But storm had some absolutely amazing weapon builds as well like with ToT or wyvern sniper, avenging herald, death from above etc. Not to mention able to get ralnalrs blaze tics to ridiculous lvls. But yes the combat/flying for those 3 javs was best time I've ever had in a video game prolly and I don't even like shooters for real so it's amazing anthem held my attention from day 1 to months after shut down and actually recently bought again after 2yrs and restarted accnt and am having a blast now again
Yeah I havent had a game that gave me as much fun as anthem in the last few years nothing can really hold me currently and loses me way to quickly
whenever i see these videos it makes me wanna go back and play it
I have over 1k hours in Anthem and I loved every second of it!🚀 The story was lackluster, but I don't play looter shooters for the story, just the combat and making a fun build.
I moved on to Outriders afterwards and that was fun, but not as much as Anthem. I still have Anthem installed on my hd too.
How do you have 1k on anthem. That game legitimately has no content
@@relax5367 The endgame was indeed lackluster. It was the combat and the flying mechanics that kept me, it was super fun to play. I made a poison melee Interceptor build, and the adrenaline rush of getting the gear I needed to make the build was addicting. I don't play any looter games for the story, even though it does help with immersion I just play for fun and it's not like I played it all day long, I played for only a few hours, then moved on to other games before playing Anthem again, until my build was completed.
That's sad
Also the level of customization u could do on each jav appearance wise. I spent as much time in forge appearance side as I did playing game lol.😊
That just crazy how much time u put in that bare bone game i have like 70-100days (should check it) on ark which is my most played game and u got 1000h on anthem just mindblowing
I played anthem a few days ago. I really wish they were able to finish anthem 2.0 bc there is a lot to like about anthem and where it could go. Everything is there, it literally just needed more time in the oven
I’m waiting for the new Star Wars Outlaws to come out. It looks so awesome.
I still get on every now and then to relive the moment.. still sad. :(
This was the most hype I ever was for a game. I wish 2.0 came out, and it would've kept getting support. It could've been amazing.
I remember pre-ordering this game
Never pre-ordered another game again after that
There really hasn't been anything as ambitious since then lol granblue fantasy relink doesn't feel as rich, don't think anything will
Same. Anthem was the last game I have ever pre-ordered.
Same.
Same..... what's worse... I built a liquid cooled (my first one ever) with the best of the best of the time.... nearly punched a wall.
Same. Last game I ever preordered.
1:40 I would recommend to also cover Warframe, as it is the game that many of us picked up after we quit D2... There's a lot to talk about.
I was so hyped when I first found out about Anthem when I was in college and loved playing it when it came out. Was a bit sad there wasn’t much content and got really excited about 2.0 then really sad when I found out it had been scrapped
I would also like to point out the comment of "all 12 of you" kind of made me feel special like you were talking to me personally so thank you for that
Anthem had the best flying mechanics of any game I've ever played. I'm glad to see the DNA of those mechanics will be used in a future iron suit game. The things that killed Anthem for me were:
- Load times. My god!
- Weak story.
- The CONSTANT hens in a pen radio chatter. It was mind-numbing.
- Performance issues
Anthem: A squandered greatness.
evanf1997, I really enjoyed watching this, so I hit the like button!
This game breaks my heart so bad i loved everything about it, the suit customization the flying the abilities and more and yet EA :,(
EA was innocent. They always were idiot, it was all Bioware fault here n they became pussies for abandoning projects ever since n they'll do it again soon kiddo
Im kinda sad Evan didn't touched the customozatio.
my heart still broken until this day...its need some rich boy to buy and own the game and start fix it , but no one go that far to do this
If there is a game to remaster this is definitely the one. The potential on this one is infinite.
Facts
So I've been playing destiny sense dark below in d1 and played anthem on launch. If anthem had had better connectivity and more content then two dungeons and a reskin of the final mission it is the game I would have left destiny in a heart beat. It's mechanics are genuinely fun. I still boot up anthem every now and then just to fly around and play for a day.
I swear if they reworked Anthem I would buy it again, the gameplay felt fking AWESOME but there was nothing to do
Same
I lived this game. I was devastated when I found out they canceled their plans to update it
So glad somebody did a deep dive into this game from the destiny community. Although I never considered anthem a ‘destiny killer’ but rather the Battlefield-to-Destiny’s Call of Duty.
A game of similar genre, but I felt it looked and played better. The tragedy is it was never given a chance. Thank you so much for doing this video. I have always loved your commentary.
Damn, ya had to go and break my heart with this? This game was so freaking good with so much potential. What a great world and experience. Seriously, just bring it back and do the content right this time around
Fuck man I’ve never played a game that felt so damn good to shoot and fly . Everything was perfect beside the content. If I were EA I’d use what they have and make another game . An Ironman like game would be amazing.
Had such High Hopes for Anthem, it didnt get the love that it deserved
This game had so much potential. I loved this game.
Game felt soooo good to play. Way to much potential and thrown away
probably my favourite game i ever played but it couldn't last with the issues. and everyone stopped playing .
i just started playing it again with my son and its absolutely amazing for now.
It's a travesty we never got the Anthem 2.0 the devs wanted to make.
