WELP.

While it's depressing for Gearbox to suddenly go from one of my most favorite, to most hated developers, the backlash against some gaming outlets is pretty awesome.

If you don't know, there was a review on EGM's website where the reviewer gushed about how rad the game was, yet not giving any specific reasons why it was pure "awesomeness." He gave it a 9.0

Kotaku's comment section has picked up considerably, too. The site's original review was kind of "meh" on it, but the biggest gripe seemed to come in the form of crapping on the plasma rifle's sound effects. The comment section frequently reminds the site about it any time the game comes up in an article.

This, and Duke Nukem Forever. I know they didn't make it, but I followed it as Gearbox picked it up, and seeing the guy who sold me on BiA and Borderlands all excited at how awesome the game was made me take a leap of faith and buy that pig. Then having these great looking demos for Colonial Marines, and the promise of Borderlands 2-levels of greatness. It was atmospheric, and the gameplay looked pretty great. Then, they handed it to like three other developers, had it come back a mess, and pushed it out knowing they'd sell first day copies based almost completely on those conference demos.

I don't hate them, but it feels shitty to have liked them so much then see them do this shit twice.