can we get a theory as to why they do this? are they malicious or just woefully incompetent

@@drewsclues8625 Mat Pat, you're up.

Oh, yes! ^_^ Sadly, going from EA's track record, I think Anthem will be the end of "Bioware" as we once knew it, if not totally wiped out of existence soon. Oh, well; my biggest hope is that the remnants of the company will get together and start yet another company to produce 'True Bioware" style games (although they may have to 'reskin' a lot of the concepts of Mass Effect to avoid getting their pants sued off ^_^).

And the president

@@drewsclues8625 Yes

A toddler that insults you if you don't give him your money to fuel his crack addiction

I'd take my leather gardening gloves to that baby's butt to punish it for its fits.

Yes,they are definitely evil just like a toddler.

@Gruagach. Iron Shoes Well then we (the gaming communit) should Brexit dis bitch....or pretend we are going to and then sit on the decision for nearly a year.

Matthew Fifer I heard EU trying to keep Britain much as they can so they are trying their best to keep British people in the EU

And the rest ought to be on suicide watch for the terrible working conditions.

Not exactly. BioWare is pretty much the same in terms of talent and work culture that it always has been, which is actually the problem. Bioware has always had a habit of rushing products at the last minute. In older titles when they were using engines made for RPG's and it worked fine, they didn't need to make a save game feature or anything like that and the engines were easier to work with even though they weren't as impressive. Then comes the Frostbite engine. This engine can do alot, but it is insanely difficult to work with. As a result, BioWares habit of doing things at the last minute really didn't pay off because there were so many issues to fix. They had to build alot of the basic features all RPG's have into the engine. Graphic fixes were insanely difficult to fix and all the Frostbite veterans at Dice were not allowed into the project. The end result was a disaster. It is the same thing that happened with Andromeda and why it looked so bad. Oddly enough Anthem didn't start out as a Destiny clone, in fact what the game was would morph over time, including the name which was also a last minute decision. The issue there was with poor project managers who were indecisive and all over the place.

@the shrubberino well, i agree on that last point, but probably not in the way you intended. Edit: Aaaaand he's gone. Now no one understands my comment. ...well played

@the shrubberino ouch, my feelings

@@TheDirtysouthfan My impression is Bioware DID change based on my memories of SWTOR (which I played a lot of it when it went F2P). It was objectively NOT a masterpiece and had its issues (the one I remember most avidly is quests being repetitive and grindy and, unlike Anthem, the gameplay did not even try to compensate for them), but you could really feel the effort in put in storytelling based on each class having a separate overarching story and then each planet having a questline of its own, which would in turn also connect into the overarching War story. This is the core that seems missing in Anthem. For the Mass Effect series, you can also see a general tendency: ME2 would be flashier but also a bit shallower than ME1 in terms of progression system and story (I am admitting this despite ME2 being probably my favorite game in the franchise), and storywise it's hard to say whether ME2 or ME3 are better, but ME3 was definitely worse than ME1 (just compare ME3 dreamsequencies to the beacon-induced visions of ME1). So, Frostbite may have underlined some long-running problems of Bioware, but its better qualities have been sipping out for some time now. Personally, I was not even disappointed about ME4 because it became clear to me after ME3 that I should not expect anything great from them.

SHH! he doesn't know that yet

We need to be subtle and gift him some shoes that have velcro straps instead of laces.

@@mayorofasilenttown3837 we need to be even more subtle, we need to give him a study that shows women are more likely to have sex with you if you wear velcro shoes

.....being a contrarian, however, he'd still find a way to hang himself with them.....

Anthony LiPira he started a video with him almost hanging himself

Pity what they once were, not what they've become

@@DarranKern No pity them. If you've seen Game of Thrones or read the books, compare Bioware's relationship to EA like Theon's relationship to Ramsay. Bioware didn't ask to get flayed alive and have their genitals chopped off or to be turned into a gibbering lunatic who serves obediently because they're terrified of even remembering the good old days because master might punish them again for even thinking for themselves.

Pity them like we pity the Westwoods of old. For we all know what will inevitably happen.

