TitanFall: The COD Killer

Yousef

For those not in the know, Jason West and Vince Zampella (the people that created Call of Duty) got into an argument with Activision back in 2010 which ultimately ended in them getting fired. They packed their bags, went to court, lost and set up a new studio called Respawn Entertainment. Most of the team over at Infinity Ward followed them but Robert Bowling stayed behind to work on MW3. Modern Warfare 2 was their last game.

Fast forward three years and their "COD Killer" has finally been shown. Rumour has it that this is what they wanted to do originally but Activision made them make MW2 instead. Today, TitanFall was shown at E3.

And some multiplayer game play....

returnNull

the gameplay looks alright too.

Yousef

With Battlefield 4 (if you haven't seen the multiplayer gameplay yet, check it out! Jaw-dropping!) and TitanFall.....COD is essentially D.E.A.D. They're going to have to raise their game....

kellso81

Yousef wrote: »

They packed their bags, went to court, lost and set up a new studio called Respawn Entertainment.

They didn't lose, they got an undisclosed out of court settlement, thought to be in the region of $30m+

cadete

Its xb1/360 pc release isnt it? will hardly kill cod when unavailable for ps4(which it seems will be the more popular console)
and bf4 looks amazing

Courtesy Flush

Yeah Titan Fall looks awesome. MS seems to have better exclusive games coming than Sony

KERSPLAT!

cadete wrote: »

Its xb1/360 pc release isnt it? will hardly kill cod when unavailable for ps4(which it seems will be the more popular console)
and bf4 looks amazing

I'd say it'll be huge on 360. New consoles are expensive and you'll see a lot of people waiting a few months before buying one and instead will just stick with the 360 IMO.

On another note I still believe COD Ghosts will be huge. COD still has a huge fan base obviously and until TitanFall proves itself people will buy Ghosts or both. I reckon it'll be the next release that will suffer big time

Creasy_bear

Lol cod killer? Neither of those games will out sell the next cod imho.
Titanfall looks pretty good except for the jumping around. I can just imagine it now, im shooting at a guy on the ground but when i see the killcam hes 6 ft in the air lol. I wouldn't even watch the battlefield as its just not my cup of tea.

DaveNoCheese

Princess Petulia Pissy Pants wrote: »

I'd say it'll be huge on 360. New consoles are expensive and you'll see a lot of people waiting a few months before buying one and instead will just stick with the 360 IMO.

On another note I still believe COD Ghosts will be huge. COD still has a huge fan base obviously and until TitanFall proves itself people will buy Ghosts or both. I reckon it'll be the next release that will suffer big time

Will they release it on 360 or will it be Xbox one only?? It's not out till next summer

KERSPLAT!

Creasy_bear wrote: »

Lol cod killer? Neither of those games will out sell the next cod imho.
Titanfall looks pretty good except for the jumping around. I can just imagine it now, im shooting at a guy on the ground but when i see the killcam hes 6 ft in the air lol. I wouldn't even watch the battlefield as its just not my cup of tea.

That's what I was thinking, it won't kill it this release but if it turns out to be a good game and Ghosts is lacking, I can see a huge drop in CoD come the release in 2014

cadete

360 figures
blops 2 sold 6.2 million copies first week
bf3 sold 2.1 million copies first week


surprised at the figures thought maybe more even but to kill cod, titanfall seems to have a massive job on its hands although could really damage bf by the looks of those numbers

riclad

It looks like an interesting game ,
but alot different from cod.
Theres wall running,parkour, the longer you run ,the faster you move.
But i don,t like games where someone can just jump,to avoid gun fire.
EG all players have jet packs ,so the can jump over obstacles ,walls.
I think cod is very popular because its run and gun,
easy to play.With many different weapons,perks,killstreaks.
it,ll be easier to judge this when there,s a video of a 30 minute deathmatch.

