Games as Lit. 101 - Designing Awe in Titanfall 2
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2020
- Not enough people remember how great Titanfall 2 was. Among its many accomplishments, it used a very well crafted first level to inspire the type of awe the series had always had at its heart but never had a chance to effectively set up. Let's look at how!
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Man and Machine, by Miracle of Sound:
• TITANFALL SONG - Man A...
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11:05 The sound designers did such a good job at making titans falling sound so impactful
I saw Titanfall 2 and didn't bother reading the title, I'm interested
"We can, and will, discuss..."
How spiffy and clean that new hairstyle is! Daaaang hahaha
TF 2 is soo awesome.
I spent a good hour just doing the tutorial course until I got the best time trophy, I felt like an absolute badass when I rewatched my run
Goddammit (sorry for the language professor), it just pisses me off that this channel is so ridiculously underrated. Your analyses are incredible. There's whole more effort here than majority of RUclips channels that tackle video games. You deserve whole lot more views sir.
I appreciate that! Likes, subs, and shares help a whole lot if you want to help fix that!
Damn that hair looking good since the last time I saw u
I just started replaying this. Perfect timing!
I almost want to mention that you do actually keep your arguably strongest mobility option at the start of the campaign. Even without the pilot kit, you can bunnyhop and build up as much momentum as you want with airstrafing.
Feel like they're often overlooked, loves the story mode in 2 and thought the maps were a bit more cramped at times compared to the first, but overall great game series and still hoping a third will come out eventually
On top of the rest of the analysis (which is solid as usual!), I didn't know about Kind Words at all. Added that to my wishlist instantly!
I will always be glad when i see you upload a video.
Feels strange to essentially be watching something i already saw, after essentially having broken into the initial test screening 3 days before the official release date on accident.
Not a bad feeling, but certainly a unique one.
good to see the intro got working. :)
nice video, very concise, good hair!
Yayyy I missed these videos. Still awaiting the Spec Ops analysis but this will do for now ;)
It’s pretty ironic that the titans are probably the weakest part of Titanfall 2 multiplayer. In a way it’s a shame they made the movement so damn sick that getting into a titan feels more restrictive than anything.
love the bit of halo soundtrack there
Thank you for covering titanfall 2, especially considering it's kinda lacking in the narrative part but still so cool.
We need more Giant robot games
Could you make a video on kaiserreich?
Hey, I'd really suggest people go see Shammy's video on Titanfall 2. There's so much more to talk about how good this game is.
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Why the fuck are you not getting more views? Stupid algorithm
You managed to compliment Titanfall 2 without once mentioning or showing footage from Cause And Effect.
There _must_ be an achievement for that, right?
This guy looks a bit like shane froom buzzfeed unsolved paranormal XD
Would you consider a look at Titanfall 2’s narrative? It’s easy to overlook, but Titanfall 2 is not a power fantasy. Instead, it is simultaneously a fantasy of adequacy with a secondary story about comradeship becoming friendship through trials that spur mutual growth (by which I’m not just referring to BT, but that’s another conversation). In that, it becomes strangely more effective at connecting to an audience than other well-regarded games like, say, the classic Halo games.
You start as a noob whose purpose is - well - to be expendable as a tool and you only get your shot because everyone else who was actively qualified to do The Job has been knocked aside. You have The Mentor who whose last words to you are essentially “don’t @&$# this up...” rather than “you were meant for this!” which drives home the idea that you succeeding is not supposed to be in the cards. BT, your new partner, speaks to you with formality and unfamiliarity, calmly trying to shepherd you through the stage of “settling in” on the fly while every enemy with your radio frequency tries verbally grind you down even as you are demolishing them. The way the player is increasingly taught to leverage the movement system and new, level-by-level loadouts mirror the process of learning aspects of careers through on-the-job training. Each Apex Predator (with the exception of Blisk, but that’s another conversation) you face represents different challenges that you have to overcome throughout life from stumbled beginnings to places of unassured stability to positions of relative worth and security. You, the player, are also contrasted against the baseline enemy Pilot/Titan pairs who are treated as tools by their respective team being thrown at you haphazardly because they are seen as disposable, same as you.
Two-thirds of the way through the game, you have to rely on BT to back you up when the good guys look at you and say “good job, but maybe we should have someone else take over for you,” in order to have your effort and successes recognized as being worthy. From there, you move forward side-by-side with those who would have been considered infinitely your betters the day before and they show increasing recognition of the fact that you - whose talent was earned through hard work and practice rather than a gift of genetics or status - are actually capable of operating at their level. The final run from the point where BT is demolished has the player waking up from an actual failure, “remembering” everything they learned without anyone to hold their hand, and becoming a key part of the effort to salvage the greater endeavor. However, this takes place WITHOUT you taking over for the player’s boss and becoming a stereotypical emotional and practical “rallying point” for your entire team, instead having the boss rally the team while your new colleagues support you with a show of solidarity. Ultimately, the cost of the player’s victory came both because no one was perfect, making mistakes that had to be compensated for as things progressed but also because the Big Bad - Blisk - defies the stereotypical “force of evil” role by demonstrating a sense of professional ethics that sees him take his own victory and leave rather than show contempt by trying to settle a petty score. The ending monologue, one that describes you being elevated through the merit of your actions and accomplishments rather than as a delayed delivery of validation that was somehow meant to be yours from the start (which would have been absolutely ridiculous), is played against a montage of you shaking hands with those you would only have looked up to in the beginning.
There is so much more to say about just the story alone, about the side stories you see in protagonists and antagonists alike, etc. I could gush for days. If you think it’d be worth an in-depth analysis, I’d certainly tune in!
720 in 2020 waddup?!
I doubt anyone needs to see my face in sparkling 1080p, but if you want to help me afford a new camera that won't arbitrarily stop recording after like 10 seconds of recording in 1080, my Patreon is in the description. :P
@@GameProf Haha your face could even be 8-bit but a bit more crisp gameplay would be nice ^^
So what happend to the other video game professor??
The test version I uploaded privately before it was anywhere near ready and RUclips automatically posted at midnight for some reason? I deleted it because it was never meant to be posted. :P
@@GameProf okay i was wondering about that like i tried to watch it and said f u to me lol keep uo the good work man you're doing great
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