On paper, Borderlands has everything I could ever want in a game. You say “Diablo-style, loot-grabbing dungeon crawler done as quasi-cel-shaded, co-op FPS,” and I say “SOLD.” Who could have guessed that the loot would be so uninteresting, the environments so relentlessly bland, and the enemies so brain-dead (especially the bosses)? It’s really a shame that while the concept is a solid A, the execution is a total Zzzzzzzzzzzz.
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y u ony liek ps3 exclusives?
Just a
fanboy
that way,
I suppose.
I have a couple friends who kept talking up this game and I would argue with them that it couldn’t be THAT good. I would complain that the random 1millon guns idea was lame. I still stand by the fact that it is confusing as hell and you spend far too much time in the menu comparing weapons but my first inpressions are THIS GAME FUCKING ROCKS!!!!. I was up till 5am today playing it. I agree the AI is lame but its more about leveling up enough to take them on than tactical shooting, Thats where the RPG elements come into play. I did feel the levels were rather small, maybe I’m just comparing them to fallout but I constantly crash into stuff and get stuck in the vehicle cause there’s just very little driving room. They got me though, hook, line, and sinker. I got it for PS3 Mik. Lets do some co-op. If you haven’t tried it that way you haven’t really played the game. Its like L4D that way.