One of my biggest disappointments in recent memory was EA cancelling Anthem 2.0. Anthem had outstanding movement and just made you feel dope, excellent gameplay but no game to play.
Story was as bland as cardboard combat, and movement just took what worked well from destiny and titan fall. I absolutely hate this game because EA wanted to divert all development from andromeda to this pile of shit.
@@Goonslagoon what sucks is that EA basically Destroyed Biowares whole existence while they were going through tough times with management. Bioware was willing to try and make this an actual playable game and EA said nah
Agreed , I was never the type to play looters but when I played anthem it had its moments where I actually enjoyed it they should have continued the development
If EA gave bioware the freedom to actually work on this game as a singleplayer experience where you have AI squadmates like ME trilogy then this wouldve been an amazing game. Half the problems of this game come from EA trying to make everything monetizable. Hell the world and enemies look so cool, I mean you dont make things that detailed because you dont give a crap you know
this was straight up bioware's and their bioware magic's fault. many of the higher ups wanted to try multiplayer and EA even gave concessions and asked them if bioware can do it. well same shit happened with andromeda and they sank them themselves.
it looks good because that's what EA wanted. when they showed it to EA, the execs said it was disappointing because the graphics were bad and told them to remake the demo in frostbite. It looked a lot better because ya know, frostbite. But also had a fuck ton of problems because ya know, frostbite. I can only imagine how the game could've been without EA, but it's not the game we want so speculation is useless. For sure, the game's fidelity would be worse though.
Iirc Jason Schreier's Story "vindicated" EA in this case - or better: showed how piss-poor the project was handled by Bioware. I still remember the collective bewilderment when we all realised that EA wasn't the default baddie in this. At that time it was mainly only Bethesda which had fallen from grace and we still had hopes that some companies are good just at whatever they do. But we leraned the hard way: No king rules forever. RIP also CD Project Red, Blizzard and Rockstar. (And we are only talking about the qualitiy of delivered products - not of the conduct of these companies... there were obviously never any winderkinder concerning this).
@@Krondon-SSR The game was in development-hell for years - Bioware startet working on the game seriously only AFTER they showed on E3, how the game will (or better: should!) look like. So they basically just run around in circles for years - to at last hastily cobble together the excuse of a game we got in LESS THAN A YEAR. They simply botched it up.
I absolutely loved the design of the suits and the lore of city-states with the camel-mechs walking between them. I think everyone wished this game had more.
Ah the game I waited 2 years for, pre ordered, tried to get my friends to get it, played by myself, finished by myself, cried by myself. A true shame but was a good learning experience. I really loved the customisation and even grinder for the factory new metal wear. I hope another game takes some inspiration of the good parts about this game
@@attilakovacs5040 not really it’s been 2years, I checked on it not even a year ago and it hasn’t been fixed, now I don’t even play Xbox as I got a pc. At least it’s in the game pass and people won’t have to spend the full price on it
Personally I still really like this game. Buuut I’m the only one. Still an amazing concept I just realised the monitor sounds like Freddy from FNAF containment breach and I will never unhear it
The base idea was great, it just didn’t do anything with it. Considering they wanted to cut one of the best parts, the flying, showed that they had no clue what they were doing
I've said it before. What they managed in 8 months of crunch and 6 or w.e years of wasted time is still impressive. The mechanics and movement were tons of fun. The potential was wasted completely. It could have been salvaged.
Well they still wasted 5 years of development time. If they actually used it wisely there would be no need for crunch. Not to mention that in mad rusch to release something, they scrapped promising Dragon Age sequel. So they damaged not one but two games.
@@lukasopalka3396 not excusing the time wasted. It was a complete failure overall. But to build a movement system that was fun and a combo system that was satisfying is what was impressive. Overall it's a shame the game was such a flop. Wasted potential and damaging to the beloved dragon age franchise.
@@GloryToGodAlways316 This game saved the Dragon Age franchise. Due to Anthems incredible failure they decided to make DA: 4 a Single player experience instead of a live service game.
Bruh, I was on the closed beta testing team. I saw it from beginning to release. The state of affairs now, especially with the head producer getting pulled away to work on other stuff (despite his clear passion for Anthem) is sad.
I played this for 80 hours in the first couple weeks, loved it. Had a great time, played it with my brother...just awesome. Then there was nothing, no further content, and I felt no incentive to work on other javelins. If they just handled content better and loot rates the game could have been AMAZING. It played well, movement was great, everything felt good...but it just faltered
The game that had everyone's attention and then never lived to its potential. Endless possibilities of what this game could have been. Maybe one day someone can buy anthem off their hands and give it the attention it needs to be great.
I actually had a lot of fun playing anthem, I played it form release up until recently as I don't have my Xbox with me right now. I'm super disappointed with what happened to it, lot of potential that didn't see the light of day.
This. This has been my experience, I havent run into that many bugs, and if you spread out how often u play the game it doesn't get repetitive, I had a genuinely fun time running around as a mini gundam and curbstomping evrything
God I started playing this game with my friend and had so much fun. The colossus javelin was perfect; it felt weighty and tanky, the best representation of “power armor” I’ve seen. Only to find out a few weeks prior they cancelled Anthem 2.0
I waited SOOOOOOOO long for this game to drop. I bought the pre-order, i played it a day or two early. i was so so so so hyped for this. i wanted to love it.. Even long after everyone gave up i refused to accepot it. i kept playing.. I made all the classes, i ranked up everything to the max, i grinded for gear and got the best of everything.. beat the campaign.. then gradually played less and less because there was just nothing to do. Flying around in your bad ass suits and taking screen shots of the gorgeous suits with the gorgeous scenery behind you only gets your rocks off for so long. Eventually i had to come to the realization that the devs gave up and therefore it was never going to get better.. This game had so much potential. It hurts me that it failed.
