Hear hear!
Borderlands is a neat concept, but it’s ruined by an awful studio and reddit-tier ‘humor.’
It was nice to see Battleborn fail because honestly that’s what the studio deserves.
Onyxonblack@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I apparently love downvotes but here goes: All the Borderlands games (annoying childish cell-shaded skinner-box) and everything Gearbox is and has ever created it utter shit. The CEO is a garbage person, and thier dealings with Epic is Capitalist-Oink-Piggy shite! "“FUCK YOU 2K & GEARBOX, AND FUCK YOU BORDERLANDS!”
propitiouspanda@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
Yep, I am jumping in with you on this one.
The cell-shaded art style? Not the problem, imo.
The problem is the just astoundingly terrible writing, immensely insufferable characters, and astonishingly brain dead gameplay.
Why have weapon balance of tactically interesting scenarios or any real sense of progression in gameplay when we can just procedurally generate guns and do everything we can to make everything into roughly the same level of bullet sponge with auto levelling?
They are the lowest common denominator of co-op shooter games.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 1 day ago
everything Gearbox is and has ever created it utter shit
OpFor was good, Blue Shift was alright too.
Everything since they stole the whole idea of Borderlands has been bad though.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Yes, but it should still be illegal for a company to do this. Don’t let them blame the users for accepting this bullshit. As Louis Rossmann would say, they have the mentality of a rapist.
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You’re definitely right about Pitchford or w/e dingleberry’s name is.
dil@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Except lawbreakers but he tainted it by supporting it and made ppl against it
Crankenstein@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Bro thank you for mentioning Lawbreakers. Such a fun game that was cut short.
propitiouspanda@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
Lawbreakers was made by Boss Key studios, headed by Cliff Blezsinski who was the guy behind Gears of War.
You may be thinking of Battleborn, which was made by Gearbox.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I’m sorry, but Battleborn was brilliant. Deadlock is the first game to re-capture (and expand on) the mix of mechanics Battleborn put together.
Didn’t stop Gearbox from shutting it down so that no-one who bought it could ever play again. Not even the story campaign.
red@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Apart from the politics, the Borderlands games themselves are hardly utter shit for the most part.
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 1 day ago
The writing is garbage but,… it’s a game for edgy teenagers. It would.
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.
red@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
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.
keckbug@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 day ago
What are you arguing with? I don’t see your comment as contradictory to theirs at all.
propitiouspanda@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
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.