The Anthem Skepticism Thread

You know, I seldom hear "gals" used unless it is by someone with a certain regional dialect or by someone mimicking such dialect. 

Yah, I can't wait until this political correctness gets down here. "I'mma supposed to call you what now, sugar? Zher? What's a zher? Oh that's you, sweetie pie?" At this point he would be laughing his ass off at whomever was standing in front of him.

To be honest, I wouldn't mind a set of gender neutral pronouns and think it could be a good addition to a lot of languages. There is a decidedly lack thereof in many and it would not be solely to the benefit of people who want to use the pronouns for themselves.

I personally want them because it can be a bitch to write science fiction in some languages. It's not always a problem when I'm constructing a universe that features its own languages and it reflects in dialogue and narration but for stories that don't, it'd be nice and convenient. There are some languages where you literally cannot write a sentence without using masculine or feminine words because of how gender is hardwired into the language.  

We now officially have one in english: A writer (or speaker) may also use "they" to refer to a specific, known person who does not identify with a gender-specific pronoun such as he or she. From the Chicago Manual of Style. The AP Manual of Style modified their text to say the same thing last year.

In fact, singular "they" goes all the way back to Shakespeare. Probably even before that. "There's not a man I meet but doth salute me as if I were their well acquainted friend" (Shakespeare) "It is very unfair to judge of anybody's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation" (Austen) "With all due respect to such of the present company as chance to be married, my dear Mrs. Grant, there is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry." (Austen) "A person can't help their birth" (Thackery)

Some grammar prescriptivists have always formally nixed it though. That being said it's pretty much a done deal now - we have a singular gender neutral pronoun and it's "they/their/them". Nothing else will take off, and people have tried for over 50 years. 

Sorry about that, here's the link:

www.oneangrygamer.net/2018/01/bioware-worries-anthems-success-anita-sarkeesian-visits-studio/50015/

and the Youtube video that brought me to it:

BioWare is in the brink of getting dissolved by EA if they mess up Anthem. Might as well prepare for funeral arrangements if that happens.

Asaris aren't hot, they have the ability to make any race think they're hot.
As you can see, they lost this ability after 600 years of cryo sleep (except Peebee for some reason, when she's not wearing her racoon makeup).

Hope the Javelins move as good as MEA chars..

Asari are one of those cases where they want to have both their cake and eat it. They want to have interesting lore but they also want a sexy blue alien trope. The worst case of fanservice I think is Samara as she's meant to be in the Matriarch stage, has a super serious code and mission in life, is a Justicar but they dress her in an over the top sexy, skintight, shows everything outfit. There's nothing wrong with having a sexy character design  but the character actually has to match it. They make the asari this sexy race who everyone thinks are hot but none of the main Asari characters we meet are into sex, even the one who should be like Liara who is actually in the maiden stage, but she get's the shy, awkward, obsessed with the PC archetype. All the background asari are sexy like dancers/strippers but none of the charcaters you actually explore are. A good design from BioWare of a sexy female character is Isabella, cus yes she's wearing revealing clothes but she also actually shows interest and wants sex which is actually rare as so many female character in games who are designed sexy actually act overly innocent. She also isn't a 2D character but even when their designs aren't great, BioWare does always tend to write their female characters really well.

Actually with Anthem whats there to see? All indicators point to this being an attempt by EA to grab in the Destiny crowd....a game/genre that I do not like. This is far from your typical Bioware gamw where it is SP focused and companion focused. Anthem is MP focused and group play focused....far from the Bioware standard.

For many people like myself, there isnt a reason to wait and see.

If I know that I do not like mayo and pickles on my burger, I do not need to "try it" to know that I wont like it.

The problem is using your analogy we don't even know if they are putting mayo and pickles on your burger, you are just assuming they will be.

The argument you are making here are identical to the ones people were making about The Old Republic as well, if you want to say because they are comparing it to Destiny you don't have interest that is one thing and I am okay with that, but you are making claims BioWare has not made themselves and making your decision based on that.

One thing about CDPR is that their games are your money's worth, because you're paying a premium price for a premium game. I'm more looking forward to Cyberpunk 2077 rather than Anthem, but if Anthem came out good and no micro transactions then there's hope for BioWare yet.