I am surprised myself the servers haven't been shutdown at this point. Like how many players does this game have left? Like realistically and how little money this must make in a month.
80€ bundle version is currently discounted at like 7.99€ on psn so likely barely making any money to be fair so im right there with you wondering how the servers are up still
ea don't usually shut their servers down even the old battlefield 3 is still active with the exception of bf2,vietnam and 1942 since those games were using punkbuster
Y'all are crazy, the movement is so fun! Interceptor's movement is some of the best movement in any game... You can combo the jumps and dashes and move so much faster than flying.
"The whole point of this class is that I can shoot while flying and I cannot. It keeps unflying me" This caught me off guard, to the point where I genuinly spit my drink Thanks Kev xD
Angry Joe covered this perfectly. Essentially the entire design was scrapped several times during development and what we got was slapped together at the last second, hence all the problems and lack of content. Thanks to the developer leads and EA for killing this game before it even got the chance.
@@steelbear2063 He was great 8 years ago... but so was the Nostalgia Critic. they're both kind of long in the tooth now. Even AVGN has gotten stale for me though he lasted a lot longer.
This game would have survived if the devs weren’t complete morons when it came to loot drop rates and insta fixing the bugged triple rates while the rest of the game was unplayable, such a shame as the combat and flying was fun and it could have rivalled d2 if it had that comeback updated but alas that never came to be
i really wish this would happen. Anthem could have been amazing just needed some help. Literally 3rd person Destiny. The GAME itself was 'fun' but they needed to fix the things around it. Its so fucking sad man.
It would have been destinys only true competitor. Agame truely unique in its own right. But the devs just didnt give a flying fuck. I hope another team takes this same looter shooter 3rd person & flying mechanic and turns it into what anthem should have been
They kept promising they were going to fix the loot issues, but while the loot was still shit they had a bug that at least flooded you with enough loot that it made it exciting and somewhat fun. Naturally, they patched out the fun and then never fixed the loot problem. Gotta love it when the community is happy and the developers thing, "no, this isn't what you really want," and then goes all surprised pikachu when the community leaves. The core elements of the game were fun, but Fort Tarsis sucked, the loading times sucked, the minimum party distance sucked, and they needed a lot more content to keep the gameplay fresh... Everything was fixable, they just didn't care about fixing the things that would keep players happy.
You can't really blame the Devs for this one. The Devs that were holding onto the game were really really passionate about it. The real problem is the fact EA are the ones funding the game. Devs promised what I'm 100% sure they would've achieved if not for EA and it's greed
They never got to fight an actual semi-difficult boss on the hardest difficulty. You guys know who I'm talking about: Big, red, flaming, angry. Ring a bell?
@@dumbguychannel445 have you actually played it? The combo system is one the best and most interesting gameplay mechanics I’ve seen in any game. The high end weapons and abilities all had unique perks that made finding combinations to fill out your build a lot of fun. It just lacked any endgame content to use it on. If you were mindlessly shooting adds and what not, you didn’t make it very far into the combat or build crafting systems at all. Not to say that I blame you, the story was quite bad and it was buggy at launch. I know many people that dropped it before actually getting to experience it.
You know i absolutely loved anthem. i awaited it for so long and loved it when it came out. I am highly disappointed by EA for cancelling anymore development on it as it was so much fun to play
@@garysmalls8724 HOW DARE people enjoy a game they like am i right?^The fucking AUDACITY of someone enjoying something you dont. Dear god grow up and go do your homework ;)
I remember playing this a lot and getting to a accidental point of being way to overpowered but it was almost given to you even though you'd become insanely powerful so it ended up being so much fun. It's so annoying they cancelled 2.0 it looked like there was a lot of potential
Honestly i like the game so far, i started playing it this years because i didn't really feel like playing anymore and so far i been playing every time i can, hate to see that people just want to see the negative from something instead of the positive, if you always looking for a reason why NOT to play a game then you'll find every damn game boring, some of them are tho.
"hate to see that people just want to see the negative from something instead of the positive" And here we go again. The famous excuse. You can't handle people criticizing a game (did you know that criticizing also isn't only pointing out the negative in something?) you like, therefore they must be people who look to thrash any game like good ol' haters. Grow up.
It feels... empty. Flying, amazing environment, sounds seem good, effects seems amazing, but... It feels... Empty. There could be more. A lot more. Story, quests, content... This was supposed to be an open world. Large, unexplored region... But it feels like a single player game where you finish the stuff and close the game. Sad.
The Colossus ult is a 3 shot heavy cannon, the Storm ult is 3 meteors that strike an area, each with a different effect, the ranger ult fires several shoulder-mounted rockets, and the Interceptor ult is just really cool knives.
Anthem had so much promise it's an absolutely beautiful game, the controls were really good the different classes were all relatively unique with amazing builds, the seemless flight was epic it's so fun for a few days. What's there is absolutely amazing they just didn't put enough into it
This game deadass had the deepest customization I've ever seen, but I didn't even beat the story. It went down to like 2,000 players one week after launch.
@@bigbalticbox they aren’t saying it’s the best customization in the gaming world calm down. They were just saying it has the deepest customization THEY have ever seen not that you have ever seen.
I remember playing this game as the big tanky class. I had a shield and some overpowered abilities which allowed me to run around with my shield up and pretty much insta kill any enemy I ran into except big bosses. Ah, those were simpler times. And this game still sucks.
Got this game in October of 2022. I actually really enjoy it, especially now that I'm max level and have several Legendary Javelins. It was great. I'll admit, EA cancelling the next one sucked to hear. But it's a fun game to play when I'm bored.
You’re not gonna believe this but I got anthem like three days ago and when I went to the hub there were so many people on and I thought the game was dead but it’s amazing!
