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[PSqueak]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FElmjlzdSSM

You know, every time i see this, i can't help but wonder, what's the context of the character who says "All units be advised, feminism is awesome", like, is that a random taunt? Is it a mission dialog that relates to the plot? Does a mission in the game involves female liberation?

Because im all up for feminism, but it's such a strange thing to have your character randomly shout during a match, specially in a game with a very healthy selection of female characters already.

 

[Jb]

Obligatory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FElmjlzdSSM

That's just mean.

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

Probably because it's a mish mash or weird busy styles and there's nothing that looks awesome?

But it does look awesome? It's the Borderlands art style. That's all I see. I don't see anything different.

You know, every time i see this, i can't help but wonder, what's the context of the character who says "All units be advised, feminism is awesome", like, is that a random taunt? Is it a mission dialog that relates to the plot? Does a mission in the game involves female liberation?

Because im all up for feminism, but it's such a strange thing to have your character randomly shout during a match, specially in a game with a very healthy selection of female characters already.

Gearbox is praised by a lot of feminist sites for it's diverse cast. The Mary Sue loves everything Gearbox. As for the quote Oscar Mike is a dudebro who shouts a lot of things that come off as very dudebro-ish but sincere.

 

[QuantumSquid]

The character designs in Battleborn gross me out. The only one I like is the mushroom guy, he's pretty cool I guess.

 

[Lunarwhale]

You know, every time i see this, i can't help but wonder, what's the context of the character who says "All units be advised, feminism is awesome", like, is that a random taunt? Is it a mission dialog that relates to the plot? Does a mission in the game involves female liberation?

Because im all up for feminism, but it's such a strange thing to have your character randomly shout during a match, specially in a game with a very healthy selection of female characters already.

Killing a female character multiple times is what triggers him saying that apparently.

yiiikes

 

[doctorblurg]

I still don't understand the hate for the art.

It also has the most diverse cast compared to most games.

The art just looks gross I may not like borderlands but I think the art in that series is a lot better

 

[Neverwas]

love the game. just needs more pve content

 

[PSqueak]

Killing a female character multiple times is what triggers him saying that apparently.

yiiikes

Holy shit, what the hell?!

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

He says that quote cuz in his mind he thinks he is dishing out equality. Again, he's a huge dudebro.

 

[KatamariOnTheRocks]

Does the new character count as one? Water bender girl or w/e.

If you enjoyed The Legend of Korra then you'd deff like her.

 

[Crossing Eden]

I feel like i've never seen a gif prove the point of the post it's responding to compared to your gif. The art style of this game is just so offputting to me. Possibly because the characters are a bit over designed.

Killing a female character multiple times is what triggers him saying that apparently.

yiiikes

Oh my lord...that can't be true.

 

[antitrop]

Like, come the fuck on. Why is he the one they focus so much on in their advertisement?

Because he's so fucking badass, can't you see that chaingun, those muscles, dude just screams BADASSSSS

 

[ItsTheNew]

But it does look awesome? It's the Borderlands art style. That's all I see. I don't see anything different.

What if I told you that the borderlands art style is equally as ugly but there's a sense of cohesion there that makes it not so bad?

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

What if I told you that the borderlands art style is equally as ugly but there's a sense of cohesion there that makes it not so bad?

Then we have different taste at that point.

 

[spindashing]

Lucio does it better chill

 

[SinCityAssassin]

Gearbox is praised by a lot of feminist sites for it's diverse cast. The Mary Sue loves everything Gearbox. As for the quote Oscar Mike is a dudebro who shouts a lot of things that come off as very dudebro-ish but sincere.

He says that every time he kills a bunch of female characters because he believes that's equal rights.

 

[Neuromancer]

See if you can guess what he's trying to imply! I'll selectively bold to help you along.

I'm not seeing it. Maybe another big sale, or a GOTY version with all the DLC included. Can someone help me out here?

 

[shiftplusone]

microtransactions are gonna let you remove all this garbage from the screen so you can use their awful FOV unhindered

But it does look awesome? It's the Borderlands art style. That's all I see. I don't see anything different.

I think Borderlands looks awful, but it's 1 type of awful

Battleborn looks awful, and it's 10 different types of awful.

