Titanfall Review Thread

The_Darkest_Red said:
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Can't believe they didn't go for the obvious co-marketing of some ED drug.

"Tell her to prepare for titanfall"
 
Arkos said:
Oh snap. Eat your heart out :P
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The review was glowing but the critic was unhappy with the lack of a single player mode and that the game didn't do much to explore the narrative of the world it was set into. While I can certainly understand those complaints, I think it's also misguided when a critic reviews a game for what they think it should've been rather than for what it is. I don't think games with a strong single player or narrative focus should be punished for not tacking on a multiplayer mode, and vice versa a game where the multiplayer is the focus I don't see the point in a company wasting resources to tack on single player game if that's not what they're creatively invested in developing.
 
Netherscourge said:
Aside from the tech issues, the two Campaigns are 2-hours long each and follow the same exact storyline, with no user-decisions affecting any outcomes or even the current scripting situations.

You could kill every single enemy on a mission map, and the story will continue as if you are in retreat due to heavy losses...
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Well that's incredibly lame. When I heard about the multiplayer-campaign thing, I figured in my head it'd be some kinda simplistic thing where you see a cutscene or scripted sequence in the beginning of the match, and then again at the end you'd see a "Win" or "Lose' cutscene.

Apparently, even that simple prediction was giving it too much credit. So much for revolutionizing storytelling in multiplayer games lol.
 
pokeystaples said:
Reviews look good, but this is odd for me. I figured the reviews would come in a little after everyone has had a chance to play the game in the wild considering how well online games fair upon release. Especially when they come from EA.
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Microsoft is handling all of the backend sever stuff. EA has no involvement there.
 
Ikuu said:
It's CoD with mechs and parkour.
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From my experience with the beta, the parkour is a big enough change to a major aspect of the game that calling it with "CoD with X" is selling it short.

The gunplay and structure of the multiplayer are substantially similar to CoD, yes, but everything is quite a bit different in practice.
 
Should have just dropped it to 720p and have run even better, many of the COD type crowd wouldn't have cared which is what they want, it's like someone was trying hard to make sure this flagship game was not 720p as some bullet point that really doesn't matter.
 
Really pathetic that anyone outside of Microsoft wants a game to remain exclusive. I'm playing it on PC, and I understand that Xbox needs a boost, but I truly wish everyone had the opportunity to play the game. I'd love to see it take off in popularity, and it would be crazy to see the hype if it were multiplat. I'm kind of burned out on Battlefield, and this is making me want to get back into a mp FPS. It's one thing to actually fund a game or studio, but paying EA not to release it on PS is not something I want to support, but the game is just too damn good.
 
lucius said:
Should have just dropped it to 720p and have run even better, many of the COD type crowd wouldn't have cared which is what they want, it's like someone was trying hard to make sure this flagship game was not 720p as some bullet point that really doesn't matter.
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sounds like you are on to something here..
 
Jtrizzy said:
Really pathetic that a gamer wants a game to remain exclusive. I'm playing it on PC, and I understand that Xbox needs a boost, but I truly wish everyone had the opportunity to play the game. I'd love to see it take off in popularity, and it would be crazy to see the hype if it were multiplat. I'm kind of burned out on Battlefield, and this is making me want to get back into a mp FPS.
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His reasoning could be that he doesn't want Xbox One to fail which would mean it could possibly lose out on games, same reasoning as you really.
 
As much as it pains me, shouldn't the main IGN non review be linked in the OP with the others seeing as they're doing what I perceive to be the right thing by not giving it a score yet?
 
Orayn said:
From my experience with the beta, the parkour is a big enough change to a major aspect of the game that calling it with "CoD with X" is selling it short.

The gunplay and structure of the multiplayer are substantially similar to CoD, yes, but everything is quite a bit different in practice.
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Yeah the gunplay is what draws the COD comparison for me. Fast, not very much kick, quite easy to aim / hit things etc. Even while piloting the mech, the sense of scale didn't get rid of that feeling for me. The game differentiates itself to be its own thing though and I can see why some people will love it.
 
That's a pretty great Metacritic score for a 60$ multiplayer only title.
I hope it starts a trend, I'm so tired of half assed campaigns.

Anyways, I can't wait to play it in less than half a day :D!
 
Garrett 2U said:
That's a pretty great Metacritic score for a 60$ multiplayer only title.
I hope it starts a trend, I'm so tired of half assed campaigns.

Anyways, I can't wait to play it in less than half a day :D!
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I hope not. Not every single competitive shooter should half ass there way out of a good story the same way single player games half ass themselves out of making a good multiplayer.
 
Congratulations Respawn!

Your first game as a company seems like it will be a very successful one. The work was worth it!
 
thewhitehawk said:
If you are genuinely cancelling a pre-order for a game based solely on Metacritic's average numerical score you are part of one this industry's largest problem and you should feel ashamed.
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99.7% sure he was being sarcastic. "Average scored dropped under 90? DOOMED! FLOP! PREORDER CANCELLED".
 
Garrett 2U said:
That's a pretty great Metacritic score for a 60$ multiplayer only title.
I hope it starts a trend, I'm so tired of half assed campaigns.

Anyways, I can't wait to play it in less than half a day :D!
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A trend? In what way? For those of us that stick to single player games it's not a good precedent. I want more quality sp campaigns (which there are still plenty of).
 
Hoo-doo said:
Sites get paid for advertisements, no doubt.

It's a classic conflict of interest. Simple as that.
I'm sure there's very little shady shit going on these days, but I do still remember Gerstmann getting the boot for scoring K&L too low.
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Is that what you heard, or what Jeff told you personally?
 
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