Worked as QA on this years and years ago, and this is probably the most accurate retelling I’ve ever heard from an outside perspective - never in my life have I seen so many bugs being sent back as “Won’t Fix”.
the real shame in terms of alien isolation is that it’s sequel is a mobile game. they could’ve made a really good series if they stuck to what made the second game good, but nope, fuck that, mobile is the future to companies apparently.
If it weren't for Borderlands, I would have nothing but detest for Gearbox. Randy Pitchford is a snake who smiles and says nice things, while spewing venom on everything without a care in the world.
Borderlands is honestly overrated, and unless you are playing solo, the co-op is a total mess at times. Not to mention that the gameplay gets old after awhile. They really need to inject more life in the combat for the 3rd one.
Funny enough, as a game design student in college, our professor used Alien Colonial Marines as an example on how to NOT code a game. Specifically how they screwed up their ai code by misspelling the word 'tether'. Always spell check your codes guys. You'd be surprised at how many game bugs misspelling can create.
Im not a programmer but the thought that the games AI was terrible all because of a typo blows my mind, bad AI was the main reason people hated this game. But worst of all, didnt they play and test this game themselves in the weeks before launch? Or did they think bad AI was there on purpose? Wtf
The fact that a variable name was misspelled is secondary to the fact that the code was using a non-existent variable. How did that not end up being reported as an error? Or was it reported but nobody cared?
@@eggbaron3968 Man. Borderlands 3 story was let down, Ava- **Cough** that thing was one of the worst characters i`ve ever seen but the gameplay was improved. And the dlc are fuking good.
@@yourewallsareveryconvenien8292 the gameplay is good but yeah the story pissed me off. Also the fact that only 3 months after it came out they put it on sale. Which was shitty for those of us who preordered
You think it would leave a permanent stain on Randy's record, except nobody is talking about it anymore. People talking about not wanting to buy B3 because it's an Epic store exclusive, but nobody talking about how you should never trust Randy ever again.
Randy Pitchford is not Borderlands. If you feel the need to boycott because of his involvement feel more than free but he's not what I think about when I think of how much I love Borderlands.
Brink was one of the few games that still hurts for me. I was a member on The Splash Damage forums and followed every inch of content on that game. Just to be stung with how shitty it was at launch.
I bought brink at GameStop. It was just a physical case with a steam code, ended up returning it the next day and getting portal 2 instead. Still have brink in my library though
@@M7S4I5L8V2A when the silent Hill HD collection came out I had no prior knowledge of it or that it was even being released (I kind of fell out of video games in High school) the guy at the register was like "big silent Hill fan?" And I was like "hell yeah, at least the first 3." The fucking asshole just smiled and said "then this is gonna be a real treat for you." Now I know what he was talking about. So consider yourself lucky the dude was honest. I'll go to my grave regretting the 40 bucks I gave Konami.
Gearbox is fully to blame for this clearly, they completely shat on SEGA and i find it outstanding that they were able to steal... yes, STEAL Segas money for Borderlands 2
That simple. It released right before Overwatch. So the only thing that would be of more use if it was Gearbox or 2k decision to not change the release date.
@@dancorps1388 It's not that easy, they droped it just before the open beta of overwatch but because they taunted blizzard on twitter, prompting them to move their beta to days after battleborns official release, also the game sucks ass (my personal opinion) and the HUD is a cluttered mess (this one is not an opinion tho).
@@NeODeLeuX Battleborn was a mess at launch, and became less so through updates and new characters and all that. I am able to have fun in its current state. However, as much as I love the cackling best girl Beatrix, nothing could really save a game that was not ready to compete iwth Blizzard Marketing.
Given Randy's tendency to reply to anything and everything just to have 'his perspective' known, I'd say you can expect his tweet about this video soon-ish.
@@gamerguy6990 "durhhh I remember everything he said in detail and his accent and what he looks like, but duurrhhh, I dunno his name." ...are you for real right now? @_@
It's almost as if Randy Pitchford is a literal plague upon Gearbox and the poor souls who work there. And, given how many awful people are working in the games industry, that's saying something.
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned how both randy and gearboxes Twitter were silent for 24-48 hours after aliens release. When randy got back on Twitter it became a complete shit storm so bad that his wife got involved
2006 was a dark year for SEGA, which can almost entirely be blamed on their US CEO Simon Jeffery who wanted to take SEGA in the direction of trashy 3rd party publisher of licensed films. SEGA in 2019 is on fire, really love their games. Also SEGA's Alien: Isolation is the best Aliens game of all time. Hell it's the best thing since Aliens.
Gearbox managed to make the worst game of 2011 and the worst game of 2013, and both of them were troubled FPS games stuck in Development Hell for years. Really makes you think.
