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Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 12:52 pm
by Leisher
TheCatt wrote:Everyone swallowed up by ArchAge?
It was discussed last night in game, and yes. Lots of excitement for BL2, and it'll be a day 1 purchase to support the making of more, but ArcheAge will still be the priority for many.
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 1:01 pm
by Malcolm
I'll pick up the pre-sequel. Might even pre-order today.
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 2:36 pm
by TheCatt
I already pre-order-bought-sale'd it.
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 2:51 pm
by Malcolm
I'm going to pre-order-sequel-something ... buy it.
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 9:58 pm
by Malcolm
Bought. And the DLC season pass. All the people not hooking their veins into ArcheAge ... who's in? G, catt?
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 11:35 pm
by GORDON
I'm in.
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 9:46 am
by Leisher
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 10:20 am
by Malcolm
Wow. That reviewer has his head up his ass or 2K didn't pay them off enough. Diablo 3. A 90.
But broadly, that’s the extent of what’s new in The Pre-Sequel; there aren’t many other new weapon types or attributes to fill out the armory further. Having spent a hundred-plus hours with the series, everything else feels exceptionally templated. Enemies pour out of spawning points that are helpfully beside explosive barrels and sets of ammunition containers. I was starved for a mission that wasn’t a fetch quest, and though pieces of Elpis are gorgeous, the orbiting space station that you spend about half of the game on is a set of familiar, futuristic city interiors lined with unpopulated facades. Elpis is meant to be the Australia of Borderlands, and it’s a decent frontier, but the game as a whole feels underpopulated. There aren’t many NPCs that you can have meaningful reactions with.
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The Pre-Sequel is a happy to be Just Another Borderlands Game. I enjoyed it for that, but I also finished it thinking my time would’ve been better spent on one of the more original games that’ve released this year.
None of that is applicable to D3.
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 11:33 am
by Leisher
One thing that does bug me about how reviewers score sequels and how sequels are created is the non-stop drive for more "features". Fuck that.
I fell in love with your game because of the game play and story. Give me more of that.
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 11:39 am
by Malcolm
Diablo: click and loot.
Diablo II: click and loot.
Diablo III: click and loot.
Somehow that shit's simply groundbreaking time after time.
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 12:01 pm
by GORDON
The little thing Borderlands did with originality, besides the stylized artwork (which was an afterthought, as it is), is the millions of guns, which wasn't really all that hard to implement.
What Borderlands did that was huge was have the best characters and humor of any game, possibly ever.
So if the main criticism of the next one is "it's just more of the same," then good. We were all sad when we thought we'd have no more Handsome Jack taunting us, I think.
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 11:57 am
by Malcolm
I'll be on tonight. A rare free Tuesday. Concerts Wednesday and Thursday, though, so the weekend's the next available time.
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Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 1:52 pm
by GORDON
I have been behind the curve, having the care of an old sick woman who has never been nice to me dumped in my lap. Will order the game tonight, if I think about it.
/posted from hospital emergency room
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 9:54 pm
by TheCatt
Ouch, all not so good with mother-in-law?
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 9:59 pm
by GORDON
When has it ever been good?
Let's not derail.
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 10:08 pm
by GORDON
GORDON wrote:Will order the game tonight, if I think about it.
Just bought it.... y'all know I like having a disk, so there will be shipping time. I don't yet know if they will throw me a free download the day it is released. They should.
Amazon is estimating Oct 20 as a delivery date. They never take as long as they predict.
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 11:18 pm
by Malcolm
You ... bought a physical disk for installation purposes? Old.
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Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 7:32 am
by TheCatt
Oh Lord, Gordon.
Maybe we can dial each other on our rotaries for in game voice too.
Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 7:41 am
by TheCatt
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Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 7:54 am
by GORDON
Can't put a download up on my wall of games.