Dragon Age: The Veilguard and, to a lesser extent, Mass Effect 5 might be front and center on everyone's minds right now, but Anthem's lead producer would “love” to return to the studio's failed live-service game .
In retrospect, Anthem's doomed launch should have been obvious to everyone involved. Some BioWare fans were already uneasy about the storied RPG studio pivoting toward live service, co-op-focused looter shooter territory with a game that had much more in common with Destiny than Mass. Effect. Reports of a problematic development raised more eyebrows. And then, of course, the game itself launched with long loading times, glitches, and divisive combat as you and other exosuit-wearing Iron Man friends saved a lush alien planet.
Whatever crowd the game drew on release day didn't last long, prompting the studio to go back to the drawing board with a massive update, relaunching something tentatively called Anthem Next, which publisher EA ultimately scrapped for that BioWare could make it safer. successes with sequels to Dragon Age and Mass Effect.
So, yes. Anthem is in the rearview mirror of the studio continuing to work on the same two series it created two console generations ago. But that doesn't mean Anthem has been completely forgotten either.
Ben Irving, who worked as lead producer on the co-op shooter and has since left to join Tomb Raider managers Crystal Dynamics, recently tweeted that he would “love to reboot Anthem one day” in response to an online fan who was still talking. of extraterrestrials. mechs in the game. “It's surprising how many people are still so excited about Anthem after so many years,” he later said. “Anthem still has all the potential in the world…”
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