Take-Two: Borderlands franchise 'important' and 'long-term'

Now that they've seen the formula works, hopefully the next game will be both deeper and more polished.

I hope they don't beat it into the ground. Give us a nice, steady stream of DLC for the next two years and then release Borderlands 2. They should go the Ratchet & Clank Future route and release a smaller game (perhaps the aforementioned CL4P-TP Chronicles) as a download only release in about a year.

MattyMc13: The RPG elements are negligible. Borderlands is a sweet ass shooter with MMO-style quests.

As far as gameplay, I'd say first playthrough doing most of the stuff in the game and hitting level 50 will take around 35 hours depending on how much you're fooling around. Probably a lot less once you know where everything is and how to optimize your quest runs the second time around, but I've been fooling around a lot with it so that timescale is all skewed. If you love shooting stuff and don't get bored by the relatively easy difficulty there's a TON of gameplay on that disc, especially if you have like-minded friends.

"Important" meaning; "We need you to buy our game"

I'd like to see either around what Fallout 3 had for dlc or more. A level extension would be sweet. I'd like to max my siren character. I had to keep backing away from the zombies for the braaaaaaaaaaaains trophy, because of my phoenix skill. Even though lighting zombies on fire is fun, its hard to shoot a fiery mass and get a headshot. More DLC, Zombie Ned was pretty fun, the bosses were pretty easy being a level 50, but they were pretty cool. I had a little chuckle at Pumpkin Head, reminding me of that horrible 80's horror movie. If there's a level extension, it could become more of a challenge for future dlc.

Too bad this ip is designed to be short term.
No trading system, game promotes chest farming, local item storage, easily hackable items, no DRM. No global chat rooms for game meet up. Lack of proper game settings.

All in all, not a long term ip. Also, they did a lot to fuck over us PC users who bought the game.

hmmmm...soft boobies, how I love thee

hmm...soft boobies, how I love thee

Hell Yeah! Borderlands is teh awesome sauce! just make sure to give of lots of good DLC before the new games comes out in a couple of years. I expect at least 5 dlc next year if not more. These should include new vehicles and possibly new characters and a custom character creator and lots of new towns and areas to explore!!! =) make it happen Gearbox!

Does anyone else find it odd that there needs to be any kind of fanfare about the creation of a successful new IP? It might just be my imagination, but it seems like just a few years ago there were no shortages of successful original series starting up and now we're making a fuss because someone made a successful game that didn't happen to be a sequel.

I guess part of that is due to the volatile job market. With stories of entire development teams getting shit canned the second a project is finished, developers probably like to get some reassurance from their publishers. It's sad but it makes sense. Publishers just aren't too eager to venture on a project that doesn't have an established fan base to guarantee a return.

It's not like there aren't any original ideas this year (though when I think about it a lot of the ones that spring to mind have been smaller projects like Trine and Shadow Complex). Maybe originality is only fiscally responsible on a small scale these days. That's even sadder. But who do you blame? Gamers for not dropping $60 on something they don't want just to support original game properties? Or publishers for not taking stupid risks during an economic downturn?

I'm not saying that Bordelands isn't worthy for a sequel. Modern Warfare sure as hell deserved a sequel. Pitchford just said he'd like to see IW develop more new Ip's.

@Joystiq: The publisher for Borderlands is 2K Games, not Take-Two. ;)

Oh, I'll gag Skully alright...

I own the game.. its ok but wish I got dragon age: origins instead.

Clap Trap Chronicles: YES!

My no-DRM comment was completely based on local item storage. Items should be generated and recorded on a master server. If you can hack your own gun, what's the point of playing the game and grinding for better items?

I agree with Take-Two: the appeal of cleavage is both "important" and "long term".