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Any thoughts on this upcoming EA/bioware game "Anthem"?

I caught my first sight of it recently and wasn't sure what to think. Apparently the same guy behind it as the Mass Effect trilogy and Knights of the Old Republic?

  On 1/29/2018 at 4:05 PM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

Any thoughts on this upcoming EA/bioware game "Anthem"?

 

I caught my first sight of it recently and wasn't sure what to think. Apparently the same guy behind it as the Mass Effect trilogy and Knights of the Old Republic?

Well, it's definitely not by the "the doctors" (Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka) since they're not working at BioWare anymore. The latest rumors were that they're rushing to finish it up for a Q1 2019 release. Here's a quote or two...

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Over the past few months, BioWare has essentially transformed into a single-game studio as it harnesses its teams to work on the ambitious multiplayer action game Anthem, sources say. There are still small teams maintaining Star Wars: The Old Republic and piecing together the next Dragon Age, which was recently rebooted, but the bulk of BioWare’s staff in both Edmonton and Austin are now on Anthem. And there’s a sense among BioWare employees that the company’s future is inextricably tied to this game.

Anthem, which was announced at E3 2017, is now scheduled for release in early 2019, according to three people familiar with the project. The “fall 2018” window mentioned during that E3 announcement was “never realistic,” one source said. Exact dates remain in flux—and Anthem’s developers must also plan for a beta release, an EA Access launch, and an ongoing schedule of patches and updates—but it appears unlikely to developers that publisher EA will allow BioWare to delay the game any further than March 2019, when the company’s 2019 fiscal year comes to an end. (EA, like most publicly traded companies, uses the fiscal calendar as a basis for all of its decisions, as those dates determine how investors will behave.)

 

It’s not unusual for BioWare to pull staff from other projects as it enters the final year of production on a game. In recent years, BioWare has done the same for both Mass Effect: Andromeda and Dragon Age: Inquisition. But Anthem, the studio’s first new franchise in eight years and EA’s first big stab at a Destiny-style persistent online world, feels different. To BioWare staff, the stakes feel higher than they ever have. As one developer told me, there’s a belief that if Anthem doesn’t live up to EA’s expectations, BioWare will look very different in the future, especially after the disappointment of Mass Effect Andromeda led to EA absorbing BioWare Montreal into the studio EA Motive.

Now, with a year left in development and a climate that’s grown more turbulent thanks to controversies over EA’s Star Wars Battlefront II and Activision’s Destiny 2, pressure is mounting for Anthem to be great. In the past few weeks I’ve spoken to more than half a dozen people close to the project, all of whom spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to talk about the game, and they’ve described feeling both optimistic and anxious—optimistic that they can make something good, but anxious at the number of forces that appear to be pushing against them.

Read more here...

https://kotaku.com/bioware-doubles-down-on-anthem-as-pressure-mounts-1822380989

I remember reading about ME: Andromeda's development how horrible that was. They also used the Frostbite engine and apparently it's terrible for third person games.

So not only that but I hate how every single game is now turning into loot based shooters ala Destiny.

  On 1/29/2018 at 4:15 PM, Squee said:

 

  On 1/29/2018 at 4:05 PM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

Any thoughts on this upcoming EA/bioware game "Anthem"?

 

I caught my first sight of it recently and wasn't sure what to think. Apparently the same guy behind it as the Mass Effect trilogy and Knights of the Old Republic?

 

Well, it's definitely not by the "the doctors" (Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka) since they're not working at BioWare anymore. The latest rumors were that they're rushing to finish it up for a Q1 2019 release. Here's a quote or two...

 

 

  Quote

Over the past few months, BioWare has essentially transformed into a single-game studio as it harnesses its teams to work on the ambitious multiplayer action game Anthem, sources say. There are still small teams maintaining Star Wars: The Old Republic and piecing together the next Dragon Age, which was recently rebooted, but the bulk of BioWare’s staff in both Edmonton and Austin are now on Anthem. And there’s a sense among BioWare employees that the company’s future is inextricably tied to this game.

Anthem, which was announced at E3 2017, is now scheduled for release in early 2019, according to three people familiar with the project. The “fall 2018” window mentioned during that E3 announcement was “never realistic,” one source said. Exact dates remain in flux—and Anthem’s developers must also plan for a beta release, an EA Access launch, and an ongoing schedule of patches and updates—but it appears unlikely to developers that publisher EA will allow BioWare to delay the game any further than March 2019, when the company’s 2019 fiscal year comes to an end. (EA, like most publicly traded companies, uses the fiscal calendar as a basis for all of its decisions, as those dates determine how investors will behave.)

