BioWare: There's a Stark Difference Between Anthem and Other Games, Its Story Is Blazing New Trails

BioWare Narrative Director Cameron Dayton praised the story of Anthem, saying that it's blazing new trails. The plot will be about humanity above all.

[Imp0ssibl3]

This game will surprise everyone.

[isarai]

I'm really REALLY hoping it does, it's another one of those rare things where in paper it sounds like i should be losing my sh!t over this game, yet the more i see of it the more i feel like i don't want anything to do with it. I want to be wrong about this game, cause if it's good it's gonna be REAL GOOD, but if not it's going to be mind numbingly mediocre

[cleft5]

Yeah I really want this game to be good. I will be doing the Origin Premier pass to play it. I loved the idea of Destiny but nothing much came of it. So if Bioware can realize fully what Bungie was intending with Destiny it could be amazing.

It would be a situation where Epic was able to fully implement for the PubG developers was trying to do in Battle Royale space.

[Larrysweet]

No it wont its ea will be trash

[Chris_Wray]

Yeah, it's things we've heard countless times before. If it actually is something that special, great!

[Double_O_Revan]

You know, we heard this from Bioware not too long ago. They said all these great thing about their upcoming game and how special it was going to be. Then we got Mass Effect Andromeda...

[PhantomS42]

And before that, it was Dragon Age 2, Mass Effect 3, Dragon Age Inquisition. It's a never-ending pattern of overhype and disappointment.

[mafiabrett]

@PhantomS42
Dragon Age 2 had a awesome story. The reason why most people didn't like DA2 was because of copy/paste dungeons and the game being limited to just a single city. When compared to DA Origins, we had multiple locations across all of Fereldan.

Mass Effect 3 also had a pretty good story, at least untill the final act, that's when it started to suck hardcore balls and went to shit. Because all of us had hoped our choices in the trilogy would give us each a different and unique ending. But the endings were all the same.

Dragon Age Inquisition for most part was pretty good. I think main problem with it was they focused TOOO much exploration/fetch quests and that made long intervals in the main quest to the point you start to lose focus and immersion. The final expansion Tresspasser has arguably one of the best written/story in Bioware games.

Andromeda had a lot of same problems as Inquistion, they focused too much on exploration and fetch quests. Except this time the main story is just too boring. It doesn't grab your attention very well and the characters arnt interesting enough.

As for Anthem, from the gameplay ive seen, especially the Fort Tartis.. it looks like shit. There's no way in hell you can tell me Anthem is going to have a good engaging story when it feels more like Destiny/Division than classic Bioware.

[Chaosdreams]

If I hear that the story is actually amazing, I'll pick this up.

[TK-55]

I'm hoping the lore is good too. One of the things I feel Destiny real failed on was striking a balance in "believability" when it came to the technology and the magic of the characters. Anthem I feel has managed to strike a good balance of it by the looks for things.

In terms of the narrative of the game though I'm expecting something decent. I feel like a few questions may go unanswered but this is a game that's probably going to have some story expansions so as long as they continuously release those and price it fairly then I think its fine. Nothing spectacular but something that's at least worth your time.

Fingers crossed. If this fails then Bioware takes one step closer to being shutdown.

[JaY_B1012]

Completely agree with everything you said! Also, they built the game engine in a way to be able to constantly change the world. It was mentioned by one of the devs that instead of having to wait for huge expansions, they're going to throw in small story elements frequently to keep everything fresh.
And DLC is completely free! There are MTXs for cosmetics, but no pay-to-win. Hopefully us gamers can support BioWare(Fxck EA) so they can turn this game into something we've been needing from them for a long time now.

[ccgr]

Looks promising!

[Relientk77]

Stark? Was that a Tony Stark joke, because the javelins fly like Iron Man

[ShadowWolf712]

No. No, it was not. It's saying there's a complete, major difference.

[Potnoodle999]

Haha Yh I’ll believe it when I see it. The amount of times I’ve heard these claims from BioWare... they love to hype up there content to unbelievable extremes for every new game. I remember before mass effect 1 they acted like it would change the industry forever. Although it was a good game, it had a hell of a lot of flaws narratively and the overall plot was average and predictable. BioWare lost their edge a long time ago and it makes me sad ☹️

[starchild]

Are we now really going to pretend that Bioware make bad games and write bad stories? To me that's pretty ridiculous. They've made hit after hit after hit. Until Andromeda. But that's one game. And it was made by a B team within the studio. It wasn't even that bad anyway, it just didn't live up to the quality of the first three games. I'm not going to write a studio off for one somewhat disappointing game.

[No_Pantaloons]

Take those blinders off. Bioware had many fails before Andromeda.
ME2- was basically all companion quests, main story WAS bad.
ME3- Gameplay reduced all previous game choices to tally points on a war map, ending so was hated they had to go back and release a revised version (cant think of that EVER happening before)
DA2- Hated from release for its recycled maps and lack of previous rpg elements. Story completely separate from previous game
DA3- Widely considered boring, or a solo mmo packed with fetch quests, story weak if you didnt play the dlcs

maybe youve been reading shining game reviews handing out 10s like candy, but long time fans know bioware has been changing for the worse since it joined EA. Why do you think so many have left bioware...

