"The world thinks we're making Titanfall 3 and we're not - this is what we're making."

Respawn talks Apex Legends, its titan-less Titanfall battle royale.

[AspiringProGenji]

''investing in a battle royal game is so smart considering how rare they are on the market right now. these devs must have 200 iq for sure.''

Couldn't say it better myself

[-Foxtrot]

This has EA all over it

People said when they bought Respawn we didn't have to worry but after they basically threw Titanfall 2 under the bus with it's launch the signs were all there.

[opc]

Titanfall 2 didn't sell well. Most people don't care about sci-fi and mechs. They just want realism and guns. It's boring but that's what people buy.

[remixx116]

@opc

That assumption of your is mad wrong bro, he purposely killed Titanfall 2 by releasing it between the 2 biggest games of the year in the form of cod and battlefield. It literally release within a couple days of each respective Goliath and got mutilated sales wise so ea could by them out for cheap after it flopped.

The first game sold pretty well and was exclusive to Xbox one but it had a good release window in March with fairly little competition.

[Jin_Sakai]

“The world thinks we're making Titanfall 3 and we're not - this is what we're making."

So they made Apex Legends and are making Star Wars? Sucks about Titanfall 3 but I’m sure their hands are full.

[IanTH]

And they are making an Oculus exclusive VR game. So this game in a genre where many have failed against the titans of battle royale, a game for VR which is niche (I love my Rift, and I'm sure Oculus has covered most costs, but it still has to be a little risky), and then a Star Wars game...a series where every game, aside from BattleFront, has been canned by EA.

We've seen nothing of the VR title, which doesn't even have a name, and nothing of the Star Wars game that is supposed to come out holiday this year. Then this battle royale (sigh) game stealth launched.

Ooof. It may turn out OK for them in the end, but that isn't the most rock solid foundation I've ever seen lol.

[kevnb]

There is a lot of battle royale games? News to me. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/...
These are the only notable ones, only missing a few user made mods.

It’s weird how people confuse the popularity of the sub genre with how many games are part of it.

[Orionsangel]

RIP Fortnite. Fortnite will become the new Overwatch. No one plays it lol. Ninjas popularity with tweens dies with Fortnite. It was all just a fad. Apex Legends is the new thing!

[Servbot41]

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Respawn.

[spicelicka]

How small is that team that they couldn't have made this while working on Titanfall 3? Really it has no marketing budget, and looks like Titanfall 1 stripped down. They couldn't have been working on this since Titanfall 2.

My guess is that they were working on Titanfall 3 in 2017, and seeing the success of Battle Royale in early 2018 they scrapped it to work on this game.

[Crazyglues]

Too bad because this is trash... played for two minutes and then deleted it... Huge Waste of Time, would rather play anything else..

Thought it was going to be Pilots from Titanfall but with out the titans, that would have been fun.. this is just another Battle royal game... sad

[Araragifeels]

2 min? So that mean that you only play part of the tutorial and didn't finish. Wow.

[NarutoFox]

Lol he probably meant after the tutorial. In my opinion I don't know what to think about this game yet. I need to play more before I judge it, even though I don't really like EA

[Crazyglues]

@Araragifeels

Actually I didn't count the tutorial time because that was the tutorial so I only counted my actual play time, if you liked it, i'm happy for you, it's not for me.. I'm not a fort-nite fan sorry..

-But I wish them the best because I loved TitanFall so I wish the best for the studio / but all these companies jumping on the fortnite battle-royal bandwagon is just sad, and will end badly.. you can't make a great game copying another game..

Why they didn't just make a TitanFall 3 only god knows.. / but I'm sure they are just following EA's orders, since Respawn is just another company they own now..

[bigmalky]

Titans, only $20 each. Coming to the EA live service store in March.

Surprise!

[IanTH]

"You can't make a great game by copying another game"

So only unique games then? If so, then they couldn't even make a good game in Titanfall 3 since that would be copying itself, for all intents and purposes. Copying happens in game development, and plenty of great games get made from them. The best games tend to be the ones which are unique, but even just nailing the fundamentals and core design can make for a great game.

I'm not suggesting that's what is happening with Apex Legends. Its tepid, forgettable name combined with the genre in which it is competing effectively computes to white noise in my book. I just found your assertion about game creation a bit strange.

[Crazyglues]

@instantstupor

I think you mistake what copying is, if they made Titanfall 3 they would not be copying their self because they made TitanFall 1 & 2... A copy is the phony version, not the original just like someone copying dance moves, they will not be able to make new amazing dance moves because they never made the original dance moves, they just copied your moves... Great games are not made from copying..

