Kopikatsu said:
canadamus_prime said:
I haven't played the game or the demo, but judging by Jim Sterling's video it baffles me that they'd go to all the trouble to release a demo that is better than the finished product. I mean you can talk about cut content, but that doesn't account for having enemy AI that is better in the demo then it is in the finished product. This is why I've lost faith in the games industry.
Well, there have been (well founded) accusations that the demo was entirely scripted. Which means there was no AI present in the video at all.
I think people are confusing a playable demo (I don't think there is one), with the Expo
stage demonstration that Jim Sterling talks about in his video. The stage demo was a non-interactive piece of publicity shown to press as if a real playable segment of the game. Clearly it was built and prepped expressly for this purpose. Sadly, this is pretty much the case for most 'gameplay' demonstrations seen at expos and conventions. Publishers regularly force devs to waste time creating these 'vertical slices' that often can't be used in the final product.
OT: I'm usually pretty understanding of the pulls and needs of the triple-A industry and Gearbox head Pitchford is an eminently likeable guy; but I'm going to have to agree with Carter here. It doesn't matter whether Gearbox actually made the game or not. It was their project, Sega contracted them to make it, and it was developed under their watch. If the final product farts like a dog and they still slapped their logo on it and shipped, then yeah... they deserve the backlash. It just doesn't matter how original and surprising Borderlands was.
I'm willing to let DNF pass because, well, reasons. It was a passion project of Randy Pitchford's, he used to work for 3D Realms and I still find it difficult to believe anyone thought it would actually be good. But when I think back on all those videos where he's
enthusing about how amazing Aliens: Colonial Marines is coming along and it's his boyhood dream come true to add canon story to the franchise and how they're all about respect for the license... and he was fucking
lying. There's no other real explanation for it.