holoz0r's A-Z of Steam: Borderlands

Do you like games with titles like The Division, Destiny, and the now old (yet recently rebooted) Hellgate London?

You have one game franchise to thank for this. (Except in the case of Hellgate: London) That game is Borderlands, and the latest in the A-z trove of titles along the way in my Steam Library collection.

Released ten years ago, Borderlands combines wasteland, guns, character, and crazy robot servants in a world where you can throw millions of bullets at a foe and be completely bamboozled by the fact that they somehow live on.

It also adds a dash of Diablo, with tons of loot, a few playable character classes, vehicular sequences, and trademark, cell-shaded visuals.

Yet, there's a lot missing. The story is bland and uninteresting. The quests are standard RPG fare, albeit from a first person perspective. The boss fights are nice, but the best part of Borderlands is the co-op.

It is an absolute blast getting together a bunch of friends (or strangers) and killing everything that moves, because; well - it is trying to kill you.

Disappointingly, Borderlands never really had enough enemies on screen at once, instead favouring the "few, but strong" approach when it came to throwing adversarial forces at your unsuspecting face.

This is a game, that while now fairly dated - still has some limited appeal, because while the mechanics are poor in comparison to what is out there today in the realm of co-op shooters, the visuals have managed to timelessly age into something not resembling an ugly mass of pixels.