A double dose of Borderlands stories does the soul some good. Not long ago, CBS 11 News got together with Gearbox Software VP Brian Martel to discuss a range of topics, all of which were rooted in the studio's latest game.
The full discussion, which you can watch here, is nearly eleven minutes in length. Knowing most of you busy people don't have eleven minutes, That VideoGame Blog went about transcribing the key quotes beyond the stuff we already knew about Borderlands.
While Martel notes "Nintendo sells the most copies," he states they aren't about to port Borderlands to Wii "just because." As he refreshingly puts it: "You don’t want to feel like you’re milking the product just to get it on the Wii, especially if it doesn’t really help the game."
As for the future of Borderlands' rambunctious little scamp of a robot, Claptrap, Martel says "he’s a great character, we’d love to see him as a sort of a side-scroller character." Whoa -- that one came out of seemingly nowhere. Personally, I love Claptrap, and would love to see Gearbox flesh him out further.
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4:00 AM on 10.23.2009
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Sidescollers aside (see what I did there) derivative games are often crap and have a hard time getting out from underneath that from which they are created.
<3 Claptrap (not to be confused with Klaptrap from the Donkey Kong Country series :D)
That's if we're talking a port, which could might look good on the Wii if they upped the cel shading a bit to make up for the texture loss.
Now if we're talking a on-rails shooter with the Borderlands name, then yeah, that would be milking it.
And ROB, don't forget ROB.
I have played JSR and I know if they did do cell shading right the wii could hand this game well.
@Czech Monster
Then you're in the minority, dude. 99% of people (gamers included - shocking, right?) don't consider the Wii to be "junky." Those who do don't own one.
You can call the Wii junky all you want, but if you try to argue with Nintendo's sales numbers, that's just ignorant. Nintendo sells so many games that they don't know what to do with all the money they've made.
http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47702
it's bioshock on the pc all over again
Oh fuck off, Gearbox. Demiurge Studios' terrible port of two games from 2005 certainly showcases your "love" for the Wii.
And I am not even asking for any of your higher-profile games to be made for the console, either. I understand that a lot of devs do not want to work on the Wii, and that's fine. I get it.
But, please do not try and pass off garbage-level support as "love."
*restrains self before going on a rant about the illogical fallacies spouted by dishonest developers and publishers concerning the Wii*
Also gangsta-hold weapons like in MW, and more comprehensive grenade tossing and meleeing (nunchuking the SHIT out of pup skags)