"Remember that AVP game where you could play as the Predator and the Alien? Let's forget about that and make a regular shooter from just the human side."
even though said game had a diffrent play style and had great ally and enemy ai for the aliens nah lets just make cod alien edition and make the aliens less of a threat then rad roaches in fallout
Consider me a mad lad but the Marine campaign has always been my favorite. It's scarier and truer to the experiences in the film. So ACM was exactly what I wanted.
I'm pretty certain that the late-Midway line-up has at least a couple Wha Happun? titles in it, sure nothing as interconnected as Overstarkillbreeze and The Walking Dead but i'm sure that the story of the fall of Midway can be told over the cause of a few scattered episodes.
I remember back in '08 when this game was first unveiled and people were hyped as shit. Myself included. Then the game came out. And the rest is history... Like with Duke Nukem Forever, another Gearbox property gone through the same production issues.
I'd assume it's almost just as buggy but people give it a pass since "it's just Obisidan thing" and/or the gameplay are more involved than CoD in Alien skin.
So theyre finally here Performing for you If you know the words, you can join in too Put your hands together If you want to clap As Matt breaks down Randy Pitchford's crap
Me: *finds out there was almost an Aliens RPG in the same vein as KotOR, and made by the same developers* *Becomes unreasonably excited* *finds out game was cancelled* *...* *_WORLD-ENDING RAGE_*
I honestly feel that Gearbox took part of the funding that was meant for Colonial Marines and put it towards Borderlands 2. Considering everything that's happened to Gearbox since then I think it's safe to say karma has been catching up with them.
The funniest thing of all is that the "Aliens: Colonial Marines" name was already cursed to failure by the time Sega even hired Gearbox to make the game, because 20th Century Fox had already planned to release an Aliens game of the SAME EXACT NAME for the PS2 back in 2000/2001, which obviously never happened.
That quote by Michael Biehn is actually quite profound. Recently there have been a lot of publishers and studios banking on something being successful just because of names, weather it be franchises or studios, and the end product being less than stellar
I still can't get over the fact that the sole reason the AI was broken was because of a typo. At least incompetence is somewhat of an excuse -- and even that is hardly justified. Gearbox just didn't care, that's the gist of it.
The best example of a projected failure that became a succes I can think of is the very first Yakuza game on the PS2 (at least in Japan. Yakuza had a whole road of localization craziness to go through before Yakuza 0 came out to critical acclaim). It's a bit of a long story, but it's a goldmine of fascinating development trivia. Highlights include Sega not thinking the game would do well in Japan and turning down the project multiple times, an entire story rewrite, the taste of very expensive alcohol, and even more. Another good example would be Majora's Mask. It was all developed in one year- a time limit that typically leads to disaster in the modern game industry. As a result, most of the game used assets from Ocarina of Time (especially with most of the NPCs) and had a much shorter main story (with only four major dungeons). But thanks to unique mechanics (the masks, and the three day loop), a surreal and creepy atmosphere, and a lot of memorable sidequests and characters, the game's generally seen as one of the best in the series (depending on who you ask). Pretty sure a postive spin on Wha Happun would have to be named somewhat differently, as "wha happun" typically implies that the game is already bad.
The ones that come to mind for me are Metroid Prime, Rainbow Six: Siege, and Final Fantasy XIV. Metroid Prime wasn't looking good in previews, but was overwhelmingly praised and successful upon release. Rainbow Six: Siege's launch had disappointingly little content, but thrived through surprisingly stellar post-launch support. Most of all, Final Fantasy XIV launched a disastrous mess, which damaged Square Enix's reputation so badly they approved an absurd plan to rebuild the whole game from the ground-up in the form of A Realm Reborn; the gambit paid off, and it's now the second most successful paid MMO behind WoW.
Surprised you didn't mention Wayforward's excellent Aliens: Infestation, which apparently started life as a DS port of Colonial Marines (???). Probably the only good thing to come out of this whole debacle.
SEGA makes bad and dumb decisions all the time that's why we love them. I'm just glad it wasn't entirely their fault this time. It was mostly Gearbox's
Surprised to see no mention of Jim Sterling and Randy Pitchford's personal hatred for him, as Jim still calls him out for lying to jim's face in an interview all these years late haha. Pitchford's a mess
Please do one on DMC2, there’s prolly not a lot of info but I remember reading somewhere that when Itsuno arrived to take over all the dev team had done was coding Stinger. It’d be a fun vid
Speaking of Sega, you know what'd be interesting? Covering on why Yakuza took so long to gain its footing outside of Japan. That'd be an interesting episode.
The visuals wouldn't be good on console? Well AVP 2010 still looked better than ACM did. Let's see what this new Aliens game has to offer in summer of 2021.
