How Aliens: Colonial Marines Fell Apart (Kotaku)

The final version looks a hell of alot better in some scenes and others  look better in the demo.

i havent played the game yet but i want to know if you can shoot out the lights in this game like avp3 and all these dumbasses on youtube doing walkthroughs never try shooting at the lights lol wtf.

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The post on Reddit matches what our source has told us, but there's more. When TimeGate took over the project, our source said, they threw out most of what Gearbox had done beforehand. All of the art and design that Gearbox had produced during the previous four years was gone.psymon100

No sympathy. 

So easy to copy files. Give them a copy and retain a backup copy - TimeGate could have destroyed the data and Gearbox would have been OK. 

If this is really what happened, then I've no sympathy whatsoever for them. 100% preventable and there is a whole segment of the IT services market devoted to backing up data. 

At this point it's everyones fault.

While most of the blame falls on gearbox 

the blame does also fall on timegate and sega.

Sega-Assumingly poured tons and tons of money into the game. They should've at least kept tabs on gearbox to see what they were doing and asking for monthly or bi monthly progress reports rather than leaving gearbox to it's own devices.

Gearbox- While the people solely blaming gearbox and saying they're a crap studio who don't make good games it's asinine. Did they fumble this? Absolutely. Should they have worked solely on aliens rather than wait till the last year or so to out source it? Absolutely. While most of the blame falls on them for taking segas money and running to produce borderlands 2 is absolutely a scummy move. And I agree they should take the brunt of this. But in the end sega should've kept tabs on them. I know a lot of projects take time as we see, but if you're so heavily invested keep tabs on your money and project.

Timegate- Now I don't know where they fall as the news is most cloudy about them. If gearbox really did give them the campaignand they scrapped it, what were they thinking. How often were they talking to gearbox. For timegate it seems like the money is what they were in it for. But again in a structure like this is gearbox should've kept tabs on them.

In the end I do agree that most of the blame does lay on gearbox for doing what they did and marketing it how they marketed it. But in this cluster **** of a mess all three parties are heavily to blame. 

It more sounds like Gearbox had too much on their plate and are now suffering the consequences.

TLDR, but game is awesome.sts106mat

It more sounds like Gearbox had too much on their plate and are now suffering the consequences.

LegatoSkyheart

[QUOTE="sts106mat"]TLDR, but game is awesome.tenaka2

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[QUOTE="sts106mat"]TLDR, but game is awesome.sts106mat

To be honest I am a big Aliens/Giger fan and will prob pick this up in a steam sale at some point.

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It more sounds like Gearbox had too much on their plate and are now suffering the consequences.

Animal-Mother

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It more sounds like Gearbox had too much on their plate and are now suffering the consequences.

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