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[Teneb]

In short: it's a diablo-esque game that is also a FPS. If you like diablo or similar games it is likely you will ike BL. If not, you may end up hating it.

[Lightningfalcon]

Borderlands 2 is worth it for Butt Stallion alone. 

[BurnedToast]

The DLC for BL2 (I suspect that's what the "more coming" is going to be) is also great. The dragon keep one in particular is really funny and enjoyable unless you hate tiny tina (in which case you are bad and should feel bad) but I liked all of them. Didn't actually finish the hammerlock one because unrelated reasons, but the part I did play was decent

But yeah, it is better with friends, singleplayer feels a little... empty I guess.

[Spehss _]

Borderlands 1 has great balance. Borderlands 2 has not so great balance. Borderlands 2 practically requires a healing weapon and slag if you want to survive in higher game levels (60 to 70 and OP2 and beyond). You always will want weapons at your level. Enemy health regen is absurd, enemy damage is crazy in playthrough 2.5 and OP levels. Various class skills are not viable at high levels. Balance issues like that. Borderlands 1, you can find a great gun and use it for 10 or more levels if it's good enough. Also BL1 has masher revolvers. The game is less punishing at higher levels than BL2, in my opinion.

Borderlands 1 has ok skills and classes. But it isn't that reliant on class builds and skill synergy. Borderlands 2 has amazing skills and classes and skill synergy. Gunzerker and Psycho especially. ESPECIALLY PSYCHO. The first time you use the Psycho's action skill while charging a bandit camp is amazing. In general you can achieve some crazy feats with specific class builds in BL2.

BL1 I think handled guns better than BL2. BL2 has tons of unique weapons and equipment, but all the non-unique guns become vendor trash at end game, with a few exceptions. BL1, there's more non-unique weaponry that is viable in end game.

Both are great games. I like BL1 more than BL2, but BL2 has a far better story, dialogue, class design, and is generally a must play experience. Tiny Tina's Dragon Keep was such a fun first playthrough.

tl:dr;
BL1 is good at loot and feeling like an fps with looting and shooting. BL2 is good at a story driven fps with tons of unique skills and class based gameplay. Borderlands the PreSequel is BL2 on the moon with aussie accents. All of them have some greatly funny and memorable dialogue.

[Folly]

Personal opinion here, Borderlands games have a solid story line, though the drama and plot twists don't pick up until the second and third games. All the games are riddled with edgy humor which gets a little repetitive at points, but is generally very amusing.

Graphics were very original when the first game was released, and they're stylish and fun.

Lots of customization with four base classes in each game and several more added as DLC, each class having multiple skill trees which can greatly alter your gameplay experience, which is a plus for replay value. A strong detractor from the replay value however is that you cannot skip lengthy cinematics, or bypass tedious non-combative storyline quests; these issues are exacerbated when you start tackling the harder difficulty playthroughs. If you make it to the late game, you'll find that most of your skill trees have become impractical to use, forcing you to re-spec into a cookie-cutter build and farm specific legendary weapons so you can abuse their unique properties to stay competitive, and even then you'll spend every minute praying that an enemy doesn't decide to spawn right under your ass with a shotgun, or get a lucky sniper shot from across the map killing you in one hit with no enemies around to kill so you can recover. If you find the gumption to keep going despite all that, you'll find that the level grind is extremely slow and absolutely required to progress.

Multiplayer, the server list doesn't have enough information so you'll spend half your time joining games with people on different quests than you, and the other half joining games with hackers who run around 1-shotting every boss totally ruining the experience for you. Of course these issues can be ignored if you play exclusively with friends.

I love the Borderlands series and will definitely get the next game when it comes out, but these issues definitely knock a couple stars off the series' score for me and I hold no hope of them changing any of them going forward.

[Reyn]

Deus ex:Human Revolution - Director's cut is currently going for $1 at a charity. You'll receive a key by early july. This will last for another 7 days, in case you somehow don't have that $1 lying around.
As for where the key will be usable, I've read around and it's mentioned nowhere; except for a FB post in which a buyer[I guess] confirms it's a steam key.

I'd like to get the prequels, where to get them from? Steam or GOG? Do I have to jump through hoops to make it work via steam? I've also read that System Shock is a brother / same universe game. If I'll enjoy HR, would I enjoy that one as well?

