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Titanfall Review Thread
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Luft Vanship
Banned
We'll people were having problems day one on both xbone and PC and decided to jump to amazon and express there rage same as the ps4 and xbox one launch
djblackice
Member
I am calm
Just was pointing out that MS overhyping the game may have caused a more negative reaction to the game than it deserves, and that MS probably expected a 90+ score based on their marketing of the game(of course, I don't work at MS so it's an assumption on my part). Didn't realize my opinion would irk people so much.
Oh well, carry on
Luft Vanship
Banned
I'm a sony fan and I think titanfall is fantastic just wished it had a co op mode like zombies or safeguard but other than that I would love to play it, what are you trying to imply?
DryvBy
Member
Well just 2 hours ago, there were only 5 and 4 stars on the XB1 side. Whenever I posted about the X1 vs. PC reviews on review.
NathanMcMahon
Banned
I am calm
Just was pointing out that MS overhyping the game may have caused a more negative reaction to the game than it deserves, and that MS probably expected a 90+ score based on their marketing of the game(of course, I don't work at MS so it's an assumption on my part). Didn't realize my opinion would irk people so much.
Oh well, carry on
it isn't your opinion it's your false narrative and completer dissassociation from what you just said. you aren't a victim. get over it. you also avoid any questions about it. weak sauce but we get that from how you respond. carry on. we'll be laughing.
Hmm. "verified purchasers" posting reviews after ordering and the game yet to ship? lol.
No, I'm just ignoring you because I don't really care for your opinion of my opinion.
You seem to be awfully obsessed with me in this thread,
NathanMcMahon
Banned
you responded and I and others eviscerated you. of course you just ignore it. carry on.
SwiftDeath
Member
There is a call of duty every year, a battlefield every year, an AC creed game every year
Sure they don't review as well as other games but in no way is the focus of home consoles solely emotionally engaging story driven experiences.
Sorry, didn't mean to offend anyone. Definitely didn't mean to imply that all Sony fans had a problem with Titanfall's positive reception.
BruiserBear
Banned
Your previous posts have created such hype and high expectations for your future posts that people can't help but be obsessed with your posts. Don't blame us for the backlash.
NathanMcMahon
Banned
masterful.
SwiftDeath
Member
Of course they have that policy as they should. Trolls will likely post terrible crap in the reviews of certain products.
The problem comes if they use that ability to take down legitimate reviews and that is hard to determine
I am calm
Just was pointing out that MS overhyping the game may have caused a more negative reaction to the game than it deserves, and that MS probably expected a 90+ score based on their marketing of the game(of course, I don't work at MS so it's an assumption on my part). Didn't realize my opinion would irk people so much.
Oh well, carry on
There was no massive hype until people actually played the game and everyone said it was awesome. Then MS realized they had a hit and they committed marketing dollars to it. I am confused as to how the seller of a product can "over" hype something. The objective to selling something is "as much hype is possible." As a seller, your goal should be infinity hype. Now, the media can overhype things. Buyers, consumers, they can overhype things. Sellers don't "hype" things....it's just called "marketing." It is just like films. Once a movie tests well, the studios allocate more marketing dollars to it. The media hears how well it tested. The media starts writing stories about it. People on the internet start anticipating it. The studio says "Great! People are excited. Let's make it into a big event!"
PS It's not MS's fault that Sony spends 0 money on marketing. It's not MS's fault that Sony has the superior hardware at a cheaper price point and should be CRUSHING MS but they couldn't get their sh*t together on the games side. Sony is lucky to be leading the race at this point given how much they fumbled the software side.
Is there any particular reason you take issue with the blanket statement of Sony fans, but not with the previous blanket statement of Titanfall fans that post was responding to?
I think it's safe to assume that in either case, the group of fans has a decent number of reasonable people that aren't simply flag waving (regardless of if they like Titanfall or not). Apparently you're one of these reasonable people. Congratulations!
