I underestimated to point to which Anthem is in fact a full-on fantasy game that incidentally uses an iron man suit and an assault rifle as your gear. I remember back when we stuck our nose into the Destiny demo, and I came away disappointed at how much the backstory was just a bunch of capitalized words that were supposed to be meaningful... because they were capitalized?Ā
In fairness to both games, thereās nothing inherently wrong with that approach. I played hours and hours of Warframe on pretty loose lore and basically no RP, purely on the sheer thrill of the fast, mixed melee and ranged gameplay, and wickedly unique and cool armor designs.
On some level itās because a significant factor in my attachment to ME (and preference of it over DA) was the sci-fi backbone. Itās also what I found so frustrating about Andromeda, among other issues, was the slow abandonment of that backbone in favor of vague and lazy writing cheats (weāre looking forĀ ātechā! What kind of technology you ask? TECH! Itāll... tech something. Yay!)
More than anything I guess itās a matter of expectations. The DA games are perfectly enjoyable, because you expect and get a fantasy world with fantasy rules. Andromeda, though, drifted off the strong mean the prior trilogy had set up. Apparently Iāll have to wait for Cyberpunk 2077 to potentially scratch the sci-fi RPG itch.Ā
Itās... not going to set off ravenous fanfic brain, Iām guessing. But that doesnāt mean it couldnāt be an entertaining lootĀ ān shoot, especially with the flying mech suit. I guess now Iām looking for the hook that gets me.
