Borderlands

[LK]

Weird...

[Hawkbit]

PC specs need to be released... we're four weeks out now.

[Azazel]

Agreed. I'm very interested to see if on the outside chance it'll work on my wife's PC.

[Hawkbit]

/vaderNOOOOOOO!!!  From Kotaku, originally from IGN:

The 360 and PS3 versions of Gearbox's shooter Borderlands are coming along nicely, and are still expected on October 20. But the PC version, well, it' slipped a little.

Because Gearbox are "optimizing the PC version", a process "which takes a few days longer than expected", the North American release of the PC version of the game will be out on October 26. For those outside North America, this means their version has dropped back to October 30.

[Yegolev]

Why even mention kotaku?

Also: FOUR DAYS NOOOOOOOOOO0000oooo.....

[Malakili]

Damn this game, I really don't want to buy another game this year, but this is going to make me do it anyway.

[schild]

Son of a bitch.

[Hawkbit]

/vaderNOOOOOOO!!!  From Kotaku, originally from IGN:

Because I don't like to leave info like that uncited and as bad as slumming it on kotaku is, IGN is about 100x worse.  No offense intended. 

The only upside to the delay is that it comes right after a payday now so it's easier to manage money around.  But I still want it!!

[FatuousTwat]

When they say "optimizing for PC" it makes me think they developed it for 360 and PS3 and are now just slapping a hastily put together UI on it.

[Azazel]

I guess sometimes there might be a slight upside to the US release dates being several days in front of ours.

Not really.

[Venkman]

When they say "optimizing for PC" it makes me think they developed it for 360 and PS3 and are now just slapping a hastily put together UI on it.

Whatever the real reason is, I'm quite sure it has nothing to do with the game quality itself. Probably some nonsense with their server host or ISP or something where they can't just call SCEA or MS and have them deal with it. Not like substantive changes to the game code, UI or assets is going to be magically corrected with a six day slip. This isn't an MMO getting the magic launch day patch

[FatuousTwat]

I'm just being negative, nothing I've seen points to what I said.

[Venkman]

Oh, heh, sorry. I'm just glad it's end of NEXT month. Gives me a chance to burn out on Aion in the meantime

[Sky]

Berserker
Soldier
Siren
Hunter

Tank
Healer
Rogue
DPS

Check. 

[Yegolev]

Are you new to Games?

[schild]

Negative, he's just new to funny.

[Yegolev]

You seem to be implying that he has arrived at Funny, albeit recently.

[schild]

No, no, still learning. He's new to it. Like being new to a competitive game. You can try playing, but you'll assuredly suck.

[Sky]

I yearn with all my being to some day be as hip and trendy as you kids.

I bedazzled my jean jacket to look like an affliction jacket!

[schild]

Keep swinging for the fence there, Babe.

[Yegolev]

Don't aim for trendy, Sky, you are already the Dane Cook of F13.  I'd suggest taking in some Youngman, Gleason and Silvers as a start, then work your way up to the 1980s.  Get the basics of comedy down first.  Also, don't try too hard; I do that a lot and regret it.  Also realize that text-based comedy is kinda hard, just ask Dan Brown.

[Teleku]

Text based anything is hard for Dan Brown.

[Paelos]

Text based anything is hard for Dan Brown.

He even fails at lying properly.

In fiction. 

[fuser]

I think he's more like the unknown comic. Maybe daffy is reaching for the gong mallet

[fuser]

Web series ep 2 is up.

[Falwell]

Pre order is up on D2D. Should be seeing the Steam version soon.

[evan]

Okay so great trailers, music, art, and concept. I enjoy RPG+FPS. My only complaint now is the excessive on-screen text in the game play footage. These include floating damage numbers, excessive top-of-screen and right-of-screen messages, and a persistent experience bar, all of which serve to break immersion. Hopefully some or all of these can all be disabled via settings.

Still not really clear on the equipment options... Is it only weapons or does it include wearables? In an RPG I think the expectation is more than just weapon loot.

But yeah, high hopes.

[schild]

Yea, because immersion is something I'm worried about in a game where creatures explode into guns and everything looks like a cartoon.

Where do you get your acid?

Edit: Also, they've said everything including monsters, bosses, armor, trinkets, etc use the system to an extent.

[evan]

Yea, because immersion is something I'm worried about in a game where creatures explode into guns ...

I was going to bitch about that too, but I think I can get past it. The cartoon style doesn't bother me at all, for some strange reason. There are just certain things my brain wants that have very little to do with actual reality.

Definitely liking the huge mammoth beast creature thing. Hopefully there are even more insanely huge creatures to fight.

[NiX]

Joke poster?

[Paelos]

UPRIGHTS! 

[Malakili]

I made the mistake of checking out the official forums, and it seems like most of the people there are console players, a good deal of which have never played Diablo 2.  The result of which is that I tried to say the game was like Diablo, and I was told it was more like Call of Duty because its a shooter 

[Le0]

This is looking really promising, I hope it will keep them.. I'll have to get it!

[Murgos]

... I was told it was more like Call of Duty because its a shooter 

Of all the shooters out there one of the ones Borderlands seems least like is Call of Duty.

[Malakili]

... I was told it was more like Call of Duty because its a shooter 

Of all the shooters out there one of the ones Borderlands seems least like is Call of Duty.

I'm assuming its a symptom of there being like 2 "good" shooters for consoles, CoD, and Halo, so it has to get compared to 1 or the other.   The community for this game seems HEAVILY biased towards the consoles though from what I can tell, which is odd, cause it seems like such a PC game to me.  I am a very biased PC gamer though.


Anyway,  I was watching a video earlier that said the PC was going to have a few "PC exclusive" features, including a PC only inventory system.  This is good news, because console inventories generally such compared to PC ones in my experience.