Duke Nukem's Bulletstorm Tour "Randy hinted at something for December 1st"
#691 Posted 15 April 2017 - 06:08 PM
https://twitter.com/...392829330616320
Then given sales and reviews you missed the mark of what you think the wider market wants, and you alienated the Duke fan community (which would have pushed it had the quality been there) in multiple ways so you missed sales from them as well.
So apparently making money for your business isn't actually the metric that matters.
#692 Posted 15 April 2017 - 06:21 PM
#693 Posted 15 April 2017 - 06:29 PM
#694 Posted 15 April 2017 - 09:06 PM
Remember how useless we were when DNF2013 was so good it got mainstream news attention and we continued to push how great it was and still is?
I think he means we're useless to Gearbox's version of Duke's future and I guess that's true, we don't just push and support anything, respect is earned.
Randy: World Tour was not designed for the core Duke community.
(World Tour fails)
Randy: WHY DIDN'T THE CORE COMMUNITY HELP PUSH WORLD TOUR!?!?
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#695 Posted 15 April 2017 - 09:43 PM
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#696 Posted 15 April 2017 - 10:04 PM
#697 Posted 15 April 2017 - 10:07 PM
AP Dukefan94, on 15 April 2017 - 09:43 PM, said:
In what universe does Gearbox "kick ass"? More like their ass is getting kicked by any competition they seem to go up against.
#698 Posted 15 April 2017 - 10:13 PM
Lunick, on 15 April 2017 - 10:07 PM, said:
In what universe does Gearbox "kick ass"? More like their ass is getting kicked by any competition they seem to go up against.
Hmm...but they still turn a profit against big ass corporations that could easily buy them out. Thus kick ass.
#699 Posted 15 April 2017 - 10:17 PM
AP Dukefan94, on 15 April 2017 - 10:13 PM, said:
The only profitable thing Gearbox have made in the last 5 years was Borderlands 2 and that was in 2012.
#700 Posted 15 April 2017 - 10:24 PM
Lunick, on 15 April 2017 - 10:17 PM, said:
Even so, they're still here. Plus it doesn't bother me if Duke's current home makes a crappy game here and there but as long as they turn their elves around their good. Besides battle born wasn't as bad as some games made in the past 5 years as people claim.
#701 Posted 15 April 2017 - 10:26 PM
AP Dukefan94, on 15 April 2017 - 10:24 PM, said:
Yup, they sure are slimy fuckers trying to make a quick buck wherever they can. Too bad the G2A deal didn't work out for them.
#702 Posted 15 April 2017 - 10:36 PM
Lunick, on 15 April 2017 - 10:26 PM, said:
Like thats gonna kill'em.
#703 Posted 15 April 2017 - 10:59 PM
AP Dukefan94, on 15 April 2017 - 09:43 PM, said:
The laziness of the final boss alone is enough to show how little they cared about it. I'm not even talking about the graphics of it (which is also extremely lazy), rather that its weapon is completely ineffective, which brings the entire new episode's climax down to nothing.
Does Randy not know about it? Surely it's an easy thing to spot, and should be a pretty easy fix.
#704 Posted 15 April 2017 - 11:42 PM
AP Dukefan94, on 15 April 2017 - 10:24 PM, said:
Hopefully that'll change.
#706 Posted 16 April 2017 - 12:09 AM
PikaCommando, on 16 April 2017 - 12:07 AM, said:
Remaster of Bulletstorm was going to have a PC collectors edition done in partnership with G2A. G2A are shit. Randy pleaded ignorance. Not knowing about G2A as a person in that position is unrealistic...he also blamed People Can Fly saying it was their idea which is interesting since Gearbox is publishing it and publishers are responsible for, you know, this exact thing.
#707 Posted 16 April 2017 - 12:17 AM
HiPolyBash, on 16 April 2017 - 12:09 AM, said:
Does this mean the PC Collector's Edition is no longer a thing?
