{"id":36511,"date":"2012-04-23T13:45:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T11:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=36511"},"modified":"2012-04-24T12:16:49","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T10:16:49","slug":"borderlands-2-isnt-wimpy-with-around-60-hours-of-gameplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/36511-borderlands-2-isnt-wimpy-with-around-60-hours-of-gameplay","title":{"rendered":"Borderlands 2 isn&#8217;t &#8220;wimpy&#8221;, with around 60 hours of gameplay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that when Borderlands 2 drops it\u2019s going to keep us entertained for quite some time.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with Digital Spy, <a title=\"Gearbox Software\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20171-Gearbox-Software\">Gearbox<\/a> vice-president <a title=\"Steve Gibson\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/24318-Steve-Gibson\">Steve Gibson<\/a> said (with utter disrespect to the English language): \u201cThe last one was giant, this one is more gianter\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Gibson went on to highlight the length and content within the game, saying: \u201cIf you do core missions, ignoring side missions, you could probably plough through it in 20 to 30 hours in one playthrough. If you do side missions, you&#8217;re looking to get close to doubling that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also explained that there is six-times as much story and writing than there was in Borderlands 1, which should mean that the story takes much more of a front-seat this time around.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you guys play the full Borderlands 2, we worked really hard to reintroduce all of the characters. It&#8217;s a standalone game. But if you did play the first one, you will certainly see a lot of things that would be even funnier to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Borderlands came out in 2009 despite being \u201csent to die\u201d according to a very-wrong <a title=\"Michael Pachter\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/24286-Michael-Pachter\">Michael Pachter<\/a>, as the game went on to be one of the best-selling and highest-rated games of the year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The way we felt was that three years ago, when we did Borderlands, we stuck our neck out pretty far,&#8221; Gibson recalled. &#8220;We did what was seen as a bizarre blending of genres, a bizarre art style and a bizarre sense of humour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t just want to do a wimpy sequel. We wanted to do a full, ambitious, giant sequel, and part of that is the new feeling of experience, and that happens with new character classes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We thought we could either churn out a sequel in a year or two, or we could be crazy all over again &#8211; stick out our necks again. That was the decision at Gearbox.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Borderlands 2 is set for release in September 2012.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalspy.co.uk\/gaming\/interviews\/a373471\/borderlands-2-interview-gearbox-software-on-gianter-sequel.html\">Digital Spy<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxm.co.uk\/40848\/borderlands-2-isnt-a-wimpy-sequel-around-40-60-hours-long-in-total\/\">OXM<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/35645-borderlands-2s-mechromancer-class-revealed.html\">Borderlands 2 Mechromancer class revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/34354-claptrap-promises-pc-gamers-tons-of-new-features-in-borderlands-2.html\">Claptrap promises PC gamers tons of new features in Borderlands 2<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/33892-borderlands-2s-handsome-jack-is-glados-times-joker.html\">Borderlands 2&#8217;s Handsome Jack is &#8220;GLaDOS times Joker&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/33241-borderlands-2-pc-drm-system-announced.html\">Borderlands 2 PC DRM system announced<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/32797-borderlands-2-gets-launch-date-special-edition-launch-date-trailer.html\">Borderlands 2 gets launch date, special edition date trailer\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Borderlands sequel is much bigger and more badass than first game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":36512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[827,31,1524,3750,3749,1525,2219],"class_list":["post-36511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-2k-games","tag-active","tag-borderlands-2","tag-borderlands-2-size","tag-borderlands-interview","tag-gearbox","tag-megarom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36511","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36545,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36511\/revisions\/36545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}