To make an amazing game takes a lot of creativity, and that's the main thing lacking in copies... so I don't think we agree on what it takes to make a good game, because you seem to think as long as a game just copies what the other games are doing their game should be a huge success... It doesn't work like that. -But that's what game companies seem to think because every studio is now jumping on the bandwagon and trying to add a battle royal to their game... LoL (this game would have been amazing if it was just TitanFall Pilots vs Pilots in these huge new open worlds with no Titans but all the mechanics that pilots have, grapple rope, bombs, great guns, and torrent guns and shields and all the powers like cloak and stuff that pilots have in Titanfall -- that would have been an amazing Battle-Royal game, on this updated version of the game engine, that would have been not copying but doing it your way...

And this would have lead right into TitanFall 3 which would have been an amazing way to help 3 take off, get everyone playing the free game then give them 3 with all the Titan's and huge maps and amazing battles and an amazing story.. that game would have done numbers.. instead this game will just make you want to play FortNite or P.U.G.B the ones who already did this type of game the right way.

[AngainorG7X]

You can't be serious. I hope EA just die already

[fiveby9]

Well it does feel like EA is not a creative force. A bunch of MBA's in the bay area looking at market trends. The only innovation EA has made recently is FIFA UT loot boxes. And by innovation, I mean a terrible consumer manipulation of fans. Respawn makes what they are asked to make.

[Nodoze]

I hope that this fails HARD. Then take it to the EA boardroom and shove it.

[jukins]

I thought it was a titanfall based br game too with the first announcements. We would have titanfall 3 if not for EA's ignorance and choosing to release titanfall 2 when it did sandwhiches between the always mega selling g cod and it's own popular bf. Oh well wont judge until I play this

[2pacalypsenow]

Yeah because no one would play titanfall 3

[1-pwnsause-1]

Thank EA for throwing it under the bus by making it compete against battlefield, cause they don’t know how to space out their games, they think the holidays is where it at when it comes to selling games....

[Hydrazinezz]

Everyone bitched about cod going futuristic and everyone wanted “boots on the ground” now times change 2 years down the line and now everyone wants a fast futuristic game like tittanfall....lmao. Seriously the plebs in the gaming community. Make up your fucking mind what you want. I personally think both futuristic and “boots on the ground” can co exist

[Amplitude]

@Hydrazinezz

no, people want Call of Duty to remain Call of Duty and Titanfall to remain Titanfall. Nobody was mad at the existence of a futuristic shooter like CoD IW and AW, just that it wasnt CoD.

Edit: Your last sentence 100% contradicts the one before it lol but i agree they can co-exist

[Hugodastrevas]

@Hydrazinezz CoD fans want a CoD game and Titanfall fans want a Titanfall game, congratulations in finding out humans want different things and are not a hive mind.
Fans want games to be true to their own "natures " and not get bastardized every year for bs trends.

[FanboysKiller]

I liked it because of ea access service ,without it I would be skeptical like other %99 games of the market. Ea is not stupid, any publisher who succeed on their business should be rewarded and not bashed by their bad practices like MT cause it's up to consumers to support these things.

[1-pwnsause-1]

So what kind of heroin are the executives at EA are doing? I really wanna know..... this is what they pushed respawn to do?

[Double_O_Revan]

As long as it buys them more heroin, they really don't care. Execs don't care about the fanbase consensus, just the earnings report.

Basically how I think the meeting with Respawn and EA went: "Battle Royale makes money. You go make Battle Royale game."

[1-pwnsause-1]

Pretty much

[Baza]

This has EA’s influence written all over it. Free to play game built around microtransactions. Reapawn sold their soul to the devil.

[MajorLazer]

😂😂😂 Heroin

[Adexus]

I do really want Titanfall 3 eventually, TF2s SP and MP were both brilliant and so overlooked.

Had a match on this though and it's really fun, very Overwatchy.

[OC_MurphysLaw]

Yes I think OverWatch has its influence here as well. The character classes with abilities is clearly influenced by OverWatch success. The rest of the game mechanics feel pretty much like blackout. Given respawn and their roots with Call of Duty this really isn't all that surprising.

[Adexus]

Yeah definitely feels like Blackout too, which I enjoyed but I've only played one match on it and won! (100% Win streak...), I've yet to win on this :(

[Kabaneri]

I hate that my initials are EA...

[spicelicka]

I get that devs want to get in on that Battle Royale craze, but ffs why does everything have to look and sound so generic and cheesy? How do the employees wake up and feel inspired to do this shit?

[optimus]

why do people complain about a FREE game? if people didn't want battle royal games then they would stop putting them in games nowadays... on one the one hand, you have people saying "we don't want this." on the other hand, you have people saying "give me more battle royal games." what's a developer to do?.... again, this is a FREE game! don't want to buy into the microtransactions? then don't; you can still play the game, geez!

[wolf581]

Free..my ass...free is just an excuse for them to give you an excuse to start and stuck with this crap...its trojan horse
Its like my grandfather used to said...
YOU SAW THE CHEESE..BUT DID YOU SAW THE MOUSETRAP?

