Decline So apparently Gearbox is making an FPS-MOBA - Battleborn

[markec]

Time for Borderlands 3.

Please, no more of this.

It's inevitable. Maybe they can finally make a good one, third time's the charm.

Seeing how they got progressively worse with each game I wouldnt get my hopes up.

 

[ortucis]

Despite my dislike for Borderlands, even I can see that Borderlands 2 was definitely a step up.

Still a mediocre step, but still a step up. They tried to focus more on characters and storyline. Maybe they can hire Avellone for Borderlands 3, he should be done with that Prey reboot Bethesda is shitting out soon.

 

[Gerrard]

Yeah, making the loot shit in a loot driven game was a step up.

 

[Metro]

In some ways itemization in BL2 was better but in a lot of others it was worse.

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

I will admit that I did enjoy the gameplay for pre-sequel. Everything else was crap though. The writing was amateurish, the humor was cringe worthy, the world felt limited and Gearbox still wants you to pay an arm and a leg for more characters and another series of missions.
So yeah, if its not Borderlands, its going to be complete shit instead of simply overrated / mediocre.

 

[ortucis]

Funny thing is, I never liked Half Life, but when I played Blue Shift, I liked it (every Half Life fanboy hated it). Combat in Blue Shift was better than Half Life. Can't tell why (don't remember, it was back in 2001). I should've played Opposing Force too.

After that, I didn't hear about Gearbox until Borderlands was announced (I heard about it when they changed the art style, never heard about the game till then). I even played 007: Nightfire and enjoyed it, but completely missed Gearbox being the developer of it.

So Borderlands, I was surprised that it had so much hype behind it. I never considered Gearbox to be good enough to do original IP.

 

[InD_ImaginE]

So Smite developer released F2P Overwatch Clone (Paladin). In several days the owner is 3 times the owner of this game. The game is basically dead now if it has yet to be.

 

[udm]

Battleborn? Moar like Stillborn.

 

[Parsifarka]

.So Borderlands, I was surprised that it had so much hype behind it. I never considered Gearbox to be good enough to do original IP.

Brothers in Arms 1&2 were quite good, the WW2 FPS I have enjoyed the most; cinematic in a non-shity way and challenging. But then Borderlands was a crime, yes (and fortunately BiA is on indefinite hold).

Funny thing is, I never liked Half Life, but when I played Blue Shift, I liked it (every Half Life fanboy hated it). Combat in Blue Shift was better than Half Life. Can't tell why (don't remember, it was back in 2001). I should've played Opposing Force too.

After that, I didn't hear about Gearbox until Borderlands was announced (I heard about it when they changed the art style, never heard about the game till then). I even played 007: Nightfire and enjoyed it, but completely missed Gearbox being the developer of it.

So Borderlands, I was surprised that it had so much hype behind it. I never considered Gearbox to be good enough to do original IP.

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[Parsifarka]

Oh, fuck. What did this Tapamonster do

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[markec]

 

[markec]

 

[tormund]

All that glorious, sweet, delicious schadenfreude!

 

[DeepOcean]

Silly Gearbox, you don't fight the Blizzard machine on the same terms, they have the resources to make high production value waifus and children mascots, you gonna lose with your shitty badly animated low polygon crap, that is how the mainstream thinks. Type Overwatch porn on google and you will see why you lost. Keep making loot shooters. There isn't a single one sexy lady on tight latex on your game, with your SJW ways you forgot that your developer SJW friends and twitter teacup agitators actually don't buy games. Horny 14 year old males however... Blizzard is more realistic.

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

I have a theory that a series' popularity and success is directly proportional to the amount of porn available of it.
Hence why there is hardly any BloodRayne r34, even though she is pretty hot.

 

[pippin]

Hence why there is hardly any BloodRayne r34, even though she is pretty hot.

lurk moar

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

Hence why there is hardly any BloodRayne r34, even though she is pretty hot.

lurk moar

I did. There isn't much (400 images on Paheal is pretty pathetic for a supposed femme fatale character), and out of that only a few were somewhat decent.
If you want some good r34, you have to go for bigger franchises, like LoL, Metroid, DoA, etc.

