Anthem Twitter Thread

That Mech-Wizard definitely has my attention, and I'm not one to gripe over a game company doing things differently, even if I liked their standard formula. Thing is, playing a game only takes so many hours, making a game takes years, and experienced teams are going to want to do different things and push their own boundaries as creators. It's art.

That all said, I'm still hesitant on pressing that hype button because of the MP. All I'd need is for them to say that there's the option for AI-controlled teammates (preferably banter-enabled!) and I'm in 100%. It really looks like a lot of fun, and I'm super interested in learning more about the story and setting. And MECH WIZARD. *Grabby hands*

While I'd love for some other BioWare staples, a lack of them doesn't necessarily mean I'd be uninterested in the game. The issue for me is that I can only play games sporadically, and I don't think I'd be able to handle the stress I'd get over my own performance as a player when there's an audience. An audience counting on me to be good. And social. Sorry, but my job requires a certain high level of energy and being social, which is not really me at all, so I want my game time to be my chill time. By myself. To recharge.

Corey Gaspur‏ @cgaspur
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Hopefully this means  you never have to have a full party. If you can play the whole game with 1 or 2 players I'll be a lot more interested.

Oh, Maker, please. I really hope to see some of this ...I don't even know what to call it... this design incorporated into DA4. The dense city hub. Underwater stuff. The flying-ish-y mechanic. More textured faces. That attention to detail this demo exhibited. Even the open world part was nice and dense, and weather changes like that Shaper storm.

Now that I know they can do it, they better not hold out.

I'm pissed if it's gonna be another shoot-loot game like Destiny. Goddamn, is like with that H1Z1 game, now everyone if copying the idea just because it was cool at the moment.
And I'm surprised this coming from Bioware, they were a company that made games with a story, even if there is a market for the shoot-loot game, why they have to jump on it? why they couldn't come up with some new RPG game instead of a soulless shooter MMO thing?
I mean, we still don't know pretty much anything about the game, maybe is not Destiny 2.5, but I just don't like this whole idea...

Not much, in my experience. It is difficult for group games to have any significant focus on story at all unless everyone is on board with it. Sure, maybe I will care about that stuff, but chances are my teammates won't. Think of it in terms of WoW: even if I want to stop and read every quest, the people in my group will just click "accept" and leave. Since I don't want to stay behind, I'll follow them.

The only way I could see it work would be by segregating two entirely different sections of the game. The open world wilderness would be pure multiplayer grind, while inside the walls you could hang around by yourself talking to NPCs and such.

I totally spaced out on the dense city, but you're absolutely right! Definitely puts to bed any lingering concerns that Frostbite couldn't handle Minrathous.

I think the reason they thought this game would be revolutionary is that they started working on it in 2012, before Destiny came out. I confess that what I've seen so far strikes me as kind of trite: today it is just another team shooter with RPG elements.

Watched the trailer again - this time full-screen & 4K.

Yeah, I'm a little skeptical now that the game will land with that level of fidelity. There were also elements in the environments that were destructible - trees getting knocked down, the mortar creating an actual crater in the landscape, the storm tossing all kinds of debris around. It'd be fantastic if they could get even close to this in the final game. We'll see!

game director dude now live here for interview on youtube 

One of the things I liked about SWTOR is it didn't have this problem. It had group conversations that didn't end until everyone had gone through them, so even if the person you ended up in a random group skips past all the dialogue, they can't move on without you until you've finished actually listening to it. They could exit the conversation i suppose, but then the quest wouldn't progress and they'd have to start it again.

As expected, the world is not Earth...