Borderlands 2! 96.5% AWIMAWEHAWIMAWEH

[Saga]

Hey has anyone had any problems with the slaughterdome and premiere club dl on the pc version! Me and both my roommates put the codes in steam and it looked like they downloaded plus when I check dlc for the game in the steam menu it says I have both, but in the game itself it says the dlc is Purchased but Not Downloaded and idk what to do.

I'm having the same issue. Not really sure what's going on.

[Fairy-Killer]

Also having issues with the premiere club. Also, you can use badass ranks to permanently increase stats on your characters. Achievement whoring to the finest degree!

[Cail]

cant wait for after work today

i have class 6-10, then work 2a-8a so i kinda gotta sleep in vetween;;

[Cantih]

3 more days /le sigh

Don't feel bad, my copy is still "shipping soon".

[Cyn]

The .net framework thing is pretty annoying, but as the previous poster said you just hit restart later and you can play. I was pretty trashed last night while I was playing and didn't feel like figuring out the premier club shit, definitely not implemented the way it should have been though.

[Shenrien]

This game is fun as fuck ._. I need to fine tune my mouse sensitivity tho for this game cause fuck it's a bitch to aim when the slightest movement sends me spinning in circles. The comedy of the game is also golden. Also zero frame rate issues with everything maxed, game is gorgeous.

[Nitsuki]

Ya i got the same thing now about the premiere club that it's purchased but not downloaded, just registered my season pass on pc so i'll see what it tells me. Eating breakfast first then i'm on to brobox version

[6souls]

I have low settings, hi GT 240, but my resolution is 1680 x 1050. At the moment it looks just as good as BL1 with max settings.

[Cail]

i love handsome jack

[Shenrien]

My premium is showing up as downloaded and what not, but my season pass says it's not, odd but probably due to there is no real dlc out for the game yet, not too worried about that.

Side quest spoilers.

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Just did side mission Symbiosis, Defeat the Midgemong, I lost it when Sir Hammerlock came on and said "Two deadly creatures working together as one, also the midget looks like a little backpack which is funny."

I love midget jokes and humor, it's hilarious seeing shotgun midgets get blown onto their backs when they try and fire at you haha.

[Cyn]

Apparently running a check on the game cache fixes the problem with the premier club for people that preloaded. I did it and it even gave the items to my level 9 Zer0.

[Lonely]

Played with my bro and sis for like 5 hours after picking it up from midnight release.

I've never had so much fun. The game gets pretty hard with just 3 people and you get a few boss fight early on which are tough as shit, also it makes itself clear in that its not going to baby you to finish quest easily and there was a lot of variation. UI is awesome, graphics are pretty, and PS3 performance is great, only time it lagged a bit online is vs a boss that had fire effect EVERYWHERE. Early on I got a assault rifle that ramps up in speed like a machine gun, and you can view a 3d model of your guns by pressing R3 on the gun. Axton's lv5 turret >>>>>>> Roland's turret at any level. Oh and hooooooly shit that opening video, I came everywhere.

[Odin'sLaw]

3 days will be my downfall into the dirty under belly of sanctuary! why do you stagger releases game company's why!!!!

[Rokku]

Been fiddling around with Axton while waiting on my bud to pick up the game, and yeah, holy shit is the Saber turret far and away better than Roland's Scorpio.

[Odin'sLaw]

I'm saddened by the fact i know i'll never get to co-op unless its with some random scrubs from suckballsandlootallthechestsastain :/

[TacoTaru]

I apologize if this has been posted, but I actually laughed out loud at work reading this review.

Borderlands 2 Fails to Crossover

Ask me what I think about Borderlands 2 from Gearbox Software, and I’d tell you about its dubious, convoluted plot. I’d talk about a mind-boggling array of guns and loot. At no point, though, would I ever say I was ready to “joy puke” my face off, as the game box predicts players will do.

