"lets all laugh at an industry, that never learns anything, tee hee hee" -yahtzee

@Archangelm127

4 жыл бұрын

Beat me to it.

@RellDefinition

4 жыл бұрын

I can totally hear it being said

@hydrocannons7573

4 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile EA laughs at a playerbase that never learns anything.

@asceticblur

4 жыл бұрын

But why would they? They made all their money back in 3 months. I mean, do you think EA gives a fuck? Of course not. Look at ghost recon....huge seller. Totally crap.

@everythingsgonnabealright8888

4 жыл бұрын

Hydro Cannons, because time is a flat circle, it seems.

“Is there a future for anthem?” That aged like milk

@gidioter

4 жыл бұрын

I was like "hey this video is old isn't it? How long ago was Anthem released" *checks date* "Oh it doesn't age well at all does it"

@tysean0816

4 жыл бұрын

Or dried out like old dog shit

@alistairmcintosh9520

4 жыл бұрын

like fresh dick milk

@JimSterling

4 жыл бұрын

The future's bright... they hope.

@sirapple589

4 жыл бұрын

Jim Sterling Bright like the flames in a car crash.

I still can't see Anthem without thinking: "They killed Mass Effect for this?"

@iupzor

4 жыл бұрын

Andromeda was the best mass effect overall, amazing visuals, nice history, lots of potential

@danimartin818

4 жыл бұрын

Me too. Exactly this.

@MrSomebodyStrange

4 жыл бұрын

​@Tattle Boad An overrated game isn't equal to a bad game. The latest Doom was an overrated game, but it was still really damn good. FIrst two Mass Effect games were still great in terms of gameplay and storytelling, same thing with the first Dragon Age.

@HermeticMoon

4 жыл бұрын

Mass effect died long before, whit the ME3 ending.

@sta697

4 жыл бұрын

​@Tattle Boad dragon age origins and the first mass effect games were great and that's obviously subjective and they are flawed.But trying to downplay how EA and themselves to some degree fucked them is missing the point entirely

So who's here after Jim was totally vindicated in regards to this games '10 years of support' ending after barely 2 years?

“Does Anthem have a future?” Sure it does! We’re taking it to a nice farm, where it’ll have a lot of room to run around and play!

@koenvandamme6901

4 жыл бұрын

*Ominous, metallic click can be heard behind developers back*

@jethrodark2372

4 жыл бұрын

Come here old yeller(Anthem).

@NotAGoodUsername360

4 жыл бұрын

And EA gets to tend the microtransactions!

@tiandis100

4 жыл бұрын

LMAO This is my favorite response. Thanks for the laugh, friend. :)

@MoistChungus

4 жыл бұрын

Along with the last 800 or so players still on anthem

Bioware: "We want our game to be talked about for decades!" Evil Genie: "Your wish is granted."

@theendofmyropemydude

4 жыл бұрын

*finger on the monkeys paw curls*

@airiakizuki5592

4 жыл бұрын

Infamy and fame are the same right?

@Tengila

4 жыл бұрын

@Jimmy That's the point. It'll be talked about for a really long time _as a huge failure._ As a prime example of the failings of the Live Service model. Quite possibly as the biggest failure and downfall of a once beloved game studio.

@Tengila

4 жыл бұрын

@Mi Ke I still have a sliver of hope DA4 will be good, or at least okay. A tiny, very breakable sliver...

@apsido-8126

4 жыл бұрын

Technically.. just a regular genie because genies (besides Aladdins) are meant to turn your wish on it’s head and twist them on itself.

Bioware’s response being ‘we don’t like articles that aren’t praise’ is very telling of how games companies view games journalism

@tonycmac

4 жыл бұрын

I remember that was one of the reasons BioWare shut down the BSN. Whoever decided to do that needs to be fired.

"Is there a future for Anthem?" "Yes, yes there is. A very bright future, we hope!" Just here on the day of Anthem's death to remember every step of the way

@TiagoMorbusSa

3 жыл бұрын

Thank god for James Stephanie Sterling.

A post-mortem of a game less than a year old. Welcome to AAA games, kids.

@Jonathanizer

4 жыл бұрын

Games? You mean "live services"

@Flowtail

4 жыл бұрын

Sarasaland Subserviant actually it’s pronounced “TrIpLe A” games

@Marinealver

4 жыл бұрын

Don't worry they will sell the sequel/remaster/next year game with annual releases. It makes them more money and they barely have to do any programming for it.

@belyayevsfox4753

4 жыл бұрын

@Locust Swarm Anthem may not be technically dead yet, but it's on life support at this point. Live services literally depend on an active user base to keep their servers on, and Anthem doesn't have much of a base left. EA may eventually pull the plug on the game, and unlike Square Enix, they aren't likely to rebuild it from scratch.

@1urie1

4 жыл бұрын

Guess failure is also a surprise mechanic.

Anthem is a 2019 game. Sometimes I forget.

@Sashitoge

4 жыл бұрын

I've forgotten more than once, and when the lists for the worst games of the year roll up, I will have forgotten again.

@Virjunior01

4 жыл бұрын

It's so fucked up. I'm really happy I didn't buy it..

@DemonicAkumi

4 жыл бұрын

A few times when people bring up Anthem it actually makes my brain skip a beat and wonder what year I'm in as I thought it came out last year. Making me question "Wait, is it really year 2018? Oh crap... it DID come out this year?"

@90sNostalgiaNerd

4 жыл бұрын

It's definitely in the running for Yahtzee's Blandest Game Award.

"We wanna take on contemporary stories." Literally WHAT does that actually mean?

@Sorrowdusk

4 жыл бұрын

Um...stories that people live...everyday?

@TheSuperQuail

4 жыл бұрын

Ah yea cos Anthem is so grounded in the mundanes of modern life...

@DiggingForFacts

4 жыл бұрын

It's corporate speak for "we want to make the things that we think are popular at the moment in a style that is popular at the moment, because we believe that trying to keep up with the Joneses is the way to make money."

@Yal_Rathol

4 жыл бұрын

well, if we break it down, it means....nothing. contemporary is a word that only has meaning in relation to something else. for example, you and i are contemporaries, because we live at the same time and can interact. saying "i want to tell a contemporary story" is essentially you saying "i want to tell a story that occurs at a time". thanks, mate, so do we all.