 

It’s not unusual for BioWare to pull staff from other projects as it enters the final year of production on a game. In recent years, BioWare has done the same for both Mass Effect: Andromeda and Dragon Age: Inquisition. But Anthem, the studio’s first new franchise in eight years and EA’s first big stab at a Destiny-style persistent online world, feels different. To BioWare staff, the stakes feel higher than they ever have. As one developer told me, there’s a belief that if Anthem doesn’t live up to EA’s expectations, BioWare will look very different in the future, especially after the disappointment of Mass Effect Andromeda led to EA absorbing BioWare Montreal into the studio EA Motive.

Now, with a year left in development and a climate that’s grown more turbulent thanks to controversies over EA’s Star Wars Battlefront II and Activision’s Destiny 2, pressure is mounting for Anthem to be great. In the past few weeks I’ve spoken to more than half a dozen people close to the project, all of whom spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to talk about the game, and they’ve described feeling both optimistic and anxious—optimistic that they can make something good, but anxious at the number of forces that appear to be pushing against them.

 

Read more here...

https://kotaku.com/bioware-doubles-down-on-anthem-as-pressure-mounts-1822380989

 

I remember reading about ME: Andromeda's development how horrible that was. They also used the Frostbite engine and apparently it's terrible for third person games.

 

So not only that but I hate how every single game is now turning into loot based shooters ala Destiny.

 

No no, this guy - Drew Karpyshyn.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Karpyshyn#Mass_Effect

Also I think he wrote Neverwinter Nights and Baldurs Gate, Jade Empire etc? I'm hoping if his name is attached to it like all those great games, it turns out decent at least. I'm not seeing a game that he's written that I didn't like tbh.

Yeah I didn't even play ME Andromeda, everything about it looked terrible. 

Interesting article, thx! I don't know much about the frostbite engine. Reading up now.

I guess it's 2019 now. 

Anyone playing Monster Hunter on PS4?

Might be the first MH game that finally breaks through in the West

  On 1/29/2018 at 5:13 PM, Joyrex said:

Anyone playing Monster Hunter on PS4?

Might be the first MH game that finally breaks through in the West

nah but there's a ton of guys in the tekken discord that have started playing like crazy.

just started a new ffix play on ps4. it's nice with the speed boost cheat to cut through the monotony of stealing/grinding/running around the world map.

  On 1/29/2018 at 5:13 PM, Joyrex said:

Anyone playing Monster Hunter on PS4?

Might be the first MH game that finally breaks through in the West

Yeah, dove in over the weekend, most of the clan I played Destiny with has migrated over to this game... First MH game for me, but I LOVE it so far. So much deeper than the beta let on, but that's absolutely a good thing, I'm enjoying the curve of learning the complexities of the deeper mechanics.

Gonna take on the Ajanath tonight and still trying to find the damn Grimalkynes in the Forest area...

platinum'd bloodborne

heck those chalice dungeons

  On 1/29/2018 at 9:46 PM, triachus said:

platinum'd bloodborne

 

 

heck those chalice dungeons

i'm playing shovel knight plague of shadows right now, really great game.. i'm looking forward to spectre knight too.

MHW is dope af.

Really wanna fucking play MHW but need to be patient enough to wait for the PC release

KOTOR with Pye Corner Audio as the soundtrack is just fucking perfect

  On 1/30/2018 at 6:45 AM, yek said:

i'm playing shovel knight plague of shadows right now, really great game.. i'm looking forward to spectre knight too.

Spectre Knight is really good (as was Plague of Shadows).

  On 1/30/2018 at 7:16 PM, Boxus said:

KOTOR with Pye Corner Audio as the soundtrack is just fucking perfect

The KOTOR soundtrack IS perfect.

It's actually pretty fucking good.

(in glorious 96kbps or something like that)

  On 1/29/2018 at 4:33 PM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

 

  On 1/29/2018 at 4:15 PM, Squee said:

 

  On 1/29/2018 at 4:05 PM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

Any thoughts on this upcoming EA/bioware game "Anthem"?

 

I caught my first sight of it recently and wasn't sure what to think. Apparently the same guy behind it as the Mass Effect trilogy and Knights of the Old Republic?

 

Well, it's definitely not by the "the doctors" (Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka) since they're not working at BioWare anymore. The latest rumors were that they're rushing to finish it up for a Q1 2019 release. Here's a quote or two...

