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Here's Battleborn's Full 20 Minute E3 Demo

This is all co-op campaign stuff, not the competitive multiplayer.

Jun. 29 2015

Posted by: Alex

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Battleborn

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Interested to check this out!

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Its weird how much like Borderlands this looks. Still, will probs check out

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Will forever confuse this game with the Bethesda one.

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Posted by...who?! How do I know who to thank for posting this?!

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This looks really cool.

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Will forever confuse this game with the Bethesda one.

I mean putting "battle" in your video game title is right up there with "storm" as one of the more generic naming conventions ever.

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continuing the Borderlands pattern of ear-rendingly obnoxious characters, I see

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Will forever confuse this game with the Bethesda one.

That was totally what I thought this video was for until I played it.

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Reminds me a lot of Brink. I'm still unsure what this game is... Also is there asymetric versus modes?

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It looks fun. That being said, there are already (or going to be) numerous other options out there that do this same thing.

I feel too many companies have jumped on this "third/first person moba" like train and they are all running together to look the same.

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Will forever confuse this game with the Bethesda one.

I assume you mean Brink which I also feel this takes a lot from. Basically Borderlands/Brink?

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Will forever confuse this game with the Bethesda one.

And the Blizzard one, whatever it's called. It's like everyone's got their moba, card game, and TF2 clone.

It's all so confusing but probably because it's just as uninteresting to me. Gotta cover those bases though I guess.

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Is anyone else hearing the shooting sound Sparx the dragonfly makes from Year of the Dragon?

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Edited By electrotherobot

2 years ago I was amazed at how slowly graphical fidelity was progressing.

Now I'm amazed at how quickly it's regressing.

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Is dis where i comes to dump my gearbox hate???

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@abara: But it's so zany and 'random'. /s

Obnoxious characters, flimsy world-building that has all the makings of a SyFy Original (at least if it's the last habitable system in the universe, we shouldn't have to worry about too many sequels), a la mode low poly/simple texturing visual-style-on-a-budget, and yet more generic co-op shooting gameplay mechanics. Coupled with the negative experience I had of Borderlands, thiiink I'll pass.

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Every single time I hear this mentioned, I think it's the Blizzard thing. With names like "Battleborn" and "Overwatch" though, how can you really blame me...

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Now this is what I call a hobby grade shooter.

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I can't listen to this guy for more than three minutes and twenty five seconds. :(

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This smells too much of borderlands... If I want more of that I would just play those again...

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This game gives me serious Borderlands vibes.

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@abara:

Claptrap alone makes me want to shove a Q-Tip through my ears like that one scene with the deaf kid in Freddy's Dead.

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Edited By rjaylee

Is it just me or are every single one of these games EXACTLY the same generic thing? I mean, with a name like "Battleborn", it doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

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Edited By buzz_clik

Funniest thing about this comments section? So many people saying exactly the same thing as each other about how the game title sounds exactly like other game titles.

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Funniest thing about this comments section? So many people saying exactly the same thing as each other about how the game title sounds exactly like other game titles.

That would suggest a consensus amongst the opinions of those posting in the comments section... Game titles sounding exactly the same is not consensus, it's boring generic uninspiring and dull...

See the difference ?

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@zemadhatter: Oh relax, I'm not saying they're wrong – I totally agree with the sentiment regarding the banal title – but I'm just pointing out that people having the same wording to their thoughts amuses me. Y'know, humour! S'fun!

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@wandrecanada:

@straightgrizzly said:

Will forever confuse this game with the Bethesda one.

I assume you mean Brink which I also feel this takes a lot from. Basically Borderlands/Brink?

Feeling my age. Until I read further comments I assumed Grizzly meant Battlespire...

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@straightgrizzly said:

Will forever confuse this game with the Bethesda one.

I mean putting "battle" in your video game title is right up there with "storm" as one of the more generic naming conventions ever.

