I recently downloaded this because it was free, and stupid humor aside, the game is incredibly fun. Never played a Borderlands game before. Anyone ever still play? Anyone else playing it because it was free on Steam? Anyone looking forward to Borderlands 4

>xhe didnt read the fine print
oh nononono

You belong to Todd now boy

>>712784137
That wasn't real.

>thumbnail is mostly brown colors
>open image
>spooky red glow overtakes everything
wtf

>>712784053 (OP)
I play it every fucking day, bro
Don't play PreSequel

>>712784236
It's an HDR screenshot. 10 bit color. The thumbnail doesn't display it correctly.

>>712784053 (OP)
I really enjoyed Borderlands 1 and 2. 2 especially. By the time I got through Pre-sequel and 3, I got kind of tired, but I still occasionally reinstall and play them. I need to finish playing Maya/Krieg's DLC in 3. Maya was my favorite character. Definitely not as crazy hyped for 4 as I was for 2, but from what I've seen so far it doesn't look too bad. I might pick it up during a sale or something like I did with 3.

But man, 2 was so phenomenal, became a big part of my life for a couple years. Have fun, anon.

>>712784053 (OP)
Do yourself a favor and don't play 3. If you do it will explain why nobody's excited for 4. Use a dialogue skip mod or something. I tried playing it through family sharing a few weeks ago and couldn't get past the tutorial because some shirtless gay man in his underwear and a cape was yapping at me in a mandatory walking section

>>712784276
What do you do on it? Just replay it over and over?

>>712784502
BL2 is definitely something special. When a game that is over 10 years old can completely capture my attention, that's when I know it's a REALLY good game, and BL2 is like that. I go to sleep and wake up thinking about it every day since I was about 30 hours in.

>>712784502
3 has improved a LOT over time, in the first year of release I couldn't stick with it long enough to even level a character fully. Their design decisions and constant balance changes were cancerously unfun. Now I find it quite fun, second most fun of the series, though still spend 95% of my time on 2.

TPS will never be redeemed. It's like a fan mod made by idiots. All the recognizable parts are there, but it's all put together horribly. The skill trees are just the antithesis of fun. 90% of them are fucking "Doing V will increase your W by X% for Y seconds, stacking Z times", all combat basically turns into a slog trying to ramp everything up to actually be fun, then everything dies, your stacks decay to 0 and you start over.

Also based Mayaposter

>>712784190
>YOUTUBE DAMAGE CONTROL TOLD ME SO, IT WASN'T REAL!
You didn't even read it lmao.

>>712784660
Yep, this game scratches that specific autism itch for me. Replay different builds, different characters, randomizers, mods, challenge runs. Over and over.

>>712784767
Honest to God I don't care. At all. You can play the game without accepting the EULA, btw. Which I was doing until I learned it wasn't real.

>>712784276
grim

>>712784825
>Eww, he plays video games and has fun with them
Fuck off back to your twitter screencap thread

>>712784767
>no you see it was already like that so it's fine
kek

Presequel is kino and has the best OSTs

>>712784731
>The skill trees are just the antithesis of fun. 90% of them are fucking "Doing V will increase your W by X% for Y seconds, stacking Z times"
YES. This is exactly why I quit playing TPS. Every vault hunter and every build they have all feel like Bloodlust Krieg. Stack 50 different fucking buffs to have any fun.

>>712784907
>Presequel is kino

>>712784623
I don't plan on playing 3, because 2 will carry me until 4 and beyond. I do want to play 4, but I will probably wait for a sale. I don't think it will be worth $80.

>>712784907
Yeah, the music was pretty damn good.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uimykmZgRJ8
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBuA4VCL2Rs
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKOZnJxCp8s
I liked the ambience, this game feels like it had a lot of mystery. Think it helps that I didn't thoroughly explore every nook and cranny like with the first two games, but the space environments and music certainly did their fair share of work to convince me.

Sanctuary... home.

>>712784137
>>712784767
>Youtuber rage bait channels got me rage baited and now I need to keep pretending the fake rage is real
lol I know your ass votes right. No one with a brain is this fucking gullible.

>>712784053 (OP)
Get friends. All the titles are better with friends doing dumb shit.

>>712785917
I tried to get my friends to download it when it was free, but they were playing Vindictus, and idk. I think the image of Borderlands is very cringe MCU type humor, so I couldn't convince them enough, I guess. Wish I had someone to play with.

>>712784053 (OP)
BL2's script is a fucking spit in the face but yeah you have your fun
>>712785917
>your ass votes right
Shouldn't it be left? Bernouts were way dumber than this trog

>>712785917
The EULA doesn't install spyware, but voting Democrat is extremely low IQ.

BL2 has one of the most "lived in" worlds ever put into video games and I'll stand by that until the day I die.
The hubs, the little shacks or chairs set up in the middle of nowhere, the bandit camps, the trash scattered around, the graffiti and posters, everything about it sells the illusion perfectly.

>>712785786
Hmm...not quite the way I remember it...

...oh wait...yeah, that's more like it.

>>712786614
I was just browsing Youtube and then it gave me a random recommendation for this vid and I saw where Tiny Tina's VA ended up. Oof.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5SavjMFRLg

>>712786846
So she's Tiny Tina even irl?

Bl1 is the best mainline in the series
Minimal reddit humor
No girl bosses
Most "mad max" of the 3
Best vault hunter squad

>>712786846
This is so off-putting. I genuinely find the juxtaposition of children's show elements with cursing and sex jokes to be deeply dark and disturbing. It says a lot about the people who made that.

>>712787009
It's more accurate to say that Tiny Tina is Ashly Burch. Her brother (the lead writer of BL2) made it that way.

>>712784907
Presequel just needed more content

>>712787080
It's more that the target audience is (wo)manchildren who want to be infantilized and affirmed.

>>712787028
Probably because in development Borderlands wasn't a reddit humor game, it didn't even have it's cel shaded look. It was just a shooter game on an alien planet.

>>712784053 (OP)
1&2 are very fun don't let anyone tell you otherwise

Hyped for 4, they are promising to fix everything about 3 including the writing.

>>712786710
>All those pearls
They really did pearls dirty in this game. The Butcher is the only one I’d ever use

>>712787080
Lmao even my 80 year old grandmother would die laughing at this pathetic pearl clutching. You faggots have larped yourself into being human parodies

>>712787327
Twice the LGBTQIA+ pride DLC.

