Gearbox rejected chance to develop Blade Runner game

What the fuck were they going to spend the 25 mil on exactly?

“we’ll do it, but everyone on the team gets 500k each”

Please tell me you’re kidding.

25 million isn’t that much for developing a game nowadays.

Whether it’s average or not, and perhaps I underestimated the cost of development today, the question still stands, because it is an insane amount of money that has doubled even within this generation.

edit: scratch that, 10-25 million is an average TOTAL spend, these guys are talking 45-55 million total spend.

Me right, O’Connor talking out ass. Again.

edit 2: fuck it, sources conflicting.

Spending is nuts either way.

Depends on the game. Few companies spend 15 million on advertising. That’s a lot to spend on advertising for even a triple A title, so I have no idea where he got that price from.

A triple A title can set companies back 50 – 60 million in development costs alone. Examples being Grand Theft Auto IV and Gran Turismo 5.

And we’re talking about a pretty established developer here, not some upstart company with nothing behind their belt.

Good job resorting to cheap insults instead of discussing the topic at hand. Makes you come across very mature, good sir.

25 mil for a triple A isn’t a lot some PS2 games hit that one of the early Call of Dutys did I recall the budget coming up in some article.

There already was a semi-decent Blade Runner game, an adventure title from Westwood Studios back in the day, turning it into a Gearbox shooter would be pretty lame its a great flick but its a piece of art and so many people have been influenced by it that it wouldn’t be “new” to todays audience.

I’m glad it didn’t work out.

Sounds like you’re still talking about the extreme end of the scale. A handful of $100 million games doesn’t represent the hundreds of games with “average” budgets of 10-25.

The heck we need Blade Runner game?

We need more games like Heavy Rain, something original, and movie like.

Depends what they were planning to do with the IP.

The IP might not be original, but they could have crafted a completely original story.

far too hard to make a good game out of.

Not really, Westwood made an amazing game out of it.

no way, I’m in, we need another blade runner for pc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acBnLMRIAD0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mov3CuU81LM&feature=related

“Not really, Westwood made an amazing game out of it.”

Was waiting for someone to say this.

Kudos to you. <3

“The heck we need Blade Runner game?

We need more games like Heavy Rain, something original, and movie like.”

kinda funny imo. Have u played Blade Runner? Its actualy the closest-to-heavy-rain experience ive ever encountered in a game… (besides Fahrenheit obviuosly)

Gearbox is known for making tactical FPS games, what exactly where they going to do with Blade Runner?? A slow paced detective story.

mojo speaks the truth here. Westwood’s Blade Runner was a very cinematic experience.

I’m not sure an FPS would do justice to the IP, so maybe this was for the best.

Next Gen?

Where did mojo get to play Heavy Rain I wonder?

well i did not exactly play it.. but with a bit of common sense you shuld be able to see that my comment refers to all the footage from HR that has been published so far..

The Westwood game wasn’t bad at all indeed, rather enjoyed it back in the day, before i had even seen the movie…