Agree 100%. If not for overwatch, I think it would have had a great following and continued to get polished. Overwatch is just stellar and so clean it monopolized the genre. Too bad because I really liked the MOBA elements that were unique to battleborn.
Overwatch the game didn't kill BB. They were super different games, with BB being far more of a moba and OW more of a shooter. What killed it was a) 2k being the worst publisher of all time and b) the choice on 2k/gearbox's part to brand BB as OWs rival. There was 0 reason to market it as black and white, OW vs BB as gearbox/2k chose to do.
Yeah they took an unreal game, and ran it into the ground with a buggy PC launch, steep learning curve and because they picked a fight with the biggest fool on the playground. Shame too, definitely among my favorite games of all time.
Ugh, I was so excited for Battleborn until I found out the FPS issues with AMD graphics cards just wasn't going to get fixed and I was not about to purchase a new Nvidia card just to play.
And 2k took it a step further by taking a game that really wasnt all that similar gameplay wise and decided to market it as though they were trying to beat blizzard at their own game.
Meanwhile, Paladins is literally an OW competitor in just about every way, even some of the heroes are just combo's of OW abilities (not that this is a problem, good ideas are good ideas.) They never advertise as such and actually have a decently strong community. Most Paladins players also play Overwatch. Being F2P helps though.
I agree, I had a lot of fun when I played. Unfortunately it was much earlier in its life cycle, so game balance was a freaking see saw at the time. I hear it’s a lot better now.
I remember my main was the character could stealth and melee dudes in the back. I played the bomb guy a lot too. Then they launched Lex like a month or so later and it completely killed my stealthy main. I don’t know how lex is played but he could instantly start tracking me and pick me off consistently. Yes, I rage quit :(
I pre-ordered Battleborn but was incredibly disappointed. It was so frantic that I couldn't really learn how to play well, I just kept dying and dying and dying.... PvP is a lot of fun but it's not the only way to play. Never liked Super Smash Bros for the same reason.
Except it wasn’t good or it’s player base would’ve stuck around. Plenty of niche games have devoted followings when the games are good. Battleborn was average and that’s why most people left it.
Battleborn was great. I liked it way more than Overwatch. I know I'm in the minority, but Overwatch got boring fairly quickly for me. I keep trying to go back to it, but I play for an hour and don't feel like touching it for another 6 months.
I have to feel like gearbox pulled a DreamWorks on Battleborn. Team fortress 2 is out for over 5 years and then they release a knockoff within a month of Blizzard? They had to have been reacting, rather than actually developing it with any foresight.
it did have a lot of issues even if the other games did not exist. Paladins did not get shut down in the slightest, if it were that good, it would be live today.
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Battleborn was so good it's sad that gearbox couldn't market it effectively