Two gunslingers taking down bad guys one Friday night at a time.
Making some progress with the story in this session, and the various missions provided some more very enjoyable combat to distract us from the fact that there doesn’t seem to be much going on story-wise just yet!
We’re gradually getting to grips with our characters and also finding some decent weapons as we head through. Hopefully things will continue in the same vein in the next video!
Another session of side missions primarily. The usual mix of ‘go here, kill this person, pick this stuff up’, followed by a rinse and repeat of the same again!
At least the combat is starting to pick up, and we’re getting to grips a bit more with the general mechanics of the game. There were some fairly fun and intense battles in this session, and I’m starting to enjoy things a little more.
We’ve now emptied our mission list of side missions for the moment, so the next video will start with us taking on a story mission, and hopefully things will start to progress a little more!
When we read the announcement of Borderland’s 3 being released on Steam, JBG and I both pre-ordered in readiness to finally get our hands on it. Sadly, the day before we were due to record our first session, Virgin Media decided to upgrade the firmware in by Super Hub, and promptly added huge latency issues to my previously stable connection!
Fast-forward several weeks later, and we finally got thing stable enough to start playing through together. As expected the first hour or so of the game re-introduces all the various gameplay elements, leading to a slightly frustrating experience.
By the end of this video, we’d met up with Claptrap, Vaughn, Marcus and Lillith, before setting up camp and doing various ‘busy-work’ missions to keep our companions happy. Despite being a bit slow, all the familiar Borderlands elements seem to be present, together with some new game mechanics and skills trees to get our heads around.
Hopefully things will start to ramp up as we continue our playthrough. I’m sure the long wait will turn out to be well worth it after all!