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It's not fantastic. If you play by yourself, it's proably not for you. If you have plenty of friends with the game, then buy it. It can be a fun experience with friends.
Borderlands is a great game. So long as you're not going into it expecting a deep storyline or well developed narrative. It's a Grind-fest and I mean that in the best way possible.
It's important to remember that it's not really just a mindless shooter though. There are RPG elements and you will find many similarities with the older Dungeon Crawl style games. Get a mission (quest), head to a gate (cave) enter and start shooting everything you see (slay the beatsties) then pick up whatever loot happens to fall from their corpses or the gun cases (treasure chests) you happen to find during the mission. Then equip or sell the new items, level up when possible, rinse and repeat. Getting a new gun that is way better than what you have currently equiped is a very satisfying bit of fun, just like in Diablo or the Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance games.
If that sounds enjoyable, you'll love Borderlands. Or at least enjoy it enough to justify the cost of admission.
It's important to remember that it's not really just a mindless shooter though. There are RPG elements and you will find many similarities with the older Dungeon Crawl style games. Get a mission (quest), head to a gate (cave) enter and start shooting everything you see (slay the beatsties) then pick up whatever loot happens to fall from their corpses or the gun cases (treasure chests) you happen to find during the mission. Then equip or sell the new items, level up when possible, rinse and repeat. Getting a new gun that is way better than what you have currently equiped is a very satisfying bit of fun, just like in Diablo or the Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance games.
If that sounds enjoyable, you'll love Borderlands. Or at least enjoy it enough to justify the cost of admission.
It's the only game I've ever got the Platinum trophy for, and that was purely single player. It's even better with mates (don't play with random people, that's rubbish).
The storyline is hilarious, but requires reading (which, as evidenced by this thread, may be too much to ask), and if you don't see the ending coming from a mile off, you're a moron*. This isn't a bad thing, though, because it's definitely worth a few playthroughs, and getting Zombie Island of Dr Ned and the Secret Armory of General Knoxx. Mad Moxxie's Underdome Riot isn't as good, but is still a laugh. I say get it.
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The storyline is hilarious, but requires reading (which, as evidenced by this thread, may be too much to ask), and if you don't see the ending coming from a mile off, you're a moron*. This isn't a bad thing, though, because it's definitely worth a few playthroughs, and getting Zombie Island of Dr Ned and the Secret Armory of General Knoxx. Mad Moxxie's Underdome Riot isn't as good, but is still a laugh. I say get it.
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Seriously, people! I've said this so many times! You're looking for a box on the planet Pandora! What good can come of that!?
It had an amazingly fun multiplayer set up. Single player wise, it was still fun, just not as much as multiplayer. If you want to know about actually game content, *spoiler alert* you notice that there's only a small number of gun models, but thing are kept original by the fact that between color, damage, range, etc. there's alot of different possibilities, however i found myself finding an above average gun half way through and sticking with it. The missions start to seem oddly familiar after awhile, at least the side ones, but if you dont pay close attention you wont know the difference.
Never the less it still a really fun game
PS I highly suggest plugging your ipod in while play, No Rest For The Witched by Cage The Elephant ends with the opening cutscene and is replaced by a generic and at times unpleasent sound track, which for one area of Pandora sounds like they have a cow singing.
Never the less it still a really fun game
PS I highly suggest plugging your ipod in while play, No Rest For The Witched by Cage The Elephant ends with the opening cutscene and is replaced by a generic and at times unpleasent sound track, which for one area of Pandora sounds like they have a cow singing.
I'll describe it to you the same way I did to my roomie:
Add 2 parts Diablo (The random loot generator, the skill trees)
Add 1 part Halo (Voice actress and some sound FX, plus the UI feels like Halo)
Add cell shading (Not crazy cartoon style, just multiple levels of self-shadowing with no gradients)
Mix the F*CK out of it.
If you're not intrigued then pass on Borderlands. It's an interesting way to kill time, very pick-up and go solo, but it really shines as a multiplayer experience. And you can play SPLIT SCREEN.
Add 2 parts Diablo (The random loot generator, the skill trees)
Add 1 part Halo (Voice actress and some sound FX, plus the UI feels like Halo)
Add cell shading (Not crazy cartoon style, just multiple levels of self-shadowing with no gradients)
Mix the F*CK out of it.
If you're not intrigued then pass on Borderlands. It's an interesting way to kill time, very pick-up and go solo, but it really shines as a multiplayer experience. And you can play SPLIT SCREEN.
I would strongly suggest you not get it. The gameplay is wholly uninteresting, and while there are millions of guns, they all act in about the same way. The entire thing boils down to grinding completely unoriginal quests in an attempt to unlock a weapon that is slightly better than the one you have now.
But then again, a lot of people love it, so maybe it's just me...
But then again, a lot of people love it, so maybe it's just me...