 

 

  Quote

Over the past few months, BioWare has essentially transformed into a single-game studio as it harnesses its teams to work on the ambitious multiplayer action game Anthem, sources say. There are still small teams maintaining Star Wars: The Old Republic and piecing together the next Dragon Age, which was recently rebooted, but the bulk of BioWare’s staff in both Edmonton and Austin are now on Anthem. And there’s a sense among BioWare employees that the company’s future is inextricably tied to this game.

Anthem, which was announced at E3 2017, is now scheduled for release in early 2019, according to three people familiar with the project. The “fall 2018” window mentioned during that E3 announcement was “never realistic,” one source said. Exact dates remain in flux—and Anthem’s developers must also plan for a beta release, an EA Access launch, and an ongoing schedule of patches and updates—but it appears unlikely to developers that publisher EA will allow BioWare to delay the game any further than March 2019, when the company’s 2019 fiscal year comes to an end. (EA, like most publicly traded companies, uses the fiscal calendar as a basis for all of its decisions, as those dates determine how investors will behave.)

 

It’s not unusual for BioWare to pull staff from other projects as it enters the final year of production on a game. In recent years, BioWare has done the same for both Mass Effect: Andromeda and Dragon Age: Inquisition. But Anthem, the studio’s first new franchise in eight years and EA’s first big stab at a Destiny-style persistent online world, feels different. To BioWare staff, the stakes feel higher than they ever have. As one developer told me, there’s a belief that if Anthem doesn’t live up to EA’s expectations, BioWare will look very different in the future, especially after the disappointment of Mass Effect Andromeda led to EA absorbing BioWare Montreal into the studio EA Motive.

Now, with a year left in development and a climate that’s grown more turbulent thanks to controversies over EA’s Star Wars Battlefront II and Activision’s Destiny 2, pressure is mounting for Anthem to be great. In the past few weeks I’ve spoken to more than half a dozen people close to the project, all of whom spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to talk about the game, and they’ve described feeling both optimistic and anxious—optimistic that they can make something good, but anxious at the number of forces that appear to be pushing against them.

 

Read more here...

https://kotaku.com/bioware-doubles-down-on-anthem-as-pressure-mounts-1822380989

 

I remember reading about ME: Andromeda's development how horrible that was. They also used the Frostbite engine and apparently it's terrible for third person games.

 

So not only that but I hate how every single game is now turning into loot based shooters ala Destiny.

 

No no, this guy - Drew Karpyshyn.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Karpyshyn#Mass_Effect

 

Also I think he wrote Neverwinter Nights and Baldurs Gate, Jade Empire etc? I'm hoping if his name is attached to it like all those great games, it turns out decent at least. I'm not seeing a game that he's written that I didn't like tbh.

 

Yeah I didn't even play ME Andromeda, everything about it looked terrible. 

 

Interesting article, thx! I don't know much about the frostbite engine. Reading up now.

 

I guess it's 2019 now. 

 

https://kotaku.com/biowares-anthem-officially-delayed-to-2019-1822565640

Booooooo =( lol

To be fair, if they're delaying it to make sure it's a complete, high quality game (*cough destiny2 cough*) then that's fine. I guess I'll check on it next year ;o

It's going to be a shit loot box shooter bulky, forget about it.

yeh I've got tons to play anyways ;o

  On 1/31/2018 at 8:14 PM, Gocab said:

It's going to be a shit loot box shooter bulky, forget about it.

This.

is destiny 2 actually good? ive just reached level 72 in borderlands 2 and learnt that there are 8 'OP' levels now where you dont even get a skill point and i cant be arsed. need something else shooty to move onto. 

  On 2/1/2018 at 2:14 AM, messiaen said:

is destiny 2 actually good? ive just reached level 72 in borderlands 2 and learnt that there are 8 'OP' levels now where you dont even get a skill point and i cant be arsed. need something else shooty to move onto. 

I like it but it's really all about the multiplayer (mostly PvP). I spent 80% of my time on there doing PvP. 

The single player stuff is pretty lackluster and the cooperative multiplayer is bunk unless you have an active clan so you can do raids. =(

thats good to know, i want something i can just faff about with by myself at times. 

really hope this will be better than the super mario super show and more like captain n

I'm about 8 hours into ME Andromeda and so far really like it. Guessing it gets super repetitive soon, but considering I've been slamming through all the AC games for a year now I'm pretty sure my tolerance for shiny monotony can handle this.