Re: You Should Play This: Titanfall 2
Re: You Should Play This: Titanfall 2
Re: You Should Play This is a running column by Ryan Hyde that comments on a very well written review of a game that Brandon Hyde wrote, but much shorter and commenting on the more superficial aspects of the game.
Titanfall 2 is a game Brandon Hyde got for me for Christmas I believe? Being weary of any games with a robot on the cover, I immediately threw it in the corner of my game room (yes I have a game room). After my cycle every year of not touching my X-Box for three months and then followed by playing X-Box way too much for the remainder of the year, I decided to give this game a shot. I looked at the cover again and I scowled at it for having the audacity to put a Bioshock looking robot on the cover (a game I hope Brandon writes about so I can trash it for not being fun enough and having way too much of a plot). I pushed the Titanfall 2 disk through the X-Box contraption with gritted teeth, getting increasingly angry every second. X-Box now tells me I have to delete 5 games so it can even think of running this new game. The X-Box listens to me yell at it for not being enough like N64 or the immaculate GameCube for maybe the 100th time since 2015. It stares back at me in unwavering silence, still demanding the sacrifice of Madden 19 and some weird cartoon baseball game that was free on X-Box live because Microsoft doesn’t have any real baseball games for some reason.
20 hours later, Titanfall 2 is ready to be played. I start the campaign and am pleasantly surprised. Unlike certain games that don’t you skip over the story, Titanfall 2 breeze by without a care in the world. Before I played this game, I had no knowledge of the Titanfall-Verse. After playing, I am pleased to report I know almost exactly the same amount. From what I gathered, Earth has been taken over by space pirates and they fuck up the planet even more that we already were. The biggest difference is you can’t drive or fly anywhere. You have to either parkour your way up buildings or glide forward in a big friendly robot. The game makes it clear that you are going to have to play in and out of the robot suit every now and then because there’s lava that you have to walk through that the human person is allergic to or there’s mechanical lava that only humans can walk through so you have to leave your robot behind and find a way through that too. You have to play a few bosses but I don’t remember any of their names and they were moderately easy to beat so that’s an automatic 5 stars in my book. The robot “dies” like 3/4 into the game but you save his brain on a memory stick so its all good I think. Of course by the end of the game, the robot dies for real without backing up his brain (or did he? Is there a Titanfall 3? I actually don’t know). It’s incredibly sad and I don’t think I’ll get over it anytime soon. He was a pretty cool robot. Don’t ask me his name though. It was like BGE-31 or something along those lines.
Overall, the game isn’t as annoying as I thought it would be. I only had to replay one of the boss battles several times but I didn’t throw the controller into the game system so that’s already much better than Super Mario Baseball. Play it if you want, or not, I’m ok with either.