Gearbox Tackles a New IP With the Character-Driven Battleborn

[Professor James]

If Mann Vs Machine is anything to go by, pretty much a short while after Day One.

Amen to that. I slept in on launch day and missed my opportunity to play MvM in the brief window before it had been ruined by aggressive know-it-alls.

Oh I remember those few few days when it first came out ... they kind of sucked. No one knew what they were doing and the mode had close to a thousand bugs (I remember one where the bomb being set off didn't end the round) but I guess it was pretty nice not being kicked for picking a support class though.

OT: I'll check it out in the future but if it as MOBA as it sounds I doubt it will compete with Dota for me.

 

[Vault101]

I like the artstyle (dear god its almost jarring in todays climate) and I like Borderlands 2's approach to story ect...it didn't feel completely gutted as a single player experience

if this can be similar to that I might very well be interested

This honestly sounds and looks like a mess. The same sort of FPS/RPG hyprid they had with Borderlands, but with MOBA elements and being developed with e-sports in mind. Not only that but it's artstyle reek of LoL. It just seems like a huge mish-mash of current trends in a soulless attempt to cash-in on them while they're still relevant. I can't say I'm interested at all in this.

hey ...if its gotta be "this" current trends I'm certainly not complaining

lets leave COD in the last gen..where it belongs

 

[major_chaos]

The whole "SP is just Co-Op with bots" is giving me RE5 flashbacks, which is not a good thing. Its a shame too, because other than the forced co-op this sounds like a really interesting game.

 

[Gennadios]

Ah, where's that kid from the reveal trailer comments that was adamant that there was nothing in the announcement that implied this game would be a Moba while everyone else was blowing wind into a sock trying to explain how all signs pointed to it being one?

I need to gloat.

I can't say I'm particularly wowed. It sounds like Monday Night Combat in a larger setting. The game might be good but I'm not enough of a Gearbox fan to really care until I know how big the online community will be.

 

[RevRaptor]

I can't be the only one looking at this and thinking how tedious its going to be to reassign all your skills every mission.

 

[aaronexus]

Veralsi? You mean, like Varelse? As in the Ender saga's concept of the true alien, Varelse? ... I see what you did there, Gearbox. You're lucky I like it.

 

[Jhonie]

Veralsi? You mean, like Varelse? As in the Ender saga's concept of the true alien, Varelse? ... I see what you did there, Gearbox. You're lucky I like it.

Embarassed as I am to say that I am utterly ignorant when it comes to the Ender saga, I still feel he need to point out that the word "Varelse" is Swedish for "Creature", and that made be blink at your post a few times. "Creature" has to be THE most generic name for, as you put it, "the concept of the true alien". I suppose it makes sense, but I'm really unimpressed. Like, really? That was the best name they could think of? I mean, at least Gearbox changed around the letters a bit with "Veralsi", but just straight up "Creature"? I'm not amused.

 

[False Messiah]

It sounds like it's going to be PvE, not Pvp. I wonder how this wil translate to how e-sports are played now. There could be tournaments where two teams start at the same moment and race to finish a mission first, or with the highest amount of points.

I'm interested, let's hope they won't screw it up.