SharkyUK
ClioSport Club Member
I know.. but what can you do?Exactly Andy! We're from a previous (arguably superior?!) era. These young 'uns are ruining it for us - lol!
I know.. but what can you do?Exactly Andy! We're from a previous (arguably superior?!) era. These young 'uns are ruining it for us - lol!
Titanfall does not 'strike a good balance between hardcore gamers and casual gamers', hence why they have had to incorporate a new system whereby you have to wait about 3 years in the lobby to be matched with players of roughly the same skill-level. Its so ludicrously slow that by the time a match starts, you could have already played a standard match
The more I play this game, the more I dislike it. There are so many aspects (obvious aspects) of this game that could have made it a real hit.
I have to say (and I'm sounding very pessimistic here), I am fairly disappointed with a lot of the releases so far. Forza is probably the biggest let down, followed closely by the extremely repetitive 'Ryse', then this. I'm off to by metal gear solid tomorrow.....fingers crossed!!
It sounds as if in your world, I should be able to download Assetto Corsa on Steam, put 90mins into it and be on par for CS's own John Gordon who has currently clocked up 147 hours on it? Surely that just makes a mockery of the whole game and the skills needed to play it well? I don't give a flying monkey's bollock about games such as Bejeweled and Candy Crush - they are targeted at the people with 20mins to grab on the bus - or the few minutes that they are sat on the loo taking a dump. When that quick-fix/perma-achievement mentality migrates to games that should take time and commitment (like Titanfall et al) - that gets my back up.
As for designing games - trust me, if I could guarantee to make myself money from it, I'd be doing it tomorrow!
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Well myself and 3 mates I play with have not had an issue with this 3 year wait... Clearly it does strike a balance as they have changed it I am talking not getting smashed to bits every 2 minutes because you have a life outside TF.
Not at all. You cannot compare Titanfall and Asseto. One is designed for mass market and selling millions and millions the other is a Sim is it not? Aimed at a very small sector of the market?
Never did I say after 90 mins you should be at the same level as someone who has been playing it for days and IMO you cannot be. However the vast majority of games will always favour the people who have masses of time to 'Invest/waste' so for me Titanfall fits the bill well. I have been gaming for 25 years now as well, hardly cool myself a youngun at 31. Just life changes for me.
I leave the house at 7.00am or sometimes before when I ride in and get home no earlier than 6.00pm. Add in eating, going out on the push bike when the weather is good, spending time with the missus and any other number of tasks and I don't have a mass of free time to be fair.
So yeah I agree for ME Titanfall is great even if it does p.iss off the geeks like you I do not care what level, unlock, rank etc I have. I just really enjoy playing the game. I am not in NEED of Instant gratification. It is just nice to play a game where I don't want to throw the controller through the wall because I have not played it for a week. It is still clearly evident who is awesome at the game and the Perks/Unlocks have been dulled down compared to the likes of COD as well.
You have to accept that some people don't have time to invest (This is now the majority) and a lot of the time these breed of gamers buying games in Millions allow some studios to make smaller games for the geeks. Without them I doub't the game sector would be anything more than iPhone games...
I get your frustration however you either roll with the times and make the most of it or moan and keep playing the older games where you need to spend pretty much every spare minute playing to be able to compete. I do agree games should reward more the gamer who cares about levels though and see's spending hours in front of a screen as an achievment however that is not me.
VIVA TF!!!!!
I've clocked up a mere 17.3 hours in the last two weeks on Steam - the majority of which was testing/pushing the new GTX690 I picked up and it includes days off from work. On the grand scheme of things, pretty much FA.
Write up and comparison of the 360 version...
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2014-titanfall-xbox-360-performance-analysis
To sum things up, it has screen tear (but so done the one version) and bar a few frame rate issues and textures, it does not differ much.
Looks like they did a great job porting it over and I'm buying it on Friday!!
That's a serious programming achievement if they've managed to get that running smoothly on a 360! Shame about the screen tear - but some very talented coding there nonetheless.
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Was concerened that the delay was because it was going to be bad!
No official reviews yet, but from what I have seen and from what people have played, they have done a seriously good job.
Having played on my mates XBONE I will give some feedback on the 360 version on Friday.
Will see how it runs on both settings and report back. To be honest the XBONE graphics didn't blow me away, it was more the gameplay and how frantic it was from start to finish that I enjoyed!
In all seriousness though - my frustrations are grounded in the knowledge that not-so-long ago - levels, achievements and ranks were something to aspire to and admire. Then came the seemingly incurable CODitis, force-feeding the increasing numbers of gamers with the attention span of an earthworm. DICE did a valiant attempt with Battlefield 2142 - giving a very good all-rounder capability to the standard kit. If you wanted to progress and put the hours into it - so be it. But you always had good kit to fall back on. And in no way were you fighting alongside a Rank 18 player with 14 more unlocks than you - simply because he bought the game at 9am that morning.
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Nail on the head. I played BF2 for two years and never reached rank 100. Same in BF2142 never reached top rank. BF3 I did and BF4 well its a joke I hit lvl 100 in about a month. There is no skill now and I don't care what people's opinions are I have also gamed for 32 years plus. I have gamed online since the late 90' s. Games were harder, achievements were just that not something I got for changing a scope. Some of the latter BF4 unlocks seem to be a challenge but even knifing is now a joke. I haven't got Titanfall yet and reading reviews I am probably not going to buy it. I game online and I enjoy being better than people because I have had years of practice. I am not interested in a 7 years old with auto aim at lvl 120 because he had purchased a premium pack and has unlocked everything. Online gaming these days is a mere shadow of what it used to be. Yes more people game online but it is so dumbed down that there is no skill involved.
Old skool gamers and gaming ftw
I sold mine.
Still not tried this yet.
As others, I might nab it when it comes cheap on Origin.
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http://www.titanfall.com/game-update-eightGAME UPDATE EIGHT
Brand new cooperative game mode - Frontier Defense
Join forces with up to three other players in this cooperative game mode to defend a vital objective from increasingly intense waves of AI combatants.