The sequel to the highly acclaimed 2009 Borderlands game goes on shelves Tuesday in Xbox 360, PS3 and PC versions for around $60. At that price point, the first-person shooter, published by 2K Games, inevitably invites comparisons with the Halos and Calls of Duty games already out and due to come in the next few weeks and months. Borderlands 2 falls short because it’s missing several key elements you need to have in a 2012 first-person shooter game – most notably, a rich multiplayer online mode. There’s an extremely limited four-player cooperative mode, and if you have an Xbox Live Gold account, you can team up that way, but this isn’t the type of deeply engrossing FPS game the headset-wearing COD crowds gather to play months and months after release. In comparison, I read on several sites that COD: Black Ops 2 will feature up to six teams, for a total of 18 simultaneous players, in multiplayer mode.

It’s apparent that Borderlands 2 is going after that testosterone-filled, 18-35-or-so demographic, with its over-the-top marketing verbiage (eg. “a bazillion weapons just got bazilliondier”), gratuitous cussing in the game and prominent placement of a pre-order advertisement on the ESPN.com homepage. I played the Xbox version of Borderlands 2 for close to a week, and while the development and upgrades from the original are apparent, the quirk and novelty that made the 2009 game so endearing and popular (according to VGChartz.com), combined unit sales of the original topped 4.5 million for the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC) feel dated and tired in this game.

Borderlands 2 doesn’t just bill itself as an FPS. It’s a space Western FPS or a role-playing shooter, with the ability to build and customize characters. The game’s premise is that you’re a loot hunter fighting to free the planet Pandora from the evil CEO of Hyperion Corp, Handsome Jack. The evil CEO wants to wipe out the planet’s ragtag population and turn Pandora into an industrial playground for his company. His presence is felt throughout the game by the hovering H-shaped space station that serves as his and Hyperion’s headquarters. In actual gameplay, you’re expected to fight your way across Pandora, hoping to stop Handsome Jack from awakening “the Warrior,” an alien even more evil than he is. The events in Borderlands 2 take place several years after the original game and are a continuation of those events, albeit with four new playable characters.

I had to go back to Wikipedia descriptions of the original game to remember all the intricate twists and turns of the Borderlands backstory, which involved a couple of mega-corporations, called Dahl Corp. and Atlas Corp. Atlas set up shop on Pandora one fine winter, hoping to find a vault filled with high-tech alien weapons after finding a similar one on a neighboring planet. Alas, Atlas didn’t realize what a hellhole Pandora was in summer, when horrifying alien monsters come out of hibernation, and abandoned the planet. Enter Dahl, which basically pillaged Pandora for the sake of mining its resources, using convict labor that it shipped in. Complicating the already complicated plot, a xeno-archaeologist working on Pandora while Dahl was in charge, actually did find the mysterious vault. When Atlas heard that, it sent in a private army to claim the vault. Dahl, doing what all brave corporations do when faced with imminent invasion, skedaddled, leaving behind the poor, huddled masses and convict labor on the monster-filled planet. The vault is uncovered at the end of the original Borderlands, but is resealed for another 200 years.

In this new game, in your battle against Handsome Jack and his minions and the Pandora monster aliens, you have your choice of playing as one of four protagonists – Axton the Commando, Salvador the so-called “Gunzerker,” Zero the Assassin, or Maya the Siren – each fully customizable in appearance and each displaying unique traits. The game’s opening sequence reminds you that Borderlands’ developers chose to go the animation route, and I don’t like it very much. The game isn’t manga-like enough to be super-hip, so instead, it just feels cartoonish. Menacing characters like Handsome Jack, who tries to you off in the opening sequence via a double-crossing explosion, are not at all fearsome. Your four heroes from the first game all appear as non-playable characters in this game. They are pretty cool in conception and rendering.

Also back is Claptrap, a droid that’s somewhat of a cross between a snarky, profane C3PO with the body of an R2D2. Claptrap acts as your guide, and is a fairly detestable character, who left me cold. When his camera eye got plucked out by an alien on the first mission, I didn’t care. Still, I had no choice but to go out and put my Zero character at risk to restore the loathsome droid’s sight.

Borderlands 2’s single-player campaign mode isn’t as good as what you’ll find in games like COD: Black Ops or the Medal of Honor series. There’s too much “feast-or-famine” hunting for tasks, supplies and a good battle for this to be a fun game all the way through.

