Borderlands 2 - First thoughts
#1
Tue, 09/18/2012 - 14:01
Borderlands 2 - First thoughts
Started the game shortly after midnight - a level eleven Siren for me and a level eleven Assassin for my friend.
Overall, "more Borderlands" with a better menu system. A new type of elemental damage and the characters seem a bit more fleshed out at the start this time.
Any initial impressions?
Better then the first. Better AI, story, menu and inventory systems. The humor is still there which is cool. Overall a improvement in most areas which is what a sequel should be. Playing on PC if folks are interested Mrsouthsioux is the steamid.
I love it! I have yet to encounter a glitch.
I think it is a great sequel for sure.Everything is just better. Im glad to see that they are building off of what worked about the last one and revamping what did not.
I played solo last night just to get a feel for the game. I'll try and get with a group tonight to see how that goes. Got my assassin to level 6 or 7 I believe. One thing that is a bit of concern is what Tank pointed out in another thread. With 4 people or more it may get chaotic and it would be easy to lose track of the story. which would be a shame because I believe they did a much better job fleshing it out this time around.
I know y'll been waiting for this from me and I am going to put down my thoughts now ... (Feel free to pick anything apart)
Progressing through the story is kind of a grind and at times it is fun with the right people ... I have played in many groups of all levels except ones that are higher then I ... Today I stopped the push because of school, but I needed the break to stop and think about it ... I got to the wildlife preserve in the story and my commando charater is at level 21 ...
Some of the things I love is the new skins for the characters, vehicles and other things ... Yes, it is a minor thing, but it is the small things I enjoy about it ... Going to crazy earl for backpack, ammo and storage upgrades are cool and it makes you search for all those purple bricks, but I like it more than how I got the upgrades before ... Being badass and the ranks to me will make the other classes fun for awhile ... Going into a lower level game you won't get any XP points for things and if you do it will be minimal ... I do like how it fluxuates the difficulty in the game ...
Things I don't care for or the bugs that I have encountered so far have been: Not many places truly have loot chests, feels more like they want you to do arena type of challenges to get your weapons ... Also if you a guest and you look into a telescope and someone else does it at the same time then you will be stucka nd have to exit and re-enter ... Oh the gamestop pre-order bonus to unlock the creature slaughter dome was pure BULLSHIT and not unlocked from the start which it said it would be ...
With all my complaints and all my likes of this game ... I can see me playing this over and over again with others ... Yes, I will for warn you that I love to do all the side quests before going on to the next mission of a game ... One thing I want to do is a money run ... Yes, I said money run since in the game a certain type of creature explodes money which is awesome in my book ...