Glass Rebel
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A new team at Creative Assembly is still working on an Alien (without the S) game.
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A new team at Creative Assembly is still working on an Alien (without the S) game.
And there was another Colonial Marines game in development before this one for PS2.
Not exactly.
Sega canceled it for a few years then brought it back from the dead IIRC.
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It was pretty painful seeing the reveal trailer, not only because of what became of the BiA franchise in a now WW2 starved era, but also because it was essentially just Borderlands with Nazis, a concept that they probably came up with after seeing Inglorious a couple of times. I don't think they have an original bone in their body.
If memory serves, art, dialogue and preplanning was them, everything else wasn't. Which seems to be par for the course for BL2 it seems.
lol, this game just keeps on giving. It was released in Australia without executable.
They forgot which studio should be responsible for this.
They forgot which studio should be responsible for this.
Eh, it was a concept people would have gotten behind. It reminded me more of Overstrike (REMEMBER THAT!?!?) than borderlands. Alas, i think it's gone the way of Mercenaries.
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Wait... BL2 was an exersize in outsourcing too?!
This is incredible.
Dance Inferno
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lol
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So they outsourced:
1. Single player to TimeGate Studios,
2. WiiU port, networking and multiplayer to Demiugre, and
3. Multiplayer maps and modes to Nerve Software.
What the fuck did they do?!!
DLC wise, yeah. That's not uncommon in the industry. I could be wrong, but I don't think anyone at gearbox is actually coding the upcoming DLC stuff for BL2.
Aliens: Colonial Marines - The first gaming disaster of 2013
As if they didn't know.
No, this falls directly into what I conceive as a decision Sega would find no fault in.
Herbspiceguy
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It's hard for me to understand why they would go through with such a trainwreck and harm the reputation of Sega, Gearbox (and Timegate?).
I can't imagine anyone involved in this feeling good about putting out such a product. What a waste of resources and what a shame considering the potential and franchise...
Didn't Sega cancel the Obsidian Entertainment developed Aliens RPG in favor of Aliens: Colonial Marines?
I wonder how the Aliens RPG would've turned out if it was the other way around.
I can't imagine anyone involved in this feeling good about putting out such a product. What a waste of resources and what a shame considering the potential and franchise...
Didn't Sega cancel the Obsidian Entertainment developed Aliens RPG in favor of Aliens: Colonial Marines?
I wonder how the Aliens RPG would've turned out if it was the other way around.
Glass Rebel
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Someone should go ask Obsidian. They did say it was nearly content-complete when it was canceled (which would have made it more "done" that KOTOR 2).
from OT:
Damn I keep hearing the old SEGGAA intro from Sonic games when watch him go past
(it also only good part of the game)
reptilescorpio
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The whole project has been an extremely professional affair lol
4. Pre-production and stickytaping everything together
5. Forgetting to include .exe for Australia
Criminal Upper
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See, but Sega marketing in all their videos and promos, have always put GEARBOX in front and center as the developers behind the entire game.
Their other retail IPs (Sonic, Total War, Football Manager) are performing well, though.
I loved their second FEAR expansion, Perseus Mandate. Such a pity.
Ingueferroque
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This sounds like damage-control to me, trying to save the Gearbox name so they can disappoint us by another by-the-numbers release. (I never got the Borderlands hype)
fvng
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Even if gearbox only worked on net code or competitive modes, im still up for this game.
The game could be a 7 and I'd still up for this game because 4 player co op is great with friends and the alien universe is one worth visiting. I might actually hold off on buying it, but I'm not crossing it off my list because of this.
Sounds like some good communication going on all around.
The game seems to be a 4
Borderlands 2 is easily the most fun I've had this gen.
Rebellion hasnt made a good game since the first AvP. They did 3 which was shit. What are you even talking about?
This was my first thought. It strikes me Randy's doing damage to his studio by building it the wrong way. DNF seemed like a cash-grab, somewhat excusable given the history of the game, but this also seems like a mad dash for wallets. Why should buy a Gearbox game if I don't even know what constitutes one these days?
Colonial Marines looks years out of date and doesn't appear to compete with what's on the market. If they didn't have the production resources to make a massively ambitious game, they should have made a multiplayer only PSN/XBLA title and made that the absolute best it could be. Now we have something purporting to be a true sequel to Aliens with rough graphics, poor production quality and iffy thematic relevance. Everyone involved ends up looking bad.
quickwhips
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thats funny because i stated in other thread that I played multiplayer and it was pretty good. Was shocked that the single player and review scores.
I'm talking about how I enjoyed AVP3, and that Rebellion could've done much better with another crack at it. It wasn't awful by any means.
Rated-Rsuperstar
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I had fun with AVP2010 as well as Sniper Elite V2. If Rebellion would have been given the go ahead for a third game it would have been fine with me.
Fudgepuppy
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Timegate made Extraction Point, which was awesome, so all hope is not lost.
I'm actually paying full price for this game, the goddamn collector's edition.
Fuck me, I'm gonna hate myself so much when I play it and realize it's not better than AVP.
I'm actually paying full price for this game, the goddamn collector's edition.
Fuck me, I'm gonna hate myself so much when I play it and realize it's not better than AVP.
Gearbox/Pichtford really needs to stop trying to safe and resurrect games that should've been canceled long ago. If there's anything that we learned from DNF and A:CM, it's that games often get canceled for very good reasons.
All the interviews I saw of this game was Randy Pitchford gushing and luving how the movies were the fiber of his life and this was his dream project and the entire team(Randy and his mulitiple personalities imo) That they were going to do the game justice.
But if your outsourcing the game are you really doing the game justice Randy?
Whats the quality of your company.
But if your outsourcing the game are you really doing the game justice Randy?
Whats the quality of your company.
IIRC, Gearbox outsourced the last DLC for BL1 and everything so far for BL2.