Did you know that people are actually still playing Titanfall? There are at least a few of us still out there, still making do with what we have, lack of baseball slide and all – seriously, how do you center your game around this crazy parkour jetpack-assisted movement and not have a baseball slide? Fucking Wolfensteinhas a baseball slide! Baseball slides are fucking IMPORTANT. Wait, where was I?
Oh, right. Titanfall.
Titanfall made a whole lot of noise leading up to its release. It was going to be a system seller, revitalize the Xbox One’s sales, and somehow postpone the inevitable de-bundling of the Kinect 2.0 from the console proper. There was even a Titanfall bundle, the first (I think) official Microsoft bundle to hit the market. Now you can’t move without tripping over a different bundle and different pack-ins; I’m pretty sure there’s one now that gets you Black Flag,Unity, and one other game that I don’t remember for $349, and I’ve lost my point again.
Okay. Titanfall.
I have to say, I was initially skeptical that a purely multiplayer FPS releasing on a console would do well or have any sort of staying power at all, especially one where the game story is more or less a radio drama that happens in little talking boxes in the corners of the screen. That said, Metal Gear Solidhas 5 official sequels at this point, so what do I know? As it turns out, though, I ended up having a lot of fun with Titanfall, enough fun that when the season pass went on sale, I bought it and got a bunch of new maps that I almost immediately didn’t play at all. I think Destiny released, and that was that for a while.
But I recently went back to Titanfall, and found that I had been missing its team deathmatch with gigantic robot sensibilities. I also found that I was doing suspiciously well in matches, even managing to finish in the top spot on more than one occasion. It was almost disturbing in a way, because I had fully expected to just get wrecked a few times and give up. Instead, I was actually competitive and wanted to keep playing. I even finally got to play on those map packs (that I discovered I hadn’t even installed after purchasing access to them, lord almighty what is wrong with me) and they are pretty great! But it still nagged at the back of my mind that I was performing far above my expected level, until I finally figured it out.
All the good players went to play Call of Duty.
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