1.The antagonist’s name is Handsome Jack, not Captain Jack. Captain Jack would be from Pirates of the Caribbean. You would know that if you had played more of the game.
2.The evil corporation in the first game is the Atlas Corporation, not Hyperion.
3.The stories in Borderlands and Borderlands 2 are quite different. I will admit that at the end the journey you do fight something that emerges from the Vault, but the paths you take to get there are very different. Handsome Jack’s motivation for sending countless waves of robots changes radically approximately halfway into the game, as does the original Vault Hunters' motivation for fighting Hyperion. I would say more, but I don’t want to spoil the game for you.
4.How can you review a game with accuracy if you have not completed it? That’s like saying Citizen Kane is a terrible movie after watching the first two minutes. Frankly, it’s bad journalism.
Yikes -- that's a complete brain lapse on my part; thanks for the correction on the names.
But whether Atlas or Hyperion, there doesn't seem to be much of a difference between them, storywise. Which I think is part of the problem I was trying to describe.
Certainly, I would have preferred to finish the game entirely before reviewing it, but it wasn't physically possible. (I'm willing to bet a lot of reviewers of 30+ hour games don't either, but they're not so willing to admit it.) Despite those motivational changes you note in the storyline, I don't believe they make for a substantial difference in overall gameplay.
But that's just my opinion—not "journalism," per se. If you prefer to discount that opinion because I haven't completed the game to the very end, that's certainly understandable. However, I don't think the game mechanics will be much different at the end, (minus the leveled-up character skills).
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cturczyn (staff) writes:
Yikes -- that's a complete brain lapse on my part; thanks for the correction on the names.
But whether Atlas or Hyperion, there doesn't seem to be much of a difference between them, storywise. Which I think is part of the problem I was trying to describe.
Certainly, I would have preferred to finish the game entirely before reviewing it, but it wasn't physically possible. (I'm willing to bet a lot of reviewers of 30+ hour games don't either, but they're not so willing to admit it.) Despite those motivational changes you note in the storyline, I don't believe they make for a substantial difference in overall gameplay.
But that's just my opinion—not "journalism," per se. If you prefer to discount that opinion because I haven't completed the game to the very end, that's certainly understandable. However, I don't think the game mechanics will be much different at the end, (minus the leveled-up character skills).
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