[wolf581]

For me battle royal only games is just a waste of time ....if its a mode in my game then ok...let the kids play it....I mean its a trend that all the freeloaders stuck with ..I rather prefer spend my time and money( yes money because there is a lot of apes that spending a lot of money just for skins)
With actual games..with actual goals...games like GOW,LOU,FORZA,SMASH,ZELDA KINGDOME GEARTS 3,SEKIRO..and the list goes on and on...
So guys please dont support these kind of games or at least don't spend all your time there because maybe today its a kids trend
......Tomorrow this useless,lazy crap excuse for game maybe shrunk or vanish the gaming as we known....

[Traecy]

No thanks. Next.

[AK91]

Not worth my time then.

[PlayableGamez-]

The success of Fortnite has ruined multiplayer gaming.
Titanfall could have been bigger and better from it's first two games.
Nope. An entire franchise being scrapped in favor of a cash grab Battle Royale.
I guess gaming is becoming more and more about the business and less and less about the creativity.

Guys, it's not hard nor is it creative to make a BR.
Clearly a cash grab for brain dead BR players.

[Ninjamonkey82]

Had my first game on it feels great but will need solos and duos added tbh. Still first impressions it polished and feels good. Gunplay and movement are on point respawn have a good game on there hands here .

[PlayableGamez-]

They had a good game. It was called Titanfall. 😡

[Ninjamonkey82]

Tbh there will be a Titanfall 3 I want it on the next generation consoles.. Single player for T2 was one best best Fps experience this gen

[Mikey94]

I loved titanfall easily my all time favorite fps. This game actually has huge potential i'll definitely stick around with it. Would love to see how it grows. Add different modes like Team death match, domination etc... new legends theres a lot of room for this fame to grow

[execution17]

No jump kits and wall running might put me off since I liked how fast TF2 played

[GtPawnSacrifices]

In all honesty. Is anyone else beginning to hate BR?

[Blu3_Berry]

Yeah, Respawn is definitely dead to me now. They sold their souls to the devil.

[Orionsangel]

Apex Legends is for adults. Fortnite is for babies.

[JEECE]

Just think, there's an alternate universe where TF1 came out on PS4 and Steam and TF2 had a decent release date.

[Xaevi]

What little love for this series EA has. Battle Royale is a dying fad, never given a chance to truly show it's potential because everyone just keeps making uninspired fps. As for Respawn, Vince obviously didn't learn his lesson after Activision, what you get for signing over your soul to EA

[Nodoze]

'The world WANTS you to make TF3' NOT this trash. Very sad that this is what your talent was wasted on.

[OC_MurphysLaw]

So if Apex has success in the market how quickly do we see Activision breakout blackout mode as its own Standalone free to play?

[SlagWolf]

No Titans?
Why even bother

[Gamist2dot0]

There will be Titanfall 3 if they make tons of money from this.

[jagermaster619]

Would much rather have a Titanfall 3! The first two were awesome, they just need to change it up a little and release it with a better windows rather than next to one of their own heavy hitters.

[shammgod]

Oh f***ing terrible

[DafunkyRebel]

EA destroyed Titanfall 2 just so they can buyout the IP and then does this

[chris235]

everytime the words battle royale get mentioned i vomit a little bit in my mouth

[SLiSH83]

They should have made TF2 free to play and make this a game mode in that to get people playing that game again.
Sad what they did with the release date for that game it was DOA which was sad it was my favorite out of those 3 games that year.
(COD BF TF2)

[ShadowWolf712]

No, the world hoped and prayed you'd make a Titanfall 3. We fully expected EA to make y'all push something like this out instead.

[BenRC01]

It's ok but blackout is far superior. The mechanics of cod are nailed down, stick that in a battle royale and your onto a winner.
This felt a bit too loose, wasn't really sure what was connecting or if it was doing any damage. Movement was weird too.
Shame, I really wanted to like this.

[blacktiger]

you're embarrasing yourself, call of duty was never better, it still uses quake 3 engine

[Hugodastrevas]

I'm beyond disappointed, no titans no parkour, no pilots... Tbh this game looks and feels like a generic mess.

[softgrip]

The only good BR game made so far.

[StormSailor]

No thanks

[Samus707]

I love how they think “the world” gives a damn about their niche mech shooter...

[jakmeup123]

although i dont like EA, saying this game is trash is a lie. Why would they make titan fall 3 if only the 2 people who bought titan fall 2 will buy it?

[joinsideke]

Now this....

This is a really good editorial and interview piece. Tons of credit to you, Emma. Well done.

[gtxgamer2]

Me and my friends having a blast with this game. Don't understand the hate especially for people who haven't played it. Just because EA is the publisher. I loved the titanfall franchise. So I'll continue to support Respawn Entertainment (not EA)