This has been a poor excuse since people started making it. If what theyre showing is just a demo meant to give us an idea of what the game will entail fine. But if youre going to advertise it, and not only that, but actively state this is real game footage, you best make damn sure you publicly let everyone know if core features you showed off are no longer in the final version of the game. Devs dont get to have it both way and I'm tired of seeing people defend it. You can show off what you intend your game to be in a way so as not to be so deceiving. And devs regularly don't do it and shouldn't be defended for it.
I can agree BC2 was great and what followed was inferior. Part of that might be nostalgia, but I enjoyed BC2's simplicity. I didn't like 3, overall. I thought 4 became amazing after a roughy start , and One was refreshing. It did a lot more right than wrong. Saying Dice hasn't made a good game since BC2 is simply absurd to me.
Dammit, you edited it before I could post GabeN memes ;_;
Can't blame the engine for the lackluster story tbh.
Yep, I'm willing to use the engine excuse for some of this games technical flaws but Anthem has way too many design flaws and narrative issues for me to hold BioWare in the kind of high regard I once did. I'm sure the people working there are talented but that talent isn't being put to use by management.
Opening weekend never cracked top 5 and had trouble staying in top 10, sometimes even falling below the 20s. Its nearly unheard for a game of this magnitude to not have the first week of release dominate viewership.
And Destiny was slayed on the other forum for not being enough content, not enough enemies etc. and d1 had easily twice the content anthem does at launch not to mention functioning map and free roam. Anthem might match D1 at launch in 3-4 months and that's being optimistic.
I loved D1 but many people hated it and derided its lack of content. Which is funny since D1 had a shit ton of content for a GaaS game looking back and comparing it to others. If you said GaaS games in 2019 would have half as much content you probably would have been banned back then lol.
Again you're ignoring the simple, ethical solution to this-that is 1. Stop advertising that your techn demos are your actual game and 2. Be transparent about when changes happen leading up to release.
I don't know, this sounds like an excuse to me. There are technical feats they surely knew they couldn't achieve using this gen's hardware, especially the base consoles... the illumination quality? the number of NPC's in fort Tarsis? the lush foliage? the immense scope? I do believe they'd have loved to be able to achieve all that for sure but it's also patently clear to me that at the time they already knew they wouldn't but still used those assets to create hype and sell the game through the eyes.
Anthem is the best possible advertisement for Destiny 2 and Division 2. The definition of "This is how NOT to do stuff".
I'm not entirely sure I agree with the dialogues, writing and cutscenes. Voice acting is no competition though. There are like 3 characters in the game who I looked forward to talking to - Brin, Dax and Haluk - and at best they were on the level of like Liam or Cora. Overall story writing was closer but Anthem had lower lows AND lower highs when compared to Andromeda. The villains are equally as bad though IMHO, they both felt equally as unintimidating. Cutscenes and overall direction were about on par.
Yeah I think low Twitch numbers aren't a big indicator as it has no PVP and isnt really fun to watch.
I would be willing to bet that's what BioWare wanted to do. There's no way any BioWare employee that sat down and played this game from start to finish didn't know how this was going to be received, even accounting for self-bias, there are so many, SO MANY OBVIOUS issues. It's obviously being forced out of the nest by EA, which I don't really blame them for by the way, it's not long before the development cycle for this game would be closing in on a decade and that's A LOT of sunk cost.