Something like Heroes of the Storm has characters from 20 years of video games and they brought them into an art style that looks cohesive

 

[Krakn3Dfx]

Someone attended Trump University.

 

[DrArchon]

Because he's so fucking badass, can't you see that chaingun, those muscles, dude just screams BADASSSSS

Is that real Gearbox/2K marketing for Battleborn? God, I never ever use the word "tryhard" but that's fuckin' tryhard.

 

[CommandThrower]

Does the new character count as one? Water bender girl or w/e.

I'd say yes.

*ahem*


Anyway, the best course for Battleborn will be for the game to go F2P. It might not help it dramatically, but it will most assuredly help.

 

[antitrop]

Is that real Gearbox/2K marketing for Battleborn? God, I never ever use the word "tryhard" but that's fuckin' tryhard.

It's actually the back of the box.

 

[Obliterator]

Sounds like its going FTP. I'll give it a shot when that update hits

 

[ShinMaruku]

What I heard is "Momma need a house, baby need some shoes, times are getin hrd,guess what we gonna do? "

 

[DrArchon]

It's actually the back of the box.

For fuck's sake, that's awful.

 

[Ceallach]

God, the Gearbox house style is fucking abhorrent

 

[PSqueak]

Gearbox is praised by a lot of feminist sites for it's diverse cast. The Mary Sue loves everything Gearbox. As for the quote Oscar Mike is a dudebro who shouts a lot of things that come off as very dudebro-ish but sincere.

You see, the voice work sounds sincere, but the placement in the game doesn't sounds sincere, comes off more as "look at us, give us a cookie for saying feminism!"

Compare to the integration of LGBT characters in borderlands 2, like finding out Tiny Tina had two moms, they don't come waving it at your face and wanting praise for it, you find out as you uncover the plot of the game through a plot mission's audio logs that state Handsome Jack was holding a [female] scientist's wife hostage and this woman turned out to be Tina's mom, which serves to give context to the experiments Jack was conducting, Tina's back story and general lore, it was pretty cool, because the fact that she was a lesbian was integrated in such a way that felt sincere and mundane and about as realistically tasteful as BL could get.

 

[Nirolak]

I'm not seeing it. Maybe another big sale, or a GOTY version with all the DLC included. Can someone help me out here?

They're going to make it f2p like Evolve and are currently adding in the missing monetization elements like microtransactions to make that work.

Mind, much of the game is already that way so I suspect this was a fallback plan for a while.

They will first sell out the channel inventory and iterate on the game until it is in tip top shape before doing so however.

 

[DrFunk]

the bargain bin, right

 

[KatamariOnTheRocks]

microtransactions are gonna let you remove all this garbage from the screen so you can use their awful FOV unhindered

Not that anyone would bother to do even 1 second of research to find out, but that is and always has been a bullshit screenshot because someone took the absolute craziest moment in the entire game (in beta before they massively toned down effects) and the effects on screen last for less than 1 second.

If I took a screencap of a gameover screen that was completely black with nothing on screen and said that's what the game always looked like it would be called out as misrepresentative just like that BS screenshot is.

Here's what the game actually looks like when shit's going down:

But posting that would go against the narrative that people need to lie about to convince themselves that it's a bad game.

 

[antitrop]

the bargain bin, right

That was Phase 2

Now they're moving into Phase 3

 

[KoopaTheCasual]

Her flares are bad. That's why the game flopped.

 

[TheRedSnifit]

I think most of the designs range from okay to meh to be honest. The only truly awful one being this guy.

Like, come the fuck on. Why is he the one they focus so much on in their advertisement?

Probably trying to remind players of this:

 

[GrantDaNasty]

F2P makes sense. I haven't played Battleborn, but everything I've seen of it just looks completely uninteresting.

As an aside: Take-Two is an interesting company, because out of all the major publishers, they seem like the only ones who try to give games they publish a fair chance with regards to dev time/budget etc. I almost wonder if stuff like the Rockstar games has them take a very hands-off approach in hopes they might have something truly great pop out of the game dev oven. Examples I'd include such as Spec Ops: The Line, Mafia 2, The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, Bioshock Infinite.

