I want to get this because of the Multiplayer aspect of it. I had lots of fun running around killing and collecting loot in Diablo II and Phantasy Star Online (Dreamcast) plus has that Fallout 3 / Mad Max look to it. Must first beat Uncharted 2 though! Question lingers whether there will be more online bums on PC or PS3? Steam looks to have the sweeter deal right now though.

So, this or MW2?

I think my head is going to explode.

"And forge meaningful Relationships"

NICE.

I saw 10.21.09 at the end there. If the release date has been changed, I'mma go punch some babies in the throat. D:<

Also, Borderlands = <3

I'm buying it just for the guy with spikes on his nipples at 0:31.

@Deny Everything
Mass Effect isn't really very RPGish at all. I'm a huge fan but I would never claim it as a fair mashup of RPG and shooter.

I am getting pretty sick of that terrible Cotton commercial. That lady (sorry, don't care about country singers, have no idea who that is) looks like the older version of what would happen if Paris Hilton forced herself upon Hayden Panetteire and made her have her baby.

This, Fallout 3 and the forthcoming Rage really have you covered if shooting stuff in post-apocalyptic wastelands is your thing. Has every other scenario been done so many times before?

Don't get me wrong, looking forward to this though.

Alas, my poor college student existence prevents me from getting this this month. It will have to wait for Christmas.

CaptainBus - It may be overdone, but there really haven't been too many clones of Post-apocalyptic games though.

Please, don't be retards and buy this game- it's gonna be mediocre. we all know it. You know it, I know it, we all do. Don't be fooled by the pretty, prince of persia rip off graphics- gearbox has never done a AAA game, yet they bash infinity ward and bethesda.

they screwed up an aliens fps for god's sake. that should be the easiest game in the world to make awesome.

Don't be dupes- don't buy boringlands.

@mOnion - I think the major difference is that the games you mentioned are RPG designed games that have FPS style combat added to them. This game is a true FPS design that has RPG elements added to it. It's probibly closer to Bioshock in terms of gameplay, but adds in MP co-op in the vein of Left 4 Dead.

It looks to be a very intersting mix.

Fap.

I prefer the superior song they had on the last trailer. This was crap :/

@AdamantiumHip

Oh-so-clever distortion of the title aside, I'm still going to buy Borderlands. Day of release, in fact. One of my most anticipated titles of the year, largely because it's a new IP.

I am, however, worried that so many people are expecting so much (Fallout 3 butthurt aside) out of this game that it will end up being over-hyped, something even a fantastic game can fall prey to.

wow, calling Bioshock an RPG is like calling George W. Bush a compassionate conservative.

mOnion: Not sure why everyone keeps saying Bioshock is in any way a role-playing game. I've played a bit of it (though clearly not enough to see what the fuss is about because I wasn't impressed) and as far as I can tell it's just a shooter with an upgrade system. There's a name for that sort of game, it's "shooter" or when in the first person perspective "first-person shooter" (FPS).

Fallout 3 (probably my favorite game of 2008) is fantastic, but it's not much of a shooter and for the most part can't actually be played as one until pretty late in the game when you're barely taking damage from anything. Even then it's still not a great shooter, but you can at least run around and shoot stuff without resorting to VATS at all.

I haven't played Mass Effect, but by all accounts it's not much of a shooter either despite having a lot of shooting in it.

From the little bit I got to play of Borderlands at PAX it's definitely a hell of a shooter and very much a role-playing game in the same way that Die-ablo is a role-playing game. How much you want to consider that an RPG is up to you, but I don't see any reason not to count it.

Dexter345: Word.

AdamantiumHip: The "feel" of Borderlands is a heck of a lot like Call of Duty, at least on the 360 build they were showing at PAX. It certainly plays better than Half-Life (an outstandingly over-rated game in general) ever has on a console.

ndschroede23: Proof read when breaking down fool clowns on their fool clown grammar, your superiority of language is the superior vehicle (that can only be described as superior) by which you must travel the superior high ground of superiority. I think I generally agree with your point, but one "object of entertainment" can be "better" than another. Allow me to present exhibit A: Daikatana and exhibit B: Super Mario World. One of these is objectively terrible and the other is objectively the greatest game of all time.

@ndschroede
You should listen to hpv. He's all about staying classy.

Oh here is AdamantiumHip again with his little retarded crusade against Borderlands. What's in it for you to bash on this game so much? I see the same comment by you every time Borderlands is mentioned.

"They never made a AAA game"

Your point is? We all have to start somewhere right? I you think the game will be boring don't buy it. Don't say it is boring. There is a difference between your opinion and facts. The difference is pretty big in this case. Don't ever call someone a retard for following his own taste. Backing up your arguments with a sentence like that really only works against you.

@AdamantiumHip
Apologies for not considering your condition. But you're still a douchebag. Opinions =/= facts, never.

@hpv
Perhaps I should have made my opinion clearer: AdamantiumHip is suggesting that, despite popular opinion, Borderlands is going to suck (granted, neither opinion can be given much validity considering the game isn't out yet). He seems to imply that there's some way to determine whether a game is good or not besides how many people get entertainment from it. I would agree that Super Mario World is a great game, but only because more people enjoy it than Daikatana (which, I admit, I have never played or even heard of). Entertainment is judged based solely on how it entertains, just like a car is judged on how well it drives, and a vacuum cleaner is judged on how well it cleans. A game isn't subject to the mysterious voodoo criteria that AdamantiumHip wishes were there.

Yeah, like mentioned before, if you compare this game to Fallout 3 .... You really have no idea how this game plays. please check out some videos http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=72948

One minute you're saying I have "shitty taste," the next you're saying I'm "entitled to my opinion." Don't try to make your statements sound less, what's the word, "douchetastic" than they actually are.

don't get me wrong, your taste is still shitty, and I stand by that. If all it takes is a couple of cell shaded rip offs to make a mediocre game look good to you, have at it. what Im saying is you are entitled to have shitty taste. Obviously not everyone's taste is gonna be good as mine.

I'm sorry, did you see me try to justify my taste to you?

I know without doubt my taste is awesome. I'm not asking you to think that or your opinion on it, because I KNOW it. I don't need your opinion or validation.

But I am telling you, you and others have let cell shaded graphics blind you to a mediocre title. Mark my words.

EDIT: "...or what it is about your taste that makes *IT* good."