Borderlands

[Ginzburgh]

Anyone picking up Borderlands today?

[Durothil Skyreaver]

I'd like to see a demo before I commit to buying it. I pretty much won't buy a game without playing a demo first. Exceptions being Fallout 3 and Oblivion.

[Tikker]

it really looks like a cell shader version of left 4 dead

[Ginzburgh]

This game is fantastic. You guys dont know what you're missing.

[Durothil Skyreaver]

Isn't out yet for PC to my knowledge. I plan on checking it out at some point, maybe once internship is over.

[Tikker]

This game is fantastic. You guys dont know what you're missing.

so fill us in on what it's like

[Ginzburgh]

It's a cross between fallout and wow. It's like fallout because it takes place in a post apocolyptic type setting and it's a shooter (first person though).

It's like WoW in a ton of ways. You grab a bunch of quests from various NPCs and "Bounty Boards" (wanted posters), you go out and fulfill the quests and then you turn them in. The reward for the quests are weapons, shields, xp and money. The quests are level based, you'll start seeing quests 3 levels above you but should probably wait until they are even considering attacking anything two levels above you is pretty difficult. One on one it might be ok but there are usually adds. Weapons are color coded, "white, green, blue, purple, orange", just like WoW. Then there is the talent tree. You only have four classes to choose from but with the talent tree and over a million different weapons (literally) there is am infinite number of specs. The talent tree works exactly like WoW, when I say "exactly" i mean there are three trees to choose from, by the time your top level you can probably fill out two of the three trees. The first two sets of talents in each tree require 5 points each and talent points are aquired via leveling. So it's exactly like WoW in this regard. And when you play with friends in co-op, everyone has their own job. If you're a Solider with support class, you drop turrets that work just like a shaman's totems. You have turrets that tick healing, you have turrets that tick ammo and your group has to stand close to the turret to get the benefit.

In short, the game is WoW in a fallout setting for the console.

[Tikker]

oh hrmm

that sounds like it might be semi fun

[leah]

have you played mass effect? it kind of sounds like that... mass effect is super fucking boring. is this better?

[Tikker]

I actually really liked mass effect, heh

[Ginzburgh]

Ive never played Mass Effect.

[Harrison]

Do it. Mass Effect is one of the best games I've ever played.

I rarely tout a game like I do Mass Effect. Three thumbs up dick erect.

[Drem]

........ why?

i thought mass effect sucked when i realized it's about as deep as a puddle and every quest came out of a cookie cutter and every planet has the same shit and blah blah. not a game worth more than one play thru if you can even stomach it for that

the only things i really enjoyed about mass effect were its style and its controls

fallout 3 on the other hand....

[Harrison]

Mass Effect is good for a single play through. That's all it is for though, like most RPGs.

I still think it's one of the best games I've played through.

[Tikker]

I didn't think it was spectacular

it was enjoyable, and I had fun with it

the story was alright, and the action was fun.

I wouldn't play it again tho

[leah]

i thought mass effect sucked when i realized it's about as deep as a puddle and every quest came out of a cookie cutter and every planet has the same shit and blah blah. not a game worth more than one play thru if you can even stomach it for that

THIS

[Harrison]

Downloading Borderlands now. I was fairly impressed with it when a friend brought over his PS3 to play for a night.

Let's hope they didn't botch the PC version :\

[Tikker]

who has this and how can we shoot shit in the face together?

[Harrison]

Do you have PC version?

[Tikker]

I do

i'm hoping it gets better multiplayer, cause solo it's pretty fucking gay

[Harrison]

Depending on what I feel like after my morning run, if you're up for it, I will play if you want.

Right now I am barely in the mood to continue breathing, so we'll see *shrug*

[Harrison]

(lol I just noticed that was like 2 minutes after you posted, wow. Timing is scary these days.)

[Harrison]

Ugh, my body can't handle drinking anymore.

I had like MAYBE 5-6 drinks total, and I'm hungover. That's fucked up lol

Only one of them was an actual drink, too. The rest was just beer. Gin and Tonic with lime, mmmmmm so good.

[brinstar]

maybe you should switch to zima, sally

[Tikker]

my dude is almost lvl 10 now (picked the sniper rifle/pistols guy)

it's kinda alright, but I'm really curious to see how it goes multiplayer