Borderlands DLC Announced

Post by **King of Creation** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 5:41 am

[ Game -> Update ] - More info on <a href="#Borderlands">Game: Borderlands</a>

The game doesn't even hit stores until the 20th, but in pure marketing-whore style, developer Gearbox has already announced a DLC for Borderlands. And it has zombies.
<a href="http://ve3d.ign.com/images/57009/PC/Bor ... shot"><img style="float: left;" src="http://ve3dmedia.ign.com/thumbs/05/70/57009_thumb.jpg" alt="" width="155" height="100" /></a>2K Games announced today that the first piece of downloadable content for Borderlands, The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned, is planned for release later this year for all available platforms for $9.99 (800 Microsoft Points). The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned is in development at Gearbox Software and is the first in a series of downloadable expansions that will enhance the Borderlands mayhem in fun and exciting ways. 
Tasked with keeping the workers of Jakobs Cove alive, Dr. Ned (who is not related to Dr. Zed from Fyrestone) does his job a little too well, creating zombies and other abominations that now run rampant in this region. Players will have to work alongside Dr. Ned as they embark on a quest to cure the inhabitants of Jakobs Cove in this full-fledged expansion filled with new enemies, new quests and rare loot drops.
Featuring extensive co-op integration that seamlessly blends the single-player and multiplayer experiences, Borderlands allows players to freely join or leave each other’s games at any time for collaborative mayhem or the freedom to choose to play in full single-player mode to experience the world on their own. Borderlands also includes a groundbreaking weapon generation system that offers a near infinite variety of weapons to the player. Borderlands combines these features with addictive non-stop action to form a breakthrough experience that challenges the conventions of modern shooters and RPGs.
This kind of practice is becoming trendier and trendier. It's a huge cop out to release something as a DLC when your game isn't even in stores yet. It clearly shows that you meant to include it in the main game, but couldn't get around to it.Spotted @ <a href="http://ve3d.ign.com/">Voodoo Extreme</a>

Frater Perdurabo · Post by **Frater Perdurabo** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 10:21 am

Dutch wrote:This kind of practice is becoming trendier and trendier. It's a huge cop out to release something as a DLC when your game isn't even in stores yet. It clearly shows that you meant to include it in the main game, but couldn't get around to it

That's horse shit. Finishing one of these little DLCs takes them, what like a couple of weeks of hard work? They could have included it in the game if they had wanted to, or fuck, just release it for free if you couldn't include it in the original game. Back in the day, these fuckers used to be called patches.
Just think of all the shit that they actually got people to pay for in Oblivion. Horse armor? Couldn't get round to finishing that? My ass. To be honest, I sort of admire them. They've got the clientel gawking at them like hungry birds, they feed them shit and charge them for it.

Post by **King of Creation** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 10:29 am

Hello corporatization. It's the inevitable consequence of having rich investors who were never involved in the game industry other than buying a company or two putting in a massive marketing department. Hell, most marketing departments in major companies dictate what goes into a game nowadays.

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 10:52 am

Dutch wrote:Hello corporatization. It's the inevitable consequence of having rich investors who were never involved in the game industry other than buying a company or two putting in a massive marketing department. Hell, most marketing departments in major companies dictate what goes into a game nowadays.

Bah. You're putting the cart before the horse. Corporations merely deliver what consumers want.

Apparently, there's no limit to how deep a rectum this guy has.

SenisterDenister · Post by **SenisterDenister** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 4:41 pm

I'm so glad I'm a pc owner, Valve would never do this to us; and the only reason they charge for DLC on the 360 is because Microsoft makes them.

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 5:21 pm

i remember there being add-on packs, expansion packs, whatever back in the 90s. anybody with any rocks bashing around in there head wont bother paying/playing this shit anyway~

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 5:44 pm

I think the only DLC I bought for a game was The Pitt for FO3 and that turned out to be shit so I doublt I will buy DLC for anything else unless its a really good game or a good dlc.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 6:45 pm

Empire: Total War "DLC" must be the most outrageous shit so far, I believe. They actually sell so called downloadable content that isn't actually new content at all, it only unlocks something already included in your original game - which you've already once paid for. So *true* marketing geniuses gimp the original release and then sell the real game bit by bit to the fans afterwards.

Post by **Dogmeatlives** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 7:46 pm

thats fuckin ridiculous... every time I hear about these scams I lose a bit more respect for "gamers". I cant blame the companies really. They created something and they want the most out of it. These braindead nimrods deserve to be broke and hopeless if they pay real money for useless digital information.

I bought one thing from xbox live- it was a shooter game for two players. i bought 'cause a friend was over and it was five bucks and we wanted to play something. 20 minutes later i was massively regretting paying for the shit and the game was in the top ten of downloadable games and it was boring as hell.

We ended up playing Turtles in Time on SNES.

Post by **Manoil** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 7:51 pm

Dogmeatlives wrote:We ended up playing Turtles in Time on SNES.

They actually have a 3D-but-still-scrolling remake of that on the XBAWKS marketplace. Not terribly done, either.

Post by **Dogmeatlives** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 9:25 pm

I saw that. It looks aiight.

This "Borderlands" looks like absolute shit, by the way. The main characters look like news anchors.

Post by **Retlaw83** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:36 pm

Dogmeatlives wrote:The main characters look like news anchors.

The game is set in the borderland between zombie island and CNN.

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 4:13 pm

Kashluk wrote:Empire: Total War "DLC" must be the most outrageous shit so far, I believe. They actually sell so called downloadable content that isn't actually new content at all, it only unlocks something already included in your original game - which you've already once paid for. So *true* marketing geniuses gimp the original release and then sell the real game bit by bit to the fans afterwards.

A lot of that happens on consoles too, most of the content is already on the disk.

Post by **Manoil** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 6:13 pm

Retlaw83 wrote:
Dogmeatlives wrote:The main characters look like news anchors.
The game is set in the borderland between zombie island and CNN.

Reporting from ThunderDOOOOOME,
I'm Dan Rather.

cazsim83 · Post by **cazsim83** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 1:20 am

senisterdenister wrote:never say never

SenisterDenister · Post by **SenisterDenister** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 5:09 am

Valve is one of the last bastions of honest gaming. Don't turn me into a complete cynic.

cazsim83 · Post by **cazsim83** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 5:38 am

Fair enough, but where the hell is my HL3, or at least HL2, episode 3???

SenisterDenister · Post by **SenisterDenister** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 6:07 am

They'll be here when they're done. Don't rush good games. They've never let us down before, and rushed products always end up being incredibly buggy and broken.

cazsim83 · Post by **cazsim83** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 10:29 pm

and sometimes NOT rushed games are buggy and broken too..... :pessimism:

SenisterDenister · Post by **SenisterDenister** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 10:56 pm

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