What an utterly adorable article. Reminds me of the days when I wrote for a gaming site and we would occasionally write sensationalist, soap box headlines or give a game a bad score so it would grab attention when we were posted on Gamerankings.com (these were times before Metacritic).
The strangest part is for the life of me I cannot understand what the article is trying to say. I mean, it's absolutely gushing with praise for the game. Yet if you read the OP of this thread and some of the other comments, you'd think it was a Knack review. To me it read like "oh man this game is soooooo incredible it's really good but WTFWTFWTF quit calling it sooo innovative it pisses me off!!1". Just to correct a few points in the article and the thread:
1. You don't have to be innovative to be good, or to grab hype, or to be "the next big thing".
2. People aren't even raving about innovation. People are raving about fresh, extremely solid gameplay.
3. I really don't understand how the OP of this thread is trying to twist "mechs are just an extension of the pilot!!" as if this is a bad thing. This is one of the best things about the game! Why do I want to be a wall jumping, parkour engaging, jet packing killing machine, and then get into some shitty slow lumbering shitty mech? Fuck that noise. The Titans seem like the perfect blend of size, strength, and mobility. And they even have multiple classes of them.
4. No, Xbone fans aren't desperate for this game to start an avalanche of sales that will "close the gap" with PS4. There is an amazing game coming to the platform and people are excited. It's really funny watching people scrape their brains for these wild theories about intentions.
5. There is no "bubububttubut xbox fans are calling it gotg!!". No, you can shorten that to one person, me. It is bizarre to me how people are offended by hype only if its hype for a game that is not coming to their favorite toy. I mean, that thread linked earlier, holy crap. It was just pure honest hype for a great game, something to be celebrated by any real gamer. Instead I was torn to shreds. I mean what the fuck how dare I get hyped for a game amirite? And no, I wasn't banned for trolling with GOTG. I was banned for something else in another thread.
6. I agree with Vitro, the amount of FUD for this game from some users has just been strange. Since everything is done on this site based on what toy you enjoy and/or root for, I guess I'd just say it's even stranger because you don't really see the same attention thrown to the other platforms from "xbox fans". Nintendo guys don't really bother anyone either. Hey, you guys understand you don't need an Xbone for this game, right? You can play it on your PC or 360.
7. TITANFALL GOTG WOOOOOOOOOOOO
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