Borderlands multiplayer is retarded

Let's say two of my friends downloaded the game a day before I did and started playing MP. Their characters are level 18. I started playing single player today, my character is level 12. When I play multiplayer with them, my character does 1 damage and dies in 1 hit to everything they are fighting.

Only people of +/- 1 level can play together? Retarded developers

 

Yup, it sucks ass. Only way it works is to have a separate character for single player and another for multiplayer then threaten to break your friends fingers if they dare play their multiplayer characters without you.

 

It takes like 15 minutes of following them around to catch up.

 

Well you could always cheat since the game has no anti-cheat measures whatsoever.

 

KC you are playing MMO about grinding with MMO rules and complaining?

 

Nothing "Massive" about 4 max. simultaneous players, bub.

 

In this thread, KC tries too hard.

 

Yes that's the only difference it has from all other MMOs. Gearbox not having enough money to launch a proper server for their MMO.

 

this is a lie

To? Someone is trying too hard anyway.

 

You know, they just might try that with the sequel. Why charge 50 bucks for a game and then pittance for some DLC, when you can have addicts hooked on a monthly basis. Other shooter MMOs have been complete failures but there must be a market for that, even if it's a niche compared to WoW.

 

He has a point -- much as I hate to admit -- but Gearbox was just flat out lazy with Borderlands. It plays like a 'worst of' list of generic MMO quests. It isn't flat out awful but it could have been much better if they put some effort into quest design, level/map design, and itemization. I mean, Christ, it's an ARPG where the character just has one slot for armor.

 

Yeah, they fucked up with dressing up the character, among everything else. More slots for various cool shit would've helped it. Of course that would also mean more work for balancing shit out.

 

Your fault for playing an online RPG that isn't City of Heroes, which has the awesometastic feature of being able to temporarily boost your level to that of the team leader's for the duration of the team, allowing lowbies to take part in a lot of the random grinding missions with their friends who are 30 levels higher.

 

There's no point even debating it. It's just a shit game, plain and simple. I knew I had made a mistake in purchasing it about 10 minutes in.

It's extremely weak as an FPS and absolutely absurdly shit as an RPG. A complete failure.

 

Well, if anyone has it for ps3 and wants to spend 15 minutes, I can get you to level 40-50 with zero effort.

 

Serves you right KC for buying the shit game in the first place.

 

For those of you who think Borderlands is such crap, what multiplayer shooter do you prefer to play with a small group of friends?

 

You mean co-op ones? Doom and Serious Sam are the usual favorites. SWAT 4 is nice. Killing Floor is my wave-survival-mode FPS of choice.

 

The problem with Borderlands (and keep in mind I have around 90+ hours played so I don't utterly hate it) is that in trying to blend the FPS and ARPG genres it waters both down and fails to be very good at either -- although I shouldn't have been that surprised from a console port. As mentioned above I'd say that Serious Sam is a better choice for FPS co-op or... pretty much any pure FPS for that matter. ARPG-wise you're better off just booting up Diablo 2.

I hate to keep plugging it because it makes me look like I'm a shill for the developers but Firefall is my idea of what Borderlands could have been -- maybe not to such great extent but at least 75% of what it will at least attempt to accomplish.

 

Yeah, man. SWAT 4 is really brotastic when you play it on the highest difficulty. Project Reality is great too with a bunch of friends. You can make your own squad and go fuck shit up, but that's not against bots. Garry's Mod is nice too.