Multi-Plat Borderlands

I just wrapped up my first run and it was a hell of a ride. Borderlands is without a doubt the most enjoyable game I have ever played. The entire game just blew my friggin' mind so I find the cover art quite acceptable. It's a good thing it doesn't have some sort of a versus mode matchmaking system or I'd be worthless for the rest of my life at everything but Borderlands.

I expected the game to be short but I clocked in just over 39 hours with 100% completion of the quests. I also expected a serious story so I got a surprise and a half. The entire game is a giant friggin' mesh of parodies and well done ("haha catch me if you can") rip-offs/cliches. The plot is sci-fi world hero cliche (The last boss even defines cliche) but for good comedic purposes, which will anger you to no end if you are not getting/liking the "jokes". If you can spot them, you'll have some good times. Overall I laughed, I WTFed, and I said "no the fuck they just didn't" so I got more than I expected out of this $60.

The thing that surprised me the most was upon running into the Crimson Lance. I expected these guys to be just bandits with some nice duds. I was wrong. I got fuckin' Paxton Fettle's (F.E.A.R.) Replica Army (the majority of the bad guys in F.E.A.R.). The F.E.A.R. series carries my favorite storyline of any FPS out there so this was a friggin' lovely play for F.E.A.R. fans and myself. The Crimson Lance have armor like the Replica Army (though colored cooler and snazzied up a bit) and their voices are done by the same cast in the same way, so they sound exactly the same. It's tons of things like that that add up to make it the prefect experience to me.

It's an easy GoTY winner for me, but we all know that's not likely to happen. I really hope Borderlands just opened up the door for more games of this type, even none shooter types, on the consoles.
 
At the moment i agree with you 100%. Borderlands is GoTy for me. I cant get over how much i enjoy playing the game. There are many more to come out this year though and besides that the sites that vote this stuff will vote for who ever had the most $$.
 
Kinda dumb they vote for most money :( oh well. I am taking some old shit to sell off that I never play anyways :P stupid me ever buying em (well some, some were gifts from people who don't know me well enough it seems)
 
yeah it is a pretty badass game, it's supposed to be the start of a new franchise too, and if the success of this is any indication there will be more to come. Not only that, there will probably come a swarm of rip offs by other companies.
 
I have not been having that great of a time, but maybe that's because the voice chat on the PS3 version absolutely is worthless and so I've just been dragged along not knowing what I'm supposed to be doing to level 15 without a great grasp of the game mechanics.
 
well I finally have some moeny :P gonna save it for now but this is first on my list to get when I finally do. Then maybe Uncharted 2 or Assassin's Creed hmmmz
 
Firestreak said:
I have not been having that great of a time, but maybe that's because the voice chat on the PS3 version absolutely is worthless and so I've just been dragged along not knowing what I'm supposed to be doing to level 15 without a great grasp of the game mechanics.
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The PS3 version seems to just be epic fail right now. I thought no one could mess up a game worse than EA when they ported Orange Box but Gearbox proved me wrong. I was goin' to buy the PS3 version to play with my friends that only have a PS3 but it just looks to borked to even be worth $20. Anyway, yeah, you're missing out big time. The game would be moderately cool solo, but it's just untouchable when you've got 2-3 buddies bullshittin' and tearin' it up/gettin' tore up.

I'll tell you this too, and this goes for the 360 version as well. Make a back-up of your save files. There are a lot of reports of people loosing skill points. You can't get them back either, they are plain gone. I'm certain they will fix this but for the time being their is nothing you can do but keep playin' a gimp character until a fix. Hopefully they'll tidy all this stuff up before we get the zombie DLC in a few weeks.

Acutie said:
Not only that, there will probably come a swarm of rip offs by other companies.
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Yeah, I'm kind of hoping for this. I know this game is selling out in stores all over the place so now that people know this is something we desire I hope we see A LOT of it, even none shooter variations. I can't believe it has taken a developer this long to realize Diablo is something console gamers love too... I know there is KuF:CoD and Sacred but they just didn't do a good job of proving it.
 
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My #1 gripe with the PS3 version is the sound failure.

