Borderlands

[NiX]

I want this game! But is it fun?

I want you to slap yourself in the face. Hard.

[AcidCat]

The game is way more challenging when you add other players. I played with 2 others last night and enemies our level were suddenly death-dealing bullet sponges.

It was wonderful.

[Tebonas]

So, my limited game time in continous sessions and odd playing hours don't let me play with other people all that much. Anybody already tried single player and can confirm this will be fun as well? Because it sounds tuned for awesome multiplayer first and foremost.

[AcidCat]

I enjoy playing single player. It's a great game even if you never play with anyone else. Multi just takes what is already fun and turbocharges the experience.

[NiX]

So, my limited game time in continous sessions and odd playing hours don't let me play with other people all that much. Anybody already tried single player and can confirm this will be fun as well? Because it sounds tuned for awesome multiplayer first and foremost.

For how long and when? My weekends usually consist of terrible sleeping hours, so you might be able to find me on Steam.

[Tebonas]

About 8 to 11 pm on days my better half isn't staying at my place, I am not at hers and we socialize with others (which tends to happen most weekends). Which would be about 2pm to 5pm East Coast time I think. But I can never say which days that is, because it depends on her working hours and how her children plan to occupy her.

Just two weeks ago I paid good money to move an Everquest character to another server and was online twice now. I all but gave up on the thought of regular gaming sessions. As Nazareth told us so aptly a long time ago - love hurts! 

[Draegan]

Living with a girlfriend really hampers on my gaming time.  Good thing she's a teacher and goes to be at 9:30-10pm every weekday.  FREEDOM!

[schild]

10:30PM? What kind of extracurricular bullshit is she involved in?

[Yegolev]

It's a sweet timeslot, don't ask too many questions.

[Big Gulp]

Living with a girlfriend really hampers on my gaming time.  Good thing she's a teacher and goes to be at 9:30-10pm every weekday.  FREEDOM!

I just make it known that no, I don't care about Dancing With the Stars or America's Next Top Model, but by all means, she can dig on that.  Just don't get your panties in an uproar if I choose not to have "couple time" while she's watching that shit.  Gives me plenty of time for dicking around on the computer.

In other words, find a girl with shitty TV watching habits.

[Demonix]

Living with a girlfriend really hampers on my gaming time.  Good thing she's a teacher and goes to be at 9:30-10pm every weekday.  FREEDOM!

I just make it known that no, I don't care about Dancing With the Stars or America's Next Top Model, but by all means, she can dig on that.  Just don't get your panties in an uproar if I choose not to have "couple time" while she's watching that shit.  Gives me plenty of time for dicking around on the computer.

In other words, find a girl with shitty TV watching habits.

A freaking men.

[Tebonas]

Sadly my girlfriend doesn't even have a TV. I'm not prepared to dump her for it, though! That and her compulsive hatred for all things gaming are her only flaws, and I suspect its two sides of the same one! 

[Lantyssa]

Or find a partner who games.

[Sky]

In other words, find a girl with shitty TV watching habits.

You have struck my tv gaming kryptonite.

[Hoax]

Sadly my girlfriend doesn't even have a TV. I'm not prepared to dump her for it, though! That and her compulsive hatred for all things gaming are her only flaws, and I suspect its two sides of the same one! 

*cough* whatever you say dude I'm sure she only does fun interesting intellectually stimulating activities when she gets home from work that you can't stand to miss because they are so interesting, not because you're a clingy bitch *cough*

On a much more important note, I have pre-loaded. Game doesn't come out Friday. Why the fuck doesn't it come out Friday. It really ought to come out Friday.

[Tebonas]

Are you actually retarded and too stupid to read messages, Hoax? We don't live together, you should really try to refine your trolling techniques you sad little fuck!

[schild]

Both of you calm it.

[fuser]

I really would be happy if they unlocked the game sooner. There's a huge thread over in the official forums where the street date has been broken on pc and a lot of copies are now floating out there from big box stores that released it sooner.

back cover of the german box
PC Reqs:
2.4ghz CPU, 1GB RAM/2GB RAM(Vista/7)
8x speed DVD drive
8GB hard disk space
256mb video card
windows compatible soundcard

Supports
Geforce 200 series, 9, 8, 7 series cards.
Radeon R600 (HD2400-HD2900) (HD3000), Radeon R700 (HD4000)
360 xbox controller.

[Goreschach]

Apparently the PC version is now available in certain stores.

http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=77177

The people who have picked it up can't actually play, however, because of the online authentication eeking out every last precious second of fucking pc gamers in the ass.

