Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing

kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  BL2 was great. Some of its DLC was even better. Assault on Dragon Keep is one of the best looter shooters ever made. The gameplay was a blast. The jokes were funny…And out of left field it broke your fucking heart by secretly being about a young, traumatized girl’s grief.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It wasn’t out of left field. They telegraphed it frequently.

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    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes. The out of left field had more to do with what was expected going in. We all expected silly D&D and fart jokes. We didn’t expect a legitimately touching examination of grief and denial to bring depth to a silly character.

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  • ManOMorphos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Have you tried Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands? It’s basically an entire spinoff game from Dragon Keep DLC with its own unique systems. Personally I think it’s the most creative game in the genre.

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  • kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    …and then they turned it into spinoff game with Wanda Sykes’ voice constantly grating your brain into shredded cheese

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• LettyWhiterock@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  3 was the best out of all of them from a gameplay perspective. People don’t like the story but I never cared for any of the borderlands stories personally.

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  • derpgon@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Let’s be honest, the only story missions we ever cared about were those starring Handsome Jack.

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    • dvlsg@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The Tiny Tina DLC was pretty good.

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      • derpgon@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        True, TT’s B&B was great. Shame the TT standalone game lacked that charm and any meaningful engame.

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    • kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Such a great big douchey motivator!

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  • Quazatron@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Honest question: if the story doesn’t matter that much to you, what do you value in a game?

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    • Skipcast@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m not OP but varied gameplay and interesting mechanics is way more important for me unless it’s a very story rich game that’s done well (the last of us or death stranding for example)

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    • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Depends on the game. In a looter shooter like Borderlands, it’s the looting and shooting

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• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Borderlands 3 was significantly better, in my opinion.

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  • forrgott@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The gameplay was much improved; the writing was…not good.

    But I played the hell out of 3 anyway, so…

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    • Flatfire@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      BL3 had some fantastic DLC though. Loved that.

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    • JetpackJackson@feddit.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I liked the slide mechanic but hated the fact that enemies would see me when invisible as FL4K… story was meh. Haven’t even done a full replay iirc, unless I did finish my Zane playthrough… whereas I’ve played BL2, TPS, and BL1 multiple times.

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      • forrgott@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I couldn’t resist the rakk build for my FL4K - and that particular action skill was crazy for triggering anointments. Only ever maxed his level though. Got close with Zane (he stays slow, but gets pretty overpowered by the end - but only if you avoided the bugged out non-functional skills). Next highest level I got was on Amara. I loved Moze’s power armor, by that’s the char my girlfriend mained, so I never got mine leveled very far.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I definitely wasn’t playing Borderlands at any point for the story. I like that it has one, but if they wrote some terrible villains, it doesn’t affect how much fun I had with my build synergies in those boss fights.

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• JustARaccoon@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well most review sites give it high scores with the negatives being primarily the performance so at least this time there might be a good game in there somewhere underneath all those shader compilation stutters

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• CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So, BL3 wasn’t great. the pre-sequel was out of house and doesn’t really count. It was made in an entirely other culture. It’s not like there have been a lot of games since BL2.

  I honestly don’t understand the hate.

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  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you’re going to dismiss the criticism of BL3 or the Presequel then yeah, it makes you don’t get the hate.

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  • kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No hate, just unmet expectations.

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