YoshiOfYellow posted:

lol if you didn't spring for the Origins edition for the sweet, meaningless digital loot

Willie Tomg posted:

It was fantastic in its day. When you had a 12v12 of generally competent players like almost always happened on the LCs and Reddit servers it was fire. and then:

Poopy Joe was a Monkeynaut who tragically died in an explosion shortly after his rocket took off, due to a lack of Australium fuel. This was caused by Mann Co. in their unsuccessful attempt to rid themselves of weapons involved in a Senate investigation. Mann Co. took no blame for his death, and actually created commemorative plates that remembered Poopy Joe and America's dream of conquering space and Florida. These plates were actually hints of the then-upcoming WAR! Update, depicting the Eyelander, Equalizer and Buff Banner's bugle.

During the ARG leading up to Meet the Pyro, new information came to light concerning the death of Poopy Joe. According to leaked pages from Saxton Hale's Senate Hearing, Poopy Joe's rocket seems to have used a fuel source of solid australium. Saxton Hale was present at the launch facility when Poopy Joe and his rocket were prepared for launch to follow the successful launch of Vladimir Bananas. Hale stole the entire australium supply and replaced it with defective suitcase explosives. Once the rocket hit ignition phase, the entire bulk of suitcase bombs detonated simultaneously, causing the rocket to crash, killing Poopy Joe. Mann Co. then covered up the entire incident, denying all knowledge of it. The new Special Delivery map Doomsday has the player transport an Australium suitcase into Poopy Joe's rocket, re-enacting the piece of history. Unfortunately, the rocket crashes almost immediately to the tune of a warning bugle.

RIP tf2. You were the best part of the orange box. You don't owe anyone a drat thing. Rest easy, now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XimRzoie80k

Zzulu posted:

loving americans and your loving timezones


loving americans

Willie Tomg posted:

sure, okay!

MacheteZombie posted:

Until this game implements hats and hat economies it will pale in comparison to the great and mighty game known as TF2, sorry folks.

Lastgirl posted:

I stopped playing because the soldier demo nade rocket spam was outrageous and they introduced more weapons to make them even spammier

Countblanc posted:

i feel nothing but empathy and pity for the people who worked on the game, and nothing but schadenfreude for the higher ups and the company itself

Fellatio del Toro posted:

YoshiOfYellow posted:

lol if you didn't spring for the Origins edition for the sweet, meaningless digital loot

Ulvirich posted:

I'd rather spend a twenty on random boxes than a spread of skins I don't particularly like, or extra bits for games I will not be playing after Overwatch is released.

anime was right posted:

or, y'know, people are capable of making a mediocre game

the aliens colonial marines thing seems like it was money laundering or something going on there. but battleborn was made by an actual team with actual resources.

MacheteZombie posted:

All I'm reading is you being salty about my nuts and bolts swirling fedora wearing, gibbing into invisibility, backstabbing for full health Spy.

Jastiger posted:

It was more when they started introducing items that changed the basic class mechanics. Demo's that can run faster than scouts and heal off metal? What?! Heavies that can move silently? Spy cloaks that make you invulnerable while cloaked? The power creep got ridiculous, and the demographic ate it up.

I'm also super glad its limited to 6v6 and its not just huge spam fests. You have to pay attention in this game, and hopefully it keeps the casuals out. (Who am I kidding I'm a casual, but you know what I mean).

Fellatio del Toro posted:

Willie Tomg posted:

they make pills for that btw

SwissArmyDruid posted:

To be fair, Blizzard isn't all sunshine and rainbows either. They have a long and storied history of scheduling open betas, free trials, welcome back campaigns, and aggressively stepped-up marketing around the releases and betas of games they perceive to be their competition.

KodiakRS posted:

Jastiger posted:

It was more when they started introducing items that changed the basic class mechanics. Demo's that can run faster than scouts and heal off metal? What?! Heavies that can move silently? Spy cloaks that make you invulnerable while cloaked? The power creep got ridiculous, and the demographic ate it up.

I'm also super glad its limited to 6v6 and its not just huge spam fests. You have to pay attention in this game, and hopefully it keeps the casuals out. (Who am I kidding I'm a casual, but you know what I mean).

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It’s not just the in-game graphics I’m talking about, it’s how Battleborn presents itself at every turn. The title screen is an ugly collage of all the characters, put to shame by other games who have made similar-looking splash screens from League of Legends to Overwatch. Once you load in, the game’s prologue is an oddly animated cutscene that looks like a low-budget Gorillaz music video. But then sometimes in other missions, it shifts into a frame-by-frame animation with more shading where characters talk to one another. Sometimes it does cutscenes in-engine. There’s really no consistency at all.

Even the fonts of the menus feel like sand in your eyes. They mix one that’s cartoony and Borderlands-ish with…Arial? I think? It’s not Comic Sans, at least, but it’s just…not good. And as you navigate the hero list and see characters with twig-arms and shrunken heads or ugly power armor, it’s like the exact opposite of the feeling joy you get from looking at the cast of Overwatch or seeing a freshly designed DOTA or League champion.

KodiakRS posted:

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Ulvirich posted:

I'd rather spend a twenty on random boxes than a spread of skins I don't particularly like, or extra bits for games I will not be playing after Overwatch is released.

Lastgirl posted:

now its all coming back to me, the demo with the insane insta kill charges

at the time everyone was just like thast so wacky! but I guess in retrospect...

Wangsbig posted:

it started off being very simple & balanced like this game, the over watch. it is hard to missmanage competitive vgames harder than vavle llc tho, so do not fear

Imagined posted:

My question is: does this happen because the people who suck get better that quickly, or because they just stop playing?

Willie Tomg posted:

side note: lol that Forbes is the grown-up video games journalism publication in 2016

KodiakRS posted:

Lastgirl posted:

In my view, Battleborn is a disaster. It is one of the greatest failures of game design in gaming history. What we are going to say to the Battleborn marketing team is "It must end, or we are going to end it for you."

Enough is enough. We must preserve our retinas for our future and our children's future. Thank you.

Willie Tomg posted:

side note: lol that Forbes is the grown-up video games journalism publication in 2016

YoshiOfYellow posted:

I'm just always really sad when a game turns out horrible like this. I'm sure the devs really wanted to make something special and put a lot of their heart into it but it looks like it got mismanaged and mislead to hell. Gearbox just didn't have the kind of sense to can the thing like Blizzard did with Titan and we ended up with this Frankenstein disaster that should never have lived to begin with.

Jastiger posted:

I said it in the other game and I'll say it again, Gearbox has always been bad. From Half Life: Opposing Force, to Borderlands, to this, Gear Box has always put out a bad product. Some fun writing and dialogue, but as a total package their games are at best Below Average. This is just more evidence of this.