Been playing some other Gearbox games? Post your thoughts and comments here.
Only one I've played is Halo. Only got so far into the first level and gave up. I had to uninstall it when I was running out of HD space.
Same, only one I played was the PC Halo port. Its a great game. Just yesterday we had a Halo LAN tournament across 20 XPS's at the Game Desgin course im on. Unfortunatley I didnt win. I could have used a bit of extra Christmas cash.
QuoteOnly one I've played is Halo. Only got so far into the first level and gave up. I had to uninstall it when I was running out of HD space.
Oh, its a great game, you should try and get into it.
I just finished a demo of Brothers in Arms on the XB. It was cool game, very hard and took some thinking here and there. Although I didn't use the squad much. It might just be my game style or there wasn't enough option. I'm gonna give it a few more run throughs, see if I can get more use out of my squad.
Played both Halos, Unreal Tournament 1, and Gears of War. And I love all of those. So I think the FPS is going to be awesome.
Quote from: Dark_Magician on Jun 30, 2007, 06:36:40 PM
Played both Halos, Unreal Tournament 1, and Gears of War. And I love all of those. So I think the FPS is going to be awesome.
yeahh but the first 2 games were just ports for another system .. as far as i know .. gearbox just brought BiA and the rest are ports form other games ..
like:
TH3
HL
CS
and so on ...
why someone would give them this license.. i dont know..
mhhh Gears of War .. gearbox ??
Gears of War and Unreal Tournament were created by Epic Games.
Half-Life: Opposing Force (4/5)
Half-Life: Blue Shift (3/5)
James Bond 007: NightFire (1/5)
Halo: Combat Evolved (4/5)
Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 (4.5/5)
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The Halo series has been pretty good ! I played all of the games except for Halo 4 and Halo Wars ... This is one of the games that have the best soundtrack ever .
Here's a list of other Gearbox Games and how I rate them :
- Halo : Combat Evolved ( 9 / 10 )
- Brothers In Arms : Road to Hill 30 ( 8 / 10 )
- Brothers In Arms : Earned In Blood ( 7.50 / 10 )
- Half-Life : Opposing Force ( 8.50 / 10 )
- Half-Life : Blue Shift ( 6 / 10 )
Quote16 December 2006
Wtf !!!
What you saw is what people do ( or I do , if i'm the only one around here ) when they're bored ! :laugh:
Opposing Forces is pretty sweet. Best of the Half Life games.
NONE...and it will stay that way.
Good!
I can't wait to see that GBX "locked" their Homeworld games so they are no longer moddable like the originals and they will fail miserably xD
Gearbox just brings up negative vibes for me so i dont own anything they made.
I've essentially played more or less the entire Gearbox back catalogue:
Half Life:Opposing forces was pretty good. 4/5
Half Life:Blue Shift was great. 5/5
Half Life:Decay was awful. 1/5
Counterstrike was a cheap cash in and hack job of an already successful mod. 2/5
Halo:Windows Edition was just a slightly dodgy port. 3/5 (The game was good, the port was meh)
James Bond: Nightfire was an okay game (Gearbox only made the PC version which was notably the weekest version) 3-4/5
Tony Hawk's Pro-scatter 3 [misspelling intentional]: Only one I haven't played, apparently the port Gearbox did was bad, but the Pc/mac are hardly the go-to console for skating games.
The Brothers in Arms series was for the most part good, but riddled with bugs and often felt unfinished. (3-4/5)
Samba de Amigo was just a very dodgy port. 2/5 (The original was actively better)
Duke Nukem Forever is possibly the worst game ever released pretending to be a treble A title. 1/5
Borderlands- was a concept with promise, executed in the worst possible way. 3/5
Borderlands 2- Actually managed to improve upon the original significantly (no surprise since it got A:CM's budget) 4/5
A:CM - Has so many nuggets of 'great', wrapped in a big ball of 'unfinished' and 'non-sense' which shouldn't have gotten through the first cuple of drafts... 4/5 (or 2/5 if you keep nostalgia and franchise loyalty out of it)
Pretty much all of their stuff has a certain 'unfinnished' feel to it. Large bugs in essential features or sections of the single player game which should have the most emotional pay off suddenly having the dialogue running too fast. I get the impression that there is some really bad mismangement going on in the company because the staff clearly have talent but arn't applying it very effectivly.
Since Borderlands 1 was first announced the studio seams to have been through some major chaos. The game was completely re-designed late in development. Duke Nukem was a throw-away project (with most of the work apparently done by outsourcing and not managing the outsourcing well). ACM went through development hell (as you all no doubt are aware) with miss managed outsourcing, several complete redesigns, no final script even when the game was supposed to be finished, and finally being rebuilt virtually from scratch last moment when they realised the origional engine was not actually compatible with certain platforms... and most of it's funding was spent on Borderlands 2 (if you believe certain 'informants').
I can only assume that they are going to do another hack-job on the homeworld series(sadly), to tide them over until their next in house IP (or between future entries in the borderlands series).