"Randy Pitchford: That whole thing was a huge waste of time. The market proved it was doing its job perfectly. The market is dispassionate - rewarding what it likes and punishing what it doesn't. There is an objectivity and fairness in the open market's harsh, firm justice."
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.
Randy Pitchford can fcuk off.
I'm pretty sure Sega proved Gearbox wrong by making Alien Isolation.
Gearbox did some pretty shady stuff.
Randy Pitchford is such a buttflap. He is in huge denial over his companies hugely unethical practices. They fully deserved the backlash they got over Aliens Colonial Marines. In any other industry that kind of false advertising would of seen them heavily punished.
They seem to be good at showing fake footage (A:CM) and canceling their own IP. (Brothers In Arms: Furious Four)