Borderlands 2

[sportsdude]

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Best Buys website says April 10 as the release date. It also says pending. April would be awesome.

April is just the beginning of that quarter, I'm guessing Borderlands 2 will be closer to a Sept. release.

[Armor and Sword]

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Loved Borderlands.

Look forward to this.

[Cyros]

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April is just the beginning of that quarter, I'm guessing Borderlands 2 will be closer to a Sept. release.

I hope so since Mass Effect 3, and Kingdoms of Amalur are supposed to be out early next year.

[Cubfan]

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Borderlands 2 coming September 18th. Trailer here with gameplay!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCWJUSulnro&feature=youtu.be

[dickey1331]

Sweet. Can't wait!!!


Do you really care where I sent this from?

[TracerBullet]

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3 Days after my birthday. Awesome! And they added Split-Screen!

[LambertandHam]

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Borderlands 2 coming September 18th. Trailer here with gameplay!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCWJU...ature=youtu.be

Now that's how you make a trailer, Gearbox has a great sense of humor.

[The GIGGAS]

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Oh ho yeah. Can not wait.

[Cyros]

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3 Days after my birthday. Awesome! And they added Split-Screen!

They had split screen before.

Also, love the Clap Trap dubstep.

[TracerBullet]

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They had split screen before.

Also, love the Clap Trap dubstep.

I meant they still had it lol. Most games ditch it these days.

[Doormat]

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Trailer is freaking bad ***

[Flawless]

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Borderlands 2: Meet the Siren

The phasewalking of the original Siren has been replaced with something that sounds similar but really isn't: phaselocking. The phaselock ability is the first earned in the Siren's skill tree, allowing her to bind an enemy from range in a kind of energy bubble. At its most basic level that has a few advantages. First, it takes an enemy out of a fight, providing a degree of crowd control. If there's an especially irritating monster that you or your co-op group would rather freeze in time in order to clean up the rest of the battlefield first, phaselock it and return to shooting it after the enemy horde has been thinned out. Second, it locks the enemy in place, useful for turning fast-moving creatures into easy targets.

"She's got support trees so she's also kind of a mystical healer and she uses her ability to grant health bonuses to herself as well as the team. If the team or yourself kills the person who has been phaselocked then it grants health to the party. She can use her phaselock ability to revive another player, which is an exciting one so you don't even have to be near somebody to get them up – she can revive people from across the battlefield. Then in some of the other trees she has things that allow phaselock to affect more people. She has an ability that the phaselock sphere shoots out these additional projectiles that then lock those characters in their places as well so she can go into a more control-oriented role."

"She has a skill called Helios," said Jeramy Cooke, art director at Gearbox, "and what happens there is, when a target gets phaselocked you get a huge [area of effect] explosion and targets in that radius can get set on fire." Hellquist added that the decisions you make with skill point allocation also affect the visual appearance of the phaselock ability, so if you were to join someone else's game and observe their phaselock, you'd have an idea about their skill build, like how armor sets in some MMOs give away class specializations.

"You definitely cannot phaselock bosses," said Hellquist, "although the phaselock skill is still useful against bosses and will deal damage when you hit them. There's a neat little thing as well where we found that players were frustrated with accidentally wasting phaselocks so we designed it such that if you attempt to phaselock something and miss, you're skill immediately goes, like resets its cooldown so that you can have another chance to use it again and it works the same way against bosses. Although, if you successful deal damage it will expend the cooldown on it."

"We found that people really just wanted to be able to use the weapons they wanted to use. So we tried to be a little less like 'you really want to use this type of gun,' because inevitably someone would just take Brick and go get a sniper rifle and they just wanted to play that way. So we've opened the skill trees up a lot more so that people can access weapons that they want. Now there may be weapons that just harmonize better with certain skills but we're not really kind of forcing that whereas like, you know, here's a buff to this very specific class of weapon. We typically don't do a lot of that."

"This time around we want players to really explore our new guns," said Hellquist, "which have a staggering amount of variety. We want the player to have the fun RPG experience of determining, you know, the min/max area of the best weapons for this class with this build are these types, whether it's this brand of pistols or this brand of assault rifles or whatever. We really want that to be something that players explore instead of sort of saying 'hey, go use the assault rifles all the time.'"

[trobinson97]

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I was going to get this anyway but that trailer would have convinced me if I was on the fence.

I have the first on PC still if anyone wants to play through. Hit me up on Steam.

[Cyros]

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I was going to get this anyway but that trailer would have convinced me if I was on the fence.

I have the first on PC still if anyone wants to play through. Hit me up on Steam.

Maybe tonight, I need to install it though.

[19]

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This I have not seen before.

Hilarious. I know it's not the trailer, just something I came across today.