I love this game I played the beta. Me and my friends play for a while until they announced they wasn't going to update it. We just stop playing it is a really sad waste.
I remember getting the game shortly after it got out as a birthday present, but since I also bought myself Far Cry New Dawn at the time Anthem was lying untouched in my closet, where I totally forgot about it. A year later I found it and started the game, it was March 2020 and the hub was still full with christmas decoration. I tried to play the game but in all seriousnes I couldn't bring myself to play more than 2 or 3 hours.
I just started playing this game this week. I feel like the person in charge of pulling the plug on the EA server is on a two week vacation before switching jobs.
When your teachers says you are wasting your potential, this is what they meant. Its like having a mansion just to put a coffee table inside and block off 3/4 of the rooms.
I remember buying this for me and a friend back when it was still new and looked really promising, i had to pretty much not play because i was wiping out all the enemy's before my buddy even got to the battle field, The storm javelin was and looks like it still is busted as hell. My buddy picked the Colossus to be the tank boy to my "wizard" but it was never needed i would clear whole wave's before his first shot even got off. The weapons were never something i needed to use as well i had maybe used them a few times and only when my buddy wanted to kill stuff, Because at lest my guns where not busted as hell. I did like flying around that was really fun to do thought.
So much potential wasted with this game. I stuck with it for a while but it just makes me sad now. The flight alone was sooooo fun and really unique for a shooter game. Hope we get something similar one day.
Anthem was buttcheeks flying was Garbage it was little more then transportation like the sparrows in destiny this game was depressing garbage loot and weapons wack ass supers
What made me chuckle is that if you change the default helmet of your javelin you will never see your character. The other Helmets don't open up during cut scenes and only the default does XD
i also am amazed amazed that the servers are still up. I played during a free beta, game was shallow as it gets gunplay was pointless as many classes had spammable abilities on ultra low cooldowns and zero "cost" that did more damage at range than any gun I could find. The jumping into flight may as well have had a horror movie style "Throw the Switch Igor!" wall lever it was so effin clunky and the enemies literally spawned out of the ground on top of the objectives, never chased and the moment you handed anything in they would phase out instantly like they never existed.
I managed to put close to 100 hours in this game and was holding out for the "major" update which never came, it had potential and im sort of sad it didnt get the time it needed
It's just ironic how EA/Bioware dropped ME:A "to focus" on Anthem and then dropped Anthem "to focus" on something else. Both games had huge potential too...
Imagine management *actually* said to the team that they dont want them looking to games like destiny as a blueprint for the looter shooter/endgame aspect of the game…. When that is the very thing that would have GURANTEED its success!!! 😳🤬 see how stupid people making stupid decisions can ruin an entire project.
I have faith that one day, people will all together stop giving EA money, and they will wither and die, like all of the franchises and companies they have murdered.
I loved everything about this game when i played it, except for the guns, they felt weak and didn't really have anything unique about them, they all kinda looked the same no matter the rarity. but chaining elemental attacks and abilities along with flying over the battlefield was a lot of fun
no, stop blaming the publishers and romanticizing the devs, bioware was at least just as much at fault, if not more, then EA, bioware relied far too long on their "bioware magic" and this game is the living proof of that, they didn't even know wtf they wanted internally until the reveal trailer showed what they were building. if you don't believe me, go look up Jason Schreier's article on it.
@@shadowsketch926 oh so don't blame the publisher that owns the developer? the publisher that didn't even bother to test the game out before putting their stamp of approval and publishing it? no, I think I will continue to blame them, thanks.
@@ThinkPositiveDude the testing is to be done by the devs themselves at first, and secondly by an outside group, but forget all that, are you seriously telling me with all the fuck ups bioware made, all the crunch hours they forced on their people, you're putting the blame on EA? despite the fact that bioware had 7 years to figure out wtf they were doing, and it took them 5 to come to a concrete answer? that's not on EA, that's on bioware! You can keep blaming EA all you want, but at least blame them for the right things, Anthem being a shit stained, bug ridden bullshit product is NOT on EA, that's on bioware, and EA pulling the plug for not seeing any monetary gain is just the nature of the beast, at that point they already had 7 years of development cost that they weren't going to get back because of how bad the game was, if you were a part of the board, you'd be fucking pissed too!
I played this game when I got Game Pass Ultimate in July, and despite the random server losses that would happen, I really enjoyed the game. I love how each javelin suit is basically a meme of what they do. Interceptor was basically "I'm fast as fuck, boi!" Ranger is the typical "walking missile silo". Storm is basically a beefed up wizard of the group, since they can use three elements when they activate their special. And Colossus.....is basically Ricco from Penguins of Madagascar, since he just loves big explosions, while using a mega iron to do so
This game genuinely hurt me, i had such high hopes for it. When it first launched i thought it was going to be the next big thing. Its like watching a pet get old and you know he doesnt have long
Bro I loved anthem dude the mechanics and gamelan were so fun it just needed some love and for them to keep putting out content even if they were still trying to fix stuff they needed to keep people hooked with new stuff cuz it was so cool and fun to play and the concept behind the whole thing was just good
This game was actually really fun, it was rushed like most games though all the stuff that’s in the game now should’ve been in it when it first came out, that way they could’ve worked on dlcs like what was supposed to happen after the campaign, they thought adding different costumes every couple months would save it that was on them which was annoying
graphically this game is pleasing. and personally i enjoyed flying around. the main reason i stopped playing was because of how many times it would crash trying to just play. like i enjoyed the scenery and flying through water falls to cool the jets down and doing stunts etc.
i still play this game every now and then [when i buy like, three months of ea play for my xbox] i have all the javelins and they all have a really snazzy bejeweled armor set and my favorite class is definitely the colossus [tanky boi that you see grimnar29 use] because he is like a middle finger to death. "want an absolutely outrageous amount of health that makes the ai wish they had emotions just to cry at your existence? try the colossus."
