The Cowboy wrote:Borderlands is the only console game that I'm playing right now. I'd like to play the sequel but I thought I'd probably need to know what happened in the first. It was also free on Playstation Plus so it wasn't a huge commitment.
I'mma spoil BL1 for you right now: ain't shit done happen in dat game.
You're gonna get to the end of it, and ask yourself "How did a developer make me play a forty five hour game without ever sitting down to make sure it had a semblance of a story line?" You will never find an answer, and you will never find that to be a bad thing.
Conversely BL2 is the first sequel I've played in a long long time that did almost nothing to change it's core gameplay mechanics and yet still improved the experience in every other way. Gearbox really showed me a good example of what I want when I look at a pretty good game but wish I had great one.
Borderlands 2 is ten-outta-ten, would play again (if I wasn't still working on my first playthrough).
I also picked up Torchlight 2, so far it's a pretty good diablo-like game for only twenty dollars. The story is a bit more exciting compared to Torchlight 1, and if you have some buddies to play with I feel like it becomes worth the money you spent on it.
A few weeks ago I was completely engrossed in Muramasa: The Demon Blade for the Wii. It's a oil-painted, side-scrolling, beat-em-up themed in Edo Period Japan. It's got a great mixture of lore ranging from yokai, Buddhism and Shintoism, and it tells two stories about Samurai hanging in the balance between life and death. If anybody here is going to play in my L5R camp eventually, you can go look at some of the stuff for this game to see where I drew a lot of my inspiration from. All of the art you'll find is fucking gorgeous, and it's all art they use for the game believe it or not.