Battleborn bombs

Eurogamer (the most respected website), didn't even give it a recommend; further stating it's dead on arrival.

Overall a waste of time.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-05-06-battleborn-review

"The campaign is altogether less cumbersome and controversial, although rarely reaches the same heights as multiplayer at its best. The 'story' offers eight lengthy missions that sit somewhere between Destiny's strikes and raids in their execution and demands. They support up to five players on one team and provide a welcome showcase for the arsenal of abilities and possibilities you can have on a carefully chosen group of heroes.

Bosses and mid-bosses are more inventive than most of Destiny's, too, requiring teamwork and class knowledge to conquer on the higher difficulties. While the moment-to-moment gunplay can't hold a candle to Bungie's behemoth, there's no denying Battleborn has a snap and a bluster all of its own.

Be warned, though. The script takes the worst of Borderlands' self-referential humour and vomits it at you relentlessly, offering a lower gag hit rate than Joe Pasquale and an apparently genuine belief that repeating the same soundbite 50 times in a single boss fight will enhance the experience.

If you can handle that (and it's far less grating in multiplayer), then there's plenty to admire in Battleborn. This is clearly a labour of love - Gearbox believes in what it has created and has filled the disc with content - and when the multiplayer flows, it's fresh and new in a way that even Overwatch can't boast. It'll take time to see just how the online modes balance out, but there's definitely something here that could be worth pursuing.

Will that be enough when Blizzard is dangling that shiny trinket in front of your face the whole time, though?"

*Yawn* so the game is a waste of time cause of someone else's opinion on it? LOL. Give me a break.

@BigShotSmoov007: According to every review - they are right, fanboyism will not change this.

http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/battleborn

It's not about being a fanboy, it's about gamers basing on their opinion on a game from another person's opinion. I have the game and really enjoying it cause I love those MOBA type games. To say it's a waste of time is asinine, period.

Overwatch destroys this. It's so damn good.

@BigShotSmoov007: Being bitter about it won't change reality.

lol, also it's no worse that Overwatch, which is equally bad for similar reasons. Both of them are DOA in my book, after playing the betas for 10+ hours each.

MOBA gameplay style was the deal breaker for me. If it was a full fledged single player campaign mode game, this would've bought me over. May be I'll pick it up once the price drops to bargain bin titles.

I'll wait for more reviews. I wouldn't trust anything EuroGamer says. Also, their review didn't say the game was a bomb at all. Seems like they game it an average review.

Bitter LMAO? Opinions aren't reality, learn that and like I said, I'm enjoying the game so nothing to be bitter about dude.

Lets see a crappy Uninspiredcup thread, welp this isn't new

this along with overwatch looks very boring, bland and uninspired. waste of time

That's a lot of Bees....hehe....Im enjoying it, its nothing spectacular just fun arcadey gameplay.

The draw for me in these games is picking a character, learning him well, and then supporting my team in that role. If I am a healer, I will concentrate on healing my team at any costs...if I am the offense guy, I'll be on the front line, etc. There are different level up paths for each character and there is lots of variety.

I'm enjoying it and I know its getting mixed reviews so far, I'm not surprised but I think there is a group of people who will love it. I like the presentation and the game's charisma, there is even some animated stuff in there. I dont know how much more I'll keep enjoying it, but I'm finding it entertaining in shorts bursts and so far I've only played with 2 characters, so O can easily see myself getting more than 50 hours from this so I have zero regrets buying it

Which one is this? They all seem the same.

Not surprised. Was never interested in it anyway.

5/13 too much battling

Yup, no interest at all.

Eww, what is this trash?

Oh come on now, that's two games this year I was interested in yet have been mediocre; Overwatch better not follow this trend.

Is anyone really surprised? The game looked like it was going to be lame from the get go

Love how people are saying these games are bland and boring.... yet hyping uncharted .... yea because thats new and interesting... jesus....

Battleborn is better than Uncharted 4?

I haven't even given it second thought since first hearing about it, baffles me why anybody else has. Stupid game looks stupid. Overwatch too.

Have you two played it? OW is incredible IMO.

I think he's referring to the silly assessment that Overwatch is bland and boring.

OW is many things, and you can fault it on a lot, but it is sure as hell not bland or boring. The designs are pretty out there.

Not surprised.

Wasn't hoping for 9s or 10s, but atleast it's not 5s and 6s.

What's funny is it looks worse than other free moba's and it cost 60 dollars upfront, its DOA on PC the market is crowded

Can't say I'm surprised. Overwatch certainly caught all the attention.

