Return to Pandora as part of a new group of ragtag Vault Hunters in this sequel to the 2009 first-person "role-playing shooter" Borderlands, now with new crazy enemies, new crazy character classes, and even crazier weapons.
Sounds good. I've been getting more and more excited for this game. Had some personal stuff having me down today, kind of was in a daze thinking and reading about this game a bit during work, and I wandered into a local game store at lunch because I was listening to the Bombcast and thought they said it was out today for some reason. Guy looked around and said they must have sold out, I guess he isn't too knowledgable. Saved me some embarrassment.
Looking forward to it. Keep my minds of some things with guns and guns and guns.
If any Bombers want to get into some Co-op on Xbox Live hit me up! Pretty certain I'm going to be playing the assassin with a melee focus.
Thanks to whoever it was that pointed people toward that $36 pre-order at Green Man Gaming. I went on a mini-spree and impulse bought this, Dishonored, and Hitman: Absolution. All for less than the price of any 2 of those games.
I haven't really been excited about Borderlands 2 until a few days ago, and now I can't think about anything other than all the shotguns I'm going to hoard.
Prettiest game of 2012 what in the fuck, I guess coke and hooker parties amidst fumes of skunk are still popular for UK publishing houses and developers (hi Molenyux!).
Prettiest game of 2012 what in the fuck, I guess coke and hooker parties amidst fumes of skunk are still popular for UK publishing houses and developers (hi Molenyux!).
When a lot of games look the same, art style goes a long way. Looks very pretty to me from what I've seen.
You know thinking back to that whole fiasco, it really is just completely absurd. It's insane to think that we lived in a world where 8.8 wasn't an acceptable score for Twilight Princess. Shit, it seems pretty fucking generous now.
I'm really eager to play the game. Still don't give a shit about reviews.
Also, I'm not that big a fan of Quick Look EX's either (particularly when it means that GB doesn't do a normal QL for the game). While it can be nice to get an early look of the game, I'd personally rather wait and see what the Giant Bomb crew really thinks in their own QL rather then being stuck with someone who worked on the game guiding them through it.
While its generally true that the EX's are vastly inferior to the normal Quick Looks most of the time I think the Borderlands one was a relatively straightforward, honest approach to the game with the guy actually playing instead of lecturing. You could still feel Jeff biting his tongue at how lazy the "Skags behind laser walls" ambush was though, which is unfortunate. Surely Gearbox-man has some sort of a sense of humor.
Game Informer scores so low that they score 63% higher than the average critic: http://www.metacritic.com/publication/game-informer
Come on guys that magazine is literally 50% ads 25% Gamestop and 15% content, with the additional 10% composing some assorted piles of shit.
My buddy is a huge borderlands fan and really wants me to pick the game up to play co-op. However, after playing a few hours of the first one, I just can't jump get excited about it. I'm sure it'll be fun, but I find myself holding off on picking it up.
I will be surprised if we dont get a true QL for borderlands 2 plus a TNT for it. Im sure there will be tons of talk on next weeks bombcast as well.
Yeah I think so too. Jeff really loved the first one, he played it to death on the xbox and then got the PC version didnt he? Im sure he will lobby hard to get as much coverage as possible. At least i hope so, in house 4 player coop TNT would be awesome to watch.
Like most of us know, skyrim got 9.75's, and 10.0's. And I think it deserved them. Faults be damned. Other people played skyrim for 15 minutes, shrugged. And moved on. Game informer, and most importantly the actual people who write for it - Are just like me, or any other user. They give mass effect 3 a 100 because that person playing it think's it deserves 100. If they where paid off, let us judge the facts as they come.
I think skyrim is a flawed game that deserves 9.9/10. Right now at least one of you is tsk'ing at me. "What a joke, skyrim is a buggy game". Sure it's that as well. Yet here we are with out extremely subjective viewpoints that we are willing to defend.
I don't believe the majority of reviews are paid off, I believe that some are. And we should not group everyone in the same bundle. Instead we should just go "oh, this specific critic likes it, what else did they like?" "Oh, they loved skyrim as well". Them giving it a high score might just be useful information for me.
If we do anything beyond that, and make wide sweeping statements about everything being corrupt, crap, or whatever else. It really does achieve nothing. We should dedicate that time, that effort, into looking for people we are compatible with taste wise.
The first one got old fast to me. I don't foresee this one being any different. Just not my thing. I wish reviewers would go back to using 3 and 4 person panels. I like seeing a diversity of opinion instead of aggregates or single scores. This doesn't say anything to me other than, "9.75 for Borderlands fans."
