Don't get me wrong, I love a big blockbuster game. But churning them out and depending on them to be critical and commercial successes to break even was never going to work
This is one of my problems with the Anthem marketing: they're acting like this is an established, beloved universe. It's not, right now it's just a collection of randomly capitalized Nouns.
This is one of my problems with the Anthem marketing: they're acting like this is an established, beloved universe. It's not, right now it's just a collection of randomly capitalized Nouns.
They're hoping to tease imagination with it. Like you're supposed to go ooh, what are javelins, who's the Dominion, I gotta get this game and find out, but they're so generic sounding, it's not really compelling.
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Olivawgood name, isn't it?the foot of mt fujiRegistered Userregular
This is one of my problems with the Anthem marketing: they're acting like this is an established, beloved universe. It's not, right now it's just a collection of randomly capitalized Nouns.
They're hoping to tease imagination with it. Like you're supposed to go ooh, what are javelins, who's the Dominion, I gotta get this game and find out, but they're so generic sounding, it's not really compelling.
The Anthem of Creation is the one proper noun and concept they've got that is genuinely intriguing, which is probably why they built the whole game around it
Everything else just feels like off-brand Destiny
But Bioware's name and noun game has really fallen off in recent years, even a weakened Bungie could stomp them in that department
This is one of my problems with the Anthem marketing: they're acting like this is an established, beloved universe. It's not, right now it's just a collection of randomly capitalized Nouns.
They're hoping to tease imagination with it. Like you're supposed to go ooh, what are javelins, who's the Dominion, I gotta get this game and find out, but they're so generic sounding, it's not really compelling.
The Anthem of Creation is the one proper noun and concept they've got that is genuinely intriguing, which is probably why they built the whole game around it
Everything else just feels like off-brand Destiny
But Bioware's name and noun game has really fallen off in recent years, even a weakened Bungie could stomp them in that department
To be fair this is the studio that decided "darkspawn" was a really compelling name for their big fantasy enemy race, so it's not like they've really fallen that far
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Yeah but then we could name our dog Barkspawn and that's pretty good.
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Anthem's world feels like some real xerox-of-a-xerox shit, where a bunch of nerds who shudder and recoil at the idea of reading anything without a dragon or spaceship on the cover were asked to come up with a world and ended up with something that feels like someone put the past twenty years' worth of generic shooter lore entries into an algorithm
This is one of my problems with the Anthem marketing: they're acting like this is an established, beloved universe. It's not, right now it's just a collection of randomly capitalized Nouns.
They're hoping to tease imagination with it. Like you're supposed to go ooh, what are javelins, who's the Dominion, I gotta get this game and find out, but they're so generic sounding, it's not really compelling.
The Anthem of Creation is the one proper noun and concept they've got that is genuinely intriguing, which is probably why they built the whole game around it
Everything else just feels like off-brand Destiny
But Bioware's name and noun game has really fallen off in recent years, even a weakened Bungie could stomp them in that department
To be fair this is the studio that decided "darkspawn" was a really compelling name for their big fantasy enemy race, so it's not like they've really fallen that far
A very, very good point
But I at least felt something when I heard or saw the word "darkspawn" even if that feeling was amusement
I feel nothing when I see or hear "Dominion" except perhaps lingering affection for an old Star Trek show
This is one of my problems with the Anthem marketing: they're acting like this is an established, beloved universe. It's not, right now it's just a collection of randomly capitalized Nouns.
They're hoping to tease imagination with it. Like you're supposed to go ooh, what are javelins, who's the Dominion, I gotta get this game and find out, but they're so generic sounding, it's not really compelling.
The Anthem of Creation is the one proper noun and concept they've got that is genuinely intriguing, which is probably why they built the whole game around it
Everything else just feels like off-brand Destiny
But Bioware's name and noun game has really fallen off in recent years, even a weakened Bungie could stomp them in that department
To be fair this is the studio that decided "darkspawn" was a really compelling name for their big fantasy enemy race, so it's not like they've really fallen that far
A very, very good point
But I at least felt something when I heard or saw the word "darkspawn" even if that feeling was amusement
I feel nothing when I see or hear "Dominion" except perhaps lingering affection for an old Star Trek show
I keep thinking a little tank is going to show up and fight two cat girls
Did you guys have instantly strong feeling about "Reapers" and "The Citadel" before you played Mass Effect for the first time?
You have to actually play the game and read about stuff before things mean anything
If those things sound boring though why would I want to read about them?
I am not saying Anthem is as well written or interesting as Mass Effect, cause it ain't
But divorced of context, meaning without being familiar with ME, I don't see how Reapers or The Citadel or Spectres are any more interesting sounding than the Anthem and Dominion and Freelancers
The problem isn't Proper Nouns, its just that Anthem ain't particularly good once you learn what those Nouns are
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Did you guys have instantly strong feeling about "Reapers" and "The Citadel" before you played Mass Effect for the first time?
You have to actually play the game and read about stuff before things mean anything
If those things sound boring though why would I want to read about them?
I am not saying Anthem is as well written or interesting as Mass Effect, cause it ain't
But divorced of context, meaning without being familiar with ME, I don't see how Reapers or The Citadel or Spectres are any more interesting sounding than the Anthem and Dominion and Freelancers
The problem isn't Proper Nouns, its just that Anthem ain't particularly good once you learn what those Nouns are
Yeah I haven't heard anybody saying "yeah the dominion is really neat they're all about [whatever]" or anything like that for anthem so far
Did you guys have instantly strong feeling about "Reapers" and "The Citadel" before you played Mass Effect for the first time?
