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[Trey]

Ok, am I the only one who hates these Shooter/RPGs? Where's the realism in emptying your gun on a guy at point blank range only to have him hit you once and kill you dead? And the endless pointless grinding missions: find this plant, kill these guys, kill these animals...

Barren landscapes populated with nothing but mindless robotic bad guys waiting for you to wander close enough to them to make them attack you... ugh.

[I_AM]

Where's the realism

... in most games.

mindless robotic bad guys waiting for you to wander close enough to them to make them attack you

Isn't this the successful formula for Serious Sam ?

Barren landscapes

... didn't do Halo any harm.


As for Borderlands, i found it pretty enjoyable, though it's more fun co-op. The RPG elements work better than in Hellgate.
The enemies that charge you with axes can sometimes kill you in two hits from full health & shield, but the point is you're not supposed to let them get that close. That's their 'tactic', and usually you should hear them coming.
And grinding pointless quests ? Most games suffer from this with the "kill X of Y" and "fetch X from Y" formulas, and Borderlands is pretty far from being the worst culprit.

[hfric]

then for sure you didn't liked HellGate London
OR

[Trey]

Where's the realism

... in most games.

I've seen much better..

mindless robotic bad guys waiting for you to wander close enough to them to make them attack you

Isn't this the successful formula for Serious Sam ?

Screaming headless bodies... I'm didn't like Serious Sam all that much....

Barren landscapes

... didn't do Halo any harm.

I hated Halo.

[Meddle]

If you thought this game was going to be realistic in any way.. it's described as "Diablo with guns". I'm not sure what you were thinking and I hope you didn't spend any money on it. That being said I've found the game to be quite fun. =D PS Even looking at screenshots of it doesn't exactly say "Hey we're going for realism here!".

[freakboy]

Yeah, I hate this new fpsrpg fad too. I prefer pure fps'es.

[Trey]

If you thought this game was going to be realistic in any way.. it's described as "Diablo with guns". I'm not sure what you were thinking and I hope you didn't spend any money on it. That being said I've found the game to be quite fun. =D PS Even looking at screenshots of it doesn't exactly say "Hey we're going for realism here!".

The game looks very cool. I like the cell shading graphics. It's pure the game play that makes me crazy.