I'm sorry, Battleborn. You didn't deserve this. Your creators did, however.

That Overwatch hentai killed battleborn

Everything you said about battleborn reminded me about another hero shooter called Lawbreakers

"everything blizzard creates is amazing" That comment aged well.

Honestly, I think Battleborn was a very fun experience. I purchased both Overwatch and Battleborn around the same time, but I got way more enjoyment out of Battleborn. It wasn't hard for me to gather what the game was at all during the marketing phase, and the game play and characters were amazing to me. Word of mouth is what really killed it I think. All it takes is one person to talk down on something and then everyone else follows. I've asked people what they think about Battleborn and it's always "That game was HORRIBLE! It's a terrible game!!" However, they never played it. Never. This is what kills games. Personally, I feel Battleborn is better and more enjoyable than Overwatch. I hate that this happened to such a fun game.

Technically, it wasn't that it happen that Battleborn launch when blizzard did his play test, they did the play test because battleborn launch. You can see a lot of times when battle born did something trying to grasp some player base, blizzard did a free weekend or double XP. Just so it could die even harder

I loved Battleborn and it makes me so sad that it failed

Forgot to mention Battleborn's TERRIBLE decision to lock away heroes behind progression. Overwatch players can hop in and immediately pick any character they choose, Battleborn players only had a small selection and had to level up to unlock more. Bad design.

Battleborn and Gigantic didn't deserve such a terrible fate! 😢

"These trailers, just like everything else Blizzard makes, were outstanding." November 2018 called, it says thanks for jinxing it.

I feel its imperative that I point that while the game is dead beyond the shadow of a doubt on PC, ps4 still has an extremely loyal (albeit comparably small) playerbase, and public matches are still findable within a minute or two. The game still has huge issues, but I love it and still play from time to time.

Truly one of the greatest shames of the mid-2010's. So much potential, such creative, fun characters, it had so much. And yet... it faded away into obscurity for what would seem like forever.

everyone accused battleborn of copying overwatch despite the MAJOR differences.

I swear i played Paladins, Tf2 and Overwatch a lot the Last years and i didn't hear about Battleborn until 2017, lol. Tried to play it but i couldn't.

I love Overwatch, but damn dude, I've never felt sorry for Battleborn and it's producers until now. Just... Damn

It's because the Scott the Woz Christmas Special for this year came out a day late

Well i still like battleborn more, overwatch just got boring fast to me

"One of the biggest Triple-A failures in gaming history" *Dawn of War 3 wants to know your location*

But I like this game...

Honestly though, I think Overwatch is a hellaton more boring than Battleborn. Sadly, one person can't change that...oh well. Side note, Overwatch is meh right now.

Battleborn is a dope game, honestly. It's really fun and feels more fleshed out than Overwatch. Even though I'm a competitive Overwatch player and love the game, I'm really sad this game died and didn't get the attention it deserved. The stars just didn't align and everything that could've gone wrong did go wrong.

After seeing what overwatch has become i truly wish this game was still around

I was so hyped for battleborn when it was announced, I bought it a month after release, got gold on all the parts in the campaign, and unlocked all the non dlc characters all within the month. I was noticing the queue times for multiplayer get longer literally by the day and it crushed me

I honestly believe the overwatch community single handedly killed this game, not the game, the community

2020 - No Man's Sky is actually good now.

Battle born failed harder than my gpa did in final quarter

Triple A games: Play it safe - Find it hard to fuck things up (consistently fuck things up) Crowd Sourced Games: Take risks - Find it hard to not fuck things up (consistently fuck things up) Man being a fan is great...

You make a good point when you say that they're actually very different, but that the advertising dictated otherwise. I didn't understand that battleborn was a Moba until way after I knew about it. So I, like many, assumed that it was the same idea as Overwatch

"Triple AAA games very rarely fail* cough, Anthem cough, yeah I know that came out after this video, just funny in retrospect.

You shouldve mentioned the game's Pros...the distinctive and awesome classic Gearbox humor, and the really enjoyable story missions (something overwatch was missing and still is)

Unrelated but No man's sky was disappointing at launch, but the devs put in the work and the game isn't dead any more the devs put in the work and its a presentable game now

I remember watching reviews for both Battleborn and Overwatch when they both just came out. I went to gamestop, rewatched the IGN reviews (idk why i watch them lol) and held BOTH in my hands and kept looking over them back to front wondering which one to get. I went home with Overwatch. And its one of my most beloved games ever.

I enjoy both, but I love the fact Battleborn had a story mode with interesting levels and bosses. Plus, both games had great lore, so Battleborn had that going for it too. Overwatch needs a second game for a story, while Battleborn did it fine.

