Titanfall has to be “perfect” amid games stagnation

Titanfall producer Drew McCoy feels that the lack of fresh ideas has stagnated the games industry, and enormous hype has placed insurmountable pressure on Titanfall to innovate the shooter genre.

 

McCoy’s comments follow this new Titanfall screenshot and tease on Twitter. The announcement is suspected to be in regards to the game’s beta phase.

 

Now, speaking with MMGN, McCoy said of the studio’s pressure and hype surrounding Titanfall, “We think about it all the time. I think the next generation makes it a little bit harder. It’s been eight years since the last generation started, so people are just clamouring for new hardware. New experiences.

 

“I think the last few years, games have stagnated a lot. People are holding back their new, big ideas. Gamers feel that. They know that. They’re waiting. All they want is that next awesome thing to grab on to . What better time than now? It’s like, oh man, we can’t screw this up. Especially when we came out of E3 with that sort of great response. We came out of there really excited, but also realising, ‘Oh man, we can’t drop the ball on this’. This has to be perfect.”

 

Titanfall already has an enormous amount of hype after winning over dozens of journalists at E3/Gamescom and so forth; you can read our very own impressions here . Respawn Entertainment‘s first game will release for Xbox 360, Xbox One and PC in Spring 2014.