Borderlands thread

Damn, son. I'm making a shopping list

Made by Gearbox proper innit? So it should be good

I've started The Pre-Sequel and it's not that funny. Still gets a chuckle now and then but it's nowhere near as funny as it thinks it is. Reminds me of Rob saying the humour in BL3 is like someone trying to emulate BL humour

There's a few design choices that are really annoying as well

I'm not seeing the wisdom in the limited air supply. During fights, it's irrelevant as you're always picking up oxygen refills, so it only really comes into play during exploration where you have to stop what you're doing, go and find a vent or something and come back. It's just annoying and doesn't add anything. Plus you have to listen to those atmosphere warning messages about 50,000 times, which alone should have been a reason to scrap the entire idea. There's a mission that sends you to a specific location to watch a thing happen, but that location does not have an atmosphere and you need to use a jump pad to get there so have to exit your vehicle. So you're watching this thing with your oxygen ticking down. Game design

There's a sub objective for an early mission that relies on you setting enemies on fire with a laser weapon (an effect that happens at random) but you have a limited number of kills to do it which need to be inside an atmosphere (but you not inside an atmosphere). It's just irritating. There's one of those bubble generator things but a) the pricks will stand just outside it and shoot you and b) they keep shooting the generator which causes it to shut down, so no atmosphere again and no burning

The terrain is a pain to drive around because it's all over the place and there's timed missions where you have to do that (they're on the ignore mission list)

It's lots of little things that just make it feel poorly designed and now and again the game will really piss me off and drain the fun out of it (the core gameplay is still fine)

The voice acting veers into 'we can save some money by doing it ourselves' territory quite often. Some of it is so bad I would rather they didn't talk

The classes are really cool though. I love Athena's shield ability. If I could take the classes and put them in BL2, I'd just do that

Aww, I really liked Pre-Sequel. I liked the quirky bogans in space humor, even if a lot of it was nonsense. But yeah, Athena's Captain America shield was cool.

And yeah, New Tales is by Gearbox themselves. Maybe I'll just chance it. Not really in the mood for God of War Ragnarok at the moment. Never even completed the previous game.

Jesus Christ, the credits were about an hour and a half long. You do have the option to speed them up or skip altogether, but I had no idea it'd be that bad.

Less QTEs sounds like a lifesaver, that stuff made OG Tales unplayable to me

Oh I misread that, missed the "more" in the middle of the sentence. Good to know, now I'll stay far, FAR away from this game.

I just ordered BL3 for £3.83. This is a worringly low price. Is it decent? (I trust youse more than reviews these days unless Edwin the fuckface has an account here)

Yeah. it's great. Ignore the people trying to pretend they're high brow. It's funny

The game is extremely generous with its loot, so you'll enjoy that

Where did you get it for four quid? I was toying with grabbing it for 8 odd in the sale tbh.

Yeah because you'd pay a good £4 for a box full of pubes anyway, never mind if it also contained a game.

I know this becuase I order boxes of pubes for a friend.

Bargain.

BL3 is brilliant, one of my favourite games of all time. Played it for over 1000 hours.

Anyone have these games on Switch? The Legendary Collection with BL1, 2, and Pre-Sequel is going for about $10 at the moment. So are Bioshock Collection and a Call of Juarez + Dying Light bundle. Oddly, in the Borderlands and Bioshock bundles, they’re basically the same price as going for the each individual game. Call of Juarez is about $4 on its own, and Dying Light is full price.

Trying to decide which collection to get. The Techland games are surprisingly some of the best ports on the Switch, which is surprising because their games launched pretty wonky on Xbox and PS.

Edit: I think I’m going Juarez and Dying Light actually. Borderlands games are big, and I have the Bioshock remasters on Xbox and have yet to replay them. Never actually played DL, and Juarez being a more arcadey linear shooter might be something I’d dig into more readily.

It's a bloody great game. Did it have of did they ever add cross play?