official Titanfall

[GotBored]

In the long-term, titanfall is going to be very useful for getting the xbox one additional sales.  

Titanfall is a brand new IP, so it's going to take a while before more people get to know about the game and how great it really is.  

And Halo 2 Anniversary, if it's a reality, will definitely push the x1 even more up.  

 

Halo game has been confirmed for 2014 and its not Halo 5.. So most likely Halo 2 Anniversary. 

[madd-hatter]

I found it to be somewhat boring and more of the same...

 

I would assume that it's probably a good game, by FPS standards, but the FPS market is so saturated and overused that I rarely find myself interested in any of them anymore...

I really didn't care for the inclusion of bots at all and I thick it lacks depth in it's gamemodes.

 

Sprint, jump, fire, reload, talk ####, pad stats, repeat.

 

+ IMO, the majority of the people who strongly follow this genre are not enjoyable to interact with, especially on consoles.

There are exceptions to this of course, but the vocal XBL communiuty itself is a cesspool of ignorance and embarressment.

The early chaos that was Halo 2 was interesting and new. Since then, XBL has run itself thin with me. The bottom fell out long ago.

 

I played the PC beta to lvl 14 (initially I thought it might be a must-buy) + a few matches of the final game on a friend's X1.

It's a solid game. I'm sure to the FPS elitists, it's the next great thing. However, I wasn't impressed, it felt like a chore, none of my PC friends bought it, and we were all monitoring it.

 

Destiny approaches.

[Hedon]

Yeah, this is great news, and not suprising. Seeing how Xbox One rocked the February NPD as well, it's clear that the Xbox One is an excellent gaming machine and gamers want it. It just keeps getting better and better for gamers.

[Co-ords]

Isn't that a pity?

[Hedon]

Some other things I've noticed:

 

Kills don't always show up on the score board, especially late in the game (during the escape, I've noticed that my kills or deaths don't always show up).  I just had a match that showed I had 1 kill and 0 deaths but I really had 3 kills and 1 death.

 

Campaign missions really do seem much more difficult to win vs classic mp matches.  No clue why this is.

 

Party chat is fubar'd.  I have no idea what Microsoft did but party chat has tons of issues and rarely works correctly.

 

The AI in the game for grunts and specters is MUCH better than it was in the beta, which makes me think they may have had it turned off or dumbed down greatly.  As embarrassing as it is, I've been killed by specters and grunts more times than I care to admit.

 

I haven't had any party chat issues. Been working flawlessly here. Campaign is just online matches of hardpoint and attrition. There isn't any difficulty. They just through in some audio/video dialog.

 

As for AI, they seem the same to me as they were in the beta. But I could be wrong.

[PGHammer]

I'm sure one of the 'scenes' will soon come out with a shrunken version, with compressed audio, textures, cutscenes and all the unnecessary language files ripped out weighing around 20GB and it will also run just fine on older PCs. In this game, pirates are always one step ahead and illegal downloaders have it much better than legit buyers.

However, why would they bother?

 

First off, it's MP-only (thus absolutely worthless to crack, let alone invest extra work in).  So far there has been ONE (half-hearted) attempt at an alternative drop (by the 'scene'), and they by and large got it wrong, as when decompressed it did not match up with the legit version in any way/shape/form - and there have been no attempts since.

 

Still, despite the size (PC version, that is) and the price, it is selling, and selling at a decent clip for any shooter, let alone one from EA.  (Gee - I wonder why.  Could it be the system requirements - which, despite x64-only, are in the wheelhouse of more PCs than even Crysis 2, let alone Crysis 3?)

[HawkMan]

That's impressive, though if rumored numbers are correct, still less than the PS4 :laugh:

Goes to show what a great game can do though :yes:

 

Rumors where "double" or rather that was sony's claim, rumors where 150-160k vs 260-280. This would put it in line or over the rumored PS4 numbers.   either way they're both selling small numbers now in the low season untill next holiday season, and they're both doing decent numbers for the non holiday sales for a brand new console. 

[spenser.d]

Rumors where "double" or rather that was sony's claim, rumors where 150-160k vs 260-280. This would put it in line or over the rumored PS4 numbers.   either way they're both selling small numbers now in the low season untill next holiday season, and they're both doing decent numbers for the non holiday sales for a brand new console.

Those were in the US, not the UK. By 'rumors' I really meant vgchartz, which I don't consider particularly reliable, but it's just about all we have.

