Thread 718404857

Borderlands thread?

It's hilarious how much Randy and 2k loves shooting their franchise in the foot and never getting properly punished for it.
>BL2 takes off like nobody expected
>Falls out of favor hugely when people realize how horrid the "endgame" is, even if it has the most content, but this takes years to settle in
>Presequel falls a bit short, so kill the studio before they can even finish all the planned DLC, leaving the game overall lacking in content, but with some of the most fun characters
>BL3, fall for the Epic deal and also somehow have the worst story yet
>Re-release Assault on Dragon Keep (BL2 DLC) as a standalone product to "hype up" Wonderlands, it's a dumpster fire that nobody cares about
>Wonderlands comes out, take the Epic deal again and also nobody cares, better story than BL3, but the character customization and mediocre classes kill it
>BL4, plan to sell the game for $70 in the middle of a gigantic recession that has everyone on edge, but then say you're gonna sell it for $80 instead, go on to insult your customers over not wanting to waste money, claim you can't do anything about it, then finally "relent" and drop the price to $70, garnering "goodwill" among the community for your "kindness"

Gonna wait for a sale. It's a DEI festival with some cool guns on display. That ain't worth $70 to me.

>>718405569
>Falls out of favor hugely when people realize how horrid the "endgame" is

You're a retard. The endgame is the reason why people prefer Borderlands 2 over any other game in the series.

>>718404857 (OP)
Any news on what the story and characters are about? I muted dialogue on 3 to improve it but I'd like to enjoy it if possible. I'll pick it up on sale if it's at all newagey.

>>718405569
>better story than BL3
Why even spend time and keyboard lifespan and net traffic and space on hiro server to type something like this? I'm not even memeing, I'm really expecting a serious answer, what does that even mean?

>>718407079
4chan isn't facebook or youtube but it gets a decent amount of traffic. Good place to post opinions, people screen cap the post, put it in their videos and tiktoks, farm rage clicks.

I hear bl4 is being bundled with Nvidia gpus, correct?

>>718405569
And yet the series has sold 90million copies, so none of this matters

>>718406810
>why people prefer Borderlands 2 over any other game in the series
yeah, the 500 retards who still play it because it takes 200 hours to get a character from level 1 to op10

some characters are straight up unviable, BL2 endgame fucking sucks, which is why they changed it in 3

>>718407553
>changed
*removed

>>718407553
>the 500 retards who still play it because it takes 200 hours to get a character from level 1 to op10

No, they used gibbed to create an OP10 character right out of the gate.

>>718407553
Nobody i know plays bl2 vanilla, it's always some rework mod that completely rebalances the game

I play all of them. Bl3 is ok but nothing but nothing will ever match the atmosphere of bl1. That's vibes for you zoomies

>>718405569
Missing a few parts.
>BL1 has an entire story with time loops and voiced quests you get from civilians, high tech New Haven, etc.
>Randy is impressed by a shitty college film and fucks development so hard getting the team to change the art style 90% of the game is never finished, leading to it being as empty and incomprehensible as it is
>start dlc whoring for the game
>change the tone immediately from the serious tone to goofy reddit retard humor
>steals funds from other games it was supposed to develop e.g. Aliens Colonial Marines while also outsourcing the development to said teams
>still can't manage to polish major bugs, make character animations not look retarded, and the infamous default UE3 missing texture checkerboard in the mines with all that pocketed money

>>718404857 (OP)
>got back into playing borderlands 2 and 3
I feel like I'm missing out on so much shit in BL2 because i don't have any of the DLC compared to having everything but the extra skill trees in 3. I can say that playing 3 directly after 2, I finally understand the complaints about drop rates simply because there's literally too much loot for me to come through. I also hope that they rework the relics that alter your slam or slide because they feel too situarional to get a few missiles that fly into enemies for cryo or corrosive damage. Also also I think that people overexaggerated how bad purples and greens are compared to legendaries

>>718404857 (OP)
why the fuck is it that i can never manage to find a lobby in this series. it says people are online but i dont know if its just because theyre all in TVHM or are all running mods or something

>>718407079
BL3's story was complete fucking ass so it really shouldn't be such a stretch of the imagination to imagine something was better. Wonderlands pleasantly surprised me because I expected the writing to be an unbearable "Haha dungeons and dragons am I right fellow nerds?" from people who have never touched a TTRPG, but instead I got a couple of funny moments and surprisingly relatable character interactions. It wasn't anything amazing but it was easily more bearable than the nonstop cringe-fest that was BL3.

>>718410995
Telling something has better story than BL3 is like telling something has better hygiene than India or bigger AAA playerbase than Concord. It tells absolutely literally virtually metaphorically nothing.

>>718411757
It's more like saying 2020s India has better hygiene than 2010s India (no idea if that's true), you're not comparing two different things, but the same thing (Gearbox writing) at a different time, it shows improvement. Borderlands 2 story was bad and not hard to improve on, but 3 came out and it was far worse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_36fMCjNcI

Amon is cool.

>>718410279
Almost everyone is most definitely playing TVHM by this point, also not many people keep their games in the public multiplayer mode, but play it like a single player game instead

>>718406810
DUDE
SLAG
LMAO
Get fucked, faggot

>>718408823
Absolutely correct.

>>718405569
BL2 endgame is the ultimate filter

>>718414107
>filtered by slag when there's dozens of options for applying slag to enemies

Literally git gud faggot

>>718414487
The issue isn't the application of it, the issue is the requirement of it.

>>718414542
Just equip an Antagonist if you hate it so much, faggot

>>718404857 (OP)
>No character will ever top Krieg
>Zane is close but bl3's story is a hate letter to its own fans
At least they finally fixed the gunplay lol.

>>718414612
>just engage with the mechanic if you hate it so much
Nah

>>718414697
The Antagonist LITERALLY is there so you don't have to apply slag manually, retard

>>718414734
>>718414542

do not preorder
do not buy on day 1
do not give them a denuvo protected sale

>>718414776
We've just got differing opinions then, Anon. I have literally never had a problem with the slag mechanic and it has never hindered my enjoyment of the game.

>>718414879
We'll have to agree to disagree

>>718414665
Anon at least looks like he’ll get close to Krieg for me

>>718414939
I disagree, actually

>>718414972
*Amon

>>718405569
>drop the price to $70, garnering "goodwill" among the community for your "kindness"
did people actually fall for this?

>>718404857 (OP)
I know these games really start on TVHM mode but thats when i stop having fun because the enemies feel spongy and i dont wanna grind a boss to get a specific weapon

>>718407553
cope
this is while there's a streamer event going on for bl3 as well

>>718415218
Yes.

i remember coming back to BL2 to play that lilith DLC they made before BL3 release
it sucked major ass and made me lose all interest i ever had in BL3

>>718414826
I'm quite looking forward to it and pre-ordering the game. I'm sorry anon, but I want to relive my BL1 times with it.