I played with my 14-year-old son, and we found ourselves spending a lot of time mindlessly opening supply boxes and mailboxes to find bullets, health boosts and other goodies we didn’t really want or need yet. You also wander a lot in winter wastelands that are hard to find your way around, due to the cartoonish blockiness. The game’s mapping was detailed, though, and at first, it was fun to explore a bit. It became a nuisance later. I was reminded a couple of times of the desolate feeling you have on the road while playing Skyrim and struck by how long it took to get from one action point to another. Luckily, the developers built quick-travel machines into the game, allowing you short-circuit some of that boring travel time.

Controls are very similar to COD, which makes the game very familiar and easy to play right out of the box. Combat is definitely the best part of Borderlands 2, and when I found a good fight, I really got immersed. There were, however, too many interludes between pitched battles. The artificial intelligence of the aliens and other enemies in this game is excellent, and I found it hard to outsmart and outmaneuver them. I tried to outfox stone-throwing monsters by racing from one side of a sheltering shack to another, but they blew my strategy by simply coming at me from all sides, and in numbers. The best way to fight, I found, was to wade right in, blasting away with whatever weapons I had at hand.

The types of guns and sheer number of available weapons in Borderlands 2 is overwhelming. There are pistols, shotguns and automatic guns and lots of variations and accoutrements you can add to make them better or more deadly. Incendiary guns are a good way to stop other humanoid enemies, I found. In the early stages of the game, I was able to switch between two different weapons, and had to go into my backpack if I wanted to switch them out. Keeping an inventory of your weapons is a bit complicated as the game goes on, and I found myself holding onto too many guns that were too similar to each other to be of much use. Likewise, you can acquire or purchase better shielding for yourself.

There’s a “fight-for-your-life” mode that lets you get a “second wind” if you kill an alien before your life meter runs out. The game slows down and goes black-and-white during this mode, and aiming is slower and harder, so you’ll have to be deft to recover.

As a $30 impulse buy, priced about the same as games like “NASCAR Unleashed,” I wouldn’t have a problem recommending Borderlands 2 as a fun diversion. At twice that price, though, I think it’s fair for players to demand the whole magilla – cutting-edge development, engrossing campaign gameplay, scads of downloadable content, a rich social media/community experience, sharing of loot and gear and online multiplayer modes that keep you and your friends coming back until the next version of the game comes out.

And Borderlands 2 misses on enough counts so that I not only didn’t joy puke, I didn’t even get a tiny bit of mirthful bile in my throat. It may be the game for you, but if you’re in the market for a new FPS, I’d at least counsel waiting to compare it to Black Ops 2, due out in mid-November, or Halo 4, which is slated for a December release.

[Shenrien]

Anyone else have the frustrating glitch when you're fighting for your life and you just so happen need to reload your gun and the game says oh you're magically all out of ammo on both guns?

[Fairy-Killer]

I now have a Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 2: Premiere club in my game library? What?

[Shenrien]

I apologize if this has been posted, but I actually laughed out loud at work reading this review.

Borderlands 2 Fails to Crossover

"It's plays like Call of Duty, it has guns, and things that can resemble Nazi's or Zombies, but it lacks the only thing anyone picks up Call of Duty games for and that's 4 online maps that you're expected to play for 6 months and then fork over another 12$ when you already paid 60$ for the game that you only sat and played 4 maps of rather playing the entire campaign of the game.

So for that this game is shit and it has terrible sense of humor, people cuss and there is lots of naughty stuff spoken and I don't recommend it because I'm an uptight twat, this game isn't worth 60$ and I can't wait for December because HALOZ4ANDCALLOFTHEMASTERACEBLACKOPPRESSION2COMESOU TOMGITSGOINGTOBESOGOOD."


is all I got from that.

I now have a Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 2: Premiere club in my game library? What?

This seems to be how they pick up that you purchased it, I'm sure it'll get corrected by Steam eventually.

edit -

Apparently there are QR codes in the game that actually work.

Spoiled in case of table break.

Spoiler: show

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/54...E8BEAD4809038/

[underscore]

not sure if it's been mentioned here, but its come out that on the pc version, you can change the amount of golden keys you have... by editing willowdlc.ini