Xbox One Console Reviews
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If you haven't played Titanfall yourself yet, you may be one of those wondering: what the hell is with all the hype around that game? It's just another shooter, right? Not quite. It's better.
I'll admit it—I'm one of those people excited about Titanfall; one of those people who can't stop talking about Titanfall or telling her friends to start playing the beta with her. Who keeps saying that this is what first-person shooters have been missing. That it's a reinvigorated first-person shooter. And it's not just about the Titans (although it's very much about the Titans).
Let me explain, at least from my perspective, why this hype is justified.
1. Enemy AI
NPCs? What? Hear me out.
There's a lot of action going on in a Titanfall multiplayer match, but not all of it is controlled by human players. Each team gets a group of computer-controlled teammates. Enemy fodder in the form of grunt AI means that less skilled players can keep up with everyone else. You're not stuck watching kill cams of people demolishing you with far superior weapons, realizing it'll take you ages before you can level up enough to get your hands on one of those.
You don't feel hopeless playing Titanfall. You feel encouragement. Every goal—every weapon you lust over—is one that excites you, not that you dread just thinking about. Every kill—even the easy AI ones—gets you closer to leveling up and therefore closer to those unlocks. So even if you can't seem to kill other pilots with the frequency as those players on the top of your team's leaderboard, you can still get a feel for success on the battlefield.
One thing is true of all first-person shooters: the more you play, the better you get. But as opposed to a series like Call of Duty where the thought of getting shot down every round without so much as getting to mutter a curse of outrage in before it's stifled, Titanfall gives you some amount of reward while playing. It's still challenging and there's still room for competition without completely dismissing players who can't quite handle the game on that level just yet. And if you're just too good for the grunt kills, they're easily avoidable and identifiable on the map. It's better for everyone.
2. Movement
Titanfall takes the typical run-and-gun experience and turns it into something of a battle ballet. You can run on a slant against walls, double-jump with a jetpack and grab onto high ledges. Stringing them all together lets you practically glide through the maps. This is expert-level movement.
Instead of just running face-first or flanking your way to your target like in most first-person shooters, you can maximize the effectiveness of your knowledge of the map and of people's predictable behavior on it by zigzagging between buildings, from high up on their walls. You're not beholden to the layout of just the innards of buildings and obstacles on the field outside. You don't have to take on a Titan from a vulnerable position on the ground—you can sprint and crawl your way up buildings for the height advantage.
Games like Brink have experimented with upwards movement before, but it's never quite been as well-executed as this. And it's a trend that I'm happy to see more of and hope to continue to be impressed by.
3. The Mechs, Obviously
Everyone can get into a Titan. From the moment the game starts a counter on the screen lets you know how long you've got until your Titan arrives. It's not one of those elusive gold medal achievements that only the best of the best can grab. Sure, the more you kill, the more time gets knocked off your timer, and the faster you can get your hands on your big metal suit. But the important distinction here is that everyone gets a chance at rampaging around in the game's best, most powerful weapon. You're not limited to experiencing the game based on the confines of your skill level. Of course, the better you are the more the game will open up to you—that's just the nature of any multiplayer experience. It's fun at the top.
But making sure everyone has a shot at the game's best feature is one of the game's smartest design choices.
Even if you're not in a mech you still have a chance at taking one down as a lowly pilot, too. You can leap onto the mech's back and shoot the wiring in its head until it falls to its knees or work your way up a tall building to call up an anti-titan RPG to shoot the hell out of it from a safe distance. Power is an open opportunity for everyone, and it's never crippling but rather overpowered in the best of ways.
Titanfall is accessible, but not in a way that ostracizes its more skilled players. Think about it: what is the most cited reason people stay away from playing even well-made first-person shooters? It's an easy answer, everyone knows: all those 12-year-olds we like to joke about who have way too much free time to practice. It puts adults with maybe a spare hour or two to play at a huge disadvantage. And it's just not fun playing on an uneven field. So a well-made game feels like a bad experience. How can that be, right? It doesn't really make that much sense. Or at least it shouldn't.
But Titanfall seems to have found a way to bridge that gap. In the roughly two days I've been playing the beta, I've found that there are still good rounds and rounds you could've done better in, but it's never overwhelmingly negative. Failures aren't crushing, they're motivations for the next round. And that's what first-person shooters have been missing: a way to bring all kinds of players into one battlefield without making everyone want to chuck the controller aside in favor of a less...social game. And, yeah, maybe everyone (including myself) has been going on about this game a little too hard. But I can't really blame them, either.
man i have some epic video clips on my xbox one i wish i knew how to upload them to black girl..i uploaded them on the xbox one.this dude was talking mad shit in the lobby saying he so sweet an i wont get any kills on him.match started an i snatched his ass out his mech lol it was funny then i ate him an his buddy right after that..all saved on the xbox one for people to see i guess thats how it works...
hey i know alot of the ps4 people are mad about xbox ones titan fall but i see you have a game sorta like it its called TOWER FALLS heres video of it running on the ps4 for real.
im not a xbox fanboy i have both systems..
gemini i feel you...i hate we dont get to keep our rank as well.we have to start all over again..
that was a missed opportunity if there ever was one..
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hopefully they mute their headsets when online..otherwise theyll be having to deal with all the"GET BACK IN THE KITCHEN AND MAKE ME A SANDWICH"comments
I'm still here... But sometimes life happens, and some shit just seems trivial..
