Posted on: Monday, July 27th, 2009
Posted in: News
Comments: 90
Game Preview: Borderlands (My#1 of 2009)
Joe takes a look at his #1 Most Anticipated Game of 2009, Borderlands. With all of the dream features one could possibly ask for, how this potential hit has flown under the radar is near criminal, Joe aims to shed some light on the game for others. What do you think?
Game Preview Video:
What We Are Excited About:
• A Marriage between two Kick Ass genre’s: RPG’s and FPS’s (with a little more on the FPS side)
• 4 Player Drop in/Drop out Cooperative throughout the entire campaign (with 2 player split screen)
• Procedural Item/Weapons Generator AI (possibly millions of weapon/armor/etc. variations)
• Open-World in an Interesting “Concept Art Cell Shaded” Style
• Areas for player to Engage in PvP as a fun diversion
• Sense of Humor (the game doesn’t take itself too seriously with baddies like “BAD ASS FIRE SKAG”)
What Might Suck:
• Restrictive Character Classes (No Custom Characters)
• Is the game over-promising? Could it possibly live up to the wild claims by its developer?
• The story centers around finding a treasure vault – could this possibly be interesting at all?
Joementum Hype Rating:
What to Know More?
This was Joe’s #1 most Anticipated Game, See the Rest Here: E3 2009 – Joe’s Top 5 Most Anticipated Games
Also this Interview with Gearbox, where they make more Outrageous Claims: Borderlands – Play with Millions of Guns and More Loot than all xbox 360 & playstation games combined!! BS?
Learn more about the game here: Borderlands Wiki Game Page
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90 thoughts on “Game Preview: Borderlands (My#1 of 2009)”
This game, kicks ass.
Totally kicks ass!!!!!!
Where is the review for Borderlands??? Yes.
where is the review?????!!!
why dont you ever Joe-hance anything anymore?
HEY JOE!!!
I was just wondering if you had(or are still) enjoyed Borderlands. the reason I am commenting so late is that I have heard rumers about BORDERLANDS 2!!!!! Could I get some clarification on this?
Thanks,
A new follower,
firelad80
Bad ass fire sLag?
The rating system makes no sense !!!.
this game is great, i was looking a review but this video is really funny
the best and maybe one of the only thing great of this game is the co-op
i play this game on my own for just 30 minutes and got bored, but then a friend came and we played
and now we are addicted to this game, every friday he comes and we play for hours, even we bought the add-on disc, just to get lvl 50 with new missions. jugamos con mi xbox360 con un proyector en la pared, porque si es cuadrada la pantalla te divide los personajes de forma horizontal y uno tiene una vision mas periferica o widescreen del juego, en cambio con una pantalla ancha te divide con una linea en el medio i ers complicado cuando estas rodeado
we started playin recently (august 2010) and cant wait for the new dlc coming out. if you are tired of playing single player games and have friend who can go to your house and play this is your game, if you haven played it you could get the GOTY version that comes with the 4 dlc.
i won’t exactly go far enough to say Borderlands SUCKED, but it got kinda boring and repetitive by the third day playing it, i eventually traded it in at gamestop so i can get red dead redemption 40 dollars off, the 4-player co-op didn’t really seem that important to me, i felt like i could go out on my own and do what i wanted, the co-op felt unnecessary at times, unlike games like left 4 dead (a game i still play to this day) where co-op is not just necessary, it’s REQUIRED! but borderland’s co-op seemed like just an excuse to talk to the friends i don’t have and share money. i found this game to be over-hyped, i was just as excited for this game as joe, but all we found was a big… disappointment, i actually didn’t know that the maps change each time you play. which is cool, i guess, one thing that pissed me off was the whole “87 bazillion guns”… you have like 5 weapon classes and every single gun either has a different amount of damage, a different attachment or a different bullet adaption. not LITERALLY 87 bazillion guns, just 5 guns with different attachments … bullshit translator WAS needed
This guy kind of looks like Mario
I badly want this game.
ZOMFG if he was exited about this he will seriously jizz in his pants when he see’s the trailer for Brink
Our teenage daughter is thirteen heading on thirty. She is mad now that we censor everything she watches. There is very little on Tv today that we find appropriate for a teenager. Several months ago, we discovered that you just can Get Free Diablo 2 Items Online. along with a lot of other shows. This is fantastic as we can watch a demonstrate and determine whether or not it’s suitable to get a child of her age. She is quite mature for just a thirteen year old, but there are points we still do not think she needs to know about. It is a fine line we continuously walk, but it is part of our employment as parents.
The game sucks >_< at the END
There are some odd finds that work that way, however, they are the exception over the rule, and aren’t an indication of best green versus best purple. The true legendary weapons are indeed legendary. Nothing really tops those, and those are the dark orange ones. Eventually, that’s all you’ll ever need in your inventory. But then again, they are end-game weapons, they deserve their post.