I remember me and my friend had gotten a beta code for the game and the launch of the beta was so broken we eventually gave up on trying to play. You couldn't log in to play, then the loading was atrocious, and the lag was insane. We went back to warframe after that.
I flew around for HOURS on end in my sleek blue Storm Javelin casting explosive lightning pillars, levitating oh so gracefully around before seamlessly taking flight, the beautiful electricity particle effects...alas...EA
EA had nothing with this disaster. Inform yourself. The game was stuck in development hell for 7 years, with Bioware changing the dev team leader every two years. Bioware had no idea what they wanted Anthem to be. Imagine that : one of the lead devs in Bioware wanted to cut out the flying part of Anthem. Yet, they kept that in because the CEO OF EA LOVED IT. But after 6 years, EA was like "Okay Bioware, what you got?" and Bioware had nothing but a trailer. And only from that trailer, they started to truly develop the game. What was released was what Bioware created in less than a year, because they wasted 6 years doing nothing. Hate EA all you want, but EA wasn't responsible for this mess.
At least EA actually fixed Battlefront 2 and made it great before Permanently Abandoning it the fact that they didnt do the same with game is just mind boggling this game had so much potential I remember watching the trailer saying this is gonna be one of my favorite games it looks like a lil bit of everything halo,destiny,open world,cool monsters,flying, badass suits, cool abilities etc such a sad feeling getting robbed of what could’ve been an amazing game
Three things they could have done to save this . 1 ) get rid of the overheat mechanic and let us fly unlimited 2 ) give us infinite ammo 3 ) let us unlock all the legendary gear on any difficulty level This would have made it a lot more fun to play and have been more like what they showed in the trailers
"if you die in real life you die in game"
truly a one of a kind game
just about to type that i thought i was the only one who would like that comment.. normaly they say it backwords xD
Same happemd with titanfall
One of my biggest disappointments in recent memory was EA cancelling Anthem 2.0. Anthem had outstanding movement and just made you feel dope, excellent gameplay but no game to play.
Shit hurt so bad
I still feel the pain. I had hoped it would be like Destiny 2 surviving the ridicule, or BF2
Story was as bland as cardboard combat, and movement just took what worked well from destiny and titan fall. I absolutely hate this game because EA wanted to divert all development from andromeda to this pile of shit.
@@Goonslagoon what sucks is that EA basically Destroyed Biowares whole existence while they were going through tough times with management. Bioware was willing to try and make this an actual playable game and EA said nah
Agreed , I was never the type to play looters but when I played anthem it had its moments where I actually enjoyed it they should have continued the development
This game is the definition of wasted potential
Facts.
Not all games are splendid masterpieces like Fallout 76!
(For the better I think)
@@ChulioRCHulio 16x the disappointment
I remember playing it and just thinking of how much cool stuff they could have done instead we got a barebones shell of a game
On was on copium for a long time hoping Anthem would get its "Taken King" type level update and save the game...
If EA gave bioware the freedom to actually work on this game as a singleplayer experience where you have AI squadmates like ME trilogy then this wouldve been an amazing game. Half the problems of this game come from EA trying to make everything monetizable. Hell the world and enemies look so cool, I mean you dont make things that detailed because you dont give a crap you know
this was straight up bioware's and their bioware magic's fault. many of the higher ups wanted to try multiplayer and EA even gave concessions and asked them if bioware can do it. well same shit happened with andromeda and they sank them themselves.
it looks good because that's what EA wanted. when they showed it to EA, the execs said it was disappointing because the graphics were bad and told them to remake the demo in frostbite. It looked a lot better because ya know, frostbite. But also had a fuck ton of problems because ya know, frostbite. I can only imagine how the game could've been without EA, but it's not the game we want so speculation is useless. For sure, the game's fidelity would be worse though.
Iirc Jason Schreier's Story "vindicated" EA in this case - or better: showed how piss-poor the project was handled by Bioware. I still remember the collective bewilderment when we all realised that EA wasn't the default baddie in this. At that time it was mainly only Bethesda which had fallen from grace and we still had hopes that some companies are good just at whatever they do. But we leraned the hard way: No king rules forever. RIP also CD Project Red, Blizzard and Rockstar. (And we are only talking about the qualitiy of delivered products - not of the conduct of these companies... there were obviously never any winderkinder concerning this).
didn't bioware work on this game for a long time? They could have done SOMETHING
@@Krondon-SSR The game was in development-hell for years - Bioware startet working on the game seriously only AFTER they showed on E3, how the game will (or better: should!) look like. So they basically just run around in circles for years - to at last hastily cobble together the excuse of a game we got in LESS THAN A YEAR. They simply botched it up.
Beautiful game. Fun mechanics and combat. No content. I mean they had a gold mine and threw it away.
EA Bullshittery Part: 15367
EA have learned the secret arts of transmutation and they consistently choose to turn gold to shit for years now.
It hurts it really hurts
Yeah it was a shame
Indeed, maybe they'll sell it to another combany *cough* *cough* Microsoft
I absolutely loved the design of the suits and the lore of city-states with the camel-mechs walking between them. I think everyone wished this game had more.
Ah the game I waited 2 years for, pre ordered, tried to get my friends to get it, played by myself, finished by myself, cried by myself.
A true shame but was a good learning experience. I really loved the customisation and even grinder for the factory new metal wear. I hope another game takes some inspiration of the good parts about this game
😂
What do you play it on?
@@attilakovacs5040 I played on Xbox
@@siriusa5298 and you still have the game?