>>712787327
I can't wait to see BL4 without the post processing. I think the model outlines look really bad in high resolution, but removing them might make the game look fantastic.

>>712787438
I'm not pearl-clutching. I'm saying if you make a show that is visually a children's show, and you add cursing and sex jokes, it is you externalizing your crossed wires in your head. it's projecting your trauma and stuff to the world. It's embarrassing, and not for the public, it's for a therapist.

>>712787441
I don't care, the gay shit was one of the least offensive thing about BL3 and that's saying something. Just at a quick glance, 4 seems to have a fresh take on the universe alongside a villain that looks respectable which is a breath of fresh air after the twins competing for who can come up with the cringiest line ever.

>>712787458
Gaige my beloved

>>712787327
The writing in this series has never been and never will be good.

>>712788065
I think the whole series is just made for really immature people. It's basically the same humor as the Deadpool movies in tone, if a little more reserved.

Gameplay is fire, though. I hope BL4 is just more serious, but I think they said they are doing the opposite and making it "more funny" again. Oh well.

>>712788065
Stupid statement even if it never good writing, it was never as bad as 3 and New Tales, that's rock bottom that should be avoided at all costs

Daily reminder that Lilith loves black cock.

>>712787601
The twins looked like they were gonna be pretty cool from the early trailer:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4o5g_PGkiA
Tyreen gave me Frieza vibes, quiet and calculating and evil. While Troy looked like her wild dog she would let loose and go all psycho killer on whoever she sicked him on.
...But then they had to open their mouths. Livestreamers? What the hell was Randy thinking?

>>712788226
Fuuuck, they can make a good trailer. I hope that doesn't mean BL4 is just slop with a good trailer.

>>712788225
Hated how Roland became Captain America when in BL1 he was just some dude trying to escape the Crimson Lance army and how Lilith was a crazy but confident psycho bitch in 1, but then they made her an annoying insecure psycho bitch in 2/presequel. 2 was good but an they really messed up their characters. The other two vault hunters didn't turn out as bad, but they've been turned into comic relief characters which is disappointing.

>>712788065
Nah playing through 2 now I've actually laughed at some moments

>>712788226
To this day I still don't get the motivation behind villainizing streamers of all people

>>712788579
I can understand it from a meta perspective. Like, streamers take fun away from players, and turn you into a viewer instead of a participant. Plus, it's topical. But I didn't play 3 so idk how bad it was.

>>712788659
3 doesn't really even do anything with them being streamers. They could've been referred to only as cult leaders and nothing in the story would change.
>>712788065
The writing in 1 and 2 is pretty good without being overbearing

>>712788173
2 is just as bad if not worse than 3.

>>712788965
Not even fucking close.
Go play them both back to back and try and say 2 is as bad as 3.

>>712788659
>But I didn't play 3 so idk how bad it was.
Oh it was bad, storywise. Really bad. It's way worse than anything the series had come up with so far. Man I'd like to know what they were thinking, and why no one stopped them before they went through with it. 3's story basically ruined this franchise for me. I don't think I'll ever get invested in it like I did with the first two. Bad story plus the characters won't shut up, and think they're really funny. Almost unplayable.

1 is the only good borderlands, and it's a bastardization of what it was supposed to be. Stupid people accept the change because they like the ebin cartoon baby visual style and don't care about the lost of story and depth.

>>712789104
I did.
2 is just as bad as 3.

>>712788965
Keep coping.

>>712789510
It's fine. We got RAGE 1 and 2 to scratch that more realistic/gritty itch. If Borderlands shipped like this, it would have been just another brown shooter and forgotten. The stolen comic book style made it stand out.

>>712789510
This looks a lot like Rage which was already a very generic game

>>712788965
you are retarded if this is your genuine opinion

>>712789510
Is this Game Informer? I remember their cover story like almost 20 years ago. I was so hyped about the game, and then it changed into a cartoon and I lost all interest until recently.

>>712788495
Nah, they were all ruined. You covered Roland going from soldier to merc in hiding and Lilith going from murderhobo to queen superhero, but they really ruined the other two.
>Mordecai
Supposed to be a gunslinger (think: wild west revolver guy) who can also snipe and DMR well to an alcoholic guy who can only snipe and really loves his pet bird who is also suddenly female.
>Brick
Always was a meme character, wasn't even supposed to be a character in early builds, but they still turned him from the explosives guy who could throw a punch to king retard with his own bandit gang of retards.

And that's on top of all of them going from mercenary treasure hunters to some freedom fighter group stealing members and names from one of the villain factions of 1 that just magically disappeared once that was over.

>>712788659
It wasn't vidya streamers they were aping, really. Companies other than nintendo and konami enjoy that type through the free advertising and attention. The siren twins were more aping the retard streamer, the type that goes around doing real life streams fucking things up for everyone.

>>712789104
3 was annoying, but at least had something to its writing beyond anthony burch inserting stale memes and BONERFARTS

Yeah I actually really like Borderlands 1. It fucking comfy even as a single player. Don't really feel the same about the sequels and all that but I can pretty much play the first one non stop

>>712784502
Pre-sequel was so boring me and my brother just beat each other up for ten minutes after the intro and then turned the game off

>>712789510
I still have some of my old Game Informers, but not going back as far as I'd like. I had this issue, and I wish I still had ones that old. I would board them and sell them online, if I did.

>>712788495
I don't get why everyone hates the Ronald retcon, his new relaxed demeanor really stands out in a world full of crazies and psychos.

>>712789748
>>712789781
You weren't supposed to prove my statement true immediately.

>>712790154
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjD4d1BgNZ8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjFO3jrQcDo
It is. They also had a trailer and an E3 showing with that original art style, and then just like that, they cut just about everything to redo the art. Pisses me off every time I see it. You can still find a lot of the traces of the old game in the files if you dig deep enough, voicelines for missions that no longer exist, interactions that are gone, everything replaced with what wouldn't feel out of place in some never-finished early access title today.

>>712784053 (OP)
so which VH is the most fun in 3? the robot seemed cool but i'm not always a fan of pets/pet classes

>>712790647
The siren has a skill tree similar to maya's phaselock so I went with her because Maya is my wife. But The Titanfall girl is also pretty fun.