I wouldn't say terrible by any means. We did get a bit shafted in some ways, but it was still fun. Before they (supposedly) fixed it in a patch (waaaaay later than they should've), it was a ***** and a half for some people to get it working online, even forwarding ports manually, but my friends and I managed it, and I have a feeling having the full screen to myself and talking on Vent was a lot more fun than I'd have sharing it in split screen. It was also a pain in the ass to have to edit the config files manually to disable crap like auto-aim and mouse smoothing, but after sorting out all of that, it was at least entertaining in co-op (and significantly less so alone).Souplex said:
So yeah, not terrible on the PC, and I enjoyed it, but they botched it badly enough and took so long to fix things (and still haven't fixed others months later) that I'm not going to be buying any more of their games.
I personally love the game while playing with a friend or two. The splitscreen can get a little annoying because you have to pan the menus around but you get used to it and the variety of guns make for some hilarious moments.
There's not much going on in the story department, but it doesn't really matter because it still works very well. The gameplay works well and that's what matters. So if you have a friend to play splitscreen with, or multiple friends to play online (or LAN) then it makes it all the better.
There's not much going on in the story department, but it doesn't really matter because it still works very well. The gameplay works well and that's what matters. So if you have a friend to play splitscreen with, or multiple friends to play online (or LAN) then it makes it all the better.
In my honest opinion, it's only fun when you have friends around. I've played it with a few friends on PS3 and had fun, and played it alone and was bored out of my mind.XoXoButterflyXoXo said:
Just another game imo. Don't get me wrong it's some good fun for the first playthrough or so, but it loses its touch. There are 4 different DLCs, which I think are like 20 bucks each.....yeah, hell no. I played just the regular non-DLC game.
The co-op isn't too great unless you have a good buddy sitting next to you, or a good buddy on xbox live or PSN, in which case it's baller. It will probably be forgotten within a year or so sadly.
Also, they really made a mistake by not caring about a story. There's not a single game in the world that has a more uninteresting story than this game, and that really takes away from the feel of the game. Overall, go rent it for a week or two and that should be fine.
The co-op isn't too great unless you have a good buddy sitting next to you, or a good buddy on xbox live or PSN, in which case it's baller. It will probably be forgotten within a year or so sadly.
Also, they really made a mistake by not caring about a story. There's not a single game in the world that has a more uninteresting story than this game, and that really takes away from the feel of the game. Overall, go rent it for a week or two and that should be fine.
If you like playing online, Fallout 3 or FPS's in general then it would come as a surprise if you didn't like Borderlands.
Setting
A desert planet by the name of Pandora. The environment is typically wide open wasteland and desert but you'll also find yourself roaming through caves, junkyards, towns and military bases.
Story
The story is very trivial but the theme is presented very well.
Gameplay
-There are various weapons classes; Pistols, Snipers, etc. Within each weapon class are many varied types of that weapon, and for each type, there's thousands of different variants with different stats. Weapons may also have some interesting effect like setting your target on fire, bullets bouncing off walls, regenerating ammo, etc.
-You can pick one of 4 different characters which have their own unique skills and excel in a certain area.
-Looting chests and enemy drops gets you better items and can be very satisfying and rewarding.
-Vehicles.
-Enemies are varied, interesting and require different strategies to defeat effectively.
-Levelling up enhances your abilities and you can choose which ability to enhance.
In the game you are given missions, completing them gets you rewards in the form of EXP and new items. However the missions are usually either: "Kill this thing" or "Collect these gun parts".
You can play Borderlands on Single Player but it's much more fun playing it online or with your friends.
Oh and DLC3 is the best bit of the whole game.
Setting
A desert planet by the name of Pandora. The environment is typically wide open wasteland and desert but you'll also find yourself roaming through caves, junkyards, towns and military bases.
Story
The story is very trivial but the theme is presented very well.
Gameplay
-There are various weapons classes; Pistols, Snipers, etc. Within each weapon class are many varied types of that weapon, and for each type, there's thousands of different variants with different stats. Weapons may also have some interesting effect like setting your target on fire, bullets bouncing off walls, regenerating ammo, etc.
-You can pick one of 4 different characters which have their own unique skills and excel in a certain area.
-Looting chests and enemy drops gets you better items and can be very satisfying and rewarding.
-Vehicles.
-Enemies are varied, interesting and require different strategies to defeat effectively.
-Levelling up enhances your abilities and you can choose which ability to enhance.
In the game you are given missions, completing them gets you rewards in the form of EXP and new items. However the missions are usually either: "Kill this thing" or "Collect these gun parts".
You can play Borderlands on Single Player but it's much more fun playing it online or with your friends.
Oh and DLC3 is the best bit of the whole game.
Borderlands can be a lot of fun. However I feel it is best played with actual people you know, preferably on split-screen.
But the game is best with the expansion if only to change up the scenery. You may wish to wait for the Game of the Year Edition to come out.
I found playing the game alone to be a repetitive experience which quickly devolves into endless looting and pointless leveling...
But the game is best with the expansion if only to change up the scenery. You may wish to wait for the Game of the Year Edition to come out.
I found playing the game alone to be a repetitive experience which quickly devolves into endless looting and pointless leveling...
Arkham Asylum is in my opinion the better game, and much more fun to play alone. However, Borderlands is much longer and has more replayability.Legion said:
Basically, they're both great, AA is a quick and amazing blast, but BL is a long and slow paced epic adventure.
If that makes any sense.
I thought it was a fun game, but its not much more that any other first person shooter you should probably rent it.