The writing in Borderlands 3 is not great, but the gameplay was a huge step up over 2. It’s not a great idea to forget that Borderlands 3 happened, as it’s an excellent game.
Hands-On: Borderlands 4 wants you to forget Borderlands 3 ever happened
Submitted 3 weeks ago by simple@piefed.social to games@lemmy.world
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ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ugurcan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Excellent?.. Well, your experience might be different but I just checked, even though I clocked way more at BL3, I don’t remember an inch about it. I remember lots of details and fun moments about BL1 and BL2 though.
WALLACE@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
I honestly didn’t think it was any better or worse than the others. The writing wasn’t good in any of them, but the gameplay was good enough. Tiny Tina was the most irritating character in the whole series and she’s mainly in BL2, which is a fan favourite.
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Are they still harvesting personal data from players?
Nima@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
can’t make me, sorry! i love borderlands 3. (sorry to interrupt the hateful circlejerk that seems to be in most comment sections for games forums these days.)
Borderlands 3 is fun and I look forward to my next playthrough
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Personally, my only complaint is that legendary guns were too common in BL3. I often kept running with the same legendary for 15-20 levels becauae they were still better than the non-legendaries. Why have 18 bajillion guns when there’s 20 better ones you can get semi-often?
justsquigglez@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
Totally agree with you that the game is still incredibly fun, they’ve more or less mastered that part. It’s the story that got me and I’m not even one to really pay attention to the story in games.
I do hope this next story will at least be bearable (and for the love of God, if they’re trying to make us forget BL3, then right out Ava for fucks sake. Better yet, have someone offhandedly mention she died on a random planet.)
Sanctus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I wish Borderlands would have stayed on the vault hunting topic presented in 1. All I wanted an open world Pandora where we just hunt vaults.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
One of the vault hunters is from the Traunt family. Members of which were sprinkled quite liberally around the 3rd game.
Not doing a very good job of making people forget.
n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Not for $90… I’ll stick with my $40 Helldivers 2
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
At least Borderlands won’t be deleted off the face of the earth someday.
n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I wouldnt be so confident in that statement, what happens if they delist it from a store, what happens then?
jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Waaaaaay ahead of you Gearbox…
sad_detective_man@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
not hard to do, I played it muted and with the captions off to spare myself from all that quirked up millennial dialogue.
pretty good like that, honestly
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fun fact they still haven’t fixed a bug where landing on the jakobs planet with the jungles kills some of the audio from the game on ps4/5
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I’m apparently the only person who really enjoyed 3 all the way through.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
How many times did it crash? I enjoyed it, then it crashed and I didnt enjoy that segment as much, then it crashed again and it was a chore, then I got to the next checkpoint, and then it crashed and I did it again, and then it crashed and now its dead to me.
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Crashed like it was buggy? Never.
I played it a while after release though.
mrfriki@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s ok, I already forgotten a few years ago.
TwinTitans@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
3 was a lot of fun. The story’s meh, but everything else was great.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I don’t even know what this is
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
done. I’ll forget 3 exists and continue to ignore that 4 exists. also included is 1 and 2
jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
1 and 2 were legitimately good games.
Pre-Sequel was terrible, 3 was better but still not good.
Can’t say I remember enough about the Tell Tale game to have an opinion which may also very well be an opinion. ;)
bagodogs@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
1 wasn’t quite polished enough for me, but 2 was a lot of fun. The writing for the other two was horrendous, but I played through 3 for the gameplay loop; I would just turn off audio for a while when they talked too much. The Telltale game is fine for what it is, but their games are all exposition hallways.
I’m not getting 4 until it’s $60 or less - if then.
Reference4054@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
First Telltale game was very good and was one of my favorite Telltale games. Didn’t hear great things about three second one.
dil@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
3 was rough, borderlands shouldve figured out how to present the story with gameplay by now, you end up taking an hour detour where you do nothing often
Katana314@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I certainly remember getting some meaningful and surprising twists in the Telltale game, at least.