>>712784053 (OP)
I used to play this with my 2 friends
One of the most fun gaming experience i had for sure

>DOOMSDAY

>>712789510
>caring about "story" and "lore" in FPS diablo
lol

>>712791067
>just stop caring bro stop having standards

>>712784053 (OP)
The original one doesn't get a lot of traction, but if you get through it (I assume you got the DLC campaigns) and still want more lootan-shootan, then
>Borderlands 2
is pretty much an upgrade in every single way and the least controversial high point of the series. Like most of the other games, BL2 has a season pass/ DLC that is expansion style and worthwhile. They've tried to compact a lot of it down so all the cosmetic stuff of skins under $1 is bundled into the season pass / GOTY etc.

After this people's opinions vary from other games being on a similar level to BL2 and/or not quite as good but still worth playing, to abject garbage. If you play through BL2 and like it and the setting, then you have the choice of
>Pre-Sequel
Takes place between BL1 and BL2, upgrades some of the mechanics and some of the new classes have some fun dynamics. If you play BL2 first at least (and BL1 if you feel like it) you'll get the most out of the story bits
>Borderlands 3
The next generation that mechanically expands things more than PreSequel did, but both are worthwhile
>Tiny Tina's Wonderlands
Not technically a BL game, but in BL2 one of the expansions introduces Tiny Tina and an in-universe "Not-Dungeons&Dragons" style game, that has a fantasy-ish diversion. This game builds on that as a whole separate thing where there are new playable characters, classes, and mechanics that are sort of irreverent fantasy based, while still having the looter shooter gameplay and the... uh..humor of the others.

>What's with all these recent negative reviews?
Mostly its not about the game itself, its review bombing because the publisher, 2K refucked the EULA after all this time to allow for massive amounts of spyware metrics to be included; its more a thing on principle to show people are paying attention to publisher fuckery.

>>712791614
Oh shoot, I can see how my post was confusing. I meant the subject to be the series overall, but the game I am playing is 2. I thought people would know it was recently free on Steam. I did buy the DLCs for 2, though.

It was really fun back in the early 2010's, played the first game with a random online that eventually became a friend that i still talk from time to time to this day.
It's not GOTY material, but it's fun.

>>712791614
>positive opinions on 2
Even if you ignore the bad writing, all the weapons are complete shit, rifles of all types are even further gimped, everything is garbage.

>>712784053 (OP)
>borderlands
i kind of get the urge to play it sometimes but i absolutely hate the total lack of any sense of tension. respawn stations are a total hackjob that negates any reason to play. i know that any dumbass can get through the game and that the game isn't much more than a pure dopamine drip with no substance. i wish there was a way to turn respawn stations off and have actual game overs.

>>712792081
Don't enemies spawn with rng weapons? They can be crazy strong sometimes, especially your first playthrough. I die an embarrassing amount. It doesn't help that BL2 has no movement tech, so your only defense is turning around and running for cover.

>>712791919
Do you feel that PreSequel and 3 are improved, or do you think they're all shit?

>>712790741
Amara has so much diversity with her action skills its hard to play the other chars..

>>712792081
the games do have alot of mods, could find something like that

>>712792198
that's kind of the point. they don't have to put any real work into balancing anything, you just keep spawning back in and SHOOTAN shit. there is no REAL test of anything, there are zero stakes.
>>712792302
or i can push aside the want for easy dopamine and spend my time on other games.

>>712784053 (OP)
The shooting was always fun especially in newer titles. It's just the story and the cringe millennial humor writing that alienates most people from playing it. I played 1 and 2 but 3 was so fucking god awful that I dropped it despite the excellent shooting.

>>712784053 (OP)
bl2 is pretty fun, but who the FUCK thought that health regen in a game with exponential scaling was ever a good idea? also uvhm health should have been x3, not x4

Bl2 is great but it's endgame is fucking horrible, randy deserves death for thinking slag was a good idea. At least there's mods to fix it

>>712784623
I like 3s gunplay and level design the most but it's like the writers saw claptrap in BL1 and thought he was actually cool and funny and they should base all their writing off his "humor"
it's the most obnoxious thing ever written

Borderlands 3 fucking with the Siren lore pissed me off, saying that Siren powers just shift to the nearest woman when the previous one does was annoying. They should be born with them!

>>712789510
the thing that made it good was being able to move and shoot, that looks like it would have been coverslop like 2 and everything else at the time

go ahead and reply to me from behind your cover, coverslop boy

>>712793587
siren lore is going to get retconned eventually, there is no way they will be able to always limit themselves to keeping only 6 sirens in the universe.

this thread is
BAD
ASS

for me it is https://youtu.be/NQ0QRsm6eT0
pre sequel was announced after tiny tina dlc which was borderlands highest peak so the hype was the highest too
then the game was just the same map copy pasted 30 times clearly an extended dlc and everyone who was playing bl2 everyday stopped playing until bl3
in retrospective today playing pre sequel feel very good because it has the last unfiltered humor and a cool setting

if they were not gready and just made pre sequel a 40$ dlc for borderlands 2 instead of a standalone 70$ game
we'd be able to play all content in both game in one

>replay 1
>can just keep playing, no downtime
>have a good time progressing all the way to crawmerax and eventually beating him
>replay 2
>dialogue halts progression
>quit the playthrough at the first arena
I loved BL2 when it came out but it doesn't hold up as well as 1.

>>712794997
fully agreed, replayed both this year and also dropped 2 , the shitty repetitive sidequests didnt help either

>>712794997
I always found 1 very boring beside the mmo xp grinding
characters have the least interesting skills and are almost weapons locked
the storytelling felt the story didn't exist

>>712795351
Not to mention the shitty final boss and abrupt ending

>>712794486
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu_eDxflkMc

>>712784623
>because some shirtless gay man in his underwear and a cape was yapping at me in a mandatory walking section
That was a dude from the Tales From Borderlands series (the good one made by TT, not the shit sequel made by Gearbox). He was pretty great in TFB but go figure, Randy the greasey pedophile had to go and fucking ruin him.

