What's so great about Titanfall?

[TornadoCreator]

g911turbo said:

TornadoCreator said:

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.

Bold.  I think you just null and voided your own thread.  You don't like FPS, yet you want people to explain to you what is so great about them.

Pedigree of the developer in making FPS is what is getting people hyped.  That and previews so far look interesting.  The game has the potential to be big, but nothing is guaranteed.  Simple as that.

Not at all. I don't have to like something to know the difference between a good or bad example of it. I have no interest in costume drama's but I can tell you which version of the film adaptions of Pride & Prejudice is worthwhile, and which one is poorly acted and badly paced. It's simple a case of recognising ones own baises and moving beyond them. Like I say, I wanted someone to justify what I've not seen, as someone who isn't a fan of the genre I'm unlikely to notice the nuances that make a game move from "good" to "outstanding".

Now, looking interesting, that's all well and fine, but people seem to talk about Titanfall as though it's automatically a 9/10 game and that bothers me. Pedigree of developer I don't buy as two members of Infinity Ward moving to a new and unproven company hardly counts as pedigree; especially when you consider that even then, Infinity Ward are only really know for Call Of Duty and that's a mixed bag at best. Add in that this game is being release by EA, a publisher that has the biggest hard-on ever for DLC packs and microtransactions, at the moment at least; and I'm genuinely expecting disappointment. To me, this hype seems linked to the E3 awards it won at announcement; something I don't feel should be allowed. Critics praising it as the next step for the FPS based on nothing but a little trailer footage and the massive fuck-off bribe they got from Microsoft. It simply feels wrong.

Don't get me wrong. I honestly hope Titanfall is great. I hope the Xbox One positions itself as the home for First Person Shooters and online competitive gaming because it's a defined role that I'm not interested in and it would mean the games I am interested in, the third person action, sandbox, and RPG games will gravitate more to the PS4 in order to distinguish themselves. This would be a good way to create some variety in the industry. So by no means do I want Titanfall to fail, it's just that the game is getting far too much praise, far too quickly, considering no-one has ever played it.