{"id":29254,"date":"2011-12-09T12:55:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T10:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=29254"},"modified":"2011-12-09T12:57:52","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T10:57:52","slug":"gearbox-borderlands-2-will-be-less-repetitive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/29254-gearbox-borderlands-2-will-be-less-repetitive","title":{"rendered":"Gearbox: Borderlands 2 will be less repetitive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We absolutely loved Borderlands, but there were certain portions of the game that were a little repetitive. The sequel is now in development, and we\u2019re pleased to learn that Gearbox is aiming to make it less repetitive than the first game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Borderlands-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-29260\" title=\"Borderlands 2\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Borderlands-2-1024x877.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Borderlands-2-1024x877.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Borderlands-2-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Borderlands-2-250x214.jpg 250w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Borderlands-2.jpg 1052w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think a lot of what we&#8217;re trying to do in this game is, from the character classes to the guns to the loot&#8230; Borderlands is really about the loot, about the mechanic of levelling up and getting new gear,&#8221; said Scott Kester.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[We&#8217;re] focusing a lot more on the actual gun content creation, making those really interesting and fun&#8230; a new thing around every corner, a new loot. I think [we&#8217;re] focusing and doubling down on what our core was, designing the best characters and guns and environments we could, to make the loot as interesting as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The guns this time around are so much better. From a visual design standpoint they look different, they do different things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yay!<\/p>\n<p>Borderlands 2 is expected to be released on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 sometime in 2012. Check out Kester chatting about it, below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iILrJDpAMkw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guns will be more interesting, and there will be &#8220;more new things&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":29261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4],"tags":[1524,1525],"class_list":["post-29254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","category-xbox","tag-borderlands-2","tag-gearbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29262,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29254\/revisions\/29262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}