Goodbye Reggie, we will miss you, enjoy your free time with your family and friends.
He's retiring at the best moment, everyone loves him and the company is doing well.
Doug Bowser is fun too, I wonder if he's going to present E3 like Reggie did.
I think he might do that. I mean, Reggie was his mentor after all.
It would be a nice way to honor his work.
So um, yea, Anthem. I think everyone here knows how "the-all-game"s tend to end up, but, Destiny's biggest weakness was its story, and Bioware is great at that! And the jetpack combat seemed pretty neat and reminded me of Xenoblade X a bit. So I was hesitantly optimistic about Anthem. So now the reviews are out, and I went for it!
Just not Anthem.
So far, I'm really enjoying it! I've been playing it on PC with a Steam controller in HDR on a tellie, which makes for a really convoluted setup but (after several hours of adjustment and a bad cable later) it works! It looks and plays very well.
Also HDR in Windows is kind of awful. Even after the years they've had to get it right, the setup and options and ecosystem are all still pretty trash. Games don't have decent calibration options whatsoever and many don't even
have an on-off toggle (this is improving with new games at least), Windows wants to control everything and will kick the driver to the curb as soon as wide gamut is engaged so I can't make it use YUV444, HDR will just break and fall back to SDR with absolutely zero explanation and no indicators, the only list of games that support HDR is Googling it, on and on and on. But it does work and while it was a pain to get going, it's hard to go back to SDR!
Wasn't Mass Effect: Andromeda being notorious for being broken? Especially in the facial animations department. Well... Such as shame. The first three games are actually great back then, but they don't hold quite up anymore today. Some games just can't stand the test of time. And some still can (hurray for Ocarina of Time).
I don't know what is happening to BioWare these recent years. It seems that EA Games has a bit too much of a grip on them. We all know that EA Games loves to shut down studios as soon they get a bit wet under their feet (* looks at Bullfrog Games and Westwood Studios *).
That's all fixed. It's still a bit stiff in places, so Witcher 3 animation system it is still very much not, but there are no terrifying glances and bizzare walks to be found!
Maylmilae Wrote:Maybe in a couple of years Anthem will have its rough edges smoothed out enough for me to play it too~
Laughs in Electronic Arts.
Bioware is a great developer, but EA tends have a kiss of death effect on anything good in this world. I do really hope Anthem improves, for Bioware's sake.
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