• redfellow@sopuli.xyz
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    1 day ago

    Apart from the politics, the Borderlands games themselves are hardly utter shit for the most part.

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      I think they’re pretty terrible.

      I’ve tried multiple times to get in to them and I’ve come to the conclusion they’re just for a gamer with lower standards than me.

      This is also based off of the games that I see borderlands fans like that I think suck ass.

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      19 hours ago

      The writing is garbage but,… it’s a game for edgy teenagers. It would be.

      The gameplay for me is Diablo with guns. It would suck for anyone not into that. If anyone isn’t into that, don’t buy Borderlands games.

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        Got to argue, I’m a 39 year old gamer, started with PCs back in 90s.

        The games are casual fun, they work great as co-op shooters. Story is what it is, but the games themselves are lighthearted and just pure entertaining fun.

        Not masterpieces. Just good.

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          The first felt really fresh at the time. FPS was dominated by various milsim shooters and Halo, and the irreverence and clever cell shading style worked well.

          Two dialed things up in scope and scale and added some nice environmental variety.

          But the rest? The presequel? The 3rd? I just couldn’t. It was more of the same, tired, repetitive, the jokes started really scraping the bottom of the barrel. I had fun early on, but I’m out.

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            I loved the gameplay of pre sequel. But the writing for that was constantly throwing me for a loop on how any of it was greenlit. I didn’t mind the writing in 1 and 2, I got a few chuckles out of that. Pre sequel just made me groan, moan and yawn.

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            I liked 1 and 2. Got bored for the prequel and 3 early on.

            Tiny Tinas I did play and really enjoyed that game. It felt like a reasonable advancement over BL 1 and 2. It felt like they stagnated for a bit and raised the bar slightly with Tinas.

            I really wanted an MMO style Borderlands with 4, and I wouldn’t value 4 any higher than Tinas launch price. But I am interested in what the game has to offer.

            If you liked only the first two, def give Tina’s a try, if it has a good sale.