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 Brother Captain Alexander wrote:
 H.B.M.C. wrote:

Yet another example of someone not understanding the difference between a developer and a publisher. SEGA published this. They did not make it. Gearbox (and about 50 other studios, it seems) made this game.


Yet another example of someone not getting the joke.
I know Gearbox and 2 other companies made it and that SEGA published it. I just wanted to make a joke on 40k tab...


Jokes like that only work when there's an element of truth to them. SEGA not only didn't make this game (since it's a publisher), SEGA doesn't even have the rights to 40k (that we know of yet). So the joke failed on both counts.

It's hard even saying SEGA have the Warhammer Fantasy license, because the press release made it sound very certain that it's gone to The Creative Assembly, and SEGA are only involved because they own The Creative Assembly - they wouldn't have the rights to hand it to any of their other studios.

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I love this thread.

Going from gleefull enthusiam to heartbreak so fast I near got whiplash.


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 Ma55ter_fett wrote:
I love this thread.

Going from gleefull enthusiam to heartbreak so fast I near got whiplash.


haha

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 Galdos wrote:
I meant to try the multiplayer, I couldnt get it to start.

I feel like my game is set to only create a party out of my friends on steam which would prevent me from find a room obviously lol.


Check your settings when you're in the matchmaking menu. If I remember right, it defaults to trying to find people on your friends list (for xbox at least)

I had to switch mine over to public to get it working.

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 Brother Captain Alexander wrote:
http://kotaku.com/5984068/how-aliens-colonial-marines-fell-apart?utm_campaign=Socialflow_Kotaku_Facebook&utm_source=Kotaku_Facebook&utm_medium=Socialflow

What actually happened to the game: in 2010 Gerabox sent A:CM to other development house called TimeGate to finish A:CM singleplayer for them while they work on Borderlands 2. The version that they sent them was the one they released in 2011 demo.
In the middle of 2012 TimeGate returned the almost finished product to them and this is what they have seen: game done from scratch, most of their rendering and graphics gone and they didn't like it at all. SEGA refused to gave another delay and they did what they could in this 6 months, rebuilding the game from scratch.

http://www.destructoid.com/developer-gearbox-lied-to-sega-2k-over-colonial-marines-245986.phtml
"At some point in 2008, SEGA temporarily pulled the plug on the game," he said. "They caught wind of Gearbox shifting resources (despite still collecting milestone checks as if the team were full size) and lying to SEGA AND 2K about the number of people working on each project. This led to the round of layoffs at Gearbox in late 2008."
No tears for GearBox please!

   
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Despite my happy go lucky optimism earlier, this had by far and away, without fail, and doubt, the worst ending to a game I have ever experienced in 25 years of gaming.

Oh well.

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Dman137 wrote:
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By 1-irt: Still as long as Hissy keeps showing up this is one of the most entertaining threads ever.

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Western Kentucky

 Ratius wrote:
Despite my happy go lucky optimism earlier, this had by far and away, without fail, and doubt, the worst ending to a game I have ever experienced in 25 years of gaming.

Oh well.

I was in shock, mainly because I was still trying to figure out how the hell they call that an ending. That was the most pitiful excuse for a bossfight ever, and this is coming from a guy who finished Bulletstorm's campaign.

Also, whoever did the voicework for hicks has got to be the least expressive voice actor I've ever heard. I could almost hear him saying "I'm not getting paid enough for this."

It screamed, "BUY THE SEQUEL! WHICH WILL NEVER COME BECAUSE WE"VE DRIVEN THE ALIENS FRANCHISE INTO THE GROUND TROLOLOLOL!"

Yes, I mad.

Oh well, only paid 10 bucks to rent it, and the multiplayer is fun. I'll probably buy it when it's 20 bucks in a couple of months. 20 bucks says this game gets voted as biggest letdown of 2013, not so much because it's bad, so much as it could have been so much better.

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Still playing this, completed the campaign and running through again with brother in law. if anyone wants to hop in (We play UK time usually 8-10pm GMT, though I do some more online stuff during days at weekends and sometimes 6pm gmt onwards before bro in law gets on) feel free to add me, Duce00, the more the merrier imo for the campaign as it makes it more fun when things screw up.

Online gameplay is great fun, though I see some people are really deadly aliens already... time to get some levels to get the good gear.
   
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So I heard this really sucks... how have you guys found it, the storyline especially?

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 Melissia wrote:
So I heard this really sucks... how have you guys found it, the storyline especially?


The game has bad A.I. , tons of bugs, black holes, texture that is mix from 2008 and 2010 games, more than 1/3'rd of game is Call of Duty: Weyland Yutani.
As for the story, it's canon alright and most of people wish to God it wasn't.

If you really want to hear how 'good' the game is go to Youtube and watch Angry Joe's review, the guy nailed it.

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 Melissia wrote:
So I heard this really sucks... how have you guys found it, the storyline especially?

If you're going to play it for the story, take your head and slam it in a door for about 5 minutes

That'll elicit roughly the same feelings I got from it. Although I did this after playing the game, may as well get it out of the way before hand.

Multiplayer though is a ton of fun.

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You know, I didnt think the story was that bad actually lol. I enjoyed it. It wasnt good but that didnt mean I couldnt enjoy it lol

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It was hollywood summer blockbuster style bad-- bad, but enjoyably so?

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If they were going to bring Hicks back they should have just pretended Alien3 never happened. Perhaps they should have done that anyway.

I also don't understand how parts of the colony were still intact. The colony was a prefab construct and the atmosphere generator was like a 40 megaton nuke going off? (can't remember the dialogue from Aliens) How did any of this stuff survive?

