Imagine if they manage to turn this around. Dare to imagine! That'd be a moment and a half!
I actually think that it will be good or at least decent. The combat was already good. The visuals were already there. It was the polish (loading/bugs), lack of content, and poor gear that let the game down.
I don't, however, believe that the gaming community will give it a second chance.
Whole lotta people here who obviously never actually played Anthem. On rails? I don't think so but hey it's way more fun to just bash something. Whether you're accurate or not doesn't matter right?
I have played it. If you think its tiny maps and lobby make it an open world, that's your deficiency, not mine.
He didn’t say it was open world, he contested the game being mostly on rails. And he is right about that, it isn’t. It most definitely isn’t an open world game either.
/Cheers, Lahnmir
To me, when a game is "get quest, go through linear area to finish quest, leave because there's no other reason to be there now", that's on rails. If you prefer to call it linear or narrow focused or whatever else, that's fine. It all amounts to the same thing.
You can see it as such, but on rails really means something very specific, and those genres that are truly on rails (see rail shooters) are basically dead.
Aside from that, linear does not = bad and open world does not = good. These are different approaches with different strengths and weaknesses.
I for one would rather be playing a linear, story driven game than many of the cut and paste open world games that we're being inundated with. We could use fewer Mad Max's and Ubisoft games.
And personally, I'm sick of seeing some of my favorite franchises be fucking ruined by going open world.
And if Anthem had an actual story worth hearing, I could see some value at least. And a game like Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, from Ubisoft, stomps both the story and playable world of Anthem. Who knows, though? Maybe EA will finally realize they gutted all of the real talent from "Bioware" and will just fire everyone and start fresh ( and retire the "Bioware" name to the graveyard with their other discarded game company carcass's ). They might have a chance in Hell of repairing this shit show then.
I don't disagree, in the case of Anthem and Bioware specifically.
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I don't, however, believe that the gaming community will give it a second chance.