Borderlands 2 - PS3 - Review

[Ohio Joe]

17. Krieg - First impressions

So... My favorite dispensary for weed has a new strain, Purple Cotton. I am so in love with this stuff and they had it dirt cheap too The guy I car pool with and I smoked a bowl after work with some hash on top... Very nice. I had some pea soup cooking in the crock that was ready to go, a little fresh bread I got on the way home with it and a very tasty meal was had. I got into some comfy clothes, fired up the PS3 and the vaporizer, then went to download the new vault hunter.

The in game way to purchase additional content is still fucked up for me (they have been working on this bug since release and still don't have it fixed) so I made the purchase through the playstation store. Lets just say they really need to get the store fixed, it sucks hard right now, I hate it (though I did download a new demo for a game called GodMode, look for a review soon). Mercifully the download was tiny (I think it was just a couple of meg, it did the download and install in less then 20 seconds) so I was able to get out of that shit quick.

Krieg's action skill is either melee or long range. Melee looks to be the best use of it right now but I expect the ranged aspect could be made into a viable character... hmmm, I'll have to look into that more at some point but right now I'm using it and developing skills to go melee with it.

The first few levels sucked like they always do... They really need to do away with waiting so damn long to get your first skill for BL3... But once you get to start using your action skill... Holy Shit is this character fun to play and I've just scratched the surface (I'm level 8 now). See... Every other character spends a decent amount of time back peddling and trying to fire away at psycho's but now... You are the psycho. I'm just not thinking it's going to get old any time soon watching THEM back peddle for a change

This character, I suspect, is going to be an absolute animal against everything except bosses. Bosses are going to be tough for this guy to solo, a lot like Maya, the action skill is just not very great for bosses and there is a lot of skills that are only activated on a kill (many bosses have no minions). Meh, can't have everything and fortunately most of my playing time is not spent killing bosses over and over again but rather slaughtering the masses

My plan is to go with a primary tree of Mania so I can become a Badass Psycho Mutant with a secondary tree of Hellborn for the elemental damage.

If you are still playing and still loving BL2, get this, it's a lot of fun.