VGW's Brian Shea: "Respawn Entertainment’s Titanfall is an outstanding first-person shooter. The mobility and “verticality” delivered by the game’s pilots, as well as the outstanding mech-on-mech combat brought by the game’s titular Titans are the best thing that has happened to the first-person shooter genre since the advent of the killstreak in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. However, scrolling through my Twitter feed and talking to some friends, I’ve noticed a lot of people who were really excited for the game’s release are feeling a bit lukewarm with the final product."
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Although the late 2000s Turok wasn't my favorite, I would love a new entry. Open world survival with shotguns and dinosaurs. Not sure how we'd get the fusion cannon, but that would be pretty sweet too.
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All of these games are pretty much universally praised. Outside of Timeshift I literally own all of these.
XIII, The Darkness 2, Far Cry: Blood Dragon, Timesplitters: future perfect, Bulletstorm are awesome games
I played them all, they are all good in their own way
I used to be obsessed with FPS games
Windows Central: "Titanfall 1 is being sunset, taken off storefronts by EA. While the servers remain live for now, one has to wonder just how much time it has left. I look back and pay tribute to the last "twitch"-styled shooter I ever truly loved."
Sales for the original Titanfall are being discontinued.
It will be pulled from subscription services on March 1, 2022.
Physical media. Unfortunately the way games are going these days game servers will eventually be shut down and you can stare at the menu and wish you could play the game again.
This is why reading is so important. Nothing to do with digital or physical media. The game, which is online only, is being delisted because of DDOS and other hacker attacks. The case got so bad that only six players in the world log on. For PC. Rather than fix it, they continued to sell the game, broken as it is, and only now just decided to call it quits. But please, go on thinking what you will.
I'm aware of the DDOS attacks and that this case is not typical. This game would eventually have it's servers shutdown regardless of the current situation so that is a moot point. My comment was in a general sense and that there are instances in which games can be preserved physically when official support ends.
Let's recap your first sentence. I said, "the way GAMES are going these days" indicating a broader stroke than just this game. I agree, reading IS important. I was simply stating the obvious downsides of the digital marketplaces and online only trends in games these days. I could even make the argument that the online only offering which has allowed hacker manipulation has impacted the preservation of this great game. My comment is valid in the general sense and thank you for your permission to continue to think what I will.
Basically if you didn't like TF2s style of multiplayer only then you won't like this either.
Just a question. Why do articles like this exist for this game, but not seemingly for other games? The vast majority of reviews are very positive for this game (except fanboys on metacritic)..yet there are opinion articles about why you won't like this game all the time. KZ got an average score of 6.5-7/10...I saw no articles like this. MGS typically has bad to mediocre scores (although more positive reviews are emerging...which is good cause I bought the game and like MGS series)...no articles about "Why MGS may disappoint you" (unless you count reviews).
It seems that this game is suffering from the backlash of ACTUALLY being successful. It seems that the large majority of negative comments about this game are just from fanboys that don't want it to succeed (and want the XB1 to fail).
When will gamers wake up and realize they are actively trying to kill the industry they love? Take a step back and think about what your end goal is IF you actively try to talk trash about a game you don't like or try to convince someone NOT to buy a game or system just cause you don't like it... what is the goal there? You want to kill the happiness of millions of others that DO like what you don't, and it DOES bring them happiness... now you want to kill one of the Video game industry giants so that one stands alone with no competition to drive them forward at a stronger pace. Do you really want to hand MS or Sony free-reign to do whatever they want and charge whatever they want?
If you like MP games and FPS...there isn't any reason not to like this game, or hate it enough to discourage others not to buy it. Titanfall is fun, I love it.
Very good article! IMO he gives a compelling reason why hype can be positive as well as detrimental.
The only reason I can think of is if you dont like FPS games, or if you went into it under the impression that it would be a life-changing experience.
Once you realize that Titanfall is just another shooter, it's impossible to be disappointed. Because this game is something special.
I for one laughed at the videos on you tube where the aim line bends and shoots around the corner. What a joke!