Hehe, I see you really haven't played the first game much at all. The game is known for its super tough non-bosses. There are specific mobs with a title badass, badmutha, or superbad, depending on which playthrough you are on. I remember I finished on my 2nd playthrough and came across my first superbad mob. I was literally running around dodging and shooting for over 5 minutes on that one mob. And they only get stronger as more players join the game on coop (the game scales difficulty by # of players on coop).
I guess my point is that you're throwing around alot of doubts on this game when it's already an established game. Pretty much everyone in this thread has already played through and enjoyed the first game so I don't think you'll gain any fans in here. Hell, it even won GOTY categories the same year Fallout 3 won overall GOTY and it's a brand new franchise. There's even a thread in the original pvc of the original game. http://www.pvcmuseum.com/games/pc/borderlands-diablo-2-meets-fps.htm
I'm not sure what happened to me but after several hours of forcing myself to play I finally had to say, "why am I doing this" and turn it off. I never played Farcry 2 but I imagine this game has to be the same with the back tracking bad guy issue. Go forward kill some skags. Go back, kill them again. Go forward, whoops there they are again, kill them again...and on and on. Don't try to out run them because they will chase you until the end of time. I was forced to kill the same dam things over and over again like some bad dream. In addition to that there really isn't any story to speak of. The first boss I ran into, 3 Balls or something like that, was pretty cool but that was the only good part of the game. Well the artistic style and music was good too.
I think it was mentioned a few times, but yea, the story isn't the strong point of this game. There's tons of quests, but there's only one main quest line. It's the one where you follow the recordings of the one explorer woman and some sentient girl talks to you. If you only played in the first part of the game, you kind of missed the real part of the game. The game takes kind of a 180 later on. The game is also mostly fun for coop, as single player would make a pretty dull game. The quest following is similar to mmorpg's. You go back and forth, but you should really group quests together to complete all in the same area and turn them in all at one time like in mmorpgs (rather than back and forth, back and forth method). The first boss is pretty much nothing if you keep on going. There's huge bosses, godzilla movie style.
I'd be up for giving the first one a proper go with anyone who's willing to start fresh with a new character, just to see if the multiplayer is any good.
I royally suck at fps' and besides your in england so... that would probly demolish the connection. But I did buy GOTY to play it someday... I'm now wondering if I just wasted 5 bucks... oh well heheh
I could join up with you with my level 64 lilith if you like. I've played it through with 3 classes and completed it multiple times but restarting with Mordecai seems a bit of a drag. I've got a level 7 character kicking about so may be we could give that a go at some point.
Who are you playing as? I didn't like Brick at all and found Lilith a bit dull. Mordecai is awesome and the soldier dude was good fun.
I've been thinking about it, and I have decided to get the PS3 version barring news that the PS3 version has some major problem. I'll pick up the Steam version later in a Steam sale. The original was a lot of fun to play on PSN with friends.
Brick was pretty awful. They could fix this easily by making rocket launchers as potent as they should be. The other 3 characters were much better. Lilith was easily the strongest character in the game.
Lilith is awesome for solo, but I really dislike playing her in coop. No group skills really. I guess cuz I mostly used Rolando in my first playthrough which was 95% in coop mode. And I specced fully as a support character.
She's not got the best team support abilities but the shield boost can be useful and the cooldown reduction really helps versus crawmerax. Completed the claptrap DLC earlier today. The final boss is a real bastard in solo; would have thought it would be almost impossible solo with any other character than Lilith.
I just had a good few hours playing Borderlands with a couple of mate who finally bought the game. We had some issues at first, we discovered that if we were really far apart in the game world communication became impossible. The speech became muffled and so out of sync I was hearing a one sided conversation that happened 10 minutes ago, bizarre. But in the end we got it together and discovered that Borderlands is an awesome game, in multiplayer. I'll never play it solo again. I started a new character to we all began at level 1 and we had a blast. Constantly discovering better weapons is indeed thoroughly rewarding, especially when you revisit a place that was difficult the first time round but now you have a shotgun that deals damage in excess of 400 up close