#708 Posted 16 April 2017 - 12:35 AM
#709 Posted 16 April 2017 - 12:37 AM
#710 Posted 16 April 2017 - 01:18 AM
Most of the time they were shown up by another game and company.
- The Colonial Marines disaster was cleaned up by Alien Isolation.
- Battleborn was crushed by Overwatch.
- Bulletstorm's rerelease was overtaken in minutes by Bayonetta's PC port.
The only good thing that came from them between BL2 and now was that Homeworld remaster, at least I think it was good, I never played it.
Borderlands 3 may keep them afloat for a bit more, but they're loosing consumers every day and once loyal Borderlands fans are starting to wise up.
#711 Posted 16 April 2017 - 01:48 AM
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#712 Posted 16 April 2017 - 01:59 AM
Battleborn is so barren that Pitchford had to resort to porn to generate some interest, Blizzard knows how to keep games alive so Overwatch is gonna be around for a while.
Bayonetta's rerelease overtook Bulletstorm by 3x the amount of players and is still rising while Bulletstorm is dying out.
Borderlands 3 will give them a kick start, but their decisions will kill them.
#713 Posted 16 April 2017 - 02:39 AM
AP Dukefan94, on 16 April 2017 - 01:48 AM, said:
Gearbox definitely can't be paying you to shill because you're doing such a bad job of it. Trying to downplay the success of Alien Isolation, trying to say that Blizzard won't still have millions of players across all their games if the outdated WoW gets another expansion and not even trying to explain why Bayonetta is "bullshit". Just stop.
#714 Posted 16 April 2017 - 06:05 AM
AP Dukefan94, on 15 April 2017 - 09:43 PM, said:
Don't bite the hand that feeds you? That what you're getting at? I may snap back a time or two after being fed only scraps and starved the rest of the time. Like I said, I don't want to be at odds but Randy sometimes just gives us no choice. It might even be the reality of the situation, the way he handles things, but it's the way he treats us and snaps at people. He thinks he's all that and therefore constantly unendingly appears disingenuous and elitist. He thinks he knows how to PR by pretending he's the everyman's pal and buddy who looks out for them and it's so completely untrue and everyone knows it, yet he keeps that facade up like it makes a difference.
AP Dukefan94, on 16 April 2017 - 01:48 AM, said:
Ok, you just sound like a troll now.
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#715 Posted 16 April 2017 - 10:19 AM
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#716 Posted 16 April 2017 - 12:02 PM
I also paid like 5 bucks for it.
#717 Posted 16 April 2017 - 12:38 PM
HiPolyBash, on 13 April 2017 - 03:06 PM, said:
Do you have a link for this conversation? I never used twitter before you posted this. :/
Would appreciate it.
#718 Posted 16 April 2017 - 03:37 PM
DukeNukem64, on 16 April 2017 - 12:38 PM, said:
Would appreciate it.
https://www.twitter....492206221008897
#719 Posted 17 April 2017 - 05:04 AM
#720 Posted 17 April 2017 - 06:07 AM
Micky C, on 13 April 2017 - 09:52 PM, said:
Also have a look at the whole sex side of it. There was XXX Stacy, a pretty poor level overall but had you go through a porn shoot. Not to mention Babe Land. It was a decent level but had a parody feel about it. You couldn't imagine a level like that in the original episodes.
While there were certainly sexual references, it was almost entirely contained to that one strip club in one level. The rest of the game was pretty serious, other than the occasional girl in a secret area (not counting the pod babes which is a fairly serious matter). Likewise, most of the references to movies and things like Luke Skywalker, Doomguy, Indiana Jones were in secret areas, NOT shoved in your face unavoidably (you can't get around the "doomed space marine" in Bulletstorm for example).
Like I said if everything had kept at the level of the Birth it would have been fine, however it was certainly the first crack in the floodgates.
I have to echo this. Replayed The Birth a couple of months ago, and shocked how much of my initial love for that episode is gone, and how often some of these parody aspects annoy me. Derelict is the only exception, that was like a lost level from the original 3 episodes.
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