@@attilakovacs5040 not really it’s been 2years, I checked on it not even a year ago and it hasn’t been fixed, now I don’t even play Xbox as I got a pc. At least it’s in the game pass and people won’t have to spend the full price on it
Whenever Kev plays a game with his friends, I usually end up getting said game and playing it. What a world
I recommend *NOT* doing that with anthem.
Why's he always forcing people to do shit
I second that don’t do it
"Maybe Kev will play with me! Oh, I wish I had my own friends..."
Is that what you're saying to yourself?
@@Oculusinfinium I would, games great
Personally I still really like this game. Buuut I’m the only one. Still an amazing concept
I just realised the monitor sounds like Freddy from FNAF containment breach and I will never unhear it
Im there with you
The base idea was great, it just didn’t do anything with it. Considering they wanted to cut one of the best parts, the flying, showed that they had no clue what they were doing
Amazing concept but really bad execution
Not the only one, man.
I'm sad they never released Anthem 2.0, it looked like a game changer
I've said it before. What they managed in 8 months of crunch and 6 or w.e years of wasted time is still impressive. The mechanics and movement were tons of fun. The potential was wasted completely. It could have been salvaged.
Well they still wasted 5 years of development time. If they actually used it wisely there would be no need for crunch.
Not to mention that in mad rusch to release something, they scrapped promising Dragon Age sequel.
So they damaged not one but two games.
@@lukasopalka3396 not excusing the time wasted. It was a complete failure overall. But to build a movement system that was fun and a combo system that was satisfying is what was impressive. Overall it's a shame the game was such a flop. Wasted potential and damaging to the beloved dragon age franchise.
@@GloryToGodAlways316 This game saved the Dragon Age franchise. Due to Anthems incredible failure they decided to make DA: 4 a Single player experience instead of a live service game.
6 years of wasted time and 8 months of crunch is pretty much my life.
@@planescapedyou 7
I loved this game and still do. Seeing it in this state just...it hurts.
Same tbh
Man you bar for games must be super low
@@Apple-xx3wh We are different individuals and we enjoy different things.
@@redfinewine oh sure and we all have different bars
Bruh, I was on the closed beta testing team. I saw it from beginning to release. The state of affairs now, especially with the head producer getting pulled away to work on other stuff (despite his clear passion for Anthem) is sad.
I played this for 80 hours in the first couple weeks, loved it. Had a great time, played it with my brother...just awesome.
Then there was nothing, no further content, and I felt no incentive to work on other javelins.
If they just handled content better and loot rates the game could have been AMAZING. It played well, movement was great, everything felt good...but it just faltered
I was out when they said the starting AR was like the strongest gun in the game or something….
Or was that outriders?
my favorite javelin was the collosus, big ass shield and gun was my favorite thing.
sad were never gonna get the game in all its relized glory
Same
Paying for this is an insult. You can play forever Warframe and you will not be disappointed at all.
The game that had everyone's attention and then never lived to its potential. Endless possibilities of what this game could have been. Maybe one day someone can buy anthem off their hands and give it the attention it needs to be great.
I sincerely hope that
@@ronjo1504 my goal in life is to be that guy lol
@@arquimedesvasquez4278U have my support
This reminds me of evolve. A game with an amazing concept and pack full of potential and it was ruined by greed and poor development.
I actually had a lot of fun playing anthem, I played it form release up until recently as I don't have my Xbox with me right now. I'm super disappointed with what happened to it, lot of potential that didn't see the light of day.
This. This has been my experience, I havent run into that many bugs, and if you spread out how often u play the game it doesn't get repetitive, I had a genuinely fun time running around as a mini gundam and curbstomping evrything
God I started playing this game with my friend and had so much fun. The colossus javelin was perfect; it felt weighty and tanky, the best representation of “power armor” I’ve seen. Only to find out a few weeks prior they cancelled Anthem 2.0
EA: Cancels Mass Effect Andromeda for Anthem.
Cancels Anthem for Mass Effect.
Make up your damn mind.
They killed titanfall 3 TWICE for apex
I waited SOOOOOOOO long for this game to drop. I bought the pre-order, i played it a day or two early. i was so so so so hyped for this. i wanted to love it.. Even long after everyone gave up i refused to accepot it. i kept playing.. I made all the classes, i ranked up everything to the max, i grinded for gear and got the best of everything.. beat the campaign.. then gradually played less and less because there was just nothing to do. Flying around in your bad ass suits and taking screen shots of the gorgeous suits with the gorgeous scenery behind you only gets your rocks off for so long. Eventually i had to come to the realization that the devs gave up and therefore it was never going to get better.. This game had so much potential. It hurts me that it failed.
I am surprised myself the servers haven't been shutdown at this point. Like how many players does this game have left? Like realistically and how little money this must make in a month.
80€ bundle version is currently discounted at like 7.99€ on psn so likely barely making any money to be fair so im right there with you wondering how the servers are up still
ea don't usually shut their servers down even the old battlefield 3 is still active with the exception of bf2,vietnam and 1942 since those games were using punkbuster
I'm gonna give Anthem a bash I have a couple of friends who have it and as I love open worlds thought why not.
I play it lol and actually a lot of us still do .. I been gettin full 4 man match made teams all weekend
Y'all are crazy, the movement is so fun! Interceptor's movement is some of the best movement in any game... You can combo the jumps and dashes and move so much faster than flying.
"The whole point of this class is that I can shoot while flying and I cannot. It keeps unflying me"
This caught me off guard, to the point where I genuinly spit my drink
Thanks Kev xD
Video or no proof
That wasnt the point of that class at all tho
Angry Joe covered this perfectly. Essentially the entire design was scrapped several times during development and what we got was slapped together at the last second, hence all the problems and lack of content. Thanks to the developer leads and EA for killing this game before it even got the chance.
Angry Joe should cover his mouth
@@steelbear2063 He was great 8 years ago... but so was the Nostalgia Critic.
they're both kind of long in the tooth now. Even AVGN has gotten stale for me though he lasted a lot longer.
