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I remembered there was a thread when it was first announced, but had no luck tracking it down in the first three pages. Anyway, who's excited for it? What class are you starting with first? What skill tree looks the coolest? In other words.... *Mr Torgue Voice* "GENERAL FETHING DISCUSSION THREAD! EXPLOSIONS!! GEAR!! I WILL THROW YOU ALL OVER THE MOON!!"

I want to be excited, but I just don't trust Gearbox anymore as a company after they tore my heart out with colonial Marines.

Which sucks, because it has some interesting new ideas.


I just get the feeling this one is trying too hard and it'll end up just being stupid, not funny

You can play as Claptrap.

Instantly bought.

Also: stupidly stupid can be extremely fun. ITT: Saint's Row IV.

 Sigvatr wrote:
Also: stupidly stupid can be extremely fun.

And sometimes it is just stupid.

I think it's going to be great, honestly. It feels like they really want to tell the whole story, and it's hard to show this guy as a TOTAL douche after he starts as the hero. I mean, you have to "hate" Jack. But would you hate him so much if he fell from being a hero? I think we're going to get a very Darth Vader-type villain: make him the big baddy, then show how he started. But if they get Hayden Christianson to voice pre-bad Jack, I'm gonna murder a thousand Gungans.

I am unsure. BL kind of has a fundamental game play problem that I want fixed before I play again. The jetpacks do look cool though.

Y'know, I loved Borderlands 1 and 2, but i can't make myself care about this.

I really don't fething care how Handsome Jack became such an donkey-cave. I'd really rather like some new ideas about the hundreds of other vaults you see on other planets at the end of BL2.

My concerns are more about managing your oxygen supply, which sounds like no fun at all. In fact it seems like a right pain in the arse. My second concern is about the inevitable torrent of DLC - especially after seeing how much they piecemealed into BL2 - even beyond the Season Pass, which makes me want to wait a year for the GotY equivalent.

I enjoy Borderlands, but I'm not excited about the way Gearbox handles it.

I buy so few video games these days, I don't mind shelling out $90 for the game with the first batch of DLC and smaller chunks later. Honestly, in the next 8 months I have three games on the "buy list"-Borderlands, Diablo RoS, and Mortal Kombat X. RoS is only after it goes down in price though-not paying $40 for an update to an old game, which forces you to actually buy the old game again-it's far more of a blatant money grab than BL DLC.

I'm looking forward to this. I played BL2 when it first came out, and lost interest half way through the game, until I started back up again with a friend and completed two run throughs and the DLCs.

The new characters look fun to play, and I'm personally going to run as Wilhelm on my first run through, with probably Athena for my second. I rocked Mordecai in 1, and Axton in 2, so I figure I'll enjoy the deployable pet aspect again.

After playing 1 and 2 to death, Destiny is kind of scratching my itch for this type of game at the moment.

Honestly, the story progression was one of my favorite parts of the game, along with the humor. Without that, I'm finding it hard to get excited.

Also, after playing Mordecai and then Zero, is there a clear sniper class?

I am VERY excited!
For me Borderlands is in the top of my favourite games ever anyway (beside games like Mass Effect, Bioshock and HALO up to Reach)

Destiny proves (at least now and for me) not that i expected, so i am glad i finaly get a new game i like.
So i am glad that Borderlands can, again, fill a hole that i now fill with World-of-Tanks, but i want to have more fun.

I love Borderlands since the first one, both were superb, great story, great shooters, great look and above all great fun.

I expect no less with the Prequel and, indeed, i can finally play as Claptrap!

And why would you need a sniper class? In Borderlands everyone can be a sniper if you want to!


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Or to put it otherwise:
Do you hear voices when you read this?

I'm run run running, running over here, run run run run run.

EXPLOSIONS!

Stairs? NOOOOOOooooooo

That's why i love Borderlands! :-)

ORicK wrote:


And why would you need a sniper class? In Borderlands everyone can be a sniper if you want to!