Hey now, Section 8: Prejudice was awesome! I mean, the story was lukewarm garbage, but it had some of the most fun multiplayer I've ever played. Never tried the original though, so maybe I'm not the most qualified to defend it. Anyway, thanks for the insight into Randy's Finest Hour, Matt!
This! Just like Homefront! Incredible games, but people reviewed the subpar campaigns poorly & dumped on the games for that alone, ignoring the fantastic game modes the two games were clearly made for.
It's very much a polarizing game if anything, people who like it love it and people who don't hate it. I'm in the former category but I'll admit it has a ton of technical issues marring the experience but I still found it very much a flawed gem
Alpha Protocol is the gaming equivalent of marmite, you either love it or you hate it. Personally I loved it because of its concept and its unique take on dialogue mechanics, but at the same time I can perfectly understand why anyone would hate it since it's a broken and buggy mess.
I also love when Randy blamed the fans for the game being poorly received, stating that the game was a 7 out of 10, but because Borderlands was a 9 out of 10 and that’s what everyone expected, they reviewed the game more harshly than it deserved. Never buying a Gearsoft game while he’s there.
I worked at gamestop when this released and as an alien fan I picked it up...it holds a place in my heart for how it's so bad but has some good elements that just make you think.. they had something here, with the light rpg elements and fun easter eggs... it just went bad
All the games I would like to suggest for Wha Happun are: Rise of the Robots Big Rigs Marvel vs Capcom Infinite Sonic 06 Devil May Cry 2 Tales of Legendia
"Sega decided to make the player fight more humans than Xenomorphs or aliens in the game, due to the launch of Call of Duty." Oh sorry I thought that in your game, Aliens: Colonial Marines, I would've been fighting, you know, *_Fucking Aliens._*
Exactly. Their RTS games were marvelous, I still play Kohan, at least you can buy it on Steam. But Axis&Allies one? Nah, physical only off some dudes on ebays of the world. Extremely sad, those games would benefit from a remaster.
@@everythingsgonnabealright8888 or you could just download it and play it through an ISO. Games that aren't digitally available must be pirated to become available, like BFME2.
the more I watch these videos the more I feel like these AAA studios and companies are just reeeeaaaally really out of touch with everything everywhere always.
Pretty sure this game would have made me lose all hope in video games as a medium if not for Fire Emblem Awakening releasing stateside about a week before it.
13:20 Ah, yes, the Apple IIGS Woz Limited Edition (you can tell that's what it is because it has Woz's signature on the front). One of those was my family's first "real" computer. I wrote a lot of papers on it in high school and college.
As someone who knows a former Timegate employee, yeah, that's spot on with development. It was apparently extremely tedious and stressful to have Gearbox second guess every decision, while Sega wanted Call of Duty. So uh yeah, fuck Randy for being a major contributor to the eventual unemployment of someone I know.
Here's the way I see it 1. Sega themselves were complete dumbasses with the alien property alone. They wanted something along the lines of call of duty which was a stupid thing to go for to begin with. No one is buying an alien game to shoot other humans. We want to shoot,run and fear the xenomorphs ourselves 2. Gearbox clearly didn't care about the project. Maybe in the beginning they did but somewhere during development they just wanted the money and fame that was going alongside the game.
Just wanted to mention, as someone working in the industry, there is no possible way the Tether bug was missed by testing. In their case, shipping was just prioritized over fixing :(
Amazing video Matt, I still remember the first time I saw the E3 trailer and how fucking awesome it looked, boy i was hyped..and then the reviews came by and later the articles on how this clusterfuck of a game happened, to this date I still refuse to buy anything from Gearbox.
dang, seems like for dev studios life cycle is as follows: 1. humble beginnings building portfolio 2. Strike gold with new IP 3. Take on big publisher deal, high profile AAA title 4. Mismanage resources during development while increasing spending on studio expansion 5. Do some cringey shit at E3 6. Get eaten alive by industry when the expensive AAA title flops, massive debt, talent leaves, get acquired and taken out to pasture. IMO, if the industry as a whole (i.e. not just devs, everything gaming) could be personified I would probably say it would be a "Man-Child" at worst
Worked as QA on this years and years ago, and this is probably the most accurate retelling I’ve ever heard from an outside perspective - never in my life have I seen so many bugs being sent back as “Won’t Fix”.
Thank you for your service, braver than the troops 🫡
Also, hope you went on to work on less troubled projects
All these years later and I am still angry about this. This game should have been absolutely amazing.
Sega: (after the disaster of aliens colonial mariens) Ok gearbox...what have you done?
Gearbox: I made a little mistake...
Sega: a mistake?
Us fans: "You were the chosen one!"