@JaelinBezel

4 жыл бұрын

I think it means conventional stories?

Fans: *Love the storytelling and worldbuilding of Bioware's Mass Effect and Dragon Age games* Bioware: "Yeah, let's not make a game like that"

@GloomGaiGar

4 жыл бұрын

EA didn't give them a chance to.

@optidalfprime3904

4 жыл бұрын

@@GloomGaiGar EA did. But if they give Bioware 7 years to make the game but Bioware just wanks around and start doing the game after 5-6? that's where the problem is

@gemain609

4 жыл бұрын

@@optidalfprime3904 In the video he outright says that when the dragon age head was story boarding they didn't want the game to go in that direction so they took him off. EA is just as much to blame

@optidalfprime3904

4 жыл бұрын

@@gemain609 So they took someone of from storyboarding and the project doesn't progress for 5 years. Cool. Not how it works. Bioware management was just dogshit

@koboldparty4708

4 жыл бұрын

There's nothing wrong with trying to branch out. In theory.

RIP Anthem 2019-2019 "You were boring gobshite"

@ThePurpleSpartan

4 жыл бұрын

Commander Shepard died (again) for Anthem to live for approximately less than a year. Bioware as we knew it is dead. EA's smartest investment would be to hire a necromancer considering all these dead games and franchises they have. Thanks for nothing Casey Hudson, you're like the George Lucas of Mass Effect except even George never ran away to Microsoft only to cower back home after that venture failed, he just cashed out when he knew he was finished.

@ManoredRed

4 жыл бұрын

@@ThePurpleSpartan They're sitting on several gold mines, paradoxically they don't exploit them because the're all about the money and have convinced themselves that the only way to make money is to focus only on a small handful of huge games.

@uoodSJW

4 жыл бұрын

F

@TheLenny655

4 жыл бұрын

I'm Commander Shepard and Anthem is the worst game on the Citadel.

@dragorocky2

4 жыл бұрын

Anyone else still bitter about the hot garbage known as Anthem? I feel robbed still.

"Supported for years to come!" Couldn't even make it pass year 1.

@VictorW23

4 жыл бұрын

RIP Anthem 2019-2019 😂👌

@04musicgurl

4 жыл бұрын

When did it officially die?

@MechaEmperor7000

4 жыл бұрын

@@04musicgurl I think a month back or so? I remember them mentioning it's basically on maintenance mode now (which is "live service" talk for "dead") So not even 10 months, let alone 10 years.

@2Scribble

4 жыл бұрын

Oi, be fair, this game WILL be remembered for years to come -nod-

@natk205

4 жыл бұрын

They didn't even prepare for this game, so HOW WERE THEY GOING TO SUPPORT IT? What a bunch of idiotic morons.

"Anthem is a social game, where you and your friends go on quests and journeys." I can't be the only one who is sick to death of hearing things like that. First thing I think when I hear that is: the game is minimal-effort, poor story, multiplayer crap that is only entertaining if you can get your friends to play with you. It also assures that your game will be pretty much worthless, when they do close the servers. Every game does not need to be a social multiplayer (unless your goal is to sell micro-transactions). Some of us play games to get away from the world for a moment, along with the people in it, and relax with some alone time.

@robertherrick6703

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed. That really put a damper on my interest in the game before it even came out.

@vsm1456

4 жыл бұрын

in Destiny they really use that "better played with friends" motto as a band-aid instead of fixing the game issues, in hopes YOU will USE your friends to fix these issues for you. I have a feeling it's a kind of disgusting, actually...

@StrazdasLT

4 жыл бұрын

i too am really sick of this "everything is a co-op" trend.

@funninoriginal6054

4 жыл бұрын

I agree. I like Co-Op games as much as the next guy, but having games where you always have some John Doe thats 20 levels above you doing fuck all just gets anoying after a while

@Savpants69

4 жыл бұрын

@@funninoriginal6054 I like Co-Op with friends but I don't like massive online games with loads of people running around ruining my experience. And this model of launching a core boring game to rake money in and then spends years adding actual content later is getting old fast.

I'd like to remind everyone that this was the game, that made Mass Effect Andromeda what it was. Because the the a-team was busy working on this and the b-team took up Andromeda

@fisharepeopletoo9653

4 жыл бұрын

Your a team sucked i doubt andromeda would've been any better

@RoyalFusilier

4 жыл бұрын

Anthem: So shit, it made other games shit via proximity.

@SvenTviking

4 жыл бұрын

RectalDiscourse There was very little wrong with Andromeda once the facial animations were patched. It was just the fanboi assholes went hysterical, vomiting, pissing and shitting in all directions, screaming that it was “THE WORST GAME EVA, EVA, EVVVVVAAAA!!!” In fact in playability it was better than the original trilogy, and the story was an introduction to a new trilogy, just like ME1. A lot of people are reassessing Andromeda and shamefaced admitting that they may just have over reacted a tad.

@ToxicallyMasculinelol

4 жыл бұрын

that is literally not true. both games suffered because of top-down policies

@brianjensen5661

3 жыл бұрын

@@SvenTviking so what your saying is they were ashamed of their words and deeds?

"Anthem: so shit, players want the bugs put back in!" As a developer that made me chuckle in all the best ways lol

@archibaldc.1833

4 жыл бұрын

Such a cute aye-aye

@puppy0cam

4 жыл бұрын

Fallout 76: bruh

@grubbybum3614

4 жыл бұрын

Which idiot's bought this game? Own up, so I can shame you.

@SimonSalmon

4 жыл бұрын

@@grubbybum3614 I did I wanted to see it for myself but I have a lot of money to waste so I knew I wasted it :)

@ferinzz

4 жыл бұрын

Oh god, this bug made it fun... Go back! Must go back!

I love how that infamous reddit post of EA's actually got into the Guinness World Records

"This new game's gonna be legendary!" "Cool. What's it about?" "Um... It'll have action and co-op." "Okay, and?" "And what? It's an action game with co-op! What else do you want?"

I keep forgetting that it came out in 2019, it feels like so long ago

@Legion849

4 жыл бұрын

Didn't it come out in 2018? Am I missing something here. There is just something that doesn't add up.

