Borderlands question

[Trumpman]

I bought the GOTY edition of this for $20, so it's not a big deal, but does the game get better after the first hour? I played it a bit with my brother last night, and we both agreed that the first bit was quite boring. Does the game get any better? I've read about people devoting 50+ hours to Borderlands, but I can't see myself doing that if it's like this for the rest of the time.

[portnoyd]

Have you played Diablo? Did you like Diablo?

[Oobgarm]

Port's pretty much nailed it. It's a lootwhore game.

Personally, I had a great time with what I played, even though all I got to was level 15.

[Kitsune Sniper]

A lootwhore game with -not enough space to store everything-.

I sold thousands of items before I was through with the -main game-. You only get the chance to store stuff once you reach Mad Moxxi's.

[portnoyd]

Yeah, it's all about the drops. I'm one of those 50+ hour guys (hell, going to be starting Knoxx this weekend with 3 others) and I love it. There is nothing better than having an assault rifle with a 300 bullet clip that shoots at 15.0+ with metal storm procced with stat and quick recharge chugging away.

[Kitsune Sniper]

Yeah, it's all about the drops. I'm one of those 50+ hour guys (hell, going to be starting Knoxx this weekend with 3 others) and I love it. There is nothing better than having an assault rifle with a 300 bullet clip that shoots at 15.0+ with metal storm procced with stat and quick recharge chugging away.

I played through the first wave of each of Moxxi's arenas alone. I barely made it. I read up that you have to spend two to three hours to get the "Best" achievements PER ARENA, and that's just too much for me to handle in one sitting.

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

Like Port says, it's a Diablo game wrapped in a multiplayer FPS.

When your stats are low the game is a bit slow, grindy and fetchy (actually it's always fetchy), but once you can carry elemental weapons and your health meter is big enough to take a beating, it's pretty fun, though it's relatively light on any cinematic story elements.

There's an over-arcing thing in the main game about The Vault, but the meat of the game is about how much you like collecting rare weapon/item drops and trading them out/selling them based on your limited storage space.

Jump online and play some missions with more experienced folk and you'll level up pretty quickly.

[Sinizar]

If you didn't like the first hour of it I don't know if you will enjoy the rest of the game. The game is really huge, the environments change a lot, and each expansion was well done. Some of the areas are very challenging but this game is all about exploring and loot. The quests are not that exciting but some of the boss fights border on epic.

For me this is one of the best games to come out in years. I play it on PC though, not sure how I would like the console controls.

[eskobar]

I bought the GOTY edition of this for $20, so it's not a big deal, but does the game get better after the first hour? I played it a bit with my brother last night, and we both agreed that the first bit was quite boring. Does the game get any better? I've read about people devoting 50+ hours to Borderlands, but I can't see myself doing that if it's like this for the rest of the time.

Borderlands is a pretty honest and straightforward game .... and i think that in the first hour the missions that you got access to are pretty easy.

You should give it at least one more hour. It is a very fun game to play solo or with a friend in split screen. The goal and the missions are very simple but fun, this is a Shooter more than an RPG.


I spent like 60 hours in it .... and still have to buy the last 2 DLC