You have to actually play the game and read about stuff before things mean anything
If those things sound boring though why would I want to read about them?
I am not saying Anthem is as well written or interesting as Mass Effect, cause it ain't
But divorced of context, meaning without being familiar with ME, I don't see how Reapers or The Citadel or Spectres are any more interesting sounding than the Anthem and Dominion and Freelancers
The problem isn't Proper Nouns, its just that Anthem ain't particularly good once you learn what those Nouns are
I'm not in any way suggesting they are. I've never been particularly compelled to find out what they were about either.
Did you guys have instantly strong feeling about "Reapers" and "The Citadel" before you played Mass Effect for the first time?
You have to actually play the game and read about stuff before things mean anything
If those things sound boring though why would I want to read about them?
I am not saying Anthem is as well written or interesting as Mass Effect, cause it ain't
But divorced of context, meaning without being familiar with ME, I don't see how Reapers or The Citadel or Spectres are any more interesting sounding than the Anthem and Dominion and Freelancers
The problem isn't Proper Nouns, its just that Anthem ain't particularly good once you learn what those Nouns are
Yeah I haven't heard anybody saying "yeah the dominion is really neat they're all about [whatever]" or anything like that for anthem so far
They've just done a terrible job of explaining what any of their proper nouns mean. Before Mass Effect came out, I felt like I had a pretty good grasp on what the Council, the Spectres, and the Geth were and those elements interested me enough to look deeper. I've been at least lightly following Anthem since it was announced and I have no idea what the Dominion is other than bad dudes.
Anthem's world feels like some real xerox-of-a-xerox shit, where a bunch of nerds who shudder and recoil at the idea of reading anything without a dragon or spaceship on the cover were asked to come up with a world and ended up with something that feels like someone put the past twenty years' worth of generic shooter lore entries into an algorithm
Ain't nothing wrong with only reading fantasy and sci-fi
Anthem's world feels like some real xerox-of-a-xerox shit, where a bunch of nerds who shudder and recoil at the idea of reading anything without a dragon or spaceship on the cover were asked to come up with a world and ended up with something that feels like someone put the past twenty years' worth of generic shooter lore entries into an algorithm
Ain't nothing wrong with only reading fantasy and sci-fi
If you want to write a story of your own, you do your own work a disservice if you have an extremely limited exposure to different genres of storytelling. Hamstringing yourself by writing something that can only be derivative of an already incredibly derivative and constrained body of work is a poor showing for your creative endeavor.
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Anthem IGN Review
I'll wait for more reviews of course but Bioware spent a metric fuckton of money on this
6.5 ain't gonna cut it
God, I hope so.
Don't get me wrong, I love a big blockbuster game. But churning them out and depending on them to be critical and commercial successes to break even was never going to work
Ah I meant across the whole industry.
It's certainly not gonna make Activision stop putting out a Call of Duty every year.
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This is one of my problems with the Anthem marketing: they're acting like this is an established, beloved universe. It's not, right now it's just a collection of randomly capitalized Nouns.
They're hoping to tease imagination with it. Like you're supposed to go ooh, what are javelins, who's the Dominion, I gotta get this game and find out, but they're so generic sounding, it's not really compelling.
The Anthem of Creation is the one proper noun and concept they've got that is genuinely intriguing, which is probably why they built the whole game around it
Everything else just feels like off-brand Destiny
But Bioware's name and noun game has really fallen off in recent years, even a weakened Bungie could stomp them in that department
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To be fair this is the studio that decided "darkspawn" was a really compelling name for their big fantasy enemy race, so it's not like they've really fallen that far
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But Ubisoft spent time and effort on Rainbow Six Siege and it's awesome now.
The question is, will bioware do the same?
I mean, look at Andromeda's post-release.
A very, very good point
But I at least felt something when I heard or saw the word "darkspawn" even if that feeling was amusement
I feel nothing when I see or hear "Dominion" except perhaps lingering affection for an old Star Trek show
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I keep thinking a little tank is going to show up and fight two cat girls
You have to actually play the game and read about stuff before things mean anything
If those things sound boring though why would I want to read about them?
Are they not using their thumb and forefinger as double quotes?
But divorced of context, meaning without being familiar with ME, I don't see how Reapers or The Citadel or Spectres are any more interesting sounding than the Anthem and Dominion and Freelancers
The problem isn't Proper Nouns, its just that Anthem ain't particularly good once you learn what those Nouns are
Yeah I haven't heard anybody saying "yeah the dominion is really neat they're all about [whatever]" or anything like that for anthem so far
I'm not in any way suggesting they are. I've never been particularly compelled to find out what they were about either.
something like "The Bob Dylan of Games" being uttered, initially?
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They've just done a terrible job of explaining what any of their proper nouns mean. Before Mass Effect came out, I felt like I had a pretty good grasp on what the Council, the Spectres, and the Geth were and those elements interested me enough to look deeper. I've been at least lightly following Anthem since it was announced and I have no idea what the Dominion is other than bad dudes.
Ain't nothing wrong with only reading fantasy and sci-fi
Who knows what percentage of that game made it to what came out today, though
If you want to write a story of your own, you do your own work a disservice if you have an extremely limited exposure to different genres of storytelling. Hamstringing yourself by writing something that can only be derivative of an already incredibly derivative and constrained body of work is a poor showing for your creative endeavor.