Maybe its just me, but its frikkin' annoying to have the sound turn off for 1 sec every now and then. Googling it I don't seem to be the only person having the problem, either.

Although it doesn't seem to be a problem with the game itself, as some people have played it on one PS3, got problems, then inserted the same copy in to another one and had no problems. Then again, all my other games play fine...
 
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i havent' had any sounds issues so far, just started my second play through too. haven't been too challanged so far, but i'm just finished nine toes so it might ramp up a lot.
 
Acutie said:
i havent' had any sounds issues so far, just started my second play through too. haven't been too challanged so far, but i'm just finished nine toes so it might ramp up a lot.
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My entire first playthrough was co-op. Once we completed the game we started the 2nd game option and it was brutal. That difficulty jump could be due to us playing on co-op. The enemy level and amount of enemies jump up according to how many co-op players are in the game.
 
i haven't even done the co-op thing yet, i've got some sick guns tho. fire elemental weapons shred through so much so fast. the badmutha's dont seem too too bad, they die pretty quick with my weapons but they take me down in like 3 shots if they get me
 
Acutie said:
i havent' had any sounds issues so far, just started my second play through too. haven't been too challanged so far, but i'm just finished nine toes so it might ramp up a lot.
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If you're not in a co-op game the game is just a cakewalk. Two player co-op is, imo, weak as well but the mobs have more HP. When you get 2+ people in your game, hold on to your jimmy.
 
So, would you suggest I get it for the PS3 now then or wait for bug fixes? :P I'm gonna pick this game up for sure once I fix my PC (I either need a new power supply or new graphics card. I think it's the graphic's card personally but my dad and I are gonna go to a friend of his who has computers with motherboards that can take mine. My dad's are too old :( )
 
Playing on the PS3, the only problems I noticed were back when everyone was having trouble playing multiplayer. Apparently that's fixed, so it's all good.
It's a decent game, though. I personally wouldn't say GoTY, but I think I got my money's worth.
 
Damn, the game becomes so hard when you're in a full game...
 
Elemmire said:
So, would you suggest I get it for the PS3 now then or wait for bug fixes? :P I'm gonna pick this game up for sure once I fix my PC (I either need a new power supply or new graphics card. I think it's the graphic's card personally but my dad and I are gonna go to a friend of his who has computers with motherboards that can take mine. My dad's are too old :( )
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Seems to be a bit of a craps shoot on the PS3. Some people have problems, others do not. I will tell you this though, aside from the voice chat issues, none of the people I know (IRL) who bought this game for the PS3 are having issues. That would be a grand total of 3 people, so take that for what you will. Personally, I'd buy it on either PC (low reqs ftw!) or Xbox 360 (if you have one) before the PS3 just to skip the chance of issue. Unless of course you like Trophy huntin' like some of us 360ers like Achievement hunting. I'd also imagine the PC version will eventually be full of mods and tend to have less of a FPS issues when the other 3 members of your party are all usin' an elementally charged weapon -.-
 
I downloaded the PC version last night since they finally broke through the DRM. I might get the Ps3, since a few of my friends are getting it on PS3. One already has it and doesn't have any problems in single player.
 
Hmm, well considering my PC (I'm using mah fathers currently and his is crap for gaming XD) is dead for now, I think I'd get it for PS3. I really never have any problems on my PS3 that other people claim to have. Maybe I'm just lucky with it o.o but no I don't have a 360. My friend has a deal. She buys Microsoft, I buy Sony and generally her brother buys Nintendo
 
Well, throw out my bit for the PC version. Apparently it is even worse off than people claim the PS3 version to be. No doubt it'll get patched but GBX seems to be up to their neck in alligators as is, so no tellin' when they'll do it.

Again, I strongly suggest you all back up your characters no matter what system you own the game on. It seems a problem not unique to any system is the loss of ALL gained skill points. You can not get them back via re-spec, they are gone. GBX is treating this as a very, very rare case and just suggesting if you start all over, for some reason, all the bugs will work themselves out. If you're using the PS3 or PC the options to do this are easy and obvious. For the 360 the only way I know of to create a back-up save would be to use a standard memory card and copy your saves after each play sitting.
 
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