What went wrong?
It was alright until they decided you won't unlock shit through gameplay and instead you're supposed to drop loadsa moolah in microtransactions.
It's also pretty heavy on the eyes, the screen is a fucking mess half the time with particles and shit.
>>341767540
Gearbox
>>341767938
>It was alright until ...
BWHAHAHAHAHA
>>341767540
No marketing
Gearbox writing
Added Premium skins and taunts
Came out along side overwatch
Retarded character designs
>>341767540
>That big guy in the back
What the fuck is with those proportions?
It isnt Borderlands 3.
Literally who asked for this. Fucking nobody thats who. Just give us a new Borderlands already.
>>341768021
This
Even if Overwatch never came out, nobody would have bought this game except retarded and deluded Borderlands fans. Gearbox destroyed their reputation with Duke Nukem and Colonial Marines.
>>341767540
Brianna Wu and SJWs
>>341768143
Most people here bitch about stuff without even playing it, just repeat what nonsense they hear some jon tron on youtube or that cancer brit bongus.
Can't have a single thread without mentioning the old republic or Elder scrolls online without everyone dissaproving the entire post when they haven't ever even tried them.
>>341767540
gearbox is nothing but shitlords who spew memes. games aren't that good and people finally realize that. they shill you so much paid dlc junk in every game, finallypeople are seeing how fucking retarded that is.
overwatch came out also.
stillborn is fucking dead and will be f2p soon. very soon
>>341768315
>What is artistic license
It's an art style.
>>341768930
Its shit is what it is.
>>341768021
Came in this thread to post this.
>>341768930
Having a stylized look doesn't automatically make it good.
>>341768930
It's ok to have style, but it has to look good within that style. Most of Battleborn's characters don't look good in the style that Gearbox was trying for.
>>341767540
The complete lack of marketing for one thing. I never heard of it until people started talking about it here and that was 3 days before release while overwatch was being talked about since it was announced. That and thier shitty writing. "Become a badass with these baddass heros and save the universe by being a big badass with badass powers and badass guns."
>Gearbox
>Shitty designs
>No marketing
>Season pass
>Purposely picking fights with blizzard
>Releasing your game the same day as Overwatch's open beta
I realize they aren't the same game exactly, but stylistically you still pick specialized "heroes" so people tend to see that as the same thing so they were clearly trying to reach the same audience which blizzard won handily.
>>341767540
They didn't make the best character the main character.
>>341767938
this is a pretty good lie mane, good shit
>color palette is an oversaturated mess
>the character designs fluctuate between bland and ugly
>the UI is a disaster
>weapon models take up a quarter of the screen at any given time
>the guns have no impact
>enemies are bullet sponges
>the writing is the same awful Gearbox slop from Borderlands 2
>season pass for what will inevitably be lackluster DLC
>cash shop taunts and skins that are just recolors
>playerbase is dead, and the people left hanging on are meme spouting autistics
>30 minute wait times for find a match
>garbage marketing
There is no redeeming quality to this game
>>341768650
The game was terribad well before monetization though
>gearbox thread
Gearbox
Borderlands being okay was a fluke, their company is complete shit
Extremely cluttered UI
Suffers from too many distracting and long lasting gfx like Dota 2 does
No waifu
Barely any advertising
Made the mistake of trying to compete with Overwatch when they had nowhere near the steam that Overwatch had
Full sixty dollar price tag when Overwatch's base fame is twenty dollars cheaper
>>341769879
Waiting for SFM
1: the borderlands artstyle is actually very ugly upon repeat viewing, turns out what looks good in screenshots (and bullshots) doesn't actually look good when you're playing it, especially for long periods of time where the bright, out-of-place colors become especially annoying and ugly.
2: The characters are uninteresting, it seems like they just pulled nouns and adjectives out of a hat, after they had exhausted all the classic cliches of course.
3: gearbox writing
4: no waifus
Gearbox made it.
>>341768930
Shut up, Dobson
gearbox
shitty character design
trying to be a moba and fps at the same time
meming way too hard
mediocre gameplay
bad timing (releasing while overwatch was still 100% on the hype-o-meter)
$60 price tag
>>341768257
>Came out along side Overwatch
![maxresdefault[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/CAZtXwN.jpg "maxresdefault[1].jpg")
>>341770798
>trying to be a moba and fps at the same time
Wait a second...
No updates. That's what went wrong. Launched with performance issues, balance issues and design flaws. They didn't patch to fix any of this and as such the game quickly died - which is a shame as it was a decent concept and could have claimed its own niche as fps-moba.
>>341771141
also a better game than Stillborn
The major fault is that cancerous overblown oversaturated effects ridden combat and UI.
I don't care who made it.
I don't care who programmed it.
The artists, and the people who thought that HUD/UI and effects disaster, was passable or looked okay should seriously be thrown into a bonfire.
That shit is 100% disgusting.
Someone has that underwater escort fingerless glove meter comparison picture, so post the shit.
I don't give two fucks if it's "cherry picked" like some little nigger faggot said in the games defense last thread I was in, the fact that shit even can happen is truly embarrassing.
