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PAX West 2018: Anthem Pre-Panel Press Event Report - MMORPG.com
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PAX West 2018: Anthem Pre-Panel Press Event Report - MMORPG.com
We finally have more information on what might be the most anticipated upcoming games: Anthem. Earlier today I got to sit on the pre-panel press event before the big PAX panel to get a sneak peek at the entire reveal before everyone else and a unique chance for a small public Q&A with other members of the gaming press. But you didn’t click into this article to read my gibberish so without further ado it’s time to dive in!
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Well for you perhaps, but I honestly play BioWare games for the Mass Effect/Dragon Age type of gameplay and there are a lot of fans who feel similarly and are disappointed by this. Romances are a huge part of that signature BioWare experience, I enjoy the romance arcs and while this is not a make or break issue for me, I do find it disappointing that they're veering away from it and I don't see how romances affect the quality of their games in a negative way since you can choose not to partake in one if it's not your cup of tea instead of wishing for features enjoyed by a great many people to be cut simply because you have a personal dislike for it.
Don't worry I'm more than sure the Dragon Age & Mass Effect games in the future will still have romance options it's just Bioware wants to try different things with this IP as they have clearly stated on more than a dozen occasions. No point in getting upset about it. Also Slapshot has a point, there are just as many who dislike the romance option in the games as there are those who like it. Personally I could care less one way or the other.
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Time will show us if this is a complete rpg but it sounds like a one trick pony with a single player storyline.
Yet another single player game only with coop,pretty much what most mmorpg's are doing anyhow..sadly.
Unless these single player game designs can really do something amazing,i don't see them doing anything to get me excited or anticipating a purchase.
Mini missions,linear game play not what i am looking for anymore,already been there done that hundreds of times.
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I go WAY back with Bioware,i played all the Baldur's Gate games,If anything i would say that Bioware is more known for giving characters interesting persona's.
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I'm not upset about it at all, a little disappointed, but not upset.
I understand what you're saying, but I think you may have misunderstood what I said. I said that romances are a huge part of the signature BioWare experience, not that romances are exclusively a signature of BioWare games. I love the way romances are delivered in BioWare games because it's done in a more personalized way, there is a lot of choice and consideration that are extensions of choice and consideration that plays out in other aspects of the games. Final Fantasy, and RPG's like it tell a story in a way a book or movie would tell a story. It's just a different kind of RPG.
Game design from a EA studio is more about monetizing design. Anything gameplay related is just fancy packaging for loot boxes and micro transactions.
Cyberpunk 2077 is easily the most anticipated upcoming RPG. Their gameplay trailer was very impressive.
I do love the old Bioware games, but lately Bioware dropped the ball too often, so I don't get hyped for their games anymore.
This is not the sort of game where story works well or is needed at all. that's why EA should have forced Bioware into making it at all. Bearing in mind that as far as I know Bioware is now just another EA team that works to a different brief.
The closest I can think to what there are doing here is Battlefield (that's EA so maybe a close fit) where they introduced a solo campaign. But you play BA for multiplayer not solo and like Kyleran said I just felt money was being wasted on the solo element of the game.
This approach is quite different to one where the story is part of the multiplayer experience, which has its benefits, story gets in the way of multiplayer, hard to solve that so their solution is to keep it in solo. But it is a question of resources and I see it being difficult for them to make a splash in multiplayer while huge funds are being diverted to solo.
EA may have singed Bioware's death warrant here, but I think that's what they want, Bioware will either move to Games as a Service where the rest of EA is headed, or it gets the chop. And if that happens EA will say "Well Anthem just did not do well, the studio was not performing, blah, blah". But don't get me wrong, EA want Anthem to succeed, but only as a stepping stone to roping in players who like story to GaaS.
For EA it has always been about the size of the playerbase, not the players.
All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
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Seymour Guado tries to marry Yuna,well does but that is thwarted as Tidus will not allow this to happen because he loves Yuna.Lulu loves Wakka and romance is seen throughout the entire game.
IMO FFX best story ever,very romantic.
As to Kresen's comments,yep pretty much what i would like to see and EXPECT,you know a world ,a rpg world and not just some mechanics to talk to npc's and run missions.It really looks a lot more and more like SWTOR all over again but with better graphics.
The cutscenes appear to be done like other games of recent,meaning close ups,TOO close,you won't get the proper feel for a scene with all the background stuff going on if you simply see a face or two or someone getting out of a car or into a car.I know why they do this stuff,it is imo lazy work.
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Bioware isn't making this for the traditional Bioware fan. It's going after a different base. Evidently one that can't handle more than two choices in dialog and according to DICE are "uneducated". since it's the same shoot and loot crowd.
If Andromeda is any indication of what to expect in the next dragon age, then all hope is lost.
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If you were playing as a straight male, Dragon Age Inquisition had lower quality romance options than any other Dragon Age game before it. You essentially had a choice of the butch Cassandra and the Disney Princess Josephine, neither of whom were as attractive or well-written as any previous suitor, much less Morrigan or Leliana.
And Mass Affect Andromeda? Forget about incredibly well-realized characters like Tali and Liara. Andromeda offers players the once in a lifetime opportunity to bone Blue Shrek.
Clearly they do care otherwise this game wouldnt even have a SP portion. Its tacked on but its there so they can still put it on the back of the box.
Regarding Dragon Age, i dont think that game even exists anymore. Seeing as how EA decided not only shut the doors of that studio run by Amy Hennig but also had DA rebooted shortly after Andromeda came out my guess is they dont want to invest in any story driven experiences PERIOD.
Games like Pillars of Eternity 2 didn't suffer elsewhere for having romance options- at least nothing I've seen could be directly attributable. In that instance, those who wish to forego romance should just ignore it. Easy enough.
You did it again lol. Is your definition of an unmitigated disaster simply something you don't like? I'll give you that Andromeda had its issues, especially when it first came out, in fact all games do but Andromeda's really were more glaring although mostly cosmetic and got fixed. In the end I actually really enjoyed Andromeda, and despite the bandwagon negative press about mostly insignificant things the game was a commercial success, and over time became a moderate critical success instead of the critical flop it started out as. Dragon Age Inquisition was both a critical and commercial success, both games sold millions of copies each and were both reported to have maintained strong commercial performance through out their release year, as well as strong player engagement. Yeah, they didn't out perform games like Skyrim or Fallout 4, but that doesn't make them anywhere near "unmitigated disasters", especially when those franchises have a massive modder following, and can sustain much longer relevance because of that. Also, I don't think romance arcs are causing a lack of focus on better gameplay in other areas of their games at all, that's not really how game development works.
I'd think of it as a pretentious and even more tumblr ready Borderlands.
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