Borderlands

[Teleku]

I concur.

[Musashi]

The Safety First sign is the coup de grace.

[Slayerik]

I'm level 28 I think and just got an Orange SMG that is as accurate as a sniper rifle (and almost zero recoil), hits like a truck, has 4x burning chance. It's an awesome mid-range weapon, just what I needed. I'm pretty sure it get very trivial from here ;)

[Furiously]

Until guardians.

[Hayduke]

Guardians were fun on my Hunter.  High shield mobs with no hp?  Trespass made easy one shot kills of them heh.

[rattran]

My 44 Siren is still rocking a ~34 firey smg. Guardians drop like dominoes. With the +smg damage a +ele effects, only fire mobs last more than a moment, and not many moments.

Good gear does change the game entirely, as does having a really high weapon proficiency. My Soldier has a bit in every weapon, my Siren I did only smg on purpose, it makes a difference.

[Engels]

Ya, my Siren has that orange SMG referred to earlier. Its so good that I just can't be bothered with other weapons if the encounter is in any way a challenge. Sometimes I throw a granade cuz I'm bored, but I can essentially walk into a fray with little fear. I still carry around a sack of purple and blue guns of various sorts, but they don't do shit compared to the orange fire based smg.

[Slayerik]

I find it keeps me entertained to change guns once in a while, even if it is less effective. My CR and SMG skills are plenty high, so i fuck around with revolvers and repeater pistols and shotties for shits. Sniper/rocket is great at times as well.

So, I haven't tried or seen Brick played...any fun? If he gets like rocket launcher bonuses, he could be fun.

[Musashi]

Some people don't like rocket launchers.  They're hard to use full time.  I mostly used combat rifles on my Brick.  I think using the rocket launcher is way more fun in groups.  But there are times when it's effective.

On the other hand, Brick's special is the shit.  If you get low on health, just go berzerk, and clobber a few fuckers.  When you're done, they'll be dead, or nearly dead, and you'll be back to full health.  The best is when you get your class mods that give you fire or corrosion punches. 

"OH GOD, IT BURNS!"

[Teleku]

You know, I can accept random barrels of oil, or even acid sitting around everywhere.  I'm still not sure I can get over the barrels of Electricity all over the place though.   

[Murgos]

Scooter and Tannis were the best. Everyone else was... eh. Though Nine-Toes introduction was probably the best.

The one Claptrap with the spikes and saw blades was pretty funny too.

[LK]

Reminded me of HK-47 but more lampoon.

[Teleku]

"you walking shit containers."   

[Fabricated]

I enjoy the multiplayer so far and all I do is play with one other person. I'd like to try a full group sometime since the enemies get tuned up big time even for just 2 players. Try running a group where the person hosting is 3-4 levels over everyone else. You are literally forced to use cover or die almost instantly.

Best moment is fighting the Rakk Hive. I play as roland, my friend plays Brick. I just spray my 100+ bullet per clip combat rifle from a safe distance while my turret guns down the rakks. Then I hear "RRAAARGHHHHHHHHHH" and see Brick charging off after that fucking thing to punch its toes off.

[schild]

Best moment is fighting the Rakk Hive. I play as roland, my friend plays Brick. I just spray my 100+ bullet per clip combat rifle from a safe distance while my turret guns down the rakks. Then I hear "RRAAARGHHHHHHHHHH" and see Brick charging off after that fucking thing to punch its toes off.

I just held my finger on left-click for a minute, forgetting to reload, and it died.

[01101010]

Some people don't like rocket launchers.  They're hard to use full time.  I mostly used combat rifles on my Brick.  I think using the rocket launcher is way more fun in groups.  But there are times when it's effective.

Hate them. Perhaps I got spoiled with all the power they held in other games. Thankfully, I am loving the revolvers - have a dark orange caustic revolver that "Gives Sick" that is just insanely fun to use. Also have the orange caustic shotty with unlimited rounds and an electric sniper rifle, perfect for popping off the shields at range and then poisoning them and everyone around... - I am playing with one toxic bitch.

and yes I realize the toxic effect bypasses shields already, but I dig the pretty lights.

[LK]

Shotgun is effective against the final boss since he's so damn large that every bullet hits, and they have a tendency to do the most damage, moreso than rocket launchers.

[Teleku]

Ok, I didn't fully understand wtf happened at the end of the game.....

[Hayduke]

Brick is fun but I don't really play mine as a melee character except for cleanups.  I use the action skill as a heal sometimes.  I went mostly blaster and tank spec.  He has those abilities which increase his defense and damage by 50% on enemy kills, and then increase his damage when his shield drops (I only use really small shields with a fast recharge or a %health boost pretty much), so it's fun.  That and his insanely fast reload speed means he can use stuff like shotguns and revolvers very well.  And actually the only weapons I don't use with him are rocket launchers.

[Lantyssa]

I found a Chimera revolver with a powerful scope and damage in the high 400s.

[rattran]

Just killed the end baddy on playthrough2, and everything else in the game seems to have scaled up, including a 3rd level of elite mob.

[Furiously]

I've think my annoyance with the ending has translated into my thinking there are really only 40 gun looks.