@JackTheripper911

4 жыл бұрын

@@Legion849 when did February 22nd 2019 suddenly become part of 2018? The only thing that doesnt add up is your not actually paying attention or even casually googling the answer.....

@ShutItKyle

4 жыл бұрын

Me: “Why are people talking about Anthem? Didnt that game come out like 5 years ago?” Also me: “Oh god.”

@Legion849

4 жыл бұрын

@@JackTheripper911 Maybe but still doesn't it feel that Anthem somehow reset the timeline. I swear I'm not crazy just saying

Bioware: This is a beginning of a 10 year journey for us EA: Yeah through unemployment.

@chillhour6155

4 жыл бұрын

I think they meant to say 10 month journey

@reed1645

4 жыл бұрын

@@chillhour6155 more like 7 lol. After the cataclysm flopped the game was officially dead.

@angelshadow3593

4 жыл бұрын

Ooff damn that stings

@yudhiadhyatmikosiswono9082

4 жыл бұрын

i think is kinda unrealistic that a game with live service can survive for 10 years, even most popular MMORPG can't survive that long.

@reed1645

4 жыл бұрын

@@yudhiadhyatmikosiswono9082 destiny has made it to 5 and it's bigger than ever these days. it's possible put the market is getting really crowded and when other franchises have been doing this kind of thing for a lot longer than you... its a tough market to break into.

Not even a year and the Live Service is dead.

@kaminaalbarn

4 жыл бұрын

Call that a dead service

@bificommander

4 жыл бұрын

Undead service?

@derekstronf1837

4 жыл бұрын

The EA way

@ECL28E

4 жыл бұрын

to quote George Carlin: "Good! Fuck 'em!!"

@BlackLegion12621

4 жыл бұрын

Good.

Don't mind me, just back to this video (which belongs in the fucking Louvre) after the death knell of "Anthem".

Pre ordering a live service is an exercise in “surprise mechanics”.

@Legion849

4 жыл бұрын

EA : We don't know why we are seen as the bad guys.

@Legion849

4 жыл бұрын

@OzarkoBlam You mean your surprise cell growth.

@devolution13

3 жыл бұрын

@@Legion849 😂

@tafua_a

10 ай бұрын

*T H E R E ' S T O O M U C H C A R I N T H I S C A R*

"Dylan, because they hoped it would be talked about for years to come" Talk about a monkey paw situation.

@forcedtohaveahandle

4 жыл бұрын

Ryan Dean ?

@BigStarRealFamous

4 жыл бұрын

@@forcedtohaveahandle Google it

@healsallwounds

4 жыл бұрын

Should have used the last wish on a turkey sandwich.

@drkillbrew6387

4 жыл бұрын

@@healsallwounds the turkey's a little dry... THE TURKEY'S DRRYYYYYY!!!

You know Jim Sterling is genuine and dedicated when he makes absolutely sure that every time "live service" is uttered, he says it in *that* voice.

@tommiknuutila6751

4 жыл бұрын

It's fucking annoying tho, lol.

@diegocandelaria7871

4 жыл бұрын

@@tommiknuutila6751 how do you delete someone else's comment

@tommiknuutila6751

4 жыл бұрын

@@diegocandelaria7871 Lmao

@Byrvurra

4 жыл бұрын

He's had such a dedication to it I wonder if he can even utter that phrase in his normal voice anymore.

@KnownAsKenji

4 жыл бұрын

I think it's more that he wouldn't ever be able to bear even speaking it in a normal tone, so he chose a consistent silly one. Tends to happen.

"Its a clean slate" Destiny clone with jetpacks with one loading screen. No thanks.

@Legion849

4 жыл бұрын

It was the Destiny killer that couldn't even last one year . EA never learns

@datonkallandor8687

4 жыл бұрын

It wasn't a Destiny clone. It was in fact the Multiplayer mode of Mass Effect Andromeda, with new assets. But, you know, they made sure not to involve the developers that made that mode (the only good part of ME:A and the only people that would know how to make that game), and slapped a tons of bad loot mechanics on top. I'm serious, they actually confirmed on the record that those devs didn't work on Anthem, as if they were proud to not involve the only people with competency in the area their new game focuses on. Because the game those people were forced to work on before wasn't good in the area they weren't good at (singleplayer). But that's EA logic for you, the same company that cancelled a game for not selling enough - before it got released.

@shorddy1668

4 жыл бұрын

Not even a Destiny clone

@silverblade357

4 жыл бұрын

@@shorddy1668 Yeah. For all the game's faults, D1 kept me coming back for a good while. Anthem was a game with jetpacks... and I honestly couldn't tell you from trailers what the game was even about.

@shorddy1668

4 жыл бұрын

silverblade357 exactly

"Released Anthem upon the world like a weaponized virus." Wait, Anthem created Covid19? I knew it!

@P-nk-m-na

Жыл бұрын

the C in Covid is short for Crunch

Is there a future for Anthem? Me: A bit of poison on my blade and let's GO!

@JimSterling

4 жыл бұрын

Anthem is a masterwork, YOU CAN'T GO WRONG!

"Yes, there is a future for Anthem. A very bright future, we hope." Solid Snake: "It's a terrible day for rain."

@sirapple589

4 жыл бұрын

Isn’t that quote from Colonel Roy Mustang?

@sirapple589

4 жыл бұрын

0utta S1TE What are you talking about crying? I only see raindrops.

@jdbruiser

4 жыл бұрын

If Anthem was inside a locker with Otacon it'd pee its pants.

@Yal_Rathol

4 жыл бұрын

@@jdbruiser well, yeah. dead things relax all their muscles, so as is usual for a dying thing, anthem went out as it came in, screaming, kicking and pissing on the carpet.

@jdbruiser

4 жыл бұрын

@@Yal_Rathol Compared with that bloke who peed on The Dude's rug, Anthem has incontinence issues.

I could NEVER wrap my head around how the human character's fit their legs into the javelins lol

@zach-rac

3 жыл бұрын

Oh god thank you. I /hate/ how they look.. It looks like the people in the suits are walking on their shin bones because of how the leg is bent and it's just hideous.