>>712784276
>playing one game every single day
>for thousands of hours
>it is borderlands 2
holy shit taste and autism

>Normal line: "If you can get some fuel canisters, then I can reactive the main generator and get our shields back up. I marked the objective on your map"

>Gearbox line: "Heyyyy buddy, great job killing all those mutants and all. You're really good at that! Shooting things, that is. One problemo though, as it turns out a bunch of monsters on the planet are gonna tear our eyes out if we don't get the shield back up. And this is just my opinion, but that's gonna suck. Not having eyes sounds terrible! Like, how am I supposed to read my collection of "Bodacious Space Babes" without any flippin' eyeballs? So here's my brilliant plan that I got written on this here napkin. There's this generator-thing. You following me? And it needs GAS! Who knew? So mayyybe, you can go out and fetch some canisters. And then we can get the generator running, and then the shield will go back up, and we won't get horribly viciously murdered! Doesn't that sound great? I know, right? So, since I did most of the work coming up with the plan, I was thinking you can do the last step and get the cannisters. If you see any monsters, shoot them in the face or something. Oh and one more tip: try not to get killed. That'll put a wrench in this plan- metaphorically that is. Not literally. I hate people who misuse the term "literally", it drives me FIGURATIVELY insane. Anyway I'll just be here, cowering in my bunker while you go do that. Go team badass!"

>>712784053 (OP)
reads like a marketing post

>>712784053 (OP)
>>712784190
>>712785917
Morning Randy

>>712784053 (OP)
sad that they gave away this one instead of BL1. could have had the one with tolerable writing, but noooo. gotta have that anthony burch writing that's lolsorandum and wacky

Keep it to the first game if you know what's good for you. 2 is pretty bad and 3 is literal torture.

>>712796681
you could be a borderlands writer, anon

>>712784623
I basically had to play Borderlands 3 like a zoomer; muting the dialogue and playing my own music.

>>712798197
Best way to play the games desu

>>712794997
Get the dialogue auto skip mod

>>712784236
works on my machine

>>712787438
they have brain rot from the alt right propaganda the elites are shitting at mach speed

It's a ridiculously kino game but it has 2 major flaws:
>bullet sponge enemies
>cringe gimmicky classes that are kind of boring

>>712790647
The robot is the least fun.
Zane and the titanfall chick is the funnest.

>>712799562
*are the most fun. Fuck.

>>712792234
Nta, but slag is the most unfun thing in the series. It makes BL2 less enjoyable than 3 and presequel even though 2 has better maps and missions.

>>712799231
the enemies only get spongy if you get too far behind in levels or you play shitty UVHM mode

>>712794997
I can constantly replay BL1 and still love it to this day because it's balanced very well (Outside of Eridian guns) and Legendary equipment is to show off online or have fun for a bit instead of mandatory. No gun has retarded mods either, they're always either reasonable or extremely broken like the revolver shotgun build. Yes, the maps are somewhat bland but that's the only major issue for me.

BL2 got old after one single playthrough and even by the end of it in Fyrestone I was already wanting to tap out.
>The gun generation is terrible and so many of the affixes are horrendous.
>Everything feels like a tank no matter what you use or do to them.
>They made it so guns that have 2x or 3x by their shot consume that much ammo which makes finding a gun with that feel terrible to shoot.
>It relies far more on buying ammo from shops just to run around normally.
>Legendary equips are now semi-mandatory especially into NG+.
>So many of the maps like >>712795129, the Spiderant canyons, the Varkid area, and the safari go on forever with enemies that are pure tanks and feel like they never stop spawning but you die if something breathes in your direction.
I can't stand BL2.

>btw theres a mod called BL2 fix that allows for a dedicated dialogue skip button

also you can randomize skill trees and do other various things

>>712800019
sounds like a skill issue, if you learn enemy movement patterns you can crit and get through most of the game easily

>>712784053 (OP)
I genuinely thought BL3 was great. The story was dogshit and the characters are annoying but that's par for the course and no different than 2

I dont think I'll enjoy 4 as much if I can't play as the mech girl

>>712800019
>namefag has a retarded opinion
every single time

>>712784053 (OP)
its one of the most boring shooters

>>712789104
I'm finishing a krieg uvhm playthrough right now and it is just as bad. Thank god bl2fix puts in a skip dialog button

>>712784236
Is this "spooky red glow" in the room with us now?

I mean they are all great games. Borderlands 3 is the worst one by far but it’s still got a ridiculous amount of content. It’s just too easy. They need to make it harder and also add Overpower levels to borderlands 1/Presequel and raise the OP level cap on all the games as well as Tiny Tina’s wonderlands which is unironically the hardest one at end game with the “difficulty” mods cranked up
These games have the potential to be even better
>borderlands is le bore-
Yeah I don’t care faggot. Name a better looter shooter besides Cuckstiny 2

>>712799231
I would agree with the bullet sponge thing and having to use slag but there’s certain things that counter it like acid for robots and electricity for shields. You see the relevance of Salvador at end game because his raw damage with the explosive pistols can make up for this but I never had a problem with Maya because my girl has slag powers built into her trees so once you get an hellfire smg she starts roasting everything
Even Lilith on BL1 absolutely shreds crawmerax with a hellfire

I played three BL games and honestly, the most fun was first, followed by third while BL2 was garbage for most of the time. HP/Shield sponges everywhere and absurdly low accuracy for shooting while moving and/or not using ironsight (no, CoD style shooting is not fun).

>>712799138
Yes, people need a cabal of "elites" to tell them that self-infantilization is not a healthy coping strategy.
Sure, indulging in it might make you feel better superficially, but so will drugs.

>>712800321
>calling a tripfag a namefag
Newfags get OUT

>>712784053 (OP)
If you find BL1 fun you will enjoy BL2 and the other BL games. BL1 is the worst BL.

>>712784053 (OP)
Borderlands 2 was good, only game where I got all the achievements on steam for it

>>712784276
I like BL2 but this is just bananas.

>>712788163
They could remove the story entirely and it'd honestly make the game better. Essentially like BL1.

>>712805648
nta but technically all tripfags are namefags, but not all namefags are tripfags

>>712807054
>BL1 is the worst BL
absolute pleb-tier opinion
>>712804382
I'm still somewhat hopeful for 4 to be good

All the borderlands games are fun. 3 is the most fun. But in each game, the writing gets worse and more obnoxious.