I would have to disagree with the point that No Man's Sky is dead. While I myself haven't even played the game, I have somewhat kept an eye on it. Since launch, they've released free updates that greatly improve the gameplay. They've added base building, land vehicles etc. With its upcoming release on Xbox, a major update will come to the game which will add multiplayer.

Why did the frog take the bus to work today?His car got toad away.

Hey robo love your vid i was with you from like 100 subs dont now if you remember me but i was asking you on twitter about your server and stuff for unturned love you dudu no homo

Battleborn should be free at this point

Let's compete with Blizzard. What could possibly go wrong?

The FPS/MOBA mix is actually quite fun when done right. I've never tried BattleBorn (didn't even know it existed before seeing this video), but one of most fun I've had with any shooters was with Super Monday Night Combat, which is instantly what comes to mind when reading about BattleBorn. Super MNC never really took off and the devs abandoned it (though they wouldn't admit it) pretty early on, but damn was it fun. Part of the issue with making a MOBA type game (doesn't matter if it's an FPS or any other style) is that if it doesn't launch with good numbers, it's pretty much doomed from the start because of matchmaking. Super MNC was great, but waiting 15 minutes for a single match was horrible.

Two year later, today, Battleborn is still the most addictive and most amazing game in the world, it is the combination of RPG and MOBA. I still enjoy every moment of it even after two years of playing it.

Wait? What's battleborn? Is it some kind of JoJo?

Besides, no matter what you say you cant beat a price tag of 0 dollars

I don't remember subscribing to this channel, but I love this video. ;u;

I remember being here when this was a 99% Unturned channel, I'm kinda proud to see that RoboKast has branched out into a bigger popular channel that doesn't rely on one game :)

3:18 "These trailers just like everything else (Activision) creates are absolutely outstanding" >Few months later, WoW BFA comes out and Diablo Immortal is announced, Along with all the best talent in the company being pushed to mobile shit. And the topmost kek of them all ensued.

This is a reupload, I remember seeing this video a while back.

The nail in the head for me was the campaign. Sometime around halo reach every triple a developer decided they needed a defend from a horde objective. Gear of wars had been doing it for awhile but now every game suddenly had a point in the level were it screeched to a halt and you had to defend a area for awhile. Reach was atrociously bad in that record with one level doing it three times in a row. The first level of battleborn campaign didn't really have that. It felt like I was playing borderlands again with a more hero based action. Then the second level hit. Every single objective was defend from a horde and it felt like a massive waste of time. Combine that with the game forcing you unlock heroes out the gate. Just felt like I was wasting my time.

Love robokast. Such a good KZfaqr. Actual good content

i tried to like this game but the 30 min wait times killed it for me.

I still love the aesthetic of this game even though it failed horribly

Great video man. Keep it up

It‘s so sad... I played it a few months long till lvl 150 and it was such a fun playing with other people while overwatch always left me quiet cold even after free weekends...

I have battleborn, and I've always liked the game. Ofc OW is way more enjoyable, but I think you forgot, or didn't mention a important aspect. Battleborn is unstreamable. There's 2 much info and colors in the screen to viewers to understand, hell even the player most times is a bit lost. On the other hand, and this you've mentioned, when you die you have to slowly and clunkyly come back, creating an uninteresting moment during streams. OW, on the other hand, is more user friendly even suffering a bit from the same problem, but in a much lower degree, and with much straightforward action.

I have Battleborn on my ps4 and i like so much this game. And i like the Story mode to. When my dad bought it was so werd beacuse i never heard about it but now i love this game and i think îs coolll

I thought you were GhostRobo for a minute and was so ready to type up the, "You forgot to add, 'GAMEPLAY REVIEW WALKTHROUGH LET'S PLAY GUIDE 1080p 120FPS COMMENTARY LEAKED TRAILER' to the title."

4 months later and No Mans Sky is back in business!

I played the Open Beta's the whole week and I enjoyed it much more than Overwatch.

where are the gmod videoooooooooooooooooooooooos

As much as I agree with your points I think it's really funny how a game that failed had a lot of showtime in a recently released movie titled Ready Player One; if you pay attention in the background you can see characters such as Ambra, Benedict, Shayne & Aurox, and Attikus

The fact that the game was 60€, but still demanded I unlock characters as if it were a f2p game is the main reason why I never touched the thing. Also, the devs should've dropped the single-player, focus on the multiplayer, and sell the game at 40€! BB also had a huge issue with visual clutter (couldn't see crap on those gameplay videos).