@chaosinc.382

3 жыл бұрын

Now if it was like Starfox where they cut off their legs for augments (or the MEK soldiers from X-Com) that'd be believable.

@JaelinBezel

2 жыл бұрын

@@chaosinc.382 Starfox is neat. Nintendo’s Starfox I mean, not Marvel’s Starfox. He’s pretty dumb.

@blackpajamas6600

Жыл бұрын

​@@JaelinBezelEy man, what've got got against Starfox? Not the most original character, I'll admit, but he's gone over a bit of a revamp and I think he's just fine. Not great. But fine. Hell, Starfox essentially saved the planet in the recent A.X.E. event.

the android wilson voice has always been my favorite

@RoyalFusilier

4 жыл бұрын

"Mister Wilson, would you like to comment on the latest Anthem controversy-" "WHERE. IS. THE. DOK-TOR? EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!"

Anthem came out in February of 2019, I can't tell if that means the release was so insignificant or if 2019 has been a long year

@DoveAlexa

4 жыл бұрын

This comment gives me a 1000 yard stare. I don't know either...

@sulidos

4 жыл бұрын

KelvinBelmont it's been a very loooooong year

@autobotstarscream765

4 жыл бұрын

It's certainly been a long year for Anthem...

@goonhaveanotherbikky

4 жыл бұрын

@@autobotstarscream765 It's been the only year for Anthem. Not even a whole year.

@autobotstarscream765

4 жыл бұрын

@@goonhaveanotherbikky Exactly. >:3

"10 years of support" couldn't even get 10 months. I'm still amazed this game came out in 2019.

@NathanCassidy721

4 жыл бұрын

Anybody who pays attention isn't. This is the same industry that released Fallout 76 and Assassin's Creed Unity at us.

@devilmikey00

4 жыл бұрын

If anyone ever says they are going to support something for 10 years you should belly laugh. That's literally almost two average console generations and nothing that isn't primarily a PC title will EVER get 10 years of support. It's a bald-faced lie and companies REALLY need to stop using that particular one. Heck. even among PC centric titles games supported for 10 years or more number in the single digits. It's just a silly thing to promise in this industry.

@Patrickf5087

4 жыл бұрын

@@devilmikey00 the only games that last that long are MMos even only a few have lasted half that long, evercrack (everquest) and wow, runescape

@Nicolas-zo6rg

4 жыл бұрын

Holy crap. It came out in 2019??? I seriously forgot this. Incredible how it failed so quickly and thoroughly....

@Enclavefakesoldier

4 жыл бұрын

not even 10 weeks before the cracks started to show.

I come from a year and a half in the future to report Jim was exactly right...the promised "remake" got cancelled, and while the servers are still technically running, it will never get any more updates, and noone plays it.

"Unicronic Arts." Damn dude. Respect.

This is why games should never be pre-ordered,especially “live service “games with “road maps”.

@menhirmike

4 жыл бұрын

Only ever judge a game by what it offers at this moment, not what it's supposed to offer in the future.

@RandomPerson-gt1jt

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly, no matter how good a game might seem, ALWAYS wait until the reviews come out. Only time I might pre-order something is if the game already came out but is being ported to a different platform, and the sale is big enough that it's worth the risk.

@gozzilla177

4 жыл бұрын

A real shame the concept had alot to work with, the gameplay could have bin some of the best. But EA had it's hands in the game.....

@Go_away__

4 жыл бұрын

After reading this comment, I just realized I can’t read the phrase “live service” without hearing it the way Jim says it.

@JauntyM

4 жыл бұрын

I got it like first day because first few hours of gameplay looked Interesting

I can’t believe Jim killed Anthem in his Backyard while wearing a Mysterio Cosplay.

@lemeres2478

4 жыл бұрын

I know. I assumed he would have worn a sexy boglin costume.

@markcobuzzi826

4 жыл бұрын

Considering how much Jim Sterling has a habit of doing bizarre out-of-nowhere skits, I actually thought I was going to see the video cut to Jim destroying an Anthem disc, while dressed as Mysterio and acting with the mannerisms of the Surprise Mechanic. I was a little disappointed when I did not see such fabulous imagery happen... unless I somehow missed it.

@Motorius9000

4 жыл бұрын

@@lemeres2478 Sexy boglin costumes? Delicious.

EA: "All studios should work with the FrostBite engine" Respawn: "Eeenope."

"Most of anthems gameplay consisted of going [flying] somewhere, shooting something, listening to dialogue, playing a game of hot and cold, rinse, repeat." This sounds... oddly... familiar...

@StrazdasLT

4 жыл бұрын

yeah, like every shooter in the industry? I once had first person games summarized as "you press W and react to what happens on a screen" to me. And yes, it actually is that, but all dressed up in facny stuff.

Anthem is so bad Jim scolded his Boglin at the end.

@greenfolder2437

4 жыл бұрын

It had no choice but to intervene, Jim was about to be consumed by Road-Map Rage!

@lnfreeman

4 жыл бұрын

Scolded his Boglin? Is that what the kids are calling it nowadays?

@ScorpionAndZangief

4 жыл бұрын

I for one would like to stand up and say that Boglin abuse is hurtful to Boglins, and detrimental to their Boglin ways. You wouldn't bonk a Fantasy Miniature Willem Daffoe, you wouldn't scold a Skeletor Pog. Boglin abuse IS a crime! :

Jim looks more like a 90s cartoon villain after each jimquision

@ShaynaLynn

4 жыл бұрын

That's because he is. That's the beauty of it all.

@jakublulek3261

4 жыл бұрын

That thumbnail said it all.

@Hero_Puddle

4 жыл бұрын

Doesn't he have a thing for 90s cartoon villains?

@reynaldipangestu259

4 жыл бұрын

More like 80s cartoon villains. I mean, he references Skeletor, Decepticons, all that 80s jazz.

@jasonrhome710

4 жыл бұрын

If I get the funds, I've been thinking about using Hero Forge, or something similar, to make Squad Sterling. I think the only one I'd need to learn how to sculpt myself would be the corn flake homunculus.

I swear, Jason Schrier should earn a mini-Pulitzer for that _Anthem_ exposè.