Not all of these games are great mind you, but I just feel like in the hands of any other publisher, the amount of development troubles these games had would've resulted in either sweeping development focus shifts or just straight-up cancellation.

I'm not exactly the best critic when it comes to this, but whatever art treatment Gearbox does to characters in their engine does not look very good. I'm sure that design is alright, but the actual 3D model looks...bad.

 

[King Gilga]

I don't know what it is about this game, I've never even played it.

But anytime I see anything about it, it makes me want to gag.

 

[mollipen]

She's far and away the most appealing character to me design-wise, and man did they hit her with the ugly stick. There's just so many miles between the art direction of Overwatch and Battleborn, and that's what makes the latter so unappealing to me. The entire reason why I decided to even give Overwatch a try was because I fell in love with the characters via fan art.

 

[Clark W Grizwald]

They could have been swimming in mounds of cash if they would have focused all of their efforts on Borderlands 3. What a waste

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

The art direction in Battleborn might be the most appalling in AAA games. It's like Borderlands but worse.

 

[Baron von Loathsome]

Stop trying to make Battleborn happen. It's not gonna happen.

 

[Klyka]

A waifu needs to actually look good/cute

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

F2P will boost this game. A lot of people are on the fence.

 

[Jb]

As an aside: Take-Two is an interesting company, because out of all the major publishers, they seem like the only ones who try to give games they publish a fair chance with regards to dev time/budget etc. I almost wonder if stuff like the Rockstar games has them take a very off-hands approach in hopes they might have something truly great pop out of the game dev oven. Examples I'd include such as Spec Ops: The Line, Mafia 2, The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, Bioshock Infinite.

Not all of these games are great mind you, but I just feel like in the hands of any other publisher, the amount of development troubles these games had would've resulted in either sweeping development focus shifts or just straight-up cancellation.

That's true, they seem to be willing to invest a lot in projects that other publishers would shy a way from.

It helps that they also have sales juggernauts like NBA 2K and GTA to allow them to make these big bets, but still, props to them and to Gearbox for trying out a new IP instead of going straight to Borderlands 3. Personally I find the gunplay, art style, humor and gameplay loop of this game extremely off-putting but at least they tried.

 

[KatamariOnTheRocks]

They could have been swimming in mounds of cash if they would have focused all of their efforts on Borderlands 3. What a waste

Borderlands 3 will flop just as hard, people hate Gearbox games and take joy in their failures.

Must suck to be a fan of their games but it is what it is.

Battleborn is the first game of theirs that I've enjoyed and I have no idea how the company is still around with the amount of hatred and vitriol constantly thrown their way.

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

Borderlands 3 will flop just as hard, people hate Gearbox games and take joy in their failures.

Must suck to be a fan of their games but it is what it is.

Battleborn is the first game of theirs that I've enjoyed and I have no idea how the company is still around with the amount of hatred and vitriol constantly thrown their way.

You misunderstand Gaf for all game players. Borderlands 2 sold like 15m copies.

Gearbox is terrible though.

 

[Tyrant Rave]

Is that real Gearbox/2K marketing for Battleborn? God, I never ever use the word "tryhard" but that's fuckin' tryhard.

Yeah... They really wanted people to think the game is badass and it just fell flat on its face.

The art direction and character design in this game is just no good. It's a mess.

 

[Frozenprince]

Guessing before Christmas it will be FTP.

Won't even take that long.

I give it another month tops.

 

[shiftplusone]

Here's what the game actually looks like when shit's going down:

But posting that would go against the narrative that people need to lie about to convince themselves that it's a bad game.

I know what it looks like when shits going down(I own it) I just think its a funny screenshot.

btw the UI is not what makes it a bad game

and the art is inconsistent and pretty atrocious to look at

 

[Mister_Bubbles]

I'd say yes.

*ahem*

Hmm, why does that seem so famil-

Oh, right.

 

[The Light]

Got it in the humble bundle and it is fun as hell so im happy they're not giving up on it. This game scratching that itch I had when i used to play ratchet & clank full frontal assault.

 

[dity]

Nice to see Lucio's wife in Battleborn.