Category: Anthem
Anthem off the Games List
Tomb Raider (2013) — Revisiting my campaign from years ago. Hurrah cloud-saves. I resisted moving Anthem off the side-panel ‘Games of Interest’ block even after declaring my time done with it in the immediate future. I resisted in large part because I was still interested to see...
Read More
Time to Loot Journal: March 2019
March was a trying month, with the Christchurch terrorist attack claiming 50 lives in the end. I struggled for a short time in even knowing how to continue posting here afterward. Not to acknowledge it would by far have been the greater crime, but how does one follow that with another post on...
Read More
Making it Official: Anthem on Hold
Warning: Some elements of the negativity drive might be spinning up in this one. In case it wasn’t clear — I’ve put Anthem to one side for the moment. This started out in a fairly happy and OK space. The revised expectations I put on the game during the second demo weekend were...
Read More
Improvements to Anthem Loot Incoming
Ben Irving has now detailed what the loot improvements coming today or tomorrow are. They’re a really positive start that should make getting a Masterwork or Legendary more rewarding, if not necessarily more frequent. Loot Change Highlights Greens and Whites have been removed from the level...
Read More
Coming Games of Interest — March 2019 Onward
There is a lot coming out over the next little while that I’m quite interested to play. Normally, I’d just take things as they come. Really ‘seat-of-my-pants’ it. I still might. But I can feel the end of my tether fast approaching with the launch content of Anthem, so want...
Read More
Heart of Rage: Tips for The Monitor
Learning the Scelos fight last night taught me something about Anthem. It’s difficulty shares some parallels to WoW. Anything below Grandmaster and the mechanics can be preeeetty much ignored (or at least not fully understood) just like in WoW’s normal dungeon or PUG Raid (LFR)...
Read More
Scar Temple: Tips for Scelos
Went into Scelos fight tonight on Grandmaster 1 after previously only having done Scar Temple on hard. To start with, Scelos was an exercise in frustration. “Oh for Fart’s Sake,” or perhaps something, um, similar, was heard over our Discord on more than one occasion. The core...
Read More
Anthem Changes — Beyond the Patch
The February 22nd Day 1 Day -1? patch came out yesterday, in advance of the launch for all comers today. It has a wide array of changes and fixes, with the official list of changes from BioWare here. It seems an incredibly positive list overall, and my experience with it so far would back that up....
Read More
Anthem Review: An Early Access Title in AAA Clothes
Make no mistake, Anthem is an Early Access title. The publisher approved term here is ‘Game as a Service’ (GaaS) and sure, it’s that too. But if you’re buying Anthem now, you’re likely buying into the promise of what it is to become. You’re likely buying it...
Read More
Confronting Confirmation Bias and Echo Chambers
Anthem is the catalyst for this post, but the discussion could certainly be taken more broadly. Also, I want to make it very clear that I’m not excluding myself from this. No-one is free of bias, the best one can do is try to be aware of where your personal bias’ lie and take the...
Read More
Anthem Early Access is Live — Experience So Far
Actually it has been live for about 14 hours now. Of which I’ve been able to spend a good number playing. It has been glorious. Don’t ask me for a review or anything terribly coherent right now, as I have no doubt that the honeymoon effect is in full force. The land of Bastion is ours...
Read More
Anthem: Conviction
I’m a little bit late to this party, full day workshop has at least kept me away from looking at other posts and spoilers before I could see it for myself. But I’m home now. I’ve seen it a few times (OK, maybe more than a few). I have thoughts… And also questions.
Read More
Anthem Post-Launch Calendar
You know what grinds my gears sometimes? When a couple of words here and there are blown into a massive hype piece. A single tweet is a ‘blow out’ of new information. But here we are, with an article based on a single image in a single tweet. And I’m pretty hyped. And it’s...
Read More
Third Stronghold Revealed – and Other ‘This is Anthem: Part 2’ Info
Yesterday there was an early leak of the This is Anthem: Part 2 video via the Korean Playstation channel. When it became clear it was a breach of NDA (albeit not mine; I’m not under one) for it to be out already, out of respect for BioWare I took the content of this article down. Welp, turns...
Read More
Recent Comments