@@steelbear2063 your mom should have cover her bussy
Hahaha EA did nothing to this game, don't be delusional. It was all Bioware Magic.
This game would have survived if the devs weren’t complete morons when it came to loot drop rates and insta fixing the bugged triple rates while the rest of the game was unplayable, such a shame as the combat and flying was fun and it could have rivalled d2 if it had that comeback updated but alas that never came to be
i really wish this would happen. Anthem could have been amazing just needed some help. Literally 3rd person Destiny. The GAME itself was 'fun' but they needed to fix the things around it. Its so fucking sad man.
It would have been destinys only true competitor. Agame truely unique in its own right. But the devs just didnt give a flying fuck. I hope another team takes this same looter shooter 3rd person & flying mechanic and turns it into what anthem should have been
i had more fun when the triple rates was live tbf
They kept promising they were going to fix the loot issues, but while the loot was still shit they had a bug that at least flooded you with enough loot that it made it exciting and somewhat fun. Naturally, they patched out the fun and then never fixed the loot problem. Gotta love it when the community is happy and the developers thing, "no, this isn't what you really want," and then goes all surprised pikachu when the community leaves. The core elements of the game were fun, but Fort Tarsis sucked, the loading times sucked, the minimum party distance sucked, and they needed a lot more content to keep the gameplay fresh... Everything was fixable, they just didn't care about fixing the things that would keep players happy.
You can't really blame the Devs for this one. The Devs that were holding onto the game were really really passionate about it. The real problem is the fact EA are the ones funding the game. Devs promised what I'm 100% sure they would've achieved if not for EA and it's greed
Gosh. I remember watching a streamer play this when it came out. Looked so fun. So sad they never bothered to fix it or add more content.
they did add content but haters and negativity made the game go down hell
They never got to fight an actual semi-difficult boss on the hardest difficulty. You guys know who I'm talking about: Big, red, flaming, angry. Ring a bell?
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Clifford on crack
Diabolical from Diablo May Cry
Donald Trump?
The Kool Aid man?
Milo Yiannopoulos?
Po from Teletubbies?
I have never seen people struggle with answering whether they're ready.
"WHY AM I UNREADY?"
Great gameplay and combat, terrible endgame.
great combat? that was the most mindless shit ive ever seen, even more mindless than call of duty
Why would you spread lies like this
Yeah this game would have still been enjoyable if end game wasn't asscheeks
@@dumbguychannel445 have you actually played it? The combo system is one the best and most interesting gameplay mechanics I’ve seen in any game. The high end weapons and abilities all had unique perks that made finding combinations to fill out your build a lot of fun. It just lacked any endgame content to use it on.
If you were mindlessly shooting adds and what not, you didn’t make it very far into the combat or build crafting systems at all. Not to say that I blame you, the story was quite bad and it was buggy at launch. I know many people that dropped it before actually getting to experience it.
Yes Agreed
Bruh I recently downloaded it again, and I really wish it would’ve gotten the content it needed because it’s so much fun to play
You know i absolutely loved anthem. i awaited it for so long and loved it when it came out. I am highly disappointed by EA for cancelling anymore development on it as it was so much fun to play
wtf is wrong with people like you? what do you play besides this? the new FIFA every year?
@@garysmalls8724 HOW DARE people enjoy a game they like am i right?^The fucking AUDACITY of someone enjoying something you dont. Dear god grow up and go do your homework ;)
Can you blame them? Bioware did nothing for 6 years, and were shocked when they were expected to have actually made progress on making a game.
I remember playing this a lot and getting to a accidental point of being way to overpowered but it was almost given to you even though you'd become insanely powerful so it ended up being so much fun. It's so annoying they cancelled 2.0 it looked like there was a lot of potential
I wish they hadn't EA'd this game, I was looking forward to it's big update.
“Settings….uninstall”😂😂😂 best part 😂
Honestly i like the game so far, i started playing it this years because i didn't really feel like playing anymore and so far i been playing every time i can, hate to see that people just want to see the negative from something instead of the positive, if you always looking for a reason why NOT to play a game then you'll find every damn game boring, some of them are tho.
Exactly, its my fav game ever. I just wish it was handled better
"hate to see that people just want to see the negative from something instead of the positive"
And here we go again. The famous excuse. You can't handle people criticizing a game (did you know that criticizing also isn't only pointing out the negative in something?) you like, therefore they must be people who look to thrash any game like good ol' haters.
Grow up.
It feels... empty. Flying, amazing environment, sounds seem good, effects seems amazing, but... It feels... Empty. There could be more. A lot more. Story, quests, content... This was supposed to be an open world. Large, unexplored region... But it feels like a single player game where you finish the stuff and close the game. Sad.
“Dauntless made the cut!!” 💀
The Colossus ult is a 3 shot heavy cannon, the Storm ult is 3 meteors that strike an area, each with a different effect, the ranger ult fires several shoulder-mounted rockets, and the Interceptor ult is just really cool knives.
This game has so so so much potential, gutted to see the way it was treated
Anthem had so much promise it's an absolutely beautiful game, the controls were really good the different classes were all relatively unique with amazing builds, the seemless flight was epic it's so fun for a few days.
What's there is absolutely amazing they just didn't put enough into it
This game deadass had the deepest customization I've ever seen, but I didn't even beat the story. It went down to like 2,000 players one week after launch.
Deepest customisation???
What the hell have you not been playing?
Warframe is better. APB Reloaded is better. Black Desert Online is better.
@@bigbalticbox they aren’t saying it’s the best customization in the gaming world calm down. They were just saying it has the deepest customization THEY have ever seen not that you have ever seen.