I more pity every current developer under EA at this moment. I shed a tear for Maxis, bellow in sorrow for Bioware, Drown in sadness for DICE, and so on and so forth. Don't care much for PopCap, though.

@@b3rz3rk3r9 DICE seems a bit too willing to cooperate in EA's usual shittiness

Agreed

It's so painfully obvious given how fast they've patched major improvements into the game that ea just wanted it released before div 2.

Hate EA, but well, that is kinda redundant to say, what kind of dilusional fool wouldn't already?

Sdsdfdu Because EA made them do it

EA is garbage and deserves to burn in mediocrity for eons. Though saying Bioware is the same company that gave us Dragon Age and KOTOR is far from the truth. They are a shell of themselves.

Given how Islamic Rule is STRENUOUSLY against gambling, I doubt Palestine would be up for it. I don't know enough about Israel for to make an assumption, but I'd almost say not likely.

Just nuke both sides.

Dark Horse something something in the best interests of American people something

@@jcdenton3512 something something freedom, something something in american

@Dark Horse Maybe if both sides didn't act like spoilt children unwilling to share their toys, they wouldn't be deserving of a nuke. Still, I'm open to Yahtzees Lebanese solution, if only to avoid Australia having to help America in yet another of it's pointless military actions.

Joe M That's called the EDI romance mod.

If those japanese mobile game shit were to be looked at with disgust, yes. It is more interesting than anthem

As we learned from Futurama, having sex with the ship sounds all well and good until you look elsewhere and then your home and method of transportation is suddenly super possessive/jealous and will probably try to kill you.

@@althelor just like one of that japanese mobile game i play then.

@@althelor Hey at least it'll make a memorable part of the game

God, Maxis must be the Game Dev equivalent of a White wine zombie mom.

No one can top that! Well played, Yahtzee! Well played!

Except for Respawn. For now.

@@nmotschidontwannagivemyrea8932 How many studios does EA still own at this point?! Cause I'm wondering when will they run out of developers to toss under the bus.

You say "developers they own," but be honest, dude. It's EA. The developers have become slaves and they get put down every time a property doesn't perform to their ridiculous standards. They've become a metaphor for slavery, come to think of it.

It got me because I was that guy. I’m wandering around trying to get multi-kills by killing lots of people but nothing is happening. Then I google it and find to get a multi kill you have to kill eight people in ten seconds, but not use your ult. That last was what was screwing me because using your ult is the obvious way to kill lots of people. You generally save it for just that purpose, when the mob shows up. So you use it and then make your multi kill impossible because the remaining dudes are too spread out.

@@defenstrator4660 So you had do a multi-kill without the ult. But was this either not explained properly or the UI that bad that it was hard to just get that that detail?

That feeling when you try to deduce what a game is trying to tell you using logic, and logic doesn't work. As a long-time gamer, I'm familiar with it... and as is so often the case, Yahtzee nicely highlighted the feeling it gives you.

It wasn't explained at all. There was only the name, multi-kill. What that meant was left unsaid. Naturally one assumed that you had to kill a lot of enemies at once. So my friends and I would wait for a big mob, then ult on them to make them all die at once. No multi-kill and we couldn't figure out why. We had to look it up on line and even then it wasn’t the Anthem page that explained it. It was some guy on Reddit who had figured it out.

@@defenstrator4660 thats dumb af. Why didnt they just call it "multi kill without ult"? I understand your frustration. Imagine for example a challenge in another game "get a grenade kill", but to complete it you have to kill an enemy with a grenade from specifically 69 metres away and it doesn't tell you that.

Not just any geek, Bioware was the geek who would normally be an English teacher or professor. And EA told them to do the same reps as Bungie, the starting RB.

Whoda thunk

As Yahtzee has said in the past; if something gets blanket media coverage it's cos the people publishing it suspect it might be complete wank.

This is actually hilarious in retrospect; basically every problem with Anthem ended up being Bioware's fault, the one good aspect of the game (the flying) was almost taken out until an EA executive demanded they keep it in.

@@hoodedman6579 Yeah I heard that but I still refuse to believe EA had nothing to do with Anthem's failure. I mean this is a company notorious for going out if it's way to screw over developers and wring us much money as possible out of their consumers.