@novaenforcer1563

4 жыл бұрын

Lucky Striker gaming pulitzer

Frostbite Engine - built specifically for battlefield. EA - hey bioware use this engine you've never used and that was never design for an RPG etc

goddamn... i've seen unvaccinated kids live longer than anthem...

@user-xn1wi6kk3b

4 жыл бұрын

ooof

@KurumiHasDownYou

4 жыл бұрын

Big ooof

@RegencyYarl

4 жыл бұрын

F.

@planescaped

4 жыл бұрын

Kids born with terrible birth defects generally live longer than Anthem!

@hihihi1q23

4 жыл бұрын

typical sjw libtard globalist. VACCINES ARE WHAT KILL CHILDREN. #MAGA

How can they learn their lesson when everyone who learned that lesson got fired as soon as the game was finished.

@0LoneTech

4 жыл бұрын

That's an odd remark, considering it never was finished - by design. "Live services" don't get finished, they get abandoned.

@loonachan

4 жыл бұрын

The everyday office devs were not responsible nor were they fired over Anthem, they're more likely to get laid off due to budget cuts. The problem with these games is they have no competent leadership at the top- all the good writers and project directors that made Bioware so good early on are gone, replaced by people who only have a mandate to try and copy other successful games and give into EA's whims about the next big thing.

@devilmikey00

4 жыл бұрын

@c-pin Come now they'll all be rehired under new contracts all to be laid off and rehired again for the next game after that. It's fun never having permanent employees. No benefits or workers' rights and if they bitch you can just kick them out the door! It's in the contract on page 87, clause 10.

@henryhaskin9012

4 жыл бұрын

For real though at this point boiware exists in name only. Anyone significant left years ago.

@JauntyM

4 жыл бұрын

Idea of having mechs was good but they were so slow and missions were so boring

I’ll be waiting for the day Jim starts making post-mortems on “former AAA publishers” ...

Them: "blah blah blah, Live Service". Me: "thankyou, next".

@alexdasliebe5391

3 жыл бұрын

“No thank you, next” I love that response.

I keep forgetting this game even exist. The only time I remember is when someone brings it up. Which is not often. To think it came out this year.

@MrRuftzooi

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed, i legit forgot this game exists and that i even own it (maybe i'm subconsciously trying to deny that i ever wasted money on it) untill i saw this vid on my youtube feed.

@hendellconcepcion5320

4 жыл бұрын

It came out this year?

@grandpulse7970

4 жыл бұрын

Anything by companies like activision and ea I completely ignore. Subconsciously Many of their garbage I either forget the release date or their entire existence altogether. Just too many other good games to bother worrying about their trash

@MuffinCapBackBlue

4 жыл бұрын

It came out this year? Holy shit I legit thought this game came out in 2018 😅.

@sdbegotist

4 жыл бұрын

An Argos in driving distance were too lazy to get rid of their advertisement marquee for Anthem.

To be fair: Anthem will most likely be talked about for years to come... ...as the striking example of how not to design your „live service“ shit show of a video game.

@razorcloud1

4 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure fallout 76 hilds that title, but anthem is a VERY close 2nd

@originalscreenname44

4 жыл бұрын

It's more of an example of why not to buy into live services to begin with because this is what you're pretty much going to get.

@Herbstmann

4 жыл бұрын

originalscreenname44 That‘s a given, imo.

@ratchetexperience8379

4 жыл бұрын

More like never to buy Live Service games to begin with.

@Dregenskill

4 жыл бұрын

that can be said about any new game, look at ghost recon breakpoint, fallout 76

After the "No Man's Sky" fiasco I never preordered games with over hyped trailers, even more so if they are from EA.

@gaiusjuliuspleaser

4 жыл бұрын

Hell, at the very least Hello Games managed to pull their heads from their asses and actually work to improve their game, free of additional charge. They've put out 7 major updates for free (as they should) that turned the game into something that's actually enjoyable. They fucked up, hugely, but they're atoning, and I respect them for that. EA, BioWare and other major developers and publishers have learned nothing. They seem intent on reacting to any criticism in what is scientifically determined to be the worst possible response. They continue to spit in our collective faces, while holding out their hands and expecting you to put money in their palms.

@DanMcLeodNeptuneUK

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, NMS decided to 'git gud' - I played it for the first time 4 months ago and bloody loved it.

@TheSecondVersion

4 жыл бұрын

@@DanMcLeodNeptuneUK NMS has redeemed itself, but Hello Games still shot itself in the foot by releasing a horrendously unfinished game for AAA prices. As Honest Game Trailers said of Sea of Theives, "people ended up paying $60 for a beta"

@RGBeanie

3 жыл бұрын

No Mans Sky maybe be better. But its just a turd with glitter

I saw one of my friends was playing anthem yesterday. I called him an ambulance.

Bioware is so good at magic they made Anthem disappear, even made Randy Pitchford jealous at their skill

@tyronechillifoot5573

4 жыл бұрын

If only they could make Randy's carer disapear

@kingoftehwalrus77

4 жыл бұрын

Soon EA is gonna put them both to shame by making an entire studio disappear.

@MortalReaver

4 жыл бұрын

@@kingoftehwalrus77 as long as EA has sport titles then, no

@Mernom

4 жыл бұрын

@@MortalReaver Um, yes? EA is not a studio, it's a publisher.

@Distruptor18

4 жыл бұрын

It's weird no usb drive full of Anthem porn he wanted to study has been found yet. Actually, it's not weird at all, i doubt there is any Anthem porn anywhere to be found.

I feel like "Anthem will be talked about for years to come" wasn't exactly WRONG. Just you know, not in the way they had hoped.

@LegendRonk

4 жыл бұрын

Hasn't even been a year since release

@BoltyLive

4 жыл бұрын

Legend Ronk I think anthem will always be used as an example.

@XescoPicas

4 жыл бұрын

And we HAVE to keep talking about it! The moment we forget, AAA companies will do it again.

@josephpeters49

4 жыл бұрын

@@XescoPicas you are wrong. AAA does not give a fuck about what we think or do. Jim looks like he's on track to make every video about anthem for the rest of his KZread career lol

@OVERSKULL87

4 жыл бұрын

I think that was implied.....

