Zero Punctuation: Borderlands

[happyschnapps]

I was waiting for this one!

I was seriously pissed at the end of this game - Hello story where are you?!

 

[TangoZulu85]

I agree that this game didn't have much for it. Two most significant moments:
1. The very beginning, which has one of the more excellent and fitting songs that a video game has outsourced as opposed to being made for the game, and...
2. The very end... Which I think I'm agreeing with Happyschnaaps above, is the biggest cock-block in the history of gaming.

It wasn't bad, it just wasn't good.

 

[300lb. Samoan]

Hey, not that you need anyone telling you how to do your job, but since you caved in to do a Borderlands review I'll go ahead and tell you that you could write a fine XP article about how Borderlands could turn its sequel into a proper triple-A title. Anyone could list the obvious stuff - fully voiced and animated characters instead of paragraphs, more varied settings, more than three different missions - but I think I speak for all of us when I make an appeal to your intimidating machismo and god-like prowess by saying that only a manly man such as yourself could satisfy our curiosity by sharing your unearthly amount of wisdom.

Do you really think appealing to his sense of humility will work? I mean, I guess it was worth a shot, but I really can't see him being moved by that sort of thing.

No, I honestly don't think he'll give a shit. I bet he doesn't even read these threads entirely. But yes, it's worth a shot... Sense of humility, lol.

 

[Harry Slaughter]

That's something that's really started to frustrate me with games now-a-days. In my small group of carefully selected friends, only two of us have an XBOX 360. One person has XBOX live. 4 player split-screen is nice, but they shouldn't expect a game to be able to ride on multiplayer alone. They especially shouldn't when the multiplayer is "Online Exclusive". It's becoming rare now, that games have splitscreen at all--God forbid I may actually want to sit next to my friend while I snip him as he hoplessly zig-zags around the map trying to dodge my bullets...Anyways. Borderlands isn't my thing. It's an Roleplaying game with FPS elements. You probably could've done the same thing with lightsabers isntead of guns, Narnia instead of an empty, bland desert, and a turret mounted flying purple dragon instead of a solid hunk of steel with wheels.

 

[glencsiro]

Wish he'd reviewed this before I handed out money for it and came to the same conclusion.

 

[Verbal Samurai]

I sense another Mailbag Showdown.

I hope so. That episode was hilarious.

 

[Tomster595]

Hahaha, fantastic review, I totally agree with everything.

 

[MadBlueWinnie]

Played Boarderlands and pretty much came to the same conclusion. I was very bored - even with 3 other players. AND THAT ROBOT PISSED ME OFF.
I ended up going back to Fallout 3, coz thats what Boaderlands made me wanna play - a GOOD apocalyptic RPG shooter.

 

[Enkidu88]

I was a bit disappointed that he didn't mention the ending of the game, I mean it was just begging for Yahtzee to tear it apart. Maybe he decided it was just too easy, but I think it would have made the video great rather than just good.

 

[VaporFox]

I was a bit disappointed that he didn't mention the ending of the game, I mean it was just begging for Yahtzee to tear it apart. Maybe he decided it was just too easy, but I think it would have made the video great rather than just good.

Gut instinct tells me he didn't even play it long enough to beat it. =P

 

[VaporFox]

It's an FPS with roleplaying elements.

Fixed. =P

 

[psychowatcher]

Okay, for some reason, whenever I look at any video, all that pops up is a 5 minute video running through a good number of the series they have here. Anyone else being denied their Yahtzee fix, or is it just me?

 

[mptothedc]

I just played this a week ago at my friends. It was just like playing WoW but as a first person shooter.

 

[Nomanslander]

Sounds like Yahtzee isn't liking Mass Effect 2 either...lol

Well, he said it'll take a couple weeks for him to be able to review it. This could mean one of two things:
1) He's taking a long time to get through it because it's longer than most of the stuff he does.
2) He likes it so freaking much he can't stop replaying it. (Unlikely, but potentially awesome.)

Yeah, but he called the game a gelatinous cube, meaning to say a dense game that sucks you in and never goes anywhere. Plus, if you watch his ME1 review he didn't exactly like that one either.

Anyways as for Borderlands....going into a scrapyard to shoot Jason Vorhees sounds about right, as good as the combat was it was too repetitive, then again the AI also kinda sucked...=/

Interesting how he experienced the same thing from online play as I did, every time I entered a random game I'd find three other players running off with a 8 year olds attention span and completely missing the point of cooperative gameplay. Good thing I had a couple friends to play with or the MP for me would have really sucked...=/

 

[KDR_11k]

At least SOMEBODY who gets paid for reviewing videogames found Borderlands as freaking boring as I did. I even tried playing it with friends but that made it even more boring. Hellgate London wipes the floor with this terrible game and HGL was hardly a paragon of gaming.

And I WISH there was an option to shut those fucking claptraps up because bullets won't do that particular job.

 

[HolidayBrick]

This is probably completely pointless, but I like the fact that the game is so simple with almost no story or variety. When I get tired or burnt out from decision making and roleplaying and immersion, I like a game where my goal is to shoot the same guy in the face 50,000 times with an ever changing pack full of weapons. That's all I was looking for.

 

[Tom4Tom]

blech borderlands.... random review... really its like children play whatever game is advertised in a shiny commercial. after saying that how about that bioshock 2?

 

[Echo_419]

Funny truth as always. I don't suppose you would consider doing Just Cause. It was a pretty bad game and you know... Just cause...

 

[ethaninja]

I have to agree with him on the annoying robot. "Did you know this douchebag has a quest for you?" YES FFS!!!

But it was still fun to LAN with mates and run stuff over.

 

[Xelmon]

Good outline of the game! Major issues were covered well, and what can I say, he's right about all of them.

Thheee only thing that he should have mentioned is this;

WoW and D2 have kids... Then a bit after birth due to circumstances Halo adopts the child, who later changes his name to Borderlands.