I genuinely want to know this and this isn't me simply being glib, or flaming/trolling for a reaction. In a previous thread people where talking about the release window for Titanfall and InFamous Second Son and how InFamous may or may not temper some of the hype for Titanfall. Regardless of what people think here, one comment which was eccoed a couple of times is that InFamous is a good franchise but it's not a massive franchise where as Titanfall will be... my question; WHY?!
Why the hell is Titanfall automatically a "massive franchise", it's a brand new IP for fuck sake. It's a brand new IP that from what I've seen is yet another boring cliché near future first person fucking shooter, because we all know how massively important it is to have another game where we play as a slightly futuristic floating gun. Now, granted, I'll happily admit to a little bais here, I don't like FPS games and I find everything about Titanfall to be trite and boring. It doesn't interest me and if anything it looks bland and predicable so far; so what makes it destined to be this massive franchise that will make the Xbox One a thing of importance in the eyes of all gamers. Why this game? Why not any of the other games that are coming out.
I don't for example hear people deciding, before anyone has even played it remember, that The Order 1886 or The Evil Within are destined to be "massive franchises", and they're new IPs, so what makes Titanfall so different that people are acting like it's going to be a bestseller as a foregone conclusion before anyone has even had a chance to play it. Is it just brand loyalty. Are people either convincing themselves that they'll love it just because it's the game that M$ have put the most advertising money behind, or are non-M$ fans siimply presuming that the average gamer is a rutting moron and will buy and love whatever game the shiny banner adverts talk about the most; and are thus making a sad prediction? I ask because it really bothers me how much the internet as a whole does this; decides that something is awesome, terrible, bestseller, dead on arrival etc. without having ever played/watched/experienced it based on nothing but hype.
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-Smeags
