Professor shintasama wrote:
Majivo wrote:
Borderlands works on the same system as Diablo. Everything is completely soloable, and if people join your game then the difficulty goes up to compensate. Unlike Diablo, everyone has to be in the same area, so you won't have people idling in town making your game harder or anything like that. It's a pretty good game, though the plot is absolutely horrible.
Horribly Awesome!
Seriously, best DLCs of any game I've ever owned. As long as you don't take Borderlands too seriously it is amazing, tons of pop culture references/bizarre humor and extremely satisfying gameplay. It's certainly worth more than 10$.
I hit level 50 before the DLCs were released. When you hit max level, it scales all of the enemies and loot up so they're still a challenge to you. Unfortunately, in the DLC, the scaling is way too high, to the point where my hunter would lose all his shields - 1200 or so - in a single hit from an enemy, and be on the ground in one or two more. It was completely impossible for me to enjoy most of the DLC like that, although The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned was still quite good. The rest of the DLC might be good for a lower level character who doesn't have such ridiculous scaling issues, but I never had the chance to try it out. The plot, however, is still horrible in all of them, and horrible in a way that does not mean good. They have their funny moments, to be sure, but there's no story to speak of, which is a shame because the idea had potential.
As for console vs PC, I've done co-op on both, and they're equally acceptable. The splitscreen gets annoying for trying to read menus or item stats - you have to keep scrolling right to read the stats, then left to see your inventory again. On the other hand, if you prefer playing on a console, that's hardly enough to be a real deterrent.