OXM UK writes: "Remember the Bubble Shield from Halo 3? Remember how dramatically it altered the chemistry of Bungie's multiplayer sandbox, allowing skilled Spartans to throw down fleeting tactical beachheads, overlaying their own terrain dynamics on the map architecture? That's the kind of wholesale change-up Respawn's aiming for with the Titans, the 24 feet-high posterboys of Xbox One's flagship shooter."
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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 im little excited to see this on my PC And i would love someone to dethrone call of blasted duty.
I just dont think this will do it looks very differnt but that said we need more info too.
At this point it can be this or Battlefield 4.
CoD has a bigger audience and open to more platforms. While I do think EA will bring Titan Fall to more platforms(just look at what happen to Mass Effect) it still have a long ways to go before it dethrones CoD.
Call of Duty is available on a wider range of platforms, a wider range of gamers. This means that it will almost certainly sell better. It will also appeal to more people by the simple fact that Titanfall will have a whole range of people that it can't appeal to at all to begin with.
If Titanfall wants to have a real chance at dethroning CoD, then it will have to be available on ALL platforms. This will likely happen anyway, considering that it's EA we're talking about here, but still.
Titanfall looks cool but nothing extraordinary.
BF4 is CODs biggest competition imo. Titan Fall may become like Gears but has no chance dethroning COD as an exclusive. Won't even dethrone Halo.