There,s not much info on it out there,
does it have perks, killstreaks ,weapon upgrades.
What modes are there beside deathmatch.
Theres a video on gameinformer.com,about 10 minutes,
says each player has a titan,
you can command it to follow you around the map ,gaurd you etc
.
Will there be different classes, support,
engineer etc

I think the reason cod became successful was people wanted a modern game ,with modern weapons etc
there were too many world war 2 games.
eg i think the market for scifi combat games is more limited.
IT could be like battlefield bad company,
a big seller ,but not in the league of cod.

IT looks like cod ,in the future with mechs.
IT has alot of potential, if theres a lot of different modes, maps ,weapons .
I CAN see a problem, if some people just jump around all the time,
it,ll be hard to get 2 or 3 kills in a row .
I,M glad they are just releasing it on xbox, as some companys
release a game on 4 platforms,,pc ,ps3 etc

then go out of business ,if it doesn,t sell 3million copys.

I,D like it to have drones, senty guns ,c4 etc like cod
otherwise its just players versus mechs.

Theres a lot of people who play cod,bf3, eg would never buy a scifi futuristic game.
I think bf3 is a more strategic game ,designed for team play ,
so it,ll never sell as much as cod.

KERSPLAT!

DaveNoCheese wrote: »

Will they release it on 360 or will it be Xbox one only?? It's not out till next summer

Missed this. Thought I heard someone mention that XBOX 360 will be supported fully for a few years, not sure if it's true or not

riclad

IT,LL be released on xbox 360, and pc ,and xbox one.
When i hear cod killer ,it reminds me of wow.
Everytime a good mmo comes out some people say, will this be a wow killer.
And it gets maybe 5 per cent market share for 2 years.
COD has a wide range of fans ,a good community base,
even a very good modern warfare game would need massive advertising, and millions of pounds budget, to
even have a chance to get sales over 3 million.

Yousef

Yousef

Snake Plisken

Titan Fall me arse might be brilliant but its not coming to PS4 and I'm not going to buy M$ console so I'll stick with COD for my FPS fix

returnNull

Snake Plisken wrote: »

Titan Fall me arse might be brilliant but its not coming to PS4 and I'm not going to buy M$ console so I'll stick with COD for my FPS fix

Build a PC for it?

Bohrio

Personally I can't wait for it. I am personally sick of CoD. I have been playing it since CoD 4 and since it has been getting worse and worse, to a point were I dont enjoy playing it anymore and I am not going to bother buying the new ghost version, as simple as.

I can't play the old CoD 4, MW2, WaW versions anymore because there is barely enough online players. Because of that I am always thrown into the same lobby, so if the lobby happens to be laggy or is full of hackers I have no choice but to stop playing the game. MW3 is a bit better but is not as fun as it used to be since they "fixed" sitrep pro and then there is the invisibility hack which is very annoying.

Worse is BO2, the main problem for me is lag compensation is killing me, now this also happens in MW3 but it doesnt seem to happen as much as in BO2. Second is that they made QS is so easy that even I can do it... so is full of snipers and therefore, 12 year old squeaking. Also, for some reason, BO2 makes who would have been an average to bad player in MW or MW2 look good!

I am not going to bother with Ghost, I want something new. am I the only one who thinks CoD has been getting worse with time?

So I will give TitanFall a try as soon as it becomes available

Kells...

After talking to a few people who have played both this and Ghost,they've said that Ghost's is good but this is far better and that the Mech's aren't OP or anything like that,

It's like a 5 killstreak for a mech,people with the better gunskill almost always wins

4Dlolz

The beta is live now.

You can register to play Titanfall and they'll send you an email with a code to let you into the servers.

4Dlolz

BETA Gameplay

4Dlolz

jackdalad23

Little bit jealous of the PC guys and the Xboxers getting Titanfall. I`m the same as alot of COD players and imo the last decent COD was Black Ops 1. They are just getting worse and worse so Titanfall will be a breath of fresh air.
As far as this being a COD killer no chance. I wish it would but people (myself included) will still buy and play COD and have no reason to why they do it !!

returnNull

people are discussing the beta here

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056965335

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Thanks returnNull. People can use that thread to discuss the game but I'll leave this open for people to discuss the effect it will have or is having on COD, for now.