They should let us keep the beta until the game comes out.
Co-sign... Imma start suffering from withdrawal and shit when they close this..
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yo i do have to say this shit because it really is getting on my nerves..i hope xbox one will do something here soon because i am tired of all these games not being 1080 i mean i bought a next gen because i want 100 on all my games hell xbox 360 had 1080 on all there games.i say this because a few ps4 fanboys was gettin at me for the xbox one being 720,990p an i really couldnt say shit because its fucking true.then i gets on youtube just not an see that metal gear is 720 on xbox an 1080 on ps4.then to make shit worst they compare it on all systems an the fucking xbox 360 is 720p as well!!im like so my damn game will look like the fucking 360 game an i paid all this money .now i know this is minor for right now but i wish microsoft would just recall all the fucking xbox ones an put the same shit thats in the ps4 because i take it that game makers said its harder to work with the shit thats in the xboxone..like i said thats why i have both systems but the ps4 never gets turned on but if theres something i really want in 1080 i might have to buy it over the xbox.not metal gear only because its only 2hrs long..i will never own that shit $30 for 2hr then a few months later the rest of the game comes out.smh on that stupid shit.. my bad for the rant but this 720 p shit is getting me down.to me xbox one is still by far better,games,system,online etc but thats one thing i have to give sony an its the fact there games are 1080 out the gate...
my bad for the rant but this 720 p shit is getting me down.to me xbox one is still by far better,games,system,online etc but thats one thing i have to give sony an its the fact there games are 1080 out the gate...
you are delusional. I am playing this shit on my 108" screen and that shit is fly as fuck.yo i do have to say this shit because it really is getting on my nerves..i hope xbox one will do something here soon because i am tired of all these games not being 1080 i mean i bought a next gen because i want 100 on all my games hell xbox 360 had 1080 on all there games.i say this because a few ps4 fanboys was gettin at me for the xbox one being 720,990p an i really couldnt say shit because its fucking true.then i gets on youtube just not an see that metal gear is 720 on xbox an 1080 on ps4.then to make shit worst they compare it on all systems an the fucking xbox 360 is 720p as well!!im like so my damn game will look like the fucking 360 game an i paid all this money .now i know this is minor for right now but i wish microsoft would just recall all the fucking xbox ones an put the same shit thats in the ps4 because i take it that game makers said its harder to work with the shit thats in the xboxone..like i said thats why i have both systems but the ps4 never gets turned on but if theres something i really want in 1080 i might have to buy it over the xbox.not metal gear only because its only 2hrs long..i will never own that shit $30 for 2hr then a few months later the rest of the game comes out.smh on that stupid shit..
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I'll ask this again, do y'all think the game justifies a $60 price tag given that there is no single player campaign? What are they going use if anything to offset the single player or story mode. Let's be real here, yes the game is fun but so are other FPS games but they have a campaign. What else are they throwing into this game to ensure it does get stale fast? Just some of fee things I was wondering
It seems like a lot of the game companies are getting lazy....
but they re able to do this cause a lot of the new generation of gamers grew up online....real story modes are gonna be a thing of the past if a lot of these companies have a say
No one plays Single Player anymore on these types of games. They put the disc in, and hop right online... ReSpawn was smart not to waste time and resources on it.
quek9 listen to what i was talking about ok.yes the games look amazing but there scaled up to look like that.the next few games coming out is 720..titan falls is 720 at most 900p ook it up,metal gear 720 all i was saying is i bought the best system out an yet it dont have thebest inside.well some is ok but they ram sucks.thats all im saying .yea my games lok good too but there not full 1080..im like rick spanish im a die hard xbox man but i just wished microsoft would recall these an add the new ram..im sure things will pan out.think about how great titan fall would look wit 1080p graphics.sick just sick itell you.im just a graphics guy.
plus titan falls have no single playe so i just dont see why they coudldnt get it at 1080p its only multiplayer.
plus titan falls have no single playe so i just dont see why they coudldnt get it at 1080p its only multiplayer.
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watch ppl going to be pissed cause there no MP in this,which means the developers will most likely shoehorn it into the follow-up somehow
guess the Bioshock games will be the only alternative when it comes to story campaigns(hated that wack MP in 2)..as well as Wolfenstein:New Order if that ever comes out
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Ok say that's true they don't have to worry about campaign so what are they giving us since they're "taking way"?
And that right there is the point.......less work for them...
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Exactly what i said...skeleton developer crew.and this new generation of gamers have basically made the single player campaign a thing of the past.....sad shit man for the old schoolers.....
Been playing this shit all night and had a blast! Kinda of sad there is no campaign because the story is fire!
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that was a missed opportunity if there ever was one..
hopefully they mute their headsets when online..otherwise theyll be having to deal with all the"GET BACK IN THE KITCHEN AND MAKE ME A SANDWICH"comments
Brink fucked up royally. Had potential.
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check this video out,this dude was poppin shit in thelobby an i had to take his soul.now the secnd video i thought it was him but i put the voice to the wrong video but still i got his buddy but the last dude was a bot an not him.i'll add the real video where i smahed his ass..
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i just love to clown on my xbox one to be honest check the clips i made.NOTICE I SAID I LIKE TO CLOWN but im a serious player when i have to be for anyone that wants to team up one day..
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