Randy Pitchford States He was not lying during Aliens Colonial Marine Demos

Shame, I was so excited for this on the Wii U. Especially with Randy stating it was going to be the best and definitive console experience on Wii U. But even if it was the definitive console experience, that's like saying it's the most polished pile of $hit on the shelves, it's still a piece of crap.

Sigh.

conspiracy theory time!

What if Nintendo threw a few extra bucks at Gearbox so that the "Delayed" wii u version would be the best version, and ends up looking like that 2012 demo, making people think that the wii u is only capable of having graphics look that good, thus having people run out and buy wii u's. 0_o

Thats very sly of you nintendo, very sly.

/s

It's too late man..... it's too late....

I dunno why everyone seems so surprised. What was the last movie tie in game that was good and not a cash grab?

I really like Randy, but maybe him being a "fan" of the series had him seeing this project through colored lenses?

Thats actually more sad than anything. It means they had a product that looked awesome but because they decided to outsource it turned out to be a pile of hot sh!t.

hes still a cool guy to me he didnt let us down with borderlands 2 thats the main thing

Probably my least favorite person in the gaming industry right now, and for no reason pertaining to the Aliens flop. He's acted like nothing but a smug, condescending d-bag to the Borderlands 2 community since launch.

ACM belongs in the same bracket as Turning Point and Daikatana. Basically, it's awful. Not even amusingly so. It isn't finished. Play Haze instead.

Randy Pitchford lying through his teeth. You got to love this lol!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

So...at some point, the franchise gets handed off to some small studio but Gearbox still has their name stamped on it.

Or Gearbox made this game while on a bathroom break from making Borderlands 2.

Either way, Randy is a blatant liar and should be ashamed.

Maines LOL

drop your linen and start your grinning, Randy Pitchfork.

I let it slide when Duke Nukem bombed. There's no excuse now, Randy. Man up and admit you f*cked up.

Aliens! https://dl.dropbox.com/u/54...

Maybe he isn't lying, after all the version he was playing looked pretty good.

Im no longer buying anything with gearbox logo total scam artists...

What I find even stranger is the fact the 360 version is garbage. Played it yesterday.

Played it on PC and PS3 today.

PC obviously is the best looking, but does not look like the demo.

PS3 version looks ok for what it is, runs ok.

I don't think the graphics are the main problem with this game and neither is the sound.

The problem is the controls, feels way to stiff. The other issue is the way the aliens move, and the acid once you have shot them looks silly.

So far i'm giving this a 6.6 on what I've played. It could go up or down, I've just crashed into the planet.

I recently finished DEADSPACE3. my verdict. 8.

Felt dragged out and the ending is garbage imo.

Doesn't matter how many times they say they had no intention of lying, that's what its coming off as. Pity they actually can't own up to it.

What i don't get is the fan loyalty, thinking that gearbox are gifted devs, when the most recent and popular example of their work, Borderlands 2, is more on par with the Aliens title delivered instead of the one promised.

wait wait wait, nintendo fans can't complain about a game being put on hold for damn near a year for no good reason without being called spoiled fanboys, but this "dynamic lighting" crap is okay? thats funny. would be nice to have the better visuals but not a deal breaker. if gameplay is good then i'll still check it out. sn: one missing sequence does not justify saying anything negative about the gameplay.

No Randy im sorry the E3 demo and the Final product are miles apart! This was a wasted use of the Aliens license.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Edit: Infact here is a Demo from OCTOBER! Now if all this stuff about Gearboxes original work being scrapped etc is true. Then Gearbox must have some staff if they built a whole game again in under 3 months....

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

more sneaky than burke

I just hope this doesnt hurt Gearbox or threatens our the chance at a Borderlnds 3 :/

Yes they messed up, but they outsourced to another developer who made it crap, not Gearbox.

Who's really to blame here? Yes there's false advertising, and Randy should be dealt with, but after the amazing borderlands 2 game, we can see that Gearbox have the ability to really commit to and produce a high quality product if they work on it 110% from conception to end.

I feel it's more than "they just lied". Like maybe their funding got cut or something. I mean, if you look at the comparison videos between demo and retail, it just seems like something went horribly wrong mid-development. IDK...