[Toaster]

Deus Ex is on Steam for $7, and goes on sale semi-frequently to as low as $1.39.  It's a great game, but it's worth mentioning that the graphics have aged pretty badly, if that matters to you.  That said, it's an incredible game that gives you actual multiple ways to accomplish your goals, not just the occasional scripted binary choice.

What do you mean, prequelS?  Deus Ex and Human Revolution are the only two games.  I mean it.



System Shock 2 is closer to Bioshock.  The action is similar across them all, but the feel of the world/story progress is closer between these two.  It really depends on what you liked about Deus Ex.

[Rolan7]

Huh, I hadn't thought of it before, but SS2 is mechanically a lot closer to Deus Ex 1 than it is to its "spiritual successor".  They even both focus on nano-augmentation.  The stealth is more of a mechanic in Deus Ex though, which is crazy considering SS2 uses Thief's Dark Engine.  Deus Ex is also more about large open areas, whereas SS2 you're trapped in a tight ship (though ironically you can freely backtrack for most of the game, unlike Deus Ex).

Bioshock does have the claustrophobic survival setting of SS2.  Gameplay wise I'd say Deus Ex 1 is a closer match though.

(Though sadly, multiplayer SS2 is buggy as hell.  Even from GOG, which surprised me.  I think we even tried with Hamachi, and we were still getting insane desyncs trying to complete the prologue level)

[n9103]

It's a great game, but it's worth mentioning that the graphics have aged pretty badly, if that matters to you.

There's at least one well-developed fan-made HD patch. Only so much model manipulation is available in the engine, and it just can't do huge polycounts. Doesn't bring it up to modern standards, but does take off ~5 years.

[Graknorke]

On multiplayer, Deus Ex's multiplayer is surprisingly active. Numerous servers running and I've actually run into other players while poking around on them.

[Sinistar]

I'd like to get the prequels, where to get them from? Steam or GOG? Do I have to jump through hoops to make it work via steam? I've also read that System Shock is a brother / same universe game. If I'll enjoy HR, would I enjoy that one as well?

GoG has the benefit of "no DRM" (take that as you wish), but more importantly their games are patched and fixed to work specifically on new systems and 99% of the time also deliver on that. Can't say the same for Steam, I've heard several complaints from people buying old games there so personally I'd rather pick GoG in this case.

Also, I don't think System Shock (2) is in the same universe as Deus Ex. But I'd still highly recommend it regardless. I also agree it can feel a lot like Deus Ex (inventory very similar and RPG-ish character upgrades, for instance), but those two are still apart enough to not feel the same. Compared to SysShoch2, Bioshock, the supposed spiritual successor, feels dull and (heh) watered-down. Not a bad game, but imho a typical example of modern game going more into width than (double heh) depth. F that bloom. But I digress.

Sales!
Gamersgate has SEGA special offers this weekend, sale ending in roughly 1 day. Among them is Valkyria Chronicles for mere 5€, if anyone didn't grab it last Steam sale.
Also, 3 more hours to grab SPACECOM for 75% off. In all honesty I don't know what's it like, I bough it awhile ago but didn't have the chance to try it out, but looks and presents itself as a dope, hardcore space strategy?

[Flying Dice]

BL2 has a better plot and better graphics, but is mechanically inferior in some important ways. The balance is off by a substantial margin, and it seems like you spend more than half the game fighting the same annoying robots, which means you don't get to vary your guns much. BL1's Siren had better powers, too.

I'd recommend the first one, but the second isn't terrible by any means.

[n9103]

Though it has been implied, I'll make it explicit to save you the frustration:
Do Not Buy Deus Ex 2: Invisible War.
While it's not a horrible game if taken completely on it's own, it's not on it's own, and fails pretty damn hard as the sequel to DE1, and that doesn't improve much with being the prequel for DE3.
I'm not saying it'd be good if it wasn't a Deus Ex game, just that it wouldn't be Bad Rats bad.

Also, add a .9 to that 99% compatibility that Sinistar gave. It's their biggest focus after they get the rights to a game.

[Sonlirain]

I think it is a decent Ipgone game. It's pretty much a real game on a iphone!

Problem is that it got ported to PC and you should never port games to PC from bloody phones because it never works.

[Graknorke]

You're thinking of a later one. We don't count that one as a DX game at all.
There's Deus Ex, DX: Invisible War, DX: Human Revolution, and soon enough we'll have DX: Mankind Divided