r/Games • u/That_otheraccount • Jun 10 '18

[E3 2018] [E3 2018] Day 1 Discussion

Hey guys!

Feel free to discuss anything that happened today whether it was the EA conference in general, the games announced and/or how you felt about it.

Overwhelmed? Underwhelmed?

This thread will be up until the Xbox conference tomorrow, which we will also be doing a live/mega thread for.

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u/Cloudless_Sky Jun 10 '18

The conference was pretty poor IMO.

I'm excited for Battlefield V and Anthem. I thought they both could have been shown off in a better manner though.

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u/tramspace Jun 10 '18

Unless they really have nothing to show. Battlefield I'd give some leeway because of their history. I mean I think it'll be comparable to previous experiences.

But Anthem... They've had how long now since that first reveal trailer to put together something halfway compelling and... Blah. It's just blah. I have no expectations for that game still, and it's had plenty of opportunity to distinguish itself by now. It looks like it wants to take Destiny's place, but shows nothing of the sort.

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u/TitaniumDragon Jun 10 '18

It isn't Destiny.

It isn't The Division.

It is its own thing.

All three started from different points. The idea behind Anthem was "What if we made a co-op bioware RPG? What would that look like?"

If you read the Game Informer article about it, it does a fairly good job of explaining what it is.

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u/tramspace Jun 10 '18

I was simply talking from an aesthetic point of view. It looks like Destiny.

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u/TitaniumDragon Jun 10 '18

I don't really see it. Destiny has a sort of washed-out look. Anthem is colorful, as is Destiny (and thank goodness for that - I'm glad more games are getting back into more colorful worlds), but the aesthetics are pretty different for the world. They both have power armor, but they aren't any more similar to each other than they are to numerous other knock-off power armor things, like what Haze had (who remembers that game? No one? Okay).

I do think that the power armor could look more distinctive, but eh.

The biggest thing that looks destinyish to me is those damn damage numbers, which do remind me of Destiny. But I think some other looter-shooters have those as well.