I never thought I would see a fps game with weapons larger than borderlands, but this game does it. Weapon takes up like 30% of the screen.
Awful.
>>341770516
not going to happen
>>341772245
Then why bother suffering through this terrible world if such simple things as SFM models of characters I like are an impossibility.
>>341767540
absolutely everything, at no point did it do anything right
>>341768930
>>341772942
>what Randy sees
>what everyone else sees
Someone post the video with the laughter.
You know. The one.
>>341772942
i still don't understand the ui complaints
is it a pc thing?
also the only thing i don't like about the game is wacky and fuckhuge the characters are.
it makes it impossible if you're a sniper to see through your allies to hit enemies in a hallway.
>>341772642
I'm not suffering anything, I play OW
I haven't played it but considering it is already selling new for $20 off, it's safe to assume it's total shit.
>>341773230
>trump meme avatar
>bought battleborn
>played it for TWENTY SIX HOURS
he is the definition of a cuck from top to bottom holy shit
>>341773624
>mfw I played it today , and actually have 106 hours on it
>>341769879
This, he is too good for the game.
Who was even the main character? The edgy elf guy or the Wu archer?
>>341768257
>No marketing
They tried to rival against Overwatch even though the games are nothing alike.
They even tried to start a twitter fight.
Pic releated is probably what they wanted to achieve.
>>341768930
Hard to call it style when the designs aren't consistent
can someone post the side by side of the Battleborn screen grab and the troll underwater fps from 2008 thing
The character design seriously fucking irritates me. Just staring at it makes me want to punch a hole through the face of whoever thought these designs were acceptable.
Jesus Christ is this what being triggered feels like?
>>341774142
https://imgur.com/f3gjeu4
>>341774230
What are you talking about? Rumble looks good.
Shit marketing led to people assuming that it was an overwatch knockoff instead of an FPS/Moba hybrid
although since mobas are shit I don't blame the marketing too much
>>341774463
is that ultra giga nigga in the top right
The fucking hideous art style and design, no marketing and getting BTFO by Blizzard
>>341768315
It's a gag. They obviously knew how ridiculous he was gonna look when they made him. Like a big stupid speiss mehreen.
Like jesus I don't like Stillborn either but stop being autistic about every little thing.
>>341774463
>>341767540
No waifus, thus no word of mouth/dick.
Why don't you like Battleborn /v/? It's got some bada$$ dialogue and writing, much better than Overwatch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fINHXOjipy8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYZYs2Nm3q4
>>341767540
The game is just fucking bad.
>>341767540
A mix of not making Borderlands 3 instead and trying to compete with Blizzard.
Game doesnt look THAT bad but at this point I wont touch it until its like 75% off.
>>341775685
>dialogue and writing, much better than Overwatch
You posted that as a joke, but really Overwatch's writing is by far its worst part of the package and they just barely edged Battleborn out in that regard.
Like really, I'd take either one. They're both awful.
I enjoyed both beta tests and played it for almost 70 hours after launch.
Reasons why it failed:
- Bullet sponge enemies aren't fun. They're fine in moderation but when every single opponent has to have his health bar whittled down, including the creeps, you're doing something wrong. Excessive bullet sponges just don't work well with first person shooters.
- Character dialog is generally annoying: Gearbox writers seem to be completely out of touch and are trying to cater to people who think that old men who talk like bratty millennials are funny. There's a few gems in there of acceptable and even clever dialog, but most of it sucks.
- The game is visually unattractive, with an extremely inconsistent art style across the character roster. The only two visually appealing things in the game are the stylized particle/explosion effects and the prologue animation. The UI isn't very good either: the infamous screenshot in >>341774463 is cherry picked, but it IS a real, unedited screenshot. The game's color palette is all over the fucking place. It's a complete mess.
- Allowing the launch to compete with Overwatch was a big mistake. Yes, Battleborn was announced first, but Gearbox really should've delayed the game by a week or two. Battleborn's strangled player base led to really shitty long queues for matches, which undoubtedly made more people quit, which made queues even longer.
Battleborn is an unfortunate tale of poor decision-making. There's hints of people who aren't dumbasses having working on it, but this shit apparently had a project lead who let a lot of dumb shit fly and he should really be fired.
>>341775987
Eh Overwatch writing can be hit or miss, but I still find it significantly better than those 2 battleborn videos linked, shit's awful and tryhard.
>>341767540
Picked a fight with Blizzard.
Also didn't bother to separate itself as an Overwatch ripoff when everyone was saying it was and all they needed to do was say, "no, it's not"
>>341775685
Jesus Christ it's like they let ironic shitposters from /v/ do the writing.
>>341775585
Anon all i'm seeing on that boxart is a clash of ugly designs
The first thing I think when I see that guy is not "It must be a parody of Gears of War space marine types"
It's "That looks fucking stupid"
>>341767540
Trying to compete with Blizzard.
Heres a company that releases one major big IP every 5 years and Deadborn tries to fuck with that.
Its their own goddamn fault.
