Is RAGE the successor of Borderlands?

Is there any hope for Borderlands fans waiting for sequel? Yes.... RAGE.

[brockst4r]

I can see the resemblance, but honestly Rage looks like the mean cousin of Borderlands with no sense of humor.

[joydestroy]

main cousin? you mean big daddy? lol

Rage looks superior in every way. oh, and i bet voice chat will work great on the PS3.
btw, is that STILL broken on the PS3 version of borderlands? rofl

[BeOneWithTheGun]

As long as there is no CS I am fine. God, I hate the cartoon look.

[Venoxn4g]

in "Looks" maybe.. but in gameplay - we still don't know.. need to wait untill rage will come..

[TruthSeeker]

I didnt rele like Borderlands, got boring quick.

[Christopher]

Yeah, similar setting and gameplay concept, but really not the same.

1. Borderlands is more of an RPG, with skill trees and different "classes"

2. Borderlands is heavily focused on group-based play.

3. Borderlands loot is also heavily based on the diablo-esque model of random loot.

4. Borderlands world is also heavily based on the diablo-esque concept of respawning opponents after loading/over time.

Both focus a lot on a variety of weapons, but Rage's seem more focused on specific types with modifications while Borderlands took a ton of baseline concepts and randomly applied other features to them and gave them to you randomly. Rage puts this sort of customization more in the hands of the gamer rather than a die roll.

[Elimin8]

Still looks awesome though.

[DavidMacDougall]

Looks good but this whole trying to fit it on the 360's old DVDs make me paranoid, feel like its gonna be full of loading screens.

http://www.1up.com/news/rag...

[Reibooi]

I don't really think they are similar. Yeah the world is similar but that's about it.

Also why do they play it up like there is no hope for a Boarderlands 2? Just because pitchford hasn't talked about it yet doesn't mean they are not making it. The game sold a crap ton it's gonna get a sequel. It's just gonna take awhile and right now they are focusing on Duke. I would bet we will hear something on a new Boarderlands soon.

[the_best_player]

Borderlands sucked Fallout was alot better

[xYLeinen]

Hopefully Rage won't suck if you play it alone.

[Christopher]

I've been very impressed with the last two gameplay videos. Check out the BethesdaSoftworks channel on YouTube if you haven't seen them.

http://www.youtube.com/user...

[BiggCMan]

I played Borderlands by myself he entire time. I occasionally played with some friends once I got the DLC packs, but for the most part I always played by myself and I loved every minute of it.

[vickers500]

I played through the campaign once by myself (none of my friends had it at the time) and enjoyed every minute of it as well, and I had a blast.

Then my friend got it and we played it probably like 2 or 3 times through + playing through all the dlc.

Very fun game, definitely one of my most played games this gen and probably my favorite game of this gen (can't decide between Bioshock or Borderlands).

[rabidpancakeburglar]

I pointed out yesterday that this reminded me of borderlands but on a grander scale, the agrees and disagrees were about the same. If you look at the plot then you can't help but be reminded of fallout and to an extent borderlands.

I thought that it was like borderlands because it has a certain look which just reminds me of it and the fact that it's a shooter/rpg, plus the vehicular travel and the ninja star like thing reminds me of the bloodwing in borderlands.

Overall though it looks like it will come up trumps over both fallout and borderlands judging from the gameplay videos so far.

[soundslike]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the main draw of Borderlands for MANY people was playing a Diablo style loot hording game in FPS with co-op?
Everything after that seems to be icing on the cake.

So Borderlands and Rage really don't seem comparable in any way besides the setting and the inclusion of vehicles. For me, though, it's not that big of a similarity.

[rabidpancakeburglar]

You have your opinion and I have mine, lets leave it at that

[thrasherv3]

"RAGE is the successor of Borderlands?"
No.

What makes Borderlands "Borderlands" is the humor and loot. This game has neither from what I can tell. It also doesn't have the RPG elements that Borderlands has(skill-tree's and character progression.) Rage still might be a great game(or better, who knows) but has no business being compared to Borderlands and vice versa.

(Hell, does this game even have co-op!? Or PvP?)

[mtm5925]

Borderlands is basically Diablo in FPS form.

Rage, from what I've read, is more like Bioshock in gameplay wise. Limited number of weapons, ammo types, crafting, mini games, and swallow RPG elements. And there's no loot or classes.

[buckley]

The only similarities I see are aesthetic.

Rage looks awesome, but I wouldn't expect it to have the same kind of RPG depth as Borderlands.

[CrzyFooL]

Not really.

[Ashriel]

I'm sick of the borderlands comparisons :/

[thrasherv3]

Amen

[lucifon]

Same...just because they're in wastelands with mutants. The gameplay is nothing alike.

[Alos88]

All they really have in common is a post apocalyptic setting and mutants, and those are fairly common traits these days.

[wallis]

Just because borderlands and rage share some surface similarities doesn't make them similar. They're approaching the same point but from completely different angles.

Borderlands blends halo's gunplay, duke nukem's humour, XIII's art style, l4d's four person coop, and diablo's loot system to create something rather unique and, in my opinion, loveable.

Rage is Id software's next gen title that focuses on modifying your existing gun to improve your character's proficiency. And, rather importantly, Rage is a linear game. Any resemblance to an open RPG, i.e a large world with side quests, simply comes from the fact that Id have just enriched the world with greater detail. They call it 'directed freedom'. Id are NOT making a companion to fallout or oblivion and you're gonna be severely disappointed if you think that's what your getting.

In every interview I have read about Rage Id have repeatedly reiterated the fact that is an 'Id game', it's not an open world rpg and articles like this are just re-enforcing the idea that we're gonna get some awesome open world wonder like stalker or morrowind. So while the author of this article decided to spend more time vocalizing his thoughts than actually thinking about them Id is unfortunately gonna wind up with the inevitable criticism of 'this was such a disappointment, I thought it was gonna be this... blah blah blah'.

So no, Rage is not a successor to borderlands. Borderlands is an amalgamation of a load of different gameplay features from a variety of genres. Gearbox showed overwhelming skill in making those features work together (8 million sales with a dedicated fan base) but borderlands and Rage occupy totally different sections of the gaming industry.

Also if you wanna get technical borderlands doesn't even share Rage's setting! Pandora is just some back water world that no corporation can be arsed to parol properly. In fact in setting it more closely resembles red dead in that it's a fringe society with no moral compass!