Borderlands

[fuser]

Now that this is out for X360 (it is, right?), are there any reviews up somewhere to read up?

It's out on the 20th console, 27th pc (NA dates) but some reviews are coming in OXM has one in print http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/xbox360/borderlands

I'm looking up for info on how good it handles, how good the graphics are, how the performance is, streamlined and well-thought out inventory management or not, how addicting and memorable the loot-/upgrading system really is and so on. No spoilers.

If you want to take a look (with spoilers) there's two people playing on Xbox over the weekend http://www.justin.tv/borderlanders/ http://www.justin.tv/brandon505 Brandon 505 has played the game twice in 20hr sittings(I don't know if he finished the main story just watched ~5mins before his annoying CANDY and spoilers forced me to close it). You can pretty much watch the play and get a feel for it, it made me preorder the four pack.

Apparently some stores have broke the release date and they happened to get copies.

[Venkman]

Yea, 10/20 pretty much means some retailers have it already, having gotten shipments maybe Friday or yesterday.

[fuser]

Yea, 10/20 pretty much means some retailers have it already, having gotten shipments maybe Friday or yesterday.

The cynical side of me says this is all viral marketing by gearbox, ie a pro game crack fiend cheering about the game.

It worked for me and a few friends

[bhodi]

Some best buys have broken street date, it also got onto the internet (from microsoft, apparently) and so you can download the 360 version now. PC still has to wait. There are streams around of people playing it and plenty of people online. There were a bunch of Devs on this one http://www.justin.tv/brandon505, they offered to fly him down to test the new DLC content if he could beat it in one sitting. That was yesterday. Not sure how things turned out.



Also, THIS is how you do a promo: http://xbox360.ign.com/dor/objects/957206/borderlands/videos/borderlands_spc_realgamer.html

[Ragnoros]

Also, THIS is how you do a promo: http://xbox360.ign.com/dor/objects/957206/borderlands/videos/borderlands_spc_realgamer.html

 

[lesion]

That Brandon fellow has an amazingly annoying voice.

[CaptainNapkin]

I was going to wait until I finished up a few other games first, but the video pushed me over the edge to a pre-order.

[Sparky]

Also, THIS is how you do a promo

fuck everything, I'm buying Borderlands

[Hoax]

Also, THIS is how you do a promo

fuck everything, I'm buying Borderlands

iknorite?

[Surlyboi]

That was pretty damned funny.

[Falwell]

Last call on a 4 pack for myself. If anybody has room in one please post here or PM me.

Got my 4 pack, thanks gents.

[FatuousTwat]

There were a bunch of Devs on this one http://www.justin.tv/brandon505, they offered to fly him down to test the new DLC content if he could beat it in one sitting. That was yesterday. Not sure how things turned out.

I think that is what his 20 hour play-through was about? Or do you mean you don't know if they are actually going to fly him down?

[apocrypha]

My PS3 pre-order says 23rd October.... which will most likely be the 2nd day of a national postal strike here in the UK. Talk about mixed feelings. a) The posties really need to strike and win but b) I want my Borderlands! 

[schild]

Steam, you knob.

[ezrast]

PS3

[Engels]

apocrypha, as everyone should know by now, is unable to play games on a PC due to his spinal injury. He yelled at us earlier for disparaging comments on console FPS gameplay for Operation Powerpoint : Radial Menu Rising

[schild]

apocrypha, as everyone should know by now, is unable to play games on a PC due to his spinal injury. He yelled at us earlier for disparaging comments on console FPS gameplay for Operation Powerpoint : Radial Menu Rising

I could've sworn he got himself a setup that was more comfortable recently. I'm obviously wrong, but that's why I made the sugesstion. My bad.

[apocrypha]

I am more comfortable now, yeah, but I still can't sit at the PC for more than 2-3 hours a day, and with WoW and all the photo work I do on the computer it doesn't leave me any flex for other PC games. It's driving me mad :(

Anyway, I'll probably just cancel the pre-order and go pick it up in an actual shop. Not bought a game in one of those for years :p

[FatuousTwat]

Sorry to derail this even more, but is there any improvement lately with your back lately? It seems like even a few months ago you were saying 2-3 hours.

