Borderlands

[Krusader]

Been testing this a bit and enjoyed the singleplayer portion and can imagine the Coop being fun. Although two big gripes from me so far.
First, you can't skip movies, which is annoying. Secondly, the menus and parts of interface are too much consolish. But overall, it will be worth my money.

[naut]

Been testing this a bit and enjoyed the singleplayer portion and can imagine the Coop being fun. Although two big gripes from me so far.
First, you can't skip movies, which is annoying. Secondly, the menus and parts of interface are too much consolish. But overall, it will be worth my money.

Co-op is much better than singleplayer, as the Hunter and Siren become actually useful. The interface is diabolically irritating. Lazy port.

[Kekvit Irae]

I have been addicted to this game as of late. It's more of a cross between Hellgate: London and Fallout 3... which isn't always a good thing. For one, the presentation is extremely bland. While it does have beautiful cell-shaded graphics, the only thing you will be seeing for 95% of the game are sand, raiders, and metal sheet siding. Think of Megaton in Fallout 3, but expanded to a huge game world. In fact, until you get to the very final "dungeon", get yourself used to seeing desert, ill-constructed towns, and the same variety of bandit.

But it's not all garbage. As I've said before, I've become extremely addicted to the game. It's Hellgate: London done right. I always get a warm fuzzy feeling inside when I find an incendiary or corrosive sniper rifle I can use.

[Monk]

Borderlands: It's the Mad Max Apocalypse, bring friends.

I just got this game and have hit the two hour mark and I must say I'm thoroughly impressed thus far. Environments are nothing to write home about, you see the first town in the game and it's pretty obvious that you're not getting out of the desert anytime soon. But the stylish presentation sold me without even trying, Cell-Shade is always a plus especially when it's done this nicely.

It feels like someone finally got the FPS-RPG right, combat is fluid and a joy to partake in and the weapons... oh the weapons. Borderlands doesn't take itself too seriously, and when you're fighting enemies named "Bad*** Skag", you know you're in for a fun ride.

The one huge downside is character customization: There isn't any. You can pick your class, name and colors of your clothes but that's pretty much it. Still - this is a great game, i'd highly recommend coop though as I can see Single-player getting dull after a while.

[Veho Nex]

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Edit: Sorry guys. I didn't think about the smaller screen crowd.


Went hunting with ma buddy

[TinCow]

Started playing this co-op with my wife yesterday. So far, I have only two things to say about it:

1) Best co-op shooter ever.
2) Most stylish game ever.

[TinCow]

Scienter and I have been playing the Mad Moxxi DLC for the last couple days. If you've got friends to play with, this is an excellent expansion. It is, simply put, VERY HARD. I love challenging games and am turned off by games that are too easy to win, and this is a major challenge. No, you don't get any experience from the kills and the loot is good, but not spectacular, but the arenas themselves are just a lot of fun. I doubt if it would be as much fun solo, but with a partner it's really added another great aspect to the game, IMO.

It can take 90+ minutes to complete a single arena, and you've got to do it all in one sitting, no logging out and coming back later to finish it. Plus, during that entire time at least one person has to be alive at all times. If everyone is down simultaneously, you're done and get kicked back a full round (15-20 minutes of fighting). All enemies spawn at your character's level. There are five waves per round, Starter Wave (general stuff), Gun Wave (all enemies have guns), Horde Wave (tons of melee enemies), Bad Wave (Very tough enemies), and Boss Wave (a boss character from the normal game, plus minions). The first two rounds have the enemies spawned with slightly reduced health, damage, etc. The third wave is with them at normal skill. The fourth and fifth waves give them bonuses to health, etc. From round 2 through 4, every wave has a random modifier which makes things even more interesting. Round 5 has two random modifiers. And there are three arenas.

Oh, and that's just the beginner level. I'll tell you what the actual HARD level is like when I get there. It's taking a long time just to finish the starter arenas, lol.

Two thumbs up from me.