The Origins of Borderlands - Gearbox Software Roundtable

Executive producer Randy Pitchford, lead programmer Jimmy Sieben, lead level designer Graeme Timmins, and game designer Jonathan Hemingway share their stories and help explain what it took to get Borderlands off of the ground and onto store shelves.

[WhistlePigZILLA]

Yeah, the new art style really sets the mood of "That's impossible! . . . Ah, Hell, it's Borderlands, why the fuck not!?"

[Narsuaq]

Haha, them rocking on their chairs is hilarious! xD

[skaftias]

One thing is certain Randy always had an issue with shirts lol

[GLDNRD]

There is a program called Horizon that can unpack and extract the files from almost any xbox 360 game. you can import that save into either willowtree (for original borderlands) or the gibbed save editor (for borderlands 2) and then you can modify pretty much everything. I mainly do it only to test out builds for characters to see which ones I like the most, and other things. that and I also do it to backup my saves.

[slimmyraw]

Gearbox never stole anything, they've always been innovators, since they worked on Half-Life. Now they got a franchise that holds it's own genre. So, where were ideas stolen? Seems to me they give ideas, not take 'em.

[necoconecochan]

that bottle of coke keeps bothering me... now I want coke... wait a minute. was this intentional?!

[OrangeKrushGaming]

who saw the bad ass ps3 xbox 360 on the shelf

[GLDNRD]

true. however, modding is something that really can bring out the complete experience of a game, but it must be taken in moderation. for example, I beat UVHM on my 4 primary characters, then started on my mechromancer. of course, the psycho had come out so I decided to just do the first few major quests and then mod my level up a bit so I could speed through and get to the content with my psycho. THAT is the way modding should be done.

[jimmyrustler]

These guys are Doomers huh? they should really hire John Romero to do so level design.

[ibarkis]

I Know, I really like those mexican coke's! Also, Borderlands is really awesome!

[adi]

yea
it was annoying that u can build weapons and change level money and more.
and the save are in the pc so my friend format is computer and the save removed