>>341773271
kek
>>341776118
cool, here's and """"UPVOTE"""" for """""(YOU)"""""
No waifu material = no porn
no porn = no free advertisement
>>341776275
Careful with those fresh memes, they're still hot from the oven
>>341776275
>Forms his own opinion instead of spewing /v/'s pre-chewed shit all over the place
>Leddit-tier response
Nice baby photo btw, your mom ever get that checked out?
>>341773429
saved
I bet he feels really stupid.
Obligatory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3Odi_p5KAA
>>341773856
There's constant porn of him over on /trash/.
>>341775685
>kind of like alani's look and powers
>that voice
why does every character in that shit game have such horrible dialogue and voice acting?. Even if i were to buy this game for 10$ just to try it, i'd have to play on mute
>>341768143
Keked
>>341775585
The thing is, the games styles are constantly clashing with each other. It just makes it all an unappealing cluster fuck.
There is nothing wrong with having its own style and doing fun things. The issue here is that there appears to have been made no attempt to unify it all.
![skeleton-accepts-1964[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ZVhI56j.jpg "skeleton-accepts-1964[1].jpg")
>>341776846
>/trash/
If that is where I must go, then so be it...
>>341777169
Thread's name is avian something or other. Enjoy.
>>341774463
>circa
Hello red-it.
>>341773856
Pretty sure it's the elf archer chick
>>341769879
More devs should make games with cool anthro girls in it, it can't be that hard.R-right?
Every character is the meme character, just like Borderlands.
>>341776846
I want to be that barrel
Remember guys, $70 is a small price to support Gearbox in keeping Battleborn alive!
>>341767540
It's like they went to a biggest game dev school in the world for their staff and took all the D students and asked them to make a game.
>Hud is a mess
The hud is filled with so much nothingness. You get hit with a status effect and you have no quick way to know if it's good or bad. Your screen fills up with grim reapers but you don't know what any of it means. Can you kill faster? Are you dying faster? What? Guy on twitter was asking what the doritos on his screen meant and he just posted his hud being filled with yellow triangles with no status message. Even I didn't know.
>Story mode is shit.
There's no logical flow or meaningful progression in the story. You fight wave after wave of enemies until you reach the boss. There's no variety aside from the areas that you're doing the same shooting gallery progression in. Then the game wants you to do this multiple times to unlock characters and it's not fun. The dialogue is typical Gearbox "everyone is quippy" and it's mindnumbing.
>>341768021
Came here to po-
>>341769026
GODDAMMIT
>new ad post Overwatch
>"Singleplayer? Well, in Battleborn at least!"
>>341777496
>Multiplayer is shit and super unbalanced
The starting characters the game gives you are trash. If you enter a match with a low level player you will probably lose. Then you have the problem of dealing with the strict 1 character per team limit and the first come first serve option of player limits. If you load in first you can pick whoever you want while the last player has to hope someone didn't pick the character that works best with his multiplayer loadout. There's no chance of counter picking or good team cohesion either because you don't know who you're fighting against or with against until after the match starts.
You got the typical moba style mode where you can easily tell who will win by whoever can reach the enemy turret first. There's also the the domination point capture mode with only 1 good map because they decided the points should be right next to each other in the other map.
I didn't bother to try the 3rd game mode yet because i decided to play some more SP.
>>341777493
You know you're in bad shape when people start looking at your game like it's a charity instead of a product.
Didn't they design a character based on Brianna Wu?
Nothing
Battleborn still has a thriving community with hundreds of players
>>341767938
>fucking mess half the time with particles and shit.
quality gearbox visual design as usual
>>341778032
No.
The character has ugly proportions, but they're nothing like Wu.
>>341768315
>what the fuck is with those proportions
>posts anime
>>341767540
le steampunk robot gentleman xd
>>341778119
>Takes a screenshot of an electric explosion
hurr durr
>>341778270
You had me at "steampunk"
>>341776730
I can't even begin to describe everything wrong in that statement
>>341778472
if you have that mech girl class in your game, it's actually representative of 90% of gameplay you faggot
>>341777493
>Free content soon
>Season pass
>Still has micro-transactions
They are pretty much sucking what they can from there already small loyal fanbase
They literally never learn
>>341779004
Do they have quotes? I thought it was an endless stream of run on sentences?
>Someone was paid to write these lines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYZYs2Nm3q4
>>341767938
>microtransactions in a game you buy
I've never understood how these games get any player base.
>>341772942
It's an improvement, provided that her face might be modeled after Brianna Wu
>>341777169
>>341776846
>Visit /trash/ because never done so before
>Full of all kinds of furry fetish combination threads
Now I know why it's called trash
>it's another Battleborn shitposting thread that will get 100s of replies
This game was neither good enough, or bad enough, to deserve this level of shitposting.
I'm not defending it either, I avoided this piece of shit like the plague. If you couldn't tell it was going to be dead on arrival weeks before it actually came out, you're a fucking retard.
>>341780512
When it was first made it was pretty much nsfw /mlp/
>>341779553
>CALL OF DUTY CAN DEW IT, WHY CAN'T WE?
>>341775685
Alani is just a slightly shittier Korra.
And her voice doesn't even come close to fitting her style and animations