[apocrypha]

He yelled at us earlier for disparaging comments on console FPS gameplay for Operation Powerpoint : Radial Menu Rising

Hehe I totally meant to apologise for my terseness there, I'd woken up grumpy after a particularly uncomfortable night! Sorry to whoever I snapped at!

Sorry to derail this even more, but is there any improvement lately with your back lately? It seems like even a few months ago you were saying 2-3 hours.

Yeah it is improving, cheers for asking, it's just going incredibly slowly! Mostly I'm using the improvement to try and be more physically active though - photoshoots, driving, getting around more etc, and trying to avoid just increasing my sitting-at-PC time. Sitting on my arse playing games for too many hours over too many years was probably a big factor in the injury in the first place so it'd be kinda stupid to just repeat that mistake...

I've been gaming all my life and being *forced* to change the way I do it and scale it back a lot has been really difficult, but at the end of the day I reckon it's a good thing. Already I find it a lot easier to say to myself no, I won't just sit on my bum and play RandomGame2353 for 2 hours, I'll do something useful instead like work on an image or do some physio or something.

[FatuousTwat]

That's good, I mean that it's improving. I got lucky when I injured my back, it seemed to heal really quickly (it wasn't as severe as yours though, of course).

[apocrypha]

I'm just still counting myself lucky that I didn't end up permanently incontinent and impotent, which I was very close to apparently   

[schild]

If WoW is what is keeping you from getting something like Borderlands on the PC, you're seriously not helping your case.

Drop WoW, or I'll have a large man come teabag you while you're on your back wishing you were raiding.

[Sky]

Or get a gamepad and hook your pc up to your tv. 

[Rasix]

Or get a gamepad and hook your pc up to your tv. 

You going to carry it for him?

[apocrypha]

Schild, I enjoy WoW. A lot. I've got a bunch of old friends who've recently re-subbed or subbed for the first time, we play together and we play for laughs. It's just good, social fun. I shall forsake it and free up that hour a day for some other gaming when I stop enjoying it so damn much 

I have been toying with the idea of hooking one of the PCs up to the TV, but it's just logistically difficult in our house because the TV and PCs are all huge and the house itself really isn't. The way I'm doing things now works, it just means I choose to play less games than I used to and those I do play I get on the PS3 if I can rather than the PC. Plus I choose to come here and whinge about it occasionally cos it makes me feel better 

What'd be super awesome would be if Borderlands (and other things) could be co-opped cross platform, but I know that's a pipe-dream for the distant future!

[Nerf]

Why not build a dirt cheap HTPC and get that LAN streaming thing big gulp linked in another thread?  Use your highspeed computer on your TV without moving it and play on the tv with a wireless mouse and keyboard.  Problems solved, and you could even play WoW more.

[tazelbain]

The commercial is entertaining.

[Malakili]

Opening cinematic for borderlands:

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/opening-cinematic-borderlands/57777

[fuser]

IGN's 360 review

[Draegan]

1 more week.

In the IGN review it said co-op can only be done with people that are around the same spot in the story.  Does this mean you can't co op anytime with anyone?  Or is it a 360 thing?

[apocrypha]

Why not build a dirt cheap HTPC and get that LAN streaming thing big gulp linked in another thread?  Use your highspeed computer on your TV without moving it and play on the tv with a wireless mouse and keyboard.  Problems solved, and you could even play WoW more.

Your ideas intrigue me, I would like to subscribe to your newsletter/circular/pamplet.

Opening cinematic for borderlands:

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/opening-cinematic-borderlands/57777

That rocks 

[Malakili]

1 more week.

In the IGN review it said co-op can only be done with people that are around the same spot in the story.  Does this mean you can't co op anytime with anyone?  Or is it a 360 thing?

The article says this, which is maybe what you are referring to:

Assuming you and those you're playing with are at the same point in the main story it's possible to quest together,

To me this just sounds like normal progression, i.e, if one person is level 30 and one person is level 15, coop won't be "possible."  I dunno about "running" people through content though.  It doesn't sound like a hard restriction so much as a soft restriction, from what I can tell.   

[bhodi]

The questing together and continuation of your and other people's quests is exactly like diablo 2.

[fuser]

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/xbox360/borderlands

Sitting at 86% (6 reviews so far)