3 years later: Don't forget, they're gonna keep doing this. This is what happens when you have infinite money, you throw it away on incomplete projects and just move on to the next one.

“...they’re gonna have to nail it [Dragon Age 4].” See, here’s the problem with that: I think BioWare, on its own, could at least make a real decent attempt. However, they’re partnered with EA, who you KNOW will force them to tack on some money grubbing bull$&@& that will guarantee they don’t even come close to “nailing it.” Unless by some miracle the two split off, BioWare’s $&@&ed.

Oh anthem had a pop-culture impact. You can still see the smoking crater.

@autobotstarscream765

4 жыл бұрын

Made from the game systems it cratered.

@UlshaRS

4 жыл бұрын

Vaping controversy has more smoking rising from it's impact. This is the puff from one of those candy cigarettes.

The only future anthem has is as an example of EA’s horribleness

@trollloool1307

4 жыл бұрын

Toaster so it’s joining the endless list of EA shit

@StarlightFromAbyss

4 жыл бұрын

Example people don't heed with Fallen Order on the horizon.

@xdz1039

4 жыл бұрын

I think that in this the studio, bioware, is more to blame here than ea.

@livinginpatheticera3867

4 жыл бұрын

BIOWARE is responsible for it too. But divide and conquer by scam business working as intended. AI. Investors > Intelligence. Artificial Inflation. We are being priced out of life because of Artificial Inflation. Artificial Inflation creates pay-walled-region-locked-time-gated content.

@bernardoheusi6146

4 жыл бұрын

How much the game sold so far?

Everyone when discussing Anthem: "Oh right, Anthem came out this year."

NGL I completely forgot this game existed. That's how much "impact" it had.

One of the best-selling games of 2019, that is absolutely sad.

@Aggrofool

4 жыл бұрын

Sales still far underperformed EA's expectations. Might even be a net loss.

@gremlinmogwai9649

4 жыл бұрын

Lots off pre-order victims.

@spyox2215

4 жыл бұрын

@@gremlinmogwai9649 they deserve it to be honest

@shiori4671

4 жыл бұрын

Trend continues with Borderlands 3. May be a good game, but the publishers sold out in the worst possible way... Epic exclusive. Yet 90% of the globe bought the game anyway. I am so glad I am not a supporter of that trash. There's a drastic number of people who should be ashamed of their support of that disgusting practice. I couldn't even be bothered to pirate it, just cuz I don't wanna end up liking a game 2K, gearbox _and_ Epic are all involved with.

@ericvanleeuwen979

4 жыл бұрын

spyOx best two games ever sorry you enjoy trash :)

"Enough talk, let's talk!" Jim Sterling 2019

@DragonNexus

4 жыл бұрын

At no point did he say "have at you." Jim disappoints again. Unsubscribed.

"post-Mortem" *IT CAME OUT THIS YEAR* OMEGALUL

"I believe (INSERT AAA GAME HERE) to be a cautionary tale" -Game industry in a nutshell.

@tafua_a

10 ай бұрын

I don't know how Steph feels about Yahtzee after all these years, but... Let's all laugh at an industry that never learns anything, tee hee hee.

The part that depresses me the most, is the effect on the development of DA4. After DA Inquisition, the dev leads had worked out a plan for the sequel that took the core game design and improved it further. Then, Bioware came in, gutted the team to shift resources to Anthem. That concept for DA4 was basically thrown out, as team members were lost and replaced. Now, the current form of DA4, is reportedly nothing like the original intent.

@RobertFierce

4 жыл бұрын

That's great news for me. Another game I won't feel obliged to buy for nostalgia reasons. Future Bioware games are dead to me. ME1 and 2 and old dragon age games are Bioware to me. This new thing is Shitware. Don't wanna go anywhere near that steaming pile of crap.

@nousername2942

4 жыл бұрын

I can't wait to see how awful Elder Scrolls VI will be

@arellajardin8188

4 жыл бұрын

@@nousername2942 Thats a different company. And Bethesda has only made one bad game, Fallout 76. They won’t mess with their flagship series, TES VI will probably be a return to form. Like how Borderlands 3 is more Borderlands, despite being published by Take Two.

@Ckoz2829

4 жыл бұрын

Arella Jardin That’s gotta feel horrible for the team manager. You have this grand plan for the game and the resources to pull it off, then all of a sudden someone comes in and sucks it all up and dumps it into another office leaving the manager scratching their head, wondering what the hell just happened before realizing their project is gonna take another 10 years to finish. Edit: and imagine that happening all the time because it’s EA.

@nousername2942

4 жыл бұрын

@@arellajardin8188 Very aware that these are in fact two separate companies. Thank you for stating this though

I remember my friends trying to get me to buy this game, and I told them it looked boring. I still ask them about it from time to time, none of them beat it. One even forgot he bought it.

@methos4866

4 жыл бұрын

My friends tried to do the same. Two of them still play and keep saying the game is not dead. I don't care for the game either way.

@TheColemancreek

4 жыл бұрын

This might end up being one of the very very few games I never end up playing. Have seen enough of it to know I will never pay money for it. I have 120k gamerscore on 360 generation, level 19 on PS4, 101 games on Steam -- I don't play for trophies/achievements either. I've played almost all of the shit games just to see what they are about. Can't ever imagine playing Anthem. Was following the games' progress too ..I remember the 2014 trailer having watched it more than a few times.

@realgamergirl4638

4 жыл бұрын

@@methos4866 The sunken cost fallacy at work

@AtrociousAK47

4 жыл бұрын

i remember seeing the E3 trailers, just never gave a shit because they never showed me why i should be interested in this new ip, just gameplay of flying around in a generic looking power armor with little other context, probably didnt help that I never played any bioware games prior to hearing of it.

@AndragonLea

4 жыл бұрын

@@methos4866 Yeah, that sounds like the same kind of "not dead" that Battleborn was enjoying a year ago. "Not dead" as in "there's still a tiny fringe group of hardcore loyalists that meet every second Saturday to get enough people for a game together for maybe 2 hours". In live-service multiplayer game terms, that's so dead it almost loops back around to undeath.

Kind of sad that Anthem is even worse than Brink was.

It's bad when a 25 minute documentary about a game is better than the game itself.

