I'll second all this. Whether you're alone or with friends, it's a good time.Gorilla Gunk said:
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I got the GotY edition for $10 on a Steam sale. It was well worth it, and I would have paid $20 or $30 for the amount of solid entertainment and gameplay. I played solo for most of the time and jumped into some co-op games a little after I hit the top levels. It was great fun.
Not unplayable solo, just way more fun with friends. My buddy and I had a blast riding separate vehicles around the wastelands, shooting at enemies. Plus, all the comical parts are that much funnier when your friend(s) are there to share them with you.Gorilla Gunk said:
I have to agree with you there. I played the whole game twice by myself, I still loved it, but it was totally different playing with a friend and I had a blast. The retorts the characters give to each other is one of the best things about playing co-op.Goofguy said:
OT: I love that game, and I can gush all day long about it, but I will just say it's a lot of fun and hits that loot seeking itch just perfectly. Plus all the characters are really great and the bosses actually make you work for the effort for what you're trying to do, well, except for one.
Depends. Do you have any friends who also own the game? If so, get it for the same console they do - co-op is a blast, though a bit less of one at 300 ping. If not, wait for a sale - it's a great game, but there's some obvious creases. In the first fifteen minutes, whether it's the good parts or the bad that stick out to you more will make or break your overall experience with the game. Personally, I love it despite having no friends, but that's just me.
Or if you can wait a few months, Borderlands 2 (by most accounts I've heard so far) is a heck of a lot better than Borderlands 1 - particularly in the area of PC porting, if you plan to play it on PC. Borderlands was a pretty obvious console port - bad (but still mostly usable) menus, FoV fixed at an annoyingly small number...
Or if you can wait a few months, Borderlands 2 (by most accounts I've heard so far) is a heck of a lot better than Borderlands 1 - particularly in the area of PC porting, if you plan to play it on PC. Borderlands was a pretty obvious console port - bad (but still mostly usable) menus, FoV fixed at an annoyingly small number...
Absolutely woth a buy, the first few times I played it was by myself, it took a while until any of my friends cought up and bought it. Absoluety best as a multiplayer experience!
You have to love quirky weapons.
I played as a siren in single player (mostly), including the Zombie Island DLC. I personally found it amazing, but it will get old quick if you're expecting a solid story or characterisation.
I played as a siren in single player (mostly), including the Zombie Island DLC. I personally found it amazing, but it will get old quick if you're expecting a solid story or characterisation.
Borderlands is... terrible. Visually it's nice that they went with the cell-shaded look, but they made it the cell shaded version of the same brownshooter everyone else makes these days. They say it has "rpg elements." No it doesn't, it's just a fps. Some of the guns are crappy is all. A quarter of the way thru you have guns good enough to get you thru the game, and leveling gets you... nothing really. Quicker regenerating health or shields... the inclusion of which makes the character an unstoppable killing machine as long as there's a convenient corner or chest-high wall to hide behind for a second (hint... there are.) Oh I guess you can regen bullets too... but after getting all the magazine upgrades money is worthless too (can't buy anything because you always FIND better stuff than offered) so refilling bullets is just something you do at every vending machine (because there's nothing else to do with money.) You lose money if you die... so there's no real punishment for death. The driving is terrible and the cars explode if you hit so much as a flea at the wrong angle. And there are about 6 kinds of mob you fight... and you will fight those 6 mobs over and over until the big
fight at the end.
That being said, they included splitscreen multiplayer. With real friends (like in the room with you, not just facebook friends) it is fun, and nobody includes splitscreen anymore. It's a worthless, crappy game that I've logged many, many, drunken (best way to play Borderlands) hours having a blast with my friends playing.
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That being said, they included splitscreen multiplayer. With real friends (like in the room with you, not just facebook friends) it is fun, and nobody includes splitscreen anymore. It's a worthless, crappy game that I've logged many, many, drunken (best way to play Borderlands) hours having a blast with my friends playing.
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Well in short it's Diablo FPS edition, not the crappy MMO/diablo that old good one.
It's pretty shallow but a great blast of an adventure with lots of mobs and loots and areas to explore, made at least 5x better with friends, also you might want to skip the last boss because it kinda shits on the rest of the game.
It's pretty shallow but a great blast of an adventure with lots of mobs and loots and areas to explore, made at least 5x better with friends, also you might want to skip the last boss because it kinda shits on the rest of the game.
I second this as well.Gorilla Gunk said:
I've logged more hours solo than co-op easily.
I enjoy it because there's no silly story I have to try an remember from last time I played, and it's NEVER a case of loading up the game after a long hiatus and realizing I had NO idea what I was doing last and start over like almost all other games are for me.
IF you play it alone it's a 7.4, if you play it with at least one friend it becomes a 9.0 ~ weird, but true.
For me, the best part of the game was the insane weapon combinations you could find. It didn't always work in your favor (every so often, you'd find something like a shotgun with a sniper scope, or a sniper with a bayonet), but when it did, you could find some truly awesome stuff. The design of the game is such that you want to just keep hunting, too. With four different classes to master, the replayability factor is pretty high.
This guy has it right. As fun as Borderlands is to solo, it was really made with multiplayer in mind, and that's where it shines. I don't recommend split-screen, the interface wasn't really optimized for it, but if you can get a 4-way Xbox Live game going, it'll be the most fun you've had in awhile.Ryotknife said:
The GOTY is worth it, some of the best value DLC ever. The last two they made were massive.The_Lost_King said:
I've played through it a few times now and almost completely in splitscreen.
