So how do you feel about Raids?

I'll admit I haven't fully got my head around what a raid is.

Is it like a MEMP platinum where only the insane or very gud would attempt it solo?

I only know about MMO raids (though considering Destiny is called MMO lite, I'm assuming they are similar?) but they are built for about a group of 8 people with different disciplines (you need a couple tanks, couple of healers, and the rest DPS usually) and it's a series of boss fights with different mechanics that gets progressively harder. It's not a solo activity and I'm not sure you could make it a solo activity as they bosses are balanced round having a group with different specs.

No. Generally speaking, a raid is a bespoke activity with unique mechanics and bosses, designed to be tackled by a large team of coordinated players - although what qualifies as "large" depends on the game in question, on one end you have Destiny where raids are 6-player activities while in a dedicated MMO like WoW you can have upwards of 30 (or more) players. Raids can be thought of like traditional linear levels in games, where the goal is to go from point A to point B and complete every encounter along the way. Your ability to complete the raid is entirely dependent on how well your team understands the various mechanics in each section, and their ability to execute said mechanics.

In the context of Anthem, I think that Destiny's raids are the most apt comparison since they're both multi-platform, meaning every part of the game will have to be designed with console limitations in mind (not just weak hardware, other things like controller limitations, simplified UI, differences in expectations, etc). In fact, I can point you towards this GameInformer article from August 2016 where one of the lead raid designers from Bungie was interviewed about the process they went through in designing the final raid released for D1. A competent team can expect to complete any of Destiny's raids in about an hour and change, which to me seems like a reasonable time commitment for what is intended to be the ultimate end-game activity. Good teams will probably come in around the 30-45min mark, and exceptional teams will be in the 15-25min range depending on the complexity of the raid in question (as each one will have a different number of bosses to be killed or non-boss objectives to be completed).

I'll tack on to this and add that in a well-designed Destiny raid, it should be impossible for a player to solo an entire raid from start to finish, but it may still be possible to complete a specific encounter solo. Granted, with the exception of Crota's End, this is an extreme edge case, but you don't have to go very far on YouTube to find people who have soloed Atheon, Oryx, or Aksis.

Have we heard anything to suggest that you can have more than 4 players? I thought that was the max.

Regardless i hope all content can be completed by two players (like how you can complete swtor 4p flash points with just two players as long as your careful because you each have your companion), as if i get this thats the way i'll be playing.

It seems likely that different difficulty modes will be involved since they've been saying it's 1-4 players.

Man, I wish it were possible to do that anymore. Far as I can remember, only Crota was able to be solo'd, and that may have been only pre-Age of Triumph (maybe). All the other raids had some kind of mechanic that required a fireteam to do certain actions simultaneously, and sometimes with a timer.

If the game is going to be centered around loot, then people should be prepared that certain items will be exclusive to certain activities. While their should obviously be items of equal (near equal) power outside of Raids, I don't believe you should be able to get Raid specific items without doing the raid. If we're looking at it from a Destiny 2 perspective, it had Clan Engrams that significantly minimized the necessity of the raid. Essentially, if someone in your clan completed the raid, than once per week, per account, you could get a clan engram with a raid weapon inside it. You didn't even need to participate in the Raid, which made the Raid even less significant.

As we want to look at it from a gameplay perspective, it'll be interesting to see how Bioware will handle it. Considering that you can fly in this game, that presents opportunities to utilize the vertical landscape to a much greater extent than any MMO or Destiny has done.

I don't like raids and am unlikely to play them. If there's challenging content, I'd rather face it alone or in a small group.

If they exist, I don't really care about the gear or missing out on it. Just don't lead me on with single player story and then leave me unable to get the climax without doing a raid.

Not against it, but I mostly pug and that kinda excludes "organised" gameplay. Usually you have to do something particular to advance or there's different game mechanics and that would just get me yelled at.

As long as it's possible to solo finish it in some way (that isn't 10x more difficult than multi), I'm fine with raids.