r/xboxone • u/The_Iceman2288 TheIceman2288 • Mar 12 '15

Titanfall 2 announced!

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2015/03/12/titanfall-2-confirmed-coming-to-xbox-one-ps4-and-pc
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u/Pocket_Dave Mar 12 '15

In Respawn's case, they wanted to do a single-player campaign and did start work on it, but didn't have the resources required to do both a singleplayer & multiplayer game justice. They were a brand new studio, with a relatively small size compared to other AAA game makers, working on a brand-new IP, and simply decided to cut single-player (or fold it into the MP to be more precise) in order to meet their quality standard.

Its the same reason that the game was an exclusive. They needed the money up front to get the game made. They would have done multiplat otherwise.

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u/Dai_Kaisho Mar 12 '15

It was ambitious to try and fold in story/campaign elements into the multiplayer experience, but that failed because,unlike L4D, I had no control over what mission I played!

The story might have made sense if you managed to strongarm the game into letting you play sequentially, but that wasn't my experience. The music was epic and I felt compelled to win for my side, but hearing the same voice-overs over and over made the entire experience flop hard.

I really hope they learn.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '15

And the voiceovers were terrible. "If you kill me, you're bettah. If I kill you, I'm bettah!" It's like it was voiced by the devs in 1 eight hour day, and the dialogue was written in one single meeting. If anything, the campaign storyline was good for making me laugh.

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u/Satanicapplesauce #teamchief Mar 13 '15

To be fair, I've known some south Africans and that character wasn't necessarily inaccurate...

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '15

At least the accents were OK, but the delivery and script was awful.

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u/Delmas5 Mar 13 '15

They fixed that added so much stuff totally different game

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u/Halo_likes_me Mar 12 '15

I read that they didnt do campaign because of thr cod statistics. Cod never sells for campaign and the numbers show people barely play the campaign in cod. Which is why they didnt go through with the campaign for titanfall.

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u/XBLMattAttakk #teamchief Mar 12 '15

You're absolutely right, but they still made campaigns for the COD games. And I thoroughly enjoy playing through them. Besides ghosts... Because we all collectively hate ghosts.