BORDERLANDS - like Fallout 3 but with cars and MAXIMUM PWNAGE OMGWTFLOLNEWB FPS combat

Yeah, this looks good, but there's just way too many new, good looking games out right now - it's yet another one I had to skip. May pick it up later in the new year after a price drop if I'm not overwhelmed by new games coming out in mid-2010.

Great, at least I can online with Jeff after everyone else is off it

panned (although the review reads basically the same as all the positive ones): http://www.avclub.com/articles/borderlands,34808/

yeah avclub is sort of notorious there days for their game reviews... too bad, because of the rest of the site is fine

me and a friend are gonna pick this up and play thru together. i need recommendations for what character classes we should choose.

Ive messed around with the Berserker (lvl 13) and Soldier (lvl 32). Soldier is pretty fun because of the sentry gun and punching the shit out of everyone with the Berserker is not bad either. My friend plays as the Siren but her powers dont seem too amazing to me.

I never bothered with Mordecai because I heard sniping wasnt easy to do because the enemy AI is basically 75% bum rushing but I find myself sniping ALOT. Might be worth a run.

a friend and I are playing co-op together on PC, and our strategy is basically: I try to tank with the Berserker while he snipes them with Mordecai. When we actually get a chance to play together, I'll let you know how it goes!

thanks guys. this is useful info. my friend likes to snipe so i will recommend that. i feel like soldier would be more fun than tank dude because of the variety of guns?

berserker only specializes in melee and rocket launchers. you dont get rocket launchers until later in the game and the explosion physics/splash damage can be frustrating. soldier is good tho. Im a fan of the combat rifle.

playing as the siren and digging it, although i have not been using her phase dash whatever at all, just boosting all the crit hit/shield power/environmental damage stats. anyone know how much difference there is in the skill trees outside of the obvious special power related stuff?

so is the PC version as borked as people say?

this game is HARD in spots, jesus

I've been playing the PC and it's fine for the most part. I had some real frustration with the network code when my friend and I started. He had to set up a bunch of port forwarding shit on his router, and it uses GameSpy for matchmaking (ugh).

I haven't seen any bugs or had a single crash so far.

Also, I don't know if this is the case on the other platforms, but it's pretty stupid that you can't complete quests if the person hosting has already done them. Really stupid game design. My friend and I both created secondary characters to play when we aren't on at the same time, since our quests have to be totally in sync.

Played this on PS3 last night for a few hours - damn good fun - Siren actually a cool character with useful abilities - too bad this game will take a back seat to MW2 for a few months. Batman and Drake are not going to finish themselves either ...

Im pretty close to the end. Was going to plan another run through with another character but probably wont get around to it. =\

not wasting any time putting some DLC out there:

http://www.examiner.com/x-22161-Berkeley-Xbox-Live-Examiner~y2009m11d10-Borderlands-Zombie-Island-of-Dr-Ned-DLC-gets-release-date

So guys, I got Borderlands today. Now I need some people to play it with.

I want this too. Buy me a copy and I will play it with you all the time.

mordy are you ps3 or xbox

xbox

oh hey add me if you havent already - nnnnnggggghhhhh

jjjusten, is nnnnnggggghhhhh your xbox name?

yep, the result of getting frustrated trying to come up with an unused name and not wanting to be some amalgo generated random like purplefacemaster

So how well does co-op work with characters of different levels? Is it worth just playing solo until my friends get the game and then co-oping with them at that point? Or should I wait?

i havent actually had a chance to try it yet so idk? ive heard good things though, plus its kind of a guaranteed loot/xp boon for the lower level character.

seems like a very replayable game tho, so restarting with one of the other character classes might actually not be that much of a bummer when you start co-op play. my main solo character has been the banshee or whatever, but when i was showing the game to another dude, i did the sniper character and it was pretty fun and def a different experience.

yep, the result of getting frustrated trying to come up with an unused name and not wanting to be some amalgo generated random like purplefacemaster

― .81818181818181818181818181 changed everything (jjjusten), Wednesday, December 16, 2009 7:08 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

when i signed up on antexit's xbox it gave me "RoundedBird" and I was duly mocked by hayseeds online everywhere for it

krangor elicits respect from all

hey, jjjustin, up for some borderlands?

I should be around for a bit tonight, so post here if you get available.

krangor elicits respect from all

― crazy shituations (cutty), Thursday, December 17, 2009 10:12 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

truth bomb

finished w/my netflixing, but you appear to be offline on xbox ;_;

Yeah, gonna go to sleep soon. I ended up splitscreening with a friend for a bit.

next time then! thinking that you might want to host, because i am @ level 20 and won't really need any of the loot, but it will prob come in pretty handy if you are lower level (maybe you arent, idk)

oh also btw, when you get an artifact, despite the fact that the game never actually tells you this, you need to "use" it, not only to get the effect, but also because otherwise it will take up an inventory slot. this confused me because there is no artifact slot per se (unlike shields and grenade mods etc.) but it is the case. the designers maybe probably should have uh mentioned that at some point when you get the first one from whatever quest that was. jerks.

i didn't realize til i had been playing for a while that you could swap out artifacts. once you use them you never lose them. later on you get higher level ones.

yeah i like this game a lot but one of its real weaknesses is that it kind of leaves all the info about the mechanics out, which has led to some confusion - there are still guns ive found that seem to be valuable, but i'll be damned if i can figure out exactly why.

not looking to be spoonfed this stuff, and happy to have a game bereft of tutorial sections, but theres def some room for improvement here - i just figured out how to use the compare command when at a weapons kiosk last night, after trying over and over and getting that ever so frustrating boop sound of failure.

oh hey mordy i am online if u want to partner up

haha ok i have accept your game invite and now NOTHING IS HAPPENING

love this game but uh some rough edges - a game built on co-op should maybe make it clear uh how to do it?

hahaa ok sorry dude, could not get my headset to work. bugs should be worked out on my end next time - also, that particular challenge was hard as hell, and i died 3 more times after you left. but i beat it so uh yay?

lol, yeah. Also, we should play at closer levels I think. That game is brutal.

