Aliens: Colonial Marines Wii U Hasn't Been Canceled

[Quellist]

The sad thing is the Wii U version could be the absolute perfect game, with brilliant AI, graphics to blow your mind and an intense, involving story and people would still stay away in droves. The current version has such negative publicity any release of this game is going to be fatally compromised.

OFC they will likely release the same PoS version on the Wii U, if they release anything at all, so heigh ho!

 

[Eternal_Lament]

At this point it just seems like a lost cause. Even if better, the current version just has so much negative attention that it won't matter. If, on the off chance, that the WiiU version is better and they decide to bring it over onto the PS3/360/PC, they better not do the whole NG3: RE thing and charge an extra 60 bucks for it. Even if I' not picking up either version that's still a dick move.

 

[Mr.Mattress]

No. The being fixed in the process is not dependant on being ported to a new console.

TF2 many many other PC games have shown how free patches can fix broken and flawed aspects of the game, almost any aspect.

Having to get a whole new console, the most expensive console on tha market and buying the same game is a big "Fuck You" to the loyal customers who bought the game first on their system. But why not? They've already go their money, they can ruin their reputation and just move on. They know it's far easier to bribe critics magazines and websites with lucrative ad funding to get them the good publicity they want rather than show any kind of loyalty.

But this all depends on us being utter suckers, tolerating such crap and accepting such blatant conflicts of interest.

I just wanna say that the funny thing is, Nintendo's WiiU allows people to release Free Updates/Patches to their games if they want to. Unlike the Xbox where it took ages to fix an issue with Fez (And I can't speak for PS3).

OT: Maybe the WiiU Version will be better? I dunno. Let's wait and find out!

 

[Baresark]

I think you quoted me by accident. I never played either Ninja Gaiden 3 or the Razors Edge version. No worries though, I'm sure I have done the same thing.

No, I quoted you correctly. You say that switching systems won't magically improve the game's biggest and most core problems. While it's true that it won't necessarily do that, my reference to Razor's Edge is that from what I've heard, that game fixes a lot of the major, core problems from the original NG3 for PS3/360 when everyone expected it to just be a port, so on the off-chance that A:CM U fixes everything wrong with the version we have out now, it wouldn't be entirely unprecedented.

I don't know. I haven't played that game. Looking at review, they added stuff and tightened the controls. But from what I understand, while the the original Ninja Gaiden 3 wasn't that good, it wasn't broken. A:CM is broken, the AI is broken, it's glitchy as hell, the animations are made very poorly, the hit boxes on WY PMC's are are broken. It's not that the game is bad, it's actually good, but it isn't what it's advertised to be. I think they would probably get the same game because a lot of what is wrong with the game would need to be fixed from the ground up. I'm hoping they patch the living hell out of the PC version of the game at least. If the core issues can be patched, then the WiiU version could still be a better game than what you get on the 360 and PS3. I don't know for certain, but I have big doubts about them fixing anything that's wrong with it.

 

[Treblaine]

I just wanna say that the funny thing is, Nintendo's WiiU allows people to release Free Updates/Patches to their games if they want to. Unlike the Xbox where it took ages to fix an issue with Fez (And I can't speak for PS3).

OT: Maybe the WiiU Version will be better? I dunno. Let's wait and find out!

(1) I shouldn't have to get a whole new console for such a basic aspect of software

and

(2) why in the hell is this optional? If there are updates, it should be native in the system to begin updating games as and when available unless the user specifically opts games out of updating.


PS: the problem with Fez was the developer was an asshat who refused to even LOOK at the problem let alone make a patch and release it.

Maybe the WiiU version will be worse? I'm pretty confident. I really am not going to wait with baited breath for a slightly more polished turd.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Just watch, the version for the Wii U will be the version of the game everyone was promised.

Then we know for sure that the apocalypse is coming.

I remember not too long ago how Gearbox was talking about how awesome the U is and how A:CM was developed from the ground up to utilize the unique features of the U etc-etc. It really surprised me to find out that the U version is the last one being released and for a moment I thought it might be a digital only release like Fucking Fist of the God Damn North Star: Ken's Cunting Rage 2 Dammit.

...

No, I'm not going to be over that for a while...anyway, I'll probably grab A:CM on the U once the reviews for that version are out and very likely once the price has dropped.

