Forum Overview :: Borderlands
 
5 minutes after you gave up I guess. by laudablepuss 05/10/2011, 6:33pm PDT
fabio wrote:

Jesus, can you believe it's (was) 2010 and there are dungeon crawler developers who still haven't learned anything from Diablo 2?

Diablo 2 - Stars you right in the thick of it. Within 5 minutes I'm putting points into skills and murdering monsters with my skeleton minions.


Borderlands- Starts you with unskippable cutscene after unskippable cutscene, followed by an unskippable tutorial full of unskippable cutscenes featuring a robot everyone says is hilarious (but only if they meant "compared to the rest of the writing"). Is it to learn unique features that are hard to grasp? No! PRESS SPACE TO JUMP! HOLD ALT TO CROUCH! I know how to play an FPS, motherfucker!

So over half an hour in and there's a lush list of features I haven't gotten access to yet:

- Skill points
- Class powers

No difference at all between the classes so far except for the gun you start out with. To help ease this frustration, they make it as unappealing as possible to start over as different classes, since each restart puts you through the same 10 minutes of unskippable intro cutscene shit. All this time spent not having fun isn't even counting the mandatory .INI file tinkering you have to do.

What a great game to convince 3 friends to play with you.


Claptraps are stupid, but they cleverly made helping them yield extra inventory space. So you love them while you hate them. Anyway, this game becomes addictive gearquest as soon as you get off your ass and finish a few quests. One cool thing: no "soulbound" concept. So trade gear any time you want. But you can't store stuff anywhere so you end up just selling shit anyway.
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Gave up 45 minutes in. When does it get good? by fabio 05/10/2011, 3:09pm PDT NEW
    Go into an online lobby of high level characters. Problem solved. Tutorial gone NT by WITTGENSTEIN 05/10/2011, 4:10pm PDT NEW
    5 minutes after you gave up I guess. by laudablepuss 05/10/2011, 6:33pm PDT NEW
        Re: 5 minutes after you gave up I guess. by laudablepuss 05/10/2011, 6:56pm PDT NEW
            Mad Moxxy's Underdome Riot gives you a bank, by the way NT by WITTGENSTEIN 05/15/2011, 10:09am PDT NEW
                It is also bullshit that you pay for a bank + a crushing sense of disappointment by The Happiness Engine 05/15/2011, 10:54am PDT NEW
                    Mad Moxxy's Underdome Riot is easily the weakest DLC by WITTGENSTEIN 05/26/2011, 4:16pm PDT NEW
    A game with so much to hate and you can't even hate the right thing by Entropy Stew 05/11/2011, 1:14pm PDT NEW
    The classes are very different once you start leveling up. by Fullofkittens 05/11/2011, 3:13pm PDT NEW
    Truthfully? When you get to level 10 :( NT by The Happiness Engine 05/12/2011, 3:09am PDT NEW
    So it got better by fabio 05/26/2011, 11:11am PDT NEW
        Re: So it got better by laudablepuss 05/26/2011, 12:36pm PDT NEW
            This guy didnt EVEN have this game's quests pre-memorized! NT by lol what a fag noob 05/26/2011, 1:47pm PDT NEW
                No but I bet those 3rd level guys knew where to go, shithead. NT by laudablepuss 05/26/2011, 3:45pm PDT NEW
            Re: So it got better by FoK 05/26/2011, 5:59pm PDT NEW
        "Too far ahead in the story" explanation by The Happiness Engine 05/26/2011, 11:27pm PDT NEW
 
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