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• 23Nov 09

  Borderlands is Awesome!

  

  With all the hype of Moder Warfare 2 coinciding with my paycheck I felt compelled to buy a new game. MW2 was the obvious choice, but I ultimately decided to pass on it for several reasons. 1) I generally don't like first person shooters, especially those focused on competitive online play. 2) My neighbour and hardcore gamer best friend is a huge COD4 fan, and because of this over the course of a year I probably ended up playing the equivalent of a prestige as well as finishing the campaign. I can assume that with the amount of time we spend gaming together I will probably end up experiencing MW2 just as thoroughly as I did COD4 without having to buy the game. 3) I would rather get a game with a longer single player experience 4) I am still loving Uncharted 2's online and don't really need a new competitive online game yet.

  So I picked up Borderlands instead. I was unsure about it because I usually get bored of FPS games. I know now that its not FPS mechanics that bore me, its the restrictions. In your standard FPS you can replay missions or play online. I know that to some that is awesome. You can focus on one thing and get really good at it. And in the cause of games like the COD franchise often the missions are good enough that they can be replayed countless times without getting bored. Nevertheless, these confinements always bothered me, and before I played Borderlands I always just assumed I simply did not like FPS's. Well I was wrong. I absolutely love the FPS mechanics in Borderlands. And the open world gameplay and RPG ****quest system and XP make the game completely satisfying to me. Nothing against MW2 or other high quality shooters, but after playing Borderlands I now know what I want in a FPS. Games like MW2 or Resistance 2 (which I bought for 5 bucks the other day) seem to only be able to keep me entertained for maybe 10 hours tops, and thats a very generous estimate, whereas I've been playing Borderlands for maybe 20 hours so far and loving every minute of it.

  But by far the best part of the game is the guns. The game claims to have millions of guns, and while this is actually true, there are many guns that are only slightly different. With that being said, there is still a tremendous variety of completely unique guns, and it is tons of fun trying them all out. Many have criticised the fighting for being repetitive, and although I can see why people might raise this issue, with the huge variety of guns you can always run into a fight a new way and this keeps the game fresh in my mind. Plus, the combat is really satisfying. Any good RPG has some amount of level grinding, and Borderlands grinding happens to consist of shotgunning psychos in the face It is completely satisfying and it is easy to spent an hour or so playing co-op online simply killing baddies.

  Satisfying. I have said it a few times in this blog and that is the one word I would use to describe Borderlands. The RPG mechanics of leveling up with XP and building up a skill tree makes every kill seem like it is counting towards something. Enemies drop a large variety of interesting and valuable loot giving the player some instant gratification for killing a bad guy. The co-op element allows you to work together and support each other, which is very fulfilling in itself. Add on the fact the the game is tougher in co-op and you have to support each other and it just gets better. Even the art ****is very satisfying, it almost makes you feel like you are playing your own comic book.

  Sorry for the lack of a solid conclusion, simply you should buy this game.

  PS I am currently a level 28 Soldier

  • Posted Nov 23, 2009 8:44 pm PT
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• 25Oct 09

  It's my Birthday!!!! + Beat Uncharted 2

  17, M rated games! Not that I have ever had any problems buying them haha. Plus now that I work at bestbuy even if I was having problems I could just get someone I work with to ring it through for me. Still now I can buy them legitimately. Other than that I don't really care about my birthday. I never make a big deal about it. And its weird cause I'm sort of at a point in my life where I dont really want to get any older. 16 was sweet cause I could drive, but after that I have no interest in growing older. Sounds phony but I actually love my life. My school, my friends my family, everything is sort of where I want it to be it's great. Yeah school can be a pain sometimes (especially with my IB classes, for those who dont know what IB is its AP on steroids...) but ultimately i pull through it and then its back to normal. I guess I am sort of worried about the future cause although I am sure I will be fine, at this point in my life I have no interest in changing anything. And my birthday just reminding me that I am getting older, and in a couple years everything will be totally different. And I have no idea wtf I want to do after high school. I easily have the grades to go to university, but I have no idea what I would want to study. But thats enough of that. It's not a pressing issue, it's all just been on my mind because of my birthday.

  More importantly I beat Uncharted 2! All I can say is... wow... so good. The campaign is full of surprises, you get sucked into the story, the characters are unique and enjoyable, the variety in the missions is really amazing, the graphics are top notch, controls are perfect, online is actually fun which surprised me, I could go on but all you need to know is the game has a 97 on metacritic for a reason. Everything comes together perfectly to create an experience only a select few games can even compare to. Right now I'm going for the trophies, there are a couple gun ones I didnt pick up which I am in the process of getting, I need the one for 10 steel fists in a row (this is really hard) then just the treasure and hard/crushing trophies. Mix in some online and even after completing the story mode there is still tons left to do. BUY THIS GAME.

  Oh and I bough Assassins Creed for $5. Its the limited edition with the tin case and action figure Man I love my best buy hookups

  • Posted Oct 25, 2009 12:16 am PT
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• 12Oct 09

  Uncharted 2 tomorrow!!!

  I'm sure I'm not the only one pumped for this game. If you've been to the PS3 threads lately I am sure you've seen all the Uncharted 2 threads. The game looks awesome, from what I have read in reviews the game seems to be a large improvement over its already great predecessor. And I wasn't too excited about online but the beta really convinced me Uncharted online could actually work. The standard deathmatch was a blast, and even though the beta only gives one short co-op mission it was a blast. I'm excited to have a whole set of online co-op to play.

  But as good as I am sure the online co-op will be, I am very disapointed that there is no local split screen co-op. Actually no split screen multiplayer of any kind. I'm not the only one who still enjoys split screen, right? As exciting and convenient as online is, nothing will ever be better than beating our friend and laughing about it right there with him. Or playing through some co-op levels and discussing strategy face to face instead of over mics.

  Nevertheless, I am excited for this game. I am going to pick it up after work tomorrow (great thing about working at best buy, even though I am working I can just pick up a copy and set it aside for myself to make sure there is a copy waiting for me at the end of my shift) And a sweet thing is the best buy employee discount is cost (the price bestbuy pays) plus 10%, which is great for a lot of things but usually on new videogames you end up saving only a couple bucks or even sometimes the retail price is cheaper. But I looked up Uncharted 2 in our computers to see the cost price and for some random reason it's a good $10 cheaper than the cost price of any other new video game. Very weird but works out nicely I'll save some cash when I buy it.

  And one last thing. I am considering picking up Demon's Souls cause it looks so awesome and I want a good action RPG to get into. I was considering buying Oblivion but Demon's Souls looks awesome and looks like something I would really like. I am worried about the difficulty, though, so I'm not totally sure I should get it. I'll be busy with Uncharted 2 for quite some time so maybe ask for Demon's Souls for Christmas. Any thoughts on this? Have you played the game and is it totally unbearably difficult, or a good challenge?

  • Posted Oct 12, 2009 6:45 pm PT
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