Anthem: "I'm not dead! " Bioware: "'Ere, he says he's not dead. " Jim Sterling: "Yes he is. " Anthem: "I'm not." Bioware: "He isn't." Jim Sterling: "Well, he will be soon, he's very ill." Anthem: "I'm getting better. " Jim Sterling: "No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment."

@markcobuzzi826

4 жыл бұрын

“IT’S BIOWARE (necromantic) MAGIC!!!”

@jayr7965

4 жыл бұрын

"I'm not dead, I'm in maintenance mode!"

@NotTheStinkyCheese

4 жыл бұрын

look ... it moved no it didn't, you rattled its cage he's pining for the fjords

@hazukichanx408

4 жыл бұрын

It has ceased... to be! Bereft of life, it rests in peace!!

@danielbrown5986

4 жыл бұрын

"Whatever happened to Anthem's playerbase?" "He's over there..."

Casey Hudson: While the Montreal studio is working on the next Mass Effect game, our team here in Edmonton is developing a completely new IP. *uses Mass Effect music in the video*

@blakehooper1787

4 жыл бұрын

To be fair, the Anthem music was probably as complete as everything else in the game at the time.

@Archangelm127

4 жыл бұрын

They should have used Kevin McLeod tracks like everyone else on the Internet.

@Icematt12

4 жыл бұрын

I believe that extract was from a video that primarily focused on Andromeda.

@reed1645

4 жыл бұрын

After andromeda that montreal studio got shut down... I wonder when they lose their next studio

Definitely hilarious coming back to this with the news of its cancellation coming out What hope did they have to keep a game alive that was dead on arrival? And that promise of a decade of content? It didn't even last a QUARTER of a decade before the plug was pulled

@brendanmilburn9067

3 жыл бұрын

It didn't even last a fucking year.

Didn’t he leave like a week after that interview. Oof.

"Talked about for years to come". Oh it will be. For all the wrong reasons.

@funnygamer5405

4 жыл бұрын

Sorta like Hitler

@beardedgeek973

4 жыл бұрын

Daikatana strikes again.

@frataltay4543

4 жыл бұрын

Stefan Eriksson It's more like Duke Nukem Forever in my opinion. A game that's remembered for it's hype, tortured development cycle and massive dissapointment it caused. Only difference is that Duke Nukem Forever looks like a pretty good game killed by over-hyping and late release while Anthem just looks like a cashgrab.

Anthem brought me so much joy this year. I never played it.

@soulcleave2386

4 жыл бұрын

same goes for FO76, the two biggest and most joyous comedies

@ProjectChaos77

4 жыл бұрын

Soulcleave ain’t that the truth 😂

@NamhadiNdemufayo

4 жыл бұрын

This guy knows what's up!

"Games with road maps are not to be trusted" Lookin at you, Starbound

11:00 "Time to unleash Anthem upon the world like a weaponized virus." That didnt age well, eh.

Someone, literally anyone: Live servi... Jim: COWABUNGA IT IS!

"Jason Shreier's infamous expose on __________'s history..." Anthem truly is the Destiny killer

@x54xHantamachine

4 жыл бұрын

Should note I actually play Destiny btw

@tzxazrael

4 жыл бұрын

Destiny Killer? in what, like... some sort of bizarre suicide pact?

@VerdeMorte

4 жыл бұрын

It's like a modern Daikatana, did they seriously learn absolutely nothing from John Romero's follies?

@ressljs

4 жыл бұрын

Anthem might kill Bioware's destiny, but not Activision's.

@NathanCassidy721

4 жыл бұрын

Try "Destiny Promoter". Cause it was around the beta the I'd started Destiny 2.

The destiny "killer" that didn't even last a year... *deep inhale*, Yikes. Edit: Holy shit they even copied the masterwork mechanic from destiny! and it didn't even work!

@MrJordwalk

4 жыл бұрын

And the peak irony is that Destiny is killing right now. It's pathetic that they blindly thought they could kill Destiny without first understanding why it has been so successful.

@novaenforcer1563

4 жыл бұрын

Brendan Mewburn happened with the division, the destiny killer, coincidence, i think not

@chelsthegameruiner8669

4 жыл бұрын

@Josue Cabrera Maybe when Destiny 1 first launched, Anthem would've had a chance to be the Destiny killer. I don't really like the newest expansion to Destiny 2 but it's better than nothing I guess-

11:00 this joke aged like poison, and i love it

"... there's a lot to say about Anthem..." In June 2016 Shamus Young finished his 50 part retrospective analysis of the Mass Effect series, critically examining the shift in tone, theme, and writing style over the course of the series after someone mentioned "People will always be able to talk about Mass Effect". In October 2019, Anthem is being raked over the coals and criticised and is likely considered a cautionary tale for future development. Both likely talked about for a long time, but for exceedingly different reasons. Just another reminder that they basically parade these developer names out like suits made of skin they can slap onto a box when they want to cash in on some good will/nostalgia these days.

@CleverCover05

4 жыл бұрын

Oooo, can you tell me where the analysis is? It sounds like something I would want to read.

@heronator

4 жыл бұрын

@@CleverCover05 It's on Shamus Young's blog, Twenty Sided Tale

When Jim opened with talking about dissecting Anthem, I could only picture him hunched over the game muttering about it and then exclaiming, "OOOOOOH A LIVER!"

@Archangelm127

4 жыл бұрын

You just made my day.

@Filsaveol

4 жыл бұрын

Live(R) service

@CaliaShade

4 жыл бұрын

Yes!

"Anthem.. so shit people want the bugs put back in!" 😂

"lIVe sErViCes" I literally laughed everytime he said that 😂😂😂

"You want us to make a game? What type?" "Hmm, don't know. Maybe something without... pianos... cake... nor expressive dancing? And definitely NO anteaters! Is that clear?!" "Allright, how about colors and sound?" "Yes."

@wadespencer3623

4 жыл бұрын

Aw, but I want anteaters in more games. Not nearly enough anteater representation in my fiction.

@daveincognito

4 жыл бұрын

I know this references one of the Sega CD "Make a Music Video" games, but I can't remember which.

@matthewshiers9038

4 жыл бұрын

Pianos? Cake? Expressive dancing? Anteaters? Did you just describe Animal Crossing there?

