

By Chris Faylor, Dec 28, 2009 11:35am PST With the second downloadable add-on for Borderlands due out on Xbox 360 tomorrow (and PlayStation 3 next week and PC, well, sometime), we caught up with designer Matthew Armstrong for more on the latest addition to Gearbox's colorful shooter-RPG.



























Shack: Is there more Borderlands downloadable content in the works?





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  • I've played the shit out of this game, and i love it, and will probably buy the next DLC.
    I also have been neglecting TF2 since this game came out. But last night i played some TF2. Here are some things that BL could take from TF2.
    1. Connecting to an internet game is really easy in TF2, borderlands is very finicky, some times i get connected to my friends games sometimes i dont.
    2. TF2 Graphics work perfectly, borderlands has minor issues, not deal breakers.
    3. TF2 is much more challenging, my friend i were thinking that it would be nice if they had the AI from fear, or farcry.
    4. i think they should add personal loot for rare items.

    Basically borderlands is a great base, but it really needs to polished. I'm all for buggy games, but i think they should have free DLC to show love for the gamer who has bought the game and puts up with the shit.

  • Take Stardock for instance. They do niche games, but they deliver exactly what their target audience wants. In their current project - Elemental - they've given the beta-testers quite a lot of influence on the development direction. If the community agrees they want something, Stardock will deliver.

    And each Stardock game brought 10x return on investment. Sure, the numbers aren't as high as for Modern Warfare, but its 10x ROI !

    If you just shove the game out of the door without thinking about your target audience, you'll get burned rather quickly in PC world.

  • Stuff I would have liked to see instead of the 10 dolla "Rehash'd" treatment.

    -Or more appropriately titled-

    Stuff that would happen if this were made by Valve.

    New mobs, more mob w/resistances, new guns, new gun models, weapon crafting, stat mixing, (ice+electric, etc) higher levels w/ a 4th skill line for each class to accomodate post-50 skill point attainment, trading interface, player specific loot drops in MP, self-only and shared storage, improved PC HUD/interface (smaller fonts & option off for individual components + color blind accessibility option), DX10/11 supported, (and actually included) proper FoV, PTT voice chat, text chat buffer and improved MP connectivity support (kick gamespy to the fucking curb already).

    I'm predicting none of the above will see the light of day ('cept obviously pers. storage - for a price of course) until "Borderlands 2" and the PC tweaks will never see light of day at all. Next installment likely won't even be on PC if the current support is any indicator. If it does make it to PC, I wouldn't be all that surprised if 2K just has some third party studio port it over on the cheap with no post release support at all.

  • What about the retarded voice chat in the PC version, or the especially horrible FOV? Playing this on a 16:9 monitor just hurts my eyes, and I've NEVER had a FOV issue with any other PC game (this is coming from a long time FPS gamer). Or the port opening to play online, etc. Honestly, it's a fun game but I'm not putting any money into it until this shit is addressed, which it likely never will be.

    It's sad, especially when they talked up the fact that the PC version wouldn't just be a crappy port, when that's exactly what we got.

  • bunches of bs with the explanations of "our customers wanted".

    The announcement for the first DLC came out before launch of the game, and with a Halloween theme it was probably intended to be available for Halloween, so to say "our customers wanted" is just spin to cover up for a money grab.

    The reality is that they are milking the cow for what it is worth. Personally I have no problem with this. The game is good. The DLCs are decent. But don't try to pretend that this is something it is not. This is not steam and TFT.

    The devs should just come out and say that their support is going to be in the form of DLCs. Want more/better expect to pay for it.

    But they do need to fix the horrible browser and hosting issues.