This week, in Steam town...Follow

Securom>Steamworks, steamworks always sucks, theres plenty of securoms in use that are perfectly fine, such as that in BC2.

I'm playing Torchlight. I know months behind... but for 5$ thats allot of clicky fun to be had. I've resisted much of the rest of the sale so far but I think I might pick up some of the others that have been tempting me this weekend after I click my through the rest of Torchlight.

I almost picked up Borderlands but I just have trouble getting into ugly post apocalyptic games for some reason.

Portal for $2 today!

Zombie Island was a super-easy DLC, mostly because they moved so slow and could be readily headshotted. But even aside from that it was really easy. Maybe my game somehow glitched on the rest, but the enemies were completely devastating. On PC, for what it's worth.


I was expecting a game with some sort of plot. I agree that it was funny at times, but there's nothing at all there to justify labeling the plot as "awesome". The plot sucked ***. Even if you did every single mission in the game and read all of the text, the plot sucked ***. The jokes, however, were great. But the plot has been the single lowest point in every last review Borderlands has received. That doesn't make it any less fun, but if you're the sort of guy who enjoys his games for both their gameplay and their story, you're going to be disappointed here, because the story simply isn't there. You can fit the whole thing in one paragraph.


I dunno, I didn't have much issue with it. It took a bit of practice, but I was readily getting headshots on a hunter on both PC and 360. I did have to change the controller sensitivity, but that was all. Playing as a Berserker was actually more fun on 360, because the controller tends to emphasize the way I played, which was to sprint through enemy fire, blast one in the face with my shotgun, and move on.

Ah, thought you meant you thought Zombie Island was hard. Moxxi wasn't difficult if you had a good constant action setup, although you could get screwed over occasionally by crazy rules. Knoxx on the other hand was either ridiculously easy if you had a decent +corrosive, or just slightly more difficult that the normal game if you didn't. The only thing I can think of that would 1-2 shot you would be the "Meat Popsicle" in that fridge in the secret room. Other than that enemies are of an appropriate difficulty level IMO (small jump in difficulty if you were used to being over-leveled I guess).

plot- The thing I love is there is no convoluted backstory full of characters that act evil or good regardless of whether they have any reasonable justification for doing so. The motivations for characters in Borderlands are very simple and direct, reminiscent Mad Max- fight for control of group/region, fight for resources, fight for power, fight for revenge. In a backwater desert wasteland, I feel that this played very well to the realism of people in this scenario. A complex DA:O/ME "epic" story would be completely, obnoxiously out of place.

Moxxi was fun for about four rounds (or waves, or sets, whatever the groups of 5 are called). But inevitably the numbers would climb up there and my shields just became completely incapable of taking any hits. I'm starting to wonder if my game wasn't messed up somehow, from what you're saying. I fancy myself as a fairly good player, but I just could not complete Moxxi or Knoxx - which is a shame, because while leveling, I loved fighting Crimson Lance, and I enjoyed the idea of arena-style combat in Moxxi. Hell, I even had maxed sniper rifle skill, too, and one of the best shields in the game. Maybe I should run it on a fresh install with my old save file.

agreed. that game, to me, was all about getting nifty weapons, and killing dudes with em. thats it. I got to the point where i would just completely tune out the lady every time she spoke.

Heres a good summary of the story: "follow the quest waypoint" the end.

It was a completely worthwhile purchase, but if you're talking to someone about it and they say "well, what's the plot?", then the only dignified answer you can give is "I don't know".

No, that's including them. They fall into the caricature category. Look dude, the game is fun to play and has a decent sense of humor, but the story is barely existent and is what is there is crap. Stop trying to see more than what's there and just enjoy the game play.

They are lonely, desperate men.

My point is it's the same generic story everyone uses, including all of these game the supposedly have "amazing" plots. The only difference is gearbox made it completely immersive rather than shoving (nine) novels worth of exposition down my throat, and I appreciated that. You're there to play the game, not sit through hours of dialogue/text/CS, by choosing this style of presentation the player stays in the moment while still getting the same plot.

bullsh*t, I've beaten DA and ME, it's just one wall of text after another with crappy gameplay in between. I even beat ME twice just to see if I was missing out on anything by taking different paths, only to find out it ended up being the exact same crap. It's refreshing to have games like Borderlands that actually let you play rather than just sitting there while the game rambles on.

Edited, Jul 5th 2010 4:40pm by shintasama

You must have one sad life if you play through 30-50 hours games you think have crappy stories and gameplay, not to mention playing one of them twice.

Well that pretty much ends this discussion imo.