Really tempted to get this and play for shits and giggles.
it's not even a year old and it's $5 already, pfft.
I've said this a million times again and again.
As a huge aliens fan the game was a huge flop. But lore wise and as a game.
Gearbox did the biggest fucking bait and switch known to man. Do not buy it even to just try it, do not give them any support....
I lost my respect for Gearbox after this game happened. Not only is the game shit but didn't they steal money from Sega to work on Borderlands 2 when it was supposed to go to this game?
What a steal
[QUOTE=Keychain;42022385]Not only is the game shit but didn't they steal money from Sega to work on Borderlands 2 when it was supposed to go to this game?[/QUOTE]
A huge part of the money went directly into Borderlands 2. The rest went into another studio working on Colonial Marines under Gearbox' flag.
even $5 is too much for this broken, half-assed, unfaithful, generic shovelware title that was just made as a way for Gearbox to embezzle money from Sega for Boringlands 2.
I've never bought a gearbox game.
Judging by how they treated A:CM, never will :v:
Fuck yeah!
Can't wait to beat this game!
[SP]Without killing any aliens[/SP]
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;42022878]I've never bought a gearbox game.
Judging by how they treated A:CM, never will :v:[/QUOTE]
Gearbox usually makes pretty quality stuff.
Honesty, this game isn't anywhere near as bad now as it was on release. It's actually pretty worth it for £3.75.
[QUOTE=cdr248;42023260]Gearbox usually makes pretty quality stuff.[/QUOTE]
The only quality stuff they've made in recent years are the Borderlands games, which were developed with funds that were supposed to go to Colonial Marines. Other than Borderlands they find it acceptable to shovel shit like this and Duke Nukem Forever out the door.
Colonial Marines had potential. It could have been the triumphant return of the franchise but instead it acted as the final nail in the coffin. It was their choice to develop Borderlands instead and their choice to actually ship this turd and lie about its development, so I too have lost a lot of trust and respect for Gearbox.
Eh, i'm not sure if I should get this or not from what I see it's a no.
This is only a deal if you can get the DLC super cheap too, since the DLC has story that explains some of the stuff in the rest of the game and the multiplayer DLC rounds out the rest of it.
Still a mess of a story though.
Randy Pitchford loved Aliens so much he took the funding away from it.
Sucks this was such a colossal dud. Maybe one day they'll make another great Aliens game.
[QUOTE=cdr248;42023260]Gearbox usually makes pretty quality stuff.[/QUOTE]
Like what? Duke Nukem Forever and the Wii port of Samba de Amigo?
[QUOTE=Kljunas;42024706]Like what? Duke Nukem Forever and the Wii port of Samba de Amigo?[/QUOTE]
Yeah, because Gearbox is 100% responsible for DNF being shit. It has nothing to do with the fact that it spent 14 years in development hell across three different studios.
I'm not going to defend Gearbox on A:CM but anyone who thinks it's Gearbox's fault that DNF sucked needs to get themselves checked.
I think people fail to realize that, unlike CM, DNF was shit when it hit their doorstep and there wasn't much they could do unless they dedicated all their efforts into making a whole new game.
[QUOTE=Kljunas;42024706]Like what? Duke Nukem Forever and the Wii port of Samba de Amigo?[/QUOTE]
Halo Combat Evolved on PC was pretty good.
Gearbox also made Half-Life: Blue Shift. AKA Better-Than-Valve's-Xen: The Game.
[QUOTE=Kljunas;42024706]Like what? Duke Nukem Forever and the Wii port of Samba de Amigo?[/QUOTE]
Borderlands is pretty good, it's just that A:CM threads seem to make people forget how well it's received generally and critically.
[QUOTE=Raidyr;42025027]Borderlands is pretty good, it's just that A:CM threads seem to make people forget how well it's received generally and critically.[/QUOTE]
I think people tend to forget that Gearbox actually has a pretty big string of successful games behind them. People just think DNF and A:CM being bad make them the worst developer on the planet.