I think I'm going to love Borderlands 2, just as much as I loved the first one. But frankly, I don't care what most of the "professional reviewers" score a game. I judge them based on my own opinion, and besides I can't trust reviewers anymore when they ignored the horrible ending to Mass Effect 3.
@BeachThunder: Agreed. I think game reviews have a lot of tie-in with the popularity of certain franchises. Best way to find out how good or bad a game is is just to pull the trigger and buy/play it.
I just wish Borderlands 2 wasn't so terrible combat wise. The game has a serious lack of "feed back" and the entire game is a slog.
The first game had the worst ending of any game I've ever seen. Clap Trap completely ruined the enjoyment I had out of the game from the word "Go.". The "hurr" humor is kinda obnoxious and I really just want a serious game with maybe a few "haha" moments.
I want blood and guts not cutesy crap like what the majority of first person shooters have came to. Syndicate did it FUCKING RIGHT. It reminded me of playing Urban Terror in Quake 3 combined with Doom in terms of pure visceral violence.
I originally started making a "best of FPS games in the past 10 years" and realized there is very few good FPS games. I got bored after 4 years. Anyways, if you played Quake competitively or Team Fortress (no not that garbage classic or 2 fuck off if you think those are "Team Fortress") you would understand how it is so hard to play any game online these days. Also when it comes to single player games nothing beats Quake, or Doom. I also think SIN was one of the best first person shooters and it is really a shame Half Life came out the same month because SIN was 100x better. Half Life ruined the genre. There I said it. It is a "first person shooter", not a "first person story puzzle".
This is why I really liked Syndicate. IT took the brutality of old school combat in first person shooters and combined it with a fast story - no dicking around or clicking on NPCs. KILL EVERYONE IN THE GOD DAMN ROOM, GO TO THE NEXT ROOM, KILL MORE. KILL AGAIN. KILL ALL OF THEM.
Good FPS games in the last 4 years? Uh Crysis, Far Cry, Syndicate, Metro 2033, Unreal Tournament 3 (cry, what a fucking shame one of the classics of the genre is gone),
First person shooter that were decent but not considered "Good" in the last 4 years? Wolfenstein, Stalker (I hated it, but whatever it was cool just a shitty game), Crysis 2, Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (Ravenshield still one of the best KILL all the dudes games),
I just wish Borderlands 2 wasn't so terrible combat wise. The game has a serious lack of "feed back" and the entire game is a slog. The first game had the worst ending of any game I've ever seen. Clap Trap completely ruined the enjoyment I had out of the game from the word "Go.". The "hurr" humor is kinda obnoxious and I really just want a serious game with maybe a few "haha" moments. I want blood and guts not cutesy crap like what the majority of first person shooters have came to. Syndicate did it FUCKING RIGHT. It reminded me of playing Urban Terror in Quake 3 combined with Doom in terms of pure visceral violence. I originally started making a "best of FPS games in the past 10 years" and realized there is very few good FPS games. I got bored after 4 years. Anyways, if you played Quake competitively or Team Fortress (no not that garbage classic or 2 fuck off if you think those are "Team Fortress") you would understand how it is so hard to play any game online these days. Also when it comes to single player games nothing beats Quake, or Doom. I also think SIN was one of the best first person shooters and it is really a shame Half Life came out the same month because SIN was 100x better. Half Life ruined the genre. There I said it. It is a "first person shooter", not a "first person story puzzle". This is why I really liked Syndicate. IT took the brutality of old school combat in first person shooters and combined it with a fast story - no dicking around or clicking on NPCs. KILL EVERYONE IN THE GOD DAMN ROOM, GO TO THE NEXT ROOM, KILL MORE. KILL AGAIN. KILL ALL OF THEM.Good FPS games in the last 4 years? Uh Crysis, Far Cry, Syndicate, Metro 2033, Unreal Tournament 3 (cry, what a fucking shame one of the classics of the genre is gone), First person shooter that were decent but not considered "Good" in the last 4 years? Wolfenstein, Stalker (I hated it, but whatever it was cool just a shitty game), Crysis 2, Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (Ravenshield still one of the best KILL all the dudes games),
I disagree with a lot of your points, but I think the recent Wolfenstein was underrated. I enjoyed the hell out of the shooting in that game, especially with the plasma cannon and the tesla cannon.
Sorry mate but the game was probably never for you in the first place then. That was like going a Lewis Black performance and expecting family friendly entertainment.
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