WP:
What's the universe to do when there's only one star left? According to Gearbox and its upcoming shooter Battleborn, the answer is to get everyone together and shoot it out.
Gearbox, the creative engine behind the tongue-in-cheek ethos of Borderlands, strikes me as the happy-go-lucky, maybe-drunken uncle of the first-person shooter landscape, which is typically bathed in the alpha intensity of franchises like Call of Duty or Halo. There's a goofball attitude that leaks through the pores of Battleborn, which brings together 25 of the universe's greatest warriors to fight for Solus, the last star of the universe and the key to all life. Naturally, whoever controls the star probably controls (or defends) the universe.
Ed writes: This past weekend, Battleborn was finally shut down by Gearbox and 2K. Let's look back at a game that deserved a lot better.
It at least deserved them moving it to a solo-able option post server shut-down, IMHO.
William writes: "Battleborn was not the game I wanted it to be, it probably wasn't the game a number of you reading wanted it to be. But what it undeniably was was a game that a team of hundreds of people poured their hearts and souls into."
Game preservation is important.
Single-player campaign should always be offline. So that some part(s) of a certain game still lives through and can be enjoyed later.
Always Online games will always end up like this at some point. Offline SP campaign should ALWAYS be included.
Thinking that games ( and in particular this one ) will forever be lost, it makes me sad.
Battleborn will shut down on the 31st of January 2021, so let's revisit its ill-fated history and discuss its surreal departure.
One of the funnier game i played with my friends. I like that one of the reason it failed is that it had many reviews like the one you did; criticizing the gameplay because it's 'too complex': because it had a skill tree and because there was different classes... My personal analysis of its failure is beacause of the Blizzard PR team: they saw a threat in it , and decided to kill it by paying professional reviews and counting on their fanboys to bash it and create a fake 'comparaison war' with it. The saddest thing is that this game will disappear forever. It casts, as others in the same situtation, a dark shadow on the future of video gaming. Hopefully there are and still will be 'pirates' to save and archive these for the future generations, that i hope will someday realize that consumerism is not the only solution.
Good preview. I liked the last bit about how you were surprised at enjoying it so much. I've been getting the feeling that this game could be the sleeper hit for me this holiday. Looks like easy pick-up-and-play casual shooting fun, but its doing some new things too.
Graymane or Battleborn?
Looks really good.