New Anthem Trailer Explores Story, Combat, And World

So this is what siphoned resources from Mass Effect Andromeda which caused it to die as a mediocre pile of crap. Awesome. The thing with EA why continually take a dump on a fanbase and expect them to support you. Seriously the shittiest company in all of gaming. I used to not jump on that bandwaggon, but it's true. It's 100 percent true.

Bring on the loot!

If Anthem is to other loot shooters what SWTOR is to traditional western MMOs, then I'm down. The thing that keeps me from ever getting to WoW's, or ESO's, or Neverwinter's end game is how incredibly boring it is to level a character in those game; but SWTOR has a comparatively strong story and good leveling content for an MMORPG (despite it being far, far too easy). Destiny, Borderlands, and The Division don't really have particularly strong or personal stories, and I think that's something Anthem could do to be different and stand out.

Might not work out, but at least this doesn't seem like just a Destiny clone made by a studio that isn't known of it's strong shooters.

"Explosive missions"......WTF does that even mean?? Now they're just throwing word-salad out there.

Also - is it me or does every single one of the "character interaction" grabs in there look tacked-on? That lady with the weird headpiece......she was so low-res it was really worrying. I seriously don't think that they had ANY story-based ANYTHING in there until there was an outcry from their fanbase.

No preorders. This 'trailer' is nothing more than junk voiced over by some woman who doesn't even know an Xbox from a Playstation.....that just gives us more of the same schtick that we've already seen about this game. It is a Destiny reskin.

Anthem... EA/BioWare just seems to shoot themselves in the foot anytime they bring up this game. They contradict themselves in different interviews about what the game actually is and what you as the player can expect to do; and their 'trailer' seems like one long PR shtick trying to defend one of EA's odious business practices... Which it kind of is essentially.

You can tell this game is in trouble already simply because the people making it can't seem to decide if it's a story-driven RPG ala BioWare classics such as Dragon Age or Mass Effect, a semi-MMO TPS ala The Division, or a "Destiny clone with mechs and jump-jets". They're trying to convince people to get this game because of... well; they can't seem to figure out what exactly quite yet. Sad.

I wouldn't play this for the story. It would be all about that loot grind.

It just feels like a re-skinned Destiny with Jump Jets. I'm still pumped to play Anthem but it feels like it's gonna be a grind the same way Destiny is.

Same repeated missions... go here, kill this guy, come back collect loot weekly, go here and kill this guy collect different loot, new week new missions, this time go to this cave, kill this guy grab loot, followed by go under the ocean kill this monster collect loot. Weekly strikes or whatever Anthem decides to call them.

Destiny was marketed the same way with the whole... the hub where you meet others and make your own story within our world etc. I highly doubt this will be any different. I hope this exceeds my expectations. But so far I'm only interested in trying out the jump jets and flying around to be honest.

meh.... Still not impressed and more than a few months away for a demo when I'm probably even less interested. Enough time to add more and change things I guess.

“However, from what was revealed, these interactions are extremely limited. Conversations are only sets of two choices. These are not “yes/no” but they seem to be generally opposite tones. The outcomes of these choices affect your relationship with these characters, and the visual arrangement of the area around them, but it’s unclear what else happens due to them.

The devs also clarified that there are no decisions that impact the story during missions, so I would not expect anything like the awesome Rachni Queen decision point popping up in Anthem.” - Kotaku

So the story stays the same regardless of what you do......

It's your personal story - pay no attention to the fact that everyone else got the same story and there are no actual consequences to your choices because we can't have that in our MMO.

Still AO forced multiplayer garbage? No thank'yee.

Anthem looks good; I like what I've seen of the gameplay. I'm not sure how much I'm going to care about the "my story" part of the game, since the little bit of the character interaction and writing I've seen has reminded me more of Andromeda than anything else, but I don't think that's why I'd play a loot shooter/RPG in the first place.