Unfinished: Apex Legends (It's Actually Finished)

It should say "We are the champions" after a win, and of course play a few beats from the song.

@cyberspacecat: It has so many QoL changes for Battle Royales that I feel like playing with a controller isnt putting me at a disadvantage. It's pretty neat and fun to play.

@steveurkel: If any battle royale could pick up new players not interested in the genre, this one feels fun. The character options do feel unique and the qol improvements make this game playable with a controller or without voice chatting.

Respawn 1 of 3 studios they'd fly out for, really?

This game would be a whole lot more enjoyable even if it continued to be a battle royale game if there was different options besides being only for 60 players. That just is too many for a game. I've grown up on first person shooters and 32 people was a pretty good number but even that felt like too many sometimes. There is a reason Overwatch works with the smaller team combat in smaller arenas. The monetization here is pretty striking though, it is $12 to unlock a weapon ... you can get coins in game, sure but this game really is going to prey on people who think they are getting a good deal since it is free to play, but there will be people who spend thousands of dollars because they see a "BUY" button and will click it.

Also, lootboxes are not a way into our hearts right now Electronic Arts. We see you.

I find all the saltiness about this not being Titanfall 3 to be really silly but I can say they shot themselves in the foot by tying this into Titanfall at all. Still, this isn't Titanfall, there will probably be a Titanfall in the future, and it's cool if you don't like BR games but it's kind of silly just to blanket say that because this is BR and/or not Titanfall that it automatically sucks. With that said I don't know, do what you want.

Wall running would've been nice but the maps don't seem made for that anyway so it's whatever as far as I'm concerned. Anyway, seems like a cool new thing from guys that know how to make cool new things. I'm interested to see where it goes.

yay, more of the destiny aesthetic

Shame it's a BR game :/

New game by Respawn you say? Awesome!

Set in the Titanfall universe? Fantastic!

A squad based battle royale...no thank you, I'll pass :(

Why is this in the Unfinished feed?

The no wallrunning/double jump makes my heart hurt... but I guess these aren't Pilots. I understand the business environment in making this rather than a much more expensive 3. I do hope Titanfall proper comes back one day, maybe as a reboot that creates and actual interesting universe/characters, because as much as I loved TF1 the universe was a whole bunch of nothing. They need to engage with a Japanese dev to get some proper 'crazy aspect/hook' stuff in their next iteration.

edit: oh yeah, I forgot that in the beginning of this video, the crew couldn't remember what Apex was (the Apex Predators of TF2) and if the IMC was good or bad (they're the baddies), which is indictment about how generic the setting was.

Never mind about that Apex Legends game, Giant Bomb has access to Half-Life 4!? Holy bananas!

@ktlk: No, but to learn about something weird, search on the term 'moire'

yeah I'm in the same boat but everyone is chasing the buying habits of literal children over at Fortnite.

Hey - if this game is necessary in order to make EA the money needed to greenlight Titanfall 3, I will happily ignore it and patiently wait for more of that.

I feel like it's really telling that they rolled this out ahead of the Battlefield V BR mode

Good to know Brad's recordings have the same audio clipping in game as I did in the game, saves me messing from with my computer trying to figure it out.

I am really bummed that they aren't doing Titanfall 3 because of this.

Another BR game that will die out in a few months.

I still think F2P is the way to go for a BR game, so at least they did that. So I'll be trying this out at least. I fired up the training mode last night and it feels like a real damn shooter at least, unlike Fortnite. PUBG was fun for me for maybe a week before I got sick of it, and Fortnite less than that. I want to like BR, its a cool concept. This might fit the bill.

But also fuck EA

I'm kind of blown away from the positivity. I played a few rounds of this and had completely the opposite experience. I mean, yeah, I'm not a huge fan of battle royale, and that's probably a huge part of it, but this just seems so BORING. Nothing that makes titanfall unique. And then the announcement that they're only working on this.... I havn't been this disappointed in a while.

Guess I'll have Doom Eternal to look forward to.

@processr: I think they did a good job, this came literally out of nowhere for me, and I really enjoyed them Titanfalls. Certainly, a very pleasant surprise and those have really become somewhat rare in gaming.

20 Minutes left on that download tho -_-

Played a few games with a friend and overall it's solid. A couple randoms we rolled with were cool. But one guy proceed to die and call us the usually racial slurs. I can't help but feel that I would like this better if it got rid of the Battle Royale trappings. I just like running around shooting dudes.