Aliens CM: "smd"
I don't know how I feel about Butt Ugly Martians being reawakened in my memory after I long since locked it away in the darkest depths of my mind
I bought this game on launch day, collectors edition too. It still hurts but at least the collectors edition physical stuff is okay.
the real shame in terms of alien isolation is that it’s sequel is a mobile game.
they could’ve made a really good series if they stuck to what made the second game good, but nope, fuck that, mobile is the future to companies apparently.
This is far more entertaining then the actual game was
The lesson here is: No one on the planet should ever believe anything Randy Pitchford says.
Second lesson: SEGA AND THEIR MANDATES SUCKS.
Greasyyyyyy
If it weren't for Borderlands, I would have nothing but detest for Gearbox. Randy Pitchford is a snake who smiles and says nice things, while spewing venom on everything without a care in the world.
Borderlands is honestly overrated, and unless you are playing solo, the co-op is a total mess at times. Not to mention that the gameplay gets old after awhile. They really need to inject more life in the combat for the 3rd one.
He’s a weirdo & a hack. Eat shit Randy
@@Ineedgames A diamond pony?
@@Ineedgames I can still agree with your point and throw in a disposable reference.
@@Ineedgames "Ripoff of a student video"
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how...can a video game...be a rip off of a student video?
Funny enough, as a game design student in college, our professor used Alien Colonial Marines as an example on how to NOT code a game. Specifically how they screwed up their ai code by misspelling the word 'tether'.
Always spell check your codes guys. You'd be surprised at how many game bugs misspelling can create.
What's really hilarious is Gearbox were literally looking to hire a code proof reader recently.
Game Coding is like Written Law. *Every word matters.*
Im not a programmer but the thought that the games AI was terrible all because of a typo blows my mind, bad AI was the main reason people hated this game.
But worst of all, didnt they play and test this game themselves in the weeks before launch? Or did they think bad AI was there on purpose? Wtf
No shit.
The fact that a variable name was misspelled is secondary to the fact that the code was using a non-existent variable. How did that not end up being reported as an error? Or was it reported but nobody cared?
Gearbox: Maybe.. Just maybe, we should only do Borderlands games and nothing else.
Nah, they have the Homeworld IP too.
Idk they’re doing a pretty bad job there too
@@eggbaron3968 Man. Borderlands 3 story was let down, Ava- **Cough** that thing was one of the worst characters i`ve ever seen but the gameplay was improved. And the dlc are fuking good.
@@yourewallsareveryconvenien8292 the gameplay is good but yeah the story pissed me off. Also the fact that only 3 months after it came out they put it on sale. Which was shitty for those of us who preordered
They shouldn't make any games since they're so shit.
You think it would leave a permanent stain on Randy's record, except nobody is talking about it anymore. People talking about not wanting to buy B3 because it's an Epic store exclusive, but nobody talking about how you should never trust Randy ever again.
I guess it helps that Randy still thinks it was a good game lol
listen borderlands is the only reason i care for gearbox
Largely because Pitchford's contributions to Borderlands is voicing the Crazy Earl.
Because Randy has become a media darling with his "Standing Up" for EGS?
Randy Pitchford is not Borderlands. If you feel the need to boycott because of his involvement feel more than free but he's not what I think about when I think of how much I love Borderlands.
If I can suggest a game for a WhaHappen with a lot of hype at the time: *BRINK*
@@M7S4I5L8V2A That guy is the true MVP.
YES. I can still feel brink's sharp sting of disappointment to this day.
Brink was one of the few games that still hurts for me. I was a member on The Splash Damage forums and followed every inch of content on that game. Just to be stung with how shitty it was at launch.
I bought brink at GameStop. It was just a physical case with a steam code, ended up returning it the next day and getting portal 2 instead. Still have brink in my library though
@@M7S4I5L8V2A when the silent Hill HD collection came out I had no prior knowledge of it or that it was even being released (I kind of fell out of video games in High school) the guy at the register was like "big silent Hill fan?" And I was like "hell yeah, at least the first 3." The fucking asshole just smiled and said "then this is gonna be a real treat for you." Now I know what he was talking about. So consider yourself lucky the dude was honest. I'll go to my grave regretting the 40 bucks I gave Konami.
"Stole a future of having Majima voiced by Mark Hamil ever again" *punches nearby wall, waking all roomates*
I've only just gotten into Yakuza recently, and this fact still makes me very sad
It was never ment to be :(
Humanity is too corrupt and sinful to deserve a gift like that.
Matthew Mercer did a good job in 7 at least
@@G_Gr00v3 the Japanese voice actor does a great job at least
Gearbox is fully to blame for this clearly, they completely shat on SEGA and i find it outstanding that they were able to steal... yes, STEAL Segas money for Borderlands 2
Poor SEGA. They didn't deserve this.
Gotta feel bad for sega
@@thraitor7819
I sure don't. They shutdown the Streets of Rage Remake and offered nothing to put in its place. At least v5 is basically complete.