4 is reportedly fixes the shitty looting in 3 and returns to a less goofy plot

>multiple sources saying "toilet humour" and other obnoxious "look, we're topical" stuff massively toned down
>loot system returned to a more similar case to 1 and 2
>most retarded shit randy has said or done is "uhhh $80 is fine" (retards will buy at any price, sensible people wait or pirate)

bros...this feels like one of those times where I accidentally get hopeful...
>inb4 it releases and it was all lies again

>>712809242
I want to be hopeful but the faggot poc lbgtqxyz characters make that impossible

>>712784053 (OP)
good thread op, I hope you're having a good time, also I've recently learned to fuck with the save editor, what are some cool guns I can inject into the game to have a good time

>>712784236
AIIEEEEEE

>>712809242
Even if they aren't full of shit I'm still waiting for a price drop and a sale. I refuse to pay 80 bucks for a game.

Claim your vault hunter, /v/

>>712809567
rollan for sal

>>712809397
giga-nord in the middle might be cool

but also borderlands has skins that cover the head and change textures so mabe SAAR on the far left is viable. I miss zane

>>712809567
gaige 4ever

>>712809567
maya because she makes my pp tingle the most

>>712787327
>they are promising to fix everything about 3 including the writing.
And your actually thinking they arnet out right lying? You poor naive infant.

>>712809654
NICE

>>712809567
90% of my gameplay time across all games was with Mordecai, Axton or Krieg.
But also I want to convert Athena

>Brick in BL1
>Salvador BL2
>Zane BL3
>Wilhelm in PS
simple as

>>712809947
I absolutely adore wilhelm
I think his skill trees are cool
I love his gimmick of becoming more machine
sadly he's not suited for top level end game play :(

>>712809567
Rollin

>>712810182
>Sal
Oh yeah, I got my boy

>>712809242
>loot system returned to a more similar case to 1 and 2
what does that mean? maybe it's been too long but I don't remember the loot system changing significantly between the games

>>712809242
>1 and 2
Specifically 2. 1 has the same system as 3, just with lower drops
>>712810857
2 had dedicated legendary drops on all unique enemies to farm and people really didn't like that when they changed it for 3

>>712810857
There are a tonne of things like
>only top-tier guns worth paying attention to
>less space to carry cool guns
>in old games good RNG could create a god-tier common weapon, but also you could farm for good gear off certain bosses. in BL3 this is gone

>>712810997
>when they changed it for 3
Huh? So no more guarenteed drops from bosses? even with grinding?

>>712811142
When the game launched bosses weren't farmable and almost everything was just from world drops. They did change it later to have more dedicated drops but not as much as bl2 did

>>712811142
He's not entirely wrong, but BL3 on launch didn't have dedicated drops. After much complaining from the playerbase, the dedicated drops were returned. Before that it was literally down to luck what you got and from where.

>>712784907
>Can’t even beat the tutorial because you need a second person.
No.

>loved BL2 as a kid
>BL3 comes out years later
>hear braindead reddit takes 1000 times over from Furious Andre to /v/ and everywhere in between about how it's the worst fucking game ever, unplayable dogshit that you need to mod so that it doesn't blow out your eardrums
>avoid it
>brother asks to play it a month ago
>actually a really fun game

I'm not going to pretend the overarching plot was good (pacing near the end was really bad, Typhon sucks, BL2 cast wasted besides Zero, your PCs literally don't exist in cutscenes) or that the Tyreens weren't massive downgrades from Jack, but BL3 wasn't nearly as bad as retards online hyped it up to be. You'd think this game was a DmC-level disaster, and then you play it and it's an 8/10 shooter attached to a forgettable and poorly paced story that you can pretty much tune out most of the time.

If I'm going to play devil's advocate, I'll also say that I thought nearly all of BL3's subplots/"worlds" were solid from a narrative standpoint. Rhys/Maliwan war, Balex and Genevieve, Jakobs Manor and so on (maybe not Vaughn, sorry bro) were all generally pleasant affairs with engaging plotlines and a handful of decent-to-funny jokes. It's just that the story has a really shitty through-line tying them all together, which (incidentally) is why all four of the DLCs are great - or, at least, significantly more compelling than the main plot.

I don't doubt that the game was probably much worse on launch, but I feel that every now and again the internet just likes to designate a noticeably flawed product as a scapegoat to get its aggression out before it goes back to consuming two thousand other equally flawed, if not worse things.

>>712811303
Anon what the fuck are you talking about?

>>712811407
I will never get over the fact how faggots constantly praise jack, a literal reddit-tier villain with absolute dogshit writing sitting in the midst of a dogshit story.
borderlands gameplay is definitely ok, but retards praising the cringe writing of bl2 really set the series into a downward spiral.

>>712811407
pretty much yeah
BL3 is a perfectly good game as long as you ignore all the writing in the main campaign; the characters are insufferable and the writing is atrocious
the DLCs are written slightly better but still pale in comparison to BL2
I still prefer BL2's gameplay but I'd be lying if I said the modernized BL3 style isn't a lot of fun as well, faster pace and more twitchy feel does a lot to make it more engaging

>>712784236
That means your GPU is dying.

>>712811407
I think a lot of people were just assmad about the epic exclusive release which, to be fair, was annoying. the gameplay was good enough to ignore the writing even on release

>>712811407
bl3 is arguably the best in the series if you mute dialog

>>712784053 (OP)
I always get sad when I see borderlands because one of my friends I used to play it with is a drug addicted transsexual now who doesn't even play games anymore. I just want to play vidya with the bros again...

>>712784276
>Modded BL2
>Gaige unnerfs
>Story skip patch
>Roulette battle where enemies can have and attack with player equippable uniques/legendaries making the game hard.
>Double xp
Yep. Gaming. Bl2 never dies

>>712793684
>*slop
Come up with a real argument.

>>712792234
3 improved with having better mobility, but the guns still mostly sucked.

>>712811407
Jacob's as a whole was fucking awful
>one of the primary mega corps in the galaxy, ads on every radio station
>not one factory on the planet
>rinkydink podunk swamp with wood shacks
>vault huntah, did I tell yah I'm gay? Like super gay. Every echo will be related to how gay I am. Please buy my gay wedding dlc
>killed off Aurelia
>no good boss fights or legendaries on the entire planet
It sucked ASS

Yeah, that's sort of the issue with the borderlands series, it's weighed down by the writing but the writing is what makes it popular.
Borderlands the Pre-Sequel is pretty good if you like 2, but it's not quite as good. 3 has some cool weapons though the progression is really borked due to the game constantly wanting you to cycle your guns. I don't like the classes in 3 as much as 2, and PS has like a wierd class selection though some are fine.
I'm not really looking forward to 4 but when that shit drops to $15 during a sale in like 8 years I'll probably pick it up and have fun.

