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Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash

Sunsofold@lemmings.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I haven’t played 4, but I played 1, 2, and a bit of the presequel or whatever it was called. They were essentially all the same game. Run, shoot, run, shoot, hear vaguely off-color joke, run, shoot. Is there any particular reason to bother with an overpriced remake of the same old game? Is there a reason for worrying about 4KUHD textures on a game where the aesthetic is cartoony? If you’re a 9 year old who’s never played, and it’s all on mom’s dime, I could see being tricked into buying it by the advertisers, but why is anyone else excited about it?

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TwinTitans@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
30 seconds of fun repeated, the golden rule. The games fun as fuck.

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MadameBisaster@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Started with 2, liked it, hated 3, now playing 4 since yesterday with a friend and gameplay wise it has a bunch of changes/improvements. So if someone enjoys the gameplay its good. I mean cod and battlefield and fifa are also nearly the same game every time ;)

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- nyctre@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah, you won’t hear us defending those games either ;)
  
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thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I played the hell out of the first Borderlands (including New Game+ across all expansions), but promptly bounced off 2 & Pre-Sequel because it literally just felt like more of the same and I was already sated.

BL3 and now BL4 are literally just more of the same, but with ever increasingly more egregious monetisation.

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- QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  2 was good because of the Handsome Hack commentary.
  
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  - thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I think that was the one that started in an ice zone, if I remember correctly? I literally couldn’t get past it because I find that aesthetic quite boring…
    
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    Snowpix@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The ice zone (Southern Shelf) is only the very beginning of the game, you reach more interesting areas after defeating the first major boss, Captain Flynt.
    
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echodot@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Any interest I had in the game, which was already fairly minimal, was completely obliterated when the price was announced.

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