Borderlands has been ruined!

I was really hoping that they would not have used the crappy looking cel shading, and since it is the way that the game is going to be I hope that it is an optional thing that can be turned off in the options menu.
I hate cel shading as I think that it makes games look awful. I was really looking for to getting this game when I saw the pics and videos before this cel shading crap as I thought that this will be a great game, but now with cel shading I still may get I just won't be as happy with it as I would have been.

http://www.borderlandsthegame.com/screens/

Cel shading has it's place... but that said, a shooting game just doesn't seem to be the place for it.

Its not the cel-shaded style that bothers me but rather how they made the characters actually appeared cartoon-like.

OK what I meant to say but the cartoon-like character style is how they made the characters actually look unrealistic with skinny limbs in such. Cel-shaded in general is suppose to be cartoon-like but it can still have realistic features like characters and settings in it. Like A Scanner Darkly for example, this game on the other hand actually looks like a cartoon which I don't like.

yea this game used to look decent, with good graphics, RPG and FPS elements, over 500,000 weapons and 4 player online co-op. but now it just looks like crap and they said they actually liked the graphics better this way and the reason for doing it was they wanted the game to look like the actual concept art.

WOW the characters look horrible... I don't have a problem with cell shading... one of my favorite games uses it (Crackdown)... but it looks like an effin JRPG now and I HATE THOSE GAMES.

i don't know who made that design choice... realistic textures + cell shading doesn't mix to me... it seems as if the supervisor couldn't decide on a concrete design. Cel-shading is great when you use it for games that are supposed to immitate a cartoon, for example dragon ball Z or Naruto... but this doesn't flow well.

I dont know what you are talking about, my interest only peaked after seeing the screenshot. I for one applaud Gearbox for the ballsy decision to do this over the regular graphics we get. Im starting to get tired of all games looking the same for the past 5+ years. I dont know how you can be disapointed by this, its the same game just with a new artistic graphic style we have never seen before that actually looks hand drawn. I predict Borderlands will win best graphics artistic by a landslide when GOTY voting comes back on gamestop.

Oh and btw its not cel-shaded, its a whole new style called concept art style.

I'm still interested & still have the wanting to play the game.

This was probably gonna be a buy for me, but def not anymore. The game looks horrible now.

I have been following this game since it was first announced. I thought the same way when I first found out about the art style changed. After looking at the screens I didn't think it was as good as before but it won't stop me from buying it.

When you give it some time and think about it's actually brings a lot of style to the game. If it was realistic it would just blend in with all the other games. Now it has a fresh look to it that makes the visuals have a more lasting impression and it will get more noticed when sitting next to a library of ultra realistic games. It will be your loss if it you skip this title due to the visuals when the content has so much promise.

i cant believe how much hate this game is getting already.... i believe there was one picture on that link. just because the game doesnt look like GoW or CoD or even Halo it must suck huh? well anyway i still think its gonna be a great game but will have to see how the gameplay mechanics are. ill probably pick this one up when it comes out.

Why the hell they changed the game? Its really ruined ; (

I think it looks fine. It stands out among all the other games who try too hard to look realistic. I enjoy cell shaded action games. I used to own XIII on Xbox and it was fun.

Man... I clicked the link expecting to see some horrible graphics but I think it looks pretty cool. While it isn't "stunning" or anything like a COD or RE5,graphics don't make a game, good gameplay does.

Rev

Ok that's it. After seeing the first (realistic) trailer I had this game on my potential full price list but I really don't like this at all. Sometimes when it's not too obvious I can deal with it and get it later on at a discount but this is too much.

i cant believe how much hate this game is getting already.... i believe there was one picture on that link. just because the game doesnt look like GoW or CoD or even Halo it must suck huh? well anyway i still think its gonna be a great game but will have to see how the gameplay mechanics are. ill probably pick this one up when it comes out.

dragonslayerssj

That's unfair, it doesn't matter that it doesn't look like GoW, CoD or Halo but it does matter that it has a compleetly different style that doesn't fit the original concept of the game after the first trailer. I normally don't like shooters but the whole concept looked great. It gave me this idea of a depressing lost world with elements fromFallout and Mad Max and a story about the harshness of surviving in such a place. But this artstyle doesn't fit the setting at all, maybe it wasn't ever supposed to be as they made it sound but then this artstyle still confirms that this isn't the game some of us want.

You guys are seriously going to pass on this game, which many of you claim to have wanted so much just because of it's graphics? Seriously?