Ever since ea started ignoring Starwars battlefront 2 dice has been slowly fixing it with good updates

Well, uh... www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/08/life-israeli-cluster-bombs-lebanon-150806101713749.html

@@ScumBunny well that is depressing.

That would be good then they can both double team the israeli invasion.

well as usual it's USA the one that has the deal with Israel to offer them tons of "Lootboxes" with shiny weapons. USA is like the EA of the arms race

@@theguardian8317 Indeed it is.

If it wasn't already, Bioware just made it a thing. And I'm sure they can be proud about that.

I guess thats what they were talking about when discussing innovation

Happens in For Honor if players have the "Order" equipped.

FFXIV has a "Good Samaritan" achievement for resurrecting 30, I think, people not in your party. So you'll see healers at world events not healing people, but very eager to resurrect them when they fall.

It's been around since TF2 went free to play. A pox on all the 124 HP Scouts that steal health packs from their Medics/teammates about to burn to death.

His description made me stick frozen peas, under my scrotum.

Not true, James Bond villains have charisma, Andrew Wilson just has a very punchable face.

@@properlybrilliantgames1824 I'm more inclined to agree with both sides. He looks more like a Bond Villain from it's blandest film with a face that's near perfectly contoured and shaped for my punching delight. Almost like a Chris Meledandri punching bag, to be honest.

Andrew Wilson is one of the illuminati lizard aliens.

More like a rip off James Bond villain. You know, like a Chinese Jimmy Bind, agent 700, villain.

Starman Gaming Ya know, Andrew Wilson looks a lot like Graves from Die Another Day with a different hairstyle.

😭😭😭😆😆😆😆😉👌👌👌👌

... threesome? no, wait, SPACE threesome!

HEEYYOOOOOOOO!!!

Lmao right? When he said that I blurted out "I can't do that to Joker!"

We'll bang, Ok?

YangTheInsane lmfaooooo me af

Me with smash bros. I didnt like it, but i kept fucking watching vids aboit it lmaoooo

It needs updates but honestly if you like looter shooters its fun.

This is actually the only video I've watched on Anthem, purely because it's a Zero Punctuation. It only took me 10 minutes of the beta to be turned off Anthem.

@Denam He actually touched on the fact that EA forced BioWare to make a looter shooter when they're most familiar with RPGs, no wonder it turned out to be a flop.

The problem is that BioWare's life support system is hooked up to EA's bank account

What happens is, when a child holds their breath, they eventually pass out and start breathing again. Entirely ineffective tactic.

@@bluewinterstorm It's quite effective if you get a plastic bag involved. :^) Also, thank you for the explanation, Cpt. Obvious.

@@arandompasserby7940 Well😧, i get tired of seeing parents terrorized by tiny screaming wallabees. I didnt want anyone to think a child could actually die from that.

I was gonna comment about Bungie not being stupid enough to go from AB to EA, but they did go from Microsoft to AB...

I mean, that conversation took place back when they were.

Bungie stand alone owns it now.

"stand alone", i wouldnt count being 100 million(that we know of) in debt with tencent as "alone", but hey, thats just me...

@@supersasukemaniac I am not sure if I trust them much more than I trust Activision Blizzard tho.

Nah, EA is so much worse. So, so much worse than even toddlers have the mental capacity to be.

That's too bad because the jetpacks are actually pretty good. You get bored of them after a few missions, but it handles really well, and the verticality does help.

Jetpacks won't give you anything Tribes didn't.

Maybe grappling hooks can.

@@b3rz3rk3r9 I argued with a guy once because he said that the flying was the pinnacle experience of the game for him, and i said that's really bad and it just highlights the shallowness of the game. Very arrogant person.

@@TJM990 Well, the gunplay is fun, and the world is vastly beautiful. The flight isn't the pinnacle for it, but it does come close. This is just my opinion.

Double door?

Bye-oware

Thank you for drawing my attention to the minor misspelling Mr.Prickwood.