Even I find that laughworthy.

It's a unique concept that they didn't execute well. I don't get the massive amount of hate it's getting. It's not offensively bad. The combat lacks a punch. It doesn't really feel good when you shoot things or melee them. Same problem I had with the Borderlands games. You also have to unlock most of the players which makes no sense and is really annoying

But you're just doing what the others are doing - expressing how much or how little you like it. You get nowhere.

I find it lol worthy that either of you managed to get that out of what I said....

Battleborn - Hybrid MOBA/FPS/Borderlands cross over with many ideas.

Overwatch - Blizzards spin on a FPS sub genre which only has 1 game from 9 years ago as its competitor ... full of interesting ideas and excellent art style.... and lasts more than 10 hours.

Uncharted 4.. sorry I mean 5 ... the rehashining of a guy going down multi-corridor areas, nearly falling off ledges and shooting at the same 5 enemy types while sporting a b-grade indiana movie story line.. if that aint bland... then people have fergotten what bland means.

@so_hai:

LOL what? I'm expressing how much I like the game but I'm not telling people whether to buy it or not off my opinions about it. Posting other people's opinion about a game and saying it's a waste of time cause they don't like it is asinine which was the point I'm making.

Neither was anyone else telling anyone to buy or not to buy.

What you talkin bout? Overwatch is fun as hell and very inspired. It actually has real character. Battleborn looks uninspired though. That's just my opinion, but I still need to play Battleborn before I give any real opinion on it. Totally different games though. I get the obvious comparisons, but they're only skin deep. Overwatch actually has a lot of depth once you really learn the mechanics.

Your opinion is worthless. Go play some nerd game like Warhammer.

Saying the game is a waste of time when he didn't even play the game is kinda telling people don't buy it, don't you think LOL.

I have the game. It fucking rocks.

I'll get battleborn but later. It was a decently fun game when I played the beta.

Upset with the truth there pal?

Oh no, "nerd" so offended right now... please tell me more.

Why are some of you lumping Battleborn into the same sentence as Overwatch? They are very different. Anyway, I doubt Overwatch will receive the same treatment. It has been praised since the closed beta began.

theres a lot of terrible battleborn reviews like the one the TC posted floating around from people that are clearly biased towards Overwatch and they rate BB by directly comparing it to OW which basically means they didnt really play or understand how its a different type of game.

BB is more complex than Overwatch and the game modes actually require more on the fly strategy than OW which is basically stand on the objective and spam for all the modes. Not to mention BB has pve content and an actual character progression system that actually is worth caring about.

and BB has a theme song by Deltron, which is awesome lol

@oflow: Or never played borderlands since they share the same humour style.

>Implying Total War: Warhammer isn't going to be an objectively better game than Uncharted 4.

Looks terrible, then again I'm not into that whole multiplayerness that this and Overwatch seem to be about.

There is no truth, only opinions when it comes to game quality(outside of technical issues).

Good.. After the bullshit that happened with Alien Colonial Marines, and Homeworld Remastered (Still waiting for that patch to fix formations, broken AI in first campaign, and balancing for the "beta" multiplayer.. A year and 3 months later) I hope it does bomb.. Gearbox to me has become one of the most scummy devs in recent memory.

Oh , the butthurt blizzboy getting upset with peoples opinions that are way different than his.

I had this blizzboy quote me ( and 2 others ) for 9 days straight over how things are for blizzard and what i was thinking about Overwatch.

While he find excuses for everything Overwatch related , for UC4 theres none. Yes , the game that every single critic praising , the game that will win many GOTY and industry awards for sure.

Blizzboy at its finnest . Whys that ? Because personally after 2 hours in OVERWATCH i already unistalled it ! I dont want to play more , see more , experience more. It provides nothing new , nothing exciting , nothing extraordinary , nothing ive never seen before ... IT was fun for the first hour , then till i hit the second i got bored hard. Period. And you want me to pay 60$ for this because its blizzard game ? You wish !

Ill gladly pay for UC4 though , one of a kind of experience like very few , if no other game out there under the same genre. You keep paying for F2P caliber games and dont worry , SHOP for overwatch will come soon or later to milk you more.

And if you want to play the truth game , play it with me instead since ive done my research on arena based MP shooters already.

Battlebomba. Gearbox is stupid, Borderlands 3 should be releasing now instead of this trash.

Man some of you are ridiculous. 7/10 is a bomb? What was the hype for it? And as for Borderlands 3 should be releasing instead, yeah thats what we all need. More sequels.

No I don't. Telling people not to buy the game is telling people not to buy the game.