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If anyone wants to know why so many gamers across the internet express their opinions regarding Titanfall, whether it be good or bad, is no doubt attributed to the game being shoved down our throats by the gaming media since June/July 2013.



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If it was not MS exclusive, PS4 would have doubled XBO sales by now.



Goatseye said:
Titanfall makes people feel some type of way.
It's non writable.

It's strange. I was blown away by the beta and have it in my sig and even I didn't expect it to win awards in March. I guess ethomaz is just really really really really impressed by the title. Of course, I doubt he has even played it.

And sorry etho but you're wrong again. Borderlands, Dishonored, Animal Crossing, Ass Creed 3, Blops 2, Psychonauts, Wii Sports, Dragon Age.. I feel I could go on and on and on here with games that received awards with meta scores in the 80's.

Also, are you saying GTA V is GOTY for 2013? It is a 97 rated game compared to LoU 95. Or let me guess, in this case review score doesn't matter?



J_Allard said:

It's strange. I was blown away by the beta and have it in my sig and even I didn't expect it to win awards in March. I guess ethomaz is just really really really really impressed by the title. Of course, I doubt he has even played it.

And sorry etho but you're wrong again. Borderlands, Dishonored, Animal Crossing, Ass Creed 3, Blops 2, Psychonauts, Wii Sports, Dragon Age.. I feel I could go on and on and on here with games that received awards with meta scores in the 80's.

Also, are you saying GTA V is GOTY for 2013? It is a 97 rated game compared to LoU 95. Or let me guess, in this case review score doesn't matter?

That's my feeling... Titanfall is not enought to win GOTY awards at the end of the year... BTW none of these won GOTY awards exept GTA V and The Last of Us.

I played the beta and even posted what I think... fun game but get bored fast (a weekend).

BTW I guee it won't win best MP awards too...



J_Allard said:
BMaker11 said:

Look at the comment I was replying to. He said those mechanics were new to competitive FPS. They aren't. Simple as that. You can go into great detail all you want, but there was even a time when rechargeable healing wasn't something a "game was built around", then Halo 2 added the mechanic and look....Modern Warfare perks regarding health (Juggernaut, for example). Is MW now considered "innovative because it has rechargeable health: a mechanic that's new to FPS"?

They are new. Unless you can tell me of another game that utilizes them the way Titanfall does? Allow me to save you some time: You can't.

Thank you for bringing up CoD, it's another great example that only proves sales right. We all know CoD4 is widely known for reolutionizing MP. What exactly did it bring that someone could really define as "new"? XP, perks, unlocks, level ups, twitch shooting, etc, all been done before in some form or another. But IW put their spin and presented them in a different way and as a part of a complete package and the result was a new, fresh MP experience that changed the industry.

Is Titanfall going to do all of that? Who knows. But its mechanics are new and fresh. Don't be obtuse and then blame the post you were responding to for it. You know how games work. You know these KZ3 comparisons are laughable at best.

Oh, so in order for me to say "another game used these mechanics", both have to be used in the exact same manner? Otherwise they don't count? Are you seriously saying that the only way to refer TF to another game is if that game is a clone? "Oh, it has mechs, but not mechs like TF, so it's not really mechs", "oh, it has jetpacks, but not jetpacks like TF, so it's not really jetpacks". Well, I guess every FPS is a completely different game and can't be compared or have "borrowed elements", for lack of a better term, because they don't "do it in the way another game does". Killzone has a level up system for getting better guns and making your character better. But it doesn't do it "in the way CoD does it", so the way level up system works in KZ is "new and fresh". I'm not silly enough to think in that manner. I'm able to say that they borrowed it from CoD. But then again, you think TF is the "Game of the Generation" so even the slightest thing that doesn't put TF in the best light possible, you're gonna have a vendetta against.