[Samwise]

Finally got the weewee shield back by getting it in a game with Prospero and then duping it.   

[Hoax]

Anyone want to do a Krom's Canyon run this weekend?  I've got a L28 Hunter but I miss the game being really hard w/ 4 people.

[Fabricated]

Wow that ending was just as bad as people told me it was.

"Wow that's big!"

*stands still, shoots green-quality shotgun at it for about 20 seconds*

That's all folks!

[Sairon]

In one way I think this game proves that it's almost impossible to fail if you combine Diablo with FPS. So much done wrong, but still pretty damn entertaining. Some of the more irritating things I found:
Color coding money with the same color as the highest rarity.
Tons of invisible walls at the most awkward of places.
Really got damn boring environments.
Standard fare quests, complete with back tracking.
Shitty story.
Overall very very boring loot, unless you count the red texts which shows up every blue moon there's less mods than Diablo 1 for sure, and the generator spreads the stats a lot less interestingly than for example diablo as well imo.
Both poor choice of equipment slots as well as to few.
Character development leaves a lot to be desired. 1 active skill per class is way to little ( I guess this is in part because it's tailored at consoles and they would run out of buttons? ). I also found class skills to often be pretty meh, more damage, more attack speed, larger clip size etc. There was a few interesting ones, but they were all pretty much tied to the active class skill and didn't really affect how you played your character a lot. It could have been worse, but I wasn't impressed.

[Modern Angel]

I definitely have a love/hate relationship with the game. The core gameplay is very satisfying for me. Being Brick and screaming obscenities while I punch the shit out of things is one of the most viscerally satisfying things I've done in PC gaming for a long, long time. I mean it. I fucking love it. The gunplay feels nice, sound design is awesome.

But this shit is broken. Ports opened, in the DMZ and I still can't host a game. Gearbox out and out lied about the PC version having its own features and UI. Still no patch. Randy Pitchford is one of the most insufferable weasels I've read an interview from since Paul Barnett blotted out the sun in my computer room. They can't code font size.

I've gotten my money's worth in playing through with a friend of mine (who is completely obsessed with the game) slowly. I hate to tell him that when we beat it tomorrow I'm probably done with these chucklefucks. The best thing to come of the game will probably be a foundational blueprint of how to do a Diablo/FPS crossover; we'll thank Gearbox for the next game in this vein, not this one.

[Venkman]

575k units sold so far, one analysts predictions raised to 1.4mm.

I'm guessing a lot of people aren't bothering with the co-op. Which is fine imho. Unlike L4D, in this opinion, this game really needed to stand on it's game play first, whether other people are there with you second.

[Musashi]

I definitely have a love/hate relationship with the game. The core gameplay is very satisfying for me. Being Brick and screaming obscenities while I punch the shit out of things is one of the most viscerally satisfying things I've done in PC gaming for a long, long time. I mean it. I fucking love it. The gunplay feels nice, sound design is awesome.

But this shit is broken. Ports opened, in the DMZ and I still can't host a game. Gearbox out and out lied about the PC version having its own features and UI. Still no patch. Randy Pitchford is one of the most insufferable weasels I've read an interview from since Paul Barnett blotted out the sun in my computer room. They can't code font size.

I've gotten my money's worth in playing through with a friend of mine (who is completely obsessed with the game) slowly. I hate to tell him that when we beat it tomorrow I'm probably done with these chucklefucks. The best thing to come of the game will probably be a foundational blueprint of how to do a Diablo/FPS crossover; we'll thank Gearbox for the next game in this vein, not this one.

I pretty much agree with this.  But I just have to add that playing this game with my friends for a few hours was some of the most fun I've had in a while.  They all agreed.  I just don't know if it has enough to hold us.

[CaptainNapkin]

I was having tons of fun with this title, took a small break while I was busy and traveling, now it seems I've lost my momentum. No clue how far into the game I am, I'm about level 25 with the siren. I'm not returning it just yet (rental), but I'm debating it. I'm sure this also has a lot do with all the other games out and coming out that I want to play.

That said, the game rocked while it had me, great intro tune to boot.

[Margalis]

The splitscreen UI in this game is atrocious. It makes it almost unplayable.

[Hayduke]

Gameranger works pretty well from what I've tried.  The Gamespy thing and matchmaking is worthless though with ports open or on DMZ.  Totally ridiculous.  But really I'm not finding it all that fun in co-op so I mostly do single player.  Which is just depressingly easy most of the time.  It's like they didn't make any difficulty adjustments from the thumbstick version.  I don't know, it's a good game but it doesn't really capture that Diablo magic where I could just go into a random game and have fun.  Here it feels like when I play with randoms it's just really boring.

[Malakili]

Zombies!

http://kotaku.com/5405252/a-look-at-the-zombie-island-of-dr-ned

[Goreschach]

http://kotaku.com/5405252/a-look-at-the-zombie-island-of-dr-ned

"The PC version will follow sometime after"

Ooh, does this mean the PC is the development platform for the dlc, too?

[LK]

Zombies!

http://kotaku.com/5405252/a-look-at-the-zombie-island-of-dr-ned

I'll wait for reviews on this one. Just blah'd out on Borderlands and MW2 has my balls in a chokehold.