This game needs to commit suicide like Ripley did.I beat it today and honestly it's one of the only times recently that I've played a game and when it was over my first reaction was, "Thank God it's over." Damn, I had a feeling I should've just waited and bought Metal Gear Rising, and I really feel sorry for those poor suckers that forked out $30.00 extra for the season pass because no one will be playing this peice of shit by the time the first DLC hits.

I think he means his intentions were honest. In other words they had every intention of releasing what was shown in the demo, but somewhere along the way plans changed and we ended up with a turd of a game we have now. So he didn't lie at the time, but in the end it turned out to be a lie. So he's a liar whether he wanted to be one or not.

Wow, im glad, and sad at the same time. I never saw this gameplay DEMO because if I had well I wouldn't of bought the product. Now don't get me wrong I don't hate it.. it has the tunes, and sounds, and plays fine, but well comparing it to this is ..well makes me a sad panda.

So is this Gearbox's fault or timegates? if Gearbox then they are two for four now, they baby borderlands. and I get Aliens and Duke were picked up projects but i've learned my lesson. Just cause Gearbox picks it up does not mean they can save it. and its hurting their rep. Dunno what to think in the end, the game is fine when you have a headset four other players, and they to are rocking headsets, but still that demo makes me think what if. Maybe they will do what they are doing with Duke Nukem and get one more short. granted I expect the follow up Aliens title to an MIN. look like the demo since it will be next gen. if anything this Aliens title could of been a Vita title, and would of sold alot better.

So is this guy this year's Casey Hudson?

I think the most upsetting part as a fan, was that that initial footage really was what I wanted and had been waiting forever for in an Aliens game: Great voice acting, atmospheric and true to the feel of the film. If Gearbox had no clue, I would care less about this, but instead it seems like they just decided at some point it wasn't a priority and actually harmed this franchise seriously.

Gearbox just needs to make Borderlands for now.

Was it ever confirmed that it got outsourced?
I have to admit the demo and final product looks like they designed it for the wii and people said the wii couldn't produce hd graphics.

The demo looked amazing! Final copy looks like a different game.

Oh boy... I have a feeling this is going to make it on the "top 2013 gaming controversies" articles later on in the year.

after this fiasco there is still hope for the wii u version.. Now i am glad it got delayed

hopefully alot of what is wrong with the final product on the ps3, pc and 360 versions will be rectified

fingers crossed

I meet Randy Pitchford the guy is a really cool guy. Its hard for me to bash him but after watching that video comparison I wonder what happened. I was never really into this game and I had a chance to play it at there headquaters but didnt. That was almost a year and a half ago. We gamers are over dramatic far to aften but this to me is truly false advertising.

I love Gearbox. Borderlands is my favorite new IP this generation. I will buy every piece of DLC they put out for it.
But Randy talks too much.

He needs to sit in a corner and be quiet for awhile.

I was hoping it was going to be an aliens game using a lot of Borderlands concepts, in the same vein red dead redemption used the GTA mold. Boy was I wrong.....All things aside, this is still a business and love randy or not, the dude is trying to sell games to keep gearbox solvent. Without it, we may not see a borderlands three on next gen plats........

This fella reminds me of Seth Luisi (see Socom) fill a product with hype and take a crap on the community when they call him out on it. Typical douchebag studio head this generation.

This game is such a mess!
What he did was defraud the masses that followed/bought the game. Instead of selling the product for what it is, he was aware it was wholly outsourced, he sold the game like a used car salesman. The ol' bait and switch.

If Randy gives me 50 golden keys and a level cap increase I will forgive him :)

I mean.. what the... how... why?... defuq happened ??

There can be no excuses, they had 6 years to work on this game. The supposedly Work In Progress footage was already very impressive and just needed polishing. Clearly, the WIP footage was just all demo and no real content. I look forward to SEGA dumping Gearbox or suing them for delivering such a poor quality product not fit for release.

Im going to go drown my sorrows on AVP 2010, a game that actually has working xenomorphs.

I am not really surprised anymore. Ever since Blizzard showed their famous "we're releasing our game when it satisfies our high quality standards" with Diablo 3, it is become blatantly obvious that most big gaming companies are just essentially, big pile of liars. Now, there are still a number of decent companies that tend NOT to create hype for their games (they leave their fans to do that job for them, Valve *cough*) but their number is fairly small.

