I have been looking at this game for quite some time now and it looks interesting. This game is going to be basically an RPG/FPS game that plays like any fast paced first person shooter, has some RPG elements similar to Mass Effect, and has the loot drops and dungeon exploring like Diablo. I don't know too much about the game as of yet other than the couple of videos, screenshots, and info from http://borderlandsguide.com/ but from what I have been seeing it does look promising. Plus the promise of almost a million weapons is pretty damn cool, but I think that this many weapons might make it's release date further away. Heres why, they use some sort of random weapon generator to develop all the weapons and they literally need to find them all to test them out and make sure everything is working smoothly, and with almost a million weapons, this could take a long time. Here are some videos and screenshots:



10 minute gameplay(this was an early play through, the art style has changed since then): http://www.gametrailers.com/user-movie/borderlands-10min-gameplay/301719
E3 09 trailer: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-09-borderlands/49925
So what do you guys think?

Heres hoping for a release date and some more footage at E3

In some ways Borderlands look really really promising, but I hope they don't focus on the crazy monsters and mutants too much. I don't have any problems with monsters, but I don't want them to lose the post-apocalyptic feel it has going for it by throwing nonstop hordes at the player.

Any news on multiplayer or anything like that? I actually liked Blue Shift and Opposing Force (the only other two Gearbox games I can think of!) so I will probably pick this up on release depending on how lengthy it is.

It will have multiplayer, from what I hear its 4 player co-op but no news on competitive play yet....then again it doesn't really need one...

Only a million weapons? That's not quite enough.

I remember reading some interview with a developer talking about how they were finding all kinds of rad guns (they're procedurally generated so not even the creators know whats gonna happen!) and they mentioned a rifle that did nothing except for paint a target with a laser. They were confused as to what was happening, like "What, it just has a laser sight? no bullets? huh?" and then they discovered if they held the laser pointer over a target for ~3 seconds they exploded violently. That is a gun. That is the gun I want to get.

that sounds like it could lead to some really unbalanced weapons, like 1 million damage per shot uzi or something

Yeah I have been looking at this game ever since I saw early gameplay like a year ago. Now that they've updated the art style I am REALLY liking the look of it.

I think I read somewhere that one of the cooler random guns they found was a revolver that shot shotgun shells, or something like that anyway.

The idea of an RPS is quite cool, and from what I've seen it could make for a fun game.

These randomly generated guns sound like they could be allot of fun.

The release date has been set to October, and i was mistaken as gearbox claimed that it is "over half a million weapons" which is still a great amount. There is some E3 footage I found just a few minutes ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHJ8VudWF1o&feature=channel_page
The narrator is German so I have no clue what the hell he is saying, but the game play spoke for itself. Gearbox promised that the game will have about 30 story quests and 160 side quests, a big skill tree for each character, and as all of you who looked at this game obviously know, lots of guns.

I think this game looks freaking excellent now that Liquid Ocelot linked that video, I reckon I'll preorder this as soon as I can.

Another video: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-09-borderlands/51347 every time i look at this game, it just looks like it is getting better and better. The only thing that irks me about this interview video is that the president of gearbox is kind of repeating things he said exactly when he showed off the game at GDC 08.

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/preview-borderlands/56123?type=flv#comment_head_text
Well the release date for this game is nearing, I just recently reserved the game so I will get it when it comes out(hopefully my xbox will be repaired by then). Anyone else still getting it?

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/preview-hd-borderlands/56124

Preview by GT. I wasn't excited for it till I saw this. It looks really fun.

the art style is reaaaaally nice, this is what they should be doing with all that new fangled hardware and stuff.

the art style is reaaaaally nice, this is what they should be doing with all that new fangled hardware and stuff.

I agree, the new art direction is much better than the old one. I believe it uses the Unreal Engine as well which is nice too but I hope I don't see too much pop in(like in games like Gears of War, Bioshock, and ESPECIALLY Unreal Tournament 3). The only thing that worries me is the enemy AI, granted it looks better than Fallout 3's dumb ass enemies but they still show off some oddities like just standing there in the wide open shooting or not doing anything at all for a couple of seconds(which i really only saw with the "skagg" enemies thankfully).