These have been some of the worst responses I have ever seen someone make in regards to having their points challenged. Was your plan to just dump a comment in the thread, have everyone read it, but nobody respond?
NathanMcMahon
Banned
It's amazing when him and others like him just stumble in and expect to be unchallenged when they make absurd and ridiculous statements and contradict themselves in a mere scattering of posts. He'll run off though as I'm sure he realizes how pathetic it looks.
NathanMcMahon
Banned
but totally shows the legitimacy of backlash...
Maninthemirror
Banned
I just talked to Amazon, They said even if the review is from a verified purchaser, if the review discloses personal information and use language which is against Amazon policy, the review will be removed from the product page. However the people in the thread had just 1 removed review guy with a cuss word, everyone else had no personal information or a cuss words which was odd.
Dreams-Visions
Member
fixed.
BruiserBear
Banned
The fact that people actually think this is a real thing is amusing to me. Amazon is so legitimately invested in Titanfall even they don't want to see it get bad reviews! Their CEO must have gotten caught up in the hype!
This is obviously either a bug, or an issue with the content of the reviews. Amazon doesn't give a shit about Titanfall anymore than they do the latest Donkey Kong game. And no, I don't even believe Microsoft requested bad reviews be removed either. That's just ridiculous. Ask yourself why Microsoft didn't ask to have lots of bad XB1 user reviews removed too, if they had such power, because I can assure you they're far more concerned about negative reviews on their console than they are a game.
They've removed 2 more 3 star reviews in the last few minutes. Granted they've removed a few 5 star reviews as well, but I didn't see anything wrong with the reviews. I'll grant that it doesn't seem to be confined to lower rated reviews, but the ratio is still way off. Maybe there's just a lot more people reporting the lower rated reviews? I've honestly never seen this happen to a game on Amazon before though.
Luft Vanship
Banned
Because regardless of fan bases there are fans and fanboys that type of statement adds fuel to a fire and derails a conversation about a good game that regardless of platform of choice should be enjoyed many of my personal friends are xbox fans and I'm a playstation fan and guess what we get along they come over we play cod ghost on my ps4 and injustice, and when I chill at there place we play killer instinct, and guess what we have a blast I'm a playstation fan but I want Nintendo and Microsoft to be successful, anyone who wants a certain company to get out of the console space are corporate slaves and are embarrassment to the gaming community, I'm personal tried of the gaming community toxic environment specially the YouTube gaming community (don't get me started on them) / either way there was tangent I know it was long sorry for derailing the conversation even further.Is there any particular reason you take issue with the blanket statement of Sony fans, but not with the previous blanket statement of Titanfall fans that post was responding to?
I think it's safe to assume that in either case, the group of fans has a decent number of reasonable people that aren't simply flag waving (regardless of if they like Titanfall or not). Apparently you're one of these reasonable people. Congratulations!
These have been some of the worst responses I have ever seen someone make in regards to having their points challenged. Was your plan to just dump a comment in the thread, have everyone read it, but nobody respond?
DryvBy
Member
Which reviewer did this?
bigboss370
Member
whoa....
I publish on Amazon and I've had verified purchasers purposely write spoilers in their review out of pure spite. I've had others, who turned out to work for publishing houses, not only eviscerate my product after openly admitting they never read past the sample, but use the review thread to sell another product. Luckily, Amazon does sometimes listen and removes such reviews if one complains in a professional manner.
Also, remember, Amazon let's you order something and literally gives you half a day or more, depending on the product, to return the product. In that window, if you want to leave a review, you sometimes can, and it will identify you as a verified purchaser.
Amazon isn't stupid. Their sitting on loads of data that you and I aren't privy to, and are most likely basing their deletions on said data.
I dunno... As someone who over time feels that the games they valued most (the elusive mid-tier offerings) have slowly begun to die out over the years, primarily because nobody buys them, I find it very difficult to agree that narrative driven offerings are not the current focus of the market. We get those games every year, because they sell every year. The sales of these sorts of games seems to also match up with how likely they are to review well. Your example of Threes is actually interesting for this reason also. Not only do I believe that a game of that type is more likely to be able to pull a high scoring review on that platform, it is also the most likely environment for that game to actually be able to sell in large quantities.
