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Hold All My Calls, I'm Playing Titanfall

Jeff and Brad drop into the Titanfall beta and give us a glimpse of what to expect.

Feb. 13 2014

Cast: Jeff, Brad, Vinny, Matt

Posted by: Vinny

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MechFall.

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Perhaps if there had been more puppies Rorie would have liked it more.

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still think this looks like a ton of fun and it's more visually appealing and dynamic than any Call of Duty game i've seen. not sure if it's $60 worth of fun but count me interested.

(i'll probably suck monkey dong at it though :( )

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This game is so much fun! The weeks between beta and launch are going to feel like an eternity.

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Damn, this game is hell of Call of Duty.

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@scotto said:

Nope, sorry. That GIF looks just like Call of Duty.

Yup, that defo looks like Gears of War.

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@boopie said:

I can see this game really sucking me into it's Titany maw...

I love the look of concentrated disgust/dismay on Geoff's face when his team is losing.

lol

Who's "Geoff"?

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I spent a lot of time running up buildings and leaping from the roof onto giant murderbots.

Like in Call of Duty, you know.

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I didn't follow any Titanfall coverage even after E3 of last year hoping to be pleasantly surprised. I mean everyone was talking about it like it was some really cool thing. But this looks super whatever. Some of the game stuff looks kind of cool, like when you eject and land on another Titan, but it really just looks like another Call of Duty.

The most disappointing thing for me is how bad it actually looks visually. Like there's nothing about this in the slightest that says next generation. The texture resolution is pretty grungy, there's no tessellation, there's no physics on any of the shrubbery in the environment or any of the cloth. Nothing. The overall resolution of the game is also some funky resolution like 1408x792 which is weird.

I dunno, I feel like @rorie saying that it didn't look visually outstanding was an understatement. He probably didn't want to rain on anyone's parade by saying it looked like poop. It looks like it might hold an afternoon of fun, but I'll probably wait until it's in the bargain bin. I guess my Xbox will have to continue to gather dust, or be my Killer Instinct box.

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Well nice to hear. Been saying this is the SHOGO we deserve for a while, and it looks like it doesn't disappoint. I do think they made the balance a little too much from being in an awesome mech.

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Nope, sorry. That GIF looks just like Call of Duty.

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"It's just COD with giant robots" <--- what does this even mean? The "giant robots" are a massive aspect of the gameplay, and handle/play nothing like any Call of Duty game.

"It's just like COD" - except for the part where you can wallrun up the side of fucking buildings like the Prince of Persia, rodeo ride giant mechs, directly control or slave said robots, and fight alongside the FPS equivalent of DOTA creeps.

At what point does "It's just X with Y" become a terminally lazy comparison?

Call of Duty is just Morrowind with guns. Octodad is just QWOP with a nuclear family.

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Rorie complaining about the low body counts and conveniently forgetting that every setting was turned to the absolute lowest, including ragdoll. I'm all for criticism and pointing out the flaws in a game, but it seemed like Rorie was just constantly looking for any reason to nitpick and complain during the entire stream. Made it a little hard to watch.

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@khann said:

@gordo789 said:

@mosaicm80 said:

I think I just want a new BF2142, which I still consider to be my favorite BF.

my man. hopefully when Battlefield feels like it needs to beat Titanfall this is what will happen.

That game is criminally under-appreciated. OK, it was a bit of a buggy mess... but dammit, it was great.

I miss Titan fights =(

but man a new bf2142 in the new frostbite engine......

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This game is really good for a casual gamer like myself! Its really easy to get into!

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Played some Titanfall in the open Beta on Saturday, I give it 3 potatoes out of a possible 5 potatoes (so far). It's jolly good and quite novel on the surface, but ultimately, for all the talk of the revolutionising the genre, it's basically COD with giant robots.

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I love how a bunch of naysayers try to dismiss this thing as "more of the same" but their description ends up being kinda awesome regardless.

"It´s just CoD with giant robots... and parkour... and a bunch of AI guys for you to kill. We're all past that at this point, right guys?"

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I'm disappointed at downloading a few of the big videos recently, like this and Rorie's Puppy Stream, that ended up not being the full thing once I started watching them. I'm not trying to be too hard on them, but nothing kills my buzz when enjoying this sort of stuff when it ends abruptly.

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I was kind excited for this, but seeing it play, im not realy seeing what the hype is about? Killing almost mindless semi scripted AI grunts in the middle of 6 on 6 cod with double jump and robots. I maybe get it on PC once the price drops if i get an itch for a Online FPS

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@rorie i love you man, but stop being such a negative nancy. especially if you have never even played the game

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@the_vein said:

People are saying "Oh its just fast CoD with mechs in" and I suppose that's true, the same way Witcher 2 is just Fable with harder combat and titties.

That's an awful analogy, Witcher 2 feels extremely different to Fable, they only share the "hit stuff with weapon and spells" idea. Titanfall and Call of Duty are borderline identical when it comes to the feel of the game and how easy the shooting is, for me the solid traversal controls do not mask the very shallow gameplay.

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@the_vein: Agreed, I've been in the beta all day and it's the most fun I've had since Bad Company 2.

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I've been playing the beta all day today and man, I'm really, really digging it. It reminds me more of playing Halo for the first time, a real different feel in terms of mechanics and shooting and movement.

