The Anthem We Never Got (Anthem 5 Years Later)

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This is the Anthem we never got, a game mired by developer torment and indecisiveness from its debut trailer! The ultimate Destiny Killer, anthem was by all means a game of all time. EA and Bioware were set for the largest moment in studio history, but as the strings tightened, so too did they break and Anthem was soon to be dead on arrival. Anthem was a game that meant so much to so many and the 2.0 never got the legs it needed. This is what happpened to the Anthem we Never Got, I hope you enjoy!
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Intro: 00:00
The Development: 01:56
Day 1 Issues: 11:50
Revisiting the Remains and 2.0: 23:24
The End of the Road: 33:07
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[TheSplinter]

To this day, I still shed a tear anytime I see anything about Anthem. There was much potential and it was an absolute blast. It really had an opportunity to dethrone Destiny. The devs were highly engaged with the community in Discord and on Reddit. They all seemed REALLY proud of it as it was discussed. First few weeks were amazing! Then the end game boredom set in and next thing you know it's 2024 and I'm in a comment section waxing poetically about how much I wanted this game to Succeed

[iambience]

The fact that we are still talking about this means EA is just leaving money on the table

[brandonsample]

It will forever be a shame, since the core ideas, the flying, the combat, the "concept" of what this game could have been were awesome.
if only </3

[skinPingwin]

I enjoyed watching this. Thank you.

Also, if Anthem 2 ever releases, I'll try it out purely out of respect for what the first one could have been

[longmoneymike]

Dude i was literally just thinking about how much i miss anthem in class like thirty minutes ago. Now I have to redownload it.

[jacobhale]

It was so broken, but after a few years ive recently started playing it again on xbox. I was surprised to see it still having players. Had to start over, to relearn controls. And immediately remembered how much i enjoyed the gameplay itself. The combat and how powers play off each other. I just wish it would get support, there is still potential in the game

[zachrapier]

It was soooo good though. Just fell off so fast. The flying and combat was a blast. Just no content…

[AimingAtYou]

Dude, the amount of people who knows about that Glad-guy is soooo miniscule! Most of us play the games, without following the streaming world.

[HarperLylia]

Anthem is my guilty pleasure. I come back every year or so & I always enjoy it for a while. It will always be my #1 game i wish was given a 2nd chance by the studio.

[KingBrch]

20:05 it’s so wild that this YouTuber and thousands of other people know about this guy that broken all these records but I’ve never heard of him even once. They say it’s a small world but honestly it’s huge 😂

[vahlinge]

It had so much potential. I was so excited for Anthem 2.0.

[franzhulk]

I REALLY hope and i bet 1000´s of you guys too.. that someone takes this game and makes it great again. Enjoyed it so damn much

[smokingblaster]

If they honestly were to pull a no man sky where they do a "re-release", I'd jump back in a heartbeat.

[wobin_dwonderdog]

God the story plot continues to make me break out in hives, but the transition from ground to flight still gives me a serotonin hit

[derekurbina]

Had high hopes and deep down... I still do

[xRichieeex]

I really wanted anthem to go well and have a come back, But EA killed it. I haven’t trusted or bought a new EA game since. Honestly If they decided to go back to this concept and work on it again, I’d give it another chance.

[inFamous_Izanagi]

Anthem gets a click and a like from me. Such beautiful gameplay. God, the potential was insane.

[iansterling]

Thanks for putting this one out, Evan. I didn't get into Anthem until a few months after the launch, by which time most people had left the game. I kept playing it up until EA pulled the plug, and stopped playing after that because I was pretty heartbroken. Anthem 2.0 or Anthem Next looked like it was going to be fantastic. I still hold out a little bit of hope that it ends up getting revived and made into the game it could have been. It probably won't, but stranger things have happened....

[NoizzyyBoii]

The comment of Anthem being “Destiny Lite” was actually why I was so attached to it. It reminded me of the game that was essentially my childhood. I met all my friends through Destiny, and made so many memories because of it. So when Anthem dropped, all of us were hyped beyond comprehension.

And even with all of its problems, we toughed it out because our thought process was, “Destiny had a super rough start, but it found its footing eventually. So let’s give Anthem that same treatment.” But as we can all see via the video, it didn’t find its footing. I still have Anthem installed and there are some days where I boot it up just to fly around the map. I of course crash after like 5 minutes of play, but it gives me a bittersweet nostalgia. (Granted I think my crashing issue is because I’m on an old Xbox One)

It still pains me to see what happened to this game.

[sycoskater]

I still think about this game to this day... Such a crying shame, so much potential