This is so typical of you Spaz… you are all ga ga over an inferior game. Just look at it. The creators of this game use comic book graphics to make up for a lack of artistic ability. this is not creative genius. This is simply a cheap rip off of a good game, namely Stalker. If these are the” coolest graphics” you have ever seen, then hand in your drivers license, because you’re legally blind. And, since when have you ever vacuumed your living room?? I think the only time you use that device is to clean your pits. Which is NOT what the machine is for. It doesn’t work.
Any way, for those of you who prefer to get your moneys worth out of a game, look else where. This game simply doesn’t have the credibility to be a good game. I suggest Stalker, as I mentioned earlier, or any of the F.E.A.R. games. Also either of the Mass Effect titles. All of these offer so much more than Borderland: storyline, graphical superiority, value for the money.
So, Spaz . Grow up, take a shower and don’t use the vacuum cleaner on yourself.
Borderlands has been out since October of 2009 and I finally got around to play it. Three months after a game is released for me to play is, well fast. Probably because I’m all grown up and I have a job and a household and limited funds and I still haven’t got around to playing those other three games that I bought that are still sitting on the shelf screaming ‘PLAY ME WE’RE DYING’ and I’m screaming back ‘I can’t! I have to pay the bills then vacuum the living room!’. I hate being an adult. If you can stay a kid forever, do it. DOWIT. It’s so much more fun.
Anyways, Borderlands. First off, this might be the coolest graphics I’ve ever seen. When I was a kid I LOVED comic books, and I’ll be damned if this isn’t a computer game comic book brought to life.
Secondly, the plot and people. So rough around the edges. Such low brow humor. LOVE. IT.
Thirdly, the game play. It’s an FPS (LOOOOOVE first person shooters) and an RPG rolled into one. I love collecting weapons, and upgrading skills. But it’s not a full blown RPG. You aren’t so confused by the skill tree and HUD display that you want to scoop your eyeballs out with a rusty spoon. It’s simple, effective, easy to learn and fun.
The best part? It’s got a co-op mode. Your friends can get on a lan or online, pick one of the four off the shelf characters, and have fun running around doing stuff together.
Consensus? I’m very glad I bought Borderlands. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go play it more. Time’s to precious to write more in this silly post.
Listen. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe I’m the one who has horrible tastes in things and what I don’t like most other people do. People do have unusual tastes in things, things that are unusual. For example, my friend and fellow reviewer Erratic still has a HUGE collection of something called ‘cassette tape’ full of something called ’80′s music’.
I bought this game on a whim, because I felt like playing an RPG, something new, and I’m a sucker for anything science fiction. I installed it, watched the intro – space ships whizzing around, weird alien things, lasers, the whole sci fi bit. I sipped my coffee then rubbed my hands together in anticipation – and then gameplay started.
The more I played the more disappointed I got. This game tried to marry FPS plus RPG plus some sort of strategy game, and rather poorly I might add.
First off, the controls. Your W, A, S, D keys controlled the camera. Your mouse controls … something. Firing and collecting nearby ‘parts’ to build things. Your skills tree is pretty useless, your special abilities confusing to find and administer. The story line is lackluster and the game itself is incredibly repetitive.
Bascially, if you want your games to play out like your day job get this game. I don’t mean any sort of day job, I’m talking more along the lines of some sort of officious government worker that does the same meaningless thing all day long ever day until you retire with a pension that allows you to live on cat food for the rest of your natural life. Yea, it’s that boring.
Like I said, I might just be weird and wrong. But in 2008 Space Seige cost 50 dollars to buy, and now you get get it for $7.99 – what does that tell you?
I don’t know if anyone remembers the game Mass Effect. HA! If you don’t remember THAT game, you have no business calling yourself a gamer. As a matter of fact, you might as well get into shape, get a girlfriend, and have a social life.
FOR SHAME!
I was lucky enough to get to try Mass Effect 2. I can’t tell you what got me this dubious honor, but it had absolutely nothing to do with taking the fat, ugly, smelly, zitty daughter of one of the Bioware execs out on a date. AND I had to put out. I have never taken a longer, hotter shower after that one.
Expecting the fabulous gameplay and storyline of the first Mass Effect, I was sorely disappointed.
It was like they got somebodies Down’s Syndrome cousin to write the damned story line. It smacked of saliva, boogars, and poo stains on tighty whiteys.
I am SO kidding! I didn’t get a chance to play the game yet but OMG OMG OMG LOOK AT IT!!!
If that doesn’t give you a boner I don’t know what will. ORDER IT NOW! I am.
Good morning my fine gaming friends. To those that know me, and most of you don’t (you REALLY don’t want to. My personal hygiene SUCKS) – I’m not a huge RPG, or role playing game fan. Sometimes I get sick and tired of shooting animated and quasi intelligent images on my computer monitor, but not often.
So it’s with great fun that I learned I COULD shoot people in Hellgate London! Or have some sort of machine shoot them. Or sick some sort of weird pig like beast on them. Or chop them up with sharp swords. Or bash them with my shield. Or control them with a weird glowy device on my arm. Or a combination of all of them.
But it wasn’t really people that I was shooting/killing or whatever. I’m pretty sure the Blizzard Entertainment went to all the most hard up arts students, fed them PCP until they started to hallucinate, and had them draw out their worse nightmares for the game. And THOSE nightmares are what you get to kill! Kill them by the hundreds and thousands that is!
Pros: Daym you get to kill a lot of things! A lot of different things. Like any RPG, you get to upgrade yourself, your gear, and your skills. The interface is easy to use once you get used to it, intuitive almost. And it’s an FPS and RPG all rolled into one. You can do as many or as few of the side quests – the best part is if you are short on stuff, you can go back to a level you’ve already beat and play it again and again and again. This works very well to get the all necessary equipment you might need that you can either use, break down for parts, upgrade, or whatever. And trust me my fine probably overweight gaming friends (you on the left, you have a Dorito stuck in your third chin. Got it? Atta boy) it’s gonna get harder and harder as you go on.
Cons: Holy smokes can this game EVER get repetitive. Oh yea, another maintenance tunnel just like the last. Yup, another broken down street just like the last. Oh yea, hundreds and hundreds of enemies flocking to kill you. Great. Now I have to upgrade my computer because it can’t handle the hundreds of monsters in yet ANOTHER train station just like the last one.
My verdict? If you want something a bit different, something that has a flavor of its own, freaky drug induced monsters and semi nude computer chicks, oh, and a bunch of time you want to fill up, get this game. Especially because it was made in 2007 and it’s damned cheap now.
This is so typical of you Spaz… you are all ga ga over an inferior game. Just look at it. The creators of this game use comic book graphics to make up for a lack of artistic ability. this is not creative genius. This is simply a cheap rip off of a good game, namely Stalker. If these are the” coolest graphics” you have ever seen, then hand in your drivers license, because you’re legally blind. And, since when have you ever vacuumed your living room?? I think the only time you use that device is to clean your pits. Which is NOT what the machine is for. It doesn’t work.
