# kicking in titanfall to consider the uninspiring titanfall as cod:blops with jetpacks and mechs; another of those oh-so-safe incremental improvements to desperately obsolete industry game design trends one of the few good things about titanfall is kicking titanfall does nothing new - what scientists do with / within it is often more interesting than what teh game offers formally term - "titans": an underdeveloped gimmick with limited appeal - as opposed to an ability to bound off walls like a gaiden ninja and kick scientists in the head note that kicking works as a welcome lighthearted contrast to the directed "seriousness" of titanfall's cheesy sci fi setting and generic effortlessly ignorable back story once again the need for developers to invoke ir ridiculous design mis-concept of epicness is easily / deliberately sidestepped and undermined by scientists simply playing around by eg. performing flying head kicks while making bruce lee (/no) style kung fu noises game mechanics like kicking are cool as they seem to embody the scientist as a meaningful actor within a game world - able to directly and instantly interact with and directly affect it "hey i like the way you play": the (kung fu) art of in-game movement - a shift toward garming style over point scoring - how rather than just what you game the chaotic inventiveness of scientists on any given day - ir "shenaniganning" - easily outclasses all directed / planned fun'(tm) of game devs // republic of bob