We don't need a next generation console platform, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford has told VideoGamer.com. The outspoken creator of Borderlands didn't stop there, but outlined the many reasons why the current crop of consoles is good enough.
"I'm actually excited by the fact that we're at a point now with this generation where it's not a technical problem," he said speaking to VideoGamer.com this morning. "We're in the craft of game-making now. We understand the hardware, and now we're focusing on gameplay, focusing on leveraging that hardware towards the purposes of entertainment, instead of wrestling with the technical issues of how to just exist on it. As a game-maker, that's the best possible place to be."
“Future experiences [are] already under development at Gearbox," says Randy Pitchford
I'm actually surprised by this, I feel like it came and went very quickly without too much interest
but good to see!
Well, it was relatively short and no True Vault Hunter mode to replay the campaign. The DLC was horribly short, lame and overpriced, which didn't help.
Probably had a significantly smaller budget, so it was able to smash lower targets while not being immensely popular.
I wonder how Borderlands 3 did overall as well. I've seen that game for under $15 multiple times (and in multiple clearance racks for $5).
A sequel will need a lot of work. They didn't lean nearly enough into the fantasy elements, which left the combat feeling like Borderlands rather than a new franchise. The end game is trash, there's no new game plus, no proper DLC/expansions, etc. The drop rates for loot were god awful.
It had a lot of great ideas but in terms of gameplay it felt way too safe, like Gearbox was too scared to stray too far from Borderlands.
I legit thought it was intended to be dlc at first for b3 which kind of explains why it didn't
Yeah, fuck those drop rates. Trying to farm for something specific was futile. Especially for the armor. Need to match 2 classes instead of 1, and then there's the whole Ascended, Primordial, etc thing that made it even harder. Add another class into it later lowered the chances even further. They really needed to tailor drops so you had a better chance of getting your own classes drops.
This is why I stopped playing. I'd spend an hour or two every day farming, filling my inventory, loading up loot bunnies with crystals, and consistently get nothing to show for it after a month of trying to get an upgrade for one piece of gear.
Pitchford mentions that they're currently working on a Brothers in Arms game, but also suggests that the game is in early development.
It's been way too long. They cancelled BiA: Furious 4 to make Battleborn and look how that turned out. Though I do hope this new entry is more like the proper BiA games, rather than F4 which was basically Borderlands meets Inglorious Basterds.
FINALLY!
Please let it be true to the series. Don't wreck it like Rainbow 6. Can we get at least one tactical single player shooter with squad commands?
Gearbox Entertainment CEO Randy Pitchford said that selling his company will be good for both gamers and employees.
Any merger that openly talks about financial targets is bad news for gamers and code for "We need to figure out how to get more money from gamers".
This is a tough issue but Microsoft needs a new console soon, if not to just upgrade to Blu-Ray since LA Nior's 3 disk edition for the 360 shows that limitation.
The bad part would be that we'd begin paying no less than 65 dollars per game now since more time and resources will be invested into making the games.
We can combat our need for new expensive consoles by hiring more imaginative programing teams to give us new experiences on our old consoles. Really support the Indie teams and the "different" games. Personally I like Sim games and really would like to see Sim City 5 on a console.
They can keep the Sims off world but I agree with you otherwise
No more of this "We don't need" stuff, it's happening so deal with it.
Need...More...RAM...
other than that, its fine, even in the VRAM dept.
because were getting wii 2... where ps3 and 360 fans finally unite