[schild]

The Reqs are better worded on Steam:
System Requirements
OS: Windows XP/Vista
Processor: 2.4 Ghz or equivalent processor
Memory: 1GB System RAM (2GB recommended with Vista)
Graphics: 256mb video ram or better (GeForce 8 series or higher/Radeon R8xx series)
Hard Drive: 8 GB or more free space
Sound: Windows compatible sound card

[fuser]

The Reqs are better worded on Steam:
System Requirements
OS: Windows XP/Vista
Processor: 2.4 Ghz or equivalent processor
Memory: 1GB System RAM (2GB recommended with Vista)
Graphics: 256mb video ram or better (GeForce 8 series or higher/Radeon R8xx series)
Hard Drive: 8 GB or more free space
Sound: Windows compatible sound card

Yes much 

[Murgos]

10:30PM? What kind of extracurricular bullshit is she involved in?

My live in GF is also a teacher.  She needs to be at school at 7:30 so she is up at 6 and out the door before 7.

So, yeah, 10:30 is pretty much her absolute limit on weeknights.

[Draegan]

Living with a girlfriend really hampers on my gaming time.  Good thing she's a teacher and goes to be at 9:30-10pm every weekday.  FREEDOM!

I just make it known that no, I don't care about Dancing With the Stars or America's Next Top Model, but by all means, she can dig on that.  Just don't get your panties in an uproar if I choose not to have "couple time" while she's watching that shit.  Gives me plenty of time for dicking around on the computer.

In other words, find a girl with shitty TV watching habits.

Oh I can get away with that when she's watching shit like Supernanny or Housewives of Atlanta.  But most of the time we're watching shit like Dexter, Trueblood and Mad Men together.  So I can't use that most nights.

But yeah, she's up and out of the house at 6am everyday.  Wakes up at 5am or so.

[apocrypha]

Or find a partner who games.

My GF used to be a shitty TV watcher, I did the OK I'll game while you're watching stuff I'm not interested in, no probs, she gave up crap TV and now plays games.  

[Hoax]

Are you actually retarded and too stupid to read messages, Hoax? We don't live together, you should really try to refine your trolling techniques you sad little fuck!

lol, I was just kidding and agreeing with Gulp's analysis, I don't care enough about you to troll you buddy.  If I did I'd infer something from your reaction.

\/\/\/\/  I honestly wasn't trying to get first word, that's why I posted a reply.  My bad if the joke was shitty and in poor taste.

[schild]

Are you actually retarded and too stupid to read messages, Hoax? We don't live together, you should really try to refine your trolling techniques you sad little fuck!

lol, I was just kidding and agreeing with Gulp's analysis, I don't care enough about you to troll you buddy.

What did I just say? Drop it. Last word is for pussies.

[WayAbvPar]

I can't seem to find out if the PC version has in game VOIP. Anyone know for sure? If so, are we using it or Ventrilo/TeamSpeak or ingame?

[Yoru]

RPS posted about the in-game voice chat in their sound-off about it. RPS is exclusively PC when it comes to games, so I'm confident that VOIP is in there.

Edit: And apparently it can't be disabled at the moment, and is voice-triggered, not push-to-talk.

[NiX]

RPS posted about the in-game voice chat in their sound-off about it. RPS is exclusively PC when it comes to games, so I'm confident that VOIP is in there.

Edit: And apparently it can't be disabled at the moment, and is voice-triggered, not push-to-talk.

No push to talk? Playing with Schild is going to be aweeeeesome.

[schild]

RPS posted about the in-game voice chat in their sound-off about it. RPS is exclusively PC when it comes to games, so I'm confident that VOIP is in there.

Edit: And apparently it can't be disabled at the moment, and is voice-triggered, not push-to-talk.

No push to talk? Playing with Schild is going to be aweeeeesome.

I'll be venting. I don't have to worry about push to talk or anything. I'll assign my system to be put through my speakers and the mic on my sound card and vent to use my USB headphones.

I don't do games with built-in voice chat. It's universally crap.

[Draegan]

I need a sound card.

[schild]

I already gave you a solution for that.

[Nightblade]

http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=77177

In a surprise turn of a events (   ) a few people have gotten Borderlands on the PC early (and continue to get it early). According to Gearbox ; if enough early copies are sold, they will unlock it on steam prior to the release date. I wonder how this will affect the preorder discount should it go live early.

[Rasix]

Hmm, might as well buy it now then.

[schild]

Oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man oh MAN.