Would people give a sh!t about Titanfall if it were not exclusive to XB1?

[Buckwheat]

Puppyroach said:

Buckwheat said:

Puppyroach said:

Buckwheat said:

Puppyroach said:
You always get more pumped up when a game is exclusive, but in this case it is very different in two ways:

- It seems the collective press has fallen for it aswell.
- I have never seen so Many Sony fans weighing in on the game, where alot of them spend sooooooo much time trying to downplay it, saying it is overhyped and such.

This tells me that this game has made a BIG, and positive, impression on almost everyone that has seen it.

Just like Ryse?

What are you talking about? Ryse got massive praise for its graphics, but the press was highly critical towards the gameplay. Alot of XBox fans where positive towards it, but hesitant in regards to.... the gameplay :). So in what way does these to caes compare?

Everything in your post is true.  People were very high on Ryse until more and more of the gameplay was shown.  Fans on both sides of the fence were making countless threads about the game.  It wasn't a game that made a BIG, and positive impression on most people even though it seemed to have been in the spotlight for a while.  Titanfall is still two months away from release and very few people have had the chance to play it.  The fact that so many people are talking about it when so few have actually played the game makes me think it might be overhyped.  It might turn out to be critically acclaimed, but I'm going to have to see more before I can say the hype is warranted.

No, that history description is not true in any sense of the word. At the very first reveal of Ryse at E3 (the teaser two years earlier does not count) people, both press and gamers, complained from the start about its apparent on-rails style, QTE´s and so forth, to the degree that Crytek had to go out and explain that it wasn´t really the case at all. The view on Ryse remained though, and was somewhat confirmed when it released.

The reveal of Titanfall was on a different level altogether. The first reveal was met with cheers, but it wasn´t until people actually tried it that it garnered the hype tht is received. And actually, alot of people have played it since it has been playable since then, on Pax and so forth and more and more of the people that actually have played it, praise the gameplay above the graphics time and time again.

Titanfall is actually in the hands of people as we speak, as the Alpha build. And the only impressions I can find are that it is so fun to play.

I think we differ on what "A lot of people" means. Also I dont expect to hear much of anything negative during the Alpha. Most of the people playing it right now are riding the hype train. I was doing the same thing a few months ago when another highly anticipated EA FPS was shown off at E3. Everyone who played it loved BF4. They are still trying to correct things almost 3 months after launch. I have my reasons for being skeptical.