Anthem Twitter Thread

I meant to say in recent years, as in the last 3-4, and in AAA games. I agree on indie games showing more innovation.
Nier fits the bill, but it's an exception, or one of them, on the vast majority of recent games (again, in the AAA market). 

These armour concepts and the idea of "Mech Wizards" excites me more than the trailer did tbh. Really gorgeous designs

I'm fairly sure I heard the same "Bioware is not what it used to be before" from people who began their journey with titles like Baldur's Gate, in relation to times of Mass Effect or Dragon Age.

As to how much they'd 'change or not'... we'll see. We don't know the future of ME, but Dragon Age as a franchise seems far from endangered.

The Baldur's Gate people saying that would probably be right 

Ah, in that case, I agree. AAA has been a derivative wasteland since, well, The Last Of Us came out. With a few exceptions, like DAI. The success of HZD seems to suggest that the best way to succeed in AAA is to do derivative waaaaaay better than anyone else. Maybe that's Anthem's game plan also?

Nier isn't AAA, as I've been scolded about every time I tried to claim it was AAA on Reddit.

Meh, looks more like Engineer than Adept to me, in ME-speak. I never liked playing Engineer in ME. Too expensive to level all of the elements at the same time, forcing you to specialize. If Anthem lets you cover all elements without too much of a skill penalty, I'll reconsider.

Some stuff from reddit from BrenonHolmes

Is this a MMO: It's probably easier to think of it as a COOP game with various types of things that link your experiences together with someone else's.

Where there 4 different Javelins in the gameplay trailer: Threre were three in the demo, one was a customization variation of the Ranger.

True, but what choice did they have? They couldn't grow revenue for EA without doing something new -- turning the crank on another Bioware-style RPG wasn't going to do it revenue-wise. This is very clear from the instant attention Anthem has attracted from Destiny/Division fans, some of whom have never even heard of Bioware. And now that the ME franchise is shelved, DA was going to be their only revenue stream.

At least this way, if Anthem succeeds, DA's future is secure. Anthem failing is the same as not doing Anthem at all, so that's a wash and DA is put in jeopardy either way.

You do have a point about resources, though. I'm afraid the institutional knowledge for how to do story-driven RPG is being lost, Anthem or no Anthem. Maybe RPG needs to hit a low point for a few years before some new studio comes along and breathes new life into it, kind of like how platformers and 8-bit games got resurrected.

And what will DA end up becoming?

Ja ♏️es Washington‏ @redesigned83
@bio_Warner Great looking game! Curious if this is a 3rd person game or a mix of 3rd and 1st person. Intro (hub) seems to point to both

Jonathan Warner‏ @bio_Warner
Thanks! It is a mix of 3rd and 1st

They haven't done geeky RPG stuff in 15 years.

It's a shame.

BioWare's path down the wrong road started when they released that abomination Baldur's Gate! They must return to their roots! Give me Shattered Steel 2!!!!