L4D 2 or Borderlands?

I don't have time to play games much these days since I have a wife and a child on the way....I just realized it's been a long time since I bought a new game, it was L4D when it first launched. I decided I'm going to buy a new game today and have narrowed it down to L4D 2 and Borderlands. I love me some L4D, one of the great things about it was how I could play for 30min-1hr and feel a sense of accomplishment and had a great time. Borderlands looks very interesting and different but it also looks like I would be required to put in some serious gameplay time to enjoy it properly. When I have time to play games, it's almost always under 2hrs at a time...maybe 10hrs/wk total if I'm lucky. I'm leaning more towards Borderlands since it seems so different, but is it a fun game in short bursts of gameplay? Thanks

Both fun games but IMO Left4Dead2 is the better game.

Congratulations on your growing family! I am like you in that I like to be able to play in short bursts. You can definitely get enjoyment in installments with Borderlands. It has checkpoints that it saves automatically, so you can easily exit at any time and restart (though I often just pause the game since we have multiple computers in the house and/or you can minimize it). I enjoyed Borderlands (I just finished). I particularly like how easy it was to pick up side quests and just work on whatever was most fun at the time. In other games, I often found the side quests to be a bit of a burden. I liked L4D 2 as well, but from a value for money perspective, I preferred Borderlands. I find L4D 2 to be a bit repetitive. I am more of a single-player person, so I know that a lot of people find L4D 2 to be great in multi-player. I found Borderlands to have a richer environment with tons of weapons and a pretty easy inventory management capability. Another nice feature is that you can earn inventory slots and buy ammo slots, so you do not have to spend so much time trading off what loot you are going to collect. I finished L4D2 in hours and I spent days (in short bursts) on Borderlands. Have fun!

Both fun games but IMO Left4Dead2 is the better game.

kozzy1234

l4d2 is better but Borderlands is ok. Wait for the holiday stuff on steam and d2d they might do 50% off stuff.

I personally prefer Borderlands, but L4D2 is a total blast and probably more fitting given your lack of free time.

To me Borderlands has become the Borederlands.

Part of this is due to me being stuck in singleplayer mode - unable to get my stinking router to work (I still remember the headaches...).

Also the gameplay gets old in a suprisingly short amount of time - part of this is the developers do very little to spice things up - it's just the same damn thing over and over.

I'd say get L4D2, borderlands gets a bit reptitive and there isn't a heap of motivation to get through.

I don't have time to play games much these days since I have a wife and a child on the way....I just realized it's been a long time since I bought a new game, it was L4D when it first launched. I decided I'm going to buy a new game today and have narrowed it down to L4D 2 and Borderlands. I love me some L4D, one of the great things about it was how I could play for 30min-1hr and feel a sense of accomplishment and had a great time. Borderlands looks very interesting and different but it also looks like I would be required to put in some serious gameplay time to enjoy it properly. When I have time to play games, it's almost always under 2hrs at a time...maybe 10hrs/wk total if I'm lucky. I'm leaning more towards Borderlands since it seems so different, but is it a fun game in short bursts of gameplay? Thanks

SuperBeast

You have a wife and a child on the way? Where are they being shipped from?

I would go with L4D2. Borderlands was fun, and the gameplay was really good, but now that I've beaten it, I don't really get a need to play it anymore.

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I don't have time to play games much these days since I have a wife and a child on the way....I just realized it's been a long time since I bought a new game, it was L4D when it first launched. I decided I'm going to buy a new game today and have narrowed it down to L4D 2 and Borderlands. I love me some L4D, one of the great things about it was how I could play for 30min-1hr and feel a sense of accomplishment and had a great time. Borderlands looks very interesting and different but it also looks like I would be required to put in some serious gameplay time to enjoy it properly. When I have time to play games, it's almost always under 2hrs at a time...maybe 10hrs/wk total if I'm lucky. I'm leaning more towards Borderlands since it seems so different, but is it a fun game in short bursts of gameplay? Thanks

bonafidetk

You have a wife and a child on the way? Where are they being shipped from?

l4d2 has more replay value period

borderlands - i think best coop /mulltiplayer

Left four for dead too two by a country mile. Borderlands is a single player game to be honest, the co op is very badly implemented.

I have both games. But i would say Borderlands would be better cause its like a RPG. L4D2 is like quick game with friends in a short level. Its pretty much up 2 you there both good games.

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I don't have time to play games much these days since I have a wife and a child on the way....I just realized it's been a long time since I bought a new game, it was L4D when it first launched. I decided I'm going to buy a new game today and have narrowed it down to L4D 2 and Borderlands. I love me some L4D, one of the great things about it was how I could play for 30min-1hr and feel a sense of accomplishment and had a great time. Borderlands looks very interesting and different but it also looks like I would be required to put in some serious gameplay time to enjoy it properly. When I have time to play games, it's almost always under 2hrs at a time...maybe 10hrs/wk total if I'm lucky. I'm leaning more towards Borderlands since it seems so different, but is it a fun game in short bursts of gameplay? Thanks

Rahnyc4

You have a wife and a child on the way? Where are they being shipped from?

Borderlands much more diffirent and complicated with more content and non linear gameplay!!