My post of “leet build right here” was just what I personally thought could be fun and effective to play as lilith with, but I can see how ‘leet’ was probably a poor choice of words and brings up ideas of cookie cutter builds like diablo’s endgame builds (some would say).

With Borderlands I guess there are going to be builds that are a bit more effective at killing or whatnot than others, but looking at these skill trees, to me it seems it won’t matter too much how you spend your skills, you’ll still manage to do well.

I love fun and pwnage and not dying, so I’m just going to put skills in whatever explodes and kills stuff and keeps me alive. :D

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Whilst I grant you could feel that the detailed dismemberment of limbs is akin to the smoke/particle effects when firing a gun, for me it’s more akin to the tedious cleaning and maintenance of my gun – not the sort of maintenance we see in games, that is often a mechanic either – but the ‘chore’ kind. ;)

I don’t want to know what the insides of someone looks like, but I do want to shoot them and see them go flying through a wooden fence without anyone/anything actually getting harmed. Fallout 3 for example went too far for me, I want the slo-motion “pow-pow”, not the slow motion “This is what a decapitated molerat looks like close up.” – EVERY TIME I KILL ONE. Gah. I’m similarly perplexed by people who enjoy horror films, I wonder why that sort of thing entertains someone. I saw a post on a forum where they were talking about the Saw game and one of them said, “I would love the option when [character whose name I have forgotten] traps [another forgotten character name] to hit a key and just scream over and over.” and I was left thinking, wow… that sounds fun O_O;

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And when you mention language filters, do you mean it’s totally removed, or just bleeped out?

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Anyway, I certainly don’t begrudge you the option, and consider toggles vastly superior to the usual other solution (removing gore/language entirely), I’m just a little weirded out by violence without the natural consequences thereof. There’s such a thing as excess, of course, but realistic amounts of blood/language for the context in question actually unsettles me less than their absence. Anyway, to each their own clearly, it’s always good to have options!

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@Vinraith – Cool thanks. I guess it depends on why you play games, I play games for fun and I do so with my wife, for us it’s primarily about using the resources we have to overcome foes in a variety of ways. it’s a fun and enjoyable experience and my wife doesn’t enjoy blood, gore and dismemberment – and I can happily give or take it, I don’t feel it adds anything significant or deep to the game. That’s just my two cents, and if people feel otherwise, well, that’s why options are a good thing – because then everyone gets to play a fun game the way they want to. :)

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