Brenon Holmes the Creative Director on Anthem's Reddit:
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Brenon Holmes the Creative Director on Anthem's Reddit:
Nice really looking forward to their showing. Of all the loot grind shooters, this is the only one that appeals to me.
I'm so worried for this game. Especially after the devs admitted the "free-flight" gameplay they suggested in last year's reveal was all fake, and that you're heavily limited in where and when you can fly, and everything is a series of rooms and corridors. I know that's what we should have expected, but it's not what they've hyped people up for at all and unless they course correct at this year's E3 they're just going to find it impossible to meet all the expectations they're building.
EDIT: Since a lot of people are stopping here and not reading on in the thread, the quotes I'm referring to specifically are:
EDIT: Since a lot of people are stopping here and not reading on in the thread, the quotes I'm referring to specifically are:
Coupled with the previous year's E3 demo of flying directly into a series of corridor/room environment designs, and never flying above the tree canopy, I took that to mean that what appeared to be open world free-flight is going to far more restrictive, and it'll be similar to when Destiny was first unveiled and the devs deliberately pretended the distant horizons visible in the Cosmodrome map could be explored freely. Most people, including Shinobi who knows a thing or two (understatement of the year? =P) about Bioware games, believe I'm reading into this completely wrong though, and suggest "flight ceilings" are like GTAV's and Battlefield's. Meaning waaaaaay up in the sky. I hope they're right.
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Yeah once the mic test was pointed out to me I can’t really unsee it
All they need to do is not fuck up this games launch.
Wait really? Where did they say that?? Hype levels cratering.
I know there's quite a few that are down on Anthem on this forum, but damn i'm excited for it. Their trailer was so exciting. I'm really looking forward to seeing more at E3.
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Which is everybody's concern unfortunately. I was so hyped when they first showed the game but after all the shit that happened? I don't know
On Reddit they also said the graphics shown is representative of the final product. They won't downgrade it. Let's see. They'll be competing with D2 which would have received it's second season content by then. So their game better have enough to pull over players.
Do you have a source for this? It sounds believable I'd just like to see it for myself.
Anthem is really weird to me. Ever since it was announced it has been compared to Destiny... it's like it has no other features than just being like Destiny and made by Bioware.
To me, Anthem feels the same as when a new battle royale game gets announced. Just following a trend rather than being unique.
To me, Anthem feels the same as when a new battle royale game gets announced. Just following a trend rather than being unique.
As expected - for the kind of experience they seem to be aiming at, that kind of open gameplay would be too tricky and expansive to develop.
From Anthem BSN forum (originally from reddit)http://bsn.boards.net/thread/94/anthem-twitter-thread?q=flight
There will be some limitations (how high you can go but that is going to be expected) but most of it is just how they load the area around you.
Kml. That guy's comment reads entirely different from what the devs "admitted" , so hopefully he means something else.
That’s it? That is absolutely not saying the flight mechanics are “fake” nor did they say everything is a series of rooms or corridors lol.
And of course there’s an eventual limit to verticality. Even GTA has a height ceiling for planes and things like that.
Darkstorne I’d suggest you produce some evidence. If not, then please don’t make random things up. It’s not how we do things on the forum.
That's really the only thing I've seen the devs have said about the flight mechanics so far, I'm assuming the original commenter misunderstood it? People offten take the devs original comment and then miscontrue it as it goes through different people - it's like a bad game of chinese whispers.
Lol so the devs said there will be open world zones connected by canyons and other tricks to mask loading screens, and a height limit on flying. And that becomes "the entire game is just rooms and corridors". Must have been an intentional bait post..
As long as it's the next buddy co-op loot shooter that releases it'll fill the void in the market.
The obvious issue for GaaS is retention and IMO the easiest way to retain players is having satisfying core gameplay, something to chase, and a good gameplay loop. After that it's just providing a steady flow of content post launch.
The main concerns I have for Anthem:
- Microtransactions: After the BF2 and Destiny 2 debocles I don't think anyone would be stupid enough to try to throw them in a new IPs launch title, but it's EA so...
- A few key senior staff have left: never looks good, especially writers. Destiny 1 went through the same thing with the lead writer and it definitely had a major impact.
- Rumors of an internal reboot after BF2: leaving them about a year to rework the game.
- Bullshots: the game will very likely get a graphical downgrade and that sucks. What sucks worse is that the flying system might just be a glorified load screen and going in/out of the water might not be real.
That's not what's happening . He read the post cynically and made assumptions. Which, fine. But don't spread those assumptions if that's all you're going on.
Please be good. Destiny 2 really let me down and borderlands 3 is no where in sight. Hope it turns out well, has lots of content and isn't full of micro transactions.
I'm just currently giving the guy the benefit of the doubt that he may not have read the original post - hence I did post what the comment the devs have made about flight mechanics and area loading so far. He now has the chance to edit his original comment or post different evidence if he has any. If he doesn't then yeah, you are right, but at least theres the dev comments actually on the thread.
Anybody who thought that the game would that free-form was setting themselves up for disappointment. The game world would have to be ginormous and at the level of detail they're going for I don't see it even with EA's deep pockets.
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huh, I missed this. have a source for this?
edit: read the quotes. yeah not confirmed at all.
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