Well, I personally loved the game. For years, I had wanted an Aliens game with his premise (being in a marine team, no Predator BS etc). I didn't think the A.I. was that bad. I thought it was generally pretty good. I found my marine team helped, & I thought the lurker aliens were particularly good (scared the crap out of me the first time playing). I played on the hardest difficulty at night with the sound up & had a blast.
I loved the movie locations the most. I also love being able to play as movie characters online, particularly on the Tribute map on Bug Hunt, which is a very accurate reproduction of Hadley's Hope. I also love the hand held motion tracker too.
I also thought the story was good. Not as good as Alien or Aliens, but certainly better than the garbage like Alien 3 onwards.
That said, while I enjoyed the game, I despise the way the game was handled, & the lies by Gearbox. They embezzled Sega's funding to work on crap like Duke Nukem Forever & Borderlands. This is just Randy Pitchford saying he is above the Alien license, & a bigger cultural influence than these films, or Cameron & Scott.
If Pitchford had any respect for the material like he was bragging about for months on end, then he'd not have fraudulently misused Sega's funding, & he'd have made sure Gearbox put as much effort into this as they did with Borderlands. Since we know they had zero interest in making the game, then why sign a contract with Sega? Nobody held a gun to Pitchford's head.
In addition to being a disgusting liar & fraud, he is also a hypocrite. Not long after the game comes out, he starts crying about people calling him a liar. He then starts spouting off about being "committed" to the game, & that the console versions would get the film grain option.
I was really excited about the film grain feature, as I am a huge fan of the film, & I love celluloid. Console users never got it, nor was there this so called "commitment." They had the nerve to charge people almost $40 for the season pass, yet refused to make an effort to make it easier to get games on the DLC maps (which are half the content of the season pass) by fixing matchmaking, or having offline bots. The latter was supposed to be in, as there is an offline mode for multiplayer. This is not LAN, as there is a separate LAN option. Nor can you even play splitscreen with another controller, even though the booklet says you can (it specifically mentions splitscreen multiplayer mode as well as campaign co-op).
The game wasn't supposed to have playable female marines either, until a fan made petition got thousands of signatures to convince them. This is why we didn't get a playable Vasquez skin. Considering the way Cameron portrayed his female characters in Aliens, & how Gearbox kept bragging about being huge fans of the film, playable female characters (with equal amount of customisation options), should have been a given.
The fact is, Randy Pitchford is a sexist, misogynist scumbag. He made Duke Nukem Forever a priority over this. Nobody wanted this worthless turd of a game. They did finish the development, but Pitchford is a huge Duke fan, & even worked on Duke 3D in the 90's. Women in these awful games are just portrayed as dumb sex objects.
Another bit that shows Pitchford's claim about being committed to the game to be an absolute lie is after they finished the Borderlands 2 season pass, instead of focusing on Aliens, they decided to make more crap for Borderlands.
Sega certainly do deserve to be blamed for how the game turned out, & they kept pushing for mostly human enemies (at one point they actually wanted hardly any aliens. In the finished game its mostly about 50-50 with regards to human & alien enemies). But to be fair, they invested $60 million into the project, & to have cancelled it would have been a huge loss. It is understandable that they'd try to get a return on their investment.
The huge problem was Gearbox deliberately sponging Sega for more funding & kept getting it delayed (they weren't actually working on the game like they were supposed to).
Sorry for the rant, but it sickens me how arrogant Pitchford & his team of frauds are. The Alien films are some of the most influential science fiction films over the last 30 years (Aliens was also known to be a huge source for game developers to rip off), & to think they were above the material is really disgusting.
It is also appalling how video gamers & companies still like to support Gearbox, even though they deliberately set out to deceive Sega, 20th Century Fox, the fans, & people involved in the game who worked on the films.
Oh, one last thing, Pitchford continues to lie about being a fan of the films. He has said he respects the developers working on Alien Isolation & Ridley Scott. This is a crock of bullcrap because if this game does well, it is only going to make it bluntly clear that Gearbox were the reasons behind the troubled development of ACM, & they'd look even worse. He is a scumbag.
Randy Pigford says a dream project requires embezzling funding, lying & ripping off the fans
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