I love battleborn characters and gameplay. Too bad overwatch came at the same time. Overwatch is so overrated. Battleborn has wayyy more content

Like myself, I'm sure a lot of other Battleborn fans would've had this vid suggested to them without ever seeing your channel and we've seen plenty of these videos where people half arse their research and put out the same misinformation we've seen over and over. I wanted to give you this feedback because when doing vids about niche games like this, you can gain a lot of respect from the game's real fans. If you were better informed you could've made this video stand out among all of the other half arsed "Why Battleborn failed" and I wouldn't have hesitated to subscribe. Although I think it's great that Battleborn is still being talked about, it's very clear you didn't play Battleborn much or at all and just spent a bit of time researching it. There is a lot you are totally wrong about here and some huge things that just weren't mentioned. 1. Most of the issues were caused by 2K and at least some of the devs in gearbox really weren't happy with how it was all handled. The devs wanted a free to play, and they wanted a later release date. The game was clearly unfinished and it really felt complete after the Winter update, which changed so many things some people consider it as the "real" release. 2K were also the reason F2P wasn't handled well, and you DIDN'T EVEN MENTION the free to play business. 2. "It lost over 90% of its original playerbase in the first 6 or 7 months." This only applies to PC. PS4 and xBox retained an active playerbase for at least a year and it still isn't dead there. Most people stopped playing PC first because it was terribly optimised, barely ran for many people. After that people stopped being able to find matched because it was heavily region locked to your steam download region so all of the smaller regions died from people changing their DL region to US or France or some shit. THAT is what cause most PC players to stop playing, although a very surprising amount switched to console. Maybe Overwatch was the primary cause for console doing bad, but it was definitely secondary for PC. 3. "Overwatch was simply a better game." Maybe this just pisses me off because it was the mantra for people who have never played Battleborn, but almost everyone I know who has played both points to the level of depth and content of Battleborn vs the great gameplay and polish of Overwatch, or something along those lines. "Battleborn simply wasn't as fun to play" makes much more sense. 4. "Lack of content" Did you run out of time to research when you got to this bit? Ask most Battleborn fans why they preferred it to Overwatch and they would say "It has more content". One of the only things you can say for certain Battleborn had over Overwatch is that there was more content, although the quality of it is subjective. You say there wasn't enough content to keep people playing but the 5 DLC STORIES they released kept the PvE community pretty solid through a lot of 2017 and the PvP community seemed to stay pretty engaged with the 5 NEW CHARACTERS that were released every couple months, even with the tiny leftover PC community that took 8 MONTHS to drop from 150 to 92 players after the numbers stabilised. It properly died off after F2P failed. 5. "6 maps at launch" All you said on the topic of content was that the game launched with 6 "fairly average" maps. Yes it had 6 PvP maps, fair enough that you don't mention the 8 story mode maps and Prologue map that were in the base game... But then you show an incomplete list of base game and DLC PvE maps, and flash up on screen that there are still only 8 maps today? WHAT? DID YOU DO ANY RESEARCH!? Was the wiki your ONLY REFERENCE? It took me 20 seconds to go into the game's private modes and check the maps and there are now 12 PvP maps, plus a couple event maps. So since launch they more than doubled the amount of PvP maps, not to mention they gave 5 DLC story maps. Cheers for reading.

As of February 2020, the walmart in my town still has a single copy of Battleborn for $13

Another major problem was that publisher 2K made Gearbox develop a single player campaign for Battleborn which wasted time and resources that could have otherwise been focused on the multiplayer.

Battleborn was such a good game!!!

About no man's sky... Can you make a video on it I think it's really interesting what happened

I played Battleborn from launch. Me and my friends had a great time playing the story mode together. But Battleborn didn't only fail because of the marketing, it just wasn't good enough to play solo. All characters where unbalanced and all the PvP maps needed reworks. They said that each character should be able to be played solo in the story mode. That is not a good standard for a co-op/teambased PvP game.

Great Article! Thank you for your hard work

The last time I played PvP in Battleborn, i got put up against a team of 5 players, all 5 of them max level, and 3 of them using the same DLC character...

9:17 Those are all story maps. There are 12 multiplayer maps, but the lack of maps is made up for by all the builds and characters. Battleborn to this day still has more characters than Overwatch and each on can be modified to fill a different role on a team, as well as having plenty of room for individual theorycrafting with gear and helix levelling. Additionally, all 12 of said maps (29 if you count PvE maps) are well designed, visually appealing, and unique as long as you take more than 5 mins of gameplay to look at them. The wiki you are using has been abandoned, and is full of misinformation and incomplete pages. A more accurate reasource is Lowlidev for anyone who wants to learn something about the game.

