Anthem Twitter Thread

Pretty well nothing at all.  No title, no genre, nothing.

The fact that they let slip someone was fighting a 'creature' the other day was at least a bit of a clue.

Not much.

I think in developer parlance "creature" could indicate almost any non-human type from normal animals, to monsters, to steampunk mecha.

Thanks for the (non)news update. Hope you'll find MEA a wonderful thing to fill the waiting time in the mean time.

Just a guess, doubt something will be shared/announced until MEA has been released for a couple of months.

I'm curious myself as to what genre/type new IP is gonna be and also hope I'm into it, as DA is just not for me and waiting on ME always takes so many years.

Pretty sure it's far along enough for a title reveal at E3... but I also wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't. But E3 seems to be the place they do so.

Jay Watamaniuk ‏@jaywatamaniuk
Game development be crazy.

Scylla Costa ‏@scyllacosta

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Jay Watamaniuk ‏@jaywatamaniuk
Accurate.

@bio_Warner
Today is going to be an interesting day 😉 #BioWare

except that it's not entirely true. most of the idea people and creative heads are still there. on the DA side, out of the creative heads, only Gaider is gone. and on the Mass Effect side only Hudson and Drew. if you check the IMDB pages for their games you'll notice that most of those people are still there. plus, developing games in a triple A studio is a collaborative process, it takes a village, as they say. Casey Hudson didn't develop Mass Effect alone, as a matter of fact, his initial idea was iterated upon countless of times before they ended up with Mass Effect. same goes for Laidlaw and Gaider on DA. also zero staples and trademark? what? no. just, no. people know that there are certain things to expect from Bioware games. the trademarks that BW has made their name on. and as long as the main creative heads stay at BW people will know to expect good stories, strong and diverse cast of characters and compelling worlds/universes. technology has changed, sure, but you always know when you're playing a Bioware game. this was true back when they made Baldur's Gate and it's true now. 

first of all, losing a few people doesn't equate to losing a lot of talent. dev teams aren't sport teams. they don't have star players. everyone puts in the work and effort, otherwise the game doesn't get done.

second. the game design choices for DAI wouldn't have changed much even if those people that you're thinking of stayed at BW. why? because most of the game design for DAI was informed by the Frostbite engine. they had to translate an FPS engine into an RPG engine. which basically means that they had to reinvent the wheel. case in point. the cinematic. why did they try to steer away from them? simple answer, the engine was giving them a lot of issues with cinematics. proof? they had to lock them to 30 fps. if you tried to unlock them yourself through the .ini files, lipsinc and characters would go haywire, best case scenario. worst case scenario, your game would crash. on that note, what crashed most people's playthroughs? yep, it's the cinematics. took them almost a year to fix them and unlock the fps. their attempt at reducing the cinematic headache was to lessen them. unfortunate, but necessary.

now what Frostbite does well is environments and VFX. so big focus for DAI was big gorgeous levels, weather effects and some of the best magic effects in any BW game. but when it came to filling that environment with compelling content, BW ended up short of the mark. wasn't unexpected. these were all uncharted waters for them so something had to give. but practice makes perfect and i'm interested to see how they fare in MEA with the lessons they learned from DAI.

but in the end, when it came to story and characters, they were all still distinctly Bioware. that's why i'm not worried about the new IP. i'll be pleasantly surprised if we get stellar gameplay, but i'm not expecting it. what i do expect is a good narative, characters to fall in love with and a world built to suck me in. and every BW game so far, with flaws and all, has succeeded in giving me just that and more.

Jay Watamaniuk ‏@jaywatamaniuk
Good meeting today. #secretIP

Maybe this IP should be announced with a wet T-shirt contest.