Thread 718822980

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmsU1AcmKCU

>4 Trillion Guns
>BORDERLANDS 4 New Exclusive Gameplay Demo 36 Minutes is UNREAL
>“I’m having a blast!”
>“This is so much fun!”
>“This is insane!”
>“This game slaps.” (slang for really good)
>“This is peak gaming.”

blast havers what do we think?

>>718822980 (OP)
Is this the blast havers thread?
Borderlands 4 looks like a blast, did they fix the cringe writing? (cringe is not a blast)
I've been having a blast with risk of rain returns.

>>718822980 (OP)
Borderlands is one of those things where everybody derides the writing and stuff but the gameplay is good enough that it's easy to overlook. There's also not a lot of co-op FPS experiences out there and every other looter shooter on the market outside of like Remnant maybe is live service.
A series does not have multiple entries each sell over 20 million copies by accident. Borderlands has consistently sold better than fucking Battlefield with far less time on the market and less entries.

Honestly tone down the Borderlands-isms in the writing and it's not an awful experience. Irreverence is novel when the setting was played straight but we've been chin-deep in irony for decades now, the "jokes" fall flat because there's no calibration for what the subversion of expectations that would constitute a joke is supposed to be subverting.