The design choice was flabbergasting given that this is a looter-shooter, and yet the things you shoot with - your guns - were underwhelming and lacking in uniqueness compared to Destiny. “The loot, even later in the game, feels unrewarding as it’s the same types of items just with more or better modifiers.” When I reviewed Anthem last February, I made note of the following: This was from the E3 2017 reveal where loot would reveal itself as you picked it up, and not after a mission. They didn’t want to make those correlations, but at the same time, when you’re talking about fire teams, and going off and doing raids together, about gun combat, spells, things like that, well there’s a lot of elements there that correlate, that cross over.”Īnthem has a problem with loot and guns. What you’re describing is beginning to go into that realm. “We were told quite definitively, ‘This isn’t Destiny.’ But it kind of is. Worse, you’ll also notice how the BioWare leadership had made mentions of Destiny “taboo” in the workplace, and how comparisons “elicited negative reactions from leadership.” The preferred point of reference for a loot game would be Diablo instead. Anthem was a game that was in development for nearly seven years, yet it only entered production within the closing months. There were numerous teams and programmers voicing their concerns, whether it was the game’s design, complexities, and even the lack of support they’d get from Frostbite technicians.
You’ll also realize the parallels in Anthem‘s development with other troubled games. If you haven’t given it a read, I suggest that you do since it’s very insightful. Diablo: Immortal and Diablo 4 come to mind, as does Destiny. Schreier have shed light on the tumultuous and rocky development cycles of certain games. If you’re still wondering about what I’m getting at, it’s the recent Kotaku piece on Anthem written by Jason Schreier. Anthem’s problems were bigger than an Ash Titan.
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