4Dlolz

Has anyone played the beta yet?!

What impact do you think it will have on COD?

Bohrio

4Dlolz wrote: »

Has anyone played the beta yet?!

What impact do you think it will have on COD?

Playing the beta now, the game is very good, definitely very addictive. I stopped playing CoD after BO2, well Iplayed BO2 for over 1 week and Ghost for over 1 day and that was it for me.

I think this game has the potential. At the moment it just a beta but the game is just how I like it, fast paced and easy enough. Graphics are very good and lag unnoticeable.

Although I like the whole titan - pilot symbiosis I wouldnt mind playing only as a pilot, I imagine the full version will include different game types etc.

This game was the main reason why I went for the XBOX one instead of the PS4.

So, in conclusion, Brilliant game so far.

Hard to believe it is a beta tbh, running almost flawlessly.

I so hope this becomes a CoD killer. Although IMO CoD is dead already and you can always play BF4 is you dont like the whole futuristic atmosphere.

cadete

naw this wont get anywhere near killing cod, the main reason being titanfall aint on ps4 so cod will remain the no1 choice for playstation owners, and i dont think were(ps4) missing much in fairness

4Dlolz

Bohrio wrote: »

Playing the beta now, the game is very good, definitely very addictive. I stopped playing CoD after BO2, well Iplayed BO2 for over 1 week and Ghost for over 1 day and that was it for me.

I think this game has the potential. At the moment it just a beta but the game is just how I like it, fast paced and easy enough. Graphics are very good and lag unnoticeable.

Although I like the whole titan - pilot symbiosis I wouldnt mind playing only as a pilot, I imagine the full version will include different game types etc.

This game was the main reason why I went for the XBOX one instead of the PS4.

So, in conclusion, Brilliant game so far.

Hard to believe it is a beta tbh, running almost flawlessly.

I so hope this becomes a CoD killer. Although IMO CoD is dead already and you can always play BF4 is you dont like the whole futuristic atmosphere.

I bought every COD up until Ghosts. Wasn't excited for it, didn't buy it.

I was hoping Titanfall would deliver and I'm hearing good things. It's a start. This is Respawns first game....they'll no doubt play around with things in DLC and their next game. Then I think we'll all have a better idea as to what works and what doesn't.

It's a breath of fresh air as was Battlefield for me (coming from a COD background). Competition can only benefit this genre which IMHO was getting increasingly stale over the last number of years.

Snake Plisken

cadete wrote: »

naw this wont get anywhere near killing cod, the main reason being titanfall aint on ps4 so cod will remain the no1 choice for playstation owners, and i dont think were(ps4) missing much in fairness

Yep if EA want to sign exclusive deals with M$ so be it, still wouldn't make me buy an xbone just to play this. Will be interesting what the next couple of years will be like for COD with 3 different studios producing their own flavour of COD, just hope they don't try and copy Titanfall giant robots!

4Dlolz

Snake Plisken wrote: »

Yep if EA want to sign exclusive deals with M$ so be it, still wouldn't make me buy an xbone just to play this. Will be interesting what the next couple of years will be like for COD with 3 different studios producing their own flavour of COD, just hope they don't try and copy Titanfall giant robots!

Nothing would make me buy an Xbox One or a PS4. I'm not a "PC master race" kinda guy - I just don't have the funds to be forking out for a console that will offer me the one or two exclusives that I'd be interested in playing.

I invested in a decent PC (not amazing mind you) but it does the job. I can get everything out of Battlefield and I can also play Titanfall. Putting together a custom PC is pretty cheap these days.

