BORDERLANDS - like Fallout 3 but with cars and MAXIMUM PWNAGE OMGWTFLOLNEWB FPS combat

yeah, it'll be $10 when it comes out in a month

Just had the depressing realization that is the first non-downloadable game I have purchased from 2012

how does one con a gamestop dude?

i wonder if we should set up co-op times for this for folks when they finally get it

Just had the depressing realization that is the first non-downloadable game I have purchased from 2012

missing the point i know but it is in fact available for download

been playing OG Borderlands for the first time via PS+. its ok? the menu system is a bit crappy. i like the rpgish numbers popping up when you shoot stuff. is there more to it than "go there and shoot dude" for the whole game? cos i get bored of that kind of game pretty quickly.

uhoh.

put in a few hours last night and i uh im not sure i like B2 very much? i remember thinking it was kind of lame that the first one didnt have any voiced npcs, but now that i have heard the script and the actors they have chosen, i rescind that criticism, because this first dude with the robot arm and leg is the worst shit ever.

Haha no never mind this is the best shut ever, just needed to bang my way through some dumb early quests

jjj if you see me on there please feel free to jump in my game ... if you don't mind watching me miss everyone I shoot at.

Will do! Note: I do not have a headset because I ended up yelling at 12 year old bigots to often in multiplayer.

yeah i don't do headsets either.

you don't headset with randos!

My headset doesn't work right, so it doesn't really matter either way.

headsetting is half the charm of xbl

i assume it's more charming when they aren't killing you over and over again

ok let me share a big huge flashing pay attention warning here - this game only supports a single simultaneous playthrough. so if like me you get drunk and think, hey maybe i should check out one of the other characters, you start back at square one with no way to revert to your original game. fucking infuriating.

oh never mind, there is a select character option on the front page, i am an idiot, carry on.

lol

even though this is exactly the same game over again, there are a host of small tweaks and touches throughout that aggregate to make it a really worthwhile sequel and i am very much enjoying it so far

Hahahaha hilarious insulting dubstep joke, god I love this game.

Starting a new play through with new free mechromancer character download I got thx to getting hooked up with fraudulent GameStop preorder.

taking advantage of the "girlfriend" skill tree??

i have the siren character for mp - the special ability works out a treat but i am not too hot on the skill tree so far - and the commando for sp, cos the turret is super helpful on your own.

the quest from a npc named 'loggins' that was all about top gun and involved burning down a volleyball court and shooting 3 'shirtless dudes' was pretty lol

haw that went totally over my head

like a f-15

yeah the loggins thing was great

do you have to be able to aim in this game

kinda sorta but not really? i think that a lot of the shooting is still under the hood dice roll stuff - maybe not the sniper rifles as much, but i think if you are pointing the gun at something, that mostly does it - basically target recognition.

I may stop playing Tokyo Jungle long enough to try this

Or I may switch back to Pinball Arcade, it's all a little bit of a tossup

(basically I am looking for something, anything, to keep me from downloading and installing the new WoW expansion in a fit of boredom, even though I'd be playing it on a Mac)

BULLETSTORM

this is longer than bulletstorm, but bulletstorm prob sells for about $4 at this point hence my suggestion. and it was the best game of last year.

^^ currently downloading this via PS+, even tho it looks like the polar opposite of something i'd enjoy. but it's "free"!

weird thing abt bulletstorm is that it looks like a shooter, but when you get the whip arm deal it turns into some other crazed score attack melee hybrid thing full of environmental hazards and weirdo actually fun stage change ups. one of the few games that never ever let up on the innovation or wore out its welcome during the entire single player campaign.

but it looks like Michael Bay made it! will try it out tho. anyway finished Borderlands earlier today, it was ok as a Fallout clone but not as fun. DJP do you know WOW has pokemons now.

yes I know

I already had collected 40+ pets, including a battle truck that you could fill with Mountain Dew and sic onto other battle trucks, so the idea of turning them into a stable of fighting machines is kind of alluring (although I don't know how the sheep that eventually gets eaten by a suddenly materializing wolf is going to fare)

Ok mechromancer class is officially the shit, bailing on my gunzerker single player play through and doing this one, despite being like level 18 or whatevr

bought the season pass for this, i want to play it forever.

Pirate DLC is great btw, could have easily gone with reskinned enemies (and there's a little of that) but mostly its new feeling content, some great variations on the theme - much like the zombie island of dr ned from the first one, its a totally worthwhile download and looks like it might clock in at 10 hours or so if you do all the side missions. do not attempt before level fifteen or u will get mercilessly pwned.

one HUGE improvement in this over the original is everything involved with vehicles and vehicular combat

just got an xbox and this game kind of turned me around on the whole FPS phenom

the first one or #2?

#2

I've played FPS games before but never could get too into them, borderlands was on some 5am MUST DEFEAT GIANT SPACE CATERPILLAR tip

yeah, it def raises the bar for FPS stuff, but mostly by grabbing good ideas from outside the genre (in particular RPG stuff). the whole loot management and character path stuff really saves it - also i know the bagazillions of guns tagline seems stupid on the surface, but it works brilliantly.

playthrough seems well designed in that it's a good mix of challenging but not too challenging - if you're good and want to be aggressive you can go buck wild, if you need to puss out and lick yr wounds for a while it doesn't penalize that approach.

played dishonored for a while and there were some scraps I got into that there was no way out of.

i pretty much wrote off dishonored because stealth is not my thing, mainly because it frustrates me and i am terrible at it.

and tho I haven't played all the way through there's been nothing gross about it, the cartoonish style combined w/ real physics is a treat

idk there could be 30 games on the market just like this but I get the sense that's not true

I'm ok with stealth but I got in situations where I stopped being stealthy in error and then couldn't revert back to a stealth style and slip away, like the game was punishing me for my audacity

borderlands was on some 5am MUST DEFEAT GIANT SPACE CATERPILLAR tip

― space dokken (Edward III), Wednesday, October 31, 2012 1:03 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sooooo B2 just came out for mac, and i bought it, and i was up until 4am last night. like, first time in a really really really long time that i checked the time and was like "omg what the fuck happened" i thought it was maaaaaaybe 1am

it is gaming season