 

[Psquit]

Feminism is awesome!

 

[Gerrard]

Silly Gearbox, you don't fight the Blizzard machine on the same terms, they have the resources to make high production value waifus and children mascots, you gonna lose with your shitty badly animated low polygon crap, that is how the mainstream thinks. Type Overwatch porn on google and you will see why you lost. Keep making loot shooters. There isn't a single one sexy lady on tight latex on your game, with your SJW ways you forgot that your developer SJW friends and twitter teacup agitators actually don't buy games. Horny 14 year old males however... Blizzard is more realistic.

Battleborn's spectacular failure had barely anything to do with Overwatch. It's just an awful game.
If this was a Borderlands game with characters from all the games, they probably could've avoided this disaster, but nope, they decided it's better to get some deviantart rejects to do the visual design for original character do not steal.

"We've invested about 4 times as much time in each character as we did in the Borderlands characters."
Trashbox Software.

 

[pippin]

Hence why there is hardly any BloodRayne r34, even though she is pretty hot.

lurk moar

I did. There isn't much (400 images on Paheal is pretty pathetic for a supposed femme fatale character), and out of that only a few were somewhat decent.
If you want some good r34, you have to go for bigger franchises, like LoL, Metroid, DoA, etc.

There's a bunch of rule 34 of rayne based on the fact that she "posed" for Playboy (years before Triss). You might also find some hot cosplays but nothing nsfw. Although since twitch has become strict about this, some former (and current) camwhores are getting into cosplay as well, with more and more "erocosplay" photosets being released every day.

I-I mean, I've been told about all this.

 

[Talby]

Gearbox should stick to what they're good at, plagiarism. Just look at this trash;

These could be from any random free to play MOBA or MMO circa 2007. The robot is kinda cool but nothing special.

 

[hajro]

The texture work is straight out of a last gen game. Game looks liek it can run on a ps3

 

[Infinitron]

http://www.pcgamesn.com/battleborn/battleborn-porn-subreddit-overwatch-randy-pitchford

Randy Pitchford discovers Battleborn porn, subreddit quickly swamped by Overwatch filth

Gearbox co-founder and CEO Randy Pitchford decided to tweet about a subreddit dedicated to pornography based on characters from Battleborn, his company's latest game. That subreddit was then promptly showered with porn based on rival game Overwatch, along with threads mocking Pitchford.

The whole dreary saga began with the following tweet by Pitchford yesterday.



You'll notice the subreddit eschews the obvious 'BattlePorn' for something more innocuous. Why rule 34? This is a meme which may have originated in a 2003 webcomic, simply stating: “Rule #34: if it exists, there is porn of it. No exceptions.”

Anyway, the replies to Pitchford's tweet are a dark, but darkly amusing, sinkhole of cynicism and scorn. Naturally the assumption is made that this is an especially desperate attempt to draw attention to Battleborn, which might charitably be described as ‘embattled’. There are screens of Battleborn on-sale at bargain basement prices. There are 'burns' suggesting more players are on the subreddit than playing Battleborn. Many of the digs come from Overwatch fans, whose favourite game released in the same window as Battleborn and was commonly seen as a competitor (despite their similarities having been overstated, in my view).

The subreddit itself is an even blacker abyss, now overtaken by threads mocking Pitchford and a deluge of Overwatch-based porn, thus adding injury to insult by subverting its whole purpose. Perhaps Overwatch fans see porn as "their" thing, after related searches ranked eleventh on Pornhub for the whole of 2016.

I can't put it off any longer; yes, I suppose I should probably link you to the subreddit. Obvious warning: It’s very much NSFW. Here you go.

Sigh.

The Internet delivers.

 

[markec]

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

You know a game is shit when its developer has to link porn of it to try to draw more players.
You especially know its shit when no one is interested in said porn. 142 readers is pretty pathetic.