Tell me about Borderlands...?

[seawasp]

I've heard some good general buzz about the game, and I have heard that there's a sequel out or coming soon, but I've never played it or seen it played. Is it a game I'd enjoy?

Games I've played and enjoyed:
  A bunch of the JRPGs, with Chrono Trigger and Star Ocean and Persona at the head of the lists
  Fallout 3 and New Vegas
  Oblivion and Skyrim
  Dragon Age

Games I have enjoyed but found I can't play them for long before my aged reflexes betray me and I am filled with fail:
  Action-RPGs like Tomb Raider and inFamous

Games I don't really enjoy are FPSs.

  I've also been thinking about Mass Effect. Is it important to play ME1 before ME2 and ME3 or are they pretty much separate?

Comments

[thomasyan.livejournal.com]

I was a little surprised that you said you wanted to try the ME games. I'd say they are about 2/3 FPS, and 1/3 RPG. I'm uncertain how to characterize just how much choice you have in the ME games, especially since all the endings in ME3 don't seem to really reflect all your prior decisions.

But the so-called RPG/MMORPGs that I've played kind of annoy me, in that, how is it role-playing if you cannot break character?

[remus-shepherd.livejournal.com]

ME at least does give you choices. The main effect of those choices may be what alien your character is sleeping with in the soft-porn cutscene, but at least the choices exist. That's more RPG-like than pure shooters like Quake, or even hybrids like Borderlands.

Oh, yeah, Sea Wasp -- if you're into human on (or under) alien soft-porn, ME is the way to go. :)