Finally the Shadowrun for Xbox 360 2 that I've been craving

I am not a target audience for those games... but I hate the way the characters look. there is 0 originality. Everything has to look like a mix of fortnine and overwatch nowadays. heroes or not, the first thing you see is a a cool lady with buns who will shoot guns and be all fun about it

It's ok I guess but I just cannot get excited for military online shooter... especially one with stupid cool heroes. I just can't - but again - I am old and not the target audience :(

Brad's reveal and Jeff and Ben's reaction are just perfect!

This game embodies all current trends . It will sell significantly more than Titanfall, I bet.

This game is fun as shit... and this is from someone who fell out of the BR genre pretty early on in Fortnite. Haters/doubters should try before knocking it.

HELL FUCKING YES. This is EXACTLY what I was saying to my friends last night!!!

@matiaz_tapia: It's free so technically it's not going to "sell" at all.

This is such a great game. I hope all team-based multiplayer shooters steal the ideas from this game, as the quality of life approvements alone are groundbreaking... Or better yet don’t steal these ideas and everyone gravitates to this game and it is highly successful, paving the way for a new Titanfall 3 campaign “someday”.

Now if we can just get a character that phases through walls........ I will ascend to a higher plane of existence

This seems alright and plays well enough but man, oh man, am I super disappointed they even tried to go the hero-lite route with a roster ala BLOPS4. I think the gameplay works, the visuals work and I like the tweaked style to the titanfall vanilla look, but sans titans and having to choose from canonical characters instead of leaving character customization to the player, which feels strange. I've enjoyed what I've played and I'll play more, but even if 'this isn't overwatch', they sure did limit that roster as as far as choices of character. I still have no investment in any of them as characters, which is why this particular case is both confusing and disappointing when you tell me it's attatched to Titanfall. I don't know, maybe having 'heroes' makes a game easier to sell to the moba/overwatch/blops crowd? I have to also imagine they are going to roll out new characters as time goes on so maybe I'll find one that clicks for me but as it stands I feel like one runs into the same problem as BLOPS4 where while the running and shooting is all the same, you never really feel like you're playing as you. I know that was long and maybe this isn't a problem as much as it is something I really dislike- but I had hoped this fighting-game-style pick-your-poison design around a very small roster of characters I can't identify with- - would happen less after BLOPS4 leaned so heavily on surface-deep character, and their abilities.

That allllll said, I noticed one very cool aspect to the team mechanics is that you find yourself getting up more than you might in a pubg/blackout, which, if they are making one of these, is really refreshing. Lengthening the time you get to actually shoot guns with the mobility utilizing like, bubble shields and ropes and incentivizing teamplay without making everyone huddle in a bathroom and go full sprint on the offensive is something i have not seen before, and that on it's own is pretty fucking rad.

TLDR: if there isn't really any story, I don't know why respawn emphasizes it isn't a hero shooter when it has heroes with abilities. Class based, sure, but attaching characters to 'specials' and abilities sure smells like hero shooter, which is a bummer to me. But this game is alright, I'm not totally put off and think there is a lot of potential if they offer up enough around the stuff I don't like- and logistics aside, I really would have liked a titanfall 3 (pour one out for that I guess) more maybe- still, not unhappy this is here and hope it does well for Respawn.

I just replayed Titanfall 2 recently, which was and still is, the best FPS for 2016. It's a damn shame EA set it out to die, releasing it one week AFTER Call of Duty and one week BEFORE Battlefield.

There was no way in hell TF2 was going to compete, or show up on anyone's radar, one damn week after CoD dropped. So stupid.

TLDR: I wanted Titanfall 3 NOT ANOTHER battle royale mashup.

This seems really good. Looking forward to playing more.

Aside from PUBG, this is the only other BR game that has hooked me.

"Come on, slide, slide! Eh."

Nice to see that Brad also yells at the screen while watching Brad play.

I never finished Titanfall 2 and decided to go back to it from all the praise it is getting and WOW what a fuckin game I just picked up my jaw off the floor and this shit feels so much like Syndicate which is also one of the best single player FPS campaigns I've played.

No wonder people are so bummed out that we aren't getting Titanfall 3. Welp back to wallrunning and shotgunning dudes seeya.

@onemanarmyy: The "Mozambique" gun is possibly a reference to the "Mozambique Drill." It's an older name for what is more commonly known as a "failure to stop drill." In short, it's "two in the chest, one in the head."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambique_Drill

@bladeofcreation: Sometimes jokingly referred to as the Djibouti Shooty.

@hassun: Never heard that one!

Lootboxes and battlepass? Oh wait, it's EA. Of course there's both. Greedy pigs.

The pace of matches has sped up so much from Fortnite and now Apex, at this point the next big Battle Royale game's big hook is going to be no looting and we'll have come full circle.