The E3 trailer was cool enough to let that pass, but now that the game has proven itself to be a steaming pile of gak the story doesn't get any kinds of "rule of cool" pass.

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 Medium of Death wrote:
If they were going to bring Hicks back they should have just pretended Alien3 never happened. Perhaps they should have done that anyway.

I also don't understand how parts of the colony were still intact. The colony was a prefab construct and the atmosphere generator was like a 40 megaton nuke going off? (can't remember the dialogue from Aliens) How did any of this stuff survive?

The E3 trailer was cool enough to let that pass, but now that the game has proven itself to be a steaming pile of gak the story doesn't get any kinds of "rule of cool" pass.


I still pretend Alien 3 didnt happen

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 Melissia wrote:
It was hollywood summer blockbuster style bad-- bad, but enjoyably so?

Some parts yes, other parts no.

The sewers level is awesome. Probably one of the cooler levels in an Aliens game that I've ever played.

Every "boss fight" though makes you want to chuck your xbox out a window. I don't know which made me more furious though, the laughable "fight" in the power loader, or the "fight" against the queen.

And I hated all of the Weyland Utani (can never remember spelling) bits. They handled that very clumsily, both storywise and gameplaywise.

But that's just me, some people actually liked the story a bit. My problem was more the voice actors and dialogue being very VERY fake and made it hard to take seriously.

The game is easily worth a rental though, and once it drops to around 20 bucks or so I would buy it. It's bad, but it had some cool moments that were worth experiencing.

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Kotaku has written a second recap to the development of this game with some additional information. Manchu quoted Brother Captain Alexander's link to the first one somewhere above this if you'd like to read that first.

I think a lawsuit is likely, personally.

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 Medium of Death wrote:
If they were going to bring Hicks back they should have just pretended Alien3 never happened. Perhaps they should have done that anyway.


Spoiler:
Alien 3 definitely happened, you could heard that at the beginning of the game. The Hicks explained in HH that their ship was boarded and he was captured. After that WY put some random dude into his capsule and attached facehugger to Ripley and drop them down to the planet. They were out there from the beginning, they just 'came' later to pick up Ripley and queen. But after she trolled them and kill herself along with the specimen they went back to LV-426 to try again with the derelict ship.


I also don't understand how parts of the colony were still intact. The colony was a prefab construct and the atmosphere generator was like a 40 megaton nuke going off? (can't remember the dialogue from Aliens) How did any of this stuff survive?


Spoiler:
If you remember from film the Bishop said hat the size of the explosion would be 30 km, but he also mentioned that it will be netron explosion. And as we know neutron nuclear explosion destroy biomater but keep everything else intact. It is discussed that Aliens in the sewers are the ones that attacked the colony in the movie and that's what was left of them.

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Looks cool might play test it, and see what i think of it.

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Wow, reading through the article Ouze linked, it sounds as if all parties are to blame for the fail - mostly Gearbox, followed by Sega.

Also, seems like PC users once again had to bite the bullet, if the differences between the demo and the actual game are due to console optimisation.

Personally, I'm still playing the campaign - a few missions with a friend every weekend. It's enjoyable so far, in part because experiencing the bad stuff together with another person, and then joking about it, somewhat alleviates the issue. You really notice how the campaign was not meant to be played by more than one person tho.

Female Marines are playable only in multiplayer, btw. In the campaign, you've got a squad of clones.

[edit] Oh, and for some reason the FeMarines are not allowed to wear helmets.

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I'm really glad I didn't get this game now...

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It isn't all bad, tbh, it's just like ... well, MrMoustaffa said it best: it could have been so much better. And when you read the (apparent) reasons as to why it isn't, it only hurts even more.
   
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 Lynata wrote:
It isn't all bad, tbh, it's just like ... well, MrMoustaffa said it best: it could have been so much better. And when you read the (apparent) reasons as to why it isn't, it only hurts even more.


I agree. I dont actually find its that bad. The problem is that we expect much more

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You have high expectations from an Aliens game?

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 Melissia wrote:
I'm really glad I didn't get this game now...


Yes, a wise decision my dear Hold on! Is this the first time we agree on something?
   
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Ireland

Melissia wrote:You have high expectations from an Aliens game?
The footage and images we had seen so far looked promising, and we all know that the setting itself offers ample material for intrigueing stories and unique, thrilling visuals.

It should not have been difficult to make a good game out of it. And it wouldn't have been a premiere, either (AvP2 was rather good if I remember correctly).

In fact, I think there are many things in A:CM that were begun in the right manner, before the beancounters (Gearbox with "let's just focus all our resources on another game for a few years", Sega with "make it more like CoH!") jumped in and messed everything up. That's the truly tragic thing. All that potential ... wasted.
   
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I hope SEGA nail Gearbox to the wall for this. Right to the fething wall...



   
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Ards - N.Ireland

@Lynata, if you and friend want a 3rd for campaigns I'm happy to join you, or even for online proper team play.
   
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 streamdragon wrote:
No collector's edition for PC = mega failure.


Man, I had no idea how right I would be. With no PC CE I saved myself abunch of money. Still will probably pick itup for $5 on Steam though. I LOVE the Aliens IP even if this game sounds awful.
   
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Dublin, Ireland

Echo what Mr. M has said really.
Deleted from my HD this week.

In short, dont pay for this game.

Dman137 wrote:
goobs is all you guys will ever be

By 1-irt: Still as long as Hissy keeps showing up this is one of the most entertaining threads ever.

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