Team Fortress 2 vs. Borderlands

I voted borderlands

 

Borderlands is a different breed of shooter so it is hard to compare with TF2.

 

Good points, good points. Just what I expect from a long-winded person, just like me .

Your last point about the content thing is good though. You know that some companies now deliberately make DLC during main game making stage, then release that DLC after the game is released? Their way of making more money (after all, modern games require a lot of work), but in a ridiculous way! If they made it during the main game making stage, it really should be on the disc at launch! I don't think Borderlands does this, but still...

 

They announced the Island of Dr. Ned before Borderlands came out actually XD. Still, I don't know if it was in production before the game released.

The shift to media being distributed digitally is inevitable (though I wish it weren't), so I can't really argue against large amounts of DLC being produced for games.

Still, I really hate the direction EA's taking with its more recent games, giving them a code to join some kind of 'free DLC club' which contains a load of stuff available from launch and all that. It's just a way to discourage used game sales, as the codes are one-time use only, and I feel it's unfair on the consumer. It wouldn't be like that if all of it was quality free DLC, but, frankly, it's not. Some of them, such as the Shale character (released at launch) for Dragon Age, are awesome. Shale actually impacted my game, she had loads of unique dialogue, she had her own personality and she was a great tank. On the opposite end of the spectrum, there're things like Mass Effect 2's weapon pack, which adds a new shotgun and a new, non-customisable armour suit.

All of the DLC in these services occupies a sort of space between Oblivion's horse armour and Borderlands' General Knox/GTAIV's Episodes, so that a few high-quality launch DLCs pressure the used game buyer to pay for a code for the service, and then no DLC of similar quality comes out, only things like weapon packs.

And even this would be okay, if all DLC for the game was included in the service for free. But a lot of the good stuff, like Dragon Age's Warden's Keep, and the Kasumi- Stolen Memories DLC for Mass Effect 2 (she has no dialogue after the mission, so this isn't too great either) costs money as well. They're squeezing us, and we're going along with it...

 

All this is unfortunate, but the companies are making sales out of it; they've got us by the collar. I don't think they'll let go any time soon. For now, we'll just have to live with DLC.

 

borderlands for me...coop play and awesome loot.

 

Yeah... just hope they don't keep this up with future ME2 DLC, or ME3. Shale was fully factored into the game, dialogue, loyalty and all. ME2's new characters have one high quality mission, and that's it. Zaeed seems like a badass at first, and then you realise that, after the one mission you get specific to him (you get his loyalty mission upon meeting him), that he's no longer got any soul because BioWare didn't care to give him one. As far as good RPG DLC goes, the devs can name their price. But it's got to be good.

 

This is the the great definition of the term, 'wipe out', that I have ever seen:

Team Fortress 2 received a review score of 8 and 7.14% of the forum voting for a total score of .57.

Borderlands received a review score of 8.57 and 92.86% forum voting for a total score of 7.96.

 

WTG Borderlands!

 

Yes, last week's match was much closer.

 

Weird that TF2 didn't win even though it was rated 8 in the review directory.

 

Lost in a land slide. Still, borderlands sound more like something I would like than TF2 does.

 

Borderlands for ever.. dam i spend so many time in that game xD i love it

 

Interesting match- I've played both games extensively but It's hard to choose because the the different gameplay. TF is more of an arcade pvp shooter- while borderlands in mainly co-op pve MMOFPSRPG.

 

Im going to buy either borderlands or team fortress 2 which one should i get

 

It gets boring real fast for me and my buds...