quote The Living Angelus

One last title down memory lane was this side-scroller barbarian game. I thought it was Conan but I can't find anything on it. I remember one of the earlier levels at the arcade there were all these skeleton enemies that you had to fight. It was another arcade game I spent hours playing. Damned if I can remember what it was. I mean the character literally looked like Conan. Big ass sword, buff dude, barbarian outfit. It's going to bug me until I remember this one because I can picture that first level so vividly. Like the level design were these dark brown rocks. It might have been a castle or just a mountain. *bleep* this is going to bug me.

quote Storm

Pretty sure GameStop earned some pieces there as well. They are always doing pre-order bonuses to ensure sales.

But many people have pre-ordered the game so mission accomplished. And single-player is boring?! D: Yeah, well it is more an MP game, should try it with that. The game does start off slow, but it picks up in no time with the different fields of skills and weapons you can use.

quote The Living Angelus

I have tried Borderlands with 3 other people. How else do I know about the lag online. To be fair though, it wasn't on my connection, as I was playing on my friends console and I don't know what kind of internet settings he is running on. Probably his shitty DSL provider. Regardless, this isn't something you can change my mind on. Even before I switched to single-player I was getting bored of the game online, the single-player just solidified my opinion on it. I am not a fan of most rpg games or this leveling up bullshit. It depends on the game and how it's implemented but for games like Borderland where I just want to shoot shit, I hate it. I hated that crap in the Final Fantasy series, I hated it in Command & Conquer where I'd spend an hour building an army, 10 second battle only then have to start all over again on the next level from scratch, and how I hate it even more in these latest WWE SmackDown games where every CAW has a low attribute rating and you have to waste countless hours building each one up instead of just giving you a decent fair amount of points to spread across from the start. I just want to jump in and play and not have to worry about if my character is at a decent enough stat level so I wont die. Jumping into a FPS and not being able to kill something with a clear head shot is stupid and that's exactly what Borderlands does. There's not much appeal to it where I have a reason to beat the game once, then would want to have a second run through... what to level up another class? Boring.

And how's it mission accomplished? People would have preordered L4D2 regardless the exclusive demo or not, is the point. Don't be thick. From a business standpoint, the demo should be available across all boards for those still teetering on buying it and not as an extra incentive to those who are already going to purchase the game regardless. Those who play the L4D2 demo are those who are already looking forward to buying the game. Wouldn't it be smarter to release the demo to those who are not planning on buying it to persuade them into getting the game? I certainly think it would be the wiser business choice.