| CommonNinja said: Glad Microsoft Stepped in to help, Titanfall is an AMAZING game! As far as the whole exclusivity deal goes, Microsoft deserved it if they were actually funding game development, but EA should have been more open with Respawn about the Deal and actually got their consent rather than keeping it a secret until they officially anounced it to the press. |
Agreed with the bolded. Reading the piece, I have been moved from a position of wishing everyone could experience such a great game, to hoping it sparks enough sales and revenue to seem worth it to MS. If that means future games are MS exclusive or whatever, so be it.
It's a great read, people should check it out. One of my favorite aspects thus far is how much of an impact the difficult PS3 had in the development of the game. Titanfall might not be on Sony platforms, but as a result of a Sony platform, the game launched with no SP and what some would describe as kind of bare bones MP. They went with a free engine provided by Insomniac because they were very worried about Source hitting 60 frames on PS3. Yet design was so slow on that engine that the game went nowhere. Then Portal 2 hit on PS3 and they decided to give Source another shot. In the end it didn't matter, MS provided crucial funds and the game never shipped on the PS3.
Some of the earlier designs were cool as well, including a horde type shooter where you and a squad of buddies tried to survive on an alien planet. Also, the AI roles in MP began as a squad for each player, each with a different role that you could switch to on the fly using the d-pad and while not in control they'd run off and do their own thing.