This was the only game that had me considering breaking my no EA thing I have going, partly for bioware and I really liked the idea of it, but this was almost a year ago. The reality of today is 'Sorry Bioware, that EA bent you again, get as far away from EA as you can' and Im not giving anything else from EA any consideration from this point on.

@Kobra Thor At this point it seems like the only thing EA still has going for it is people hoping that the next game they release will be different from the disappointments that they're throwing out on a semi-regular basis. Well, that and FIFA since they have a near-monopoly on football games. While under normal circumstances I encourage people to hold hope for a better future I think that there's also times when the towel has to be thrown in the ring and with EA it feels like hoping that they'll manage to produce a game which doesn't disappoint the customer serves to do little but to drag out the company's caustic lifespan.

@@filipwolffs I can not agree more.

I miss the dragon flute though...

The Dino ranger though

Fun fact the white ranger was from a completely different super sentai series than the rest of the rangers. Every other ranger was from the 16th super sentai series zyuranger while the white ranger, and the thunder zords, were from the 17th series dairanger and in dairanger the white tanger,or kibaranger as he would be properly called, was a ten year okd kid he would gain the body of an adult when morphed like justin in turbo this why Tommy would often jump around in costume aa the white ranger

Green Ranger>White Ranger

And yet you somehow cannot ignore them for long

@@lars7935 the dialogue trees are slight rearrangements of "please tell more for no reason even if it says "I am Leaving Now, and i will be back with my flying kangaroo armor to fry your wasting my goddamn time ass!"" option

Single player for life!

@@anthonylipira9526 EA: Single player is dead... Me: Yeah, keep telling yourself that while I play the recent and previous fun and successful Single player games.

I like Warframe for this reason. There are certain things that are vastly more annoying without a team, but a great deal of the content is soloable and you always have the option of just.. doing something else, if the multiplayer is getting you down. That, and people are mostly friendly and helpful since the game doesn't encourage competitive zero-sum behavior (outside of the minimal PvP anyway).

@@battlion507 that genuinely made me crack up when I first heard it. 'Single player is dead'? Tell that to Witcher 3, Breath of the Wild, Red Dead 2 and God of War 4. Fact is, with technical advancements open world games have never been more impressive. EA don't have a clue.

@@hazukichanx408 Seriously warframe existed for so long and been a better version of all these looter shooter for years.

A game story being mostly world building isn’t necessarily bad. It’s just a shame anthem has a fairly boring world, and the plot they do have is generic with pretty generic characters, with luckily some good voice acting imo.

FromSoft tells most of their story using setting.

shashemption That and item descriptions.

Definitely; the only difference is that the settings in Dark Souls actually add to the narrative and atmosphere cohesively and doesn’t all look the same and weirdly hinder gameplay all over the place Damn I wanted Anthem to be good so bad

Hyped? I didnt see any hype around it, mostly worry and hate directed at EA lol.

hype? No, they tried to hype it but i dont think its possible for a game to generate hype when EA is on the box

@@elitheninth You haven't seen EA's definition of a failed game then

Any sort of hype towards it was, as I noticed, more of a neutral worry and pure disgust. As Yahtzee said, "Don't blame Bioware, pity them," as I would sure pity the very development stuidos beneath the "Developer-Killer" Toddler EA. After all, a nkrmal studio usually fucks up once or twice within their own field of comfort, such as Bethesda and Fallout 76, but it's definitely EA to ame since Bioware is more of a "Single-Player" oriented studio. The last time EA's mismanagement came about, ME: Andromeda, a somewhat fine game while also being the weakest link in Mass Effect's chain, came about from a Bioware studio that never once made a full game. And to think that weak link came from prioritizing this big hunk of "Meh," similar to an unfortunate reoccurring pattern from EA. Visceral Studios, anyone?

WHOOO could have predicted that???

Weyoun!

I imagine people who really loved Mass Effect must be livid. EA/Bioware essentially murdered, gutted, and pissed on the corpse of the franchise they loved because they were so focused on creating "The Bob Dylan of video games that people will be playing for 10 years." Only for Bob Dylan to actually be this mess.

