[ALL] Borderlands 2

[Primetime]

I don't troll. Thank you.

The ending was fantastic. The build up, the death, the aftermath. Wonderful.

 

[padman59]

why you brought up BL1 is beyond me, but since you did i just have to laugh because the final fight in BL1 was epic

 

....the battle vs jack and the warrior was weak....it took me less an a minute to mow down jack and then maybe 2 minutes to kill the warrior. The toughest part about beating him was finding his soft spot..but having those giant spider dudes in the mix made that a quick find because they gave you an immediate hint on how to kill the warrior.

It took me at least 10 tries to kill the boss in BL1 and the BL2 fight was not even a match...just because jack was a better foe doesnt make killing him better.

btw, way to throw in the insults for no reason. Lets hope mr bill hands out the infractions for breaking the rules like he is for being anti vsn

:michaelscott:

No. No it wasn't. You show up, stand behind a pillar, and shoot it in the eye for a minute. That's it. Even at the end of playthrough two, the only thing that changes is it has a ridiculous amount of health.

Rage is the only recent game that I've played with a more disappointing end, and that's because there isn't a final boss after it builds up to it.

 

[CrimsonGhost56]

:michaelscott:

No. No it wasn't. You show up, stand behind a pillar, and shoot it in the eye for a minute. That's it. Even at the end of playthrough two, the only thing that changes is it has a ridiculous amount of health.

Rage is the only recent game that I've played with a more disappointing end, and that's because there isn't a final boss after it builds up to it.

agreed. the end boss of borderlands 1 is on the worst final bosses ever

 

[Maynard]

No. No it wasn't. You show up, stand behind a pillar, and shoot it in the eye for a minute. That's it. Even at the end of playthrough two, the only thing that changes is it has a ridiculous amount of health.

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how is your description of the boss fight in BL1 any different than BL2?

 

Instead of standing behind a pillar you dodge a few waves of lava and stand in the middle. Instead of giant tentacles coming at you from all angles, you have those giant spider dudes shooting at you from behind. Instead of a giant eye you have a HUGE chest to target

and you dont have to wait for a second playthrough to fight the BL2 boss....just show up again later and see that his health is only harder. Other than adding in the stuff with jack, its an identical scenario. Thats what probably makes it the most disappointing is that its not any different. Not to mention, it posed absolutely no challenge...i beat in in less than 3 minutes on the first try

 

[Loco]

anyone who had trouble with the final bosses in either of the two games is retarded, they were disappointing as shit.

 

[Bomberooski]

I had fun fighting the final boss. Wasn't that hard at all but still really enjoyable.


Struggling to decide if I want to start a 2nd playthrough or continue on with my Mechromancer.

 

[Primetime]

anyone who had trouble with the final bosses in either of the two games is retarded, they were disappointing as shit.

I don't remember anyone saying they had trouble with the final boss. Wasn't a big problem for me, but it was still an good way to finish what was already a great story.

 

[Handleit_44]

 

[Maynard]

whose that? is is the new character?

 

[Primetime]

 

[JayDizzle]

I had fun fighting the final boss. Wasn't that hard at all but still really enjoyable.


Struggling to decide if I want to start a 2nd playthrough or continue on with my Mechromancer.

Depends if you like sending out a giant killer robot to do your bidding.

 

[padman59]

how is your description of the boss fight in BL1 any different than BL2?

 

Instead of standing behind a pillar you dodge a few waves of lava and stand in the middle. Instead of giant tentacles coming at you from all angles, you have those giant spider dudes shooting at you from behind. Instead of a giant eye you have a HUGE chest to target

and you dont have to wait for a second playthrough to fight the BL2 boss....just show up again later and see that his health is only harder. Other than adding in the stuff with jack, its an identical scenario. Thats what probably makes it the most disappointing is that its not any different. Not to mention, it posed absolutely no challenge...i beat in in less than 3 minutes on the first try

I'm not saying the Warrior is particularly hard, but you'll at least have to track his movements, move around, and dodge both his and his underlings attacks.

As for bosses reappearing after you beat them, I think it's a good feature added by Gearbox. It extends the life of the game by allowing you to farm them for their legendary loot once you beat TVHM. I don't know why you would expect subsequent boss encounters to be very different though.

 

[Maynard]

i agree that its a great idea to have him re appear. i was just saying how the only change is more health.

im not saying its bad, but for such a great game i would have liked something better. and i remember the boss ending in BL1 and how hard it was. Then in BL2 when it was over i was like, thats it.

 

[JayDizzle]

I know Pad's been trying to kill Jimmy Jenkins for the longest time so I've done some digging...

Found this on the PA forums so full credit to them:

this is the only really reliable way that i know of. have the sidequest Doctor's Orders (given by Tannis once you get to the wildlife preserve part in the story), and dont pick up the audiolog thats in the cardboard box across from a red hyperion chest in the specimen maintenace area (i think thats what its called? its the building where

 

bloodwing's enclosure

is, and you have to fight a super badass loader to get in.) that group of 4 cardboard boxes will always spawn 1-4 loot midgets of various kinds, as long as that side mission is active and you havent picked up that audiolog. so run through the preserve, spawncheck the boxes, save/quit, repeat until he pops.

 

[padman59]

I tried running through the preserve over and over even after I read a lot of posts saying that's where people found him, and he still didn't show up. I eventually found him in a Hyperion supply crate in the Arid Nexus Boneyard.