Essentially just the cover of this book has changed, and it's really enough to make you ditch it? Wow.

OK what I meant to say but the cartoon-like character style is how they made the characters actually look unrealistic with skinny limbs in such. Cel-shaded in general is suppose to be cartoon-like but it can still have realistic features like characters and settings in it. Like A Scanner Darkly for example, this game on the other hand actually looks like a cartoon which I don't like.

MrArmageddon8

Have to agree with you on that, character design looks too skinny to make up for a serious game, shame, was hopng it would be the real sequel to the game that inspired the awesome Fallout franchise, Wastelands.

WOW the characters look horrible... I don't have a problem with cell shading... one of my favorite games uses it (Crackdown)Squeets

Crackdown was a great game, but it also demonstrated that there are cases where Cel Shaded graphics look much, much better when seen in motion, some of the screen pics for Crackdown looked terrible, but seeing the game in full flow was spectacular.

Anyway I thought they'd already denied that the game was cel shaded.

Cool, This is looking pretty nice. I can't wait to play it.

I prefer the original graphics way more. They looked realistic and everything was stunning. I understand that they want it to look like the concept art, but why? Concept art is just a spring board for what the retail areas could look like, not what they actually look like.

i was thinking about buying this game and thats rare for me cuz i only buy games with solid multiplayer but since they changed the graphics, it will be a rental at best, because for this type of game, RPG/FPS it's very story driven and graphics play a huge part of that, im not gonna have the same feelings for a character if he looks like a cartoon.

I still think that this could turn out to be a great game. We'll just have to wait and see.

I have no problem with cell shading. I thought it looked great on WW, Crackdown, and SF IV. Gameplay will make or break this game for me.

Meh. I still like the idea of creating your own weapons and driving crazy Mad Max style vehicles, so I'm still in, unless they totally wreck the gameplay.

While I'm not going to completely cross this game off of my list, it's defintely been moved to the bottom. It still has a chance for me but I think the gameplay will need to be extra-ultra-mega-awesome to make up for the graphics.

I don't like the way they went with that characterdesign, however if the gameplay is good, I'll probably give the game a try.

I want this game that is seen in this video(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03WoY3WWkAk), as I do not want this game seen in this pic(http://www.borderlandsthegame.com/screens/).
I am just hoping, really hoping that this change is a late April Fools Joke. Please let this be an April Fools Joke, please oh please.
Atleast for me I was really looking forward to the best looking realistic world that I have ever seen that was in that video and thinking this will be one of the greatest post-apocalyptic worlds in a video game that I have ever played next the STALKER games, but now it looks like an anime which I hate.

At least theres still co-op

i dont care what they do to the graphic design, as long as they dont change what they have already said about the lving and items / RPG elements. i wish they stuck with the old style, but im still interested in the game.

Cel Shading is ok in some more artistic games like okami or something, but with a serious game like borderlands i think a more gritty kind of art would work alot better, but the game in itself looks like an epic idea so i'm going to buy it regardless.

You guys are seriously going to pass on this game, which many of you claim to have wanted so much just because of it's graphics? Seriously?

Essentially just the cover of this book has changed, and it's really enough to make you ditch it? Wow.

McNulty5

There is a huge difference in cell shaded and realistic looking games. The blood is cartoony, and the violence in general.

Gearbox was my favorite developer. After waiting years for Hells Highway and being slightly disappointed, them not coming through so far with the Aliens game, and now changing this promising game into a Nick at Nite game, I've lost all faith in Gearbox.

It'll be fine. Look at how awesome Crackdown turned out! :DEnderSR388

I do not like Crackdown.

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You guys are seriously going to pass on this game, which many of you claim to have wanted so much just because of it's graphics? Seriously?

Essentially just the cover of this book has changed, and it's really enough to make you ditch it? Wow.

eagles_band

There is a huge difference in cell shaded and realistic looking games. The blood is cartoony, and the violence in general.

Gearbox was my favorite developer. After waiting years for Hells Highway and being slightly disappointed, them not coming through so far with the Aliens game, and now changing this promising game into a Nick at Nite game, I've lost all faith in Gearbox.

Ruined because of its graphics? Lol that has to be the worst excuse i have ever heard. I play games for their story and gameplay not their graphics.

ive never really heard much about this game ill probly look more into it when its closer to release but honeslty cell shading isnt a big deal. if the game is fun i just wouldnt care about their odd graphical choices (kinda like crackdown) so it wont bother me too much