I honestly couldn't be more disappointed. BioWare have been one of my favourite developers for, well, as long as I've been playing video games - big budget, singleplayer, story-driven RPGs are my favourite kinds of games, by a long way - but I just don't really enjoy playing games with other people, and it seems like this doesn't really offer, well, any of what I tend to enjoy about BioWare's games.
Like, I actually love the idea of their mixing up their usual formula - getting rid of the traditional party structure, avoiding the usual 'saviour of everything' tropes in their storytelling, changing up the dialogue system - but there's a huge gulf between that and just making a co-op loot shooter. This whole reveal's genuinely left me super bummed out, after a conference with a lot of games I thought looked pretty cool. Like, I think part of it is that everything up to the 'and your friends' bit looked really cool, and even afterwards, the world and the basic gameplay - actual honest-to-god rocketeer jetpacks! underwater! mech suits! - really looked interesting.
Now, of course, BioWare can make whatever kinds of games they want, and I'm genuinely pleased that so many people have found something to love in what Anthem seems to offer, but... Well, it very clearly isn't for me, and I'm - selfishly, I know - really rather sad about that.
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