Zero Punctuation: Borderlands

[deus-ex-machina]

Review made me laugh as per usual.

But can I ask why so many people were suspended or put on probation at the start of the thread? This is the second week in a row I've noticed it. Just curious. Sorry, I probably should read the entire thread, but it just feels like it would be painful.

 

[Mylon]

There's a huge number of people that like to shout inane, useless crap like, "First post!", and the mods like to encourage useful discussion, not spam and noise.

 

[RantCasey]

I liked Borderland I really did. It was fun when I got my friends together and we played together and honestly that really is where the game shines. I will admit the single player does get repetitive however.

 

[dwoo21]

Maybe I shouldn't have watched this, I was planning on getting this but now the game seems like a chore since you have to invest a lot of time into it.

Try it anyway. I normally don't like FPSes too much but I quite enjoyed Borderlands. It's not an amazing game and it has more bugs than an ant's nest (or it did, before a patch squashed a few), but it might be your kind of game. If you play it on PC, the vehicles don't handle toooooo badly either.

It has its problems, yes. But Some people found it fun. Give it a go anyway and see what you think. Rent it?

CoD is killing the same five or six people over and over too... they're just not as distinctive as Jason, Midget Jason, Steroid Jason, Jason-in-the-Iron-Mask or Flaming Jason.

Thanks for the second opinion, I've seen the reviews for this game and most of it was good but I should have expected ZP to say all that since that is what he's known for. Anyways thanks I needed some help trying to figure out whether to give Borderlands a go.

 

[Oktanas]

when I saw you reviewing borderlands my first thought was you gona mix it with the sand from pandora.

well you didn't disapointed me.

 

[Slavik_91]

I found alot of powerful guns, which is hardly a challenge tbh, all I'm saying is that having a nuke launcher is fun >.>

 

[Cimerax]

I think thats his angriest review in quite a while.

Agreed...

 

[Shjade]

Adding three more people to this game wouldn't improve anything about the game itself. The reason the playing experience gets better in co-op is you can distract yourself from the dull sameyness of the game by joking about how incredibly dull and samey it is with your friends while you're playing, much like sharing the experience of a horribly-made horror movie by going MST3K on it with a few buddies. It doesn't make the movie better; it's having fun DESPITE the movie's badness or, in this case, despite the game being incredibly flat.

After going through the game twice, reaching 50, then completing the remaining quests in the everything-is-51-or-higher mode that starts after beating the game the second time (solo as Lilith - hooray for incredibly broken full-heal-invincibility-teleport-escape-mechanic), I can't imagine what having three extra gunners and larger mobs of baddies to kill adds to the game other than even more grinding of the same things I already killed innumerable times. It's not a strategy game; it's not a tactical game; it's not even a particularly hard game. You get guns, you shoot things with them. That's all there is.

I still don't know why Borderlands got such rave reviews. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't great either. Especially trying to get into multiplayer on PC, and the menus, and the laughable story (I have to admit the ending made me snicker the first time just because it basically said You know what screw the rest of the story here blow something else up, which was so in character for the game up to that point I couldn't believe that it surprised me).

Anyway. Fun review, Yahtzee.

 

[n00beffect]

It was awesome!

 

[Zefar]

I played Borderlands with my brother and we did this Co op to the very end. Did most of the quest and killed the last boss which was pathetically easy.

Like christ this boss is like fighting a mentally retarded guy. I just stood far away from it and shot at him. When he did some type of beam attack I took two steps and was behind a corner.

This is not how a End boss should be. <.< I had harder time with some missions compared to this boss.

There is though some good things. Like the girl who thinks her tape recorder is cheating on her. I didn't bother to play through it again though.

Those 6 bazillion guns? Kinda weak in my eyes. You have several different types and then they had different ammo/damage settings. That's about as unique you get. Diablo 2 doesn't go around and claim it got gazillions of weapons due to it's random weapon system.

 

[Shjade]

There is though some good things. Like the girl who thinks her tape recorder is cheating on her.

The psycho researcher is probably the most entertaining part of the game.

 

[Tolerant Fanboy]

After watching this video, I have come to the conclusion that Yahtzee needs to design or at least name items for a few MMORPGs. Who wouldn't want a Nigel's Reticulated Bagpipe or a Tiny Imp Colony Crown? Hire the man as a creative consultant for the next WoW patch and people may start signing up for it again.

Wait, that might not be a good thing. It certainly wouldn't convince him to do it. Bit of a Catch-22 there, really...

 

[Polar Atom]

Aright, wtf is up with suspending the first 3 posts? That just makes me fucking mad.

 

[Maibus]

Kind of thought we would do what I did, compare it to Fallout 3, its like it was trying to be a funny version of Fallout 3 and in my opinion fell flat on its face breaking everything from forehead to chin, I mean this is about as Fallout 3 you can get without nuking anything, it even had giant mutant critters and raiders/bandits.

 

[SomebodyNowhere]

Like Yahtzee I jumped into the multiplayer too early and found all the other players rushing through the missions. I had to play through once by myself just to get the idea of what was going on and have a chance to enjoy the little jokes. I played through another time with a friend who was willing to go at a more reasonable speed and it was pretty enjoyable if not repetitive. Finding different weapons is still pretty entertaining.
And I enjoyed his side statement about the next Final Fantasy, as much as I know he is unlikely to enjoy it you know people will want to know what he has to say to an e-mail box throttling extent.

 

[civver]

Ah, the old Yahtzee is back.

 

[Steady Drain]

THANKYOU!!!!!!!!! Why did this game get so much hype, soooooo boring. FALLOUT 3, no thats a real game.

 

[oursoul]

Yeah dolphins.. the less clicks the better! LOL

Oh and I didn't like the game either, to vague and sparse and repetitive.

 

[keinsignal]

Very funny video; while I agree with all the complaints he made they never stopped Borderlands from being fun for me.

Yeah, that's the thing about the game - it's an endless grind, the interface is terrible, and the game is generally plagued with technical problems. On the other hand there's some really great setpiece battles (Rakk Hive is worth sticking around for), and between the atmosphere and the occasional Really Cool Gun find, it's somehow addictive in spite of the fact you're mostly doing the same stuff over and over again. The "zombie island" DLC's not bad either.

 

[Erdie]

I heard a ton of comparisons to Diablo 2, but no. Not even close. Diablo 2 had extremely active games/lobbies, tons of trading, 8 players per game, the ability to use a completely unique skill-set-- it was exceptional. This is an archaic shooter with numbers. Since it's largely non-linear, the areas tended to be open and bland. I had high hopes for this one, but it was just too boring. I did finish it, but I won't be starting a new character class since they're all pretty much the same.