The Mechanics of Addiction masquerading as a Borderlands review.
Timeless Yegg-isms abound in this ode to The Mechanics of Addiction masquerading as a Borderlands review . Borderlands Gearbox somehow managed to make it gritty and ultimately appealing to the hardcore gaming crowd sending out their totally hardcore reviews from Mom's Basement Central ... in Diablo "co-op" meant "You log in and shout 'Hi Everybody!' and someone kills you instantly and takes every last goddamned shred of a possession you ever owned while mocking your ancestry. It's OK for the characters to be juvenile. It's OK for the target audience to be juvenile. But it's a fucking train wreck when the writers are juvenile , because they'll alienate everyone above their own level of sophistication -- a demographic that just so happens to have the most disposable income to spend on games it's missing many of the other elements people have come to expect of RPGs -- elements such as "the decisions I make affect the ...