The Crawling of Dungeons
I just recently bought Borderlands for the 360, and I must say that I’ve been quite taken with the game. It captures many of the things I like in RPGs and many of the things I like in FPS games. Unfortunately it also comes with the flaws I hate in both genres. With first person shooters, the fun is in the guns and the fights. The guns are solid, I love how many different guns there are. It would have been possible to just make a bunch of skins for each gun and add different colors to the shots but they went all out to make each gun unique. The unfortunate circumstance of this is that you need a party of players for the better loot to appear. Many players forget the fact that there are other people playing and each of them are searching for their gun upgrades. They also forget that there is a kick option should they get too greedy.
Diablo had a similar feel to it. If you saw a piece of equipment that you really wanted, you could let the rest of the party know, and hopefully they would allow you to have it. Unfortunately, this is not so in Borderlands. Many players will allow everyone in the party to die in order to come in, sweep the loot, and leave the game. Its infuriating to be sure. WoW has the whole Need/Greed thing going on to prevent this, and even if someone takes all the instance items, theres always a good chance that theres a equal or better item on the auction house. Borderlands doesn’t have that. They have shops that rotate their inventory, and to be honest, their weapons upgrades aren’t as great as some of the stuff you find out fighting. One great thing about Borderlands though, is if you get in a beef with someone, you can always have a duel with them, anytime, anywhere. You can prove to them that they suck by overwhelming their superior firepower with raw SKILL.
-Locke
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And that last thing is something i LOVE from both RPGs and FPS games