*gasp* I know. A shocking thought. Who could possibly think that? Now before I continue, I know that these games are different in many ways, but they also share a good bit in common, most importantly, their main selling point. Both are penned as a four person co-op shooter experiance. They obviously go different routes in accomplishing this. Valve went with zombies and an episodic structure wjth a series of episodes. Meanwhile, Gearbox offers an open world with 30 main quests and 100 side missions. obviously, there is more to each game to that but i'm surprised that so many people are hyping lfd2 when it seems to me that what borderlands offers is just superior. In comparison, l4d2 seems to only have three things going for it, 1) It's made by valve and they have a huge following 2) Zombies, and people LOVE zombies 3) it's an exclusive which seems to make a game automatically 100 times better.

Honestly, if L4D2 doesn't stray FAR from the first game's formula. It's going to offer only a small amount of content, exspecially compared to the offerings of the huge world and millions of guns found in borderlands. Idk if I'm the only one, but it just seems like borderlands is by far the better bang for your buck and yet it goes relatively unnoticed. I haven't seen many people talk about it here at all which is sad, as the game looks amazing and it's one of my top 5 upcoming games and a must have.

I'll end here and save myself from making a wall of text, but what do you guys think?

People know what they will get with L4D2. They liked the first -> they gonna buy the second.

No one can say how good Borderlands really is and how good the replayability is. I'm sure it will be good, but why hyping a game just to be dissapointed ?

Why l4D2? Why not say Resistance 2? You know both R2 and Borderlands have COOP Missions,that would be a fair comparsion,or is it because L4D2 is on XBox 360?

Or maybe, it's because both are upcoming titles? This thread was actually inspired by the thread listing the top 5 upcoming games for 09 and how left dead 2 was on it but borderlands got honorable mention. Among other recent threads. Why would I go back in time to compare it to a mediocre game of the past? Seriously, quit trying. The only time I ever see you post is when you can scream "fanboy". Are there not enough out there for you to occupy your time or something?

True, and L4D was a lot of fun. By that's pretty sad if your suggesting that we only hype sequals to big games. That's a pretty shallow thought. All big franchises had to start somewhere and after keeping with borderlands since it was revealed in GI, I think I've had more then enough information to come to a conclusion as to what the quality of the game may be like. Sure, it could come out and be a turd, but after seeing as much of it as we have I highly doubt that will be the case. It's much more likely to be an incredible game.

But maybe I just think we are all innocent until proven guilty while you hold the belief that we are all guilty until proven innocent?

Did you just call R2 mediocre game? LOL 

Borderlands and L4D have NOTHING in common,why even compare? oh they have 4 player coop? and there coming out?

What do you expect from a new multiplat-ip ? Not many people cared about Batman Arkham Asylum until they've seen the incredible reviews.

Gearbox devs are talented, but they haven't made a true AAA title yet. Personally I'm a bit more hyped for their Aliens: Colonial Marines game.

Strange comparison. They have similar controls and they are both co-op games, but other than they these are two COMPLETELY different games. LFD2 is all about working together to survive hordes of zombies, that's about it. Borderlands is a FPS/RPG, it's Diablo with guns. I wouldn't really compare them at all.

Both are billed as a 4 person co-op shooter. That has been the main selling point for each title and is more then enough to compare the two titles. So what's next, we can't compare modern warfare 2 with odst because one is in the future and the other is realistic? They too are extremely different, and offer different gaming experiances and have a much different presentation but I don't see you complaining when people compare those two titles.

idk about that, I saw lots of people hyped for Arkham Asylum before it was released because you could tell that it actually looked like a solid batman title. I think it was a lot better then people had expected though. But, I do understand your point. Still, I see people getting excited for new ips all the time. The question isn't so much if borderlands will be a better game then l4d2 as much as it is why is l4d2 so much more hyped. And I think it's a combination of what your saying and that it's an exclusive.