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Friday, Oct 30, 2009

Alright, I just finished up borderlands and I thought I would give a few opinions on the game and such. First off, I will get some small details out of the way. I chose to play as the Hunter class. I got all the achievements that are possible on the first play through. There are a few more for reaching new levels (You can level up from 1 to 50), which can be done by playing the "second playthrough" option, which starts a new game and keeps all your stuff. Also, it scales. I completed the game at level 35. I did complete all the side quests as well. Now I shall only touch on a few notable points of the game. I am just going to keep it simplistic.

Borderlands, as you may or may not know is basically a shooter with loot. The quests that you do are set in an open world. There are different zones that you must load into, though. Each zone is quite large and fairly linear in design. As for the shooting, it works quite will, but the looting elements kept me coming back. The loot includes money, ammo, shields, weapons and a few other specific things. I really enjoyed the variety of guns in this game. The elemental damage, that is added to some guns, added to the diversity.

As for the story, well it's mediocre at best but to be honest, it doesn't bug me at all. The looting and gameplay easily mask it. I don't really feel like touching on any other aspect because I am not really writing a review. I'll just list off a few things that I didn't like about it.

One issue I have seen people talk about is that there is no "bank" that you can store weapons in. There are some pretty unique weapons and I would love to keep some and show them off, but they are useless to use because they are weak now. I would have liked to have a place to store them. Your backpack does upgrade but you are sharing it with all your other items so I ran out of room once it a while. To be honest, it is a small issue that really effected me maybe once of twice.

Another issue is the game is pretty easy. I guess I just over leveled with all the side missions but still, I beat all the missions and bosses with ease. I died maybe 5 times through the whole game. This again, is a very small issue, because I had a blast playing through it.

One other small point is the frame rate in a few spots. It drops when there is too much action on the screen at once. It sort of soils the near end of the game in a specific location. Over all, the frame rate is steady, though. Just two important spots in the game notably lag in frame rate, which is unfortunate.

Well to sum it up, Borderlands is easily the best game I played all year. I enjoyed it from start to finish. I do plan on playing the second playthrough and I am sure I will enjoy just as much. Obviously, I fully recommend getting this game.

Friday, Oct 23, 2009

Get it. lol I will elaborate after I play it more. So far, amazing.

Sunday, Sep 27, 2009

I finally have time to write one of these again. To get the title out of the way, yes, FUNimation finally received the rights to the first "season" of Dragonball. Of course, Dragonball is the first out of the three and it entails Goku's childhood. This came as a shock to me that they actually were doing this. I literally was randomly searching and I found the box set's artwork. Sure enough, it was legit and it had been released three days earlier. It was under the radar to say the least, but when I visited the DBZ site, they did have an advertisement for it.

It's basically the same as the Z and GT sets. It's in 4:3......... blah blah blah. I picked it up and now I am remembering how much I enjoyed this series. It's truly my favorite out of the three. I must just comment that the music is amazing. I love it. Well enough gawking. lol

As for everything else, it's the same. College, skating, games, and hardly any sleep. Note that the time I am writing this is 4am. Oh and I found a game for $20 at Walmart that I was actually going to buy for full price when it first came out. That game is Dead Space. I haven't played much but so far, I love it. It's atmosphere is truly immersive. Well I have proof read this guy, and I really can't think of anything else to say, so farewell.

PS I dyed my hair purple. Oh snap.

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