Dragon Age veteran says scrapped Anthem Next "could have been" up there with No Man's Sky's legendary turnaround
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Some were, some weren't. I was thrilled.
And then the hate grew to the point where it was a meme, where everyone "knew" that Anthem was bad, even people who hadn't played it. Then it was over.
I'm glad you enjoyed it, but that reputation spread because reviewers had a bad time with it. It wasn't, like you said, because the internet just needed something to hate that week. And since it never got a No Man's Sky esque update, I doubt the consensus on it would have changed much even if more people had given it a try after the fact. They certainly had the opportunity with steep discounts over the past few years. In that time, Destiny got plenty more attention and two or three other Borderlands games came out.
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It could have been the next Destiny.
EA fucked up
After the litany of fuck ups Bungie did, nobody should want to be the next Destiny.
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But Dragon Age sucked ass.
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After the litany of fuck ups Bungie did, nobody should want to be the next Destiny.
Destiny was fine. Bungie was the fuck up
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And I “could have been” a millionaire if I bought cryptocurrency in 2010.
Hindsight’s 20/20.
I almost caught the biggest fish of my life yesterday.
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Honestly Anthem was so fucking good. It's a victim of the internet hate machine.
My hobby is video games, but some people's hobby is hating things, and those people decided that Anthem was the next thing to hate. The hate was insanely disproportionate to the actual problems that Anthem had.
The endgame grind needed some work, but that's always the case with a live service game. Comparing it to Destiny, which had been out for five years at that point, there wasn't a lot of content. Comparing it to video games in general, it was fine. Easily worth the cost of a new game.
Graphics-wise? Top notch, triple-A.
And as far as gameplay, the actual most important part of a game? Anthem was a fucking masterpiece. The combat was fun and varied. Classes were distinct.
And the traversal was the best I've ever played. Soaring through the air like Iron Man and dipping into a waterfall so my suit doesn't overheat is one of the video game highlights of my life.
But the internet ruined it. The same outrage machine that was built to respond to things like "a sense of pride and accomplishment" was turned on Anthem, not because it was that bad, but because there wasn't anything else particularly hate-worthy that week.
I think the worst thing BioWare did was ban people for loot exploiting when all they were doing was flying around in a loop collecting chests as they spawned. The players weren't doing anything the game didn't allow and banning them really created vitriol in the community. When added to the lack of end game, the player base just never got any growth momentum. It was really sad, because I was a huge BW fan and that game plus the loss of the Doctors really wrecked them (thanks EA /s). You could see the potential in Anthem, but it felt like a a great game engine waiting for the game to be written for it (honestly similar to pre-Forsaken Destiny 2, but even that had more content).
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But Dragon Age sucked ass.
I mean, the first one was good. It was all downhill from there, sadly. The second was decent, but suffered from a ton of re-used assets and a dumbed-down combat system. By the third, it seemed like they were trying to make a single-player MMO, which just made no damned sense to me. Never played the 4th. Maybe I'll get it for free at some point and check it out.
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After the litany of fuck ups Bungie did, nobody should want to be the next Destiny.
C-suite drove that game into the ground with dogshit decisions for the past 3-4 years, and that's just the game itself- the way that studio treats their devs is abysmal.
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lol “Dragon Age veteran” title doesn’t as much value as the article seems to think.
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I mean, the first one was good. It was all downhill from there, sadly. The second was decent, but suffered from a ton of re-used assets and a dumbed-down combat system. By the third, it seemed like they were trying to make a single-player MMO, which just made no damned sense to me. Never played the 4th. Maybe I'll get it for free at some point and check it out.
Disagree origins was the only good one.
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“How much you wanna make a bet I can throw a(n)
footballanthem over them mountains?” -
Sure are a lot of articles about a shit confused failure of a game getting shut down made by an reanimated long dead corpse going by the name Bioware.
But apparently every turd has its fans on the internet.
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Dragon Age: Origins was Bioware's last good game.
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Dragon Age: Origins was Bioware's last good game.
I remember watching an interview of one of the developers of DA2 and I could tell that he had no idea what people liked in video games. It killed my interest.
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It could have been the next Destiny.
EA fucked up
You make a good point. I’m glad it died because mindless grind with RNG loot is boring as shit.