>>712816643
>the writing is what makes it popular.
wrong. it's popular because it's fps diablo

From that joltz tuber

>>712817087
>sweating chuddah.png

>>712817087
>$130

>>712784236
NANI?!

I took the free Borderlands 2. I was wondering if I should just shill out the five bucks for the GOTY edition to get all of the extra content, since Krieg seems fine and I remember seeing my cousin play him.

Borderlands is only playable with the dialogue disable mod and fast forward mod.
Even then, you can't correctly configure mouse sensitivity so I wont play it.

>>712817553
Both DLC characters are much more fun than the base game ones. Remember to enjoy your 2 fps if you are on a new Nvidia GPU.

>>712817876
>Both DLC characters are much more fun than the base game ones
Gaige is terrible

>>712816554
I genuinely don't remember anything about that part of the game besides there being a swamp and everyone being gay.

>>712817939
wrong

>>712817939
>gaige is terrible
jesus christ i cannot imagine having taste this shit
gaige with a fat jakobs shotgun is literally the most fun you can have in this retarded ass game

>>712817087
>$70
we won poorbros. kneel randy

>>712817087
>Pic related
This is a joke... right?

>>712817087
Gonna buy it for $5 at 95% off in 4 years

>>712784053 (OP)
1 & 2 were cool
3 I found boring
Never tied the spin offs or Tina's world

>>712817553
Do you retards not see the fucking Handsome Collection bundle that has all dlc for 2 and tps and costs way less than GOTY?

>>712818417
It's real

SPECS

>>712818930
>recommended: 5800x and 3080

>>712784053 (OP)
Remember when the original cinematic had a realsitic Mad Max look to it?

>>712784276
I liked Pre-Sequel. I mean there's no real end game, even though it seems like they tried, but I had a fun time with it. The characters are way better balanced than BL2.

>>712819364
3080 12gb*
It's 12gb minimum

>>712818930

>>712819478
same. I thought the classes were were much better designed than base borderlands 2. I really don't know why pre-sequel got shit on so much when it's actually a pretty good game

>>712814579
>Roulette battle where enemies can have and attack with player equippable uniques/legendaries making the game hard.

The original had this but the sequal didn’t which pissed me off.
I remember fighting a fucking abndit with a pele

>>712819563
Personally I think it was abandoned. They wanted to make it into the next big thing, but the problem was that everyone was still focused on BL2 so it only had one DLC. A really neat DLC but only one. Rather than BL1, 2, or 3 there's no purpose to grind in it, there's no higher mountains to climb for more challenge, just the hidden boss of the main game and DLC boss.

>>712818760
I don't care about the presequel, so I ignore it.

>>712819563
Hated the new characters. Hated playing the canpeign. The bosses were really cool though.

Do you guys play BL1 GOTY or BL1 Enhanced?
What’s changed between the two

>>712809567
I feel like I'm the only person who liked Aurelia. Still mad she got the Roland treatment in BL3.

>>712819934
Bl1 enhanced has updated textures and some extra guns

>>712785917
>muh right/left
Kill yourself

>>712819862
I liked most of the characters in pre-sequel desu. think the only one I didn't like was the dude, whatever the fuck his name was

>>712819934
I play enhanced because it’s newer shinier thing. Also doesn’t have the BL1 memory leak and has better graphical options but obviously requires a better rig.
The tricks of the old one to my knowledge still works but they patched the Knoxx armory glitch but another one was found immediately in the same room LMAO

>>712820018
Athena’s shield was fucking ass and the CD for it was too long to justify using.

>>712818930
I actually have a 6800 xt and a 5800x but it worries me I'm starting to hit the base level of recommended for games. Is it just gonna get worse? do I have to upgrade soon?

>>712784053 (OP)
Yeah, writing aside, 1, and even presequel have good gameplay

>>712819934
>>712819968
BL1 also made the item menu worse (image grid rather than list, if you've never played the old game you won't mind but I found it very annoying) and it added a minimap iirc.
I'm autistic enough to stick to the old version but I see no reason why a new player shouldn't go with enhanced

>>712789510
This. I love BL1 - it does so many things right. The guns that enemies drop are the guns that they were actually using so you can get interesting scenarios where enemies will have special effects or powerful weaponry. Also, the gun / part randomization and distribution is the best in the series. The manufacturer gimmicks / limitations on what parts spawn where from BL2 onward just make everything the same. BL1 has shotguns that are as accurate as sniper rifles, pistols that fire as fast as SMGs and no limitation on special parts so you can find a white rarity rifle that shoots two bullets that richochet (normally a part given to a unique gun).

The game also doesn't suffer from scaling issues so a good gun lasts a while and enemies simply don't just have a boatload of health as things scale up. No slag to have to babysit and all weapons are viable.

>>712784236
>>712801702

>>712819934
enhanced looks much better

>>712814579
>gaige unnerfs
Link?

>>712820285
i thought bl1 was pretty boring until i tried replaying it recently. once you get into act 2 it starts getting really good

>>712814579
Please link each mod desu

>>712784053 (OP)
I uninstalled the game because modding was the only way to make it good and they fucking banned mods.

>>712820285
The problem with BL1 is area and enemy variety and enemy AI, which is exactly what BL2 solved.

>>712798197
The dialogue is 100% understandable, but the actual BL3 soundtrack is fucking 11/10. It does not deserve to have music that good. The audio team were the only ones who actually gave a fuck when making 3.

>>712820487
>and they fucking banned mods.
I'm playing with mods rn. Nothing changed

>>712820587
the dialogue in BL3 wouldn't be as big of a problem if it was all skippable

>>712820587
Movement and responsiveness was massively improved upon between 2&3, moving around and shooting feels incredibly fluid and nice compared to the older games.

>>712814579
>Gaige unnerfs
Imagine being this bad at video games. Maybe you should switch to Salvador instead.

I wish the guns in borderlands had something similar to gem system in wow or the rune/gem system in diablo 2 where you can enhance them with stats

>>712820564
BL2's improvements variety-wise were massive but on the other hand it made me miss the desolate desert shithole atmosphere of the first game, it was boring but I still liked it

Writing wise, I think this entire franchise is entirely held up by Handsome Jack. Not because I like him, but because Gearbox is very obviously dependent on him for any sort of engaging plot beat.