Why must I be reminded of this games failure? Honestly, I played this longer than I would any other multiplayer-focused shooter, it was that fun. I hope it gets a second light(and better handling) in the future.

This was my first ever shooter and I didn't have a phone or a computer I played Xbox I didn't know the devs stoped updating I remember always waiting for a new update maybe a new hero but it never came and to this day I still love battleborn with all my heart and if someone can save it please save it please

You have interesting definitions of "failure." Yes, Hello Games probably made a profit off of No Man's Sky, but they also dug a huge hole they will have to climb out of whenever they want to release a new game.

Hmm what is this Overwatch game he mentions

You have a company man type channel!? Dope!

Man i remember playing the battleborn beta with my old friends. I loved it i really wanted to get the game. But at the time my parents wouldn't buy it for me, now that i was an adult with money i wanted to buy the game for myself, you could imagine my sadness when i found out the game was shut down.

First of all I love battleborn I like it more than OverWatch I'm not saying the OverWatch is a bad game I think it's overrated but I do play it got it as a Christmas present but my own opinion I feel like gearbox did a better job on the game have a story mode what's up to 4-player co-op I even two players split screen Co-op the characters were more interesting they actually have a backstory in the game you don't have to go online and look up Lords and other stupid shit and the game's not completely dead I plan on PS4 I can get online no problem

*Waits for unturned gameplay* 😂

So I was totes onboard until you said it was a Hero Shooter VS Mobo. Show your work? What's the difference

My dad and i are extremely huge Borderlands Fans. He bought me Battleborn for my birthday, right when it came out. Since then i played it only about 7 hours because its nothing like Borderlands, and it was marketet towards Borderlands Fans.

This video just made me want to play Overwatch. And I’ve never played it before lol

To me, its still a more fun game than overwatch, at least from a gameplay perspective.

In my opinion when overwatch did a free weekend battleborn shouldv gone in derect competion and made there own free weekend on the same date so players would try both games so atleast they would have a healthyer playerbase and the players that liked battleborn better than overwatch would of stuck around which ment they could keep updating

I noticed a thing, I see thousands of comments saying "oh I miss this game, its so sad that it died. I love this game" yet they are not playing the damn game. If you want it to be alive show it some player growth. every single person here in these comments: If you really love this game, go play it (if you did not play it before it got taken off the store then nevermind) and show them your support to try and keep it up and running.

I prefer BattleBorn more because it has a story. Overwatch was just people killing each other. No story. I like a action game with a story. I still have it...I missed playing it...

The funny thing is, give it another few months and this channel is gonna have a video titled "What killed Overwatch?" lol. Still laugh at the people who thought it would have the longevity of TF2.

It was $80 in Canada. I can't imagine it sold well here. It looked like a $30 game. At that price point there was no way many people would buy it when you could download and play Planetside 2 for free. The marketing team completely shit the bed. If they dropped the price down to $30, they would have generated at least triple the player base which would have made up for their losses. I'm glad it failed and I hope they got the message.

Pouring one out for my fallen Battleborn... You will forever remain in my heart. And my Steam profile.

Eww.. Paladins... gross haha

No mans sky is NOT DEAD 💀

I remember seeing a big marketing push for it in one issue of gameinformer and then never hearing about it ever again

Gigantic ? Fractured Space ? I think you need to do a video about these games too.

Battleborn is better than overwhatch

lmao No man sky isn't even a triple A game. I feel like you lost some credibility there

I knew 2 things related to this game 1: It wasn't Borderlands 2: If it wasn't Borderlands, I wasn't interested

How do you make this whole video with no mention that battleborn had a full length campaign??

Can you please go back to playing unturned

Overwatch never did and still doesn't deserve it's fame. I'm quite happy to see it's player count dropping drastically. I'm not saying Battleborn deserved the attention and **** sucking that Overwatch got, but it deserved a lot more then it got.

What Battleborn killed for me was that you had to unlock characters, movement was slow and not many game modes. Also the evolve thing was confusing for me.

I originally chose Battleborn over Overwatch because of the hybrid moba- hero shooter mashup. Because of the moba style in match level system, every game felt different as there were multiple options per level up every match. The story missions were also a lot of fun to play through, and I feel the character personalities on Battleborn also had an edge over the characters from Overwatch, and I mean graphically, it was the same stylized graphics Gearbox used for Borderlands. But, as Battleborn died quickly, a few months into Overwatch's launch, I picked up Overwatch, and I love it just as much, though, I would like more dedicated story missions/modes at the cost of one or two options in the Arcade.