{"id":22796,"date":"2014-03-23T17:21:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T21:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=22796"},"modified":"2014-03-23T17:21:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T21:21:14","slug":"titanfall-my-late-early-impressions-shut-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2014\/03\/23\/titanfall-my-late-early-impressions-shut-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Titanfall: My Late Early Impressions (Shut Up)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve had\u00a0Titanfall\u00a0<\/strong>(Xbox One) for like, almost two weeks now, but haven’t really played because of work and traveling and toddler and something-something liquor.<\/p>\n

But, today, I cracked into one-half of the campaign.<\/p>\n

Here, then, are my impressions:<\/p>\n

The Awesome:<\/h2>\n

The game is easy. Or, feels easy, at least.<\/p>\n

It’s orchestrated toward Awesome Moments. First match, I got blown up, ejected out straight up into the air, fired an anti-titan missile straight down and killed the big giant robot that had blown my ass apart in the first place. Again:\u00a0this was my first match<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Pilots are nimble-footed. Game feels like there’s nowhere you can’t go. The wall-running and double-jumping give your movement a very fluid sensibility, which is nice.<\/p>\n

Fast to respawn. Minimal downtime as a result.<\/p>\n

Titans are not immortal killing machines. A single pilot can take one down. Not easily, though.<\/p>\n

It’s really fun. That sounds simplistic, but it’s a game, so that matters.<\/p>\n

Short matches let you just jump in, shoot some motherfuckers, then go do something else.<\/p>\n

I GET TO STOMP AROUND IN GIANT ROBOTS WITH GUNS AAAAAAH YAY<\/p>\n

The Less-Than-Awesome:<\/h2>\n

It’s very, very fast-paced. More\u00a0Unreal<\/strong> than\u00a0Halo<\/strong>. Curiously, as I get older, my reflexes in video games slow equally to mine in life — I prefer a slower, more methodical game. I\u00a0like<\/em> the slightly plodding run of the soldiers in\u00a0Call of Duty<\/strong>. Pilots here feel like ninjas running around, and they’re hard to shoot. (Piloting a Titan feel more fun because of this, actually.)<\/p>\n

Game matches tend to be frenetic.<\/p>\n

Sorely lacking a single-player game.<\/p>\n

Multiplayer on Xbox One has nobody talking. Likely due to the fact none of us have mics\/headsets, and it won’t use the Kinect that way — and why do we need the Kinect again? As a result, it feels like a multiplayer match of individuals, which is not super-great in a team-based game. It’s mostly just a bunch of assholes running around playing their own game.<\/p>\n

You start the game underpowered, and it shows. That first match it’s like, every time you pop your head out, somebody is shooting it off. Though by my fourth game I was feeling comfortable and with enough option to not feel like a total gopher at the hole.<\/p>\n

The campaign is doofy. It’s a veneer of single-player staple-gunned onto a multiplayer-only game, which — y’know, don’t bother. Never half-ass two things — whole-ass one thing<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. Of course, to unlock things, you gotta play the campaign anyway, soooooo, poop noise.<\/p>\n

Overall?<\/h2>\n

It’s cool. It’s fun. It’s easy-breezy.<\/p>\n

If you like this sort of thing, you’ll love this particular thing.<\/p>\n

If you do not like this sort of thing, you’ll hate this particular thing.<\/p>\n

If you’re looking for single-player: ain’t here. Maybe one day (but I doubt it).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve had\u00a0Titanfall\u00a0(Xbox One) for like, almost two weeks now, but haven’t really played because of work and traveling and toddler and something-something liquor. But, today, I cracked into one-half of the campaign. Here, then, are my impressions: The Awesome: The game is easy. Or, feels easy, at least. It’s orchestrated toward Awesome Moments. First match, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-5VG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22796"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22806,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22796\/revisions\/22806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}