Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.

• 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.

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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      • bitwolf@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        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.

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      • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I loved the gameplay of pre sequel. But the wiring 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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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What are you arguing with? I don’t see your comment as contradictory to theirs at all.

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      • red@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I guess your premise, that it’s for edgy teens. Heck, half the pop references were ancient on launch.

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• propitiouspanda@lemmy.cafe ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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