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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.
Sage Reviews: Borderlands 2
Posted By Bennett The Sage about 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Sage Reviews: Borderlands 2, 
One part FPS, one part RPG, and ten parts awesome.
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Borderlands 2 Review
Posted By Johnny Maloney about 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Borderlands 2 Review
Sage Reviews: Borderlands 2, 
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
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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.
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Borderlands 2 is AWESOME!
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As much as I hate to agree with The Sage on this one, the eridium ore currency is extremely shallow yet for some reason every other person in the game can use it in other ways from Lilith using it to power up her moves, to people gaining slag abilities. I really hope in a new DLC Gearbox puts things like if your playing as the Siren class to be able to use eridium to gain stat buffs for a short amount of time or infusioning the slag by product into your body to gain more power with some form of drawback, cause as of now there’s only two things eridium is used for buying the inventory expansions, and fighting an OP boss that you have little to no chance of beating unless you have a friend to act as a anchor to keep the boss’ health at the same level of the damage you did, plus the area you fight him in has a drop off that insta-deaths you.
If i was unemployed and not married I would be playing this game
WHAT!? SAGE LIKED IT!? WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE????
sometimes he likes things
some other times he doesn’t like things
Sage is just human
I think he forgot about teramorphose when it comes to the eridium
quick edit: clarifying for his review that the bad ass token perks will apply across every character you make not just the current one
Unfortunately I cannot afford any games right now. Still I like your review and I just may get this game when I do have money to spend.
Having an absolute blast on my solo playthrough right now. Sitting at level 30, coming up to around 40 hours into it, and still needing to finish the ending, and then going for probably another playthrough afterwards with another character, I’m certainly getting my moneys worth from this game.
Only faults I have are that the connection issues on the PC version can be a problem, something that shouldn’t be there for a steamworks game, but since I’m mostly solo right now, it’s not exactly hampering the experience yet.
I know some douche is going to chew me out with the tired old “gameplay over graphics” spiel but man it’s hard to hear you praise the graphical fidelity when I’m watching you play what is clearly the console version. Having been playing this on PC and not seeing any console footage yet I have to say yikes. Most of the time the gap between PC/console is hard to tell through low res footage but holy crap is it noticeable here. Even if I turned down all the settings I don’t think I could get the game to look as bad as it does here. This is one of those games where if you have even a mildly decent PC (something with a GPU from the last 3-4 years) do yourself a favor and grab the PC version. This game is gorgeous both artistically and with pure fidelity and you really are missing out on half the visual splendor by playing this on a console. It’s like someone smeared Vaseline on your monitor in this footage.
I’m not discounting the gameplay in any way and I’m not saying don’t buy the console version if it’s your only option (you would be missing out on a spectacular game) but it has to be said this is one of those games that really shows the limitations of the current gen hardware. Again yikes.
I was actually shocked at how bad the game looked in the footage here. This generation of consoles are really starting to show their age. The PC version does really look ten times better.
well… also would you rather have bad pop in graphics or… fucking shitty frame rate problems. so i really think that people bitching about it have no valid complaints because if the graphics where better they would go ape shit on the frame rate problems
it was distinctively designed that way to have a unique style laid for it and and yes the pc is not as bad but it is not that bad once you get used to it… although some texture Pop ins are terrible, also the game is so great you will forget about it in a couple seconds
i am not trashing your comment i just think you should think about that more
While I DO agree that you should be able to do a lot more with the Eridium than what is currently possible. I wouldn’t necessarily knock down what you CAN do with it. I very much appreciate having larger ammunition capacities as well as Bank and Backback space.
It is also (I might add) no more difficult to collect Eridium than it is money or weapons when they appear. You don’t have to go out of your way to go find it. As you sort of insinuated in your review.
All that being said. This game is amazingly fun. The only 2 things that are missing, are Melee weapons (For Zero) and private loot drops. Which is the system Diablo 3 uses.
Right now, I can only think of one game that might be able to beat Borderlands 2 for game of the year (Dishonored) but it’s going to be a hard act to follow I think. Everything has improved so well and feels much more rewarding than the first. Oh and throwing your gun at an enemy’s head to revive from a last stand is just way too fun.
Don’t you just love it when game sequels improve upon their original sources?
Single or multiplayer the game is ultimate fun.
*Still waiting for his copy to arrive. Pouts*