>>712820285
BL1 is the personally better game.
It’s everything you just said but a more comfy experiance.
It’s a quiet game outside of soarse story beats, and you can collect and go do a bunch of quests in an area without cutscenes or people yellong stupid shit over the radio everytime you do something.
I feel it’s bold to say it’s better written too.
Takes itself nore seriously while also having parody and funny writing you have to read abd isn’t over the top and in your face like 2 likes to be.

1’s biggest flaw is character building limitations because the tech trees in it are boring.

>>712785786
>...Eight...Inches.

this thread has got me in the mood to replay 1 or 2

>>712818930
>barely looks different than 3
>requires top tier GPU
FUCK UNREALSLOP
FUCK TIMMY

>>712820487
They didn’t “ban” mods nimb nuts.
The EULA they added is just something that’s in every T2 game they publish.
They resevre rhe right to do so but BL games don’t have anti-cheat or anti-tamper software so they’d never even know if you were using mods or cheats anyhow.

>>712820487
holy fucking shit you mongoloid retard they didn't ban mods and they didn't add spyware you absolute fucking nigger retard

>>712820487
This anon cannot read or intuit his own opinions

>>712819364
oh noooooo 2 generation old hardware what a travesty

>>712819934
Enhanced is closer to how it probably would have looked originally if it weren't a console game, but it also rapes the UI.

>>712784354
>jpegs have raytracing now

>>712820285
BL1 also has specialty guns that are actually good and fun to use. Double Anarchy smgs can nuke every boss fight in the game. Pestilent Defilers can melt anything. If you're lucky, you can get an Equalizer that's also a masher, so you have an infinite ammo revolver shotgun. I think there's a unique sniper that also has that masher style shotgun round to it too.

>>712809567
Rollan for Mordecai

>>712784053 (OP)
1 and 2 are peak looter shooters. Everything else afterwards is trash.

>>712821340
I also like that even with uniques there was a lot of variation. I remember having 2 or 3 different Bastard assault rifles on my max level Roland for different situations and they actually performed different enough to warrant it. The "max damage" versions were not always the best.

>>712817020
That's why it's popular with some people, I'm talking raw numbers.
If you talk to people about borderlands, the thing that they go to is the humor, they like tiny tina and all that. The looter shooter thing is fun to most people, but that's not why people choose borderlands over Fallout or whatever, it's the writing.
I know that sucks, but it's true

>>712821396
Because 3 forgot the "looter" part. 1 and 2 were Diablo but FPS. 3 is just a mediocre FPS.

>>712818930
1070 bros, I don't feel so good..

>>712822258
>If you talk to people about borderlands, the thing that they go to is the humor, they like tiny tina and all that. The looter shooter thing is fun to most people, but that's not why people choose borderlands over Fallout or whatever, it's the writing.
Source: your ass

>

>>712821396
1 isn't that good of a looter shooter, all loot just does higher numbers. Item effects are hardly present and build variety isn't built around rare drops. Everyone wants the same 5 guns which shoot and work like most other guns of their type but do more damage.
Fight me

>>712822371
Wasn't 3 epic exclusive for half a year?

>>712787028
>Boring as fuck environments that are all exactly the same
>Insanely basic enemies with retarded AI
>Every single is the same shit with a different element attached, a white repeater has the mechanical depth of a pearlescent
>Terrible skill trees
>Terrible action skills
Kill yourself, BL1 is the most overrated shit

>>712822360
>Source?
>Hey, where's the peer reviewed survey on this
>Hey, what are you doing, you can't observe stuff, you need to quote a fucking study
>Source? SOURCE?!?!

>>712822493
yes. I'm actually impressed it got this close on steam

>>712822493
It was. Feel free to share non-existent epic numbers.

>>712822571
Seems like it did well even on epic

>>712821340
>BL1 also has specialty guns that are actually good and fun to use.
AHAHAHAHAH. BL1 guns are fucking terrible, boring shit that are all the same. The fucking unique blues of BL2 alone, just them, have more mechanics and variety than every single gun in BL1 combined. BL1 guns most "WILD" effect is a bullet that spins a bit.

>>712821782
an aspect I enjoyed was the experience system with the weapon types, you could focus on pistols with Mordecai and get insanely fast shooting and reloading by the endgame

Slag ruined Borderlands

>>712822493
Yeah, it came out on steam at the same time as one their expansions too.
That being said, being on epic doesn't really affect the launch on steam, Kingdom hearts was on epic for like 2 years and when it came onto steam it did gangbusters and basically no one knew that it had a PC release already.

>>712822818
Slag, 4xhp and enemies constantly having regen ruined BL2

>>712796537
Don't care didn't ask, go back to your twitter screen cap thread

>>712822360
Like a fart, haha

Can I write for borderlands 4 now?

>>712822858
"gangbusters" huh

>>712822872
Also lvl80 OP10 glitching out the invincible bosses hp value into being double what it should be

>>712817087
>no season pass
B A D A S S

>>712809397
I've never seen a more forgettable looking cast of chracters in my entire life.

>>712823053
I have but I don't remember what it was.

>>712784053 (OP)
you're never getting that wii back, anthony.

>>712822958
Now conceptualize the egs sales.

>>712822545
>being this mad about being called out when caught lying
just don't lie

>>712811407
>>brother asks to play it a month ago
That's the key. BL3 on release was fucking terrible. Skill trees were way worse, there was no purple tree on each vault hunter, most guns did like 1/4 to 1/10th the damage they do now, enemies were far more bullet spongy and most legendaries and uniques didn't have dedicated drop sources like TPS

>>712809397
This looks obscenely ugly.

>>712823009
?

>>712822961
why did that never get fixed btw?
>>712822734
problem with 2 is that a ton of the cool effects are relegated to a single unique weapon that often you can only get once per playthrough as a mission reward, which was a terrible choice

>>712820701
>imagine being bad by beating the game with the most glitched, and useless character in bl2
>now you have prove your worth and play the most busted OP character in the entire franchise ermm because....you just do okay???
?

