The latest Borderlands trailer is turgid with game footage: terrain, buildings, vehicles, bad-dudes, ’splosions. It also takes an opportunity to introduce the four characters, with the soldier seemingly being all about guns, the siren doing stealth and area-of-effect stuff (possibly?), the hunter doing headshots, and Brick having some bolt-encrusted fists. Four-player co-op is the new two-player co-op, it seems. And I’m firmly in the pro camp on that art style. I even wrote an article about it.
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Possibly not… It might be an option, just like it is in Brutal Legend (violence can be turned off, instead replaced with music-style ‘parental advisory’ notices which cover up the gore)
dont be put off by the lack of facial animation – its a fast paced fps so I doubt you will spend much time staring at other characters
Wait, so where is the poll RPS? ;D
Anyway I would go Soldier, cause damn turrets are awesome ^^
How did they do that comic style dark outline around shapes and objects? That looks amazing to me.
Also how is the healing role handled in this game? Is it TF 2 Medic style or do you dispense medkits?
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Having seen the game at PAX, I can assure you that those censorship icons are not ingame. ;)
Wow, it looks phenomenal in terms of style, it’s like a ‘grown up’ tf2. To me it looks like a kind of Vampire The Masquerade bred with Fallout and possibly Quake. I’m going to be keeping a keen eye on this, keen, like a fox.
Hope I can add this to Steam so we can use the RPS group there to get cop-op games going.
That music (at least at the beginning) reminds me of Cowboy Bebop. This is NOT a bad thing.
I also heard the heavy screaming early on. And at the end. “MOOORRREEEE.” Probably not him, but similar.
Interest level going up.
@ Bobsy: I recall reading or hearing Pitchford (I think) saying that character wise the 3D models are restricted to just those four and there’s no customisable armour or anything of that nature but you’ll be able to customise the skins so you can change the colour of your Brick’s cloths and such like so if you’re playing with three other Brick’s you will be able to tell who is who. I found that a little disappointing but not a deal breaker for me.
@ JadedGamer: I know there are some guns with healing bullets because they featured in a video presentation I saw a while back. You can also heal people by standing next to them and selecting to heal them in something like L4D style but I’m not sure if that requires a skill or a medkit or both or what, it was just something else that featured in a video but they didn’t explain exactly how it worked. I believe that Lilith can also do area of effect healing spells but don’t quote me on that.
So we won’t be healing by bathing in the blood of the hordes of enemies that die at our feet?
Disappointing.
Still high on list of things to buy in october.
I’ve watched this trailer 13 times. That is all.
I will not buy the game if have the Microsoft game browser.
If theres a dev here, please NOT destroy your game with that horrible cumbersome totally embeded on the OS software. Please. If you wany my money, please. I want to buy your game, but IF I see the stupid Microsoft logo, I will not do it.
Haven´t noticed Mordecai´s knife he hold on his back before.
Some good ol’ chop-chop is always nice.
Pretty sure there will be two purchases at my house, as it fulfills both my wife’s requirements for MP games as well as mine. She can play a girl, I can play a hulking menace and it has full coop campaign goodness for both of us.
@Jadedgamer: It’s a variation on cel-shading and is implemented with a post-process pixel shader. Generally it replaces color-data per pixel using a filter. The post-process creates the tracing line around mesh edge vertices.
The nVidia shaderlibrary has examples of both, look for “toonshadow” for the color effect and the “scene linedraw” shader for the edge tracing post-effect.
Regarding G4FW Live criticisms.
The worst thing about it is its name. I’ve got two Windows Live titles, and it is not intrusive at all. If you wish you can pull the icon onto the desktop and ignore the browser or the in-game overlay completely.
If Gearbox wants to distribute downloadable content it’s probably the easiest route to take.
If you don’t want to see it at all, then get it for the ps3. The last I heard was that the thing dropped in price.
@Jim
FPS Diablo like Hellgate: London? *pff* I hope Gearbox will go a better way withhin the community.
@Arnulf: lol.
Hell. Yes.
I’ve always wanted a game like this, a sci-fi story in a desert environment with a sort of Western feel…
This should be amazing.
Again, when it comes to custom characterization: when you hear about the next Half-Life game, will you be greatly disappointed if you can’t change Gordon Freeman’s appearance or clothes during gameplay? No? Good. Then don’t complain about this game.
Seriously, I think that FPS crossed with a bit of Diablo is the correct approach to take here. In Diablo, you could change you character’s items, you could change your character’s skills, in a very broad way, but true RPG/MMO customization, no way. And that was fine. That wasn’t what you expected.
So don’t get crazy disappointed if this game has customization somewhere in between Gordon Freeman and Diablo. Any more than that and consider it a bonus.
I had no interest in this title but dammit, you’ve convinced me.
I can’t get enough of that art style. Someone took a risk and it’s paying off.
The newest posted vid of Borderlands seems to be this “making-of sketch”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK4SJHK6eXE
Looks like Gearbox have been taking lessons from Valve (e.g. Meet The Spy)… shock horror, a dev studio trying to inject some humour and personality into their game… and succeeding?
Bethesda, stop suing people and GET A HINT.
@Waneta
Thanks, your mention of Hellgate just ruined my day for me. Now all I can think of is how that went from a brilliant concept to a megagrind to a “bye now, no refunds” situation.
And of course, comparisons to Borderlands mean that I will probably wait and see before buying this. Especially when you read articles about a supposedly broken trade interface(the GiantBomb article linked above). Fool me once and all that claptrap.
Oh dear. And I had thought DiRT2, Beatles Rock Band and L4D2 would be my only gaming purchases in the remains of this year. Now I have to sell a kidney.
Aye, it’s a damn shame about Siren’s face. At least Brick’s perpetually-frozen face looks appropriate for the setting. I mean, he looks like he’s about to eat someones face off. She looks like she got bored waiting for her Myspace pics to load.
That said, I LOVE the art style overall, and this game looks SO MUCH fun. I’ll definitely be playing Brick, though.
Love that song. Nice trailer, though it did remind me a bit of TF2
The explosions / lightning effects seemed a little out of place given the (wonderful) art style. Didn’t really seem to fit in. Is that just me?
Waneta says: “I’m working really hard not to get my expectations up for this game, everything I see (especially the Quentin Tarantino-ish trailer) makes it look awesome. My hope is it will be what Hellgate should have been. My fear is it will be what Hellgate ended up being.”
Quoted for truth. That’s exactly how I feel about Borderlands, so I’m just gonna steal your nice, concise description instead of writing eight paragraphs about it. Again.
The Siren is actually a Stealth specialist (well she was last time I played the game anyway)n the “blue thingy power” she does makes her invisible and really fast for a while and IIRC she stunned everyone in a radius when the things was turned off.
@ -spooky- I hope so too!
I wanted to show off this trailer to a clanmate, and it looks like the video no longer exists. Just, you know, fyi.
And yes, the ad plays fine, so the problem is probably not on my end. ;)
Odd, works fine for me.