People are saying "Oh its just fast CoD with mechs in" and I suppose that's true, the same way Witcher 2 is just Fable with harder combat and titties. The feel of the action is so, so, so good, so smooth and fluid--leaping from wall to wall really does become second nature like Jeff says, and the thrill of dodging past giant robots shooting missiles at you to leap up a wall and across a chasm to blast them with your machine-gun missile launcher is incredible.

There's a lot of little touches I didn't notice in the video I'm noticing playing the game--the way your commander will deliver convincing dialog about which points are captured, how the grunts will shout commands and advice to each other and they do say things like, "Aw shit, its a pilot, we needed some badasses around here."

Finally I found Last Titan Standing to be shockingly great once you get a team of six dudes all communicating together, holding choke-points, moving to flank, popping the electric smoke to cover retreats, it's quickly becoming my favorite mode. I think people really need to play the game to see how different it feels from CoD or other shooters. Yes there are tons of similarities, and you can still get killed if a dude pops out from behind you with a sniper rifle, but this is the most fun I've had in a shooter in a long, long, looooong time.

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@csl316:

Note the full version has more than one type of mech. Usual warnings about judging an entire game based on a trimmed-down beta apply here.

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Hmm. The scent of BRINK 2 is in the air.

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@jensonb said:

I'm genuinely surprised how much this still just reads like a faster CoD with Mechs in it to me. The press at E3 seemed to be suggesting there was something more to it but that just doesn't seem to be the case. Maybe it's just a case of it being a particularly good example of a CoD game and a game with mechs so if you like those things it's very satisfying. But I'm totally burned out on the grindy time-sink twitch gameplay of CoD and its imitators and mechs suck. I m sorry I just flat out do not get why people like mechs. They're stupid conceptually and invariably unsatisfying to play. But that's just me I guess. Hope the folks who are into the idea enjoy it, looks like I'm just gonna have to keep waiting for my next-gen new IP shooter.

After all, Destiny awaits.

Indeed, after E3 people were losing their minds. But from looking at it, it looks like a shooter with a single vehicle.

I guess it can be fun if you're into this style of play. I'll check it out to see how it feels, but it doesn't seem like a huge leap. But my preference has always been the big team chaos of Halo and Battlefield so I probably can't notice the nitty gritty.

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Well...at least I don't have to be bummed about this not coming out on the PS4. No Single Player, no sell.

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Looks cool. Seems like the next step in the COD style game. Im not buying a XBOne for it, I can go without for now.

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Is screen tearing monitor depended? Because I'm also playing without V-Sync like I do most games and never get any tearing and neither do I get it with Titan Fall.

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There is no reality in which EA doesn't find some way to charge for "burn card boosters" or some other nonsense to monetize those one time use items...

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I'm genuinely surprised how much this still just reads like a faster CoD with Mechs in it to me. The press at E3 seemed to be suggesting there was something more to it but that just doesn't seem to be the case. Maybe it's just a case of it being a particularly good example of a CoD game and a game with mechs so if you like those things it's very satisfying. But I'm totally burned out on the grindy time-sink twitch gameplay of CoD and its imitators and mechs suck. I m sorry I just flat out do not get why people like mechs. They're stupid conceptually and invariably unsatisfying to play. But that's just me I guess. Hope the folks who are into the idea enjoy it, looks like I'm just gonna have to keep waiting for my next-gen new IP shooter.

After all, Destiny awaits.

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Played 2 rounds of titanfall then my xbox one would not start up anymore so I had to send it in. It was fun for the time I played it

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I've played enough to say that it's fun enough, but nothing outstanding. The AI bots alone are so bad they should just be removed. Titans aren't even that amazing. I don't even like getting in them anymore. The best way to use them is just keep them following you while you provide defense. Seems a little pointless since that was the hype about this game. Fun, don't get me wrong, but I've about had my feel of the beta.

TL;DR - COD with a MechAssault mod and a mix of that game, Brink.

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This doesn't look that interesting. Just looks like call of duty with awful ai bots running around and pointless robots that do not give much of an advantage at all.

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This meets all my expectations and I can't wait til 3/11. Dem insane textures doe.

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I can see this game really sucking me into it's Titany maw...

I love the look of concentrated disgust/dismay on Geoff's face when his team is losing.

lol

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The only thing worse than people judging games they haven't played, are people who label all those with reservations about the game as "haters" regardless of how well their opinions are explained.

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Got in the PC beta, played 2 hours, it's just CoD with mechs and bland grey urban maps like everyone expected.

-The Mechs are made of paper, it's better to just set them in AI follow mode.

-The bots that fill the games are brain dead and take 5 seconds to notice you.

-The graphics and map sizes are mediocre, barely bigger than the standard CSGO map.

-They did an awesome job in taking the well known source engine "feel" and turn it into CoD's generic no recoil, slippery movement.

Got really bored after that, uninstalled. Too bad I can't trade or sell this shitty beta key.

Back to Dark Souls I go.

Exactly my thoughts, there's NOTHING that stands out about this game, nothing at all.

COD with mechs, period.

and the mechs part makes absolutely no difference at all, you're just standing higher above ground... you die just as fast.

Also the low player count is just ridiculous.