Make a run for the Borderlands with Steam sale

by JC Fletcher on Apr 13th 2011 5:40PM

If, for some reason, you've been thinking about Borderlands, but you don't have every bit of the game right now, you're in luck. Today, Steam is offering crazy discounts on Borderlands and its DLC.

The "Game of the Year" edition is just $7.50. If you don't want all those extras, you can pick up the original version for five bucks. Plus, each DLC pack is $2.49 right now, or $7.49 for all four. Basically, if you have the PC hardware to run it, there's no excuse not to own Borderlands right now. Except, maybe, "I don't want to play Borderlands." That excuse still holds up.

Source: Steam

Tags: 2k-games, Borderlands, Borderlands Game of the Year Edition, borderlands-game-of-the-year, dlc, gearbox, pc, steam

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OS: Windows XP/Vista
Processor: 2.4 Ghz or equivalent processor with SSE2 support
Memory: 1GB System RAM (2GB recommended with Vista)
Graphics: 256mb video ram or better (GeForce 7 series or higher/Radeon HD3000 series or higher)
Hard Drive: 8 GB or more free space
Sound: Windows compatible sound card

You would need an ancient computer if you can't run this....

I don't have enough money =( for this. Darn You College!

If someone wants to gift it to me =D, I'll be your best friend and play co-op with you FOREVER!!! (well a lot)

@xiLeShadow
I have an alright pc and borderlands runs like crap. I was just given a better graphics card, just waiting for a good deal on a power supply that can handle it.

my specs: windows 7 64bit, AMD 3.4Ghz quad, 8GB of RAM, and Radeon HD 4000 series graphics card.

@xiLeShadow

Does anybody knows if there is more DLC coming for this or they FINALLY released all and i can finally play it in full?

@Hunter141072
GOTY Edition usually means they're done with DLC.

@xiLeShadow

But does it require GFWL?
If so, i am not buying it. After 2 hours of trying to get bioshock to work, Only for it to freeze once i had been playing for a while. All because of GFWL.

POS.

@xiLeShadow If that's the specs, I will play this on my notebook...

@Brando Calrissian Seems that this game has a little problem with some quad procs, so maybe this is affecting you as well. My friend tried on his i7 and he said it was horrible to play... enough for him to avoid this promotion...

Sadistic Steam enjoys torturing my credit card.

@lazurus isn't it funny how that works? Every time they have one of these crazy sales, I end up getting the game, just because it's too good a deal to pass up. I figure I'll eventually play the game, but I usually don't. I think at this point I'm just trying to see how big I can get my Steam folder to be. It's pretty close to being over 400GB right now.

@lazurus

Serious Sam eats turtles, may capture camp.

@lazurus Ahaha i feel you.

@lazurus i have a confession to make. When Steam first started it hated it right away because it was going against GFWL. But once I learned about Steam and all the wonderful toys it had, I couldn't help but just on board. SO I spent about 200 dollars back in Dec. 2009 and over a 100 in Dec 2010. And the dollarz will keep coming out of my account. Man I LOVE BEING A TUR... GAMER!

@Dance Mofo Edit: All the wonderful toys it HAS not had. Should of POOF read before being SUBMISSIVE

@lazurus a lot of us have that problem. I have 100s of games and played maybe 15% of them. Deals too good to pass up.

@Haon
Great service for anyone looking to get into PC gaming though. They say it's prohibitively expensive, but imagine being able to play all those games for the first time for a couple of bucks each.

uuugh I juust downloaded this from amazon >.

where is news of Borderlands 2? T_T

@Jack Kevorkian

I've already got the sequel titles down.

Morederlands!
Even MOREderlands!
Fourderlands
Borderland5

And, finally, Borderlands. It'll be a reboot.

@OneManFreakShow No, the reboot will be called "The Borderlands".

@OneManFreakShow

One does not simply walk into Morederlands....

Gah! Penis nose!

@Lennoko CANNOT UNSEE.

@Lennoko

SON OF A BITCH

@Lennoko

I hate so hard that I saw this one day. Can never be unseen.