 

[Sylveria]

Finally, Sega does something right, now to begin taking full refunds for false advertising.

"They're not cancelling it... "

Oh Sega...

"... they think this is a good thing"

... why am I not surprised.[/quote]

And let's not forget, this is one of the games Sega was more worthy of financial backing than Bayonetta 2.

There's stupid, then there's Sega.

 

[V da Mighty Taco]

*snippity snip snip*
Times like this, you realise that executive meddling isn't always a bad thing. Sometimes you need a publisher to step in and stop the developers dicking around, which seems to have very very much been the case here.

You... I don't like you, because I hate admitting that you're right. Executive meddling does serve a purpose and can be needed to a degree, though obviously too much of it can be a terrible thing.

I still don't like you.

*donottakethistooseriously.jpg*

 

[Mr.Mattress]

(1) I shouldn't have to get a whole new console for such a basic aspect of software

and

(2) why in the hell is this optional? If there are updates, it should be native in the system to begin updating games as and when available unless the user specifically opts games out of updating.


PS: the problem with Fez was the developer was an asshat who refused to even LOOK at the problem let alone make a patch and release it.

Maybe the WiiU version will be worse? I'm pretty confident. I really am not going to wait with baited breath for a slightly more polished turd.

1) Well, don't blame me. Blame Microsoft (And Possibly Sony, but again, don't hold me to it). It's them that chose to be very restrictive with Updates and DLC, forcing it all to have some monetary value. That's why TF2 never got any updates on 360, because Microsoft would force Valve to add a price tag to it.

2) Some Developers are greedy. It's only optional because Nintendo knows they can't make every company release everything for free. If they did, they'd have less support then they do now.

3) It's possible, I'm not gonna deny it either way. Like I said though, let's wait and see!

 

[Treblaine]

2) Some Developers are greedy. It's only optional because Nintendo knows they can't make every company release everything for free. If they did, they'd have less support then they do now.

I don't follow. This is nothing to do with developer/publisher greed, this is to do with patches that could be simple, separate from DLC.

This is about it being optional if the game makers have a patch ready to roll it out as soon as the console connects to the internet... or just as soon as you decide to launch the game.

I'm saying they should be obliged to make it the former. ASAP, when patch is ready, install it and get it out of the way, not at LITERALLY the last second.

And make it the USER'S choice to block that on a game by game basis of "do not automatically update this game" out of concern for... whatever. Only they have any reason to block it.

It's a very simple proven system used by Steam, smartphones and almost any other software delivery service outside of the console-hardware business, which is frankly amazingly backwards. I am not praising Valve for doing an obvious thing, I expect that at the very least, I am pissing on Microsoft, Sony and anyone who does if for having such a poor handle on things.

 

[Strazdas]

Well, considering the game was something on par of the seware that goes to Wii i sort of expected that.

 

[weirdee]

Dear Sega,

TURN THAT CAR RIGHT BACK AROUND THE CORNER AND EVALUATE WHAT YOU ARE DOING WITH YOUR LIFE.

Sincerely,
Everybody

aliens for wiiu then turns out to be goty #fml

 

[Shadow-Phoenix]

I'd be hoping this version will stand out and actually play decently compared to the other 3 platforms which failed utterly.

That or Gearbox are in for the ugliest slapping of their life.

my trust in them is pretty much lost when i found out they were taking us all for a ride and putting more focus on Borderlands instead of keeping with their contract and making ACM a decent if not greater game.

 

[PainInTheAssInternet]

Guys, it's time to let our hopes for a good Aliens (not AvP) game go. Gearbox is either packed with liars and frauds or is completely incompetent. How did they not learn from DNF? If Pitchford is such a fanboy of Aliens, why did he outsource the campaign to a multiplayer developer?

Of course, all those claims of fanboyism came out after he must have known the project was an imminent failure, similar to DNF. Makes you wonder if he cares for either franchise at all if he clearly puts so little effort into it.

But for argument's sake, let's go with the scenario that the Wii U version is better than the other 3 platforms; that means that not only were the customers fucked over with overpriced garbage and preorders, but they paid for an inferior version of that garbage. It's a bad enough discrepancy between the PC and XBox versions, do they really want to rub salt in the gaping wound?