Borderlands

[Azazel]

It has a "secret" (as in "it will not show, regardless of what stat display mod you use") health regen modifier.

Damn, we got this the other night and promptly sold it off as well, since it looked less good than what we already had.

[Kageh]

Ack, yes, that's annoying. I wouldn't have known myself either, hadn't someone in this thread mentioned having sold it by accident (I think it was Samwise). It's really a dumb design slip IMO to have a game built around loot and then have "super special secret" loot modifiers that people will not see.

[Musashi]

That's the way Wee Wee rolls.

[Kageh]

Good thing no one else does.  He is very special.

[01101010]

Good thing no one else does.  He is very special.

This boat is getting smaller. I sold that off on Lil and Roland. However, I kept it for Mord and holy shit its OP. Makes me sad in the pants I don't have it on Lil.

[Azazel]

And Wee Wee doesn't respawn either unlike other bosses, right?

[Samwise]

And Wee Wee doesn't respawn either unlike other bosses, right?

Nope.  Gotta start a multiplayer game with someone who has it and dupe it (they pass it to you, they quit before saving, you save before quitting).

[Sky]

 

They got so much right, but so much wrong.

[rattran]

Yep, it's still amusing to poke about with the different characters, but having a loot-based game where loot doesn't show all the stats is 

[WayAbvPar]

They need an expansion with lots and lots more loot, including armor and vehicles and such.

[Sky]

And visible stats. 

[Threash]

This is 20 bucks on amazon today, worth it for that price?

[Stewie]

hells yes.
That is of course if you like fun, but don't listen to me. I am particularly biased towards games that let me mow through baddies and then sift through their "Phat Lewt" innards like some sorta pinata gone wrong. (or oh so right)

[Samwise]

This is 20 bucks on amazon today, worth it for that price?

Honestly, I wouldn't buy it again even at that price.  I think it'll be worth looking at again if they revamp the multiplayer to make it usable, but as a single player game it's pretty unexciting.

[Typhon]

Put me down as a, "really liked it, wished it was longer, hell yes buy it for $20".  Even more fun if you have people you to know to play with you.

If you do - open ports you on your router.  Try to start a game, if it doesn't start, close out of the lobby and try again.  second time is the charm

[Nightblade]

Unless you have a dedicated group of people very enthusiastic about the game to play with you on a normal basis, by all means... But even with that I'd still reconsider. The games wears thin really, really quickly.

[Azazel]

I'm finding it awesome still. But then, I'm playing it an hour or so at a time in side-by-side co-op with my wife. On LAN-360.

[Venkman]

I'm still enjoying it, but not as an exclusive time sink. It's best played either in co-op or bouncing back and forth with another game.

I did finally try the console version (X360). Jeezus did I hate it. Usual I-hate-consoleshooters aside, the UI is worse than the PC. And then add the lulz of split-screen multiplayer where you can't even see the whole inventory/skills interface window. I felt a lot better about the kludginess of this console port until I saw how slapdash the source was in certain key areas.

[apocrypha]

Just noticed the first DLC, "The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned", is available on EU PSN. I think it was about £6. Anyone got it yet?

[Azazel]

I've got it on 360.

It's ..ok fun.

More Borderlands when it comes right down to it. I've only done a couple of missions though at this point. Nice looking nighttime setting, Zombies as the mobs. Some have a vomit attack to make up for their lack of ranged. Zombies can spawn from the ground however, and they come in L4D-style waves quite often, which makes for some fun L4D-style "hold these fuckers off" gameplay when they just keep coming at you. Whether it's "worth it" depends to me on how much you like Borderlands. I'm sure I'll find it worthwhile..

[Threash]

I don't wanna read through all 40 pages of this but i'm having a problem getting this installed.  It won't install at all, i get error 1722, anyone know how to fix it?

[Druzil]

There's no one fix for the 1722 error that I'm aware of, here's the "official" thread to wade through.

http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=82240

One of the guys I play with has an AMD processor, his install kept getting stuck on the AMD installer screen, and this worked for him.

Start > Run (or open a cmd prompt)

msiexec /i f:\setup.msi /qb

Also change f: to the drive letter for your DVD drive.

[Azazel]

http://palgn.com.au/xbox-360/15626/borderlands-the-zombie-island-of-dr-ned-review/

[Hoax]

This game is just such a superior experience playing with 4 people, but at the end of the day it doesn't quite work right with four people.  You can just feel it not working in the background screwing with your fun.

We did a run from L13 to L21 tonight with a melee berserker, siren who wanted to snipe but couldn't get a decent rifle drop and two turret heavy soldiers.  Was a lot of fun, probably more so because we twinked out some L16 and L19 guns even though we ended up getting and using better random drops but it was a good fallback.  At one point we had so many objects on the ground the Skag AI broke and they stopped attacking.  Mad Mel was tons of fun - we actually did it with cars, Sledge was a cakewalk but the fights leading to him were awesome, safehouse and the outdoor bit with the machine gun were highlights.

Made it to New Haven and called it a night, can't wait to play it some more over holidays but LAN instead of sluggish online play.  I wish I had taken some ss's of when we dropped all the twink gun options in the starting town fucking piles everywhere.

[Jherad]

The DLC is on Steam now (showing as £6.30 for me)... With SecuROM and a 5 machine activation limit.

 

[schild]

The DLC is on Steam now (showing as £6.30 for me)... With SecuROM and a 5 machine activation limit.

 

How weird.

[Hoax]

I've done two more 4-player runs to Dahl and beyond, lots of fun, the in-game voice works most of the time but sometimes will hate on one of our guys at random.  Dropping 40+ purple-orange guns to pick through to start each session is a highlight, but there have also been some really fun moments with cars (never would have thought that after finishing the game sp) and the spiderants turn out to be one of the best and most harrowing mob types with 4 people.  They spawn a fucking insane amount of badass ants at once and the poison and fire ones have effective attacks coupled with the crazy fontal armor means those fights take more then just having good weapons and blowing shit up.

Haven't gotten to do Krom yet with 4, that will either be a cakewalk ala Sledge or fun, so far the one guardian fight in Dahl was insanely difficult.  They seemed to be so much faster then I remember and with 4 people they take a shitton of damage before they go down.  My opinion is colored by not having rank 5/5 trespass though on these characters.

I think we may lan party the DLC this weekend, not sure if I want to bother packing up my machine for transport or not yet.

[TheWalrus]

Kroms a cakewalk. Guardians eat shit fast with static weapons. Even underpowered static weapons.

[Kageh]

I remember Sledge as kind of hard on single player though. Krom was actually a lot easier. Brick player here, Berserk killed Krom but didn't really put a dent into Sledge, as he seemed to have a shit load of hit points.

[rattran]

So, the next expansion is 3 more arenas, a bank, and a couple more skill points. Still 'whenever' for pc.

c&p Press release follows

[Rasix]

Well that certainly is a disgusting cash grab.

[Hoax]

Pretty much, bank slots though would be soooooo nice.  If there are like 200 of them

[Lantyssa]

We started playing through Ned's this afternoon.  The humor had me in stitches.  A lot of it is very silly, but warped exactly to my specifications.

[Azazel]

Underwhelmed by the new DLC. Zombie Island is fun though. The little I've played of it, anyway.

[bhodi]

Grudgingly picked up the expansion pack to play with a few friends. It was "OK". We burned through it in about an hour and a half. It was fun enough with the comedy but the combat was more of the same - doubly so since they were all level 43-46 and we were capped at 50. Everything went down easy.