Gearbox president: 'Borderlands has zero competition'

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  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question : jim bone
  • http://begthequestion.info/ yes. : Supine
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  Dead Island is the competition. : LizardDude
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    Excellent example and it was a pimp game I still play it today love that game #2 will own too I think. : valcan_s
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      I wish they never fixed the weapon dupe trick :( : pancake humper
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        Yeah all well. Have you tried the durability mod it makes the game so enjoyable(perfect practically it wa... : valcan_s
        • Does that work with the Steam version? : pancake humper
      • There are so many work benches in the game, I didn't really miss it when it was fixed. : crimrOw
  • This is what I clicked reply to say. Dead Island is the only game I can think of that it is very mechani... : mrwolf710
  • it is not direct competition. only the skillpoint system is truly similair. mission types, melee over gun... : megreedy
  • Unfortunately it is linear at some points. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  No. Your game being somewhat unique only means it has a edge on its competition, not that there is no co... : homeboyJim
  • Meh, the gameplay outside kinda sucks. I don't think it's much competition. : rick
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  Rage was the competition...and failed miserably. : Ballisticon
  • No coop = not even close to being competition. : DinK
  • What. It's not the same style, despite being in an open world game with buggies. : shirif
  • What? How exactly? : wickoattack
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    No, they're not even remotely the same game. : Arcanum
    • The pastel desert art style is very similar, but that's all. : rms
    • While technically true, having put a couple hours into Rage, I find Borderlands satisfies the desert wast... : LilCrypto
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    I agree : bigdsweetz
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      Thanks. Anyone who can't see how similar they are is just trolling. One of the big things before releas... : Ballisticon
      • i think Rage was more of a mix between Borderlands and Fallout 3, i actually wanted RAGE to do good, but.... : CrazyRussian1989
  • Nope and nope. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  Borderlands itself is full of concepts stolen from other games, but that doesn't make it good enough to b... : pyide
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    How about a diabloe-style FPS? Borderlands has that genre all to itself. : master_disaster_17
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      It wasn't the first (Hellgate) and probably won't be the last. A team creating a new first person thing m... : pyide
      • It's the first one that was a hit, so yeah the next to do it right will probably be called a Borderlands ... : master_disaster_17
      • Pitchford should love Borderlands, but know his place. : lefthighkick
    • This is what Pitchford was talking about in the article for those of you who were unsure. Hellgate Londo... : Lucy Labia
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    wow i must be a retard, because i really loved that game. : fw_rams
    • A lot of people did, I played quite a bit of that game too and I wasn't saying it was awful. Just that it... : pyide
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      Your spelling is quite good for a retard, so you have that going for you. : Ebu
      • haha : Godhatesfatpeople
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        he doesn't understand capital letters, so he's got that against him. : thecray
        • Yea, I was originally intending to compliment his grammar, but I couldn't do so in good conscience. :( : Ebu
    • I don't think he's saying that you're a retard to like it, but that it's the sum of some mediocre parts : geedeck
    • hellgate london was an AWESOME game! : CrazyRussian1989
  • I agree with all the points you made but I still thought it was fun as hell. I think the bazillion guns t... : rick
  • Even solo I had a good time with the game. It had a frantic shooter/RPG mix that was nice. : kingdepork
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  found the game to be boring in sp. will probably try splitscreen co-op when it comes out on xbox : cptstern
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    It was just as boring multi. : Ebu
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      shack hype is still strong with this one despite such polarizing reviews by shackers : cptstern
      • It's a blast in co-op, especially with 4 players using each character. : saunders45
  • i paid $5 for it and didn't get my moneys worth :| : AMikaboshi
  • I was bored playing it co-op as well. It was a string of fetch quests and felt tedious after a while. It'... : oceanstate8
