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Borderlands 2 Is Officially a Thing

Gearbox's action RPG sequel gets this month's Game Informer cover, will be at PAX Prime and Gamescom.

Guess what, guys? There's going to be a second Borderlands game.

2K officially announced today that the sequel to Gearbox's breakout action role-playing shooter is very much in development, and will be headed to the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC in fiscal 2012 (translation: sometime after April next year).

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In addition to the basic announcement, Game Informer revealed Borderlands 2 as its September cover exclusive, dropping a few details on what we can expect from the sequel.

Don’t expect just a couple bazillion more guns this time around. Gearbox is introducing new and more diverse environments, smarter and more powerful enemies, and an improved mission system capable of delivering a better story.

Borderlands 2 will get its official live debut to the world later this month at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, and will also make its way to PAX Prime this year. Anyone heading to either of those shows that feels like letting out a big, honking squee of excitement right now will be forgiven for doing so. Just, you know...clean up your mess afterward, okay?

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@Creamypies said:

@FluxWaveZ said:

@Laketown said:

borderlands was boring, hope they make it more engaging for solo players.

My sentiments exactly.

The game was created from the ground up to be played with others, this sort of criticism ain't fair.

Having said that, I think it was perfectly fine as a single player experience.

I played borderlands mostly by myself. It's better as a multiplayer game but fine as a single player one.

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@Laketown said:

borderlands was boring, hope they make it more engaging for solo players.

Why is it always the people with no achievements in a game claim to know how it played? *sigh* for those of us who have I know I look forward to teaming back up with you!

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Please oh Please, don't use GameSpy for the PC MP this time around.  Use something that actually works.

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@FluxWaveZ said:

@Laketown said:

borderlands was boring, hope they make it more engaging for solo players.

My sentiments exactly.
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Sweet, I loved the first Borderlands. I enjoyed the single and multiplayer modes in it immensely.

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I found Borderlands to be very boring and even with other players it did nothing for me. It had bland shooting and pathetic AI but most of all the world just felt dead and not in the way the "story writers" intended. The loot idea was a bit overblown but I actually liked that aspect a bit. I think a better story and just a more interesting game would be good.

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Nice :D

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Oh dood I live online play. Met my now best friend on XBLA on there. Wasted a good portions of my life farming for Cromarax! I hope Borderlands 2 is more epic, more fun, and more challenging. Hunter and Siren made all the enemies into childs play.

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I loved quite a bit about Borderlands, but not being a co-op player did make the experience a bit dull. I tried co-op online and found it a bit ridiculous. Oh well. There was quite a bit to like about the game, but unless the single-player is bumped up a bit, I'll probably pass. As for it being an entirely new type of experience ... not really. It certainly was unique in its own way of putting RPG, shooter, and open world exploration together. But none of its individual parts were unique. It was a solid game with a lot of potential that didn't quite come together for me. I liked it well enough to be curious--but not ecstatic--about a sequel.

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I loved Borderlands, one of my favorite games ever. Just make the ending something better than finding the thing you've been looking for the whole time and it being a lie. All those hours and thinking wow, I'm sure there is a ton of content AFTER I get there so this is great! Only to hear "we lied, fight, the end".

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yes, Borderlands was not terribly engaging for solo play, true. But it was sometfourhing special. It was an entirely new type of experience. Felt abot it a lot like I felt about Left four Dead. Do not knock it because it was not for you.

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@Dredlockz said:

@dudeglove said:

Oh come on. Borderlands 2? Should have been called Borderworlds ffs.

I'll skip borderworlds entirely and wait for Bordergalaxies

I'll skip Bordergalaxies entirely and wait for Borderverse!

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The original was great, if they expand on the gameplay of the original and add a more interesting story it can be really great.

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Best news I've heard in months.

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@Laketown said:

borderlands was boring, hope they make it more engaging for solo players.

Ya. Look to Rage
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dude can't wait to hear more about this the first one was great

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@Aus_azn said:
The original Borderlands only needed a more engaging story to be brilliant. If this is going to offer that, then hell yeah!
Totally agree
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YES.

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I'll be buying this for sure!

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The original Borderlands only needed a more engaging story to be brilliant. If this is going to offer that, then hell yeah!

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@Laketown: 
Borderlands was boring solo, but the co-op made it a blast!!!!   Never play Borderlands solo!
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MOAR GUNZ MOAR FUNZ

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My wife and I had a blast playing through Borderlands, and in fact we still pick it up from time to time. Another full game of the same but tweaked for goodness sounds like a sure fire order for us.

