Poll: Views on Gearbox?

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Nerexor

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My only experience with Gearbox is through Borderlands and Borderlands 2, which I find highly entertaining and a lot of fun. Of course I suppose that might just speak well of that team rather than the company as a whole... not sure how big the company is. As long as they make me borderlands 3 that is just as fun, or even more so, than BL2, I really don't care what they do.
 

Zealous

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DN:F and A:CM both seemed terrible (I didn't play either of them) but I enjoyed Borderlands and Borderlands 2. They're in the same camp as a ton of other devs in my eyes. They've produced some good stuff and some bad stuff, if something of their has been out for a bit and has gotten favourable reviews from both the press and enthusiasts then I'll consider picking it up if I think it looks good. Nothing more and nothing less.
 

Agayek

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I like Borderlands, but they really fucked up with DNF and Colonial Marines. I'm not going to be buying any more of their games until well after release at this point.
 

Random Argument Man

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Good for their own stuff. Bad when It comes to pick a lost cause and trying to release it. If the project is a mess, scratch it and restart at zero. At best, if you decide to make a sequel to DNF and A:CM. Make it right by learning from your mistakes.
 

martyrdrebel27

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ya know, i tried, i fought for them, borderlands was great. innovative and fun, and funny with its own style and voice. i thought they were a good up and comer. i bought all dlc for BL1, enjoyed it. however, with the duke nukem thing (yes they inerited it, then made it terrible. they didnt inherit the decision to do the regenerating health or two weapons only), the aliens fiasco, and their "inability" to raise bl2's level cap (yes, that's important, and yes it's lazy that they didnt figure it out. seriously, they KNEW they were doing dlc before the game was even finished, so they could have had a little foresight that would allow for a cap increase.)

as a person who dedicates himself more to the artists behind the titles than the titles themselves, i feel a little betrayed. they lost a lot of good will, and whereas purchasing their next game was just a given before, i'll need to be thoroughly convinced before even considering it.

it hurts more when you aren't expecting it.
 

SonOfMethuselah

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Well...
I mean, the Borderlands games are okay. I'm not big into first-person shooters, but going online with my friends is enjoyable enough. Those are literally the only thing Gearbox I've ever played: wouldn't have touched Duke Nukem Forever with a ten-foot pole, had no interest in Aliens: Colonial Marine because frequent and lengthy development delays are a huge turnoff for me, didn't play Brothers in Arms, and had no idea that it was them who did the Half-Life expansions, but didn't play those, anyway.

The thing is, I don't know about the studio as a whole. There are moments when they seem pretty cool: the post on the first page about the proposal and eulogy are testament to that, but then there are times when they seem... a little shady. I can't even really put my finger on why. And the whole misrepresentation thing with the Aliens demo just makes me want to punch Pitchford whenever I see a picture of his smiling mug. STOP LOOKING SO SMUG, YOU LIAR!

I'll vote other. I just don't know what to think about them.
 

WanderingFool

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Sizzle Montyjing said:
So, what with this new Aliens: Colonial Marines fiasco and the simple fact that Duke Nukem Forever even existed, what are your opinions on the game developer Gearbox? Terrible? Great? Good but unlucky? Good but lazy? Good but stop with the DLC now seriously it's getting annoying?
Seeing as they're the reason I have Borderlands 1&2, as well as DNF (I did kinda like it, great for a laugh), I find them as Good. Not Great, but Good.

As I never planned on buy or even playing Colonial Marines, dont give a shit.
 

Extra-Ordinary

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Even though I haven't really played a Gearbox game, from the outside looking in, it looks like for every step forward they take one back.
 

DirgeNovak

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I don't particularly care for Borderlands (not bad, but not great either... too grindy for my tastes), and Duke Nukem Forever and Colonial Marines are shit. So Gearbox wouldn't be very high on my list of favorite devs even if they weren't assholes. Or rather led by an asshole, Randy Pitchford, who deserves all the scorn in the world for his reaction to criticism. He never acknowledged the differences between the infamous hands-off demo and the final product, instead accusing those who criticize him of whoring for attention. Or simply ignoring them.

Gearbox will not see a penny from me as long as Pitchford will have a job there.
 

MAUSZX

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Well Duke Nukem wasn't really their fault, I mean the game passed trough a lot of developers, but Aliens Colonial Marines is unforgivable, not because it's bad, but because the way they showed the demo and it was very very different. So I think bad, because I like Borderlands but those are not mind blowing.
 

Sizzle Montyjing

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Kakulukia said:
I don't particularly care for Borderlands (not bad, but not great either... too grindy for my tastes), and Duke Nukem Forever and Colonial Marines are shit. So Gearbox wouldn't be very high on my list of favorite devs even if they weren't assholes. Or rather led by an asshole, Randy Pitchford, who deserves all the scorn in the world for his reaction to criticism. He never acknowledged the differences between the infamous hands-off demo and the final product, instead accusing those who criticize him of whoring for attention. Or simply ignoring them.

Gearbox will not see a penny from me as long as Pitchford will have a job there.
Yeah... it's not so fun following him on twitter for SHIFT codes...
I've seen some stuff man. Some douchey, douchey stuff.