Sega also chose shooty bang game with less alien involved for some retarded reason so they aren't completely blameless.
@@DinnerForkTongue *cough cough* Streets of Rage 4
Battleborn - What Happened? next pls
I love me some Randy Prickford Schadenfreude...
@laz kar Oooh that's a strong one.
That simple. It released right before Overwatch. So the only thing that would be of more use if it was Gearbox or 2k decision to not change the release date.
@@dancorps1388 It's not that easy, they droped it just before the open beta of overwatch but because they taunted blizzard on twitter, prompting them to move their beta to days after battleborns official release, also the game sucks ass (my personal opinion) and the HUD is a cluttered mess (this one is not an opinion tho).
It launched way to close to Overwatch and had some bewildering design choices.
I loved Battleborn, but it was doomed to fail.
@@NeODeLeuX Battleborn was a mess at launch, and became less so through updates and new characters and all that. I am able to have fun in its current state. However, as much as I love the cackling best girl Beatrix, nothing could really save a game that was not ready to compete iwth Blizzard Marketing.
Given Randy's tendency to reply to anything and everything just to have 'his perspective' known, I'd say you can expect his tweet about this video soon-ish.
I can expect a Jim sterling situation where he tries to not know who Matt is "there's a guy with a skull beanie that really hurt my feelings"
@@gamerguy6990 Oh my god, you had to remind me. What an embarrassment, that was.
@@gamerguy6990
"durhhh I remember everything he said in detail and his accent and what he looks like, but duurrhhh, I dunno his name."
...are you for real right now? @_@
@@gamerguy6990 don't remind me of the hard on interview
whats this interview lol? i need to see this
It's almost as if Randy Pitchford is a literal plague upon Gearbox and the poor souls who work there.
And, given how many awful people are working in the games industry, that's saying something.
I would say "at least he ain't Bobby kottick or android wilson".... but that's a subterranean bar to cross in the first place
@@Sonichero151 at least were pretty sure those two ain't pedos randy on the other hand...
@@dalek--ck9oy Wait... Wasn't Kotick in Epstein's book?
@@miguelcondadoolivar5149 if he was I wouldn't be surprised
Moral of the story: Spelling mistakes, even the most trivial ones, can bring the worst consequences
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned how both randy and gearboxes Twitter were silent for 24-48 hours after aliens release.
When randy got back on Twitter it became a complete shit storm so bad that his wife got involved
Wait so Randy is married!
@@michaelknox3715 yes lol.
That's why I'm not surprised about how hes acting now
Never good optics when the spouse's get involved on Twitter...........
The fact that a spouse got involved is hilarious.
12:55 Captain, Captain Crunch.
He didn’t go to 8 years of naval school to be called Mister you condescending sunova...
12:35, actually.
Always remember to put your timestamps BEFORE the event you reference, not after.
@@Wolficefang oh god, being "Crunchitized" looks terrifying!
This threads amazing. I both take y'all seriously and not seriously all in one fell swoop. *salutes*
2006 was a dark year for SEGA, which can almost entirely be blamed on their US CEO Simon Jeffery who wanted to take SEGA in the direction of trashy 3rd party publisher of licensed films.
SEGA in 2019 is on fire, really love their games. Also SEGA's Alien: Isolation is the best Aliens game of all time. Hell it's the best thing since Aliens.
Gearbox managed to make the worst game of 2011 and the worst game of 2013, and both of them were troubled FPS games stuck in Development Hell for years. Really makes you think.
To put it into more of a perspective:
Worst of 2011
One of the best of 2012
And worst of 2013 XD
now count borderlands 3
The only thing gearbox has is borderlands
If borderlands wasnt fucking amazing randy pitchford would be begging outside of a train station right now
borderlands 2 was such a stroke of luck, even 3 and pre sequel had their issues
Randy Pitchfort throws a hissy fit in the distance due to this
"Remember that AVP game where you could play as the Predator and the Alien? Let's forget about that and make a regular shooter from just the human side."
even though said game had a diffrent play style and had great ally and enemy ai for the aliens nah lets just make cod alien edition and make the aliens less of a threat then rad roaches in fallout
Consider me a mad lad but the Marine campaign has always been my favorite. It's scarier and truer to the experiences in the film. So ACM was exactly what I wanted.
How about covering the fall/death of Midway? That seems like something with a story in it.
Poor Midway they released The Suffering 1&2 two of the best horror games I ever played. Too bad they were the ones that really suffered.
I'm pretty certain that the late-Midway line-up has at least a couple Wha Happun? titles in it, sure nothing as interconnected as Overstarkillbreeze and The Walking Dead but i'm sure that the story of the fall of Midway can be told over the cause of a few scattered episodes.