• Dead Island was pretty similar gameplay-wise, with the main difference being a focus on melee instead of ... : BlackCat9
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  I'm sorry but I just couldn't get into the game and thought it was terrible. I know i'm the minority but ... : Phreakin
  • well there is nothing wrong with that mate, we are all different we all like different things, for examp... : CrazyRussian1989
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  Despite being a HUGE fan of desert wasteland environments wasteland turned me off with its fresh and in y... : not work safe
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    shoulda bought it when it was like $2.50 during the sale man ¯\(o_º)/¯ : Fenring42
    • I'll never stop laughing at that face. : slickdoody
  • same here. i'm a sucker for ANY desert wasteland games but borderlands just wasn't fun to me at all. : ass-street
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  a very strange PR tactic to use. setting the bar quite high. : Downforce
  • well what he is saying is that he doesnt need to set any bars anywhere :) he has no competition, people t... : CrazyRussian1989
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  I really thought this game was a lot like Rage. I know Rage was in development way before. But I played ... : bigdsweetz
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    The only competition was Rage, you are correct, sir. : Ballisticon
    • i wouldn't call rage a competition, i mean... i failed hard on it's own, not even in comparation with oth... : CrazyRussian1989
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    problem with rage was that it was way to short, it was not diablo like (TONS OF LOOT/GUNS) game. also i t... : CrazyRussian1989
    • "i mean there is absolutely no reason for rage to be open world, there is just NOTHING to do..." I mean ... : vortex6930
• I thought Borderlands was awesome. It was one of the few games my wife actually got into and we played sp... : Iazu
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  I didn't even like it enough to play more than an hour or two. the ass FOV and gameplay just wasn't fun. ... : judge
  • different people like different things, while you spent only 2 hours, most of the fans of this game spent... : CrazyRussian1989
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  Does no-one else think Rage was a part way clone? : Wiz74
  • Lot's of people do, but they had trailers of it out for a year before Borderlands was even announced. : cptincognito
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    I believe work began on Rage long before Borderlands. It takes ID so long to get a game out the door, an... : rjdriver
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      RAGE was first shown in June 2007 at the WWDC, with this trailer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvuTtrkV... : cptincognito
      • Here's a site with images from the BL reveal article.http://www.liveplay3.fr/news/72087-Fourn%C3%A9e_de_s... : cptincognito
  • The game was only really similar to Rage in some of the design choices. The games had a similar look to ... : Gwyndion
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  I'm liking "Dead Island" better than "Borderlands". Granted, I only played Borderlands (co-op) for about ... : icon_of_syn
  • Gonna cast in another vote in favor of Dead Island over Borderlands. Still haven't gotten the DI DLC but ... : ughhhhhhh
  • Yep. For sure. I'm not sure why either. Maybe it feels deeper...plus the violence. And there is a sto... : mrwolf710
• n{Firefall}n and others like it. the people who think that it is a good thing to copy are off to make rea... : spiderfill
• I would say Rage is a competitor in the "apocalyptic wasteland" genre (which I consider Borderlands to be... : Be Coo Jak
• www.begthequestion.info : bipolar
• And I have zero interest in playing it : nutcrackr
• i'm on my fifth time through it... so it's definately doing something different, because i don't replay g... : megreedy
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  Generic jobbing quests, randomly-generated guns that look the same with tiny stat differences, annooooying character (you know the one).
  
  This is the difference between isometric 3rd-person and 1st-person. That random-gen crap just doesn't work in 1st-person and gives it an unbelievably generic feel.
  
  It's like Tony Hawk games. I don't care even if you can score 10000000000000000000 "points." It feels generic and empty.

  Jul 23, 2012 10:04pm PDT
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  Generic jobbing quests, randomly-generated guns that look the same with tiny stat differences, annooooyin... : Xulu
  • glad you were able to tell us how you feel :) i hope you feel better! Now that you are finished we can... : CrazyRussian1989
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  seeing as no one else is doing diablo-FPS, he's right : RikiTiki2
  • agree! : CrazyRussian1989
  • Diablo fps? Try Hellgate London. Problem there was it was buggy and crashed like mad. But the concept w... : tobalaz
• Torchlight II? What exactly is the genre, wandering around coop adventure? : Pandilex