The first few months of 2019 has started off with a bang, with several high-profile releases. Anthem and The Division 2 was atop the most acclaimed releases, both following the looter-shooter system popularized by the Borderlands series and the live service model that has become increasingly more prevalent among publishers. However, which is better? Does Anthem soar to heights beyond The Division 2's reach or does Ubisoft latest game topple BioWare's game? Let's find out.
To celebrate The Division 2’s sixth anniversary, Ubisoft shared a dev diary which included a sneak peek at the Battle for Brooklyn DLC, showing off Washington Street, the iconic view of Brooklyn Bridge, along with combat against the Cleaners.
The age of stretching out a game with new content and seasons has been upon us for a while. Sports games seem to be the only yearly releases now.
The Division 2 celebrates year 6 with some interesting events.
No kidding. Rumors that it is in production but so was the Free to Play one. What city do you think they will do? I am curious about L.A. but it does seem to focus on the East Coast. Boston would be interesting.
Former BioWare executive Mark Darrah says "be a human being, have some empathy."
Fans don't know who is actually to blame.
Darrah throws up a hypothetical that someone might not like how an actor delivered a line. Sure, it could well be down to the actor, but it also might be down to who was directing them, how the writer asked their work to be delivered, or maybe that was the only take they got.
This line from the video though
"Maybe the CEO of the entire company really wanted his nephew to be hired as a script consultant and this guy with literally zero experience was coming in and pushing for mandatory changes"
Like others have said that seems far too specific to just be an example...
Exactly. And the crazy part about this is that the people there just doing their job and trying to make a living are the one's getting hurt and losing their jobs. I am also not a fan of targeting specific individuals. Its poor form. These are video games.
If only there was a single problem with this game, it was a train wreck waiting to crash and burn.
As usual, common sense falls on deaf ears. I mean, he thinks this article is about Dragon Age Veilguard. He rejects logic and evidence.
What possible logic or evidence can you provide to convince him otherwise.
@Thorstein
Cant expect people to see reason now a days.
@Notellin
Sure. Go ahead and bury yourselves beneath your own ignorance.
Then don't use it for the thumbnail. It's misleading on purpose to draw this reaction.
Personally, i think we should always blame and criticize the management (especially top management; like with EA - every screw up should be blamed on Andrew Wilson and his goons). They're the ones with the power, the ones who have the last say in the matter - whatever is the plot details, gameplay, microtransactions, budget and «It's ok that it's buggy and crashes constantly, release the game ASAP, we'll fix it later».
Harrasement is not ok in my book, although, nowadays, many people paint every type of criticism (whatever warranted or not) as harrasement. Which is a very narrowminded and waters down actual harrasement problems. But, i guess, it makes it easier to ignore everything bad you see aimed towards yourself.
I would also like to add, that this topic is a double-edged sword, some developers are being mean to their customers, calling them names or any sort of -isms, that happens. In that case, don't be surprised, that, when you're «firing shots», customers are «shooting back» at you.
No you don't. Everything is criticized by somebody these days. By that logic everything is bad. Thats just more fuel for the echo chamber. The way you get games you want is by supporting the types of games you want by buying them. You want more games like Astrobot? Buy Astrobot. Recommend it to others. Its not about bashing what you don't like. its about supporting what you do like. Money talks.
Absolutely, I buy my games cause subscriptions are also part of the problem. I don't criticize myself personally, but by observing criticism by others, I avoid purchasing games with problems.
No we don't. FIFA and Madden get criticized every year and the games get worse and more overpriced.
Lack of profit is the only way to do it, but people are fine buying shit games every day, just not the shit games we talk about regularly here. We distract ourselves with this stupid 'social mirage' issue and the corporations get to keep doing less and less but selling it for more and more.
Says the only guy in the world that likes vanguard, I bet you like avowed aswell huh
Empathy always has value when dealing with other human beings. This includes empathy towards the fans who feel scorned and the devs who worked their asses off.
Really? One is a barren turd and the other is The Division 2.
Definitely The Division 2, I'm having a blast with it.
I love them both. I do like the gameplay and story better in Anthem. But Division 2 does loot so much better. I also enjoy coop more in Division 2 since the AI is so punishing you really need to work together more. I would give the edge to Division 2 since the loot system is just so much better and while Anthem Gameplay is more free and fun, Division 2 still has amazing gameplay, where Anthem's loot system is garbage.
Anthem for me just because I am a mech suit junky. Gundam wing fan and I can not be helped. That is all.
I rather play the division 2 than Anthem.
This is coming from a big Bioware fan.