I think it's unfair for most of these reviews to say something along the side of "It lost to Overwatch". I personally was really interested in both games, and loved the idea of playing both at the time for my main FPS games.
The issue I would say this game, was the marketing department. This game tried to be everything all at once, and it really failed spectacularly on both ends.
For the single-player, it was extremely barebones with only a couple of mission formats, along with some characters being completely unfeasible unless you had a full queue of friends playing with you. Which, this game never had too many players to begin with, so of course that was a challenge, but a lot of the characters just never really fit well with the meta as a whole. I remember a ton of sword wielding characters couldn't just get close to enemies without having a pocketed healer. Whoever designed this element of the game was just obviously not thinking, and my main time had with it was playing base characters like Oscar Mike, suffering through the exposition to say at least I "beat the game".
For the multiplayer, this seems even less Overwatch-based, so I still can't believe I see people making the comparison. It much more operates within the Dota/LoL MOBA structure than the Overwatch 6v6 objective modes. Which, I think that confused a lot of people too, who expected kind of a simplistic PvP because they kept marketing this game closer to Borderlands (loot rarity, class systems, skill points, etc) but, it really was just a complex MOBA in the vein of those other games, who already had HUGE playerbases and tournaments. It was hard to make the case to switch over to Battleborn when Dota and League had huge tournaments and could be not only gratifying in gameplay, but also financially.
In general, the Marketing team butchered this game by trying to make it everything it wasn't supposed to be. It tried to encapsulate Borderlands fans, MOBA fans, and be a looter shooter all at once, but none of it really mattered when no one played it, and nothing about it really made a difference in how you played the game.
A spectacular failure, that believe it or not, was 2k's biggest investment. Yup, this game had more spent on it than all of Borderlands 2. Yikes. Regardless, I think they earn a half-star for creativity on the designs of the universe, but other than that, this game is dog shit.
The issue I would say this game, was the marketing department. This game tried to be everything all at once, and it really failed spectacularly on both ends.
For the single-player, it was extremely barebones with only a couple of mission formats, along with some characters being completely unfeasible unless you had a full queue of friends playing with you. Which, this game never had too many players to begin with, so of course that was a challenge, but a lot of the characters just never really fit well with the meta as a whole. I remember a ton of sword wielding characters couldn't just get close to enemies without having a pocketed healer. Whoever designed this element of the game was just obviously not thinking, and my main time had with it was playing base characters like Oscar Mike, suffering through the exposition to say at least I "beat the game".
For the multiplayer, this seems even less Overwatch-based, so I still can't believe I see people making the comparison. It much more operates within the Dota/LoL MOBA structure than the Overwatch 6v6 objective modes. Which, I think that confused a lot of people too, who expected kind of a simplistic PvP because they kept marketing this game closer to Borderlands (loot rarity, class systems, skill points, etc) but, it really was just a complex MOBA in the vein of those other games, who already had HUGE playerbases and tournaments. It was hard to make the case to switch over to Battleborn when Dota and League had huge tournaments and could be not only gratifying in gameplay, but also financially.
In general, the Marketing team butchered this game by trying to make it everything it wasn't supposed to be. It tried to encapsulate Borderlands fans, MOBA fans, and be a looter shooter all at once, but none of it really mattered when no one played it, and nothing about it really made a difference in how you played the game.
A spectacular failure, that believe it or not, was 2k's biggest investment. Yup, this game had more spent on it than all of Borderlands 2. Yikes. Regardless, I think they earn a half-star for creativity on the designs of the universe, but other than that, this game is dog shit.