Comments on: Hands-On Preview: Borderlands

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:30:03 +0000

is the loot system just a first to grtab it or is there any sort of fair balance for it?

By: FinDude

FinDude — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:56:07 +0000

Profile lines are always great in graphics!

By: pignoli

pignoli — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:51:01 +0000

@ Neems: So, having gone back and started Bioshock again this weekend, in order to actually finish it (and I’m enjoying it much more this time for some reason. I think I’ve got down exactly what bothers me about the mouse control: There is no attempt to undo the ‘look-fudging’ necessary to get it to work with a thumb-stick, so the game basically wants you to use the mouse like a giant thumb-stick. Whenever you try and spin your view round to look at something, the game makes it feel like you should let go of of the mouse and let it snap back to the centre of the pad. Proper mouselook (which is very easy to implement, remember Quake, 2K?) gives you 1:1 mouse to on-screen movement.

By: Shnyker

Shnyker — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:45:36 +0000

@I Hate MMOs: Yes also, its not an MMO, and it is more shooty than most games can dream of being. You lose AND fail.

By: Serondal

Serondal — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:56:17 +0000

@I hate MMOS = World of Warcraft HAS Guns . . . you lose.

By: I hate MMOs

I hate MMOs — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:54:27 +0000

Sounds like World of Warcraft with guns. No thanks.

By: Wisq

Wisq — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:51:16 +0000

Re: Fallout: Wanderer’s Edition, yeah, I already use the drugs mod (Better Living Through Chems / BLTC) and the sprint mod, for example. They’re two of the cornerstones to my character who wears only a trenchcoat + cowboy hat + sunglasses, and wields only a katana (and ‘nades if needed). It suitably bumps the difficulty back up, and avoids most of the VATS ugliness via FPS hackery-and-slashery. (There’s a lot of situations I simply wouldn’t have been able to win without taking a big dose of morphine + aspirin + ibuprofin and sprinting at the enemies in a blurry haze.)

FO3 actually seems to have one of the most organised and comprehensive modding effort I’ve ever seen, thanks to the Nexus. Granted, getting them to all work together isn’t always easy — my only published mod so far is one that gets four other mods playing nicely together (“BBBMH”).

By: Railick

Railick — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:25:11 +0000

This looks like Diablo 2 with guns, which excites me a great deal. Or rather it looks like Doom with a bit of Diablo 2 mixed in. Shallow gameplay isn’t exactly an issue if the game is fun to play, that is the key. Trying to make a game over complex for no reason or just to please a few gamers is a waste of time. The weapon combos may be a gimmick but it sounds like a good one. It will be a great deal of fun finding all sorts of new weapons through-out the game. On the wikipedia page they said they found a gun that locks on to an enemy and then 3 seconds later the enemy just explodes :P That sounds fantastic lol.

By: Railick

Railick — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:25:11 +0000

By: Dominic White

Dominic White — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:23:29 +0000

I really don’t get this growing wave of ‘Don’t listen to these RPS hacks – what do they know about REAL games?’ rhetoric that’s going about. I’ve seen them accused of shilling, selling out, being in the pockets of big publishers, small publishers, indie developers, guys they’ve linked to, etc. etc.

If you’re so convinced that your opinions about games are right, and the Hivemind are wrong, then start your own blog and start preaching.

By: argh

argh — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:01:03 +0000

I’ve learned not to read too much into the hype from game journalists, even from RPS. The game seems to be banking on the art style since that is all you hear first when someone mentions the game. And the weapon combinations is a gimmick.

The gameplay I gurantee you will be as shallow as Farcry 2 and that was hyped to death. Such is the era of console gaming.

By: Railick

Railick — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:54:24 +0000

This sounds like it should have pretty low system specs, but I could be wrong. Have then already been released and if so what are they? Can’t access any of the game’s websites here at work ^_^