In response the the post about Sega denying TimeGates involvment in the Single Player..
Sega is saying this because as I said earlier in this thread:
Sega was not made aware of TG's involvement when it was happening. Sega is right they paid GBX to make this game, not some outsourcing studio. Remember
Sega funds Gearbox to make this game, not the other way around... So
when GBX knew they couldn't fulfill their release commitments (all with being busy with BL2, DNF and Furious 4)
they outsourced the game for ~year to make sure someone was working on it full time... Using, btw, the money Sega was giving them... Who is to even say GBX was giving TG less money than it was actually getting from Sega... Pulling off a profit while basically being a middle man... (that last part in conjecture, but I wouldn't put it past GBX)...
And again as I said before, since the game switched hands between Time Gate and GBX and then back to GBX, many systems were redone, art was redone (textures, particles, meshes) the game was tinkered with and changed by too many different people and too many different visions... Basically, if GBX would have had the balls to be honest with Sega and ask for more time while it worked on BL2 and kept the game in-house, this game could have been pretty good. But by selling off responsibilities to Time Gate, the game really had no chance in becoming the walkthrough video shown above.
Again, the stories from this GBX Employee are true... If anything Sega is just finding about all of this now...
Forget watergate, now we have timegate!
Also, if you are curious about GBX's further bad dealings, investigate the relationship between Ubisoft and GBX and the Furious 4 game announced at E3 few years back... Ubisoft was funding GBX for another traditional Hell's Highway game... what they didn't want was a whole Inglorious Basterds game... Let's just say a lot of shit hit the fan and fan reaction to the trailer helped give Ubisoft some leverage in getting GBX back to making the game Ubisoft originally wanted.