[QUOTE=Lolkork;42023799]LIAR!
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Ohhh yeah forgot about that
My favorite Gearbox games so far have been Half-Life: Blue Shift, Half-Life: Opposing Source, Half-Life: Decay and also Halo PC and Halo Custom Edition, but I can't say I'm a fan of much of their newer work.
The only reason I'd buy A:CM is for the multiplayer, but Rebellion's AvP is honestly better in that regard.
[QUOTE=Fish_poke;42024812]I think people fail to realize that, unlike CM, DNF was shit when it hit their doorstep and there wasn't much they could do unless they dedicated all their efforts into making a whole new game.[/QUOTE]
Not necessarily. There was a lot of issues with A:CM where Gearbox was knowingly and purposefully misleading fans. For instance, their E3 demo was entirely fabricated - Gearbox literally developed an isolated demo which looked much better than their final product, in order to pull out as much profit as possible on hype and previews.
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[QUOTE=Banned?;42025060]I think people tend to forget that Gearbox actually has a pretty big string of successful games [i][b]behind them[/i][/b]. People just think DNF and A:CM being bad make them the worst developer on the planet.[/QUOTE]
Key word.
Plus, I realistically don't trust any dev who pulls a bait and switch on their fans or publisher. I'd stop buying Valve games if Valve knowingly mislead me about a half-assed product of theirs.
[QUOTE=Banned?;42024796]Yeah, because Gearbox is 100% responsible for DNF being shit. It has nothing to do with the fact that it spent 14 years in development hell across three different studios.
I'm not going to defend Gearbox on A:CM but anyone who thinks it's Gearbox's fault that DNF sucked needs to get themselves checked.[/QUOTE]
Gearbox are still responsible for hyping and releasing DNF. After Colonial Marines I'm pretty sure they don't have any problems with polishing shit and selling it.
[QUOTE=Leaf Runner;42022163]Really tempted to get this and play for shits and giggles.[/QUOTE]
I don't suggest it. It's not the funny kind of awful where the games is just a wall-to-wall trainwreck, it's that dull kind of bad where it's just super bland, short and uninteresting. If you've ever played Kane and Lynch 2, you'll get much the same experience from this.
If you really do have a bile fascination though, I've got a number of suggestions.
I bought this at release. You know there's something wrong when the best thing you can say about it is "well, it's functional I guess".
The shooting isn't fun at all, there's literally no weight. The pulse rifle sounds like burst fire even when full auto, the aliens are batshit stupid and the graphics look like someone took a picture of a wall, applied a bunch of blur effects and then hired a poor painter to redraw that blurred texture for use in the game.
The multiplayer Is arguably the most fun part of the game (read: still shitty), when playing the Marines you get to shoot at a few other players who are playing aliens with some arguably interesting mechanics that were pulled off horribly (like survival mode). However playing Aliens is an awful experience since they handle like shopping trollies and the terrible camera angles in certain situations doesn't help in the very slightest.
The campaign from a story perspective pretends like it's catered to fans but in actuality it's utterly incoherent, clumsy and incompetent. It's also pretty short and lacks atmosphere. The trailers are wildly inaccurate depictions of the game. Instead of actually shooting aliens you'll be sneaking around turrets and shooting Weyland Yutani troops with somehow worse Ai than the aliens. Even after all that, it just sort of ends, a ridiculously short game.
The one positive is there is a single stealth section, which is so broken that it becomes hilarious when played with a friend. Me and my friend were laughing too hard to get any sort of communication out. Not worth £5 to experience though, and you have to sludge through dull and featureless shooter to get there.
There's literally no place for A:Cm, it has a terrible storyline which thoroughly and consistently breaks continuity with the actual storyline which Pitchford convinced us they'd worked so hard to uphold and the game play is some of the most mediocre bollocks ever released.
It's not for fans of the movies and it's not for fans of any kind of fun. Go play AvP2 instead, or even Rebellions latest AvP game. You'll have more fun.
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