Well, put quite simply, I decided I needed a break from all the JRPG nuttiness that I've been tearing my way through for a couple of weeks or so. I started going through the PS3 edition of Tales of Symphonia, but I couldn't build up enough steam to actually go through my usual RamPaGe.
After a bit of dithering, I put in my old, banged up copy of Borderlands 2 again. It's funny; this is the only FPS I've ever really gotten obsessed over, which considering its pretty much FPS: The RPG, says a lot.
There's still plenty of shoot-and-loot awesomeness to be had. The baddies are still full of hilarity and sociopathy, like if they grabbed a pack of deranged forum-goers and dumped them on a planet with a multiple metric craptonnes of guns and ammo and functional immortality. It's one of those games you just have to experience, even without being a fan of any of the contributing genres and themes of the game. You literally can spend hours tearing around shooting Mad Max extras with a gun that shoots acid lasers (!) while they scream about meat bicycles and demanding their hitpoints back at the top of their lungs.
Ever wanted to play a game that has Ork Shoota guns? Welcome to the Torgue family, boys and girls! Want to get angry sharkfaced shotguns that shoot fire? Bandits can give you one! Burst-fire grenade launchers? Dahl has you covered! Elemental weapons that make the Covenant plasma family look like pea-shooters? Welcome to deadly elegance of Maliwan! Guns that get more accurate as you fire? Hyperion, baby! Old-school elephant guns capable of one-shotting the biggest monstrosity? Come on down and get you a Jakobs! Guns that turn into grenades? Tediore has a deal for you! More dakka? Vladof! Vladof! VLADOF!
And this is in the vanilla game. DLC gives you stuff like fighting a giant metal T-Rex on wheels, sniper rifles that rain elemental doom like flowers of death, throwing down with a giant snowman to a metal cover of Carol of The Bells, and guns that fire exploding swords!
Yeah, I'm a fan.
No comments:
Post a Comment