While the Internet at large still waits for Randy Pitchford -- or anybody -- from Gearbox to come clean and explain what went wrong with Aliens: Colonial Marines, the studio CEO has decided his best course of action is to display contempt for those who felt cheated when they bought his stinker.
Too many games aren't given a second shot. We at VGU choose which games we would love to see receive a sequel.
The Saboteur - criminally underrated and a fantastic mechanic of bringing colour back to Nazi-occupied Paris.
The article lists Bulletstorm, Sleeping Dogs, and Aliens: Colonial Marines.
Player 2 takes some quiet time to look back at some of the most hyped failures of the past 10 years.
Can't argue with any of those really, but I would add Resident Evil Operation Racoon City and Metal Gear Survive to that list. Both terrible games from good franchises.
Bulletstorm, I actually liked the gameplay but the atrocious writing and characters made me despise the game by the end of it.
Thanks to a bustling mod community on Steam, Gearbox's Aliens: Colonial Marines actually has a stellar multiplayer experience to offer these days.
It just seems like it could have been better without a ton of work. It will look better on pc and hopefully modders will fix enemy AI etc. Why not make the aliens more like the encounters in the movies than bullet fodder. Also, and maybe i am wrong, but this could been better alone. Maybe u enter as a group but get separated and u r overwhelmed. It would cut out the need for AI and up the tension and difficulty. I give a nod to detail but someone must have played this and noticed that it just wasnt up to par for 2013.
It's pretty clear that Gearbox were just the best-known of nearly a half-dozen studios that worked on this piece of crap. Why should Randy Pitchford waste his time on listening to people? It's quickly becoming clear that he and his people probably knew what was happening--the odds that you (or some theoretical Messiah of disenfranchised gamers) will tell him something he didn't already know.
Is he a good guy? I don't know. But his twitter is (currently) somewhat reasonable-sounding and I can't be offended by someone not wanting to hear criticisms that aren't new, just rude (and yes--I think that twitter users can be pretty offensive) any more than I can be offended by not wanting to argue with people whose political opinions I don't agree with. Even if I were a political consultant, I would think that I have every right to say "look, you have your opinion, but my opinion is that I don't want to hear it."
In short, not news.
Randy Pitchford, biggest bell end in the business.... and not in a good way!!
It's about time that people realise he has always been like this & that Gearbox have always been a shit developer & no Borderlands is not an awesome game!
That's funny because I feel nothing but contempt for liars and swindlers. I guess we're even Randy.
This guy is going to become a very hated icon in the industry, many angry of money mis spent. Cant Blame them
Doesnt matter if others had their hands in it, they did personal interviews on the game, they had game trailers at their actual building in a video talking about it and had Alien figures everywhere, they seemed like they were personally going to change our view on the bad Alien games -
Then we got $hitted on