Another Borderlands Post

HarassmentPanda's picture

So my commissary to all fellow IPX’ers is here. I’m sorry that I have to say this and I deeply regret that it has come to this but…

Last night I got to play Borderlands at Atomic HQ – so suck that!

As per the line above the rest of this post will also contain releases of gloating (which I have pre-apologised for) and useless observations. I ended up there because I ‘won’ a spot in that competition I posted up. It meant we got an invite to the Atomic HQ to play borderlands and get some Beer (TED, Hahn Super Dry and James Boag’s Premium Light mmm) and Pizza in us.

The format of the night was good. We were split in to teams of four, (you do know that borderlands can be played co-operatively right?) and then set about in a time trial type of challenge. I.e. some one had a stop watch and timed us from point A to point B where we then had to kill a level boss and all the available enemies. The first team set a time of 9 mins, my team went second and set a time around 7 mins and then the other teams went. The winning time was about 6:15 or something. Funny enough, the guys from Atomic played through (and they have obviously been playing the game so they could do the review) and set a time of 4:50. So I guess the other times aren’t to bad, considering most people didn’t know you could melee, or the characters have special powers once they start levelling up, or how to throw grenades or that your inventory often contains things like med packs to use or that you can build weapons and customise them or that you can swap weapons from you back pack. etc. etc.

Any way, it’s fun to pick up a game you haven’t played before with some other people you haven’t met and inject a heap of competitiveness (we were playing for copies of the game and a mouse) and then see the result. We didn’t walk away empty handed either, we each got a copy of the current issue of Atomic, a Borderlands Hat, a Borderlands T-Shirt and a Borderlands Mug – which has a bayonet clip on it so you can put it on your belt. Not sure how I would feel walking around with hot coffee near my crutch but now it’s an option.

My verdict – a freaking awesome game. I doubt I will play it single player because the co-operative mode is so much fun, I don’t think I would want to play through the maps by myself to start with. I understand it’s the same maps you would play through with a reduced enemy count (which doesn’t sound as much fun). The description one of the guys from 2K gave was, it’s like an FPS with an RPG element and that is certainly a good description. Based on what most of us play here, I think this game is quickly going to become a favourite.

If any one is interested in just playing co-op – put me down for the next month of Friday nights, when the game comes out, to start playing through it. Looks gold, I’ll be buying my copy as soon as I can.

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HarassmentPanda's picture

Also

I hope next time they issue deodorant at the door; there was some serious smells going on there.

Fuzz's picture

Nice

Sounds very cool HP. Leaning towards buying this now… it all sounds and looks very impressive.

$37 or whatever it was on Steam is a great deal. Especially with the $AU as high as it is (not sure what the $NZ is at the moment).

Oh and I’m liking this 2K outfit. Haven’t been disappointed in any of the games I’ve played of theirs lately (mostly sports based, but damn they’re good, and they seem to actually bother to release their games on the PC too).

HarassmentPanda's picture

I recommend you do

Spoke to the marketing / or sales manager for Australia from 2K. It’s an interesting corporate structure that they fit in, related company to Rockstar as well. Gearbox I think is a separate development company and 2K are just doing the marking and publicity for them.

n0mad's picture

Current State 0f Release...

s0 did U end up getting a C0py 0f the Game (or) did any0ne else 0n the night ?

s0 envi0us but we trust U represented IPX all the way……

Yer I’m up 4 Friday nights as s00n as I get my hands 0n it……

Current State of Release on PC

Steam – Download as of 26/10/09

All stores – Will be dispatch 30/11/09 with an eta to the stores 0f 1-2 days….

So It looks like Steam Players will get there hands 0n it first…..

n0mad

HarassmentPanda's picture

No copy for me.

The team that won (which I wsn’t a member of), have been promised a copy but there wern’t any copies to give them on the night. Apparently the CD’s aren’t even in Australia yet so they have to wait as well ;-)

I represented and attempted recruting as well. We may see one of the guys I was talking to appear around here; I’ve provided our details.

Are you going to get a copy through steam or in a Box?

The T-Shirt, assuming its the same, is very colourfull on black. Not to sure where I’m going to be able to wear it too. I’m wearing the hat ATM though.

~HP

Robag's picture

love your work HP

so are the atomic boys as mad as they seem, from the Mag

i so want to buy the 4 pack now
robag looks for wallet
looks like steam has finally come through, with the aussie $ the way it is, i am so going to buy this game

i trust you were yelling “screw norway” at the top of your lungs at the end of every round :)

ta
Robag

HarassmentPanda's picture

No screw norway was uttered

But I must have been the only person who was yelling at his team, who he just met. I informed them before we started that there would be profanities involved.

I’m such a sucker for boxes when buying games, same with CD’s and Movies. Digital distribution is cool but I still like being able to hold somthing at the end of the day. No idea why. I must be more backwards than I think.

If we can get a couple other people in with steam I would like to think I want to, too. Want to check the RRP for the box first. But if it’s 50% cheaper on steam, how could I really say no?

Eh?

Sha8doW's picture

You want peggle?

lol

shad love the video u posted there its freaking halarious

classic

:D did anyone survive? lol

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