Like Duke Nukem, it will continue
“Has Gearbox Software droppedBrothers in Arms: Furious 4?” Jordan asked over three years ago. Yes.Furious 4dropped theBrothers in Armsbrand and then morphed into a new game entirely,Battleborn. Hot on the heels of Randy Pitchford’s commitment to a newDuke Nukemgame (providedsomeone else actually make it, and also after reiterating that he lovedDuke Nukem Forever), Gearbox’s head assuredIGNthere’d be anewBrothers in Armsyet.
“I think the nextBrothers in Armsgame has to be authenticand we have been working on that,” he said. “I feel we have unfinished business there with both the fiction and the history and I’d like to get into that. I spend a lot of time thinking about it.” I agree with Pitchford here. The series has literal unfinished business in that game it never finished making, I guess because it was not authentic, which is why it became a different game.
And then Pitchford takes thesame tact as withDuke Nukem: Gearbox has really great ideas and it’ll be great once someone else actually makes the game.
“Sadly it takes a lot of resources, energy and money to do what must be done, so it’s not something I feel I could completely do alone. I need good partners for it, so we’ve been talking to great folks but it’s really putting all that together that’s the limiting factor. Once we put all the partnerships together in terms of publishing, collaborators and creatives, we can talk about it.
“I feel like I‘m on the brink of it, but we’re notquitethere yet. Once it happens development will really take off and then sometime after that – if we don’t completely kill ourselves – we’ll announce. But we’re in the incubation phase with the next one there, for sure.”
