There's an interesting bait and switch in Titanfall, the first-person shooter from the people who made Call of Duty what it is today.
It begins with a rodeo, as the 70 developers at Respawn Entertainment call it. A Pilot, the game's agile, double-jumping, jet-pack boosting soldier class, leaps, perhaps from a rooftop, onto the back of a Titan, the game's lumbering but powerful mech class, rips off a panel and shoots its brains out - just a bit.
Inside of the Titan, the heads up display flashes a warning: "foreign body detected." The player panics, anticipating imminent destruction, and ejects.
Outside of the Titan the Pilot has already stopped shooting and is waiting patiently for the victim to emerge from their protective shell. When it does the Pilot fires and the switch is complete.
This scenario, described to Wesley Yin-Poole of Eurogamer by Respawn lead artist Joel Emslie, who followed Vince Zampella and Jason West out of Infinity Ward having worked on Call of Duty...
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Although the late 2000s Turok wasn't my favorite, I would love a new entry. Open world survival with shotguns and dinosaurs. Not sure how we'd get the fusion cannon, but that would be pretty sweet too.
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All of these games are pretty much universally praised. Outside of Timeshift I literally own all of these.
XIII, The Darkness 2, Far Cry: Blood Dragon, Timesplitters: future perfect, Bulletstorm are awesome games
Windows Central: "Titanfall 1 is being sunset, taken off storefronts by EA. While the servers remain live for now, one has to wonder just how much time it has left. I look back and pay tribute to the last "twitch"-styled shooter I ever truly loved."
Sales for the original Titanfall are being discontinued.
It will be pulled from subscription services on March 1, 2022.
Physical media. Unfortunately the way games are going these days game servers will eventually be shut down and you can stare at the menu and wish you could play the game again.
This is why reading is so important. Nothing to do with digital or physical media. The game, which is online only, is being delisted because of DDOS and other hacker attacks. The case got so bad that only six players in the world log on. For PC. Rather than fix it, they continued to sell the game, broken as it is, and only now just decided to call it quits. But please, go on thinking what you will.
I'm aware of the DDOS attacks and that this case is not typical. This game would eventually have it's servers shutdown regardless of the current situation so that is a moot point. My comment was in a general sense and that there are instances in which games can be preserved physically when official support ends.
Let's recap your first sentence. I said, "the way GAMES are going these days" indicating a broader stroke than just this game. I agree, reading IS important. I was simply stating the obvious downsides of the digital marketplaces and online only trends in games these days. I could even make the argument that the online only offering which has allowed hacker manipulation has impacted the preservation of this great game. My comment is valid in the general sense and thank you for your permission to continue to think what I will.
As much as I'm trying I just can't seem to see past COD with Starhawks. Not judging until I can try it myself though, I just see so many potential 'next big thing' multiplayer FPS games on the horizon and it's hard to muster enthusiasm for any particular one.
If I had to, I'd say Destiny has the edge thanks to it's ambitious MMO qualities.
I really want this game to be good, but I don't know if it can keep my attention for more than a week. I get tired of MP FPS games and since this is more MMO with no SP content I think it will bore me very quickly.
Don't like the painfully obvious outdated visuals. The level they showed at E3 is also a bit too cluttered or something, just looks very messy.
Gameplay seems fun. I like the jet-like boosts and all that, just don't like the titans. Not much hope of Respawn getting rid of them though, as it's kind of the main hook of the game. :P
This game looks like fun, i look forward to playing it when it releases next year. Killzone: SF and BF4 will keep me occupied at launch.
cant wait for watch dogs, infamous, and the division. So many great games!
Whats with the disagrees, I'll never really understand this place. Are you looking forward to something? F&ck you, I disagree. Just gotta laugh.
this game is in a "win-win situation"... it'll get the EA fanboys that love Battlefield, it'll get the CoD fanboys that are still loyal to the original IW guys and it'll get the so-called "gaming journalists" because they all pretty suck on the pole of anything CoD related (and this is still somewhat CoD related)..... win-win