There are various reasons that I haven’t finished those games.

And Metaphor: ReFantazio is so gargantuan that I’ve had a hard time committing my attention to it.

A single-player Anthem game would rule.

Mass Effect 5 teaser art over a space ship.

Anthem Wasn’t As Bad As You Think

Now, that may seem unhinged.

Development shut down on the game just two years later, in February 2021.

In the wake ofConcordandXDefiant, Anthem gettingtwo full yearsto prove itself seems positively luxurious.

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In retrospect, I stick by that.

BioWare, a studio known for character-driven, single-player RPGs, was making a live-service game.

That’s the biggest problem with the game.

Collage image with a character from Dragon Age: The Veilguard and a Javelin from Anthem.

Your companions all sound like they were written by ChatGPT.

The quests are uninteresting.

It didn’t succeed, obviously, but I respect the effort.

The Monitor in steel hemlet holding his hand out menacingly in Anthem.

Six years later, Anthem doesn’t look so bad.

With none of its original writers and editors, is BioWare even still BioWare?

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