PAX: Borderlands 2's Next Character is Krieg the Psycho
Krieg means war.
Borderlands 2
Players: 1-2 Players Offline, 2-4 Online Players
Publisher: 2K Games
Genres: First-person Shooter, RPG
Publisher: 2K Games
Genres: First-person Shooter, RPG
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Developer: Gearbox
MSRP: $59.99
Developer: Gearbox
MSRP: $59.99
Depart with four new characters onto the dangerous alien planet of Pandora in search of treasure, guns, and a challenge. Play as one of four different classes and use any of the millions of guns you can find to kill the competition.
Angry Joe PAX: Borderlands 2, FireFall, Counter-Strike, and LOTR!
Posted By AngryJoe about 1 year, 8 months ago
Borderlands 2, FireFall, Counter-Strike, and War in the North!
We’ve got four new interviews on the most anticipated games at PAX! Joe gets answers for your burning questions on Borderlands 2. FireFall a free to play MMO surprises PAX with an extremely strong showing! Counter-Strike is back in downloadable form, and Lord of the Rings: War in the North takes three players through a new journey in the Tolkein universe! Check them all out after the jump!
Angry Joe asks your submitted questions and gets the latest details regarding Borderlands 2! Whats changed, whats improved and will we be getting a bigger focus on story? Find out!
We get an exclusive look at FireFall a FREE online multiplayer FPS with CEO and Founder Mark Kern! Explore massive maps, fight lethal enemies and upgrade your weapons and armor in this open world experience. Im really excited about this one guys, and its my surprise game of PAX 2011! Keep an eye on it!
Counter-Strike is back! Angry Joe gets the new details on this downloadable version of the legendary FPS series and Watch him pwn some noobs!
Angry Joe gets details about the upcoming 3-player cooperative rpg set in the Lord of the Rings Universe. Can it deliver an experience worthy of its source material?
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RAD Episode 265: Borderlands 2
Felicia Sexopants, Butt stallion and other weirdness... this is Borderlands 2.
Sage Reviews: Borderlands 2
One part FPS, one part RPG, and ten parts awesome.
Borderlands 2 Review - ZGR
After the massive success of Borderlands, does the sequel have what it takes to stand up to its predecessor? Daniel from ZGR takes a look at Borderlands 2!
Borderlands 2 Review
Wait a minute! These lands aren't BORDERED BY ANYTHING AT ALL!!! This requires some reviewing. Luckily, Johnny's on the job with his favorite pistol - Ol' Grumpy-and-Prejudiced-About-Sequels-to-Games-he-didn't-Like.
Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt Launch Trailer is a Hoot
Sir Hammerlock welcomes you for some high adventure across a new continent.
Details on Borderlands 2's "'Big Game Hunt' Leaked
A new continent awaits! Also, hidden details about the latest update.
Borderlands 2's Captain Scarlett Welcomes You to Play With Her Pirate's Booty
*Insert Random Pirate Lingo Here*
Gaige from Borderlands 2 Finally Gets Her Trailer
It may be a bit late but Gaige finally gets her trailer.
Borderlands 2 DLC Outed via PS3 Trophies
Captain Scarlett is coming soon, and she is bringing her Pirate booty with her.
Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt Launch Trailer is a Hoot
Sir Hammerlock welcomes you for some high adventure across a new continent.
Details on Borderlands 2's "'Big Game Hunt' Leaked
A new continent awaits! Also, hidden details about the latest update.
Borderlands 2's Captain Scarlett Welcomes You to Play With Her Pirate's Booty
*Insert Random Pirate Lingo Here*
Gaige from Borderlands 2 Finally Gets Her Trailer
It may be a bit late but Gaige finally gets her trailer.
Borderlands 2 DLC Outed via PS3 Trophies
Captain Scarlett is coming soon, and she is bringing her Pirate booty with her.
