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theprof00 on 04 October 2012
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zarx said:
theprof00 said:
zarx said:
theprof00 said:
More proof that it's all about style over substance.
borderlands 2 might as well be called memeparty:redchan with guns.
I hate this gen.


But it's lots of fun to play with good progression, firefights can get real intense in co-op especially on the seccond playthrough. you could ignore all the other stuff after a while, and it's style isn't what made this franchise so successful (tho it helped). 

 

OT: with 124,678 simultanious players I would say the PC version is proabably nearing a million copies as well.

I'll give it a rent, but I played one and it was a huge letdown. From the reviews I've seen, the problems I had with it weren't fixed.


well if you don't like the core gameplay then the game is just not for you, but to say that the game has no substance because you don't like the substance of the game is a bit silly.

It's not a subjective accusation, it's totally objective. I went into it wanting to like it.

It's roughly the same mission over and over, and the promise of a million guns is really only the promise of 10 guns with wacky modifiers that force you to check all the 30 guns on the floor with your own to see how they compare. I think developers looked at some polls and studies and said "ok look, here's what gamers like, collecting lots of things, upgrading stuff, quests, grittiness, and memes" and then built a game around that.

I mean just look at a very similar game, fallout 3, and look at the quality difference. It's easy to tell that borderlands draws heavily from fallout 3, yet there's none of the same substance. Fallout 3 had some true wackiness cleverly implemented, like the town where two superhero wannabees duked it out everyday, and then you can side with one, and then you get a reward based on what you do http://guides.gamepressure.com/fallout3/guide.asp?ID=5690

Sure it's not as wacky as some of the quests in BL, but it is more cleverly implemented than 90% of BL. (In my humble opinion)