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Quick Look: The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned

Jeff and fellow undead fighters Ryan and VInny take on the first of Borderlands' DLC.

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Nov. 24 2009

Cast: Jeff, Ryan, Vinny

Posted by: Brad

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Borderlands

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Edited By Erik

Yes!!! More Borderlands, can't wait!

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Edited By AllanIceman

Not just Borderlands, Zombie Borderlands! Way cooler.

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Edited By Damien

Borderlands is the shizzz

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I'd watch the quick look but my download for this DLC already failed once.

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Too soon for me.

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Edited By KinjiroSSD

They are really enamored by Borderlands.

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This is where cars live, come get you one.

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Edited By Shibbles

I would be angry at the Borderlands team for releasing DLC so early and not just including it on the disc, but this is some pretty awesome content.

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Edited By Jeffsekai
@Shibbles said:
" I would be angry at the Borderlands team for releasing DLC so early and not just including it on the disc, but this is some pretty awesome content. "
How do you want them to include an extra 1 gig.
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@Jeffsekai said:
" @Shibbles said:
" I would be angry at the Borderlands team for releasing DLC so early and not just including it on the disc, but this is some pretty awesome content. "
How do you want them to include an extra 1 gig. "
exactly, it's a lot of content
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Edited By TheMustacheHero

Wow the loading screen in Borderlands makes my head hurt.

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"can we pump up the volume .................... dance"  vinny ftw
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Edited By cstrang

I've finished the DLC package a little bit ago (the only thing I have left now is the mind-numbing quest "Braaaaaaaaaaains").  Totally not worth the money.  3-4 hours of gameplay, no new weapons, no new gameplay, no little fixes.  Sure, the humor is great, but the best stuff on that end is the intro video that is in this quick look.  I hate to say it, 'cause I loved playing through Borderlands and have sunk more than 100 hours into the game at this point, but I think I'm ready to put the game away for good.

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Edited By ZombieHunterOG

cool

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Edited By ToastyJaguar

Hey, im level 50 and it didnt scale it for me, my zombies were all around the low level 40's! I though it was a bit easy.
 
Good dlc non the less, i love the humour in borderlands

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Edited By Yummylee

I havent even beaten the 2nd playthrough yet and i still havent even attempted a 4 player run. Now theres already DLC being added, Borderlands is gonna be keeping me game-happy for a long time to come.
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Jeff when you use that fire SMG you are simultaneously murdering zombies AND murdering your frame rate.

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Edited By El_Rickhead

im not sure about this, ive played maybe 30 hours of Borderlands to get to lvl 50, and now they want me to pay more cash to get no extra weapons, no raised lvl cap, no new gameplay elements, just something different to look at and zombies to kill for fun? i've got to be honest, that does not sound like fun!

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You're adopted, bus driver man!

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@theholybible said:
" im not sure about this, ive played maybe 30 hours of Borderlands to get to lvl 50, and now they want me to pay more cash to get no extra weapons, no raised lvl cap, no new gameplay elements, just something different to look at and zombies to kill for fun? i've got to be honest, that does not sound like fun! "
Thats exactly why i want nothing to do with it.
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I believe those "robot zombie birds" were in fact bats.

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Edited By MrDaravon
@ToastyJaguar:   The enemies all scale to level 50 if you've beaten your second playthrough, just like the rest of the game (everything in the game scales to 50 once you've beaten it twice).
 
Main disappointment from the DLC is they claimed "around 50 quests" and there was only about 24 that took about 5 hours.  And almost 2 of those hours were spent doing they same stupid series of quests bringing the guy more and more of the same item.
 
It's still a lot of fun, the levels are pretty decently sized.  I say it's worth it, although it's really NOT for additional end-game high level/loot content, so if you're looking for it strictly in that regard I could see someone being disappointed.  I could see it being pretty great for non-50 characters though just in terms of the area size and number of enemies though.
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@Jeffsekai: Borderlands only took up 3.3GB on the disc.
 
Also, NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Don't pick up the brains! They won't count towards the quest! You must activate it first!
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A zombie on fire is just a zombie on fire.

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Edited By KowalskiManDown
@theholybible said:
" im not sure about this, ive played maybe 30 hours of Borderlands to get to lvl 50, and now they want me to pay more cash to get no extra weapons, no raised lvl cap, no new gameplay elements, just something different to look at and zombies to kill for fun? i've got to be honest, that does not sound like fun! "
Play as a different character?
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Edited By PicklesOnParade

Jeff, you have reached the maximum amount of money you can hold. Stop picking up money money money!

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Edited By Romination

Yay! I found this thing! Man, I want this game..

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Edited By zombie2011

Bombcast, 3 quicklooks and the official start to Thanksgiving break. What a great day.

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Throwing money at zombies to distract them should totally be in this DLC. Totally.

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@Shibbles said:
" I would be angry at the Borderlands team for releasing DLC so early and not just including it on the disc, but this is some pretty awesome content. "
You know what? Be glad you get it at all, and be glad you get a working online component as well.
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Christ, if I was playing and those zombie birds attacked me when I was looking at the shop, I would have FLIPPED.

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As much as I enjoyed Borderlands, if there is no progression involved in this DLC than I'll just stick to killing zombies in Left 4 Dead 2. Seriously.

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Edited By Luke

 I just finished doing pretty much everything in this DLC and now have all 55 Achievements. 
 
The DLC was kind not as good as I would have hoped, but it was ok, I guess.  I liked the gameplay mechanics, like with the different zombies and different positions of their heads. 
 
Wish there was more to it though and maybe 200 GamerScore would have been nice. 
 
Anyway, buying the DLC means supporting Gearbox and I guess that feels right, at least. 

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well....I'm sold

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god, this looks so boring :p

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Money, money, money!

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lmao right before you guys started playing, it said "acid is not affective on zombies". 
 
money money money

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I came out of lurker mode to register my appreciation of Vinny's rendition of an Italian-accented zombie.

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looks pretty dry...

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So...is that horrible slow down happening every time you fire or some kind of slo-mo perk thing? Sloooowww. o____O
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Edited By mrsmiley

Yay looks just as boring as the first quicklook did. Glad I didn't get this game.

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When Jeff zooms in and shoots, is the framerate actually that bad, or is it just the video?

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@Delta_Ass: It's the console version, so yes it's that bad.
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Yep.  Swamps and zombies.

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Edited By lhaymehr

Just in time. I just grinded through BL with a guy in COOP doing every possible mission from start to finish and it took us under 5 hours. That milked the life right out of the game. And I so wanted to not spoil this DLC for myself by skipping the Quick Look on Destructoid, but i gotta see yours :(

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@Delta_Ass said:
" When Jeff zooms in and shoots, is the framerate actually that bad, or is it just the video? "
i didn't see any frame rate issues. just a bad internet connection?
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I'm sorry, Gearbox, but I believe Brad called it last week!

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Edited By dlowe05
@Shibbles said:
" I would be angry at the Borderlands team for releasing DLC so early and not just including it on the disc, but this is some pretty awesome content. "
every game releases dlc this fast. its been over a month, so, it's definitely normal.
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@dlowe05 said:
" @Delta_Ass said:
" When Jeff zooms in and shoots, is the framerate actually that bad, or is it just the video? "
i didn't see any frame rate issues. just a bad internet connection? "
Watch what happens when Jeff uses the scope on the SMG. Slooooow.
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@mrsmiley said:

" Yay looks just as boring as the first quicklook did. Glad I didn't get this game. "

This game is awesome, played it for 80 hours now. It gets much more frantic than this.