Mike Notridge writes:
The mere mention of Borderlands could already be enough to sell Battleborn to a lot of fans of the series that don’t really know what it is because it wears those roots on its brightly coloured sleeves. The environments are pretty, utilising a stylised, almost cartoonish visual style that wouldn’t feel out of place on Pandora. The characters look wacky, which is good because so are their personalities. Varying from tall elven rangers to particularly ‘bro’ soldiers to rogue AI’s given physical form. There is a lot of variety here, each with their own special skills, attacks and quirks, everyone is sure to find a favourite. The game is also filled with comedy, a very goofy style of comedy straight out of Borderlands or something like Adventure Time or The Regular Show.
I’m not sure if I like it.
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.