[HawkMan]

eh VGChartz is often so wrong they don't even reach rumor status.

[Dotdot]

Good they boosted there sale`s as competition is always healthy, but...

 Me personally, I`m avoiding MS Xbox at all costs.

After the bs shambles I had to go thru to get ?40 they wrongly stole from me back. 9 months...seriously!

[Alwaysonacoffebreak]

So what's so good about Titanfall anyway? Am I missing something?

[HawkMan]

So what's so good about Titanfall anyway? Am I missing something?

 

what's so good, the game is fun to play and enjoyable to and al that

[Alwaysonacoffebreak]

what's so good, the game is fun to play and enjoyable to and al that ?Try it before you flame bait ?

 

You got me wrong this time, I'm not flaim baiting but almost 100% more sales due to one game that's fun to play..seems a bit over the top for me. Maybe it's just me tho.

[HawkMan]

The increase in sales is because people have been waiting for the console to have a bigger library of games they want to play. add another Triple A game to a relatively small pot and you increase the reasons to buy the system a LOT and a lot more people are tipped over the edge.

 

Then there's the increased availability. MS created bundles which makes people want to buy, there was the special Titanfall console which some people want, and MS probably saved up some of their production stock and shipped extras to the best selling stores in anticipation for the launch. 

 

overall it's called a market strategy and all together, it can cause a major sales increase. Same thing Sony does when they double their sales on the launch of an anticipated platform AAA title. 

[spaceelf]

It could just be because it's a fantastic game.  Just a theory.

 

I haven't had this much fun with a competitive multiplayer game in practically a decade.  Sweet.

[Hedon]

Those were in the US, not the UK. By 'rumors' I really meant vgchartz, which I don't consider particularly reliable, but it's just about all we have.

 

 

eh VGChartz is often so wrong they don't even reach rumor status.

Oh god, never go by Vgchartz numbers. That site is banned from most forums.

[ctebah]

My question would be, if the biggest game for Xbox One this year doesn't support Kinect, how important is Kinect then?

[bobeck]

My question would be, if the biggest game for Xbox One this year doesn't support Kinect, how important is Kinect then?

you can say xbox play titanfall to start it /s

[MikeChipshop Member]

The increase in sales is because people have been waiting for the console to have a bigger library of games they want to play. add another Triple A game to a relatively small pot and you increase the reasons to buy the system a LOT and a lot more people are tipped over the edge.

 

Then there's the increased availability. MS created bundles which makes people want to buy, there was the special Titanfall console which some people want, and MS probably saved up some of their production stock and shipped extras to the best selling stores in anticipation for the launch. 

 

overall it's called a market strategy and all together, it can cause a major sales increase. Same thing Sony does when they double their sales on the launch of an anticipated platform AAA title. 

 

Also, let's not forget that MS put together a pretty decent price on that bundle.

My question would be, if the biggest game for Xbox One this year doesn't support Kinect, how important is Kinect then?

 

What's this even got to do with Kinect? Just because Kinect is there, doesn't mean it should be shoe-horned in to every game for the sake of it.

[spenser.d]

you can say xbox play titanfall to start it /s

 

It's actually 'Xbox, go to Titanfall' and it works like a charm.

[blerk]

So what's so good about Titanfall anyway? Am I missing something? Or people actually bought into the articles posted over the net how the "new magic cloud" is making this game THE BEST!!!1 GAME THIS YEAR?

 

Some people find it fun, even if you don't. 

[Brendeth]

What's this even got to do with Kinect? Just because Kinect is there, doesn't mean it should be shoe-horned in to every game for the sake of it.

Here is where we get the everlasting stalemate. Put Kinect in and people complain. Leave it out and they still complain.

[MikeChipshop Member]

Here is where we get the everlasting stalemate. Put Kinect in and people complain. Leave it out and they still complain.

 

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

[duddit2]

So what's so good about Titanfall anyway? Am I missing something? Or people actually bought into the articles posted over the net how the "new magic cloud" is making this game THE BEST!!!1 GAME THIS YEAR?

 

Struggling to understand why you would feel that people buying a game they are enjoying is wrong, really cant wrap my head around this?

[ctebah]

What's this even got to do with Kinect? Just because Kinect is there, doesn't mean it should be shoe-horned in to every game for the sake of it.

Kinect isn't "just there". It's the main reason Xbox is $100 more. So yes, it's not much to expect this $100 feature to be a part of many games, at least the ones touted as GOTY.