Aliens: Colonial Marines - WTF Happened!?!

Oh what I'd give to work on an Aliens game using Cryengine! jebus, the possibilities ...

Yeah, if only SEGA had contracted Crytek. And Helder.

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Just watched this, that's seriously terrible. It's such a shame that it's not a good game, it could have been huge. I loved Alien Trilogy on the Playstation. I'll probably pick this up in the steam sales.

Well, you can run through a lot of games like that to be honest.

Creative Assembly are also making an Alien game. I think it'll be rather spiffy.

What, and ruin the reputation of the IP? lol

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Look what you did, Randy! All joking aside, I'm as puzzled as everyone else as to what happened. Not too long ago GBX released Borderlands 2 - a 90% metacritic title - and now they're putting their reputation as a studio on the line by releasing...this.

DNF didn't count

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Look what you did, Randy! All joking aside, I'm as puzzled as everyone else as to what happened. Not too long ago GBX released Borderlands 2 - a 90% metacritic title - and now they're putting their reputation as a studio on the line by releasing...this.

DNF didn't count

As things stand right now, Borderlands 2 feels more like an exception. Aliens was weak, Duke was terrible and it's been a while since Brothers in Arms was any good. And not to be overly critical, but to my naive and young gamer brain a game like Borderlands seems slightly more forgiving to make than many other kinds of games. I think players' love of loot, leveling and co-op smooth out any rough edges quite a bit. With that in mind, I personally question exactly how much game development muscle they got left at Gearbox.

EDIT: I hope this doesn't come across as dicky.

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Yeah, if only SEGA had contracted Crytek. And Helder.

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ahah, and Buddy and Lee!

I would love to work on such an ip, it must be loads of fun. Endless possibilities for fun and original gameplay.

Granted tho, the environment art of the game is not that bad http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=116858

Hollly shit, i didn't even remmember how COOL was the demo ! WTF guys ?! maybe its just a joke, and the game is still comming !?

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As things stand right now, Borderlands 2 feels more like an exception. Aliens was weak, Duke was terrible and it's been a while since Brothers in Arms was any good. And not to be overly critical, but to my naive and young gamer brain a game like Borderlands seems slightly more forgiving to make than many other kinds of games. I think players' love of loot, leveling and co-op smooth out any rough edges quite a bit. With that in mind, I personally question exactly how much game development muscle they got left at Gearbox.

EDIT: I hope this doesn't come across as dicky.

you succeed at articulating my thoughts exactly !

THEY n33d to make a game based on prometheus, quick!!!!!!!

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Yeah.. this is why I preordered the game. I feel like I have been Dead Island-ed. =[

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Yeah.. this is why I preordered the game. I feel like I have been Dead Island-ed. =[

My thoughts exactly. I preordered after I saw that demo, too. I mean, it was gameplay, not a trailer, so I thought "ok...this is awesome. I'm in." At the time I had a stack of BestBuy gift cards so I used some to preorder...in other words because it was through BestBuy online it won't get to my house until Feb 18. (Seriously, BB, wtf?) So I don't even have the game yet and I'm already thinking of taking it back unopened and exchanging it for other games.

But...instead I plan to rent it for a day (if possible) just to test it out myself first. I keep coming back to this thread hoping somehow it's all a big mistake and the game is actually blowing people away.

In any event that post Dux linked on gearbox's forums is interesting and plausible about how they outsourced a lot of the campaign and it this was the result.

If all true, interesting lesson about what you can get from outsourcing. Managing multiple big teams/titles at once is really complicated and maybe GBX was just really ambitious, though FOX and Sega involvement may have made it worse. If FOX has final approval on a script then that does tie your hands.

Anyway, I am still loving Borderlands 2 (happy customer here) so I haven't lost faith in GBX, just hope that whatever they do next doesn't turn out this way.

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you succeed at articulating my thoughts exactly !

I guess we're both overly critical dicks then.

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Yeah.. this is why I preordered the game. I feel like I have been Dead Island-ed. =[

Sad but true, still awesome joke

You do have to wonder if Randy is actually completely detached from what goes on at Gearbox, because what he's said about Duke Nukem Forever and Colonial Marines has been so consistently out of whack with the reality that I can't fathom how someone could say the kind of things he's said with a straight face.

They're seriously tarnishing their reputation with these bad games. What's interesting is that both bad games were high-profile releases using IPs that people would probably buy into regardless of game quality, which also raises some questions of ethics in Gearbox concerning how much they're willing to sell themselves out when they know the game will probably sell well anyway.

Unfortunately it's a double-edged sword because while they may enjoy good sales now, the likelihood of another IP owner trusting Gearbox with their franchise decreases monumentally with every bad game they release.

just played the second mission and it's really not a good game at all. it's not terrible by any stretch of the imagination. it's competent, but it's competent for 2005.

it lacks gameplay, VO, audio, level design polish. the basics are there but another year and a good set of game directors could have made a real difference.

what a shame.

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Edit: Never mind I don't have to be all cryptic. It says the project was shelved multiple times for another project, at least two examples and an etcetera, and then states Sega "wasn't super pleased about the delays," implying this was not an... official shelving.

It sounds like GBX are taking on way too much than they can handle, and sadly a product that's going to sell anyway will be the most neglected.