"I’ve spent quite a long time with Battleborn in both the single player and with the multiplayer side of things and while the game does have a certain comedic element and a fun cartoon art style, I can’t really see where the part is that makes this game great. Sure I have many characters to choose from, who all have varying personalities and abilities and I can choose to play with the style that suits me best, but even with all this, I found myself to be incredibly bored with Battleborn, I just couldn’t find the games charm." -Bryan Weatherall (Resident Entertainment)
Ed writes: This past weekend, Battleborn was finally shut down by Gearbox and 2K. Let's look back at a game that deserved a lot better.
It at least deserved them moving it to a solo-able option post server shut-down, IMHO.
William writes: "Battleborn was not the game I wanted it to be, it probably wasn't the game a number of you reading wanted it to be. But what it undeniably was was a game that a team of hundreds of people poured their hearts and souls into."
Game preservation is important.
Single-player campaign should always be offline. So that some part(s) of a certain game still lives through and can be enjoyed later.
Always Online games will always end up like this at some point. Offline SP campaign should ALWAYS be included.
Thinking that games ( and in particular this one ) will forever be lost, it makes me sad.
Battleborn will shut down on the 31st of January 2021, so let's revisit its ill-fated history and discuss its surreal departure.
One of the funnier game i played with my friends. I like that one of the reason it failed is that it had many reviews like the one you did; criticizing the gameplay because it's 'too complex': because it had a skill tree and because there was different classes... My personal analysis of its failure is beacause of the Blizzard PR team: they saw a threat in it , and decided to kill it by paying professional reviews and counting on their fanboys to bash it and create a fake 'comparaison war' with it. The saddest thing is that this game will disappear forever. It casts, as others in the same situtation, a dark shadow on the future of video gaming. Hopefully there are and still will be 'pirates' to save and archive these for the future generations, that i hope will someday realize that consumerism is not the only solution.
Oh dear...Is the game that bad? :S
In other words, Overwatch it is.
I just picked up battleborn with the price drop and i've been having fun with it. It's not really deserving of all the hate it's getting. I played the overwatch beta, and am having more fun with Battleborn than I did Overwatch, but will probably pick that up too when the price is low enough. Just comes down to personal taste I think. I don't think Overwatch deserves all the hype it's getting.
The problem with Battleborn is...Blizzards's fans. There are too many of them and they would actively hate any other game from competitors.
This game is a gem. I play on PC and the only bad thing I can say about it is the player base is too small to accommodate good matchmaking on the pvp side of things. I hear that things are much better on the PS4/XBONE. I would give the game a 10/10, but that's just me. I just got overwatch, it is a good game but I can't play it for as long in one sitting as I can Battleborn, gets boring. I can't recommend enough if you own a console, rent this game on redbox, it will only set you back 3 bucks, you might fall in love. I played with a dev online yesterday and he said he wants to implement a PC demo, well see.