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Somewhat LLTP: Borderlands.
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Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:58:19

Yeah, questing here is quite boring. Fetch quests or kill someone. You have very light RPG elements in there such as levelling up, a skill system and huge amounts of randomly generated loot Diablo style. There is one vehicle that comes in two flavors: machine guns and rocket.

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Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:02:20

C'mon! Catch a ride!

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Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:02:44

This here's where cars live!

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Sun, 17 Jul 2011 09:56:44

edgecrusher said:

It has A vehicle.....comes in handy because its an open world and walking everywhere gets boring. It gets repetitive because you get sent on random jobs and missions just like Far Cry 2, and its all the same "go find this guy, kill him" and "pull these 5 levers to restore power" kind of crap.

RPG....well, more like a loot collecting game like Baldur's Gate mixed with a shooter. Your guy levels up and gains new abilities and experience, allowing you to equip better weapons and gadgets.

Eh, doesn't sound too appealing.

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Sun, 17 Jul 2011 11:19:02
phantom_leo said:

C'mon! Catch a ride!



My favorite line from the game.

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Wed, 31 Aug 2011 01:01:46

Got back to it after Mafia II. I can't get enough of the art style. Looks pretty good. Claptraps are awesome, but they need more dialogue lines. I'm struggling in most battles right now, maybe I fucked up somewhere.

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Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:28:49

Played it some more last night, but got pissed off. I'm Lv 13 now, but having a hard-ass time in Sledge's safe house. No matter which weapon I use I fight an uphill battle with those fucking midgets and a badass raider that spits over my dead body every single time.

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Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:19:44

Finally cleared the safe house. Found some better weapons and things improved noticeably. I had to cheese my way out of the safe house boss, but it went better than expected.

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Sun, 04 Sep 2011 03:48:35

I guess I shouldn't go in there, after all.

Things have improved noticeably. Gun variety is crazy, with lots of weird shit to try out. That helps offset the simple quests and the obnoxious respawning. 22 hours in, just met Crazy Earl. Story? Bah, who plays this game for the story anyways?

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Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:04:30

Lv 31 now, having a great time with the game despite its design flaws. Found a kickass rare revolver last night that has become my main weapon. This game definitely needed a minimap like the GTA games, though.

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Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:54:03

Ended up beating the game at around the 50 hour mark. Lv 40-ish, pretty fun stuff although I had hoped to find more rare weapons by the end, which didn't happen. Scavenger missions also failed to provide cool guns both at the beginning and in the latter parts of the game.

Dabbled a bit in the DLC, mainly Dr. Ned's Zombie Island, which was kind of cool, and Mad Moxxi's Underdome, which proved to be way too hard for a Mordecai to solo. that brought my playthrough to a halt. I might play the last and arguably best DLC, the one with the claptraps.

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Fri, 03 Aug 2012 06:03:05

Okay HELP please.

I just got to the part wher I brought the fast travel generators back online. They want me to kill 8 or so dune buggy parties. This is the Road Warriors Hot Shots mission.

How did you do this? I am having trouble killing them in the vehicle, and if I get out I am dead meat.

I've tried and failed the internet for a solution to this. I am lvl 17 chr.

EDIT: I guess it's just a matter of rocket launching them. I just found that capability of my buggy just now.

Edited: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 19:48:52

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Fri, 03 Aug 2012 06:15:58
aspro said:

Okay HELP please.

I just got to the part wher I brought the fast travel generators back online. They want me to kill 8 or so dune buggy parties.

How did you do this? I am having trouble killing them in the vehicle, and if I get out I am dead meat.

I've tried and failed the internet for a solution to this. I am lvl 17 chr.

Let me join you and I will do it. Nyaa

(actually I am not there yet but I am a higher level than you.)

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Fri, 03 Aug 2012 06:23:46

^If you  want, just let me know. After I am done with the podcast edit tonight I'll be around all day tomorrow, next day too. (If that works, I still have nto ifgured out how coop works).

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Mon, 06 Aug 2012 05:51:46

I appear to have hit an unsurmountable difficulty spike in the game. It's the Canned Skag Meat Mission, which from what I can tell is mandatory. I am dying as soon as I spawn in Krom's Canyon.  Not quite sure how I'll get out of this one.

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Mon, 06 Aug 2012 06:23:42
aspro said:

I appear to have hit an unsurmountable difficulty spike in the game. It's the Canned Skag Meat Mission, which from what I can tell is mandatory. I am dying as soon as I spawn in Krom's Canyon.  Not quite sure how I'll get out of this one.



Engage Vader mode.

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Mon, 06 Aug 2012 09:07:59

Yeah, not a bad idea. If I keep fumbling tonight I'll through it open to the public and see what happens.  Vader and I make a pretty good team though.

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Mon, 06 Aug 2012 10:43:46

Well, I'm all good now. Looks like htat was 5 levels of exp over where I am right now, so I will go questing for a while and build up my level.

I was not taking too much attention of the journal -- it explicitly tells you the difficulty levels -- this one was "Impossible" level.  I almost got it done too Happy

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Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:18:47

I have a silver trophy in this game for "playing with a gearbox employee or someone who has played with them" so if anyone wants that trophy or needs it for a platinum let me know.

Of note, I played online co-op today with a random and even though right now I have been slowed to 56 kbps it totaly worked fine. Which was impressive.

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Sun, 12 Aug 2012 00:16:51
+1
Screenshots of you playing?  Pfft.  LIVESTREAMS OF ME PLAYING

http://www.twitch.tv/terribleterribledamage/b/328246617

http://www.twitch.tv/terribleterribledamage/b/328257620

Bonus co-op goodness.

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