My brother blames Bioware for Anthem while I blame EA, he hasn't finished playing it
I remember playing this game as the big tanky class. I had a shield and some overpowered abilities which allowed me to run around with my shield up and pretty much insta kill any enemy I ran into except big bosses. Ah, those were simpler times. And this game still sucks.
Got this game in October of 2022. I actually really enjoy it, especially now that I'm max level and have several Legendary Javelins. It was great. I'll admit, EA cancelling the next one sucked to hear. But it's a fun game to play when I'm bored.
This game is much more populated on Xbox.
This had the potential to be one of the most badass games ever created honestly. Very sad to see it completely abandoned
Can't believe I was excited for this. I thought it was gonna be the next Mass Effect, but nope. Instead, it is a online live-service trainwreck.
Man this could have been so good… I wish there was something we could do
You’re not gonna believe this but I got anthem like three days ago and when I went to the hub there were so many people on and I thought the game was dead but it’s amazing!
I love this game I played the beta. Me and my friends play for a while until they announced they wasn't going to update it. We just stop playing it is a really sad waste.
I remember getting the game shortly after it got out as a birthday present, but since I also bought myself Far Cry New Dawn at the time Anthem was lying untouched in my closet, where I totally forgot about it. A year later I found it and started the game, it was March 2020 and the hub was still full with christmas decoration. I tried to play the game but in all seriousnes I couldn't bring myself to play more than 2 or 3 hours.
Ironically enough playing with friends is probably the only fun you can have in this game.
I just started playing this game this week. I feel like the person in charge of pulling the plug on the EA server is on a two week vacation before switching jobs.
Remember, Mass Effeect was put on ice for years because of this game.
When your teachers says you are wasting your potential, this is what they meant. Its like having a mansion just to put a coffee table inside and block off 3/4 of the rooms.
this game launched on my birthday. despite the multitude of glitches, bad decisions, and poor optimization i liked it more than destiny 1 & 2.
I remember buying this for me and a friend back when it was still new and looked really promising, i had to pretty much not play because i was wiping out all the enemy's before my buddy even got to the battle field, The storm javelin was and looks like it still is busted as hell. My buddy picked the Colossus to be the tank boy to my "wizard" but it was never needed i would clear whole wave's before his first shot even got off. The weapons were never something i needed to use as well i had maybe used them a few times and only when my buddy wanted to kill stuff, Because at lest my guns where not busted as hell. I did like flying around that was really fun to do thought.
So much potential wasted with this game. I stuck with it for a while but it just makes me sad now. The flight alone was sooooo fun and really unique for a shooter game. Hope we get something similar one day.
Anthem was buttcheeks flying was Garbage it was little more then transportation like the sparrows in destiny this game was depressing garbage loot and weapons wack ass supers
@@firelord4662 I respectfully disagree with your opinion.
You can disagree but thats why it's dead and forgotten trashhhh
@@firelord4662 lmao
i was so excited for anthem, played it like, a year ago and loved it
It’s like Mass Effect without the great story, intriguing choices, or compelling characters.
Like Mass Effect Andromeda then?
@@flagrantmastrshake Hah, good one. Also, yes, exactly........ :(
Anthem promised so much but delivered so little, it's like being a kid excited for christmas and unwrapping the present to find socks.
Unpopular opinion: Anthem is actually a really fun game
Sure was
it really was, got max level and all
Good game bad company.
What made me chuckle is that if you change the default helmet of your javelin you will never see your character. The other Helmets don't open up during cut scenes and only the default does XD
Your definition of friends is slighly different than mine. I will mercilessly mock my friends, but making them play Anthem is a line to far.
I LOVE ANTHE.! Still play it too!! I can't believe just how many people STILL PLAY ANTHEM!
Love you Kev also I personally liked anthem alot
The game has so much potential, all the mechanics are so fun.
I think if enough resources were put In to it it'd be great
Anthem is pretty peak but they forgot about the game
God even watching a one year old video about this game is a chore...and I love Kevduit D:
I'm sure everyone can agree anthem could've been a really good game... Thanks EA
i also am amazed
amazed that the servers are still up.
I played during a free beta, game was shallow as it gets gunplay was pointless as many classes had spammable abilities on ultra low cooldowns and zero "cost" that did more damage at range than any gun I could find.
The jumping into flight may as well have had a horror movie style "Throw the Switch Igor!" wall lever it was so effin clunky and the enemies literally spawned out of the ground on top of the objectives, never chased and the moment you handed anything in they would phase out instantly like they never existed.
It's not forcing your friends if you kidnapped there families :-)
I managed to put close to 100 hours in this game and was holding out for the "major" update which never came, it had potential and im sort of sad it didnt get the time it needed
It's just ironic how EA/Bioware dropped ME:A "to focus" on Anthem and then dropped Anthem "to focus" on something else. Both games had huge potential too...
This game looks like it'd be so good if it had real effort put into it.
There was effort. Just a lot of stupid decisions done with said effort.
Imagine management *actually* said to the team that they dont want them looking to games like destiny as a blueprint for the looter shooter/endgame aspect of the game…. When that is the very thing that would have GURANTEED its success!!! 😳🤬 see how stupid people making stupid decisions can ruin an entire project.
It’s almost like there’s no need to put any effort into making games like this because people will preorder them like crazy
"I mean, *DAUNTLESS* made the cut!"
Me playing and loving Dauntless as I watch:
I have faith that one day, people will all together stop giving EA money, and they will wither and die, like all of the franchises and companies they have murdered.
You have too much faith in the regular customers.
