Borderlands 2 officially announced

After numerous rumors, 2K made an official announcement about Borderlands 2 and it's planned to be released next year.

Eurogamer:

"2K Games has announced Borderlands 2, due out on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 during the publisher's next fiscal year, which begins on 1st April 2012.

It features new characters, skills, environments, enemies, weapons and equipment and new, unexplored areas of Pandora.

"Combining invention and evolution, Borderlands 2 features all new characters, skills, environments, enemies, weapons and equipment, which come together in an ambitiously crafted story," reads the official blurb.

"Players will reveal secrets, and escalate mysteries of the Borderlands universe as they adventure across the unexplored new areas of Pandora."

The game will be unveiled at German show Gamescom this month. "

Things I want to see...

• more open environments with more exploration (yet keep the nice linear raid-sections)
• better sounding/feeling weapons

They got the number and variety of weapons down, now they need to make them feel a bit better.

Beast.

What I want is

1. More Enemy Variety
2. More Environment Variety
3. Better Gunplay

Borderlands is one of my favorite games of all time (and I've been gaming since the Atari 2600) so I'm very excited to see what they do with Borderlands 2.

I usually never purchase games for full price, but I might have to make an exception with Borderlands 2.

I hope the protagonists from the first game is playable

WHY do they have to make a sequel for everything that is successful!? Borderlands should be left as a lone game that was great and should never have a sequel made for it.

Day 1 purchase for me!

WHY do they have to make a sequel for everything that is successful!? Borderlands should be left as a lone game that was great and should never have a sequel made for it.

realguitarhero5

Because people want more of it? I played through everything the first borderlands offered me and I want to play more borderlands so what's the problem?

WHY do they have to make a sequel for everything that is successful!? Borderlands should be left as a lone game that was great and should never have a sequel made for it.

realguitarhero5

Because as good Borderlands was, it had a lot of flaws, a sequel or spiritual successor wouild be a great way to iron out those flaws.

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WHY do they have to make a sequel for everything that is successful!? Borderlands should be left as a lone game that was great and should never have a sequel made for it.

Evz0rz

Because people want more of it? I played through everything the first borderlands offered me and I want to play more borderlands so what's the problem?

I want more rpg elements. Especially active skills.

The biggest thing they need to keep is the interesting characters. B1 was fantastic in this regard.

WHY do they have to make a sequel for everything that is successful!? Borderlands should be left as a lone game that was great and should never have a sequel made for it.

realguitarhero5

They need to make the world more vibrant with more things going on. It felt way to empty.

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WHY do they have to make a sequel for everything that is successful!? Borderlands should be left as a lone game that was great and should never have a sequel made for it.

realguitarhero5

Because people want more of it? I played through everything the first borderlands offered me and I want to play more borderlands so what's the problem?

Well there's a lot that can be improved upon. Balancing characters, balancing the duel/pvp system, and expanding upon its basic RPG features for a start...Plus, it's not like the game wasn't designed to have a sequel. Yeah, it has no overarching storyline,andfor an RPG-shooter hybrid it feels like Diablo. A lot of people simply expect more good co-op fun. If anything, that's only more of an excuse to release a sequel with mostly gameplay improvements.

Here's the Game Informer's cover:

I just hope they port it to the pc better than they dd the first time. That game was buggy as hell.Drumlegend

Really? Was the game buggy at launch and then fixed a few months down the road?

I ask that because I never experienced any bugs or issues with the game in the 50+ hours that I played it, but I didn't purchase the game until a few months after it was released, so I can't speak for the game's early days.

Loved Borderlands, but the need:

1. Harder bosses (they were usually the easiest part, especially the really big hive)
2. Armor/accessories (something other than weapons. More items to equip means more loot to find, meaning more customization and lasting appeal)
3. Better loot system (have one more like Diablo II. SOmething where uniques are recongizable and noticeable, along with other tiers and crafting and such)
4. Make loot appear on your character.
5. More diverse environments (although they were not awful)
6. More skills or an extra customization option similar to it, with way more action based skills (having one special move is lame)
7. Better ending (it was the worst part of the game)

Basically it was an awesome game, and I maxed three of the four characters with a buddy, but now i just dont have any interest. I want that addiction and level of customization seen in Diablo II. The gunplay was fun.