Borderlands 2 Review
Posted By Johnny Maloney about 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Borderlands 2 Review
You might know, if you’re a dedicated listener to the Blistered Thumbs Podcast, that I didn’t have a particularly high opinion of Borderlands. If you’re a REALLY dedicated listener you’ll also know that earlier this year I had a camera shoved up my urethra. How are those two related? Well, to those that don’t listen, it might interest you to know that I spent far more time, total, complaining about the original Borderlands than the camera in my penis. So when the time of Borderlands 2‘s release crept closer, the managing staff of Blistered Thumbs, naturally, did everything that they could to keep me away from playing it in any official capacity whatsoever. What they’ve learned is that THEY ARE NO MATCH FOR MY MIGHTY VOODOO.
| PROS | Greatly Improved Experience from the Original in Nearly Every Way |
| CONS | Classes Too Close to the Original, Single Player Suffers Still |
| WTF?! | Good thing I had my Bartlett’s Encyclopedia of References |
There honestly wasn’t anything nearing a conspiracy to prevent me from being the official BT reviewer of Borderlands 2, but everybody was quite worried as to whether or not I was capable of giving it a fair score. Through gently massaging every BT ego I came across, and by use of a very seductive (and extremely violent, overly stylistic) method of dancing I learned from watching the film Suckerpunch, worries were laid to rest, having convinced our Editor in Chief that I was really hoping to like Borderlands 2. I didn’t really think I was going to, but I’m sure people relaxed just by hearing it.
What I wasn’t prepared for was actually how much I really wound up liking Borderlands 2. Nearly every gripe I fired while taking aim at the first one was (for the most part) thoroughly addressed. The environments, the weapons, the characterizations, the quests, and the humor all get some attentive restructuring work. Surprising me the most however, was that the folks over at Gearbox appear to have gone rooting through their storage room and found a talented writer in there.
They call him Johnny Waffles because he really likes Pancakes.
Not only does the main plot bring much more to the table than Borderlands‘ weak and vague find-the-treasure-but-ohhh-no-it’s-a-monster-what-did-you-expect-the-planet-was-called-Pandora story, there’s an incredible amount of improvement done at how the story gets told. The best addition, both in terms of motivating me to continue fighting, as well as for full on laughs and interesting transitions is through the game’s antagonist, Handsome Jack. Jack’s an absolute delight as far as villains go, quipping immature insults, telling ridiculously brutal stories that he desperately tries to twist into painting him as the hero, and even when you get a chance to learn more about the charismatic Hyperion CEO who bleeds Pandora of life in an iron grip. More encounters with him and his cronies were an exceptional reason to continue the shooting, the looting, screwing my face up at horrible jokes, and the quests.
The quests receive much needed love too, with more voice time awarded to the quest providers, giving the world of Pandora a touch more life. People have reasons to get things done that are explained to you like a human being, not just handed to you as a “to-do” list of killing. Very seldom are the quests anything like the “kill a bunch of slags,” but instead find reasons to put yourself in a group of slags that just so happen to need a(n un)healthy dose of killing. It dresses the game up a bit, and makes the experience of hitting buttons for rewarding stimulus richer.
Handsome Jack – No relation to Gorgeous George.
The world of Pandora, too, gets an intense remodeling. No longer only bleak deserts, bandit camps, and caves, locales such as ice shelves, volcanic wasteland, verdant coastal lines, and cities (ACTUAL cities, with populations! That live there, walk, talk, and occasionally quote songs from the 1980s!) all grant a more engrossing atmosphere, populated by these more developed characters. The music and sound contribute to this even more, with a superb score, excellent acting, and engrossing sound effects. Even the one-off bosses seem to have a little more going for them by way of their chosen setting of confrontation and their mannerisms.
8/10
RAD Episode 265: Borderlands 2
Felicia Sexopants, Butt stallion and other weirdness... this is Borderlands 2. Sage Reviews: Borderlands 2
One part FPS, one part RPG, and ten parts awesome. Borderlands 2 Review - ZGR
After the massive success of Borderlands, does the sequel have what it takes to stand up to its predecessor? Daniel from ZGR takes a look at Borderlands 2! Borderlands 2 Review
Wait a minute! These lands aren't BORDERED BY ANYTHING AT ALL!!! This requires some reviewing. Luckily, Johnny's on the job with his favorite pistol - Ol' Grumpy-and-Prejudiced-About-Sequels-to-Games-he-didn't-Like.-
October 02, 2012 at 04:32am
Believe it or not, your’e even 0.5 point more positive then I was about this game. I wish you good luck with that camera sir and I also thank you for this review. I still strongly disagree with you on BL1 but hey everyone has his own teddy he/she likes to cuddle and in the end that is okay because we are all human worshipers of the great cartoon mouse. Good luck with your future endeavors
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September 28, 2012 at 08:28am
And now people will send angry e-mails to Blistered Thumbs about how Johnny was wrong not to give this game a 10, and how he is a meanie poop head, so on and so forth.
