VIDEO: Borderlands 2 Gets Release Date and Trailer

this is one of those games that are best played closest to release date; after a while, the community just kind of tapers off, and support for it dies as well. if you're thinking about waiting for it to hit the bargain bin, you might want to think again... this game is all about being played with other people.

I'm buying. There's not another game that I'm lookin forward to play more than this.

For me, this is one of the very few games where great graphics aren't a factor when it comes to sheer game play enjoyment. There's tons of games that have way better graphics but not nearly as much pure fun game play.

people actually play this excuse of a game? what's up with the graphics?

games aren't always about graphics. You can stick with your Crysh*t while we all enjoy our borderlands gameplay.

So It'll be out before Diablo 3?

1 border for me were to easy the electrick guns culd prock way to much and multiple times had a usi and ewery round i shoot got me around 30 simultanies 27 electrick dmg procks so most times when bosses hit 10% i dident need to shoot no more.

Great game, simple and a lot of action.

Yes i play this game if you know what is fun. I can tell you are from a young spoiled generation of gaming.

Educate your mind and watch Graphics vs. Aesthetics
http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episo [...] aesthetics

i cant agree more with that video... granted i put a GREAT deal of importance on textures now, apposed to anything else.

jaggies when you are playing at 1920x1080 or 1920x1200 (i window play games at 1080 so i can have the screen full but enough space to click on crap in the background, while 1200 is for pure fullscreen goodness) they are non existent.

but poor testures... well i can see them in many games without even trying to find them... which is very discouraging. games like skyrim, i can forgive for having poor textures... they developed the game and engine a long time ago, and pcs honestly just weren't the same back than, and that in an open world game they have to leave some things looking worse just due to engine capabilities. but any other game type i can not forgive for horrendous testure popin (masseffect as an example) because that takes me out of the game, or like in dragon age (on the 360, pc wanst good enough to play it back than) where the game constantly zoomed in on me and i could count the pixels int he textures.

Cool, trailer blocked in Germany because of music license? GEMA *uck off!

Its called Cell Shading , Like in the Legends of Zelda: Wind Waker. It's a art style, where things don't have to look realistic. You don't have to see every single detail in the environment to play a game.

And from the looks of it Borderlands 2 looks way much better than Borderlands 1, which is to be expected anyways since Borderlands 1 released a few years ago.

Have you played the previous installment of Borderlands? If not then refrain from expressing an opinion.

i suggest you get the first installment play it and then come back to reconsider your review. This is one hell of a game even in single player. I had never ever had more fun with any other game. The engine they are using has been deliberately toned done in terms of texture. Your first look at the game is somewhat meh as the textures are definitely not in par with modern games. This is not a crysis 2 game. This is a game where addictive gameplay and above all REPLAYABILITY in both single player and cooperative mode is at it best.

Game introduced a lootfest of guns. You could spent ages replaying the same area just for guns. Just for that new better than what you have gun. Endless horses of aliens and creatures, awesome badass mutants that i might exhibit some of the best AI behaviour in any other game I have ever played. Each time you killed an npc or mob with your gun you would increase some of the attributes in that specific gun.

Graphics are a bit weird... but the engine does not annoying produce pixelized textures when you come close. It is the artistic style of the game that makes it as it is.

By the way, antialaising works fine with the game. Even catalyst forced is awesome. If i am amazed at what SKyrim is as a game then i must say I am so totally in love with Bordeelands..... Hope you have the same badass songs as in the previous game.

I am also a person that will only play games with the crysis 2 engine... When it comes to borderlands i do not give a *******.

Hope the people behind Rage will play it and learn how to make a good game.

This game will be epic...

I tried to play the first one, but it's so boring playing by myself, and the pc version have virtually no in-game configurations... It's just annoying to edit every single config file in every single console port games just to get rid of stupid shit like mouse acceleration, forcing cache size, disabling "auto-aim" and such... and such...
The driving in the DLCs? unbelievable... Luckily, there are mods for that, if it is played on consoles? You are shit out of luck...
The pre-render cinematic looks good, but will the coding be decent in borderlands2? I doubted, since 2K is developing it... That said, it's still better than activation.

I'm sorry but could somebody translate this for me.

splitscreen ? cool! we played borderlands 3 man last weekend at a lan
still a great game. I just hope the game ships full this time, and not half the game + 5 million dlc's like last time.

I love borderlands. I can never really say I finished it though. Beat the first play through as well as zombie island and claptrap revolution.

Got well into the second play through and was making progress towards beating armory of general knox but my comp always seems to mess up for one reason or another and I have to do fresh installs and I always forget to back up the save data. Underdome riot is just frustrating.

@qefx

In translation:

Borderlands one was too easy for me. The guns with the electric effects produced the effect far too often. If i used my SMG the effects would stack and I could get 30 simultaneous +27 damage electric effects so that when a boss had only 10% life left I could just watch the elecricity kill them.

most accurate comment - boring by yourself

Not everything has to be photo realistic.

It was full. Saying this game didn't ship full is like saying Oblivion didn't ship full because it had like "5 million dlc's". The game in itself, was above and beyond what most games ship in terms of length of gameplay these days (take note Activision, EA, etc...). Without the DLC's added to it, this game was easily 40+ hours. The DLC's were definitely an afterthought though. They didn't tie into the story at all, but they did add enjoyable replay (+1 to Jakob's Cove) to an already solid game.

Translation: I am a dumba$$ who never bothered learning decent English.
This game looks a lot better visually than the first Borderlands. Definitely looking forward to playing this.

32 is not young.....developers are lazy

i don't play crysis

are you calling everyone that plays this game simple minded?

games are supposed to look and feel realistic...you are supposed to get the feeling that you are in the came...these mediocre graphics distract me from becoming part of the game

yes it does....especially when you pay this kind of money for only maybe 20 hours of repetitive gameplay

roffle -8 dislikes for the truth o well

if you say borderlands was repetitive then you are better off throwing away your console or your pc and start watching more television. If that comment of course was directed towards Borderlands.

This game follows the Diablo feature of lootfest. You kill and kill simply for more and better loot. You repeat areas for the same reason. If you really do not like that you do not play. If you think that graphics is the only thing that makes a game worth buying then i am afraid you will have to give up on gaming altogether.

The game was only 20 hours? Hmm well i have invested more than 120 hours on Skyrim and still have not finished the game. Borderlands? Well... at least 100+ hours on my first char and more than 80 hours on the second. Cooperative game? It has been awesome playing it with others.

As for the so much talked about graphics.. the graphics were meant to be this way. It is part of the game design. You like it you buy it. You do not like it you leave it be.

I had no idea that graphics superceded fun. I had so much fun playing Borderlands, laughing at the twisted humor, and enjoying the loot driven gameplay. Alas, it was a crap game, though, because it wasn't photo realistic.

Obviously games can't be good without great graphics. So until they make Angry Birds with a real slingshot, rubber chickens and actual livestock, I will not play it on my iPhone. Consumers buy based on visual stimulation, not mental or visual stim.....I think I'm on the same page now....

Meant to say:
Consumers buy based on visual stimulation, not mental stim....
Had a brain fart, pretty graphics messed up my ability to think..