@@springheeljack298 ah the suffering what a game
@@springheeljack298 The Suffering deserves a remake
It took two years, but they did it.
I remember back in '08 when this game was first unveiled and people were hyped as shit. Myself included.
Then the game came out. And the rest is history... Like with Duke Nukem Forever, another Gearbox property gone through the same production issues.
Can you imagine an alien game published by obsidian? Because in some alternate version of our world, it exists.
I'd assume it's almost just as buggy but people give it a pass since "it's just Obisidan thing" and/or the gameplay are more involved than CoD in Alien skin.
@@StyryderXat least the games is fun and enjoyable, Gearbox Alien is just boring and buggy.
@@StyryderXObsidian is an honorary eurojank company
So theyre finally here
Performing for you
If you know the words, you can join in too
Put your hands together
If you want to clap
As Matt breaks down
Randy Pitchford's crap
Omg I'm dead 😂💀 I honestly sing it as the actual rap
WH! Wha Happun?
WH! What happened here?
Me: *finds out there was almost an Aliens RPG in the same vein as KotOR, and made by the same developers*
*Becomes unreasonably excited*
*finds out game was cancelled*
*...*
*_WORLD-ENDING RAGE_*
Okay the thumbdrive in Randy's shirt at 5:20 is perfect
Just a magic trick
All I had to do was feel up those cottage cheese boobs to get my hands on all those juicy secrets.
Taren-Ko I think you meant 5:07
@@MagnusTonitrum117 Huh that's odd. My timestamp used to say that???
Taren-Ko it’s currently on 5:20
I honestly feel that Gearbox took part of the funding that was meant for Colonial Marines and put it towards Borderlands 2. Considering everything that's happened to Gearbox since then I think it's safe to say karma has been catching up with them.
Hey Mr. McMuscles, can you do a "Wha Happun?" on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5? And please.
Ah dude good news, he mentions it in his Wha Happun of Tony Hawk Ride
The funniest thing of all is that the "Aliens: Colonial Marines" name was already cursed to failure by the time Sega even hired Gearbox to make the game, because 20th Century Fox had already planned to release an Aliens game of the SAME EXACT NAME for the PS2 back in 2000/2001, which obviously never happened.
I think you should tell the Greek tragedy that is Kingdoms of Amalur
i loved that rpg so freaking much great crafting armour choices story and massive world and content only to fail its heart breaking really
I would like to see Wha Happun on Dynasty Warriors 9
There really isn't a story there though.
They just made bad decisions then sold the rectification as dlc.
Raihan Hakim98 DO NOT SPEAK THAT ACCURSED DEMONS NAME! How bout we chill and play some dynasty warriors 3 instead
@laz kar how about Gan Ning?
@@DarksteelHeart How about Sun Ce and his TONFAS
That quote by Michael Biehn is actually quite profound. Recently there have been a lot of publishers and studios banking on something being successful just because of names, weather it be franchises or studios, and the end product being less than stellar
I still can't get over the fact that the sole reason the AI was broken was because of a typo. At least incompetence is somewhat of an excuse -- and even that is hardly justified.
Gearbox just didn't care, that's the gist of it.
I feel So Sorry For TimeGate...They tried to make this game Perfect until Gearbox and Randy Fucked it up!...at least this game can be fixed with Mods
I haven't touched a Gearboox game since CM, and I won't until Randy himself apologizes for this mess.
This and Duke Nukem Forever; I'm now sure that Borderlands series was a "lucky guess" for them.
I feel like they shouldn't have let gearbox off the hook with the lawsuit. It probably would've given Randy the ego check he needs.
The Zero Escape series music really fits with the video. Good choice, Mr. McMuscles!
I was looking for this comment and I wasn't disappointed.
Do we also have to mention that there was a Wii U version that got cancelled?
@@GamerGuysReviews So definitive that it shows what people should've done with the game to begin with.
i would love to see you cover battleborn. lets get the trifecta of gearbox fuckups all on one channel
They always ask wha happun, never how happun...
You should do a positive episode of What Happened. Like how a projected failure turned around and became a success.
The best example of a projected failure that became a succes I can think of is the very first Yakuza game on the PS2 (at least in Japan. Yakuza had a whole road of localization craziness to go through before Yakuza 0 came out to critical acclaim). It's a bit of a long story, but it's a goldmine of fascinating development trivia. Highlights include Sega not thinking the game would do well in Japan and turning down the project multiple times, an entire story rewrite, the taste of very expensive alcohol, and even more.
Another good example would be Majora's Mask. It was all developed in one year- a time limit that typically leads to disaster in the modern game industry. As a result, most of the game used assets from Ocarina of Time (especially with most of the NPCs) and had a much shorter main story (with only four major dungeons). But thanks to unique mechanics (the masks, and the three day loop), a surreal and creepy atmosphere, and a lot of memorable sidequests and characters, the game's generally seen as one of the best in the series (depending on who you ask).
