Randy Pitchford, president of Gearbox, has stated that he spoke the truth about Aliens: Colonial Marines in the past. Recently on twitter he was quick to respond to allegations of lying during presentations which showed the game in a different and seemingly more polished state.
@pazzoinsano No one likes to be called a liar, especially if their intent was pure and they always spoke the truth when they spoke it.
— Randy Pitchford (@DuvalMagic) February 15, 2013
While we are not sure what exactly happened behind the scenes with Gearbox and the other studios that chipped in, it is interesting to hear. By now you have probably seen this video by Videogamer.com:
As we can see, entire sections were removed from the game, specifically that awesome scene were a bunch of aliens were overwhelming the player and their sentry turrent out of this small corridor. In addition, the graphics seemed to be much more polished and certain scenarios, such as the ship exploding, were more fleshed out in the demo. Now, when we also go back to some of Randy Pitchford’s presentations, one can see how it could be a bit misleading when the final product didn’t exactly match up with some of those words.
Again, we are not sure what exactly happened, perhaps he did have true intent, but the fact of the matter is that the game isn’t exactly living up to expectations, and people need an official response about how they plan to move forward and help ease some tension soon.
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I hate to be mad at him. Gearbox did a good job with Borderlands and previous games (with the exceptions of Duke Nukem which was dumped on them by 3D Realms). It’s a shame that a game with such potential and hype has strayed away from gamer’s hearts.
If I were them I would immediately begin to patch the game to a state that represents what we have seen in previous gameplay videos. Also, it would be a good start to throw some apologies out and give away some free content to make up for some of the mess they have created. Otherwise, if this is not done, then Gearbox’s name, along with future endeavors, may be in jeopardy.
I have no problem being mad at him. Let’s assume at the time of the demo everything he said he believed to be true. That still does not excuse Gearbox and Sega of lying to customers up to release by using fake footage to promote the game. They used footage from that demo in their ads, they intentionally mislead customers into believing that was the real game. At no point did anyone involved in the game come forward and say the the demo no longer represents the final game. On top of that, Gearbox has been working on this game for over half a decade and by all accounts they simply didn’t give a damn. Instead of working on this they created two Borderlands games and bought the rights to Duke Nukem and only when Sega finally had enough of their crap did they shit out a game.
Sega was close to suing Gearbox for breach of contract due to Gearbox continuously asking for delays and not showing any real effort on the project. In order to even get the game we got Gearbox had to farm out the work to other studios with them supposedly working closely with Timegate on the single player. Despite them both developing the title together we still what was released. Says a lot to me about how much Gearbox really cared.
As for patching. what can they really do with patches? They might be able to improve the graphics a bit to match the demo but that is far from the only problem. Huge sections of the demo are complete fabrications and what is there is almost entirely different. Hell, even the animations in the demo are better than what is in the final game.
The canonical story we were promised is a god damn hack job that makes Capcom stories look good. It’s more of an insult to the Alien franchise than Resurrection and both AvP movies put together. There is nothing Sega or Gearbox can do to fix the game outside of remaking it from scratch.
Aliens: CM is a huge black mark on Gearbox’s record and it is well deserved. They have earned every ounce to distrust and hate that comes from the fallout of this game. Sega earned it as well because, at the very least, they were willfully ignorant of what Gearbox was doing and didn’t do their job as a publisher to make sure the final product was up to the promised standards.
With DNF Gearbox is easy to forgive. They were handed a nearly complete game and had to deal with a very pissed off 2K who just wanted the game released after so long. A: CM, on the other hand, was given to them and them alone to work on from scratch.
They could also improve the AI a bit as well through patches. But, yeah, it’s most likely going to be too little too late. This is so messed up. I honestly didn’t expect this to happen to this game. I’m such a huge Aliens fan too 🙁 .
I’m actually upset over the fact that this is suppose to be considered official canon. I mean when you get the go ahead like that you need to make sure your game is decent.
The least they can do is fix the graphics and AI. But, of course that isn’t enough, they really dropped the ball here.
Oh yeah. This being canon is crazy. Even ignoring the bullshit twist at the end, the story is a disaster.
Why the FUCK would they bring Hicks back? Seriously?
“It’s more of an insult to the Alien franchise than Resurrection and both AvP movies put together.”
That’s SOME insult!
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Watch this side by side comparison. It is outrageous.
Wow, that’s….. wow… I can’t believe they played us like that. In the words of the Joker, “Too easy. Played you like a violin and cut your strings.” 🙁
Watch this review by Adam Sessler. Quite saddening…
They can’t really say “forgive us for using false advertising”. It’s both sega’s and gearbox’s fault and they deserve to be sued. I figured out how shitty the game was by watching the multiplayer trailer personally.