 This is Buona from Buona.TV and today I want to talk about the Anthem VIP demo. I'm going to give you guys my thoughts on how it is so far and some other thoughts regarding what I think the game has in terms of a future and what I think Bioware can improve. Hopefully they've already improved this stuff. So let me just let me just preface this with saying that the VIP demo is a six-week old build of Anthem and the game went gold a couple days ago. So they've already addressed a lot of the issues that we may be bringing up, but still I mean this is my first time playing it. I have not I didn't play in the alpha at all. So I noticed a lot of glaring issues and I think a lot of people other than me echoed the same thing. So let's let's just talk to the elephant in the room. When I was streaming this on Twitch.TV Slash Buona, you come by and subscribe and say hi. When I was streaming this a lot of people they really jump right to the to the comparisons to Destiny and to Warframe. And you know, I had a kind of a troll title on my stream and it had Firefall 2019 because I believe the game closely resembled Firefall even in some ways global agenda in the verticality and you know the verticality gunplay looting type of stuff. But in essence, this is a game that's borrowing from the genre the looter shooter genre sure it has It has a third person in some cases first person with destiny gunplay there's some abilities mixed in kind of like an MMO mobile type of deal and You have randomized loot and you have gear and you're going to be repeating a lot of levels and dungeons to enhance your gear to be better The old action RPG type of thing. So Anthem is just another one of those it is But I really have a hard time comparing it to destiny Other than some of the UI elements and some of the look and feel of it And also I have a hard time comparing it to Warframe because I think what separates Warframe from a lot of other games It's this movement system Warframe is more of a parkour system if you take out arc lane whereas You know Anthem is all about jetpacks and This suit movement with with rockets It's almost like an Iron Man simulator if you will a lot of people compare it to that and I agree It's like you feel like you're flying a bunch of Iron Man variants of the suits But yeah, that's that's the common question. Is this just another destiny. Is this just another Warframe? And I can't say it is it's by a word. So it looks like they took a lot from what they did in mass effect And they applied it to the looters shooter genre and this is what we have and I think it's I'm not gonna say it's completely unique But it feels different from just about everything else. I've played both good and bad So the VIP demo came with came with a stronghold that you could do which is a dungeon It also came with a story segment from levels You started at level 10. So they put you kind of in the middle of the story And you you do a little bit of one one part of the story and I gotta say it was actually pretty good All those elements in the game were good free roam felt good The stronghold felt really good and also the story probably felt the best out of everything It's BioWare. So everybody kind of holds them to a higher standard When it comes to telling RPG stories and I think I think what they showed us in the demo It's actually pretty good So the the biggest impression I've gotten from the game and what I tell people when they ask me what I think about the game is It's fun Because bottom line when you play the game with the combat with the systems in place Overall the game is extremely fun and I had a great time playing it But it doesn't mean that the game is perfect. Um, I am sold on the game I think it's I think this demo did its job as I've stated so many times on my live stream So when I play a demo, I look for three things I look for the ability to run the game. Can my computer run it? I look for control schemes and options what does the game offer in terms of UI and options and settings and stuff like that And then I also see if the game is fun and I think I think BioWare did a good job in just about all those areas So I'm sold on the game. I think I'm gonna have fun with it when it comes out And uh, I'm gonna have I'm gonna have a hard time splitting time between this game warframe And the division that's gonna be a tough thing to do But However The game does have his fair share of issues and they are monstrous If you look at it from the perspective of a pc gamer, you probably know what i'm talking about This game is a very very poor console port To pc there are so many things wrong. It is reminiscent of the original borderlands Where you can tell that certain parts of the ui They just stripped out the console button and they put a random keyboard key on there The ui is very very clumsy Uh, it's just it's just really unintuitive. There's so many mistakes in it. I'm hoping like I said, this is a six week old build I'm hoping some of these have been addressed But my gut is telling me they have not I think there's going to be a lot of this stuff that makes this way Into the game. So the ui is just awful The mouse sensitivity with flying and swimming. Let's talk about that right there Oh my goodness flying took a little bit to get used to and it looks like they've improved it Some people have kind of leaked out because they weren't supposed to say this probably but They've kind of leaked out that in the alpha. It was a lot worse So they've improved the flight a little bit, but it still feels really really Floaty and just there's so much acceleration going on and deceleration going on with the mouse Oh, man, the good thing is that they put in and and Absorbent it's like an enormous amount of sliders All these different sensitivity sliders. There's three different mouse sensitivity sliders. I believe Four flight three different ones. It's like three different aspects of it So it's just like they're trying to give you the ability to tweak and tune it so I can appreciate that But it's still way off way way off and I think they got a lot of work to do in that area They've already gone on record to say that they have made changes from the demo to live in that area So I hope they nail it. That's one of the first things I look for when I get the live build That swimming swimming is the worst part of the game by far You are Oh, people say that the swimming is what the flight used to be and I'm just like are you kidding me It feels like you're you're in a gyroscope in space upside down flying in the middle of a black hole Your sense of direction is just crazy It's just way off. First off, they throw you into a Into water where you just can't see anything and then you have to try to orient yourself with these crazy controls And I think it is it is just awful. It is just terrible The game doesn't have any motion blur options. I was so so shocked by that. I don't have any screen shake options There's no f o v slider. I feel like I'm channeling the late total biscuit here I'm just like what in tarnation is going on here um So it's just a lot of little things. There's no text chat It's like this is a console game through and through It's hard it's hard to say that You know, given that the game is so fun But it's a console game through and through if you're playing on ps4 and xbox, you're gonna feel right at home PC players however are gonna have a lot of gripes a lot a lot of gripes Good news is that the game runs fairly well on my i7 3770k with a 1080 video card It runs decent. I was able to stream and play at the same time Um, and I had a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to it. I'm looking up damage charts I'm looking up elements. I'm looking up combos. I'm looking up builds. So I'm getting excited about the game But oh my goodness this pc port is Atrocious atrocious. So let's hope that bio where Actually fixes some of these things between now and release or they already fixed it I should say because like I said, this is the older build They said that some issues have already been fixed. We don't know what those issues are So I could only soon they haven't been fixed So let's hope that they have fixed them And I look forward to playing and covering this game on my live stream And hopefully I'll be able to make more videos like this on my twitch I mean, I'll make more videos like this on my youtube channel Um to show you guys what the game is like drop my my twitch channel twitch.tv slash born and we stream every day About three p.m. Eastern every day If you want to check me out playing other games. I'll see you guys next time Thanks so much for watching this stream and uh watching What stream I've been doing that too long. Thanks for watching this video. 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