Great breakdown on Anthem!
I'm really hoping this ends up with the success Destiny's had.
But I can't help but wonder if EA should be the publisher behind it.
After everything that's happened with Battlefront 2, I hop they give Bioware free reign over the game's systems, instead of bogging it down with microtransactions.
And I really hope that the game ends up actually looking like the trailer they showed. There have been too many times where we've been burned by games that look nothing like the "gameplay reveal" trailers shown years before the actual launch. (Lookin' at you Watch Dogs and The Division)
Destiny was also super disappointing, as far as the lore and storylines went. They had grandiose ideas and plans for it, but scrapped most of them right before they released the game, and settled for the Grimoire Card system, which was roughshod at BEST. And they didn't expand on the downfalls of 1, when they released 2, at ALL. The game surely is ambitious, but how many of those features will genuinely come to fruition, is a crapshoot. I'm hopeful that Anthem will even come close to as fantastic as Assassins Creed Origins is.
I dunno. I love Destiny and its approach to lore. If you really dive into it, there are some amazing stories that tie together to give the game this grand sense of history. I agree the way it was implemented wasn't the best, but the stories that are there are fantastic.
I'd highly recommend looking up the story of The Ishtar Collective. A group of scientists who first encountered the Vex, and found themselves stuck inside a perfect simulation. Really interesting read.
I've done some delving into the Destiny lore, after seeing a few articles about how much of it was "hidden". I agree, the lore itself was beautiful, but having to collect Grimoire Cards to even get a small view of it was lame. The fact that you basically had to hunt for the lore was lost on me, and basically any casual gamers. Then, came D2, which was a shell of D1, minus Grimoire Cards and anything resembling legends and lore. Don't get me wrong, the game itself was beautiful, but for people looking forward to Destiny 2 as much as the diehard fans of D1, it was a disappointment. The repetition and lack of abundance of quests and new stuff to do, lost my interest quickly. As soon as I got my 3 classes up to 300 power, it became repetitive, and I lost interest. Couple that with Assassins Creed Origins being released, and I've completely abandoned D2. You saw major improvements and advancements from Titanfall 1, to 2. I was expecting D2 to be the same way. They took something amazing, and improved it in almost every aspect with TF2.