What do you get when you take a FPS game like Fallout 3, add a shipload of weapon choices, make a comic book world, and ultimately make it fuck an MMORPG like World of Warcraft? You get Borderlands.
And I got it. Didn’t even have to pay $30 through Steam. But why did I get it when I swore I would never get it? A walkthrough done by the same person cracking jokes in the face of all that is scary in Dead Space; Major Slack.
He also made a walkthrough for Far Cry 2, Crysis, and BioShock 2. Now if only he made one for Dragon Age: Origins.
He showed me that the Single Player campaign is awesome and fun. Quite different from the hellhole that is Dead Space, and I thought about getting it.
So I torrented it, only to play in Single Player. And the rest is what’s part of this blog entry. I have been leveling with a Tavern member named Nick, having all sorts of fun and working as a team…. (if you believe this you’re an idiot)
Actually, my first playthough of this game has been nothing but irritating. Nick you see is a speedrunner. Now I’m sure all of you know what a speedrunner is so I don’t have to tell you.
He rushes enemy camps, and I constantly have to save his ass, putting myself in the line of fire (we’re both playing as Hunters), and all he says is “sorry” and says he’ll stop. But he never does.
His true colors showed up today as another Tavern member (named Cory) who has been hearing what I did wants to join us. He’s completed the game three times. But since this is his first time playing on the PC version (and it’s been awhile since he’s played and forgot most of what he knows), we had to make new chars to level him up.
Before I realized what was happening, Nick was already doing his speedrunning, taking Cory with him who never complained about what was going on. Soon those two were just going through quest after quest instead of just grinding on the enemies to raise their levels better, and not giving me any time to upgrade my weapons. So I left.
He says he’s sorry, so I’m hoping THIS time he means it, and come back.
‘Round 2’ is even worse. Both are in Skag Gully as Level 8’s, and I’m still a 6. Nick begins to do a Hard quest. I’m like “We shouldn’t even BE here!!” when I realized where we were in the gully. A Badass Skag shows up. Nick’s running through the valley here with Skags chasing him. Cory with me are trying to kill this Badass. I accidentally drop down and find myself being chased. Then I stop and I’m all “fuck it. Kill me already” because I’m getting SICK of Nick doing this.
Nick comes back, gets killed. Cory is next.
And Cory’s all “wow, that’s good XP!”, and I’m “I rather survive than get XP”, “Why?” asks Nick.
That was my breaking point there. What’s so good about XP if you’re going to die?!?!
I pretty much let them have it and left. This time never coming back. I had it. I have fucking HAD IT with him.
I thought about just fucking the game all together. But I got to remind myself that Borderlands can also be soloed. It has a Single Player mode for a reason. Not to mention enemies are weaker compared to co-op.
Still, playing by yourself isn’t as fun as co-op with a friend.
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Extending this blog post, I really don’t know if I’m going to continue playing this game. I’m Level 28 now but I feel like I don’t deserve it; because I haven’t learned a thing about how to handle this game on my own.
I still have no idea how to compare guns to know what I need and don’t, let alone what to fucking sell after a long round of questing. And I feel Nick is getting tired of my whining that I only want a Healing Shield, except just accepting what he wants to give me.
Also, the guns he gives me. Again, I feel I don’t deserve them. See my reason above about not knowing how to compare. I feel Nick’s doing all the work and I’m taking the credit. And that’s not right.
Just yesterday I agreed that me and Nick do one of the DLC’s, called Zombie Island. It’s got some nice guns there. But Nick’s computer is pretty unstable and I get D/C’d alot. Especially during what he thought was the final mission of this DLC. We jump onto this building to avoid the zombies, and Nick freezes up again.
By this time it’s getting late. So Nick asks if he can go on and do the rest of the DLC. I should had said “no. We have to do it together” but I didn’t. So he went on and did the entire thing. Now I have no idea if I can do it since I never went this far in the walkthrough. And to be honest I really don’t feel like playing anything today.