Anthem · DIGIT-ARC

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Developer: Bioware
Publisher: EA
ETA: Spring 2018
Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One

Today during EA's E3 2017 briefing, the company officially announced BioWare's new IP, called Anthem.

Anthem's platforms have not been announced, but it is presumably in the works for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.

Prior to its E3 reveal today, Anthem had only been described as an action IP "built around a live service" that features a "disruptive new social design." An effort to bulk up that part of the game was cited for a delay that pushed the game back to the current fiscal year, which runs through March 2018.

No idea what this game is to be about, but looks like a sequel to Titanfall.

>"built around a live service"
>"disruptive new social design."

Pass.

The graphics and open world multi player seems very promising, but I really doubt if they will be able to deliver what they just showed in the gameplay trailer.

This is basically projected as Destiny in a nutshell, available for PC.
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I would have been more excited if it was another single-player RPG from Bioware
But still looks good, similar to Destiny with exosuits.

The game is a combination of Destiny and Titanfall. Has a loot system like Division. This will be one of the main IP of MS for next 4-5 yrs.

I wouldn't call it Destiny or Titanfall as they both were FPS. Also graphicwise it looks more advanced. I would call it more Mass Effect than Titanfall or Destiny.

Be it a copy of anything, I would really hope there is a single-player aspect to it as well with companions like in ME.
Seems highly unlikely from what I've read/heard so far.

All players interacting in the same universe.

No Thanks.

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Hrishi said:
The graphics and open world multi player seems very promising, but I really doubt if they will be able to deliver what they just showed in the gameplay trailer.

E3 vs Retail

What you see is not what you get

Anthem getting severely review bombed right now./

Desmond David said:
Anthem getting severely review bombed right now./

Bound to happen when there is a huge difference between expected and actual scenario.

Zangetsu said:
Bound to happen when there is a huge difference between expected and actual scenario.

Apparently this was the case for fallout and RDR2 too. I feel it is getting lots of negative reviews because it is from EA. People are also saying Bioware will be the next big studio to be closed cause of EA.

Soon EA will be renamed as FIFA.

TheSloth said:
Apparently this was the case for fallout and RDR2 too. I feel it is getting lots of negative reviews because it is from EA. People are also saying Bioware will be the next big studio to be closed cause of EA.

Apparently the reason the reviews are bad is because the game is very monotonous and boring. There is a huge grind with a very lame explanation for it in the story. Everyone noted that it was basically a Destiny clone but inferior to Destiny in a lot of ways.

When you said monotonous and boring, I think you described Destiny pretty well lmao

It is a lot like Firefall

Also, Digital Extremes posted this on their FB page

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Desmond David said:
Apparently the reason the reviews are bad is because the game is very monotonous and boring. There is a huge grind with a very lame explanation for it in the story. Everyone noted that it was basically a Destiny clone but inferior to Destiny in a lot of ways.

Yeah. Also reading The game was butchered by EA to come in DLC which resulted in monotonous and boring gameplay.

More drama is that EA has been blacklisting reviewers who have been giving the game bad reviews. One of the reviewers even got blacklisted after he was paid by EA because they thought his review was still too negative.

Edit: Was waiting for Jim Sterling to do a review and here it is:

Gameplay value comes second after playing and getting the overall taste...but the huge difference between E3 & Retail version is complete let down to all AAA gamer fans.
I won't even touch this game now. This is called false advertisement.

EA should be penalized on doing this to gamers, when they show the water mark as "Actual in-game footage" but it differs a lot in a Final product.

Now many gamers started to like Ubisoft

Zangetsu said:
Ubisoft

Ubisoft isn't any better. There is a reason they are called "The French EA"

Both are Neck to Neck Bad

How BioWare's Anthem went wrong (very long read)

Only read through half of it but key points made
1. In development since 2012, but didn't enter production till the final 12-18 months
2. Serious leadership issues at BioWare itself. Many devs leaving out of stress, burnout and mental health.
3. The E3 demo shown in 2017 was fake. Game was still in pre-production and devs only came to know the game they were making after seeing the demo.
4. Frostbite is not made for RPGs.

BioWare responding to the article, just minutes after it was published.

One was that in 2016, the FIFA games had to move to Frostbite. The annual soccer franchise was EA’s most important series, bringing in a large chunk of the publisher’s revenue, and BioWare had programmers with Frostbite experience, so Electronic Arts shifted them to FIFA.

“A lot of the really talented engineers were actually working on FIFA when they should’ve been working on Anthem,” said one person who was on the project.

When a BioWare engineer had questions or wanted to report bugs, they’d usually have to talk to EA’s central Frostbite team, a group of support staff that worked with all of the publisher’s studios. Within EA, it was common for studios to battle for resources like the Frostbite team’s time, and BioWare would usually lose those battles. After all, role-playing games brought in a fraction of the revenue of a FIFA or a Battlefront. “The amount of support you’d get at EA on Frostbite is based on how much money your studio’s game is going to make,” said one developer.

When one is competing with FIFA's revenue one cannot simply win.

Engineers? The anthem has fail mechanics and bugs? Or it is just boring ? I thought it was creative team who had to come up with unique or exciting gameplay.

In the article, when they are saying Anthem didn't have enough engineers, which department they are talking about?

TheSloth said:
Engineers? The anthem has fail mechanics and bugs? Or it is just boring ? I thought it was creative team who had to come up with unique or exciting gameplay.

In the article, when they are saying Anthem didn't have enough engineers, which department they are talking about?

Engine and tools developers. The designers can't do anything without tools. Most of the Bioware veterans from the creative team also left Bioware. Also they had to go for an online looter shooter because EA wanted Bioware to make a game that generates revenue over time like FIFA. If they continued to make a single-player RPG they could have been successful.

This also happens in Anime, when some of the Dragon ball artists resigned the Sketches and facial expression of the characters were Bad.