87 Bazillion Guns - The Games I've Played

Yup, it's time to talk about this one.

Now, if you remember right, I really enjoyed the first Borderlands. Part of me was suspicious about them coming out with a second, because I was afraid that they'd take away what made it awesome and just try to make it more generic and appealing to the general audience.

Luckily they didn't do that.

All of the chaos, all of the RPG elements, the nice blend between FPS and RPG, the AMAZING story line, and the top tier writing and voice acting are all still there. Then the best part about it all, unlike the first one which was desert on desert with more desert, #2 decides to let you see some polar ice caps, industrial clean cities, run down cities, and even brings you back to visit your old desert stomping ground from the first game for a brief visit.

The old NPC's are still around and stomping, making their mark on the world, even DLC characters like Moxxi are back with a vengeance, and what's even better is that your PC's from the first game are now NPC's in this game. So all of the stuff that you learned to love from the first game is still there, but now you get to build off of it and see more of what we fell in love in the first game, but with more friends. All of the new characters and new NPC's that are running around only add depth to the game that is well needed and they fit in perfectly. Personally, my favorite character in the game, just because of how she is written and voiced, is Tiny Tina. I would slow down my game play and listen to whatever she had to say whenever she spoke over the radio to me, just because I knew that whatever was going to come out of her mouth was going to be worth listening to.

The best part of this game is easily the side quests. The story is fun, and it's interesting and does some cool things, but it's the side quests that make the game worth playing because it's in those side moments that the writer(s) allowed themselves to have fun and do some crazy, out of the box, hilarious things. The story line is straight laced, and pretty much what you would expect from a FPS game. Here's something that is wrong, go kill the thing that's wrong and fix it to move on to the next area. I mean, typical story line for games doesn't even begin to explain what the general line is. The princess is stuck, let's go save her. Oh no, the big bad thing has part of what we need to save the day, let's go kill it. But then the side quests come and the humor and joy that is Borderlands really starts to shine.

I'm typically not a fan of DLC's and expansions, but again, the DLC's are where the developers had too much fun creating the game and really just enjoyed themselves with all of the references and jokes that they could put into one game. For example, my favorite DLC is where Tiny Tina is a DM for a D&D game with the PC's from the first game. Yes, imagine a psychopathic demolitions expert who is maybe 13 years old, being the DM of a D&D game, and then also imagine people like Brick as her players.

For people that aren't super nerds, and don't get all of the references that they're throwing out, the DLC's are still interesting loot and shoot games, but when you get what they're talking about it just gets funnier and funnier.

Really, I can't say much bad about this game.

There's even new game + with harder enemies and better loot and higher levels that you can gain . . . . and then there's new game ++ where you finish new game + and then everything, no matter which part of the game you're in levels up with you and always gives you a challenge, and should only be played with a group of four players so you can survive long enough to play the game. Yet again with all of the skill trees, all of the different classes, all of the different playthroughs that you can play, Borderlands provides a game that you can dump hundreds of hours in and play differently every time you play it. It's not for everyone because you are running around and blowing people's limbs off in bloody messes in a FPS, but it's at least giving a look at.