The Official Borderlands 2 Thread
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Is anyone else finding the game is getting a little boring now?
I've been playing a few times a week since release and I'm starting to fall out of love with it. Initially it was brilliant, with all the same charm and humour as the first one. In my opinion though, that is part of the problem.
Aside from a few tweaks to the weapons and a larger, prettier map, it doesn't really bring anything new to the party.
Borderlands 2 to me feels like a very large DLC for the original.
I know games companies don't like to mess too much with a winning formula and I guess you could say a lot of sequels don't really change much from their predecessor (Assasins Creed, C&C, Left 4 Dead, etc), but I feel that Borderlands 2 is too similar to the original with the only real changes being new enemies, an additional vehicle and the customisation feature. The storyline and characters feel like a direct lift from the original with a little polish.
I loved Borderlands and I have enjoyed the second one, but I do feel it became old quickly as it was essentially the same as before.
Not sure what I would have liked to see from a sequel, but maybe more vehicles, customisation of weapons, characters that are wildly different from the first game, AI companions for offline play and some additional weapon types like flamethrowers/grenade launchers/mines.
It is a good game, but for me it didn't really advance enough for a sequel...
I've been playing a few times a week since release and I'm starting to fall out of love with it. Initially it was brilliant, with all the same charm and humour as the first one. In my opinion though, that is part of the problem.
Aside from a few tweaks to the weapons and a larger, prettier map, it doesn't really bring anything new to the party.
Borderlands 2 to me feels like a very large DLC for the original.
I know games companies don't like to mess too much with a winning formula and I guess you could say a lot of sequels don't really change much from their predecessor (Assasins Creed, C&C, Left 4 Dead, etc), but I feel that Borderlands 2 is too similar to the original with the only real changes being new enemies, an additional vehicle and the customisation feature. The storyline and characters feel like a direct lift from the original with a little polish.
I loved Borderlands and I have enjoyed the second one, but I do feel it became old quickly as it was essentially the same as before.
Not sure what I would have liked to see from a sequel, but maybe more vehicles, customisation of weapons, characters that are wildly different from the first game, AI companions for offline play and some additional weapon types like flamethrowers/grenade launchers/mines.
It is a good game, but for me it didn't really advance enough for a sequel...
JonRB said:
Sadly all I got was this:
Whoops, thats a crappy gun. Did Dukino's mom drop that, or did Dukino give you it? Because I'm fairly certain the Buffalo is a quest specific gun which is always and only given for completing the quest when you turn into Dukino.Might be worth heading back there and seeing if there is a "?" on the pit where the boss fight happens, if there is you can still go back and get the Buffalo rifle.
The Beaver King said:
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I think that's a very fair critique, and I agree with you. 
Mastodon2 said:
Whoops, thats a crappy gun. Did Dukino's mom drop that, or did Dukino give you it?
Dukino gave it to me when I turned in. He had the "?" on him after I despatched the Sewer Rats and Lab Rats that turned up for the 'Clear out the old Mine' conclusion. I never saw Dukino's mom. Mastodon2 said:
Might be worth heading back there and seeing if there is a "?" on the pit where the boss fight happens, if there is you can still go back and get the Buffalo rifle.
Good call. I will do that tonight. Thanks!The Beaver King said:
Borderlands 2 to me feels like a very large DLC for the original.
It's still better than Fallout: New Vegas was compared to Fallout3 though. I felt the former lost a lot of the charm of the latter, especially due to losing the whole Post Apocalypse / Urban Decay vibe. In Fo3 you felt humanity was hanging on by its fingernails whilst Fo:NV showed you that actually all was business as usual. So, at least B2 retains all the charm of B1. But I do agree that it is very much "more of the same".
As you say, it's very hard for a sequel to bring something new whilst still retaining the stuff that made the original successful.
JonRB said:
The Beaver King said:
Borderlands 2 to me feels like a very large DLC for the original.
It's still better than Fallout: New Vegas was compared to Fallout3 though. I felt the former lost a lot of the charm of the latter, especially due to losing the whole Post Apocalypse / Urban Decay vibe. In Fo3 you felt humanity was hanging on by its fingernails whilst Fo:NV showed you that actually all was business as usual. So, at least B2 retains all the charm of B1. But I do agree that it is very much "more of the same".
As you say, it's very hard for a sequel to bring something new whilst still retaining the stuff that made the original successful.
I may get bored of it though. Only played it for a bit so far (level 12 I think).
funkyrobot said:
I guess this game is more appealing to me as I never played Borderlands 1.
You really missed out there. Especially the General Knoxx DLC. That had me in stitches, although the messages you get from Handsome Jack are a similar level of grin-inducing silliness and Tiny Tina is simply brilliant. I wish she had more screen-time because she was a complete hoot. Mastodon2 said:
JonRB said:
Ah right. Ok. Thanks!
Dukino's Mom turns up in a very short quest called "Demon Hunter", which you pick up in Sanctuary after progressing the story.
This is what I got:
But sometime recently I appear to have got this:
It chews through ammo a bit; each shot is 2 bullets. A short mouse click fires one shot and a longer click fires a rapid burst of 3.
I had a similar caustic rifle towards the end of the my second playthough, a sniper rifle with a drum magazine, and full auto, it fired about 3 shots a second and was very accurate, but it just hoovered the ammo up, and as single projectiles it's Bee multiplier was not great so it didn't see much use.
Silent1 said:
Awesome. One bagged now and 3 more diarised.
Edited by JonRB on Saturday 27th October 01:38
JonRB said:
Quick question - the game allowed me to enter both the Twitter SHIFT code and the Facebook one. And seems to suggest that I have a key for each. Is this correct or will it only give me one key for the two codes?
looking at them it appears the facebook ones are different to the twitter ones!Gassing Station | Video Games | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff