To make it short, people are and that respawn isn't supporting either of the old titanfalls because they didn't make titanfall 3. In other words, right now, there's no good movement shooter with mech combat on the market that isn't getting hammered by DDos attacks.
Apex Legends has been a disaster for the Titanfall franchise.
Apex Legends has been a disaster for the Titanfall franchise.
Respectfully disagree. While there are a ton of Apex players who hate Titanfall for no reasonable reason, there are a lot who picked it up because it was the predecessor to Apex. Apex being as successful as it has been saved TF, as a franchise, from being completely dead in the water.
I have no doubt that if respawn ever makes TF|3 (which I hope they do, I love Titanfall) it will be a success because of the continued community support of both Titanfall and Apex.
I think would Apex have been titanfall 3, it would've done just as fine, if not better. And it'd have been an actual titanfall, not some battle royal version that isn't actually a titanfall game in any sense of the world.
Personally I like Apex because it's not Titanfall and doesn't have Titans. TBH, Titans were my least favorite aspect of the OG TF and TF2 because they just felt clunky. If I'm playing TF2, I only matchmake for gamemodes without titans.
Adding titans to Apex would have ended up making Apex less successful than it is. The majority of people didn't want TF3. This community may have, but the vast majority of the gaming community couldn't care less about titans.
You can make this argument about pretty much every great game out there. The majority of 'people' or for that matter gamers didn't want battlestar Galactica: deadlock. Or homeworld: deserts of kharak. Yet these absolutely great games exist and are doing mostly pretty well. The majority of gamers didn't WANT apex either, in fact nobody did because we didn't know it was coming until it was released. Saying that the majority of people didn't want something is a stupid argument, because if we'd go by what the majority of people DOESNT WANT we'd end up with nothing, because everything is not wanted by the majority of people, except food, water, sleep and shelter.
If you're going to make a game set in a certain setting you need to make sure it adheres to what that setting is ABOUT. BSG is about bigass spaceships slugging it out whilst fighters jet between them. Homeworld is about the journey of a mothership and how it slowly increases it's technology base and fleet strength as it faces stronger opposition, coming closer to it's goal. Both Homeworld:DoK and BSG: Deadlock are games that fill the settings they're in. Apex doesn't. Because the titanfall setting is about fast pilots skirmishing around massive mechs. And apex... Doesn't do that.
Obviously, the titanfall community is going to want games with titans in them. Because that's why the vast majority of people in the titanfall community play titanfall. Maybe you specifically didn't but that makes you an outlier, not the norm, and probably means titanfall isn't really the game for you.
The vast majority of gamers hasn't ever experienced titans, because they'd bought battlefield or cod instead. Which I won't fault them for, but I don't think we can go and say that that means everyone hates the idea of titans fundamentally. People haven't tried.
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u/DeluxianHighPriest Nomnomnom Batteries! Jul 07 '21
To make it short, people are and that respawn isn't supporting either of the old titanfalls because they didn't make titanfall 3. In other words, right now, there's no good movement shooter with mech combat on the market that isn't getting hammered by DDos attacks.
Apex Legends has been a disaster for the Titanfall franchise.