Borderlands 2

Refined the loot-shooter into a long-tail DLC platform and defined its comedic voice.

Released 2012 Developer Gearbox Software Publisher 2K Games Platform Xbox 360 Genre Looter shooter Era Digital storefronts & indie Website borderlands.2k.com ↗

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Borderlands 2 inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Procedural Loot Tables ~~1996~~Colour-Coded Loot Rarity ~~1996~~Branching Skill Tree ~~1996~~Drop-In Co-op Campaign ~~2001~~Downloadable Content ~~2006~~

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2009

Borderlands ~~2009~~

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