Pax West - Anthem: Our World, Your Story Panel (New Trailer and panel recording)

Scars are also alien to this world? Interesting.


Yeah i saw that. A bunch of edgy kids trying to "look cool" by crying downgrade because of a puddle of water. Ridiculous.

Doesn't SWTOR also have:

-Companions
-Romances
-At least three dialogue options
-Dialogue outside the main hub
-Choices that are reflected in missions also outside the main hub

Uh-huh, given you squarely fit into the bold portion above are we supposed to really take your "criticisms" serious?  Also, wah no pixel romance...try the real thing...much better.

And since when did they said Anthem was a RPG? Bioware may use some RPG elements in their games but they have becoming more of hybrid than anything else. ME3, DAI and MEA are evidence of that trend.

Bioware strengh was always in story telling and character bulding, both can be achieved on Anthem without the need for romance and squadmates so long they put the effort into the Strider crew, Fort Tarsis and its people and the lore of the world.

Also there is barely any effort into making noticeable changes in story areas on SWTOR since most are minuscule and/or don't even need to be revisited after a quest. Anthem is most likely a huge improvment on that department since Fort Tarsis seems to be a lot bigger.

And last, choices in SWTOR are always binaries: it is either Dark side choice or Light Side choice. That been said i hope there is some branching in the dialogue wheel when it comes to asking questions to characters.

Can’t you go solo in Anthem as well?

Well there's certainly no denying how good the visuals are, holy hell. I'm beginning to wonder if they're pulling bullshot shenanigans here. Such a shame that most of the gameplay loop will be looter/shooter grindfest.

You can, but from what I've seen, it's going to be much more difficult to get anything done.

Yeah, as predicted long ago:  solo players are only tolerated, not catered to at all.

Between this, and the vomit-inducing first person in Tarsis (even the little bit in the trailer made me a little urpy), I'm heavily leaning towards a pass on this game.  A shame, because I really wanted to like it. 

Huh...that's interesting.  The way this article explains it, if you're solo, it's basically "one wrong move and you're DEAD".


www.ea.com/en-gb/games/anthem/news/how-to-triumph-as-one

"In a solo firefight, one javelin is going to be spending most of its time running and dodging the hails of gunfire that every enemy is sending at them at once. Make one wrong move and you’ll go down quick."

They seem to change their mind at the drop of a hat. I don't think even Bio know what they're doing. It's changes so often ugh.

Not sure I really see this as an issue.  If it were the combat with all the herky-jerks I'd probably be in the leaning away from it myself, but just walking around talking with NPCs doesn't seem like it should be problematic.