Comments on: So Soon? Borderlands DLC Incoming

By: Chris W

Chris W — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:01:36 +0000

I think to criticise this DLC on launch issue is a bit naive before playing and completing the game.
Borderlands is an epic adventure. I feel its got Game of the year written all over it. It took me 1 day 4 hours to complete granted this is all of the side missions and messing around with friends on co-op but for a fps to have a campaign of this duration is unheard of lately. Modern warfare 2 took just over 2 hours and was fantastically linear.

Yes if Borderlands had been a 2-3 hour game and we had this DLC to buy i would be angry but for me its a fantastic enhancement to a huge lovely big gem of a game. I got my £40 worth when i bought it of that im sure.

By: Bronte

Bronte — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:03:09 +0000

The Borderlands Chronicles: PART I
http://arewenewatthis.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/the-borderlands-chronicles-part-i-zeds-red-baby-or-skag-skirmish/

By: InternetIsAHellovaDrug

InternetIsAHellovaDrug — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0000

Tanks a lot.

Will be waiting a couple of months on this one.

By: Hug_dealer

Hug_dealer — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:38:35 +0000

4 players total you can duel anywhere you want. or go to the arena for FFA.

By: InternetIsAHellovaDrug

InternetIsAHellovaDrug — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:35:14 +0000

I wonder what the PvP is like. Deathmatch/Team Deathmatch and all of their glorious incarnations are my main source of enjoyment in shooters.

Can you have 4 man teams against 4 man teams (like Guild Wars) or is it limited to that stupid looking candyass dueling crap.

“Hurr… I melee you. We watch numbers fly out of each other…whoever loses numbers faster loses…durrr….”

By: Vinraith

Vinraith — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:09:16 +0000

True. I mean, it’s somewhat like Diablo in that it’s a randomized action RPG, but it’s also very much a shooter, and shooters tend to have longer lifespans with my usual gaming circle. We’ll just have to see.

By: Hug_dealer

Hug_dealer — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:39:19 +0000

well, this is an entirely different type of game from those. Its alot easier to play fps over and over.

By: Vinraith

Vinraith — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:34:58 +0000

I mean in the case of games that have an actual “end” of course. We played through Diablo 2, but just once. Once through Neverwinter Nights, once through Titan Quest etc. I’d be surprised if I could talk my friends into replaying this one, even though I know full well it’s designed for replayability. Hopefully I’ll like it os much I want to solo through it myself again, but I should probably wait for a demo to be sure.

By: Hug_dealer

Hug_dealer — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:08:21 +0000

so umm, what games do you play online? cause apparently playing once means you are done.

By: Vinraith

Vinraith — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:54:19 +0000

I’ve never gotten through any game more than once with friends, so it’s going to have to be good for at least one MP and one SP play-through to be worth my while.

By: Hug_dealer

Hug_dealer — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:49:30 +0000

it takes atleast 2 play throughs to get to max level.

loot and world spawns are also random.

So everytime you play the game, it will be different from what you played before. The game is designed around playing with your friends and gathering more loot. which in this case, there is always going to be something better than what you currently own.

The game can be restarted at any time, at any level, and the world will automatically level it up with you. So you get a good match from beginning to end regardless.

Its not really about Playthroughs with this, its multiplayer madness with your friends that will keep you coming back again and again.

So you will never experience everything in this game because it will be different everytime, and you will be looking for other items that will improve you further.

By: Vinraith

Vinraith — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:01:55 +0000

I don’t have hard numbers, obviously, so its hard to say. I’m probably representative of a particularly small minority, in that I doubt seriously that the game itself is lacking in content, and it sounds like the DLC is sufficiently beefy, but this rubs the “completist” streak in me the wrong way.

Knowing there will be paid DLC, probably a lot of it, tells me that if I buy and play the game now I won’t be seeing everything there is to see. I’ll have to play it again at least once, a year hence, once all the DLC’s come out. If I replay it before all the DLC’s come out, I’ll see more stuff, but still not all of it, which will necessitate a third play through.

Previously I was buying the game on the assumption that it would be worth one play, this puts me in a position where (to my somewhat demented completionist logic) it has to be worth at least two. That’s a higher bar, so I’ll wait for reviews, judge harsher than I would have, and probably wait for a sale in anticipation of the greater expense of collecting all this DLC content (or wait for a gold pack a year from now and avoid the issue altogether).

But like I said, I’m odd and probably only representative of myself. :)