I am currently on my first playthrough of Borderlands 2 (my copy only arrived two days ago) and so far I’m having a blast.
Borderlands 2 Review - ZGR
After the massive success of Borderlands, does the sequel have what it takes to stand up to its predecessor? Daniel from ZGR takes a look at Borderlands 2!
Borderlands 2 is AWESOME!
Time for some vault lovin’, gun huggin’, monster slayin’, WUB WUB pumping action!
RAD Episode 265: Borderlands 2
Felicia Sexopants, Butt stallion and other weirdness… this is Borderlands 2.
Platform32: Exclusive Borderlands 2 Gameplay and Interview
The British TV show is now on Blistered Thumbs!
Angry Joe PAX: Borderlands 2, FireFall, Counter-Strike, and LOTR!
We’ve got four new interviews on the most anticipated games at PAX! Joe gets answers
RAD Episode 265: Borderlands 2
Felicia Sexopants, Butt stallion and other weirdness… this is Borderlands 2.
Platform32: Exclusive Borderlands 2 Gameplay and Interview
The British TV show is now on Blistered Thumbs!
Angry Joe PAX: Borderlands 2, FireFall, Counter-Strike, and LOTR!
We’ve got four new interviews on the most anticipated games at PAX! Joe gets answers
God damn Microsoft, aren’t going to include cross-platform play on the Xbox… That might be a system killer along with all sorts of other crap..with the upcoming generation of consoles I am definitely going to buy a Playstation 4.
Counter-Strike is back!
it was never gone for me
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but i’m really excited for GO.
Borderlands 2 is looking good. Keeping my eye on it.
FireFall is ambitious and may fail to deliver but I won’t dismiss it out of hand.
Counter-Strike Global Offensive looks awful. It’s a straight up re-release of the old CS and I hated that game.
LOTR: WitN looks like a solid enough game, but doesn’t really feel like part of the LOTR universe.
I am excited for borderlands 2, I loved borderlands 1
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And I want Guild Wars 2! but thats offtopic
lol red. But I second that tho. Needs moar Guild Wars 2!
Personally, fuck these “e-sports” titles and CS:S was one of the worst games ever made.
Okay, so the “money” system can MAYBE be forgiven for being a “skill” [read: spam as many kills as you can] based system to unlock weapons and several of the maps looked okay for the time. But those goddamn weapons were the worst things I’ve ever tried in a game. No joke, I watched and tested others with a AK-47 or a standard pistol, the accuracy and patterns these guns do is unbelievable, I didn’t think this shit would get past Alpha. I’ve fired a pistol into the side of a building from 25 feet away and the bullets were hitting the roof. I’ve watched people use a AK to get a headshot by aiming above and to the right of peoples heads by a foot and still made a kill. So many little things about it are intended to piss players off.
As for CS:GO, this actually looks like a fun title for once and looks like they fixed the majority of the complaints I can say. Weapons are nice and tight, the Molotov will be the most useful grenade in the game and a welcome addition [grenades were total ass and unreliable in the originals], and having more than the 1 game mode for a $20 game will be better than the shit on the PC that people have been fawning over like it came from God himself. They need purchasable health items though.
Outside of that, I doubt it will live too long on the consoles outside of a small base with so many other FPS titles vying for players attentions.
Really, “e-sports” are egocentric games made for the “hardcore” [no life] audience. The only saving grace CS:GO has now to stay alive is the “casual” mode.
[Go ahead, Thumbs Down with all your might.]
IIf you like the art style of Firefall, check out Sanctum… Looks VERY similar.
Borderlands 2… Why am I not interested?…. I don’t really know, maybe Rage… I don’t think so though.
CS:GO… Hmm.. Gabe’s been very fascinated with Sony and their choice for an open network on the PS3… I can see that bringing the game to console players is an idea, but otherwise I just don’t get why this game is being made. CS is a very definitive game and doesnt really need other titles.
The first person view also instantly reminded me of Red Orchestra for some reason.
LOTR…. I really hate these kinds of fantasy universes… No offense.
