Goatseye said:
You are confused friend.
Perhaps everyone else is confused and I'm the only sane one here.
What does FUSE have to do with Titanfall? Titanfall was mostly hyped by gaming journalist that PLAYED it at last years E3 and shortly afterwards.
Games like Fuse, Haze, Duke Nukem Forever, multiplats with the exception of Haze, that were overhyped and under delivered. Journalist hype whatever can get them page views, and clearly most complaints about TitanFall are after market issues such as content. Granted this can be solved in patches, but this is why E3 awards don't hold as much water when compared to after release awards. Clearly, hype helped TitanFall, but even it is suffering from the unrealistic expecations of overhype.
We're not talking about The Last Guardian. Which is super overhyped but nobody have seen anything since 2006.
Its mainly hyped cause its an eco game and supposed to be the spirtual successor to Shadow of the Collusus, a game with little hype but many accolades. Just like Fuse was hyped because it was made by Insomniac.
Wii Sports was heavily bundled, not even comparable to Titanfall bundle. The latter had a midnight release just for the software.
But Wii Sports was by all accounts a system seller. Especially with the Casuals, todays equivalent would be "games" like Candy Crush and Flappy Bird. I'd say its pretty comparable. Also, personally, I don't really get hyped for games unless its predecessors have impressed me like Kingdom Hearts or Halo. In fact I would say the only reason its been hyped up at all is because its by Respawn. If the Ground Zeroes or FFXV was playable at was at E3 it would have definetly over shadow TF imo.
Oh I'm making a false claim that Titanfall sold better than Infamous, Tomb Raider, Donkey Kong etc..? Ok.
Neither Infamous nor Donkey Kong are multiplat, and none of these games were equally hyped as Titan Fall. None of them had a bunch of E3 awards plastered on the cover. Not to mention Infamous and Donkey Kong are true exclusives, as opposed to the LinuxMicrosoft exclusivity of Titan Fall. So PC+360+X1 is definetly alot more than the 7mill ps4 or 6 mil Wii U.
I don't think Titanfall pro-threads needed to survive to prove a point.
Its evident that the hype has died down. The games are in peoples hands now. They can judge for themselves.
More than pro threads to "justify" Titanfall quality, you should look at the sales instead.
I see the sales, they are doing well. However, the X1 copy is getting outsold by a remade ported mmo with subscription of a dying franchise on the PS4. Do with that as you will. If Halo comes out this year, it will destroy that even if it is a remake.
The detractors are still trying to diminish anything Titanfall related or Xbox. That's why it survives this long.
That is a bit of an exaggeration but what are you gonna do, haters gonna hate. Even sans console allegiance, some console people might not want to get a 360/one just for Titan Fall. Its not hard to empathize with the Saltiness people have towards this game especially when it was hyped so much.
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