I'm not trying to cherry pick examples to fit my argument here, honest. I simply can't see what can be done with many types of games today for them to possibly score on par with a Mass Effect, Bioshock, GTA or Uncharted. Arcade racers? If Burnout Paradise, Forza Horizon, Motorstorm Pacific Rift, Wipeout HD, Project Gotham, Sonic Allstars Transformed etc are ALL not applicable. What exactly would be? I believe this list contains what many would consider to be the pinnacles of the genre this gen, yet not one has broken 90 on Metacritic. This can be done for quite a few genres, and when compared with the number of story-driven cinematic games that have effortless reached these scores, I find the point difficult to argue against really.
DryvBy
Member
This isn't about Microsoft at this point. This would be about Amazon. Amazon has removed legit reviews in the past. I've had one of mine removed for another product, not related to Microsoft.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
whens the last time a MS exclusive won the majority of GOTY awards
No.
GOTY will come down to:
Second Son
Destiny (PS4 exclusive DLC)
MLB: The Show
Driveclub
Uncharted 1-3: remastered
So don't fret...
They usually relied to much on the FGHF cycle of sequels so none deserved GOTY. But Titanfall was hyped as the next big thing.
To the guy above me. None of those will win GOTY lol.
SwiftDeath
Member
So is Super Mario 3D world an exception to the rule?
But Mass Effect and GTA don't have emotionally engaging stories? They have stories but one could easily argue they're not very good. Bioshock is debate but less so.
Sorry if my answer is short and sweet. I'm trying to watch the Bafta's right now so my attention is diverted. Doesn't help that I'm working as well lol
More often than not, their review removal process tends to be for legitimate reasons. In fact, if you feel so strongly that the removal of your review was done with malice or was unnecessary, all you gotta do is send them an email stating your case, and if your review was legit, then they'll put it back on. There's no conspiracy...Occam's Razor and all that good stuff.
SEGAvangelist
Member
Mass Effect gives me feels. My feels are valid.
As I said, you seem completely reasonable about this. The only reason I asked, was because I feel that throwing all "Titanfall fans" into one group, that will apparently attack any dissenting opinions, isn't much different to claiming all "Sony fans" attack Titanfall simply because it's not on their console of choice. Essentially casting a net over either group is pointless if taken as meaning literally everyone included.
I would be extremely surprised if Second Son, The Show, or Driveclub end up troubling the GOTY awards. Destiny I could see. Uncharted I can't really see (a rerelease taking GOTY would have to be a pretty bad year). Now something like Dark Souls 2? I could see that.
SwiftDeath
Member
Really? Short of getting to bone Liara I was disappointed by the end of the series
Although now that I think about it I'm still butthurt about ME3's ending so I don't know
Sorry, arkham city has it locked down. Never bet against rocksteady.
PanicFreak
Member
Are you talking about NeoGAF GoTY or mainline press GoTY? Or are you just joking?
SEGAvangelist
Member
Come on man... Anderson's death. He was so proud of me. I had some man tears there.
EDIT: I agree the ending was crap. It still hurts.
SwiftDeath
Member
graywolf323
Member
if that isn't a glitch or some honest mistake it is insanely shady and underhanded
wtf Amazon?
SEGAvangelist
Member
I think you're right. Should we expect a cameo from him in Titanfall's first DLC pack?
Plasticine
Member
Given the span of reviews, I think it's more likely that Titanfall is being bombarded with fake reviews. Unless, of course, this problem is happening across Amazon.
Dreams-Visions
Member
PS4 GoTY, you mean? You can't be talking about overall GoTY. Surely your purview extends beyond PS4 games if so.
I'm going to guess this post is a canny satire of a certain type of poster.