Forum Overview :: Borderlands :: time for a borderlands review

[quote name="Weyoun Voidbringer"]I've always been easily addicted to rpgs, starting with final fantasy 2 for the snes. or maybe it all started with river city ransom, but whatever the point is there is something about most rpgs that draws me in easily, but I'm not sure exactly what. an rpg with a shitty story can still be a fun game if the gameplay elements are done right. maybe it's the depth I enjoy about rpgs, but I never EVER finished the challenges for those gay ultimate weapons in ffx. as most everyone already knows, I hate world of shitfuck with the fiery intensity of a thousand white hot suns, but despite that I still played the game for about 2 years. my point is that borderlands is a really good rpg and a decent action game. iirc most (smart) rpg developers are moving away from turn based drudgery and reorienting the gameplay around action, see secret of mana or mass effect for other examples of this. the days of two opposing teams standing in a line facing each other taking turns to throw boat anchors and then run up and collect them to throw again while numbers float up is going away, now you can charge them in real time spraying weapons fire and then get close enough to swing a bladed pistol at their faces. borderlands specifically has a melee class as one of the 4 playable character classes, and he can take a super powerful epic gun with fat delicious juicy stats and jam the spiked trigger guard into their hardened exoskeletons.[/quote]