Has anyone been following this? I was looking at it a year ago and again a few months ago... Now that Batman has come and gone, it's quickly made it to the top of my new game wish list. It's being called am FPS/RPG. Looks freaking awesome to me. Here's a developer interview with some great insight on the game.

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Being developed by Gearbox software, and it's due October 20th

 

Thanks to Phin o Rama for pointing it out today via evil IMs, but Borderlands leaked today. As did FIFA10 NTSC. Good times, good talk.

 

I dont even know where to begin with this. It's one part FPS, one part RPG, one part MMO and 100% awesome. This game will probably not sell the amount of units it worth. It's what Planet Side should have played like. Granted, it's not an MMO - It's capped at 4 players. But the game, the world, and the quests are huge. The spec system rules. The weapons kick ***. The looting kicks ***.... The Tarentino-ish presentation is very cool as well. My main gripes is:

1. Lack of a looting system in mutiplayer. Worked fine playing with my buddy, but I can imagine going into XBL for help with a boss or something, and the douche runs in and snatches all of the good loot. No bueno.

2. Lack of true character customization (visually). Once you pick a class, your look is picked. You change his (or her) color and gear. That's it. There should be more visual freedom.

3. Some quests are labeled "Normal" difficulty, and it's just plain hard. Similar to World of Warcraft, the quests have level recommendations as a color classifications Green is easy or normal, yellow is tough, orange is hard, and red is impossible. Normal quests should be beatable with relative challenge. Some are normal like they should be... Some are absurdly hard. Maybe they're looking for the "team" element, wanting me to invite XBL buddies to help... But then the quest should be labeled as such. I'm being picky.

The game kicks ***.

 

It has a story, but it's broken up a lot. If you need to be hand held via a story line, this isn't the game for you.

 

It's like a non MMO... MMO. It's a very hard game to classify. I love it. It has the grind (kill n loot) from diablo, a story telling style like Fallout (not as good as Fallout though), and the quest/spec system of WOW. It borrows a lot from WOW actually. It's clearly designed to be played with buddies, and is much more fun that way. But the majority of time I play alone just waiting for that next purple Sniper Rifle to drop. The gear has a color class like in WOW:

White - The item is normal
Green - The item is good
Blue - The item is rare
Purple - The item is Epic
Orange - The item is one of a kind

Again, I really dig it. It gives that satisfaction of getting awesome gear without having to put in years of your life that WOW asks for.

 

It's not as post apocolyptic as the video seems. It's more like Wild West meets Pirates. If that makes sense, i dunno. You can explore and find great stuff. But if you stray too far, high level mobs show no mercy. A 3 level difference in this game almost mean certain death. Levels are such huge jumps it's amazing.

 

Truth. If i could add any feature on a patch or addon, it'd be a bank to stash crap and a proper looting system. The current system is fine if you're with a friend or someone who likes to make crap fair.... but if you're joining random groups on XBL, whoever is the closest can just grab whatever they want.

 

i have been totally addicted to this game GRINDING. Just hit level 33 last night.

 

agree on all counts sir

 

LOL good stuff! Levels are a big deal. A three level difference, and the enemy probably has no chance

 

lvl 34 - i think I'm at the end. Good to see that there's new enemy types later in the game. They didn't just use more high leveled badass brutes

 

The devs seems to be on top of the game too


Patch fixes for PS3

* Load times have been improved
* Lilith's Phase Strike ability now works as intended
* The introductory quests with CL4P-TP should now always progress properly
* fixed a bug that caused the digger elevator to be unusable after completing the Find Tannis mission
* Weapon mapping to the D-pad should no longer reverse left and right
* fixed a crash when ejecting the disc during the autosave warning splash screen
* Players in a lobby should no longer experience long loading when starting a game after one player leaves
* A bug which caused players and other things in the world to appear incorrectly on clients in networked games has been fixed
* fixed a bug in which players gibbed in arena combat disappeared
* Changed how space required for saves is calculated
* fixed a bug which caused the dollars counter to spin continuously
* various localization and other text and tooltip correction

Patch fixes for 360

* Fixed a bug which caused players and other things in the world to appear incorrectly on clients in networked games
* fixed a bug in which players gibbed in arena combat disappeared
* fixed a bug which caused the dollars counter to spin continuously
* fixed a bug that caused the digger elevator to be unusable after completing the Find Tannis mission
* Weapon mapping to the D-pad should no longer reverse left and right
* various localization and other text and tooltip corrections
* The introductory quests with CL4P-TP should now always progress properly all the time
* Lilith's Phase Strike ability now works as intended
* Load times have been improved


today's patch notes

 

This actually happened to me last night. Had to quit and reload the game

 

not too much...

Spoiler

clean up quests you never beat