Glad I held out on the PC edition.

Really wanted to like this game, but it just wasn't for me. $7.50 for that much content, however, is pretty much impossible to ignore.

Is it worth it for single-player only?

@logicbus

at this price, why not.

@logicbus The single-player is pretty fun, but the game does get better exponentially with each player added to the mix I find.

@logicbus
well yeah its a good length, great gameplay, and its world is sick, but playing it with 3 other ppl makes it SO MUCH better

@logicbus

i play it single player and it was worth the 40 bucks i paid for. get this game!

@logicbus cant miss game of this generation. Top five games of any console in my opinion...which isnt an opinion at all.

GET IT RIGHT NOW

@logicbus

It's definitely more fun co-op but as Jack Kevorkian said, it really is one of those games this generation that you should experience, at least for a little while. At this price there's just no reason not to. Also, if for no other reason than being prepared for the next Borderlands project, whatever it may be. There's a lot of fun characters and in-game humor that I'm sure will transfer over to whatever they do next with the BL world. "Getting" whatever those nods end up being (or more obvious things like returning characters) will probably make it much more fun since that stuff was such a pillar in this first game and all the DLC.

I'd offer to play with but I play it on the 360.

It should be mentioned as well, if you buy the GOTY edition, you get a code to gain early access to the Duke Nukem Forever demo.

@omgJOHN cool 5 years then

@omgJOHN

Actually, all versions come with the key, not just the GOTY (on the Steam version anyway).

@bigwhiteyeti Really? Huh. Didn't say that on Steam. huh, oh well. Good to know, thanks.

No Mac version :(
In other news. Why isn't the Mac version of Bioshock on Steam? I bought it a while ago, but can't play it now.

@Goaliegeek

yeah Mac gamers get the short end of the stick in alot of games, but i rather have something then nothing. I wish BF3 would have a OS X port.

i just got this game for my Mac after a month of so debating wether to get it or not. i paid 40 bucks for the GOTY edition and it has been worth every penny. The game is pretty addicting, i love the combat, all the awesome weapons (even though they are the same 4-5 weapons, reskined)... for 7.50 you really have no choice then to go for it.

and it runs exceptionally well on a MacBook Pro

@PR0F3TA

How are you playing it? Through Bootcamp?

@Funkmaster General

No, it was ported over by a company called FERAL i think. It runs on Intel based 10.6 OSX. It was pretty choppy before but they updated it (1.01) and now all the issues have been worked out...

you can buy the game in the Mac App Store, if you dont have it you can always buy the game and make sure it has the Mac compatible sign in the front.

@PR0F3TA

Thanks a lot for the info

Just $7.50 for Unreal Tournament with the RPG mod installed? Oh wait, I had that 8 years ago. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....

@Counterattack

Not even good trolling. Nice try.

@Colin Actually not trolling. That's what the game equates to. They advertised something and fell several miles short and ended up delivering a product that most people already have. Heaven forbid someone realize what they'd done.

@Counterattack

Do most people have Unreal Tournament with the RPG mod installed? I don't own that game. I've never even heard of that mod. It doesn't show up on the first page of results on Google. Did the mod also add cel-shaded graphics? Permutable weapons? Post apocalyptic setting?

I'm pretty sure most people didn't have this product.

@Colin Unreal Tournament comes with the RPG mod on the disk, it's an option when you install. The weapons changes are also part of an unreal tournament mod that is also on the disk. So really all they did was cell shade unreal tournament, and make some new maps and re-package it.
It wasn't worth the $50 price when it came out. It wasn't worth the $20 it went on sale for about a hundred times on steam, and hey. It's still not worth $7.50.

@Counterattack

Ok, go ahead and try playing it if you want to see your argument fall apart. The only thing the games have in common are that they both have guns.

@Colin Oh, and also they're both Unreal Tournament. You're only defending it because you paid money for a mod. Unreal Tournament had the leveling, the random gun augments, the big levels with vehicles, and even actually did have post-apocalyptic settings for several maps. You're paying for cell-shading, which is actually an eye-sore in FPS games.

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