@KassFireborn

4 жыл бұрын

@@wadespencer3623 I do believe the last piece of fiction I consumed with an important anteater character is still Princess Tutu. Even Wikipedia only lists about five total. Now that I have become aware of this injustice I think we should do something about it. And also tapirs. More fictional tapirs, dammit.

@ninetailedfox579121

4 жыл бұрын

@@KassFireborn There's a little tapir pet that you can have follow you around in Final Fantasy XIV. But yeah we need more anteaters. And platypi.

"this is an industry that never learns its lessons" yep, that's pretty much it. i really want the next dragon age to knock one out of the park but i'm not optimistic given bioware's horrid performance over the past few years.

@EvillBob

4 жыл бұрын

"Let's all laugh at a industry that never learns anything, tee hee hee." -Yahtzee, Zero Punctuation

@acrow5

4 жыл бұрын

@@EvillBob Damnit, I was going to type that.

@fatcat1250

4 жыл бұрын

You just need a couple of hype trailers and paid shills to make "beta" gameplay videos to revive your hype engine. You'll be back on the hype track soon enough before it's release.

@angmordagnithil7127

4 жыл бұрын

All we're hearing about Dragon Age 4 is that it's going to be 'Anthem with dragons.' ...Yeah.

@YouDonkeyfu

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly, we seen what happened to Anthem, Anthem with dragon just doesnt sounds amazing.

"[Anthem] is a social game where you and your friends go out on quests and journeys. It's a game that we've been wanking on for almost four years now."

It’s like Bethesda tried to hybridize Overwatch with Space Marine

Can you imagine being someone working on Mass Effect Andromeda? Stressed out, aimless, and overworked only to finish and release the game to angry fans everywhere.... then be shipped over to the other studio to....start work on Anthem. What kind of fresh hell is that?

@umbranoctis4348

4 жыл бұрын

From the frying pan into the fire.

@juicecanister

4 жыл бұрын

@Dahn Well tbh Anthem was more Biowares fault than EA's

@davidgantenbein9362

4 жыл бұрын

SilentKnight11 Read the Otaku article as it’s even worse: the people that worked on Andromeda before got all treated like second class citizens due to their game failing. And the only people with any decent online experience aka the Star Wars team got ignored entirely because why listen to anybody that had already experienced the issues that come with online life services. Sadly Anthem is also a tale of hubris in Biowares „A“ team.

@Silentknight1171

4 жыл бұрын

@@davidgantenbein9362 100%. I remember reading about the issues the Andromeda team faced during their production, and then reading the Anthems teams issues that basically mirror what happened the first time. Engine issues, people being pulled off the team and not replaced, both teams failed at finding the direction early enough, and management just didnt know where to go. M.E. wanted to go the route of No Mans Sky, but they couldnt make procedural gen work correctly so they had to scramble to get their game done in time. Anthem, those guys had no idea where they were going until about a year before deadline. Absolute insanity.

@ChristophBrinkmann

Ай бұрын

​@@juicecanister Nope. EA owns Bioware, EA holds the pursestrings, EA forces ridiculous deadlines.

To quote Yahtzee Croshaw: "Let's all laugh at an industry, That never learns anything tee hee hee"

@TheDakattack3000

4 жыл бұрын

Or when he makes EA sound like a baby. "Ahloahsihdbkdaj!"

@Golem29

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheDakattack3000 Stop holding your breath EA

@AceHaBeats

4 жыл бұрын

Let's all laugh at an Industry that never learns Anything tee hee

@Pikminiman

4 жыл бұрын

I 60% expected Jim (or I guess Justin) to play that Zero Punctuation clip when Jim said that this industry never learns.

That Heaven Smile laugh though! You nailed it.

never thought of it, but now I know where the triangle comes from in the graphics

I love that the "Post-Mortem"s have become an unofficial mini-series on this channel.

@09csr

4 жыл бұрын

Yet it's kinda sad that it has to exist. And no doubt sad that so many games are potential candidates for it.

Wait...Anthem released this year? THIS year? 2019? Really? Really, less than 10 months ago? Granted I didn't play it but I could have sworn it wasn't that new

@jpo6714

4 жыл бұрын

February 22nd

@tessabakker662

4 жыл бұрын

Amazing, isn't it? I'm impressed at how fast EA and Bioware managed to sink the damn thing.

@syco579

4 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure alot of people forgot it came this year

@jdbruiser

4 жыл бұрын

8 months ago actually, but it doesn't matter it's aged like a worn out prostate. Anthem has aged faster than the amount of time it took Greg Miller to hit puberty.

@supahstarwarrior6942

4 жыл бұрын

Could've sworn it was a 2018 game. Dang, that's sad

I live for the small clips of Jim's wrestling career. Like, you're living your dream and loving it, man. Keep being awesome

16:36 Never realized how stupid this statement sounded until you said it like that. LOL 😂

Anthem: just play Warframe. It's free

@darthXreven

4 жыл бұрын

or Destiny 2, it's free now too....

@koboldprime2257

4 жыл бұрын

Destiny Free to Pay for shitty DLCs, no thank you.

@reed1645

4 жыл бұрын

Destiny 2 is a great option as well, there's so much free content on offer :).

@AchedSphinx

4 жыл бұрын

i got the shadowkeep dlc. turns out all the good guns are in forsaken. feelsbadman.

@reed1645

4 жыл бұрын

@@AchedSphinx which guns are you missing?

God, Presidential hires in this current administration lasted longer than Anthem.

@jasongarrett768

4 жыл бұрын

DAMN.

@Nikke-nn5mn

4 жыл бұрын

Bioware is as good at making live service games as DNC is at winning elections

@potatonugget5629

4 жыл бұрын

Nikke 2800 Well, the DNC did take back the House and won the Presidency twice in a row before the current one....

@acidfruitloops

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Let's make it political. Edgy. Nerd.

@potatonugget5629

4 жыл бұрын

Phil M Who hurt you

10:35 I didn’t know Patrick Soderlund was the old lady from spongebob that freaked out about chocolate

There's so many ads shown in this. You should get your editor / art designer / whoever makes screenshots to use an ad-blocker!