I'll be the next show cover the response the shows cancellation. One last hurrah poking fun at all the nonsense the seems to emerge in this particular part of the internet. Jonneh', thanks for the laughs.
@tizmond @McLargeHuge Does your son work for Gearbox or something? You're holding a torch for losing argument. A: CM had been in development since 2006 and they failed to capture key aspects in this recent release. This above article suggest that there is about 9 months worth work in it; and it's mediocrity shows.
Aside from that, I think the COD-direction they took was a bad call. COD is much more empowering of an empowering experience as you run around with a team gunning down the Russians, Uzbeks, or whatever ... Aliens is about being cut off, doomed and hopeless against a face eating space thing. There is no thrill of isolation. Instead of COD, they should have looked at Dead Space.
There seems to be this epidemic in the video gaming industry enables developers to think they can get away with producing half-baked concepts. And consumers are right to get upset at that. The social contract between the consumers and developers is that we'll buy it, but it better be worth the $60. And that's not to high of an expectation.
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