Battle Storm: Heros of Eternity

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It's so rare for me to be turned off by an aesthetic so quickly.

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@log_in_lain: dude, i feel like a new battlespire would be a better coop experience than this :/

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Looks a little too busy with all the effects and flashes.

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Is this narrated by Mark Hamill doing the Joker?

Also this looks terrible.

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@rtoast: I'd rather not have to go back to direct modem co-op, but I do agree with the similar experience to being stuck in a trash compactor.

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Looks boring. Maybe the multiplayer is where it's at.

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saw gearbox level

turned it off

sorry, fool me onec SHAME ON ME, fool me twice SHAME ON YOU fuck gfearbox has released some of the WORST Games ever and we continue to shower them with praise and borderlands is just a terrible IP. I come from the quake and doom days, and half life and on were essentially the downfall of amazing online play for shooters. I'm sorry, can't compare TF 2 to QWTF, in any universe, you can try for a hundred hours and the original players of quake world team fortress will smirk at you and say "You missed out on the best days of gaming, online gaming at its finest". Whatever, the point is borderlands = bad, aliens = bad, duke nukem = bad bad bad I waited 13 or 14 or 15 years for this??? Everything gearbox touches turns to poison! I would love to see them succeed, I thought that opposing forces was great even though I did not like half life I appreciated Oh wow they made TONY HAWK PRO SKATER 3? Congratulations, ONE good accomplishment. The company does not know what the players want, and it is whatever, think about the lies we have been subjected to, yet we eat this alive.

Where is my Quake 5 ARENA?

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Looks about what I expected, complete and total shit. Overwatch is all I want out of this 'genre', this game doesn't appear to come close, apart form having more confirmed characters at launch, and that shows nothing. Especially if they are all are boring as I've seen the ones so far

I feel the time of GearBox making good games is definitely at a close, and has been for a while.

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The voice actor is overdoing it. Verry annoying. The artstyle seems off, don't know what it is. I don't like it.

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Ehh this looks alright. Will definitely check it out with my wife.

Tiny Tina with 4 demonic arms and dark magic sounds good in theory.

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At close quarters it turns into an incomprehensible mess, and the weapon models are so big you just about need a second screen for them.

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Something about the visual style is making my eyes hurt really badly. I never had any issues like this with borderlands. I actually stopped watching this demo just because I can tell I won't be able to play this game unless I force myself to get used to it by dealing with the pain for awhile.

Just watching this trailer I felt my eyes straining horribly anytime the camera panned or moved quickly, and anytime something that took up a majority of the screen moved quickly (ex: melee fighting or being in a close range gun fight against a larger character) I suddenly had to really focus to parse out what was happening on screen. It just feels like a chaotic assortment of bright colors and my eyes are trying to make sense of it.

Not sure if anyone else is having this problem as well...it's weird because I've played plenty of cartoony games, but this one is just really overboard for me.

This kind of game seems like it'd be fun in theory. I like first person shooters and I like moba style games. I think I'll just wait to try overwatch though. I've heard good things from people who got to play that game and watching those trailers don't make me want to avert my eyes from the screen.

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@strathy: One interview I found said it was John Cleese.

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This is the most visually confusing game i have seen in years.

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Edited By Yummylee

This Faux-John Cleese VO makes this video almost unwatchable... Or... unlistenable would be more appropriate, I suppose.

Also, terribly confused at the rather straightforward video description given this is an Alex-posted video.

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@froggeh said:

@strathy: One interview I found said it was John Cleese.

I would be genuinely flabbergasted if that was the case.

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This game just looks bad.

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Please find the responsible individuals who write for gearbox and fling them into the sun. Who finds this shit funny? because there must be a few if they keep doing it

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This looks like exactly what Destiny became, except they're being up front about the fact that the pve missions are isolated arena wave instances rather than a single player "campaign." I guess between this, destiny, and overwatch, this is the new fps trend for 2016. Everybody want to get some of dat moba money.