Borderlands

Welded Diablo's randomized loot tables onto an FPS, creating the looter-shooter genre.

Released 2009 Developer Gearbox Software Publisher 2K Games Platform Xbox 360 Genre Looter shooter Era Digital storefronts & indie Website borderlandsthegame.com ↗

Mechanics it built on

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

Experience Points and Levels ~~1980~~Procedural Loot Tables ~~1996~~Colour-Coded Loot Rarity ~~1996~~Branching Skill Tree ~~1996~~Drop-In Co-op Campaign ~~2001~~

The Borderlands series in this dataset

2009

Borderlands ~~this page~~

2012

Borderlands 2 ~~2012~~

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