Because specific classes usually get benefits to specific weapons?

I.E. Mordecai ignoring shields, Zero's class mods granting bonuses to Sniper rifle reload/damage.

Nisha is a gunslinger. In these types of games, I've always preferred pistols. I use infinity pistols on Axton, got infinity pistols for my friend (he gunzerks with them), love the Maggie, and I loved pistols/revolvers on Mordecai in the first one. Nisha is the character built for me. Took three games, but the class I wanted most is now available. Get ready, Hyperion. I'm gonna blow your ass off the moon.

It's true, you get specific sniper advantages.
But i never focused on specific weapons in any Borderlands with any character, and i played them all at least one playthrough, mostly more often.

Sniper rifles are available for every character and the good ones (i like the fast multiple shot ones) i used with all characters, i even found that the sniper specialists had advantages, but the sniper often added more to a non-sniper.
Sniper at range and when they get close, berserk!
And yes, i played both Morecai and Zero with a sniper rifle, but not much more as the others and above all loved Zero up close in close combat, not at range with sniper rifle.

But i do love the sniper rifles in Borderlands. I used them so much, that after Borderlands (1) i could jump and snipe in other shooters (like CoD and HALO).

I look forward to Borderlands The Pre-Sequel SOOooo much...

For those who pre ordered on Steam, pre loading is now up.

Only a few more days...

Gearbox has been going aggressively SJW and insulting vast demographics in some pretty graphic language on Twitter, so I'm skipping it on principle.

Seaward wrote:
Gearbox has been going aggressively SJW and insulting vast demographics in some pretty graphic language on Twitter, so I'm skipping it on principle.

Huh?

 Sigvatr wrote:

Seaward wrote:
Gearbox has been going aggressively SJW and insulting vast demographics in some pretty graphic language on Twitter, so I'm skipping it on principle.

Huh?

I am confused too. They have a bit of a SJW streak, but the twitter thing is new and unknown to me.

Links?

I browsed through their twitter feed quickly and found nothing out of the ordinary.

Same here. All I found was Pitchford making a few comments on it, but they were not insulting in the very least, he just commented on it and did not take any side.

 Sigvatr wrote:
Same here. All I found was Pitchford making a few comments on it, but they were not insulting in the very least, he just commented on it and did not take any side.

It wasn't Pitchford, it was Burch.

 Sigvatr wrote:
You can play as Claptrap.

Instantly bought.

Also: stupidly stupid can be extremely fun. ITT: Saint's Row IV.

Playable Claptrap?

I don't know if that's a plus or a minus. I just don't know.

Is anyone else excited for the jetpacks? I recall asking on the official forums and finding a very meh response, but come on jetpacks are cool. I think the jet packs are the most worthwhile addition because they fundamentally change the way you move. They make you faster and more agile, they open up new pathways new forms of traversal. They are also very old school and I think BL needs more old school gameplay tropes.

Seaward wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:
Same here. All I found was Pitchford making a few comments on it, but they were not insulting in the very least, he just commented on it and did not take any side.

It wasn't Pitchford, it was Burch.

Ah, he's still around after all the gak he spouted?

You know, despite the fact that there won't be a line at GameStop, and I'm an adult that has to leave for work at 8am in the morning...I've never actually gone to a midnight release. I feel like I should do that at least once before I'm old[er] and crotchety[er]. Midnight release for Borderlands or Mortal Kombat X? Hmmm....Gotta do it once.

I kind of want to play it but with Destiny so close to having just come out I don't really want to invest in another FPS/RPG. I'll pick it up when the version with all the expansions like the last two versions eventually released.

Anyone pick up their copy yet? I have to grab mine after work.

Played a few hours this morning.

Enjoying it so far. If you enjoyed BL2, you'll enjoy this. Digging the scaling already, and your character actually speaks now.

Most of the changes are fantastic. I do miss the old Jack voice actor though...that's my only complaint so far.