Oh ANTHEM, what even are you anymore? The disastrous looter shooter's creeping up on its first birthday, but unless BioWare works some kind of miracle, there won't be much cause for celebration. You may have seen it floating around the web already, but on this latest episode of 'Let's All Point and Laugh at ANTHEM', the game's still got its Christmas decorations up. And we're into the second week of February.
As spotted by GamesRadar's Sam Loveridge on Twitter, the colourful lights of ANTHEM's Icetide seasonal event still pepper the player hub.
https://twitter.com/apacherose3/status/1225796759189889024
To be fair, the aforementioned Icetide event was actually extended into February via the game's latest patch, so even though it is still fashionable to rag on ANTHEM, it's not like BioWare's actively ignoring the game... Right?
Well, let's just say that it's hard not to be cynical. In January, the developer wrote a post that read: "We're currently working on what's to come after Icetide, but we're not quite ready to share details on it yet." However, this sentence was soon removed from said post, and the studio's been silent on the game's future since. It's not a great look, but then ANTHEM has rarely been a good look, never mind a great one.
And so ANTHEM's Christmas decorations remain, but any hope we had for the game continues to drip away.
[source twitter.com]
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Mad to think that ANTHEM's only a year old. Feels like it's been dying for decades.
They kept this game alive a year to avoid refunds. I know Microsoft has a policy, Sony doesn't, but Sony has refunded their own money in the past for games that were shut off before a year.
I bought a copy for 3 quid over Christmas, I'll have a quick stab at the campaign at least, major updates would be nice but why would EA bother, look at how they dumped Andromeda
Despite how much I hate EA and their policies and the way they make games... it's really sad to see a game die out little by little.
All I can think of are the poor people who worked on this game with their hopes and dreams in their heads only for it all to be shattered in the end by the greed that chokes their bosses.
@PSfan4Life22 MHW gets updates and gets extended once in a while.
On a bigger note just kill Anthem off its painfull too watch.
I went on Twitch to see what viewer numbers Anthem had... 35!
That’s 35 total viewers on all videos combined. Shocking!
Clearly people are still playing and some are no doubt having a great time. But it’s sad to see this game limp on.
I’m still tempted to try it one day... it is kind of more appealing to me now it is so dead.
@PSfan4Life22 Are you just going to ignore the fact that the source is a tweet that blew up yesterday, rather than ResetEra?
I wanted to resume my solo playthru during Christmas but stopped because I couldn’t stand the hideous “Icetide” makeover...just an ugly, lazy white mess over the formerly lush jungles.
Grabbed this for $4 late last year and just got done playing through the campaign. Given that the game was panned so thoroughly, I was surprised to enjoy it so much. Some of the missions get repetitive, but the combat has a really nice feel to it and flying around everywhere is fun. The story is passable.
Metacritic score is ~15-20 points too low, IMO. I think the game was judged too harshly because of the expectations set for it.
Crazy it's only been a year since this came out! They really are better off just moving on at this point. It would take a damn miracle, GOW level masterpiece expansion/update to resuscitate this game which is highly unlikely. It's the constant butt of jokes and its so cheap at this point I doubt they can make anymore money from it so may as well jump ship
@DoctorE at launch the game was a disaster on so many levels. Progression, technical and connection issues, lack of meaningful endgame content, I could go on and on. I actually enjoyed some parts of the game as well but the review scores are accurate imo based on how it was at launch.
It makes me so sad that BioWare hasn't made a good game this gen. I mean Dragon Age was decent but nothing special.
Even if they announced a new Mass Effect I'm not sure how excited I would be.
I think Bioware need to make a statement soon. Even if its just so we know they are alive and they haven't gone the way of visceral
Don't they know it's supposed to be bad luck to leave your Christmas decorations up?
@Splat I gave Mass Effect Andromeda a second chance and it’s actually really good, IMHO. What’s really helped me enjoy sci-fi games and movies in general more is to just ignore plot holes. The first scene in Mass Effect Andromeda, for example, where they are in a drop ship just standing in the hold without any seatbelts and with a bunch of loose cargo everywhere...that used to bug me SOOOO much but now it’s just a funny thing that happens.
...ugh, look what BioWare has done to me!!
If games were animals, this one would have been put to sleep about 10 months ago. It's just cruel to leave it suffering like this. 🤣
"...on this latest episode of 'Let's All Point and Laugh at ANTHEM'..."
😂😂😂😂😂
I need to buy a disc copy of this for next to nothing just to fly around for a few hours and then sit on it in case they do manage to pull some game changing reboot out from somewhere.
When I log into Division 2 my guy is standing next to a Christmas tree, is this the same thing?
I played the demo. Not entirely sure what all the fuss was about with the pointing and laughing. It seemed solid enough. But I had other plans.
@Paranoimia ah but where is the cruelty coming from is the question....
@frankmcma same for the Division 1 to be fair...
FOR 3 WHOLE YEARS!!!
I actually logged in over the holidays, so now about 4 weeks ago or so. I just wanted to see what was going on. I was pleasantly surprised to see many people playing. I had no issues getting in groups for co-op mission completions and tackled a Stronghold in a full group as well. The little hub for choosing designs had folks as well jumping and running around.
I don't know. Could have just been a lucky day. Man, though... that flying aspect is so tactile and so fun.
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