Everything we know about Anthem

Jun 18, 2018 14:33:21 GMT midnight tea said:

Jun 18, 2018 6:36:24 GMT PillarBiter said:

Here's a thought:
If they claim that at the endgame, the world is unfinished (so they can hold weekly events and change the world as they please) how easy/difficult will it be to have a satisfying ending for each player? I.e. I realise that impact is only reflected in fort tarsis, but - if going for a meaningful story - wouldn't impactful story events sort of break the immersion between the 2 worlds of tarsis and the outside world?

Well, it depends what ''satisfying ending' means for you. Do you mean saving the whole world somehow? Do you mean taking control over creation process? Do you mean gods returning?

If you mean that, then probably not - they have to keep the ball rolling story-wise.

Or perhaps do you mean saving Ford Tarsis? Pushing out Dominion? Or uncovering at least some big secrets of the ancient technology left behind or reasons why the world was left unfinished?

I mean nothing specific per se. I just mean: satisfying. Whether the story is personal about overcoming angst or about saving the whole universe, I don't really care. As long as it's brought well, smart, and the game reflects your effort.

I just fear that if:

1) we need to keep coming back for story parts, the main game will leave us unfulfilled

2) the discrepancy in game design between fort tarsis (solo) and the world (multi) may be too big of a barrier to draw the player fully into the story.

But hey, these are just confabulations, maybe they found a way to make it work.

Jun 19, 2018 12:47:58 GMT SofaJockey said:

Jun 19, 2018 8:40:25 GMT officerdonnz said:

And that right there is my issue with the game.

Is there really a downside between

playing with 3 AI NPCs that do dumb stuff, and
playing with 3 people you don't need to talk to that do dumb stuff.

What's the qualitative difference (the sticking point) between:

3 AI characters and 3 rando (real) characters?

I'm wondering if the concern is largely a mixture of sticking to tradition and multiplayer lack of experience?

True, there is no difference during gameplay when assisted by randos or AI.

However, when there IS a difference if the randos' play affects mine, by sucking, not joining the group or whatever.

E.g. if you have AI, you can program to support you, have a healer, a DPS, a tank... roles which you don't play to support you. You can also program them thusly that they don't die and make you fail your mission.

You can't control randos. You can't make them choose a supporting class. And if the mission fails because of that...

I dotn PERSONALLY have a problem with randos that don't speak, on the contrary, for example on monster hunter world I loved that. But I see how OTHER PEOPLE could have issues with it. To use MHW again as example: people who disliked randos COULD solo everything. That won't be possible in anthem...