Anthem Next could have saved life...
Anthem right now here in 2024, is better than the first descendant
In quarantine there wasn’t a better game to pass the time(when it worked anyway) me and my mates had a blast maxed out all of the classes did everything there was and that was it but man what a time we had
I still have my copy I really hope they come back and revisit this game man
Every once and a while I visit that subreddit, "you wanna see a dead body?" Kinda vibes when I see those posts.
hahah this made me ugly laugh😂
I was so gassed for this game and to be fair I really enjoyed it for a couple of weeks.
I honestly miss Anthem, the issues It had on release regarding loading screens and connection issues were rough as fuck. But after awhile and It actually became playable me and a couple friends had a fairly good time playing It, the main Issue we had at the end was content. We were just running the same raid over and over again ( If you played the game then you know which one I'm talking about ), It tilts me to no end that they just decided to pull the plug after announcing the re-release 2.0 thing.
the devs seemed so fucking sad too, it was hard to watch
One of those times EA left money on the table because they refused to spend a few pennies to make hundreds of pounds.
The music... flying... I loved it. 😢
I've spent more than 600 hours playing this game. I managed to complete everything, but there was no further task to tackle at the end. It was then that I returned to Destiny.
really sad that Anthem never got its second shot. I was a consistent Destiny player who played Warframe off and on when it came out, and I was willing to jump ship for the possibility of something better. After it flopped I didn't give it much thought. I quit Warframe for good some after that, and I haven't played Destiny in 2 years and don't plan on picking it back up either. A sci-fantasy looter-shooter with powered flight and cool iron man suits would scratch an itch for me no game has in a while.
I wish this game would come back had so much freaking potential!
Anthem was something I was really passionate about. It was a looter shooter after my heart. I still go back to play through it once in a while. Really sucks how when new gamers entered the scene they settled for gamble mechanics and fortnight skins. Anthem marked the end of an era. One that I'm so glad I got to be apart of
I loved this game. I still fire it up from time to time. Such a shame.
Started playing this game again and man it's still so much fun. 😢
Anthem had so much potential
Such an incredible game.. had so much potential!
Evan recall how Yongyea started off and where he is now? I see you going that way sometime in the future brah. You got this
thank you, this was so nice
Anyone else have their xbox's fried trying to play Anthem when it first came out?
👇🏻
Fuck me, I completely forgot about this game
I absolutely loved this game, and was super excited for 2.0 to come out.
Anthem had such potential, EA damned it. It should have been continued to be worked on
Eh, if you go back and read a lot of the stuff written about it's development, it was Bioware that botched it. EA had to get them to put flying back in the game, they were going to cut it out to save development time.
BioWare damned it, EA kept it alive, you can read it up on the Anthem Reddit. Over the years tons of ex devs started to share there expierence, but BioWare lied over and over to EA. I know does not sounds like EA but the articles actually exists.
I would play Anthem right now if it released again.
Was sooooo amped when this ocame out out . They dropped the ball on this big time . Had sooooo much potential .
The core of it was incredible. Ill never understand how they just didnt add content. The flying and combat was so good
the saddest thing is, destiny killed itself
How?
Right.... how
Destiny with The Final Shape is better than ever
Even at its lowest point destiny was never gonna die you sound dumb af
this aged like milk
I’ve never been and probably never will be hyped for a game like I was with Anthem. Sooo much potential….the gameplay is some of the best I’ve ever played in a game.
you all forget, that warframe is the real master of lootershooters, not destiny
Effing right you are! Warframe uses Destiny 2 to mop floors with!
@@rxibot and its free to play since the very beginning.
I loved this game so tragically much. I watched this all the way through...... then (at the end) was depressed again, much like the day 2.0 was canceled...thanks for the memories 😢
Can’t somebody just hack the game and make it a PVE game?😂🤷🏿♂️
It is PVE only
……
I still play the game and really enjoy it, I do hope one day they restart development for Anthem next
I'd still be playing. I'm really sad that this game didn't get the love it needs
Still play it every couple of months. Great game except for the lack of content.
Seeing that legendary drop was everything.
I agree. Would love to see this revived with evolve. High tech and monster slaying.
I really really liked the Anthem gameplay. My friends and I really got into the combo system with abilities and elements. We could layer our attacks on top of each other for great crowd control or massive damage. Too bad it was cut so short.
I used to order the premium deluxe editions of games just cause i liked the extras that they gave.
I can honestly say that after Anthem i never spent the extra money for stuff and just played the base games. This one broke my heart with the amount of "what could be" inside of it that never came to light.
I really was hoping anthem got its 2.0
The game was so cool in concept and played really nice!!! I wish bio would revisit anthem for another shot
I hope someone picks it up and overhauls it. I had so much fun playing through the lower levels
i remember being in HS getting the upgraded version of the game only for it to fail. truly a heart break. i’ve been coping since that this game would make a comeback
I loved Anthem I would be very happy if it was picked up again 😁
The thing I hated most about anthem, was when they said they would be doing a big update a couple of months before they released it…the said it’s cancelled and they’re giving up on it permanently.
Fucking sucked because I never stopped playing since release, I even play it now from time to time.
I still play religiously thats how much i love this game