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Gothgar

Lifer
Sep 1, 2004
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pre ordered Borderlands, cant lose for 35 bucks on a 4 pack...

L4D2 and MW2 I will buy these two when they are twenty bucks on Steam...
 

BFG10K

Lifer
Aug 14, 2000
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Probably Borderlands. I won?t be touching CoD 6 until it hits the bargain bin since CoD 4 was disappointing for full price. I don?t have much interest in L4D either since the price seems too high for the short single player campaign.
 

Gunslinger08

Lifer
Nov 18, 2001
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Borderlands. I'll borrow CoD or buy it when it's $20 for the single player (I play TF2 for my online shooter fix). I won't buy L4D2, considering I bought L4D and played it for about 20 minutes.
 

Red Storm

Lifer
Oct 2, 2005
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"None" aka Dragon Age. MW2 is pathetic. L4D2 I will consider when it's $10 or less. Borderlands I have no interest in whatsoever.
 

brencat

Platinum Member
Feb 26, 2007
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L4D2 !! Can't wait -- I've been playing L4D almost exclusively since it came out, and most of my online group will have it day 1.

Huge letdown on CODMW2 -- will boycott that due to them giving PC gamers the shaft.

Now eagerly awaiting BF: Bad Company 2 due next March. If you haven't seen the in-game footage the developers released, you really need to check it out on the ea.battlefield sight. Damn near photorealistic and with fully destructible environments!
 

pontifex

Lifer
Dec 5, 2000
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Modern Warfare 2.
Borderlands has shitty cell shading graphics and I had no interest in the overpriced crap that was the original L4D so screw L4D2.
 

secretanchitman

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Apr 11, 2001
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Originally posted by: Mike Gayner
Yup need an option for "none of the above". MW2 screwed PC gamers. L4D is lame and min numbing. Boderlands looks boring as all hell, and will go down as the most over-anticipated game of 2009.

you stole the words right out of my mouth.
 

zerogear

Diamond Member
Jun 4, 2000
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MW2 for 60$? Nothx. -- I went for L4D2 since a bunch of my friends are buying it, so co-op will be nice and for 33.75? Why not?
 

Daverino

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Mar 15, 2007
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Don't really care for the visual style of Borderlands, so I have no interest in that game.
MW2 can FOADIAF for all I care.
I loved L4D and I'll probably love L4D2. But it is gonna go on sale, Valve's just like that. It's just a matter of how long I can wait and how many of my friends buy it.
 

Borealis7

Platinum Member
Oct 19, 2006
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Dragon Age has already cost me 7 years of Ritalin ever since it was announced! i couldn't handle the excitement!
 

PingSpike

Lifer
Feb 25, 2004
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No interest in MW2. I'm just done with the realistic shooter genre at this point. I can always fire up CS:S if I really wanted it.

L4D2...steam is brutal on dialup, I'm done with steam games until they roll broadband out here. Its just not worth the effort. L4D was ok in single player, but I wanted to play co-op with my wife and friends. Since you have to be connected (and updated) to the internet to play co-op on local LAN or listen servers, and since steam only half works when it feels like it on dialup its just to unreliable and time consuming to bother trying to play. If some one came over and wanted to play that game right now with me, I'm confident we MIGHT be able to play it two days later. If it had a proper lan mode that didn't require phoning the mothership to connect (offline mode does not work for this) OR steam would at least allow you to ignore updates when connected OR steam allowed you to manually download and install updates to several PCs I MIGHT have a chance of making it work. I already spent to much time fucking with this. I'm actually regretting buying two copies of that game. It wasn't really a good purchase in retrospect.

I saw a commercial for Borderlands on TV yesterday, not knowing anything about it. I immediately wasn't interested. I'm not entirely sure why. I like mad max post apoc worlds as a backdrop to a game...but it just looked like halo with cartoony mad max skins on everything. I never really liked halo that much.

Anyway, I'm busy with Vampire Bloodlines and Rock Band drums right now. I've got some other gems from the golden era that I missed as well. Sometimes they're hard to get working on newer hardware, but after my L4D failure fiasco it doesn't seem so bad anymore! And hey, its not like I have to make custom boot disks for coventional memory these days so it could be worse.
 

kalrith

Diamond Member
Aug 22, 2005
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I chose nothing. I'm playing Titan Quest right now and a little bit of Oblivion now and then. And that doesn't even get into all the PS3 games I need to play. Need more time to game!
 

ayabe

Diamond Member
Aug 10, 2005
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I will buy MW2 at some point, and while I really feel like I've outgrown MP shooters - I do share the outrage about the lack of dedicated servers and so forth. This just guarantees that whatever urge I might have to give it a go - won't be fulfilled.

I guess I'll get Dragon Age too, though NWN2 was a piece of shit, and the fact that this is an RPG being released across all platforms - makes me cringe.
 

thilanliyan

Lifer
Jun 21, 2005
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I'd rather get Dragonage but even that will probably suck up too much time so I won't for a while.