I'm generally pleased with the new matchmaking, but I don't understand why people keep saying "level is not an indication of skill" as if that's actually the key issue.

You can debate whether a monthly subscription is better than F2P service with non-essential transactions, after you buy the game, but I don't think you can credibly argue that it's sound to release a major game literally for free. There's too much money at stake, publishers are too greedy, and the less it "seems" like…

Wow, both of those replies are incredibly condescending, each in its own special way.

Most of the things you're describing are intentional. Yes, I get that gamers love toys and this game doesn't have as many toys to play with as some other shooters. I think their intent was to make the core gameplay more fun and varied, and streamline everything else. Whether you think they've done that is a personal…

With this fresh infusion of capital, gentlemen, we shall build the greatest Skinner box this world has ever seen.

I assume this is fake, but I guess I could be wrong. (I don't mean that Obama's voice is fake, I mean that this is not actually in-game chat. But maybe that's the joke. I have never heard anyone chat in Titanfall.)

The thing is, building a hedge maze in Minecraft sounds like both work and play... so what does that make Jack? Moderately interesting?

Agree with all of that. I am not a hardcore shooter fan at all, but it doesn't really matter in Titanfall, because every game has those crazy moments that make the game a blast. I don't even know what my overall K/D is and I doubt I'll even look. Who cares? That's not to say I don't care if my team wins, or whether I…

Ultimately you would get tired of that as well, though... everyone wants to play people of similar skill level, and whether you're getting repeatedly destroyed or you're winning effortlessly, you'll get bored if there isn't a reasonable challenge. This is not a new issue, and most FPS devs don't seem to care. But…

Agreed with all the positive comments here! My only real gripe so far is that at least half of the games I've played have been a total rout, with one side completely stomping the other. I don't know if that's actually a matchmaking issue or if it can't be helped (it's not uncommon in FPS games), but it's only going to…

I realize everybody says this about Titanfall, but I really think that's the key to what Respawn has accomplished here. They took a genre known for being brutal and unforgiving to noobs, and found a way to make it fun for them even if they're getting their asses kicked. I often feel I had a great match and then I look…

Actually it appears that's what it does when your guess has been taken but there are no spaces in it... if you add a space it immediately looks up your word, but not if you include no spaces. Or something.

Yeah, it's pretty much impossible to rename a word at the moment. "Something went awry. Please try again later..."

If there's anyone else who hasn't started their own original "OMG bots are gay" thread, can you go ahead and get that out of your system now please? kthx

Glitch, you say? Candy Jam, you say?

You could certainly try the beta. I definitely needs a lot more than is in the beta to retain an audience, for sure, but there's quite a bit you can do despite its relative simplicity. I can't say if it will hold your interest (or mine, or anyone's) in the long term, but I'm having fun with it for now.

Right, but it hasn't been done like this, with a set of intertwined elements that all work together so well. If you don't see why people are talking about it, either you haven't played it, or you just aren't interested in a game like this.

The indoor spaces are small, but the whole point is that you're moving through them while sprinting, jumping out the window and vaulting onto the next rooftop. There's not much reason to make the indoor spaces interesting, though I don't find anything in the game bland, there just needs to be more of it (hopefully the…

I seldom actually get in my Titan, and when I do it's usually to make sure I get to activate the nuclear explosion (because, nuclear explosion!). It certainly doesn't hold up against multiple enemy Titans, but it takes out infantry you aren't looking at while you keep your eyes open for pilots.

Though I've switched a lot of my digital consumption habits to streaming, I still buy Blu-rays and subscribe to DirecTV, and buy physical games. The trend toward streaming/downloading basically everything — from Netflix/Hulu/Amazon/HBO Go, to Steam/PSN/Xbox Live/PS Now, to the web and everything else — is going to run…