And I'm pretty sure that CoD4 blew up because it was the first foray into modern combat and was subsequently well receeived because it was a great game (like TF is, no one is doubting that) and it was "fresh" in that it wasn't the same old WW2 combat that everyone was sick of. Look what happened World at War after it. They went back to WW2 and even with the help of the Wii and the PS2 (and a larger PS3 and 360 userbase), it failed to outsell CoD4. 



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ethomaz said:

J_Allard said:

It's strange. I was blown away by the beta and have it in my sig and even I didn't expect it to win awards in March. I guess ethomaz is just really really really really impressed by the title. Of course, I doubt he has even played it.

And sorry etho but you're wrong again. Borderlands, Dishonored, Animal Crossing, Ass Creed 3, Blops 2, Psychonauts, Wii Sports, Dragon Age.. I feel I could go on and on and on here with games that received awards with meta scores in the 80's.

Also, are you saying GTA V is GOTY for 2013? It is a 97 rated game compared to LoU 95. Or let me guess, in this case review score doesn't matter?

That's my feeling... Titanfall is not enought to win GOTY awards at the end of the year... BTW none of these won GOTY awards exept GTA V and The Last of Us.

I played the beta and even posted what I think... fun game but get bored fast (a weekend).

BTW I guee it won't win best MP awards too...

They did win GOTY from various sites. Dishonored was Edge, Borderlands won it at a few places. I'd look up the others but I don't care to or need to, my point is already proven. Also, if your feeling is blah blah whatever about the end of the year, why are you posting FUD about post release awards in April?



BMaker11 said:

Oh, so in order for me to say "another game used these mechanics", both have to be used in the exact same manner? Otherwise they don't count? Are you seriously saying that the only way to refer TF to another game is if that game is a clone? "Oh, it has mechs, but not mechs like TF, so it's not really mechs", "oh, it has jetpacks, but not jetpacks like TF, so it's not really jetpacks". Well, I guess every FPS is a completely different game and can't be compared or have "borrowed elements", for lack of a better term, because they don't "do it in the way another game does". Killzone has a level up system for getting better guns and making your character better. But it doesn't do it "in the way CoD does it", so the way level up system works in KZ is "new and fresh". I'm not silly enough to think in that manner. I'm able to say that they borrowed it from CoD. But then again, you think TF is the "Game of the Generation" so even the slightest thing that doesn't put TF in the best light possible, you're gonna have a vendetta against.

And I'm pretty sure that CoD4 blew up because it was the first foray into modern combat and was subsequently well receeived because it was a great game (like TF is, no one is doubting that) and it was "fresh" in that it wasn't the same old WW2 combat that everyone was sick of. Look what happened World at War after it. They went back to WW2 and even with the help of the Wii and the PS2 (and a larger PS3 and 360 userbase), it failed to outsell CoD4. 

If you can't understand that two games can use the same mechanic in different ways then I really don't know what to tell you. The industry thrives on people taking the same stuff and making their own out of it. Not only games but music, movies, really any form of art. PanterA took a guitar, a bass, and some drums and made music. Green Day takes a guitar, a bass, and some drums and makes very different sounding music.

When someone says a game is fresh or new they aren't saying it is doing something that has literally never been done before. The industry has been around for decades, there's almost nothing out there that no one has done before. Titanfall has mechs, but other shooters have had mechs. It's fresh and new in Titanfall because it's a unique take. Same with the AI. And same with its jetpack element. It's no different than Killzone's Warzone game mode. I am sure you would agree that is a fresh and new take on a bunch of game modes that existed long before KZ2 came out.

Shooters were modern before CoD. CoD4 blew up because of the MP. World at War sold less because Treyarch made it and people thought CoD3 sucked. Black Ops was not set in modern times and it still outsold MW1 and MW2. Anyway, your remarks about a vendetta and stuff just shows you're catching too many feelings to discuss things maturely, so toodles.



We're still talking about this?



TheGoldenBoy said:
We're still talking about this?


Yep.



TheGoldenBoy said:
We're still talking about this?


It's the game of the generation, of course it's gonna be talked about all gen long!