Take Two not giving up on BattleBorn

Wasn't there a game where you play as Mushrooms

Yes

I heard they spent more like a hundred million and above, and the marketing was utterly handled like donkey shit.

The only thing i hear about the game pre launch was the e3 trailer like 2 or 3 years ago. I didnt even know the game came out.

Yes.

If they marketed the game at all they failed hard, because all people knew about was Overwatch. It doesn't help that Gearbox isn't the best company after the Colonial Marines debacle.

I just wonder what's gonna happen to Randy Pitchford, he'll probably have some explaining to do when the publishers want his head on a platter.

The marketing was so shit, I thought Gigantic and Battleborn were the same game, because of all of these CRAPCUNTS games coming out/being announced at the same time.

Was that any good or was it yet another Wii game that was thrown into the bargain bin for a valid reason.

Well, you should have seen the OverWatch and Battleborn threads(RIP in piss, F) really fucking died, and Gearbox couldn't leverage their Memelands drones.

The game was shilled to the heavens with all the usual "Video game journalists" shilling it as different to Overwatch, and Overwatch went high with that controversy with Tracer's ass which is free advertising and word of mouth, plus Blizzdrones.

Overwatch, if that Blizz earnings report is to be held true, made them half a billion dollary-doos.

I really wonder why most of Battleborn characters look like they come from completely games. It looks like crossover game shit.

As fir Phoebe thats the only decent looking character model in the entire game.

They probably cared more about making every character "quirky" than they did coherent design.

It was decent to play, nothing to write home about, but the devs put love into it.

Wait, thats the trailer i saw. I actually didnt see anything of stillborn pre release.

Knowing Randy, he probably has dirt on some Take Two execs. That jackass's company should have gone under by now.

Why do all those games look the exact same?

And look how well that got them.

Did they shill for it? I honestly never paid attention to it.

I won't be surprised if Borderlands was the only thing that kept them afloat.

probably gonna be the only good thing about it tho

And so on.

HAHAHAHA

Gearbox artist recruitment in a nutshell.

Everyday until you love it.

I wonder if they look worst or better if these models were done in pixels or 2D. Also is the fifth one a fucking stand user?

Idiots.

They could make quality porn of best bird and not even that would make me play the game

Real great characters we got here.

I just can't quite specifically put it into words just how repulsive their character designs are.

Shit like the 4th one just pisses me off cause you know gearbox is trying so fucking hard to lower the standard of beauty by forcing this ugly piece of garbage down our throats.

I'll just leave this here.

And it worked out so well for them that Waifuwatch beat the shit out of them.

It's funny, you can obviously tell that they were trying to copy TF2's method of "be able to recognize the character from their silhouette," but they clearly didn't understand that the reason TF2 worked was because the caricatures were at least somewhat consistent in proportions and didn't rely on the weapons to draw attention. I mean, you can recognize the Heavy because he's just a bulky motherfucker, not because he's a hulking monstrosity with a minigun bigger than his already massive torso.

I guess I wasn't the only one that kept thinking about Gigantic when looking at Battleborn pics out of context. I had to remind myself that Battleborn is the one with cringe dialogue and no giant character gimmick.

I'd play it if it were free.

Other than that I hope the meme factory burns to the ground.

Maybe…

I agree.

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She can phase right to my dick

I'm glad they're still putting time and effort into this game. It means they'll lose even more money keeping this disaster going.

Well at least someone isn't!

The last one looks like an edgy JoJo donut steel

heh

"Let's fuse Shadow Fiend with an emo kid"

What if it was an OC, and the artist commissioned it as a new character

Do you think it had this musical reference as well?

It's a fucking edgy Jojo OC that made into a AAA western release, I wouldn't be surprised.

I have to wonder what the point of this character was, did the artist just bug the hell out of people to get it in, or they sneak it in to embarrass whoever made it?

I don't even thing he had much trouble getting that in seeing every other character made it through no problem.

I hope it flops hard enough to finally kill Gearbox.

They're not hot, they're just female. The second one is Bioware tire, the first one is not much better.

It's not just the characters, it's the whole art direction that makes no sense. It looks like a mash-up of different projects that were cancelled.

What is it with Stillborn and tiny heads? I swear the least ugly looking character is the nigger elf

There's one game missing on that pic: Paragon from Epic Games.

If every other character made it in, I have to wonder if all of these designs were rough drafts, and someone took them off the artists desks while he was on break thinking they were finished. I just don't know, I'm doing every thing I can to try and make sense of it.

I actually heard that was the case somewhat, they took one Brother's in Arms game that was canned and used some ideas from that in Battlebored. What that doesn't explain is why Randy Pitchford thought the idea of "I'm gonna have Master Chief and a Jedi and a wizard from LoTR and they're gonna be in one game side by side" is a good idea. Thats something you hear from a nerdy teenage idea guy.

Eh, Overwatch has that problem too. I wouldn't be able to tell what the fuck any of them do just by looking at them with or without being in silhouette, they need their equipment for you to know what they do and even then it's still vague like with Winston or whatever the gorilla's name is.

TF2 is the perfect balance between Overwaifu (intense focus group tests) and Battlebored (let's throw shit at the wall and see what sticks)

If there was more of this around I would consider pirating the game.
Don't know if I could ever pay money for it, though.

TF2 had a lot of legitimate thought put into its initial conception and even in its current sad state of blitheringly stupid contributors/developers it's an overall neater and better-developed product than the games people keep screeching is its competition.

This. This is the first time I've heard of him and I'm intrigued.

Still shit when compared to actually good vidya.

Calling it now.
Beautiful people patch

The idea is to get people that like shit to at least like the best-polished shit.
Of course, after the mess that I've heard tf2 competitive turned out to be, the shiniest turd in the pile may end up being overwatch.

As a game TF2 is still better than Overwatch, though there wasn't any chance in hell TF2's matchmaking was gonna be good. Queued matchmaking in and of itself is a pretty horrid thing.

I mean, sure he is best bird but stilborn is still terrible

Jesus, her armor looks like processed cheese.

He didn't say you should be able to intuitively know what they do simply by seeing them, you idiot.

He said you should be able to recognize them just by seeing them, even if you only fleetingly do so.

Never show me that to me
Just don't.

wew