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Definitely creepy. A lot of folks' definition of creepy is decaying woodlands and old gothic-style catacombs. But a savage, hopeless wasteland... that's full of despair.

Yes the environment's looks awesome.. This is more of a sandy desert type compared to d2's dry desert..

its really nice to play the sand just swirls around you and it feels more like a desert then d2 did. Its really neat the first time i played it you start in this canyon and there are huge cliffs along the side. as your walking out things where climbing all over the top of the rocks and just watching you it was kinda erie but so awesome.

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Please check the "Boarderlands" in the title. It gave me some weird feelings...

Yes, please... It's misspelled.

So this will be Act II?

We don't know, but it stands to reason since apparently in the demo you are around lvl 10-15. Either that or it's act 1, because if the levelling pace is somewhat similar to D2, you can't possibly be lvl 15 in act 3.

Well, didn't they say that there will be more than one city per act? This could be the second city in act 1 before travelling to Caldeum.

Oh that might be entirely true, truth be told I don't have a very firm grasp of all the Diablo news flying around.

Well I wouldn't say that this desert is any "more" a desert than the one from Diablo 2 but it certainly is very different: much more wild and chaotic.

With the Diablo 2 desert, you could feel the presence of nearby civilization (Lut Gholein) and although the sun was dangerously bright (and assumedly scorching hot) in Act 2, it didn't have a particularly intimidating atmosphere about it. The music too contributed a lot to this safer atmosphere with it's gentle percussive rhythms and exotic tones.

But the Borderlands desert is windy, dusty and seems nearly inhabitable. It's more the kind of desert where'd you'd expect to find nomads rather than citiies. The music too seems less "pretty" than the score for Diablo 2's second act with the song we hear on the Borderlands page being the most obvious example of this.

It looks and sounds fantastic but of course I'm always pushing for some rougher textures amidst all that sand and dust. Great work by Blizzard!

Lets all take a moment to pray for no maggot lairs.

This place, and the wide open ruins dungeon that was showed in the demo look absolutely awesome.

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Lets all take a moment to pray for no maggot lairs.

This place, and the wide open ruins dungeon that was showed in the demo look absolutely awesome.

Probably the funniest thing i have heard in awhile! lol.

I usually don't like desert themed areas, but this one looks great, I think it's better than the Tristam area, because of the wind.

Let's hope they will eventually do a cityscape theme somewhere, maybe as part of a quest. It would be quite cool to fight demons on a busy street, and have merchants running around screaming and getting impaled. Who knows, maybe you can snatch some quick gold from some abandoned stores, or better yet, raid a blacksmith shop

I don't know, I sorta liked the maggot lair...