@@ressljs Yeah, I hate the fact that most companies focus on copying trends than actually trying to be the ones that set trends. Even then, I do pity Bioware (ignoring the fact that I'm a Mass Effect/Dragon Age fan) because the development studios and the publisher EA seem to be in a relationshio that I can only describe as abusive, like having an abusive spouse, adoptive parent or what-have-you. It's almost like watching a Lifetime movie of the week, except you know the person going through the abuse.

You were trying not to laugh?

@@jonbaxter2254 Or maybe create a studio from members of former studios that EA closed, and use the collective to create a damn great game. Revenge would be both sweet and hilarious.

Yahtzee always saves his best punchline at the end of the video.

Warframes only gotten away with all its fuck ups because it is free

@@memo57708 And, ya know, they try to fix their game based on what the community says (most of the time) and had a fun combat system after parkour 2.0?

@@hohnmcransi54 that first one is arguable... DE has on multiple occasions banned community members and even had some targeted by blind fans just for providing constructive criticism

@@memo57708 Believe you me, if you're referring to the moderator drama, Rhaetalus thing, or something else I haven't heard of, I don't condone that in the slightest. They're not perfect, they've messed up, and they deserve to be called out when they do. It's abuse of power if it's what I'm thinking of. Still, they engage more with the community than most devs in terms of nerfin- I mean balancing, and what modes people like, so I at least give them a few points there.

@@hohnmcransi54 I still give DE points for being responsive but they have a bad habit of making some decisions that make you want to cry (like how they talked about fortuna but it literally just ended up being a bigger Plains of Eidolon with nothing new really)

It was still true 6 years ago,when development on Anthem started.

@@tunnar79 Not to mention, that just because Bungie jumped the Activision ship, doesn't mean that A-B doesn't still hold domain over Destiny 1 and 2.

@@K-Anator From what I understand, Bungie re-acquired (purchased) the rights to the Destiny brand when the split happened for around 100 mil. So based on that, no, they (Acti-Bliz) no longer hold any domain over the brand. It's all Bungie from here on out. They bought back their IP when they left.

And unfortunately EA cant seem to find or keep track of the space ninjas from Warframe. Much to everyone's growing appreciation of the game.

Funny, since Warframe has cornered that market so badly even Destiny 2 is going on a massive overhaul to be more like Warframe. And funniest thing about that comment is its true, yet Warframe makes ALOT of money compared its competitors in this genre *looks at Destiny switching to F2P*. Sadly Warframe has such a massive glut of content that is engaging AND keeps adding new engaging layers that make sense, functionally at that (usually), while not forgetting the older content. Its almost like they know how Games as a Service should work.......

@@thomasallen9974 ok bro now you took it too far. Warframe's gameplay is one of the most unegaging I've ever played. It's hours of repeated missions and maps for what? Going for the story and end game? What is the end game eventually? You grinding your way on defence missions upgrading your shitty guns to 30 and then scraping enough points for a mr. No bruh it's one of the most boring clusterfucks that have caused even mainstream wf players to leave

@@SexierMink1699 Ah so thats what Destinys trying to be like.

Clumsy Reaper at least SWTOR is still going

They're not dead yet, though that wound looks very infected and fatal.

If you sell yourself to Hannibal Lecter is somewhat difficult to pity you when you get eaten to the sound of violins.

I'm still upset they murdered Origin.

EA ditching Maxis should've been put on trial as war crimes.

The better game, by a better publisher.

And it's free

A sign...a wake up call....

Wake up, Tenno...

He really can't. Mostly because there's somehow less content to rip into.

Not saying you're wrong, but that's the dumbest description of a "multi-kill" I've ever heard.

they publish a week earlier in the escapsit site

Yuzuru A thanks

✋

what a load of bullshit

I laughing so hard my stomach hurts 🤣

Luke Emberson they’re literally the same god damn game every year. Only this time we managed to add another wrinkle in Magic Johnson’s forehead. The only truly good sports game was Mutant League, because it at least changed the formula of a football game

Well as long as football hooligans exist, they will buy the same game over and over from a terrible company for no other reason than "because it has sports in it"

Sauce for ur profile pic please

more like 1982-2019

Aaron Jones 2000s-2010s* Because that’s when their reputation slowly started to become the reputation they have today