Joe the game came out, and I have beat it twice already, I was not impressed with the ending or the loot tables, the loot tables seem extremely broken. A green sniper rifle from level 26 is out damaging a level 37 epic or purple sniper rifle? something is wrong in denmark.
hey joe
were is the review!!!!!!
im looking foward to this game so much since i heard of it but idk
i saw the ign review and gamespot review, so idk
the game looks fun as hell though, i dont think there are custom classes
but you dont really need that because your at first person view most of the
time, but there are benifits to have a custom talored class, other than that
i think this game is going to be awsome overall
=[ it did not come out for pc wtf cry -_-
Joe! where’s my review? you forget to get a pre-order or something? ah well, as long as its up in the next two days
Not a surprise. Loot-fest games ala. Diablo, Sacred 2, etc. They have stories, but they really try not to bog you down on story detail. So the story will definitely be light. That’s actually something that Dungeon-Hacker/Loot fans go for. In general, they just want to skip past that story stuff and get on with the combat. The real push, fans of this genre go for, is seeing their characters improve over time, and watch how their gameplay and/or ability to attack certain folks constantly changes over time due to new aquisitions and improved stats. This area too bad for ya? Wait until I find that choice loot which will allow me to take that area down.
The characters are generally architypes, and I’m also glad they are putting a lot of humor into this one. Don’t expect the characters to be dynamic and change as the story progresses. Nah, they’re just there to be themselves. Of course, this is typical for the genre. And I’m only talking about that. Will this game go further in story and character development? Who knows. The tug of war here is that a good amount of the dungeon-loot fans don’t want to be slowed down by story. They constantly can’t wait for the action. 20 more seconds of story is 20 more seconds of not gaining-exp or finding game-changing loot. (They basically will pull an Angry Joe and say, “Blah, blah, blah. Blah, Blah, Blah. Borderlands, action, Now!!”)
I actually saw the beginning gameplay for a player who recently got the game early due to a mistake at a store. Posted a vid about it. Anyway, you can tell he was somebody severely in the action/dungeon hack mindset, because he could hardly wait for the intro story to finish. The marketing issue is, Dungeon-Hack/Loot-fest games and actual story-heavy RPGs are often thrown into the same genre-name. So many established overall gameplay styles get the same name (made even more confusing by the RPG hybrids we already have).
I guess it would be improper for them to advertise someone else’s game in their commercials. If they could get away with it, I guess they could say if FPS and Diablo had a baby. While people can sight other games, other than Diablo, it would still probably put a better mindset on what you’re buying. Angry Joe said it right, he mentioned that it’s a ‘loot’ game. And generally, if someone mentions ‘loot’, or ‘dungeon hacker’, immediately start thinking action-RPG, but in the vein of Diablo. The real draw to go on is the acquisitions which keep the gameplay fresh over a long period of time, generally fun action-gameplay, and story is a real distant 3rd.
Still, like Sacred 2, before this. What may also keep people entertained is a sense of humor. Loot games are starting to realize how little story is paid-attention to, unless what they present in front of you makes you laugh. Because, in general, that’s what people get together and co-op do, in the first place. They help each other, kill monsters, and joke about the onscreen action like Mystery Science 3000. It makes it that much rich, if the content also makes you laugh on purpose.
It was currently at the top of my list. The things that concern me about it is that the story line will be shit, the characters don’t seem to have any depth, why no customisation of characters, no new armors, and with all those guns surely some of them will be practically the same but with a different design or only a very insignificant tweek. This game does look kickass, however, and I’m still deciding whether to pay a bit more for the pre-order weapon pack that comes when you buy it from play.com or gamestop.
Well, I have to give it to Angry Joe. He and I have one major thing in common. I am also a fully self-admitted loot whore. In actuality, I pretty much jump right into any Dungeon Crawl/Hacker/Loot game that comes out, and put hundreds of hours into them. I dig FPS games, but not as much as I dig Dungeon Hackers. This promises to deliver a full-fledged combination of them and with so many great character build possibilities. I’m there on day one, for sure. Most anticipated console release this season, easily.
jizz in my pant. (not really but you know what i mean)
Hey, Joe but I think that APB is still my most anticipated game, look it up All Points Bulletin
This Sh!t is gunna focking Pwn im gonna play this ti’ll my eyes bleed !
Greetz from Holland
probably a little late for you joe but theres a new trailer on ign:
http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/dor/objects/957206/borderlands/videos/borderlands_trl_charactertrailer_91009.html
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGMGOMGOMOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG I WANT I WANT I WANT IT FUCKING NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol, ima split screen with 2/10+ of my friends
(ones a girl btw 
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OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BORDERLANDS FTW!!!!!!!!
Sorry I get that way when I talk about this AMAZING!!! game.
I’ve been following Borderlands ever since I got the September 2007 issue of GamInformer Mag.
In the last month I’ve signed up for the Borderlands forum, and was looking at it when I saw a thread about this site. I was like ” OMFG JOE GOT A HOLD OF BORDERLANDS!!! ” So I rushed over here and watched your epicly well done Joe-Hanced video and was laughing my ass off. I’ getting this game release day and over on the forums I’m organizing a Release day event for the PS3 and I was wondering, if you had a PS3, that you would make a celebrity appearance and I would be honoured if you said yes. MEDIC/SUPPORT ROLAND FTW!!!
Seriously this video is what finally convinced me to sign up(no idea why since i’ve been a lurker forever) and share my vast well of ideas and opinions.