Pretty sure a postive spin on Wha Happun would have to be named somewhat differently, as "wha happun" typically implies that the game is already bad.
Demon Souls would be a good example for this.
Another great comeback was Final Fantasy XIV. Launched as a sad mess, scrapped, then rebuilt and relaunched successfully.
The ones that come to mind for me are Metroid Prime, Rainbow Six: Siege, and Final Fantasy XIV. Metroid Prime wasn't looking good in previews, but was overwhelmingly praised and successful upon release. Rainbow Six: Siege's launch had disappointingly little content, but thrived through surprisingly stellar post-launch support. Most of all, Final Fantasy XIV launched a disastrous mess, which damaged Square Enix's reputation so badly they approved an absurd plan to rebuild the whole game from the ground-up in the form of A Realm Reborn; the gambit paid off, and it's now the second most successful paid MMO behind WoW.
Pathfinder Kingmaker
Surprised you didn't mention Wayforward's excellent Aliens: Infestation, which apparently started life as a DS port of Colonial Marines (???). Probably the only good thing to come out of this whole debacle.
Didn't really fit into the main narrative.
Aw man... we could've had an Aliens RPG from Obsidian? Fuck I thought I hated Gearbox already...
SEGA makes bad and dumb decisions all the time that's why we love them. I'm just glad it wasn't entirely their fault this time. It was mostly Gearbox's
Surprised to see no mention of Jim Sterling and Randy Pitchford's personal hatred for him, as Jim still calls him out for lying to jim's face in an interview all these years late haha. Pitchford's a mess
Came out Anthem's E3 Demo wasn't even gameplay, it was all just a video they made and put the voices over it
Please cover Advent Rising, that game was a weird mess.
Love the show!
Please do one on DMC2, there’s prolly not a lot of info but I remember reading somewhere that when Itsuno arrived to take over all the dev team had done was coding Stinger. It’d be a fun vid
As Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys would say: “Randy is one son-of-a greeeeeaaaasy baestard…”
Borderlands (the movie) on the what happened next time?
Speaking of Sega, you know what'd be interesting? Covering on why Yakuza took so long to gain its footing outside of Japan. That'd be an interesting episode.
BattleBorn was a great game it just fried cuz it released the same day as freakin Overwatch.
Also people still had axes to grind with Randy
What happened to the pair of Sunglasses on Randy Pitchford's face in this video's thumbnail that said: "Dumbass" and why did you remove them?
Me: Wha Happun
Matt: Sega-
Me: Say no more.
@@thomasedwardharrison2879 victim of their own poor choices.
The visuals wouldn't be good on console? Well AVP 2010 still looked better than ACM did. Let's see what this new Aliens game has to offer in summer of 2021.
Hey now, Section 8: Prejudice was awesome! I mean, the story was lukewarm garbage, but it had some of the most fun multiplayer I've ever played. Never tried the original though, so maybe I'm not the most qualified to defend it. Anyway, thanks for the insight into Randy's Finest Hour, Matt!
Hey is Totalbiscuits server still going or did they take that down after he died?
This! Just like Homefront! Incredible games, but people reviewed the subpar campaigns poorly & dumped on the games for that alone, ignoring the fantastic game modes the two games were clearly made for.
Alpha Protocol might make a good subject. I know that game was marred with a lot of issues.
It's very much a polarizing game if anything, people who like it love it and people who don't hate it. I'm in the former category but I'll admit it has a ton of technical issues marring the experience but I still found it very much a flawed gem
Alpha Protocol was a wonderful game that just needed a little more polish
Alpha Protocol is the gaming equivalent of marmite, you either love it or you hate it. Personally I loved it because of its concept and its unique take on dialogue mechanics, but at the same time I can perfectly understand why anyone would hate it since it's a broken and buggy mess.
Alpha Protocol is a perfect example of a game having a great story but bad gameplay.
I loved that one =/
Randy pitchford. That’s what happened
Alien Isolation is probably also one of the best horror experiences made in our generation
I had no idea about all the stuff with Gearbox. Really leaves a sour taste in the mouth. Thanks for the video, Matt! Great work as always.
Gearbox got bought out, if they were smart, they would fire Randy ASAP. He is nothing but a liability
I also love when Randy blamed the fans for the game being poorly received, stating that the game was a 7 out of 10, but because Borderlands was a 9 out of 10 and that’s what everyone expected, they reviewed the game more harshly than it deserved. Never buying a Gearsoft game while he’s there.