Been playing this constantly for the past ten days or so, and I keep finding awesome little things. Yesterday my Siren found a revolver that has obscenely high damage and accuracy, but no scope and a cylinder that only holds two giant-ass bullets. Hardly ideal, but great fun as an emergency backup in some of the nastier fights like Badass Spiderants.

hahaha did all of ILG end up picking the Siren?

oof - I play Siren too - I'm up for playing others as I have not yet even tried playing the multiplayer - lovin' the campaign on this actually - playstation 3 version by the way ...

I played the Siren as a Firefly. Found an insane SMG that does x4 ignite dmg and the game was easy mode from then on. The gun is level 25 and I'm still using it at level 45 and it seems as deadly as ever. Seems like a broken mechanic, really.

I'm the sniper.

I've got a Hunter too, but he isn't seeing much action. My Siren is currently a Tempest after finding a great epic class mod with a huge shock damage boost and an epic Maliwan electric shotgun within minutes of each other.

Zombie Island of Dr. Ned: SUCH FUN. "Oh, come on, don't act like you've never had to wait on a hand-cranked elevator during a zombie outbreak before."

just started playing this today, seems good. the way it looks reminds me of that XIII game from a few years back, which i loved. the gameplay is kinda like STALKER but not as plot heavy (or awesome) and sorta like Fallout3 but way better - you can RUN for a start! and it doesn't have that awful VATS crap, i like how it needs the player to have actual skillz.

is there anything i should be aware of before i get too far into it? im at level 4 but haven't a clue how to level up. i also chose hunter as im a sucker for a sniper rifle, was this a wise choice?

anyone else playing this using mouse and keys? i find it much more accurate - my 360 controller was all over the place, i find it works better to play it like FEAR

It's a great multiplayer class

one of my great ilx regrets is that i didn't play this thing multiplayer with y'all. i knew, and know, nothing of console multiplayer gaming, we didn't have a functional xbox live account or i didn't understand anything about that system anyway, and it would have annoyed the shit out of my roommates but goddamn am i convinced that would have been a blast

jjjusten, EZSnappin, and I can confirm that yes, it was a goddamned blast

my one attempt at playing this in multiplayer was splitscreen couch co-op and was prematurely halted when my buddy and i realised we were too stoned to find our way out of a shipping crate seconds after meeting claptrap for the first time

That's the kind of multiplayer action I'm looking for tbrr.

got BL3 recently it's a fun drunk shooter imo

bummed multiplayer is platform-specific -- i'm OSX/Steam or I'd be happy to do a run w/you

Yeah, I'm still on a PS3 so the sum total of my intentional (as opposed to reluctantly going in and getting owned by mod-happy 13-year-olds) online multiplayer experience was the six-month window between when I bought GTA5 and when my brother sadly upgraded to a PS4.

So yeah, I finally just passed the point with my siren where I had gotten stuck and two-hit killed a dozen times over with my stupid useless assassin and, lo and behold, it just happened to be the point where the game opens like a flower and throws out like a dozen different side missions all at once. Turns out this shit is super fun (if, at times, still super hard and frustrating) when your wrists and ankles aren't zip-tied together.

Please subscribe to my channel to catch all the up-to-the-minute discussion when I finally get around to playing past the first hour of Arkham Asylum!

just be sure not to accept all the missions at once! this was my big mistake on first playthrough - the missions and rewards are all scaled to your level when you accept, so you wanna just take a couple at a time, otherwise you'll level up past the gear you're getting, things will get way too easy, and then be way too hard again when you hit the next big batch of missions.

that and i didn't know there were "run" and "pick up but don't equip" buttons until like twelve hours in

Oh. Huh. Thanks for the tip, Dr. C. Yeah, in my excitement I ran around like an idiot taking orders from anyone who wanted me to fetch them some shit. Whoops.

don't worry, your game's not ruined! there will be many more of these "flower" moments.

just be sure not to accept all the missions at once! this was my big mistake on first playthrough - the missions and rewards are all scaled to your level when you accept, so you wanna just take a couple at a time, otherwise you'll level up past the gear you're getting, things will get way too easy, and then be way too hard again when you hit the next big batch of missions.

I don't agree? When you finish the story, any side missions you've started are autoscaled to your current level. There's no real downside to having started them already other than avoiding visual clutter in the missions screen, but to me that's better than having to navigate deep into a level just to start a side mission you skipped.

huh maybe i never got it right then, or maybe i wasn't keeping good track of story vs side missions or sth..... i remember posting abt this at the time and it made sense to me then....

"Eli Roth is set to direct a feature take on the 2K game Borderlands for Lionsgate"

sure why not

Something about Borderlands 3 doesn't feel Borderlandsy to me. Slightly different perspectives or higher movement sensitivity or something. It wasn't as easy to just jump back in like all the previous ones.

hmm for me it feels like borderlands greatest hits. not engrossing but a fun place to visit.

Played a bit of this last night and actually enjoyed it a bit?

https://www.pcgamer.com/you-can-now-do-real-science-in-borderlands-3-of-all-places/

it's kinda fun!