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| Borderlands DLC by Rafiki 09/20/2010, 5:53pm PDT | ||||
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| The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned
This suffers the same problem as the main game. It's fun at first, then starts to drag. It's a smaller scale mission-based expansion like the main game. Huge hordes of zombies spawn over and over throughout the game giving you plenty to shoot at and providing a more frantic feel, but goddamn does it get tedious by the end. By the end of the game I was just impatiently shooting everything in its stupid fucking face so I could hurry up and be done with the DLC already. The core gameplay is fun - insofar as shooters are fun - but not fun enough to be so relentless over such a long period of time. The guns aren't radically different to be that exciting. Enemies are dumb and bosses are just larger versions with more hitpoints. Backpedal and strafe until they're dead. If they have to resort to puzzle bosses I'm cool with that, at least it would mix things up a little. They also included an idiotic grinding quest. That's the one thing Borderlands had going for it as an RPG: no grinding quests, but they go and fuck it up in the worst way. There's a quest to collect zombie brains. You get zombie brains by killing zombies with a headshot. Brains drop regardless of whether you have the quest, so from the very beginning of the DLC brains are dropping all over and you can collect them, but you have no idea why. Nothing leads you directly to the quest, you can just happen upon it in one area. We went through the entire DLC without getting the quest, collecting hundreds and hundreds of brains, and then finally somebody Googled it and the quest was in an area we walked by. And you know what? COLLECTING BRAINS BEFORE YOU GET THE QUEST DOES NOT COUNT TOWARDS THE QUEST. Oh, god, yes, please, let me go back and kill zombies for hours just to complete a stupid grinding quest. Fuck you. Mad Moxxie's Underdome Riot Co-op arena combat. 3 arenas. We did the first one, which was 25 rounds. Enemies spawn in each round, and sometimes there's random modifiers like enemies do more damage, your shields are disabled, or certain guns do more damage. After 5 rounds you get a pile of random guns as a reward. The enemies are too boring for this to be any fun, so you quickly settle in on the same strategy until you get bored and decide to run out in the middle of the crossfire for something to do. So we quit and started General Knoxx's Armory instead. The Secret Armory of General Knoxx Don't know yet, not done! It's a mission-based expansion. Ok so far, but will probably end up like the rest of the game. |
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Super Mario Galaxy 2 by 09/20/2010, 10:39am PDT  Super Quick Hook (iPhone) by 09/20/2010, 10:53am PDT Borderlands DLC by 09/20/2010, 5:53pm PDT Bioshock 2 by 09/20/2010, 6:37pm PDT Re: Borderlands DLC by 10/31/2010, 5:48pm PDT Re: Super Quick Hook (iPhone) by 12/20/2010, 7:34am PST That was me :( NT by 12/20/2010, 7:35am PST Hey, who wants to know my opinion on perfect scores? Anybody? by 09/20/2010, 12:07pm PDT All reviews should include a description of enemies and controls. NT by 09/20/2010, 1:52pm PDT If it were on a curve like that, half the games would score less than 50. by 09/20/2010, 4:48pm PDT It depends. They could still claim to only review the "most promising" titles. by 09/20/2010, 5:23pm PDT They're talking about scores again on GAF but I don't want to register by 10/30/2010, 10:02pm PDT Re: Super Mario Galaxy 2 by 12/10/2010, 7:54pm PST |