Snake Plisken

4Dlolz wrote: »

Nothing would make me buy an Xbox One or a PS4. I'm not a "PC master race" kinda guy - I just don't have the funds to be forking out for a console that will offer me the one or two exclusives that I'd be interested in playing.

I invested in a decent PC (not amazing mind you) but it does the job. I can get everything out of Battlefield and I can also play Titanfall. Putting together a custom PC is pretty cheap these days.

I know the PC argument, I have a decent Spec'd pc but just don't game on PC anymore, I play COD on PS3 and now PS4, I'm kind of a die hard COD fan who has stuck through it from World at War, although I really don't think Ghosts is great and don't think Sledgehammer will produce a decent COD this year but do have high hopes that Treyarch will do something decent next year.

4Dlolz

Snake Plisken wrote: »

I know the PC argument, I have a decent Spec'd pc but just don't game on PC anymore, I play COD on PS3 and now PS4, I'm kind of a die hard COD fan who has stuck through it from World at War, although I really don't think Ghosts is great and don't think Sledgehammer will produce a decent COD this year but do have high hopes that Treyarch will do something decent next year.

I don't get the "die hard COD fan" argument tbh....

A game should be judged on merit. After all, it's your hard earned cash that's being competed for and I believe that that hard earned cash should go to the company that does everything in it's power to please your every whim. For me, none of the COD developers have done that for quite some time. It's a democracy - you vote with your wallet and your vote is important. Give it to that of which you want to see more of and less to that which you want to see less. If COD isn't satisfying you, then not buying it will produce less of that with which you don't want.

In fact, I'd go so far as to say that Call of Duty, as a concept, is on it's last legs. The video game virtual worlds are changing. These flat horizontal game mechanics are so last gen. With that being said, the video games of the future will resemble more Battlefield than Call of Duty. We can't stay static forever. Technology changes - do you think future video game developers will strive to create horizontal maps with 12 players or strive to produce massive 1,000 player battlefields complete with virtual reality headsets pushing the boundaries of what is fake and real?

Snake Plisken

Well unfortunately I'm one of a dying breed then, as I enjoy the pick up and play mechanics of Call of Duty, and listen I've tried the likes of battlefield and Killzone and I keep coming back to Call of Duty, so yes I am a die hard Call of Duty fan and I also think there is life in the franchise, whatever you might say it's still one of the biggest selling franchises year on year and I don't see that changing anytime soon! Maybe the next Titanfall will be multi-platform and me and my friends will play it but that's a couple of years down the road if at all.

Bohrio

cadete wrote: »

naw this wont get anywhere near killing cod, the main reason being titanfall aint on ps4 so cod will remain the no1 choice for playstation owners, and i dont think were(ps4) missing much in fairness

You are actually right, the only game that can kill CoD is ... CoD. In fact, for me it already has. Wont be buying the next one no matter what they promise. I have seriously had enough of their doings.

Have you even tried playing any of the older versions? MW hacked, WaW hacked, MW2 Hacked as well, MW3 hacked. The only one you can play (i think) is BO1. The other two, BO2 and Ghost are unplayable for me, BO2 mostly because of the lag compensation, Ghost, well, it is just boring and dull IMO. Never played BF multiplayer until recently, BF3 was interesting, def better than BO2 IMO, BF4 is way ahead any of the newer CoD, I mean, the multiplayer enviroment its absolutely incredible (64 people playing together, with different roles, equipment, vehicles)... BF4 reminds me a bit to CoD MW, it kind of looks similar in a way, it like and alternative reality of what CoD could have looked like. But BF4 is also slow paced, however, it has new game modes (like defuse) that make it interesting (to me).

So what would I support and buy another one of their titles when it is obvious that they dont care about their community? I mean, how long that is take to fix a game that is barely 3 years old? That invisibility hack has been around for how long now, 8 months? 1 year? actually I think it might be even more... but they dont care.

Doesnt suprised me though, there are companies out there that have been making money out of people's loyalty (for example, Apple) so why wouldnt IW be the same...

returnNull

Bohrio wrote: »

You are actually right, the only game that can kill CoD is ... CoD.

