zombie84 said:

Borderlands has good art design, but the gameplay is above average at most. It's a good game, but I think it's more a case of it's competition making it look good.

I've yet to play BL2, but the greatness of the first BL was entirely in the co-op, which was fantastic. Too many co-op games are short and you run out of stuff to do, Borderlands was great because it gave you hours and hours of running around with a friend online, doing missions and shooting the breeze. And it felt like every time you ran out of missions and took a reasonable break from it, there was a new DLC pack out on its way out to look forward to.

Alone, it was just a waste of time IMHO. Main reason I haven't played BL2 yet is because I haven't had any good friends to play it with online. One of my old BL buddies switch exclusively to PC gaming (and now says he can't take consoles seriously anymore because they feel like a watered down experience. PC gaming elitist, pah...), and my other BL buddy was the girl I was dating at the time.

It is actually a really great couples game, it was nice snuggling up on a Saturday morning or late at night and splitscreening with each other.

Far Cry 3 on the other hand I have been consistently impressed with, and it's a lot of fun. If you play the whole way through you might find some of the missions get repetetive by the end, but for me it's one of the best FPS I have played in a couple years. Good presentation, good graphics, good gameplay, good co-op, it's just an all-around solid game.

Good to hear. I've heard great things, and I've heard really negative things. I still have a feeling I'll really like it.