Comment on Borderlands 4 for Nintendo Switch 2 likely axed, as Take-Two says it’s ‘paused’ development | VGC

SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨29⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I skipped 1, I adored 2 and played it to a harmful degree, I tried 3 and got bored after three attempts to get through it. There was a fourth??

  I mean, the second game was basically setting the thing up for a MMO open-world, group-mission-running/loot extraction type game across a huge, cel-shaded world with open PvP areas… and they dropped the ball on that?

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• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Did you play it? I thought the class designs were excellent.

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  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is it like the other ones where it takes several hours until you start finding interesting guns and get cool powers?

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think the onboarding ramp is pretty standard across the series. If you stopped at 2, I thought the active abilities and corresponding upgrades were far more interesting in 3 and 4, even from the get go.

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I never even finished 3 because got seriously bored with it, and never had a whole lot of interest in 4, especially hearing how badly optimized it was. It just didn’t look like anything worth the money to me, that’s all. Then I literally forgot it has been out for a while because I was so disinterested.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I really enjoyed both of them. It may just not be your cup of tea, but I get the sense that the average person just plays them sort of mindlessly. For 3 and 4 especially, I found there’s a really interesting layer in there when you start min/maxing around creating a feedback loop. In case you ever found yourself curious enough to give them another try. It makes them very memorable experiences.

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      • dil@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        3 was extra short, didnt feel like replaying it, just played it last year, didn’t feel like buying 4 and I can afford it + have free time. It just doesn’t look appealing, will def buy when it inevitably goes on sale for like 10-20$

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      • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I have played the original Borderlands more times than I can reasonably recall, and Borderlands 2 three or four times, but gosh I tried so hard to like BL3 and it just never landed with and felt tedious by that point.

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