Ongoing Pre-Sequel

On 03/17/2017 at 09:03 PM by KnightDriver

I think I'm about half way in the main story for Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. I've been doing side missions along the way. I like doing all the side missions. It's not a completionist thing, I just like hearing all the stories and being sent to all the locations in the game. However, I did start to get hung up on trying to open all the chests that require 40 moon stones. I did five of them and thought the sixth one was going to be the last for an achievement but there are actually 10. I went for this last time I played the game and got to within one of getting it. This time, I backtracked three different times to open moon stone chests that I had found but didn't have the moon stones when I found them. I finally realized I was getting really obsessive about it and just stopped. Maybe I'll come across that one I never found, but it's not important. The story, the environments and listening to all the dialog are my main interests.

And speaking of dialog, I heard a lot of stuff I hadn't heard before because I have the dialog volume way up in the mix. My character, Aurelia, talks a lot. She'll have her own responses to quest givers and even acknowledge other players. She talks alot while I'm in the menu screens looking over equipment, which gets a little bit annoying after a while. I also noticed many lines I hadn't heard before said by upgrades seller Crazy Earl, voiced by Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford. I love having the dialog sound up front. They did so much voice work for this game, I want to hear it all.

Mark and I played co-op for a long while today because we were both about the same level. It was great that neither of us were struggling to survive. Greed for loot, though, does take its toll after a while. Too bad you don't share loot like you do in Diablo III. I start to feel like an actual merc playing Borderlands.

I like the weapon crusher machine, which is new in this game. You put three weapons in and get a upgraded one out. I save all sorts of stuff in my bank until I get three that go together. I'm trying to get the best sniper rifle and pistol I can. I use a third weapon too. Right now it's a laser weapon that freezes. My character does a lot of cold damage type of stuff. My sniper rifle has corrosive damage and my pistol has shock damage. I go with whatever I find, but I favor the cold damage stuff when I find it. Her skill tree provides some good boosts in that area.

I'm being sent Zelda Breath of the Wild from Gamefly but I have no access to a Switch yet, so I'll be sending it right back. I thought it would be unavailable for a long time but apparently not. I should've just left it off the list. Oh well, I'll have to wait until next week for a new rental.

Well, that's a day.

Super Step Contributing Writer

03/17/2017 at 10:52 PM

Man, I want a Switch. But I'm sooo skeptical. But the potential is soooo great.

KnightDriver

03/18/2017 at 11:12 PM

I'm wondering how it plays on the Wii-U because I might get that instead for the moment. I want it for some games I missed.

03/18/2017 at 11:21 PM

Wii U wasn't cheap enough for me to go that route. Not at my local stores at least.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

03/17/2017 at 11:12 PM

40 moonstones! That's price-fixing!

That must be a little annoying, to have Zelda but not being able to play it!

03/18/2017 at 11:10 PM

40 moonstones is like 100k in cash in that game. It's stuff you want to save to upgrade your backpack, weapons and bank to hold more stuff. I'm always short when I get to one and then have to remember where it was to go back.

Very. I just saw another commercial for the game and system to rub it in even more.

goaztecs

03/22/2017 at 11:26 AM

Man I missed out on this Weapon Crusher Machine. I should go back and try it out.

Sucks about getting Zelda but not having the console to play it on. Its crazy that Nintendo didn't push more Switch units out, or maybe it was done deliberately. In any case there isn't much for me to play on it but I am getting into the Mario Kart mood.

03/22/2017 at 06:42 PM

Weapon Crusher is cool but I got most of my best stuff from drops or the gold key chest. Still, it was fun to chuck stuff in there and see what would come out.
I looked at the cartridge for Zelda and boy was it small. Smaller than a 3DS cart. Kind of weird they could stuff so much code into such a small cart.
Also, everybody seems to be crazy excited and glowing about the new Zelda. People are calling it the best game they've ever played and going on and on about it like it was some kind of spiritual awakening. I imagine they'll cool off eventually. I mean, it's just Zelda embrasing open world gameplay. You'd think Nintendo just invented it or these people are experiencing it for the first time. Anyway, I'm sure it's great. I wish I could play it.

03/29/2017 at 10:55 AM

I think with the Zelda hype is mostly fanboys going apesh*t over it. Yeah its probably great but I think most of that hype is based on exclusivity because it was the only game on the Switch (even though folks could get it for WiiU), and those handhelds are hard to find in the wild.

03/30/2017 at 12:32 AM

Fanboys for sure, but I heard several journalists on my podcasts, who are usually pretty critical of everything, just gush about it. And, I heard a roundtable discussion on GameInformer's podcast with Bioshock's Ken Levine, among other serious game devs, and they were all just overflowing with praise. I think part of it might be that Nintendo hasn't really put out anything really great in a good while and it's renewed everyone's long dormant love of Nintendo.

PixlBit