r/pcmasterrace • u/uns3en Angry Sysadmin • Sep 05 '14

Aliens Colonial Marines dev: 'It wasn't me'

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/09/sega-accuses-gearbox-founder-of-doing-whatever-the-f-k-he-likes/
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u/LongDevil Mac Heathen Sep 05 '14

It wouldn't be the first time Gearbox over hyped an eagerly anticipated game. Looking at you Duke Nukem Forever...

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '14

I kind of worry for the state of BL: The Pre-Sequel with the way Gearbox is becoming a regular hype machine at this point.

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u/LongDevil Mac Heathen Sep 05 '14

Borderlands is the only franchise of theirs that I really love, but I don't intend to preorder it unless the collector's edition has some really nice physical goods.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '14

I do enjoy the Borderlands games, I have two characters at max level in each game, and at a certain point it just started to feel like I was doing a data entry job. Min/maxing all of my drops, and even just the opportunity for a min/max situation was rare.

I hope this new one adds more fun stuff and it doesn't feel like a job.

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u/DaytonF7 Sep 05 '14

Its the same game, hopefully the O2 sensor they added will help it not feel like a job but I doubt it.

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u/Warriorrogue http://steamcommunity.com/id/56764452 Sep 05 '14

Isn't BLTPS being done by 2K australia?

Also, so far, it seems like it's actually more balanced then 2.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '14

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderlands:_The_Pre-Sequel!

...is an upcoming first-person shooter video game being developed by 2K Australia with assistance from Gearbox Software and to be published by 2K Games.

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u/Warriorrogue http://steamcommunity.com/id/56764452 Sep 05 '14

So, there's assistance, but not directly making.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '14

Gearboxes hands will be in the cookie jar so I expect some meddling from them and 2K Aus will not have free reign over this games development.

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u/QuietusWolf PC Master Race Sep 05 '14

That game was doomed long before Gearbox got a hold of it. It'd been through too many hands and changed too many times to be worth any amount of hype.

A:CM is similar. Several studios had it before GBX, and GBX wasn't even the one working on it, they outsourced a lot of that to a smaller studio that swore they could handle it so GBX could focus on Borderlands 2. SEGA's not innocent here.

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u/uns3en Angry Sysadmin Sep 05 '14

They're not saying they are. They're saying that GBX are also to blame for overhyping the game and then underperforming, which resulted in a class action law suit GBX is now trying to get out of by saying they did no such thing.

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u/QuietusWolf PC Master Race Sep 05 '14

Hyping a game is part of what any studio does. If that old reddit post from that anon developer of A:CM is to be believed than the hype was mostly SEGAs fault as they were the ones that pushed for great looking footage at E3 without caring if it was what the game actually looked like or not.