Is Borderlands this generation’s Diablo? |
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| BY Jason Townsend-Rogers Nov. 8th, 2009 | More on: |
How good is Borderlands? While I have yet to play the game myself, reviewers have been especially kind to it since release, giving high marks to all three versions of it. This high praise of the title has even managed to disprove observers who predicted that the game would fail upon release.
These claims obviously validate Borderlands being a good game, but there are some who think it is one of the best. In fact, Epic Games’ Cliff Bleszinski believes that Borderlands is so good, that it is “this generation’s Diablo.”
It remains to be seen whether the the game will ascend to the heights achieved by Diablo, but one thing is certain: they do share similar concepts, and borrowing concepts from other successful titles does have some guarantee (but not a great deal) that your title will taste success.
November 8th, 2009
at 9:16 pm
I can say this, it looks pretty sweet.
November 8th, 2009
at 9:54 pm
its actually fail after fail. which sucks it looked really good, you get in, really generic game play, everything has that generic feeling to it.
If they had just paid someone to write a decent storyline and got some voice actors, less repedetive gameplay it would be awesome. It just felt like fail after fail.
The game gives the impression it has humor, in the first 2 hours it slowly trickles away from running into characters who have introductions with comedic lines to nothing.
Its like they ran out of humer 2 hours into it, decided to keep repeating stuff, and not develoup characters.
November 8th, 2009
at 10:45 pm
It’s a very fun title but the story is terrible. All the quests are basically just like an run of the mill mmo. “Collect my food, kill 15 bandits.”
And given to you in a bland window text. It’s sad because they have a good number of interesting characters, and the game starts by introducing them with some voice acting and all, then every quest is written with no further VO work, which is sad.
November 8th, 2009
at 11:12 pm
i played it on pc untill dragon age hit
what was slightly funny was the amazing amount of guns available was amazing at first, then i found myself spending 5-10 mins time every 5 mins of picking up a few weaps or looked in the shop desiding if it was better than the 4 or so i kept with me.
i think ive spent more time comparing weapons than shooting them, or equipping one then 5 mins later swapping it out when i stumbled on another slightly better lol
i cant say i mind to much really but i found that a funny twist to what really is a great achievement in a game.
i think the word that should have been used more in borderlands progress meetings is DEPTH.
its certainly fun and i wouldn’t say its a bad game, but in moving on to play dragon age, i can see how much it really is an FPS at heart and i felt disconnected from any of the story and never wanted to read mission details , just go and do them.
the characters you meet are boring, and the feel i got from the trailers just wasn’t there in the game as far as i played it anyway.
having said that i will go back to it when my dragon age high comes down….
its not diablo comparable the for me, if only it had fallout 3 type depth with its features and gun play… fiddle sticks
November 9th, 2009
at 7:36 am
Thought the game was fun. Just finished my 1st play through last night. Almost got my plat. Need to work on that level 50 and I will be there.
November 9th, 2009
at 10:05 am
Speaking of repetitive, does anyone else hate that damn robot that keep saying “check me out, I’m dancing, I’m dancing” every five seconds?
November 9th, 2009
at 10:26 am
lol its funny the first 2 times only Pepe!
with u on that :)
November 9th, 2009
at 11:25 am
I found the story really refreshing. Not every game needs to read like an anal retentive college english paper, trying incredibly hard to be deep and “adult” with story arcs and twists and what some games call “morality choices”, when the other actions in the game involve shooting lightning rounds into someone’s skull or punching midgets.
November 12th, 2009
at 6:38 am
Yes. Yes it is. Except maybe it won’t have as long a shelf life.