Lol...I've been posting in the wrong thread obviously. Had this open to ask if Xbox Live was down for anyone else though, been down for me all day.
I just got my xbox and have been trying to get it to work for over an hr and it won't let me create a stupid ****ing account. So I take it Live is down?
Wtf can I even do with my xbox right now???? I feel like its totally useless atm. smh...not a good way to start this off when this is the first time I've bought your stuff MS.
According to Respawn xbox live should be back up now. They recommend the following steps to get back in game: http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/system/power-cycle-console
Hahah. This is why online only games suck. Good thing they took away the requirement that the consoles had to be online all the time.
Got to play a decent amount between the Rockets game last night, really was alot of fun. Not too many changes from the beta (well early on haven't gotten high enough leveled up to get new stuff) but when the beta was as good as it was that gets no complaints from me. Really is a lot of fun, some of the maps are really well designed.
To be perfectly honest with you, yes I was expecting lower reviews, but I did a lot of research on the game and I know what I like, so a potential mixed bag of critic reviews wasn't going to be a deterrent in my decision. At the moment, this game currently has the 2nd highest Metacritic score for games on the Xbox One only behind FIFA 14 with an 87 to FIFA's 89 and has managed to do so with a whopping 33 critic reviews to 21 by FIFA. Rayman Legends whatever the hell that is has a 92, but only 4 critics reviewed it so I can't take that seriously. This game has better reviews than NBA 2k14, Battlefield 4, and Call of Duty Ghosts. All games that I like and play a lot. 2K has a strong 86 on 15 reviews and I love that game. So yeah I thought the reviews would be somewhere in the Ghosts neighborhood which is a 78, but despite Ghosts' mixed reviews and detractors, I still enjoy that game. I was thinking Titanfall would be like low 80s, but I'm pleasantly surprised that it is almost universally liked. That is a rarity these days with first person shooters. Most of the negative comments I've read about it stem from its lack of a worthy campaign mode, but guess what? I ONLY play multiplayer anyways and haven't completed a campaign on any FPS since Modern Warfare 2 so that doesn't matter to me in the least bit.
The only campaigns I ever played on FPS games were Halo, Halo 2, Gears 2. Having a game that developers spent more time on multiplayer because they weren't worrying about some bs campaign is a dream come true for me.
Titanfall is a change of pace for me. I'm a Battlefield guy. Been that way since Battlefield 1942 on the PC in early 2000s. I will play Titanfall for a quick change up. On my 55 meg connection, it took me less than hour to download the almost 17 GB game. However, I did it around 4am yesterday.
My feelings exactly. Titanfall's review scores would be even higher if they had put time into the campaign. That is where they were dinged in points most often when reviewers started bringing up the cons and they still have a great score. Fortunately for people like me, who only bought this game for the multiplayer experience anyways, this a complete non issue and the multiplayer by all published accounts, is extremely fun.
Um...I think a few of those games (while maybe fun for you) are very flawed (especially on XBO), so I would hope Titanfall would be at least in that range. NBA 2K in particular caused me to lose a LOT of respect for VC (and I already was pretty disappointed with them for their last results). Don't really want to get into subjective opinions about games, but I can say that if Titanfall reviewed at a 78, it would be declared a bomb and probably not even get a sequel. Metacritic is weird about the way it counts reviews for some games. Rayman Legends was a critically acclaimed current-gen (last-gen?) game that was ported to next-gen. For some reason, only a few reviews are being counted for the XBO version, but it is identical to the PS4 version (which itself is not subtantially different from the 360/PS3 version). The reviews for the latter versions were all in the 90+ range, so I wouldn't discredit that score. I think "1st/2nd/3rd/etc. best game on a platform that just came out" isn't really a worthy accomplishment in and of itself though. Having said all that, I completely agree with you that TF seems like an excellent MP experience, and it likely was dinged for a few things that shouldn't really matter for its "target" audience (it is almost like dinging GTA because it isn't a JRPG). For gamers like yourself, Titanfall is must-have, and its score might be a bit misleading (and it would also be misleading to a gamer like me). I'm nitpicking a bit with what you posted, but I'm largely in agreement, and I'm glad you're having a good time with the game. Metacritic and game reviews really need to be reworked for all these different types of games. I'm the complete opposite of you in that I want a good SP campaign, but I couldn't care less about MP. Maybe if MP-only games were priced at $30-$40, or possibly even moved to a F2P model, they wouldn't be dinged so much. They shouldn't be AS expensive to make as games with SP campaigns, and it would be pretty difficult for reviewers to ding the game for having no SP campaign in that case.
Did pretty well on titan fall last night..I love the lagoon stage Im only a lvl 6 but i ranked up to that pretty quick. I had alot of kill streaks
Rayman Legends was a Wii U exclusive that was ported to PS4/Xbox when Ubisoft realized they weren't going to sell enough copies on Wii U. It has some features that only work with the Wii U gamepad.
Haven't played a single player campaign on a shooting game in years so that part is a non issue. The only one I like is Halo. I traded in ghosts for titanfall yesterday and am loving it, had titanfall withdrawal when the beta was over.
