Borderlands

[shankski]

Borderlands

is awesome

[Kilizion]

Lol free borderlands is free! And really really good. A bit buggy here and there but I admit I am addicted. :) Definitely recommend it to all.

[kawe]

definitely a good time sink, and very competant as an action rpg - the new toys you get from time to time are very entertaining too seeing what effects they have. That said, the variation in guns is a great deal more limited than is often made out. 99% of the time you find yourself using on of the 6-10 basic styles of weapon, with small variations (damage, clip size, scope zoom, nothing that really affects what the weapon feels like to use). The skill trees feel a little unpolished too, and there are some small niggles that really are big oversights, e.g. items can have a bunch of effects on them, but tooltips can only ever show up to 4 - even if there are more. On a game where your character's ability depends almost entirely on item choice, not knowing what the item actually has on it is totally daft.

I don't know how much lasting appeal it'll have to be totally honest, especially considering that if people are at different stages of quests it feels quikly like a pickle to try and work with. Maybe a month ish. If the dev drops some DLC (pretty likely if game sales are good) then it could extend a bit more.

Worth mentioning that as a PC port it's sadly got all the classic signs of lazy console->PC games - mouse acceleration, inadequete mouse speed settings, tiny FOV, just the general way you're required to go edit ini files and whatnot and some things you can't workaround.

Somewhere between a seven and an eight out of ten for me.

[Douchebag]

Me and Kesh at second playthrough now, about halfway...it's much harder, and expecting the 3rd playthrough to be insane, as we are dying now!