crimsonheadGCN
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Maybe they should do a kickstarter for another Kohan. It just doesn't seem like FPS are working out for them and maybe they should return to their roots.
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Former Gearbox dev: "We only did MP-portion of Aliens!". SEGA: "NOPE"
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Maybe they should do a kickstarter for another Kohan. It just doesn't seem like FPS are working out for them and maybe they should return to their roots.
Wiktor
Member
Yeah, I don't know why they didn't do it. Or just made it on their own..I mean they've selfpublished the second Section8, so they do seem to be in decent position fiscally.
Also..Sega just confirmed it's merely Gearbox trying to shift the blame:
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/sega-...es-sp-was-not-outsourced-to-timegate-studios/
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
I'm sure Sega is aware of this.
Wiktor
Member
For what? Gearbox did most of the work on this game.
Aquamarine
Member
I'm just mad that I was led to believe this was going to be a great game.
At the very least, I'm certainly not trusting anything Gearbox puts out in the future.
Randy Pitchford implied in his discussion with IGN that Gearbox did the brunt of the work for the game. I don't know what the hell that "ex-Gearbox" developer was on.
Eh, I'm liking Borderlands too much.
Yep this seems to be the case. Silicon Knights anyone?
Aquamarine
Member
Normally I don't care about the health of corporations, but I legitimately feel bad for Sega and how they're probably going to take the hit from this project as a commercial failure.
It definitely reminds me of a Silicon Knights / Free Radical -esque situation.
I think it's going to be an RE:ORC situation. It won't be regarded well, but the game will make a return for Sega. It's been #1 on the Steam list for the past couple days, and the console versions are probably doing more.
RyougaSaotome
Member
Jeezus, I wasn't expecting the situation around this game to be so fucked up.
Spieler Eins
Member
Gotta love how they just keep blaming others for their shitty games. Pathetic.
Blood Diamonds
Banned
Haha, amazing. This game turned out to be such a trainwreck.
Gearbox just stfu! You guys first hyped up Duke Nukem which turned out to be utter garbage and then you really hyped this garbage up esoecially with the wiiu crowd and now you want to disassociate yourselves with the game? The worst ppl are the fans that buy into the whole "Oh we only did mp" Some of you ppl are gullible as hell and will believe anything a dev says. Gearbox had years working in conjunction with others on this on both, mp and sp and they, hyped this game up Like no tomorrow. They made this trash and get fully blamed.
AcceptableGhost
Member
I am going to go out on a limb and assume Gearbox was really the only party responsible for this disaster zone unless they can make a compelling case that Sega did not give them enough time and money (lol).
TaroYamada
Member
I'm beginning to feel this is heading into very questionable territory, I wouldn't be surprised by a lawsuit at this point.
Games journalist pressing someone? Doubt it.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
This is par for the course for this company. Good lord Borderlands is mediocre. Great villain though.
liquidfox00
Neo Member
Just getting weirder and weirder. I'm not upset with my purchase but Gearbox is losing any and all respect I may have had for them if all this lying, false promises and general shaddyness is true.
A Human Becoming
More than a Member
That makes a lot of sense when you put it that way. Maybe it's a more common practice in the industry than I thought.
"Gearbox taking blame from Sega because entitled fans won't buy 10/10 Aliens title" is more along the lines of what I expect the games journalists to do.
-Pyromaniac-
Member
I don't really care for gearbox and it is beyond shitty of them if they really did give this game the shaft. Sega doesn't need this ;_;
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
EGM's probably writing one right now.
Considering they were splitting resources between Borderlands 2, BiA: Furious 4, and Aliens, it doesn't come as a surprise that they skimped out on Aliens.
They likely put the bulk of their resources into finishing Borderlands 2 at the end of last year, then spent the next four months desperately trying to make Aliens a complete product. SEGA definitely has a case if they decided to pursue this in court.
They likely put the bulk of their resources into finishing Borderlands 2 at the end of last year, then spent the next four months desperately trying to make Aliens a complete product. SEGA definitely has a case if they decided to pursue this in court.
Aquamarine
Member
I'm assuming that Sega let Gearbox handle development without adequate milestones or checkups. Sega found out too late that Gearbox had fucked development up severely...and decided it was better to force the game out and try and make some profit...than to cut their losses and write the whole project off.
Regardless, we're not going to ever see another Sega / Gearbox collaboration. This game reeks of extremely troubled development.
katsubento
Member
This is getting to be very interesting.
lordchompy
Member
This whole thing seems to reek of poor management. If you're going to split development between several teams you have to make sure there is ample communication between them.
Portugeezer
Member
The gearbox fans be mad.
At first read I thought yo'd forgotten to use the word 'entitled', now I see that all was good. Bonus lulz, when Forbes was the only news site calling them out on bullshit, so they all started banding together to shit on the guys at Forbes.
Truly pathetic.
FrostuTheNinja
Member
Bravo to Sega for not letting Gearbox smear other developers. The heads of that studio sound like trash.
Wow, I didn't know this Aliens game was going to be such a trainwreck. Was tempted to pick up the Wii version somewhere down the line but after seeing some very bad gameplay videos and all these awful impressions I think I'll pass.
Dang, Samba de Amigo was one of my favorite Wii games.
Dang, Samba de Amigo was one of my favorite Wii games.
liquidfox00
Neo Member
The best part about the Forbes callout is that after one editor goes after Gearbox another Forbes editor posts her 8/10 ACM review. Do people not communicate at all?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertc...f-the-brutal-aliens-colonial-marines-reviews/
Whiskeymatt
Member
Ubisoft and Gearbox's PR managers might be the same person.
XANDER CAGE
Member
C'mon, son, don't be quite so misanthropic. At least everyone is tearing A:CM a new one.
EDIT - other than EGM, wow. A 90? Yeesh.
Azure Dream
Member
Aliens was one of the big four franchises Sega said it was going to focus on half a year ago. Ouch.
I still remember when Samba was just a month or two from store shelves, and Nintendo went, "Surprise! MotionPlus!" Probably way too late to add to the game, which was slammed for the tracking not being accurate enough. (They could have patched it in, but you know... Wii.) Cammie had the nerve to suggest, even before the first version was released, that they (and other coming soon games) could do "rapid second versions." Yes, tell people to wait for the second version of a game, so they don't buy the first one.
hymanator
Member
I actually liked the Section 8 series myself. I mainly just liked how it reminded me of the Tribes series. Polishing games is definitely not one of their strengths though, which is weird for someone as mediocre as them to handle a game as hyped as this. Sounds like they blew their budget designing the game and took the cheapest route to put it on shelves.
SolidSnakex
Member
Wasn't this game basically been in development for the entire generation?
Coffee Dog
Banned
Yeah, from what I'm reading here, fuck gearbox for shitting out a half assed game. They're better than this.
I let them slide after Duke Nukem Forever because that was 3DR's game, but the fact that they're shitting on a good franchise and simultaneously shitting on one of the few good publishers in the industry, plus the fact that they obviously focused more on Borderlands (which they own the IP of and make more money on than most people realize) is frankly straight up dickish of them.
I let them slide after Duke Nukem Forever because that was 3DR's game, but the fact that they're shitting on a good franchise and simultaneously shitting on one of the few good publishers in the industry, plus the fact that they obviously focused more on Borderlands (which they own the IP of and make more money on than most people realize) is frankly straight up dickish of them.