Battleborn - Gearbox Software's New Game

[Aikouka]

Gearbox announced their next title in a cover story in Game Informer. The title sounds a lot like a fusion between the "Action RTS"/MOBA/Whatchamacallit and the FPS genre. Randy Pitchford, the CEO of Gearbox described it as, "Battleborn is: FPS; hobby-grade coop campaign; genre-blended; multi-mode competitive e-sports; meta-growth, choice + epic Battleborn Heroes!"

Don't know what that means? You aren't alone! :biggrin: ...but here's a no-gameplay reveal trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXplu_x4ypU

 

[Stuka87]

So its an FPS MOBA?

 

[Raduque]

 

[SMOGZINN]

Battleborn is: FPS; hobby-grade coop campaign; genre-blended; multi-mode competitive e-sports; meta-growth, choice + epic Battleborn Heroes!

In other news a new world record for buzzwords per sentence goes to Randy Pitchford, the CEO of Gearbox for finding a way to shove 11 buzzwords in once sentence with out even needing conjunction words!

 

[surfsatwerk]

I love what they did with Borderlands, but I really don't care much for everything else they do.

 

[KeithP]

Battleborn is a next-gen hero-shooter brought to you by the creators of the award-winning and best-selling Borderlands franchise. In Battleborn's distant future, the only hope for the last star in a dying universe is a new breed of warriors, who must put aside their differences to drive back an unstoppable menace. Choose from a myriad of powerful heroes and fight together alongside your friends in an intense co-operative campaign, or battle against them in fast-paced competitive multiplayer matches.

I am guessing a first person, coop/MOBA tower defense type of game.

-KeithP

 

[smackababy]

I don't think a FPS MOBA would be bad, but it has to be done right. It needs more depth than just "TDM with an objective and bots".

 

[SMOGZINN]

No one else see this as development based on buzzwords? I bet that soon their marketing department will start to talk about how 'indy' their development team is.

 

[smackababy]

No one else see this as development based on buzzwords? I bet that soon their marketing department will start to talk about how 'indy' their development team is.

Can't forget about the 'interactive AI' that is 'in the cloud'.

Of course it is buzzword development. Nobody wants to hear marketing speak without buzzwords. How are we going to get excited about that?

 

[Aikouka]

I don't think a FPS MOBA would be bad, but it has to be done right. It needs more depth than just "TDM with an objective and bots".

I'm wondering if it will actually be FPS. The reveal trailer showed off what looked like five separate characters. There's the female archer, the clockwork pistolero, and the TF2 Heavy rip-off. However, there's also a female samurai, and the bad-ass-looking (i.e. I'm so totally going to hog that hero) swordsman with two red blades! There have been melee weapons in FPS games for ages, but I would still prefer to play those from a third-person perspective.

No one else see this as development based on buzzwords? I bet that soon their marketing department will start to talk about how 'indy' their development team is.

Well, I think it's Gearbox realizing how lucrative the MOBA scene has been over the past year or two.

 

[Snock514]

sounds cool on paper I hope it will be good

 

[CrackRabbit]

I am guessing a first person, coop/MOBA tower defense type of game.

-KeithP

Soooo, Monday Night Combat 3.0?