 

[Handleit_44]

"Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate's Booty" Preview

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Zombies on an island. Ninja robot assassins. Gearbox Software ticked a few heavy-hitters off the geek love checklist with its Borderlands DLC packs. It's a pattern that continues with the first content drop for Borderlands 2, the pirate-themed Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate's Booty. The download pack arrives on October 16, 2012, but we were fortunate to spend more than an hour tooling around the pirate- and sandworm-infested wastes during a recent preview event.

Once downloaded, Captain Scarlett will simply integrate right in alongside your main Borderlands 2 content. Accessing it is simple: head to any fast travel point and you'll see a new location called Oasis added to your list of destinations. When you arrive you'll be greeted by Shade, a resident of the former seaside resort town. "Former" is the operative word here; Scarlett's pirates roam the sandy wastes of a dried-up ocean.

Shade is your typically deranged Pandoran, looking like a mash-up of T.K. Baha and Hunter S. Thompson's Dr. Gonzo persona. His relentlessly good cheer seems welcoming but it quickly becomes off-putting when you realize that this is a guy with some dark, dark thoughts. You first quest in the town of Oasis involves meeting with Shade's local "friends" in a search for vehicle parts.

I won't spoil the fun of meeting Jocko and the rest of the gang scattered around Oasis, but the parts you're collecting are necessary for one of the DLC's main new features: a sand skiff. As Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford previously hinted, the hovering sand skiff feels like its been ripped straight from the early scenes of Return of the Jedi. You'll have it unlocked at your Catch A Ride stations within 30 minutes of starting the DLC, a good thing considering how much ground there is to cover in Captain Scarlett.

In terms of size, the new DLC pack probably falls closest to the previous game's General Knoxx and Claptrap's Revolution content. You've got multiple interior and exterior locations to explore and add to your fast travel listing. Yep, you read that right: Borderlands 2 improves on the previous game's DLC by breaking the various maps into multiple fast travel destinations.

Once you've got your skiff squared away -- with your choice of machine gun, rocket launcher, or explosive harpoon accoutrements -- it's time to tear off across the ocean-turned-desert in search of Captain Scarlett, who invites you via ECHO communication to come find her. The skiff is great for cruising around the sandy, open environment; those harpoons make quick work of sandworms and pirate-controlled skiffs and, in a first for Borderlands vehicles, you can strafe around your targets.

One map and many squashed sandworms later, I come to Captain Scarlett's home, a giant-sized skiff that is not unlike Jabba the Hutt's own sail barge from Return of the Jedi. After clearing out some pirate rabble, the Captain invites you onboard for a sitdown. After the expected intro video -- which, in this case, explicitly warns you that you're going to be stabbed in the back -- Scarlett lays out the exposition that sets the DLC's main story in motion.

Apparently, there's a great treasure hidden away somewhere in Pandora's sandy wastes. A magical compass is able to point the way, only said compass has been broken into four pieces. Scarlett has one of those pieces and she wants you to recover the others. Her reasoning? You're not her, which means that if you fail in your mission, she'll live on. Of course, the potential reward of locating a long-lost hidden treasure is probably all the convincing you'll really need to take on the task.

The first of the three compass pieces that you need to recover is in the hands of Sandman, the leader of a local gang of bandits. Off you go then to Hayter's Folly, where you fight through a series of caverns and wooden walkways until you reach the midget bandit leader and his hulking lackey. It's typical Borderlands all the way, though you'll find a whole new assortment of pirate-themed bandit enemies, everything from Buccaneers to Pirate Ninjas, as you proceed.

Even in just an hour-plus hands-on session, it's clear that Captain Scarlett amounts to a hefty chunk of content, roughly 10-15 hours worth according to Gearbox. There are multiple exit points even on the first Oasis map, and lots of ground to explore between them. Just glancing at the mission list, I see a lengthy list of "undiscovered" quests to pick up. Moxxi's arena this is not.

The environments are quite striking, fitting right in alongside the already diverse assortment of locations that you explore in vanilla Borderlands 2. Pandora's dried-up oceanscape is littered with the bones of beached water vessels, from smaller 20-foot fishing boats to hulking freight liners. Some simply rest in the sandy ground while others dangle precariously high above it, split in two (or more) pieces by jagged mountain peaks.

There's even more that's hinted at in the DLC's opening hour. Some undiscovered quests points to carefully hidden bottle messages which, in turn, point the way to one pirate's stashed treasures. There's also a vendor locked away behind a door in Oasis, not unlike Crazy Earl the black marketeer in Sanctuary. The Oasis vendor only accepts Seraph Crystals, however, a new form of currency that you'll be able to spend on unique loot. You can also expect to encounter more raid bosses in the vein of Terramorphous the Invincible from vanilla Borderlands 2.

If anyone was concerned that a $10 DLC price tag might encourage Gearbox to skimp on the content offering, you can safely put those worries aside. Even at first glance, Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate's Booty appears to be just as well-developed a campaign add-on as the previous game's DLC packs were. There's plenty more to explore of course, but this taste was enough to convince the veteran Borderlands player in me that Gearbox hasn't lost its touch.

 

[padman59]

 

[Maynard]

they sure know how to sell it

 

[IamMedellin]

 

[Handleit_44]

Jumped into Donny's game and fast traveled to Caustic Caverns to hunt down Vermivorous the Invincible.


We were able to get one within the first 10 minutes - killed that bitch. :smug:


Unfortunately, it didn't drop anything good.