Alien: Isolation: SEGA has learned nothing from Colonial Marines

From the article, "Remember Aliens: Colonial Marines ? Of course you do. Half the reason that game was so controversial, other than being terrible, was how ingrained into pre-order culture it was. The hands-off previews pulled the wool over the eyes of the press. Retail exclusives, pre-order bonuses and special editions were shoved in everyone’s faces. And, of course, review embargoes prevented consumers, the people with actual money at stake, from making informed purchases. SEGA told you all to buy the game before it even physically existed, and never gave you a legitimate reason to because it knew it was garbage."

[Neonridr]

preorder bonuses is nothing new and SEGA should not be held accountable for that sort of stuff. EVERY major game releasing this year has some sort of preorder bonus at one retailer or another. This game is nothing like Colonial Marines and SEGA is not making the same mistake.

I think those DLC's are awesome as people would probably much rather play as cast members from the first Alien rather than Ripley's daughter who is but a speck in the Aliens Universe...

[liquidhalos]

Story quality - wtf
Like this website - no

Let's put an end to sites like this n n4g

[randomass171]

How is preorder DLC the same as lying about a bad game that was marketed with lies? I think this author is drawing comparisons that he/she made up.

[admiralvic]

I miss the days when spewing a bunch of hate and making incorrect assumptions wasn't enough to be considered an editorial...

Anyway, this seems like a MASSIVE leap to complain about how you dislike preorder DLC and instead of having a real point, you take a cheap shot at Alien: Isolation because you can just rant and rave about how awful CM was. Let me start by saying Isolation DOES show that Sega has learned something from CM, since I recall people being excited for CM because it was touted as a game made for fans, by fans and quite the opposite ended up happening. By including, to use the authors words, "one of the greatest movie moments in history," I get the impression that Sega is trying to make a game for the fans. Furthermore, the main thing that happened with CM was the demo was a total misrepresentation of the final product, which could still happen (could happen for any game if you want to be semantic), though I genuinely get the impression that they're trying to make right with this one.

[Venoxn4g]

i am not gonna approve this baseless rant

[KinjoTakemura]

I've decided to hold off on this one. I'll make my decision after I watch a few streams on the PS4. I've always been leary of "movie" themed games. They usually end up being a hot turd.

[Jdoki]

Pointless argument. Author has added 2+2 and got 5

[Pabbs_Slick]

I can't even begin to express how done I am with this "pre-orders are the enemy" propaganda crap. If you don't want awesome extras and bonuses for reserving your copy of a game that you're excited for, then by all means, don't pre-order.

[lfc_4eva]

DLC is a disease that gaming can do without. I just wish developers/publishers would make their game the very best it can be with all the experiences part of it at the very start. Just like the early days of computing. I don't remember playing a game on my speccy or Amiga, then having to go out and buy an add-on to experience more of the game, that should have been there in the first place.

Piece-meal gaming is ok when you're talking about episodic games such as 'Walking Dead' etc. But the pricing must also match the fact that these are much smaller experiences too.

Devs/publishers have moved down the dlc route for one purpose and one purpose only. To milk every last drop of revenue they can from every release. I've fallen foul of bought dlc, and when I've played them I've thought "I've just paid how much to play extremely little extra content?".

The only way we'll get full and complete games is if people simply don't buy the dlc. However this will not happen, as too many gamers think they're getting something extra, when in reality they're not.

[Yui_Suzumiya]

I'm waiting on my copy of Colonial Marines. Finally gonna give it a spin. But I already know Isolation is gonna nuke it times a billion :3

[lfc_4eva]

Colonial marines is clown shoes mate :-)