Borderlands with all the DLC now costs as much as the DLC, which is 50% more than the base game. (And it is all 75% off on Steam this weekend, so if you meant to try Borderlands at some point, $7.50 is a good price point.) (The Borderlands trailer is still pretty awesome.)
See also ongoing discussion of joyfully spending money on F2P.
: Zubon
I have meant to try Borderlands at some point.
^ this.
What does Borderlands offer that Team Fortress 2 doesn’t already offer for free?
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That’s not a rhetorical question. I’m genuinely hoping for an intelligent answer.
It’s a lot closer to Diablo in terms of overall gameplay than it is to TF2. You kill things to see what random loot they will drop, to level up, and earn points to fill out skill trees. It just happens to be a FPS.
The two games aren’t really comparable. A better “free versus not free” comparison would actually be to various FtP MMOs, and even that’s a stretch with most of them.
Good to know! I must have had Borderlands confused with a straight FPS game.
It appears that I already bought this game on July 1st. I do not recall doing so. Weird.
I like Borderlands a lot at first but it gets very repetitive in the “progress quest” sense. My interest in the game ran out long before I got to any DLC.
The co-op mode was very promising though but it was hampered by flaky netcode when the game was originally released. That may well have been sorted out by now.
I’m right there with you, but I was interested in what they were doing with some of the DLC.
Picked up the 4 pack with some buddies, 4 player co-op has been really fun so far, but we ONLY play when all four of us are on. I could see that being pretty tough for most people.