The haters are giving it more attention than the people actually looking forward to it.

Made by a studio that created one of their favorite FPS games ever.

Personally I'm not super hyped, looks like a lot of fun though.

My question would be: would it be (as) hyped if it didn't have "mechs" and had, whatever, "hover tanks" or something?
Because I don't see an inherent gameplay difference between those, they have the foot soldier/heavy vehicle dynamic.
Other differences vs. other FPS would still exist unchanged. Is that hype worthy? Or "for sure" mega franchise material?
I'm not really sure, because most of those other details are easily portable to other FPS, even if the recent large FPS franchises may have diverged from those approaches.
SO leaving that aside, is the mere imagery/idea of "mecha" itself a guarantee of hype-worthiness or a mega-franchise status?
But "mecha" is not exclusive to Titanfall developers, "riding inside a biped robot" is not anybody's exclusive IP, any more than zombies are,
so anybody else is free to release a "mecha" FPS, perhaps taking note of any shift in FPS conventions that Titanfall did.
Perhaps Titanfall will have some loyalty, but why is a last-gen engine game so worthy of irrational loyalty for combining non-unique "mecha" with an evolution on FPS dynamics?

The best I can hazard is that FPS players LIKE and WANT a new major FPS franchise, and anything that looks like it could be an alternative to the current AAA franchises will be gobbled up like that.  That theory doesn't actually depend on any true extraordinary quality of Titanfall, but merely it being "sufficient" and not having competition.

BTW, I take the "It will also come out on PS4" sentiment as a RESPONSE to the hype,
not pre/co-existing the hype, i.e. positing that the hype was independent of XBone exclusivity.

They actually already confirmed that there will be no microtransactions. But who needs those if you have tons of DLC in the pipeline.

The game actually disqualifies completely in 3 different areas for me so it will never get into my hands. But I can still appreciate what they've tried to create.

Even more so it's a new IP and successful new IPs mean developers and publishers taking more risks. Just think of all the great new IPs of last gen which resulted in massive franchises that are now funding new IPs.

It is no secret the past generation was head over heels for FPSs. This is just another shooter with pretty graphics and wait for it...mechas. The mobility aspect of the game is actually pretty appealing but you're right, it is not revolutionary in anyway but there is a lot of hype for it because it is from the makers of CoD and Xbox One exclusive. If it wasn't for those to facts (mostly the latter) it would not be as high acclaimed as it will most likely be.

The double jumping and verticality, combined with the on-foot and in-mech gameplay looks like fun and a nice breath of fresh air for the genre.

Also, I have not seen people come out of trying a game being this giddy about it in a long time (the original Halo perhaps). Even jaded game journalists were waxing lyrically about it after various conferences.

But I think the XBone exclusivity does not explain why e.g. PS4 fans went along with the hype and were interested in playing it on PS4. Well, I guess you must distinguish that people "interested in playing it" don't necessarily see it as the next coming of Christ. So a mediocre but plausibly attractive to lowes common denominator game doesn't necessarily have across the board "mega hype" status. MS and fanbois were perhaps just happy to play up that "sufficient" status into something greater because it was exclusive.

Its a great looking game but I agree, so much can go wrong with it, we just can't tell yet if its gonna be a big franchise.

Nothing, and MS is dumb to put their eggs on a FPS basket, they should invest in variety and deepness, not shallow quick-fix FPSs from those Infinity Ward leftover losers.

Errr... the IW "leftover losers" are still over at Infinity Ward, making flawed CoD games based on the formula that the people who left IW created. The staff at IW now is a shell of its former self, most of the important people left for Respawn or other companies.

Yeah except gamers have had a chance to play Titanfall now and the people who did are echoing those same claims made by the press. Also, you can find a few articles hyping up any turd, Haze included. But did Haze win 60 or whatever E3 awards? Not even close to the same mount of praise or hype.