Respawn Entertainment's - Titanfall

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    YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

    lol @ valve+3 pics.

    so yeah source ... it has kind of a rubbish asset/pipeline/workflow but so does the quake 3 engine

    and yet call of duty blew everyones minds and wallets

    so yeah me == cautiously optimistic !

    Valve often goes to E3...just never on the show floor. They've had meeting rooms on the upstairs often. One year (maybe 4 years ago?) I almost got run over by Gabe and his entourage walking between meetings. He had this look of "One of us is moving out of each other's way. It will not be me." It was awesome.

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    Valve often goes to E3...just never on the show floor. They've had meeting rooms on the upstairs often. One year (maybe 4 years ago?) I almost got run over by Gabe and his entourage walking between meetings. He had this look of "One of us is moving out of each other's way. It will not be me." It was awesome.

    You didn't have a beard did you? The greater beard takes precedence in situations like that.But 4 years ago.. hm.. did he sport that magnificent beard of his then?

    [rant...because someone (not at mapcore) said Respawn was just ripping District 9 art style (or were they on about Hawken? There is no emoticon to express how I rolled my eyes. Oh Anyway...]

    Suppose Respawn does indeed go with a District 9 or whatever other vibe. What if it feels like almost dirty in how closely the art direction and some set pieces feel to previously released media, be it past films, TV or games? If the gameplay is good, if the visuals look good, if it all comes together well, then I think that "vibe" they go with is an excellent idea. Think about it. This is the same crew that took SPR and basically replicated some aspects of it (using the tech available at the time) into Medal of Honor. Rinse/repeat with Band of Brothers into Call of Duty. Those are good things, I say. They let me get a bit of essence of those movies/TV shows I loved in playable form. This is what they are experts at and what the entire Call of Duty brand was about. Even Treyarch figured it out with Black Ops. Crap all you want on where CoD is today, these guys took the idea of inspiration from other media and knocked it out of the fucking park.

    I am PRAYING Respawn's 1st game reminds me of moments in or vibes of films that I've always wanted to play but never really was able to with a super high level of polish. That's so much of why we love AAA games. So fuck yeah, I cannot wait to see this thing up close. Hope it kicks ass.

    [/end rant]

    This doesn't look Distric 9-ish at all to me.

    I see the mech of district 9 more like a suit than a mech...

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    If you look closer the mech in District 9 looks like an extension of the body whereas in Titanfall the mech seems to be much more like vehicle.

    Source engine + Pc support = I'm interesting in !

    When they say District 9 they might just mean the overall palette and art direction. That was definitely a major inspiration of Hawken, the mechs themselves not so much.

    What is clearly inspired from District 9, for the little they shared, is the narrative world were the game is set.

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    This doesn't look Distric 9-ish at all to me.

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    If you look closer the mech in District 9 looks like an extension of the body whereas in Titanfall the mech seems to be much more like vehicle.

    I think it doesn't matter, if they say that themselves btw instead of a strict reproduction, as Thrik says, it's something more pertaining to the visual style (the gun is squary as those in District 9).

    Of course their art director(s) are smart enough to differentiate and add their own unicity... that mech in the shot I posted reproduce a tank top hatch and conveys an older/inferior future tech compared to District 9.

    But again, we've seen too little.

    Ok...sorry for the rant above. Was cranky. Back to my senses...and off to Microsoft Press conference. Hope it doesn't suck but that's a different topic than Titanfall.

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