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I don’t know if I can trust Milo. I heard that Valve gave him a case of Friskies for positive coverage of the Steam Deck.
Excuse me. “Allegedly.” No one’s been convicted of anything, MILO.
It’s about ethics in cat journalism
Why would this cat write something so controversial yet so brave?
Inb4 the Alt Right brigade starts accusing Milo of biased news
You know, that second paragraph sums up pretty well my feelings on what we’ve seen so far. I don’t have an issue with Bioware making a different kidn of a gaming experience than I would prefer, it is their studio and their game, but the way they keep talking about this game feels really vague and often confusing.
Essentially. It’s one hell of a Morton’s Fork. Either way, Bioware is fucked. You’ve got the red option, which is they’re eaten by Unicronic Arts. Next is the Blue Option, which, hahaha, you don’t have enough resource points for. Finally, we come to the green, where they merge with the beast and just pump out Anthem…
I’m sure they know exactly what they are making. They just don’t want to outright say they want to make a grind heavy games-as-a-service shooter.
Stop. Giving. Us. MMO. Lite. Games.
Don’t worry, even though Anthem will review well and sell well, it won’t sell 15 million copies that EA thinks it should and will shutter Bioware before 2020.
I’m going to disagree with you on this one. They’ve literally said “Hey, we’re sorry about Mass Effect Andromeda, but just wait, Anthen is going to be awesome.”
Like, if your studio is getting pummeled that your last story RPG wasn’t good enough, you don’t hold up a loot shooter and say “Don’t worry, this will be…
Their gameplay video from E3 was really quite bad gameplay wise.
“We’ve reinvented personal narratives by making them all incredibly simplistic and underwhelming.”
Finally, after years of criticism that all the branching storylines in Dragon Age and Mass Effect didn't branch ENOUGH, BioWare is giving fans exactly what they’ve always wanted: a story where your choices have no impact whatsoever!
The whole concept of “reinventing the personal narrative” sounds like more as if Bioware knows this isn’t a single player game, has no interest in making a single player game, and is keeping up the thin veil to keep RPGers around for their next title.
That’s fair, but at least Marvel uses real locations and doesn’t try to make the sky look like we’re on another planet ALL THE TIME. Man of Steel used perfectly fine set pieces that looked like real world locations. Justice League couldn’t even make a roof top look like it was actually a real roof top.
These days they don’t film movies. They film a costumed cast on a green stage and then do the rest in post. Even Marvel does it, but at least they know how to pick color palettes and where crispness and details count.
It’s nice to hear professional screenwriters saying the same thing (“Start small, dummies”) that we’ve all* been saying for years.