I loved everything about this game when i played it, except for the guns, they felt weak and didn't really have anything unique about them, they all kinda looked the same no matter the rarity. but chaining elemental attacks and abilities along with flying over the battlefield was a lot of fun
This had the potential to rival Destiny, but EA had to make sure that didn't happen by monetizing the shit out of it with zero endgame.
no, stop blaming the publishers and romanticizing the devs, bioware was at least just as much at fault, if not more, then EA, bioware relied far too long on their "bioware magic"
and this game is the living proof of that, they didn't even know wtf they wanted internally until the reveal trailer showed what they were building.
if you don't believe me, go look up Jason Schreier's article on it.
@@shadowsketch926 oh so don't blame the publisher that owns the developer? the publisher that didn't even bother to test the game out before putting their stamp of approval and publishing it? no, I think I will continue to blame them, thanks.
@@ThinkPositiveDude the testing is to be done by the devs themselves at first, and secondly by an outside group, but forget all that, are you seriously telling me with all the fuck ups bioware made, all the crunch hours they forced on their people, you're putting the blame on EA? despite the fact that bioware had 7 years to figure out wtf they were doing, and it took them 5 to come to a concrete answer? that's not on EA, that's on bioware!
You can keep blaming EA all you want, but at least blame them for the right things, Anthem being a shit stained, bug ridden bullshit product is NOT on EA, that's on bioware, and EA pulling the plug for not seeing any monetary gain is just the nature of the beast, at that point they already had 7 years of development cost that they weren't going to get back because of how bad the game was, if you were a part of the board, you'd be fucking pissed too!
I played this game when I got Game Pass Ultimate in July, and despite the random server losses that would happen, I really enjoyed the game. I love how each javelin suit is basically a meme of what they do. Interceptor was basically "I'm fast as fuck, boi!" Ranger is the typical "walking missile silo". Storm is basically a beefed up wizard of the group, since they can use three elements when they activate their special. And Colossus.....is basically Ricco from Penguins of Madagascar, since he just loves big explosions, while using a mega iron to do so
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Go back to gears of war 3
This game genuinely hurt me, i had such high hopes for it. When it first launched i thought it was going to be the next big thing. Its like watching a pet get old and you know he doesnt have long
Bro I loved anthem dude the mechanics and gamelan were so fun it just needed some love and for them to keep putting out content even if they were still trying to fix stuff they needed to keep people hooked with new stuff cuz it was so cool and fun to play and the concept behind the whole thing was just good
This game was actually really fun, it was rushed like most games though all the stuff that’s in the game now should’ve been in it when it first came out, that way they could’ve worked on dlcs like what was supposed to happen after the campaign, they thought adding different costumes every couple months would save it that was on them which was annoying
graphically this game is pleasing. and personally i enjoyed flying around. the main reason i stopped playing was because of how many times it would crash trying to just play.
like i enjoyed the scenery and flying through water falls to cool the jets down and doing stunts etc.
i still play this game every now and then [when i buy like, three months of ea play for my xbox] i have all the javelins and they all have a really snazzy bejeweled armor set and my favorite class is definitely the colossus [tanky boi that you see grimnar29 use] because he is like a middle finger to death. "want an absolutely outrageous amount of health that makes the ai wish they had emotions just to cry at your existence? try the colossus."
Plays anthem for the first time guy: this is a good game
Kevduit and a anthem player: you shall no pain
Kevduit: DAUNTLESS even made the cut
Me who enjoys dauntless: well damn... If its garbage he should play it
I remember me and my friend had gotten a beta code for the game and the launch of the beta was so broken we eventually gave up on trying to play. You couldn't log in to play, then the loading was atrocious, and the lag was insane. We went back to warframe after that.
Every single time i see that Anthem opening bit, i still expect to see the Netflix logo and hear the sound..........
Honestly I’ve always had fun with it. It gave a sense of uniqueness that you don’t see other games represent at least hardly often
Anthem: What if we made Destiny with Flying and no story
Also Anthem: Yes
Flying in super fun. I always come to anthem Just to fly around
I flew around for HOURS on end in my sleek blue Storm Javelin casting explosive lightning pillars, levitating oh so gracefully around before seamlessly taking flight, the beautiful electricity particle effects...alas...EA
EA had nothing with this disaster. Inform yourself.
The game was stuck in development hell for 7 years, with Bioware changing the dev team leader every two years. Bioware had no idea what they wanted Anthem to be. Imagine that : one of the lead devs in Bioware wanted to cut out the flying part of Anthem. Yet, they kept that in because the CEO OF EA LOVED IT.
But after 6 years, EA was like "Okay Bioware, what you got?" and Bioware had nothing but a trailer. And only from that trailer, they started to truly develop the game.
What was released was what Bioware created in less than a year, because they wasted 6 years doing nothing.
Hate EA all you want, but EA wasn't responsible for this mess.
I found out about this game just a few weeks back and I’m really enjoying it, like I’m sitting here thinking I could be playing anthem right now
At least EA actually fixed Battlefront 2 and made it great before Permanently Abandoning it the fact that they didnt do the same with game is just mind boggling this game had so much potential I remember watching the trailer saying this is gonna be one of my favorite games it looks like a lil bit of everything halo,destiny,open world,cool monsters,flying, badass suits, cool abilities etc such a sad feeling getting robbed of what could’ve been an amazing game
The flying was fun. That's about it, as he says.
The other players talking to their own streams "OH CHAT! There's players here!!"
Every time I watch one of your videos, I feel like I've just taken happy pills.
I so badly wanted this to be a good game. The concept, the suits, the build crafting, so much potential so badly utilized
Anthem: when literally no part of a development team knows what’s going on.
Three things they could have done to save this .
1 ) get rid of the overheat mechanic and let us fly unlimited
2 ) give us infinite ammo
3 ) let us unlock all the legendary gear on any difficulty level
This would have made it a lot more fun to play and have been more like what they showed in the trailers
I remember looking forward to this game quite a bit, but I had this voice in my head telling me something was wrong
I listen to the voices in my head