I'm pretty much agreeing with a lot of people here, but I figured I'd at least state what I'd like to see in BL2.

• Improved gun play - They all felt nearly the same, with the exception of the "alien" guns.
• Improved character development - Your character never spoke, that's a little stupid for a 2009 title. Your back story would get completely lost.
• More open ended and populated environment - While I enjoyed the art style, a lot of Pandora felt too dead, not like a desolate planet, too dead.
• Improved story telling - Yea, anyone that beat the game knows what I'm talking about. Kind of a huge let down.
• Actually have a skill tree - Having one special move and spending time upgrading nigh worthless passive skills didn't do much for the character, if they improved on that enough to where you actually had a psuedo-RPG element to the game, that would have been incredible.
• More vehicles - This wasn't a huge issue, but you did spend a lot of time in the car, and having more than 2 would be kinda nice.

That's all I can really think of off the top of my head, I know it's a lot and fairly major parts to the game, but with your first two playthroughs, you don't really notice them all too much, at least I didn't. BL can be a great franchise, it just needs the proper attention and innovation to really go somewhere.

[QUOTE="Drumlegend"]I just hope they port it to the pc better than they dd the first time. That game was buggy as hell.AR-15

Really? Was the game buggy at launch and then fixed a few months down the road?

I ask that because I never experienced any bugs or issues with the game in the 50+ hours that I played it, but I didn't purchase the game until a few months after it was released, so I can't speak for the game's early days.

I personally never have many issues with anything other than the matchmaking. It was difficult to get myself set up to be a host.

WHY do they have to make a sequel for everything that is successful!? Borderlands should be left as a lone game that was great and should never have a sequel made for it.

realguitarhero5

Borderlands is one of my favorites have over 300hrs on that game.

For borderlands 2 i wish for less cartoon graphics and random rare bosses.

Borderlands is one of my favorites have over 300hrs on that game.

For borderlands 2 i wish for less cartoon graphics and random rare bosses.

Sleepyz

Borderlands is one of my favorites have over 300hrs on that game.

For borderlands 2 i wish for less cartoon graphics and random rare bosses.

Sleepyz

They need to make the world more vibrant with more things going on. It felt way to empty.

kozzy1234

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realguitarhero5

Hard to say. :P

I would definitely buy it. I loved the first one.

The game was pretty fun though the Co-op was fairly broken. Drop out just before your friends finish a quest then you can't finish it or complete any other QUEST EVERRRRR when you come back. Definitely would like to see more environments, forests and snow would be nice instead of infinite deserts.

I just hope they port it to the pc better than they dd the first time. That game was buggy as hell. But one of my favorite games! More Weapons! Better Car Physics More Big ass Bosses!Drumlegend

this is my concern as well

Few more improvements. Let us skip the cut scenes, gets really annoying. No exp for achievements it makes you out level the quests. Armor not just bizillion guns. Rare random bosses. And things to collect.

Also wanted more realistic graphics but looks like its same old cartoon stuff. Not big fan of graphics but loved Borderlands anyway.

Also wanted more realistic graphics but looks like its same old cartoon stuff. Not big fan of graphics but loved Borderlands anyway.

Sleepyz

I remember way back when they announced that they were going to change the first Borderlands into a cel-shaded game (well into the game's development, no less) and the amount of controversy that it caused.

I was one of the people that felt it was the wrong direction to take the game, but once I actually saw it running maxed out @ 1920x1080 on my 50" Samsung plasma I was like :D

To me, a huge part of what makes Borderlands so special is its unique look, and I would be very sad to see that change.

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Also wanted more realistic graphics but looks like its same old cartoon stuff. Not big fan of graphics but loved Borderlands anyway.

AR-15

I remember way back when they announced that they were going to change the first Borderlands into a cel-shaded game (well into the game's development, no less) and the amount of controversy that it caused.

I was one of the people that felt it was the wrong direction to take the game, but once I actually saw it running maxed out @ 1920x1080 on my 50" Samsung plasma I was like :D

To me, a huge part of what makes Borderlands so special is its unique look, and I would be very sad to see that change.