[QUOTE="dakan45"][QUOTE="JangoWuzHere"]RE5 will feel boring and clunky unless you play co-op with a friend.kieranb2000
Ehhh no, not as much borring borderlands will feel if you play it alone.I'm afraid I have to disagree with you Dakan, and agree with Jango. RE5's partner AI was abysmal, and the game itself was like Resident Evil 4, only slightly worse. And the mechanics have not aged well in the slightest, especially as they took all the survival-horror out of it, so it is now just a fairly generic third person shooter that fails to deliver on the "shooter" side of things. The co-op made it significantly more enjoyable, as having two players almost made up for the bad design choices in the gameplay and level design.
Borderlands, even singleplayer, offers up a fantastic first-person experience that feels like a good blend of Diablo-elements and FPS-elements. Playing multiplayer DOES improve the experience, but single player is great fun aswell.
I agree that ai is a mess but the easy non survival gameplay makes up for the trouble you might get thanks to the bad ai, therefore i did not care. So maybe ai is a mess but its better than not having one. Also there are nice character cutscenes. I think the levels are fine, well compared to re4 atleast. Also graphics>cellshaded for me therefore i cant say i like the brown borderlands levels more. Borderlands felt pretty empty singleplayer wise, i am not saying its not fun, but after a while it gets borring to level up all the time alone without any story or characters to talk too. A Left for dead style ai wouldnt hurt, especially after all those years in development. Seriously, this whole thing started by simply saying my opinon an providing a simple reason without going to any crazy details. I had no intention of that happening and i bet it wouldnt if i said "borderlands" like the rest of the forum. Jeez, i merelly pointed out the obvious that eg: cod4 had more story and better characters to fight by yourside while far cry 2 singleplayer and story are pretty meh plus it lacks allied characters to play with. As you see here i just pointed out that cod 4 was a better singleplayer experiance for me because it had more story.However FC2 fans like myself will immediatly point out that FC2 had better gameplay due to the worldmap and non linear missions, just like you pointed out about the whole fps-diablo gameplay, which i dont find that great like most people dont find FC2 gameplay elements that great either!!! Opinions....you gotta love em :) 
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