also holy shit at the Legion loadout
it turns your titan into a goddamn sexual Tyrannosaurus
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Hey dudes. I made a network for us on PS4. Search for âselectbuttonâ.
edit: i made it private. so I guess shoot me a message on PSN(ID: play2forget) and Iâll add you? idk how it works really.
Oh, there was one already when I checked yesterday morning (called SelectButton), but the founderâs handle didnât sound familiar.
I meant to rent this and the new Battlefield to play through some short dumb videogame campaigns, but I mistimed things a bit and Gamefly sent me GTA5 instead. Maybe in a few monthsâŚ
Also in the queue: The Last Guardian.
Edit: Ok, this thread changed my mind. Iâll see if I can get this instead â anything âopen worldâ sounds like a chore in comparison.
very tempted to get this
though i heard it bombed big time this weekend so maybe waiting a couple of weeks for it to fall from ÂŁ55 is a good idea
I finished the campaign earlier this afternoon and I really enjoyed it. I understand Doolittleâs comparison to Portal 2, but it also reminded me a little bit of Super Mario 3D Land in terms of how they laid out the introductions to the one-off mechanics in every level, ramping up to testing your mastery of them.
I stepped into multiplayer for one game and I spent the whole time trying to find the voice chat mute button because some girl in my team was talking to her boyfriend on the phone on mic the whole time and it was driving me insane (there is seemingly no voice chat mute button, thank god for astro mixamps)
I just finished the factory level and hell fucking yeah.
I know everyone says this campaign is âshortâ but I play shootman campaigns so unbelievably slowly itâll probably still take me a couple weeks*. loving every minute of it. having to change my titan loadout a few different times in these big fights is great!
*by comparison, I think HL2 took me a couple months, and the first gears took something like a year. I still havenât finished the first modern warfare.
sales were expectedly poor so feel free to wait for a price drop but man this is extremely good and I havenât even played the multi yet. hard difficulty feels really good too fwiw, itâs not too punishing and some setpieces take 2-3 tries.
Are sales bad because they decided to release during the lead up to the holiday season between Battlefield 1 and CoD? Or no advertising for it whatsoever? Or is it disdain for EA? Or is it a combination of all of this?
pretty much all of those things, plus one more anecdotally: my friend (who used to work for EA and hates them so thereâs that too) was apparently talked into the first by some friends after the huge microsoft marketing push (which was the main thing that kept me away, ha) and was so unenthused by the whole thing and how quickly it died off that he swore he wouldnât touch the sequel for more than $30.
People just arenât interested in mechs anymore. This game needed to come out in the 90s. Iâm not sure exactly why is is that this particular power fantasy no longer appeals, but Occamâs Razor says thatâs why both of them flopped.
Maybe itâs that nobody can imagine anymore that future warfare might look like this â itâs a nongrounded fantasy. It doesnât resonate with history, the present day, nor plausible futures. Same reason starships have lost cultural relevancy. They respectively extrapolated from tank and ocean warfare, but the original style of warfare is already a historical niche interest, and the extrapolation is a niche within a niche.
If the reason was just competition and it had the same appeal as the competition, then all three competing games would suffer equally. But itâs just Titanfall suffering because nobody is interested in Titanfall anyway.
It kills me to read posts more excited to play a port of Modern Warfareâs multiplayer than this. I need those suckers playing Titanfall so I can get the drop on them.
The movement tricks you can pull off are wild. If you launch from a wall run and gently move your look back and to the side you can slightly manipulate your trajectory without the momentum hit from a double jump.
Adding +cl_showpos 2 to launch arguments gives you the velocity information in the top left so you too can use as few a presses as possible.
I have an intense mech affinity so I know my experience isnât at all representative but
Is brand recognition not the parsimonious answer here? I think folks buy the new Battlefield and CoD to play with their friends who buy the new Battlefield and CoD, etc. When I talk to people who donât follow games closely itâs always framed as Battlefield and CoD for shooters.
Other factors certainly have an influence (EA as a publisher, exclusivity for the first game, marketing, timing) but #1 has got to be donât go toe to toe with the blockbusters.
Iâm not sure that logic can be parsimonious but I agree
Wait, what? Is no one playing this game? Why, it looks so well constructed and interesting. I thought Mechs would be an easier sell than playing a WW1 simulator, weirdâŚ
Thatâs because itâs a WW2 simulator with WW1 props. That makes everyone realize âhey, WW1 is way more fun-looking than I thought, letâs check it outâ (it wasnât).
between the arduous trench wars of attrition and the advent of early-stage, unreliable chemical weapons and flamethrowers, whatâs not to love?
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Broco is probably right that using a mech appeals to fewer people than being a foot soldier. A good chunk of Titanfall 2âs marketing is solely dedicated to on-foot actions, and as a share of time in the game you are predominantly on foot as well. If you like MW2 multiplayer you can do that and treat your titan as an autonomous killstreak robot. The shift to preconfigured loadouts may help people find them more manageable, but plenty of people just never get in the robots like fucken Shinjis.
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ever wanted to burn someone alive (possibly yourself by accident) during what now looks like a tug of war? try world war one!
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Thereâs a solid contingent of CoD fans that contend that the Treyarch games are the best because of all the fire, so itâs not a stretch that thereâs a contingent down with virtual mustard gas.
wait, what?