What kind of fantasy universes it that (you hate)?
fuckin xbox live. would be so cool to have all major platforms unite at a competitive shooter.
it is gonna be so much fun kicking PS3 ppl’s ass in in CS:GO (everybody knows the potential skill cap for mouse and keyboard is way way higher than a controller)
but @pehe the PS3 will have the option of pluging in a mouse and keyboard sens source accpets the raw input of those devises (it is a way to work around support for both mac and pc) and beaing able to accpet raw input from your mice means less lag and overall better preformance (the reason more companies don’t do it is sens it take alot of effort to do)
“We delved into Tolkien’s world…”
Which is why the mage casts magic missiles and fireballs? Riiiight….
Hey Joe will you be trying out War in the North, I am thinking of buying it but would love to get your views first as it wont be released in Europe till I dunno when :/
I don’t know, I think I would prefer an Elder scrolls type of rpg for a Lotr rpg. I know that it’s a HUGE world, but it would be as big as awesome. Too bad they didn’t come with this idea
However, I’m still waiting for a BFME 3
Um… cross platform between console and PC for the new CS… that sounds like the worst idea ever.
Indeed. Can someone tell Valve the guys on PS3 will get owned, because, seriously, mouse and keyboard owns the controller any day?
Hm, I’m intrigued in FireFall.
But none of the others quite get my attention. -Sigh- Sucks being a picky person.
Then you will be interested in TotalBiscuits coverage of it.
Here you go : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUF38bLzOf8
Interviews are boring. I’m bored…………….later!!!
Isn’t magic only performed by WIZARDS in LOTR? And aren’t there only 3 or 4 WIZARDS? Magicians don’t exist. Even in LOTRO magic players aren’t magic users. Loremasters are just incredibly knowledgeable people who use said knowledge of the elements and… things to create “spells” which aren’t “spells”.
As for Borderlands 2… It’s shaping up! All I wanted was for them to go FORWARD. It seems like they’re going that direction alright! On a freaking JET! In all seriousness, if Borderlands 2 is everything that made Borderlands 1 good + everything that sucked FIXED? Man is that gonna be a hell of a good game!
Five wizards, actually. Saruman the White, Gandalf the Grey, Radagast the Brown, and the two Blue wizards whose names I can’t remember and am not sure are actually canon. All that’s really known about the Blue wizards is that they spent their time sowing dissent among Rhûn and Harad (the human factions serving Sauron).
Blue Wizards are cannon, but names given to them by middle earth people is nowhere recorded. I belive even their real names are very obcure, found in pretty obcure books.
About this game I’ll just go with Spoony: It seems like a good game, it’s just not LOTR.
Sorry for the confusion. I know the Blue Wizards are canon; I was just unsure about the names. Poor wording on my part.
In Valinor they were Alatar and Pallando and in Middle-Earth card game they were named accordingly.
Me thinks the head Nazgûl could cast some spells… he WAS the Witch-king of Angmar. I don’t know if Númenórean people were more at home with magic, but the men of Gondor and Rohan CERTAINLY were not.
Ah man, I hate it when they have those machine gun dnd mages in LotR. I always imagined the magic in Middle-Earth as something more subtle and atmospheric. How much did Gandalf use magic in the books and WHAT KIND OF magic? Did he shoot hundreds of fireballs? No! He made his figure look a bit more intimidating. He lit up a camp fire. He talked with animals. He lit the way with his staff.
Also there weren’t tons of mages but rather like one for every 10000 people. I get it that people like those magic-heavy games too, but why does this have to be one of those? Why does EVERY SINGLE fantasy rpg have to be full of christmas lights and bells and whistles? I never just get it that people who call themselves “crazy fans” of the books could mess this stuff up that badly. :/
So I’m probably not gonna bother with that title. I just can’t take it seriously as a Lord of the Rings game. And I really wanted to.
I have to agree with you on this one. I hate it when LOTR games feel obligated to include some kind of generic fantasy mage, especially when said character isn’t a member of the Istari. Top that off with how it’s yet again another generic fellowship involving a Ranger-esque man, a mystical elf girl, and an axe-swinging dwarf. Seriously, the only time I got excited for this game was with the eagle trailer; I almost decided to buy the game purely for that… until I realized it was pointless since I’d already seen all the good parts in said trailer.
Alater and Pallando were the blue mages?