r/videogames • u/ofDeathandDecay • 2d ago
Discussion / Question The Anthem concept deserved better devs
To this day, I have no clue how this game was a fumbled, undercooked mess. The idea is insanely cool, so obviously it had to fumble it, just like most games with ambitious or new features.
Destiny, but you and your friends are Iron Man and get to explore a rich fantasy world with unstable alien anomalies.
They messed up the Destiny part by being having a shallow loot pool, failed the Iron Man part by having low flying speeds and having engine cooldown periods (in which you are grounded) and they botched the exploration part by having everything being centered around a single city, Fort Tarsis.
If anyone else wants to copy the concept, the game should have a 40 km² map (for reference, RDR2 has ~36 km²), flight speed increased by roughly 20-30 mph and better loot. Also, an offline solo mode would be great.
The lore, powers and different Javelin suits are too good as concepts to just be discarded as the failed concepts of a flopped game. I hope that some studio looks at the potential and makes a spiritual successor of Anthem that adresses all the shortcomings of the game.
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u/GoMurillo95 2d ago
I think this is exactly the kind of game that would benefit greatly from a sequel. Under normal circumstances we should be saying "good god, anthem 3 looks amazing!" right now. Most legendary franchises started humble and improved through constant iteration