Was Borderlands 2 just announced?

[Alon Shechter]

Borderlands, in my opinion, has a phenomenal story. It like the Left 4 Dead mantra, it has an excellent story but you have to actively look for it, it doesn't just wave it in front of your face.

Spoiler

Such as, the Vault doesn't exist and never had, Hyperion made up the legend and was clearly using you to dismantle Atlas' presence on Pandora. Your character in the story isn't important at all in the real story, you're just a tool for these big corporations, though they all have actual reasons for being there. (Lilth is looking for more Sirens. Brick's looking for his lost Sister. Mordecai wants to kill this guy who may/may not be his brother, too bad Scar killed him first. Roland wants revenge on the McCloud character you fight from Atlas.) It was essentially a game about Hyperion fucking with you.

Personally, I played this and Bioshock aside each other and I found this to have a much cooler twist, but that might be due to the fact I figured Bioshock's out by the 3rd/4th chapter.

Touche AngelicSven, Touche.
Borderlands is just a gigantic bundle of fun if you pay attention.
Like the short L4D conversations.
Francis hates islands.

 

[C95J]

Yeah, I heard it from a friend last night who was on twitter.

Loved the first Borderlands, and I am sure the second will be even better!

 

[Rooster Cogburn]

The story was awful, but it was presented so poorly it almost didn't matter. Until you got to the worst ending ever. God it was bad. And it didn't 'go over my head' (as if!). I also hope they completely change the graphics and art style. I know some people liked it, but I have no idea why. The game was hideous and it really strained your eyes. Because of the awful faux-cell shading, everything had a way of blurring together to the viewer, making it very difficult for any one thing on the screen to draw your eye. It was like looking through blurry glasses all the time. Worse, most of the game looks exactly the same or close enough. And the less said about the menus, the better.

I will look forward to Borderlands II if it is announced because the first game had a lot of cool features in addition to its few horrid ones, which unfortunately were enough to keep me from coming back after one frustrating play-through.

 

[Platypusbill101]

I just hope Borderlands 2 has a better story.

The original Borderlands had a story?

Borderlands, in my opinion, has a phenomenal story. It like the Left 4 Dead mantra, it has an excellent story but you have to actively look for it, it doesn't just wave it in front of your face.

Spoiler

Such as, the Vault doesn't exist and never had, Hyperion made up the legend and was clearly using you to dismantle Atlas' presence on Pandora. Your character in the story isn't important at all in the real story, you're just a tool for these big corporations, though they all have actual reasons for being there. (Lilth is looking for more Sirens. Brick's looking for his lost Sister. Mordecai wants to kill this guy who may/may not be his brother, too bad Scar killed him first. Roland wants revenge on the McCloud character you fight from Atlas.) It was essentially a game about Hyperion fucking with you.

Personally, I played this and Bioshock aside each other and I found this to have a much cooler twist, but that might be due to the fact I figured Bioshock's out by the 3rd/4th chapter.

You know, it was TK who stabbed Scar in the eye so I guess Gearbox was just too lazy to make a new sword model and just used Mordecai´s instead