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Op Ed

[Jan 07, 2012, 5:52 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Bitmob.com - Shooters only need eight guns.
At last count, Borderlands contains over 17.5 million color-coded, procedurally generated firearms. The gun population of planet Pandora outnumbers the individual populations of Cuba, Greece, Israel, and Switzerland. What the hell am I supposed to do with all that? I know we're talking about a loot drop game where the entire appeal lies in those loot drops, but outside of dollars, I don't need 17.5 million of anything. That's way, way, waaaaaaaay too much crap to ever constitute fun. Hell, even the comparatively modest arsenals of Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 quickly blur into one amorphous, nondescript mess.

Eight guns. That's all you really need. Maybe fewer. And imposing that kind of limitation will net you a better game to boot. Here's how.

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Re: Op Ed

Jan 7, 2012, 22:06

xXBatmanXx

Agent.X7 wrote on Jan 7, 2012, 21:17:
Prez wrote on Jan 7, 2012, 21:15:
It's okay to prefer fewer weapons. The author is trying to say that not having limited unique weapons makes a less fun game, which I'm not okay with. I hate when people need to project their preferences onto everyone else and arrogantly presume that because they prefer it, it MUST be the best way.

+1

Yea, in all honesty, I enjoy all of the guns in Borderlands. The game is pretty short, and finding the stuff and looking at stats, comparing, etc., is kind of fun.

I still use weapons that I found early in the game that are far better than most drops later in the game.
I really hate the lv 42 to lvl 55 gap in weapons. Then there is the 55 to 60+ gap. They could have filled some of that in better.




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