The problem as is stands is this - you can't show off a work in progress demo if you don't plan to UPGRADE the actual thing in the final game. Simple as that. Imagine if Ubisoft releases Watch Dogs this year and it plays ANYTHING LIKE the demo they've showed at E3 last year. They'll get crucified by the public for it. So, live and learn Randy. We don't all fear and loathe Peter Molyneux for nothing ;)

i look just like megan fox.

i'm not lying, that's just the truth as i see it.

clearly that's as accurate a statement as anything randy's said about this game.

Bethesda gets away with this why not Gearbox?

I hope Sega sues them. Let the courts decide if Randy Pitchford is honest.

Well Retro Studios got away with suggesting that Metroid Prime might look like this (start at 0.53):

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Of course it's a classic game and it looks nice but it certainly doesn't have the detail of that trailer - look at the texture on the floor.

OK, it's a trailer, not a demo, but they always say that a demo is not necessarily a representation of final quality anyway.

I'm not lying when I say, he's lying about not lying!

Gear box did all the speaking for this game, in the end if you are the face then you are where the finger goes.

Randy, you lost ALL your creditability. "I'm just a front man! It's not fair!". No, you were/are much more than that and you know it. You are now just like Burke. True justice would come in the form of an Alien snatching you and dragging you off to the hive.

Listen to that wind. Do you hear it? The malcontent? There is no denying it. Gearbox, you have some 'splaining to do. This game is not much beter gameplay-wise than the alpha I played a couple years ago (I'm not even going to bring up what you promised visually). After touting what a great project opportunity you had you outsourced it?! Obviously your own IP Boarderlands 2 was far more important. I hope that anyone considering your "Gearbox touch" in order to get their project out the door thinks twice as it is quite obvious who you think of first.

i was looking forward for this game but after reading some negative reviews i have doubts.

So this is this years "mass effect 3 ending"?

worst game of the year 2013

Personally think this less of Gearbox fault, more the publishers and corps that have the rights to this games, after all they are ones that put this game on the shelf (& Steam) & they also get the final say, who knows what they said. So they should know this is broken. I have a feeling the corps are saving money on Q&A by using consumers as guinea pigs & then patching it up afterward.

I'm not buying the game. Like some folks, I actually waited to see how it was going to come out and if it warranted my time over all the other GREAT games i'm currently investing my time in.

The proof is in the pudding Randy and that proof (the retail version vs the demo used to market and sell the game) proves you a liar.

Liar! He should resign!

Randy Pitchford is damn liar and that is not up to discussion.

He and Gearbox should be sued for false marketing.

oh I was so looking forward to this. looking so awesome and it was going to be so awesome with all the effort and love you put in it. it was going to be the alien game the fans deserved.... Well go screw it gearbox. Seems you are incapable of making a solid game and being honest at all because the alien franchise deserves infinitively much better.

Does anyone really care about this piece of crap game anymore? Get this off the top stories, I'm sick of it already.

Randy Pitchford is a bell end. Always has been. FACT!

SEGA should take Gearbox, and Timegate to the bank for this Aliens issue. Not only did Gearbox liquidate funds given to them by SEGA for Aliens, and sunk it into Borderlands. They knew for a period of time before the 2011 E3 the game was bad so the DEMO used was from the Gearbox build, NOT the Timegate build.

Gearbox picked up the Aliens rights just for that, "The Rights" then sourced the project to Timegate with their Alpha build. Timegate could not produce the same quality and scrapped it and somewhat started over. When Timegate sent their build to Gearbox they saw it was trash and didn't want to invest more time into it. So when E3 came around that DEMO we all saw and were stoked with were from a much older build because at that point Gearbox knew they had screwed the pooch, and flat out lied by showing a FALSE alpha build cause they knew if they showed Timegates, they would of sold NO Copies, would of made No Money, and would owe SEGA more then what they do.

I am not sure if Gearbox lost the rights, but I hope they did. SEGA needs to hold someone responsible and I think Randy and Gearbox are to blame. Granted the Build was from Timegate, but Gearbox sourced it to them, made the call to still release it, and put up a build to a game as a demo that was not even their product to finish anymore.

Randy, you saw Timegates product and saw it was trash, so you put up at E3 a OLDER ALPHA build Gearbox did. That is a huge lie and false advertisment. You liar.