Respawn Entertainment’s First Game Is Titanfall

t patrick the image you have up there with the article is kind of misleading without a caption if you're not familiar with cod4. maybe a "modern warfare, from the titanfall developers" caption or something idk

The real call of Duty team + Mech = Something interesting.

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning was an EA published game that is on steam. so you never know. i'd bet it shows up on steam.

@formic12: That's not what I see.

They said they needed to focus on fewer hardware. In the future they are open to more. They don't specify if it would be this project or another.

"Not to say we won't [go multiplatform] in the future, but for our first game we wanted to focus on making the best game we could."

I hope the mech combat is like this, one of my favourite Xbox games!

This is how I read that.

I'm intrigued, but I've never been that big a fan of mech combat. Even modern, accessible mech games seem too clunky. Also forgot how annoying exclusives are early on when it isn't reasonable to have multiple consoles. I'm guessing they're going to make a resurgence with the new consoles trying to buy up whatever advantage they can.

So all we really know is that it's a mech game?

*In a gravelly voice* "The bigger they are... The harder they fall*

I'm glad it doesn't really sound like your typical FPS. Hopefully it'll be refreshing compared to what's on the market currently.

A lot of surprises here for me. Mechs? Source Engine? PC?

Also, "Titanfall" is a terrible name for a video game.

I wonder if the kind of people who only play Call of Duty even knows who respawn is, and whether or not they'll care.

Eh, still more interested in Destiny after reading these Titanfall details.

Sucks about the XBONE exclusivity but fuck yeah Mechs. There hasn't been a good Mech game for a long while.

conspiracy theory: the big players are conspiring to cut-off Sony and Nintendo out of the business.

also source engine... kinda sucks.

I like mechs. So hell yeah, sounds good.

@radixnegative2: Exactly. lol

@ethanml: well you can expect a certain feel from the engine that is used in games. All Source games feel the exact same way and all Unreal game feels the same as well. It is important.

Oh, right. It is an EA Partners game though since Respawn is still an independently owned company but yeah that seems like a conflict of interest too considering that Source is a Valve made engine. I don't think Valve requires the game to be featured on Steam if a developer has licensed their engine, this would probably be up to the publisher in this case. So yeah, it'll very likely be an Origin exclusive.

The use of the Source Engine in this context basically means nothing since, as the text says, it will be heavily modified beyond the version that has powered other games.

IDK, I think this is Microsoft's XBO Gears of War.

Wow, Source huh? That'a cool. Newer Source games like Left 4 Dead and Portal 2 have had this odd sort of smoothness that I really like.

PC Version and using the Source Engine? Oh happy day! Valve wouldn't let them use the Source engine without a release on Steam would they?

Source engine probably means they wanted to grab a cross-platform codebase they were familiar with (CoD still using Quake netcode) for basic stuff with mature tools, middleware hooks, and asset import options on which to build their own (or expand existing) renderer and other systems. Not to say you can't make a good looking game with the current Source engine but I wouldn't say that points to anything that'll be visible to the game player in the final title. Bit of a throwaway curiosity trivial rather than useful information.

You know what I mean, a new game that's running on a new (albeit altered) version of the Source.

This is being published by EA, right? If so, will the PC version be exclusive to Origin?

Can't bring myself to care about this. I'd rather just play CoD more.

I was thinking the same thing. All of this story seemed like what we expected to happen but the Source engine bit is a bit odd. How great can it really look in a next-gen sense? Portal 2 looked great but that was more art direction than raw technical power. I guess we'll see more at E3.

Think inside the box, as they say.

That's because that's Call of Duty 4 LOL

All you need to do is launch Steam on any 1-2 year old gaming PC.

Me, too. I'm really curious how they handle. That's a big part of it for me.

This makes me so excited. :D :D

I don't know what it says that I saw that Modern Warfare screen and immediately thought "yeah, that definitely looks like the next game from those guys."

Wtf, it looks exactly like old cod games in the pic.. well done game devs LOL

Could be cool. Probably won't be playing it though.

A Mech game where the Mechs are called Titans? How original!

modified source engine? Mmmm, then it will run REALLY well on the PC. I guess my decision has been made. LOL

Interested to see how good a Source Engine game looks on next-generation systems/hardware.

They're not EA owned.

Honestly, this seems pretty big for Microsoft, Call of Duty 4 was huge, and a damn fine game to boot - the disinterest in Call of Duty by most of us started in earnest after these guys left . Whether or not this catches on like that did, remains to be seen - but this could be a very notable exclusive.

If it's a timed exclusive, which obviously isn't as absolute, it could still be a boon for them - generally I'm not willing to wait a year for some of the better games. As much as these cases tend to fuck consumers, Microsoft seem pretty smart in where they throw their money.

I thought EA was forcing all of it's developers to use Frostbite?

+1. Means nothing.

More importantly, I think people need to have their expectations in check for what these systems will be able to do. The specs suggest they will not be leaping forward past the PC, but rather catching up to where it was a year ago. Even if it was the same Source Engine from Portal 2 (it's not) maxed out on recent hardware, that will look fine for 99% of players. For the 1%, go build a PC (no snark - I'm in that boat).

Dam. That's a shame it's an exclusive. Exclusives suck for everyone.

Edit: I just reread that post and it's coming to PC as well? So it's not an exclusive then. God damn I wish people would stop saying exclusives as if the PC was not a platform. It gets really damn confusing.

That's actually an interesting concept, I was sure they'd just go and make another Call of Duty game at this point. Good on them for doing something different!

@gyrfal: Yeah, it's part of the industry code naming standard.

With the more damage to kill and faster pace I hope we are going to see a UT/Q3 type with new gameplay hooks