Entering Borderlands
I finished my second play through of Dragon Age yesterday. It was just as satisfying as the first play through. Steam says that I have a total of 130 hours clocked in the game. Speaking of Steam, their five day sale has been a great boon for me. I was able to pick up Knight of the Old Republic for $2.50, Mirror's Edge for $5, Borderlands for $25 and the THQ megapack (18 games) for $50. I also was able to gift Left for Dead 2 to my brother for $38.
With the wide selection of games I had, I was not sure what to play next. First I was considering the Dawn of War series or maybe Red Faction Guerilla, but by chance I settled on Borderlands. I am glad I did.
A good friend basically described Borderlands as "a game succeeding at what Hellgate: London wanted to be". The gameplay is fun and fluid and the cell shaded graphics work for me. The best part about the game in my eyes is the co-op. This game is build from the ground up for co-op. At first I was worried about having to deal with public servers to try to find some co-op partners but then I saw it has LAN features.
I was able to transfer the game over to Rynala's laptop and we were able to start up a LAN game and go to town. I have always enjoyed LAN games and I love that Borderlands allows you to run LAN games off one CD key instead of running server checks to make sure everyone had their own copy of the game (which seems to be a common practice nowadays).
One of the big complains for Borderlands initially was that the game had many bugs on the PC and had sometimes wonky performance. I have had no trouble with the game thus far. We played all afternoon and evening with not even a single hiccup in the game.
I started out as Lilith the Siren and Rynala was playing as Mordecai the Hunter but after getting to level six I decided I did not much care for Lilith and restarted as Roland the Soldier. We got to level ten last night before it got too late but I am excited to return to the game.
When Borderlands first was released, I was not very interested in the game but with the LAN experience I am having a helluva time. I cannot wait to play some more.