[Razzer]

I agree with you, starchild. Bioware has an excellent body of work and their stories have been excellent. Even Andromeda had a great story and was actually a great game once they fixed the glitches. I'm looking forward to Anthem.

[carcarias]

I think many would feel you're being generous there starchild.

I was gonna write about the games but No_Pantaloons took care of that.

All I'll add with regards to the company is that virtually all the people that took Bioware to the big leagues of story driven rpgs (which sadly backfired since it led to them being bought by EA) have long since moved onto other things. It's been Bioware in name only for quite some time, imho.

Not saying that Anthem won't be good, just that I'm not counting on it and I'm certainly not expecting a good story - at least not in the Baldur's Gate, DA:O, ME and KotOR kind of way.

[Rachel_Alucard]

The funniest thing said by Peter Moore in an old interview was how he tried to justify that Bioware was still good just because of Dragon Age: Origins a game that was already done by the time EA bought them out. They had the least creative interference in that one but still forced in their usual garbage.

[rainslacker]

Space marines fighting aliens. Sounds like bold new territory to me. /s

@star

Their more recent history hasn't really done much to instill confidence that they are capable of still doing that. ME:A had a rather dull story, that could have been better with a few changes. The game play was solid, but the world was bad.

ME3 story botched an epic trilogy, and despite closing off a few threads remarkably well, the rest of the story fell quite flat....including the conclusion. The game play was alright, but it was pretty dumbed down from the rest of the series.

Andromeda may have been made by the B team, but the A team of Bioware is no longer at Bioware, and to me, they are one developer.

Their games are usually good sellers, but that doesn't mean that their games and stories are always remarkable.

[TK-55]

"ME3 story botched an epic trilogy"

Well, the ending did. The ME3 journey was definitely not as good as it could've been but it was without a doubt a good journey that just didn't pay off at the end. People saying the entire game was bad is a bit of rewriting history because there was no outrage until people actually got to the end.

I even tried to get my memory going and watched Angry Joes video of why ME3 sucks and outside of the obvious like Day 1 DLC he was grasping at straws a bit. If you even look at the top comment its just about the ending.

It's definitely the worst in the trilogy but its not a bad game overall.

[rainslacker]

I think there were good parts of the ME3 story, but it was sporadic, and mostly involved closing off the squad mates story lines so they could have closure to what they were fighting for. The overarching story of the reapers ended with a fizzle, after a somewhat decent backstory of the leviathans which didn't go anywhere.

[Artemidorus]

The gameplay does not stand out and with EA behind this you better phone the bank manager for another loan to cover the full gaming experience.

[Dissidia]

How does the gameplay not standout? What other modern game has this same verticality or flight as a gameplay mechanic?

[ecchiless]

mmm warframe

[Artemidorus]

It's been done to death with rpgs the map looks very restricted too.

[TheGamez100]

Every gameplay I see, the game keeps looking more....boring? Gameplay looks too flashy and too much things going on. Engagements dont seem very intense and it could get stale. Ill wait for reviews and feedback and maybe a month to see if ea hasnt added in a trash microstransactions system. Story could either be good or horrible which is what im most interested in although....we've hardly seen anything about the story so ive low expectations.

[DaDrunkenJester]

We also heard this about Destiny until it all went to shit

[neocores8055]

I wont buy this day one. Not from EA i am sorry but i just cant brg myself to.

[AuraAbjure]

I understand

[bigmalky]

Doubt it.

[LamerTamer]

Online only means no buy for me.

[Valkron1]

I’m not buying it if it doesn’t have Grimoire Cards! I’m tired of watching scenes in games when Destiny showed me how awesome my imagination can be 😁

[Psychonaut]

-Ruxin stare-

[SkippyPaccino]

That reveal trailer had me going "Wow!", everything they've shown since has me going like "zzz zzz"

[TheColbertinator]

@skippy

Accurately put. I feel the same way.

[AnubisG]

Published by EA. Approach with caution!

[AK91]

More microstranctions and less dialogue/writing.

[Xaevi]

I feel like I've heard this before… oh yeaaa every other game has this exact same PR hype line. I'd say I'm surprised that people are getting excited for this, but I'm not, history repeats itself.

[PiNkFaIrYbOi]

Yep blaze new trails right into the trash bin probably.

[Lilrizky]

I read the word "Stark" and I thought there was a Iron Man cross-over promotion lol :'(

[BLUEKNIFE]

I am surprised how people wants to support EA and buy this game. If we want things to change, we must do an effort and don't buy this game, so EA can hopefully disappear.

[--bienio--]

Trash.

[Samus707]

Translation: Expect plenty of virtue signaling about diversity and inclusion, which, to these NPCs is “blazing new trails” because vidjya still (mostly) remains the last bastion of individualism and meritocracy.

[DVAcme]

"The plot will be about humanity above all."

Sooooo, Destiny?