And this, my friends, is why asking random people on the internet if something is "worth it" is absolutely fucking stupid.
Call me biased, since I'm the one doing the asking, but I kind of disagree.
Initially, I was asking about the importance to playing the games in order. I figured in case there's some sort of a plot to them, it'd be nice to get a quickie answer. Since two of the answers involved implications that the game was terribly boring, I was just asking for clarification. I can't quite fathom why, in a thread often filled with all sorts of tangents and non-game related talk, someone asking for clarification on a previously-posted opinion has ruffled your feathers so. Their opinion is as good as anybody else's.
Only YOU can judge if something is worth it. Only YOU know what you like and don't like. You could love Borderlands or you could hate it, you'll never know unless you decide to take the leap and play it. How much money and time are you willing to risk on the game? Again, only you can decide.
Personally, I'm really against wasting any time or money on something that I'm not going to like. That's kind of why I, and I assumed most people, don't just purchase games at random.
Do some research because the opinions you get from asking random strangers on the internet is pretty much the same as the ones that have already been posted here and there all over the internet already. Watch some gameplay videos. Try a demo. Stop being stupid.
The problem with wading into other threads (and I've gotten burned by this in the past) is that you run a huge risk for spoilers, especially on older games/movies/TV shows. They're probably talking more about the game itself instead of posting their own mini-reviews.
Not to mention that, for the most part, people who might be posting in an active thread are going to be the ones who actually like the game. I know that
I don't make it a point to keep up on threads about games that I don't like. Not really a good sampling of opinion to ask a group that's skewed towards liking a game what they think about it.
Gameplay videos are good to get the general feel for the minute-to-minute gameplay, but that hardly tells you anything about the experience as a whole. I could watch a 30-minute video of Left 4 Dead, and the game would look like a fun and interesting zombie shooter. However, after playing Left 4 Dead for 12 hours, I'm of the opinion that it's a bland, repetitive shooter with a horrendously toxic multiplayer environment and a terrible online setup.
Sure, I guess I could sit down and watch hours and hours of gameplay videos of a certain game to really get a feel for it, but then we're getting back into the whole "time wasting" thing.
Try a demo? Sure, post a link to a demo for either Borderlands game. I can't seem to locate one on Steam, and I don't see anything about one on their official site, either. It actually would be really nice if the concept of a demo was anywhere near as popular as it used to be. Now, I just have to wait and see if there's ever going to be a free weekend of a game if I don't want to just blind-buy it.