I worked at gamestop when this released and as an alien fan I picked it up...it holds a place in my heart for how it's so bad but has some good elements that just make you think.. they had something here, with the light rpg elements and fun easter eggs... it just went bad
Randy "Fuck it all" Pitchford strikes again
Oh no, not this game.
who would win :
- The virgin Alien : colonial marines
or
- The chad Alien : Isolation
All the games I would like to suggest for Wha Happun are:
Rise of the Robots
Big Rigs
Marvel vs Capcom Infinite
Sonic 06
Devil May Cry 2
Tales of Legendia
There's a story for Big Rigs? That'd be pretty interesting. I always thought that was some random piece of especially bad shovelware.
I would have preferred a functional Aliens game over more Borderlands.
And I don’t particularly like the Aliens franchise.
Watching this show has taught me that every game company needs a hardline by the books manager that makes sure shit gets done
Sega should've fired gearbox when it became obvious they cared more about borderlands and.... Duke nukem I guess
I would love a retrospective of Spore (2008)
Bruh, yes. My first video game disappointment (thanks, EA).
Spore was great tho!
Man can you imagine how cool Obsidian's game could have been? Fuck.
"Sega decided to make the player fight more humans than Xenomorphs or aliens in the game, due to the launch of Call of Duty."
Oh sorry I thought that in your game, Aliens: Colonial Marines, I would've been fighting, you know,
*_Fucking Aliens._*
At least we got Alien Isolation. That was awesome.
TH-cam warned me about this before watching. I guess randy really is that gross.
I have never clicked a notification faster
What happened to the theme
RIP TimeGate Studios. Honestly, one of my favorite devs
Kohan 2 and Axis & allies. Best games ever.
Oh dang, I didn't realize TimeGate made the Kohan series, I used to love those games.
Exactly. Their RTS games were marvelous, I still play Kohan, at least you can buy it on Steam. But Axis&Allies one? Nah, physical only off some dudes on ebays of the world. Extremely sad, those games would benefit from a remaster.
@@everythingsgonnabealright8888 or you could just download it and play it through an ISO. Games that aren't digitally available must be pirated to become available, like BFME2.
@@flyingspaghetti Thanks for the obvious. I prefer not to be vocal about piracy. One who wants - will know how.
the more I watch these videos the more I feel like these AAA studios and companies are just reeeeaaaally really out of touch with everything everywhere always.
WHERE'S METROID OT-
Wait... This... This is GOOD.
I was gonna ask for Evolve myself
Playstation All Stars Battle Royale myself. But this... This shit's personal.
Pretty sure this game would have made me lose all hope in video games as a medium if not for Fire Emblem Awakening releasing stateside about a week before it.
13:20 Ah, yes, the Apple IIGS Woz Limited Edition (you can tell that's what it is because it has Woz's signature on the front). One of those was my family's first "real" computer. I wrote a lot of papers on it in high school and college.
Here's your reminder that to this day Randy Pitchford maintains the colonial marines is a good game, it was the hype that was at fault he says.
I'd play an RPG set in Alien.
As someone who knows a former Timegate employee, yeah, that's spot on with development. It was apparently extremely tedious and stressful to have Gearbox second guess every decision, while Sega wanted Call of Duty.
So uh yeah, fuck Randy for being a major contributor to the eventual unemployment of someone I know.
I know it's shitty, but I loved finding the secret weapons and pumping xenomorphs full of lead. Definitely a guilty pleasure game for me.
1:37
Even when Like a dragon got a dub, we couldnt get mark hamil as majima :(
10 seconds into the game and I was already not liking Aliens Colonial Marines.
Here's the way I see it
1. Sega themselves were complete dumbasses with the alien property alone. They wanted something along the lines of call of duty which was a stupid thing to go for to begin with. No one is buying an alien game to shoot other humans. We want to shoot,run and fear the xenomorphs ourselves
2. Gearbox clearly didn't care about the project. Maybe in the beginning they did but somewhere during development they just wanted the money and fame that was going alongside the game.
Just wanted to mention, as someone working in the industry, there is no possible way the Tether bug was missed by testing. In their case, shipping was just prioritized over fixing :(
I can’t help but wonder how things if the caught and fixed the A. I. bug before they released the game
Amazing video Matt, I still remember the first time I saw the E3 trailer and how fucking awesome it looked, boy i was hyped..and then the reviews came by and later the articles on how this clusterfuck of a game happened, to this date I still refuse to buy anything from Gearbox.
dang, seems like for dev studios life cycle is as follows:
1. humble beginnings building portfolio
2. Strike gold with new IP
3. Take on big publisher deal, high profile AAA title
4. Mismanage resources during development while increasing spending on studio expansion
5. Do some cringey shit at E3
6. Get eaten alive by industry when the expensive AAA title flops, massive debt, talent leaves, get acquired and taken out to pasture.
IMO, if the industry as a whole (i.e. not just devs, everything gaming) could be personified I would probably say it would be a "Man-Child" at worst