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@dudeglove said:

Oh come on. Borderlands 2? Should have been called Borderworlds ffs.

I'll skip borderworlds entirely and wait for Bordergalaxies

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Hell YEAH!!!!

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I don't remember a Bazillion guns in the first one.  
It was more like 10 to 15 with a billion permutations of those. 
I was disappointed with the loot drops being lame the same all the time.  
I hope they fix that more than the story. Having a story is ok but it's not that kind of game. 
Fix the damn weapon loot system please, that all I ask Gearbox. 
Oh yeah, and probably adding more than 10 to 15 guns would be awesome too, if that's possible.

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Borderlands was such a disappointment, so I'm not jizzing over this yet.
 
Also, how the fuck is Gearbox able to ship Borderlands 2, Brothers in Arms, and Aliens Colonel Marines in the same year? Madness.

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@MentalDisruption said:

@InfamousBIG said:

@Riboflavin said:

@sl1ppyfist said:

I loved the whole Borderlands experience until I started fighting the last boss that resembled a giant gaping vagina. That being said I'm excited to see what they can do for the next one.

No the last boss was a giant eyeball with some tentacles, the giant vagina was a few bosses before it.

Well are we talking about the Super Secret Hidden Boss, or the Vanilla end game boss? Cause that's the vagina.

I think he's talking about the Rakk hive. Since that thing had a giant vagina for a mouth.

Come to think of it, there's a lot of vaginas in Borderlands.

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Borderlands was a huge surprise. Can't wait!

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@InfamousBIG said:

@Riboflavin said:

@sl1ppyfist said:

I loved the whole Borderlands experience until I started fighting the last boss that resembled a giant gaping vagina. That being said I'm excited to see what they can do for the next one.

No the last boss was a giant eyeball with some tentacles, the giant vagina was a few bosses before it.

Well are we talking about the Super Secret Hidden Boss, or the Vanilla end game boss? Cause that's the vagina.

I think he's talking about the Rakk hive. Since that thing had a giant vagina for a mouth.
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Is it just me or does the guy on the cover look like a Goron?

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@Riboflavin said:

@sl1ppyfist said:

I loved the whole Borderlands experience until I started fighting the last boss that resembled a giant gaping vagina. That being said I'm excited to see what they can do for the next one.

No the last boss was a giant eyeball with some tentacles, the giant vagina was a few bosses before it.

Well are we talking about the Super Secret Hidden Boss, or the Vanilla end game boss? Cause that's the vagina.

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Is this going to be set on "300 years later"? Because I noticed a robot on that image, could be AI. Note that there were no mechanized units mentioned in the first game.

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Seeing this headline throughout the day makes me wanna slap Alex.

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@GreatMadness said:
Saying that Borderlands' singleplayer experience is boring is like saying football or monopoly isn't any fun on your own. Obvious and redundant.
I played more than 70 hours in single layer. Anyone who says Borderlands was boring isn't playing it right.
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@sl1ppyfist said:

I loved the whole Borderlands experience until I started fighting the last boss that resembled a giant gaping vagina. That being said I'm excited to see what they can do for the next one.

No the last boss was a giant eyeball with some tentacles, the giant vagina was a few bosses before it.

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MY COMFORT FOOD HAS A SEQUEL! SQUUUUEEEEEE!

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@Laketown said:

borderlands was boring,

You're doing it wrong.
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Duke Nukem better be in it.

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Question is to buy it when it comes out, or wait until its 6 DLCs come out.

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Cool. While the first had a pretty flimsy story and a letdown of an ending, as a mindless coop shooter it's pretty fun and one of the few games me and my girlfriend get into. There is something strangely addictive to seeing if you can get a better gun. Still, if you can have the ability to upgrade weapons and fast travel in DLC (I HATE having to trek the roads in General Knoxx each time) this could be cool. Oh, and why you can't earn XP in Underdome is beyond me.

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Eh lets hope its not so mediocre this time. When you make different guns, actually make them different pleaseeeee. "Fire gun that shoots a little bit faster than the other one" isn't that exciting to me ;_;

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Hopefully they get voice chat working on the PS3 version this time and the quests won't be as buggy. They were my only complaints of Borderlands.

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This is the best news ever to wake up to! Cant wait!

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Yesss! Borderlands was an incredibly nice experience. Need more details!

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I loved the whole Borderlands experience until I started fighting the last boss that resembled a giant gaping vagina. That being said I'm excited to see what they can do for the next one.

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Now i need to go buy the GOTY edition of the first game. Because I have unfinished business......