This +1.

The lag comp done it for me.Since CoD 4,it has been gradually getting worse.And I always loved CoD(and BF too).

cadete

bo1 is hacked to pieces aswell, played all the older games over xmas as you say they are in bits now.
On ghosts at first i didnt like it but its really growing on me, spending a bit of time on it and its defo not as bad as i first thought it was

Bohrio

BTW Titalfall is now open to everyone on XBOX One and PC. So if you want to download it go ahead.

Shiminay

Ghosts was the first CoD game I played seriously on PC since CoD 4. I've already spoken at length on this forum about how spectacularly awful an experience I've had with it, suffice it to say, it's clear that when Respawn started they took all the best talent with them and having spent the weekend playing Titanfall, Activision should be worried. It's a brilliant game that captures a lot of the elements that make CoD fun whilst adding some nice new features that I'm sure they wanted to put in but couldn't risk cause any change to the CoD formula would be seen as bad by a publisher like Activision who seem to want to keep on milking the cash cow.

Will this kill CoD? No, but it'll take a big chunk out of it I think if they start a series of games. However, Activision will strike back with Destiny, so they cycle will continue anew.

4Dlolz

Shiminay wrote: »

Ghosts was the first CoD game I played seriously on PC since CoD 4. I've already spoken at length on this forum about how spectacularly awful an experience I've had with it, suffice it to say, it's clear that when Respawn started they took all the best talent with them and having spent the weekend playing Titanfall, Activision should be worried. It's a brilliant game that captures a lot of the elements that make CoD fun whilst adding some nice new features that I'm sure they wanted to put in but couldn't risk cause any change to the CoD formula would be seen as bad by a publisher like Activision who seem to want to keep on milking the cash cow.

Will this kill CoD? No, but it'll take a big chunk out of it I think if they start a series of games. However, Activision will strike back with Destiny, so they cycle will continue anew.

I've played a few games of Titanfall today and I'm in agreement.

It's a better COD than COD. Much faster too. TBH you don't really know wtf is going on half the time....

Shiminay

Y'see I started with Quake. Every game since Quake (with maybe an exception of Q3A and the first UT) has been way, way too slow for my tastes.

x43r0

Shiminay wrote: »

Y'see I started with Quake. Every game since Quake (with maybe an exception of Q3A and the first UT) has been way, way too slow for my tastes.

I started with Q3A and from years of playing CoD my style has slowed down to a snails pace.

Have Titanfall downloaded so will give it a go after work

DaveNoCheese

Don't suppose the beta is available on 360, no?

4Dlolz

DaveNoBits wrote: »

Don't suppose the beta is available on 360, no?

Not right now. I reckon it will be garbage on the old consoles though.

Respawn are not going near the 360 version. Someone else is doing a port.

DaveNoCheese

4Dlolz wrote: »

Not right now. I reckon it will be garbage on the old consoles though.

Respawn are not going near the 360 version. Someone else is doing a port.

Pants of rage... Gonna have to upgrade to the xbox in time for the summer!

4Dlolz

DaveNoBits wrote: »

Pants of rage... Gonna have to upgrade to the xbox in time for the summer!

How much is the XB1 these days?!

DaveNoCheese

4Dlolz wrote: »

How much is the XB1 these days?!

Haven't looked and don't want to, reckon they're still at the €400 mark

KERSPLAT!

DaveNoBits wrote: »

Haven't looked and don't want to, reckon they're still at the €400 mark

€500 in Gamestop

4Dlolz

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

€500 in Gamestop

Yikes! 500 quid to watch TV?! :eek:

You could always upgrade your PC, Dave. Cheaper and superior.

DaveNoCheese

What?! €500 quid??? Madness!!!!

I'll hold out for as long as possible to see if they get cheaper... Nah I have a laptop, will never go for a desktop... Too much hassle!