Aliens: Colonial Marines

Started by Nemesis X16 pages

TimeGate has kicked the bucket.

This reminds me of two students doing a science project and when both should've worked together, one of them let the other do it by himself while the other did things that were non-related to the project and when the day came to turn their assignment in, it's the one who did all the work taking the fall and that is the relationship between Gearbox and TimeGate. If they weren't gonna put a lot of commitment into the game like they said they would, then maybe Randy and his buddies shouldn't have gotten the Alien license and just cancelled Colonial Marines when they had the chance. TimeGate doesn't deserve this. Assholes.

The issues with TimeGate can't possibly be 100% due to Aliens: Colonial Marines. What the hell happened there?

They've been having bankruptcy issues and I think they were hoping working on Colonial Marines would be their saving grace similar to how Midway relied on MKvsDC when they were facing bankruptcy but due to poor sales and criticisms from fans, the company crashed and burned. Maybe they would've survived if Gearbox helped them. From what I hear, they barely touched it (and it's THEIR game!) before release and TimeGate was just the co-developer. They didn't have the resources like their partners. They did whatever they could and sadly, it wasn't enough.

Really not surprised, tbh.

It's not as if they are a highly successful games company. What have Timegate got to their name? Isn't it just a couple of mediocre FEAR spin-offs and now this debacle? (Just checked- ok, they have had one reasonably reviewed FPS game, of indeterminate sales. Not lighting the world in fire here) At least Gearbox have actually created something decent and successful in their time.

These things simply happen to companies that constantly produce material that is neither critically or commercially successful.

Michael Biehn has also outlined his experience working on Aliens: Colonial Marines, something he describes as “soulless.”

seems he had more fun on Blood Dragon, then this piece of shit.

Thought it was about time to condemn Gearbox again. Game almost broke gaming for me.

I just hope Gearbox doesn't put their hand up anymore to finish off games stuck in development hell.

Apparently Sega wasn't very happy with Gearbox either (as GB had cost them money too), and even though they will be making more games, Gearbox don't look like they'll be involved.

So, to anyone that played this on PC, something came to light in a big way this week (even though it had been discovered earlier). It turns out that the AI for the aliens is bad because of ONE typo in an .ini file. ONE.

Details and comparison here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_SdkxbgOV0&feature=youtu.be

It sounds ridiculous, like it's too good to be true, but apparently it's legit. Aliens now flank and play cat and mouse with you.

I read about this this morning. I hear the alien is way more aggressive and better at pursuing now. It's insane that this wasn't caught before. You'd think whoever coded would have looked at the xenos patterns and thought "I didn't program it to do that...".

Originally posted by -Pr-
So, to anyone that played this on PC, something came to light in a big way this week (even though it had been discovered earlier). It turns out that the AI for the aliens is bad because of ONE typo in an .ini file. ONE.

Details and comparison here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_SdkxbgOV0&feature=youtu.be

It sounds ridiculous, like it's too good to be true, but apparently it's legit. Aliens now flank and play cat and mouse with you.

That's why someone made a mod for this game to fix up all the BS Gearbox didn't do right

'TemplarGFX's ACM Overhaul mod' is the name of it

Originally posted by Kazenji
That's why someone made a mod for this game to fix up all the BS Gearbox didn't do right

'TemplarGFX's ACM Overhaul mod' is the name of it

The game is just all sorts of ****ed up anyway, buy Alien: Isolation instead, no fix can save this game.

Originally posted by Jmanghan
The game is just all sorts of ****ed up anyway, buy Alien: Isolation instead, no fix can save this game.

Well that mod does fix it up.

Originally posted by Kazenji
Well that mod does fix it up.
How good is it afterwards?

Better then what was released.

Originally posted by Kazenji
Better then what was released.
By how much? Is it actually a decent game?