>>712823212
>why did that never get fixed btw?
Because gearbox doesn't care

>>712823136
Where's the lie? You're accusing me of lying of about talking to people. You're fucking retarded

>>712822493
>Remembers the meltdown Randy had for daring to use EGS
Classic

>>712823394
The lie is the claim that people play Borderlands games for the story and writing.

>>712820409
>>712820470
Not him but assuming his Gaige unnerf means Buck Up
https://bl-sdk.github.io/willow2-mod-db/mods/borderlandsrewind/
Enemies drop their weapons
https://github.com/BLCM/BLCMods/blob/master/Borderlands%202%20mods/Apocalyptech/BL2%20Cold%20Dead%20Hands/README.md
Story skip mod isn't a thing, unless he means skipping cutscenes and dialog. Cutscene skipper doesn't exist standalone anymore so you'll need to check it off as part of the community patch
https://bl-sdk.github.io/willow2-mod-db/mods/dialog-skipper/
https://github.com/BLCM/BLCMods/tree/master/Borderlands%202%20mods/Community%20Patch%20Team
Double exp enable this and set each difficulties baserate to 20
https://bl-sdk.github.io/willow2-mod-db/mods/expadjuster/

>>712823246
You buffed the character that was already perfectly viable to solo OP8 raid bosses. Give me a single reason why you did that other than skill issue.

>>712823246
Don't bother, Gaige mains suffer from an extreme form of violent mental illness where they lash out and lose their minds when faced with the reality that their favourite VH has 2 worthless trees and Anarchy is the only thing you can actually play with real success, especially if you do OP levels.

Fun fact, Gaige's shock tree is so bad that matching simply the element on any incendiary gun does more damage than speccing fully into that tree and using shock.

>>712823758
Except anarchy tree gets worse the deeper you go, with the last talent being nothing but a meme. Every single build gets anarchy because it's at the top of the tree and basically should've been a baseline ability.

>>712819563
>I thought the classes were were much better designed than base borderlands 2
This is a certified, unironic, whole hog kill yourself moment. TPS character design is fucking irredeemable

>>712819934
Enhanced, I'm not using mods and ini binds to fix my FOV every time I load a map or get out of my car in coop. Also not using that shit inventory layout
>Muh memory leak
DXVK

>>712823934
>TPS character design is fucking irredeemable
agreed, part of why I only played through it once is that I didn't care about trying out any of the characters other than Jack's clone

>>712824031
>Also not using that shit inventory layout
but the inventory is the one thing that's worse in Enhanced

>>712822872
I haven't played BL2 with health regen in almost 10 years. It's amazing how much it improves everything, it makes more builds viable, it makes about 50% more of the games guns viable.

>>712824096
claptrap was kino playing with friends

>>712824031
What is dxvk

>>712809513
>AIIEEEEEE
This fucking scream makes me laugh every time.

>>712784623
don't listen to this idiot, 3 has the most fun gameplay. if you hate the story that much just download the mod that skips it.

>>712822571
>>712822371
>MUH NUMBERS
Do any of you even play videogames? Or do you just stare at numbers like you're roleplaying as a stock trader?

>>712825937
But Borderlands is a game about "numbers goes up". At least first two games.

>>712823934
classes, not the characters visual design. The gameplay design is better

Bump

>>712785786
Fyrestone is home you uncultured swine

>>712784053 (OP)
destiny 1 taken king was better
destiny 2 forsaken also
idk why but bungie seems to have 1 6 month era of their games being great
nu destiny is trash tho i need something with that kinda gameplay lmao

>>712784276
Pre-sequel is the best borderlands though. Great for a quick playthrough, no pointless endgame grind

>>712792081
I think you just have autism anon

>>712784053 (OP)
>Slag the game

>>712830758
Yeah a quick playthrough of the worst classes and skill trees in the franchise. I know as a /v/ user you are just genetically incapable of anything but trying so hard to be a special little contrarian snowflake but shut the fuck up

>>712823934
TPS main cast looks fine. Not much worse than manlet Mexican in t-shirt and underage girl who can't dress herself and her coms are lunch boxes isn't that quirky XD shit we got in 2.

>>712831480
>slag is bad because umm....it just is okay!!

>>712785207
It is if you skip all the sidequests on the moon until you get to Titan Station, then its Kino

>>712831916
Yeah if you skip the god fucking awful classes and skill trees too

>>712829586
>Muh empty nothing 3 buildings
BL1 sucks ass, you'll never change that

>>712831480
>bro slag is fine
>just dedicate one weapon and grenade slot to slag
>also ignore how now there is a ~20% chance any weapon you are farming will be unusable
>also ignore that bl1 also has a slag mechanic but no one bitches about because that game is well designed
Okay

>>712831832
>slag is bad
Yes, yes it is. Even worse when the entire game was balanced around such bad gimmick

>>712832280
>>just dedicate one weapon and grenade slot to slag
Or spec into the skills that do it for you, shitter
>But I can't because I'm a braindead Gaige main
Laughing right now

>>712832280
>bl1 also has a slag mechanic

>EULA ISNT REAL LMAO
>GET RAGE BAITED RETARDS LMAO
>LOLOLOL SOME BROWN JEET TOLD ME TO BE MAD SO IM MAD LOLOLOLOL
>uh
>hey randy
>whats "symbiote"?

>reddit, the game

>>712820081
Wait they patched the original one?

>>712832625
>bro just always build your characters exactly the same for uvhm.
>bro just never play Krieg and Sal
>bro just get lucky with Zero's kunai and Gaige's sub 10% slag rate on Outburst
>bro just always have Axton's turret up
>bro ignore raid bosses having slag resistance and how outside of Maya no one can reliably slag them without a pimpernel, crossfire, magic missle, or slowhand
Maya is the only character who can 100% ignore slag weapons due to her low cooldown rate and having scorn. Saying anyone else can do the same is fucking delusional, you twit.

>>712832817
Corrosion dots make enemies take 15% more damage from all sources. Which is a massive increase due to bl1's damage formula and smaller numbers. No one spergs out about having to corrode enemies though since it isn't mandatory in bl1s endgame.

Anarchist gaige with the shotgun revolver the mick drops is really fucking good.

Is Borderlands 1 actually worth getting or is it just something /v/ grognards have nostalgia for?

>>712839881
Nostalgia but the atmosphere is pretty good
it feels like a tech demo for the weapon system in later games

>homeworld 3 writer is the new writer for borderlands 4