▲ 958 ▼ What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. (lemm.ee) submitted 1 year ago by bimbimboy@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world 222 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child) The writing is garbage but,... it's a game for edgy teenagers. It would be. The gameplay for me is Diablo with guns. It would suck for anyone not into that. If anyone isn't into that, don't buy Borderlands games. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] red@sopuli.xyz 51 points 1 year ago (2 children) Got to argue, I'm a 39 year old gamer, started with PCs back in 90s. The games are casual fun, they work great as co-op shooters. Story is what it is, but the games themselves are lighthearted and just pure entertaining fun. Not masterpieces. Just good. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] keckbug@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (2 children) The first felt really fresh at the time. FPS was dominated by various milsim shooters and Halo, and the irreverence and clever cell shading style worked well. Two dialed things up in scope and scale and added some nice environmental variety. But the rest? The presequel? The 3rd? I just couldn’t. It was more of the same, tired, repetitive, the jokes started really scraping the bottom of the barrel. I had fun early on, but I’m out. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago* I liked 1 and 2. Got bored for the prequel and 3 early on. Tiny Tinas I did play and really enjoyed that game. It felt like a reasonable advancement over BL 1 and 2. It felt like they stagnated for a bit and raised the bar slightly with Tinas. I really wanted an MMO style Borderlands with 4, and I wouldn't value 4 any higher than Tinas launch price. But I am interested in what the game has to offer. If you liked only the first two, def give Tina's a try, if it has a good sale. permalink fedilink source parent [–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* I loved the gameplay of pre sequel. But the writing for that was constantly throwing me for a loop on how any of it was greenlit. I didn't mind the writing in 1 and 2, I got a few chuckles out of that. Pre sequel just made me groan, moan and yawn. permalink fedilink source parent [–] JackbyDev@programming.dev -1 points 1 year ago (1 child) What are you arguing with? I don't see your comment as contradictory to theirs at all. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] red@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child) I guess his premise, that it's for edgy teens. Heck, half the pop references were ancient on launch. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) You would've been 16 years old on launch if you're 39 now though. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] red@sopuli.xyz 1 point 1 year ago True, but I've been couch-cooping them only recently. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] red@sopuli.xyz 51 points 1 year ago (2 children) Got to argue, I'm a 39 year old gamer, started with PCs back in 90s. The games are casual fun, they work great as co-op shooters. Story is what it is, but the games themselves are lighthearted and just pure entertaining fun. Not masterpieces. Just good. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] keckbug@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (2 children) The first felt really fresh at the time. FPS was dominated by various milsim shooters and Halo, and the irreverence and clever cell shading style worked well. Two dialed things up in scope and scale and added some nice environmental variety. But the rest? The presequel? The 3rd? I just couldn’t. It was more of the same, tired, repetitive, the jokes started really scraping the bottom of the barrel. I had fun early on, but I’m out. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago* I liked 1 and 2. Got bored for the prequel and 3 early on. Tiny Tinas I did play and really enjoyed that game. It felt like a reasonable advancement over BL 1 and 2. It felt like they stagnated for a bit and raised the bar slightly with Tinas. I really wanted an MMO style Borderlands with 4, and I wouldn't value 4 any higher than Tinas launch price. But I am interested in what the game has to offer. If you liked only the first two, def give Tina's a try, if it has a good sale. permalink fedilink source parent [–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* I loved the gameplay of pre sequel. But the writing for that was constantly throwing me for a loop on how any of it was greenlit. I didn't mind the writing in 1 and 2, I got a few chuckles out of that. Pre sequel just made me groan, moan and yawn. permalink fedilink source parent [–] JackbyDev@programming.dev -1 points 1 year ago (1 child) What are you arguing with? I don't see your comment as contradictory to theirs at all. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] red@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child) I guess his premise, that it's for edgy teens. Heck, half the pop references were ancient on launch. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) You would've been 16 years old on launch if you're 39 now though. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] red@sopuli.xyz 1 point 1 year ago True, but I've been couch-cooping them only recently. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] keckbug@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (2 children) The first felt really fresh at the time. FPS was dominated by various milsim shooters and Halo, and the irreverence and clever cell shading style worked well. Two dialed things up in scope and scale and added some nice environmental variety. But the rest? The presequel? The 3rd? I just couldn’t. It was more of the same, tired, repetitive, the jokes started really scraping the bottom of the barrel. I had fun early on, but I’m out. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago* I liked 1 and 2. Got bored for the prequel and 3 early on. Tiny Tinas I did play and really enjoyed that game. It felt like a reasonable advancement over BL 1 and 2. It felt like they stagnated for a bit and raised the bar slightly with Tinas. I really wanted an MMO style Borderlands with 4, and I wouldn't value 4 any higher than Tinas launch price. But I am interested in what the game has to offer. If you liked only the first two, def give Tina's a try, if it has a good sale. permalink fedilink source parent [–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* I loved the gameplay of pre sequel. But the writing for that was constantly throwing me for a loop on how any of it was greenlit. I didn't mind the writing in 1 and 2, I got a few chuckles out of that. Pre sequel just made me groan, moan and yawn. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago* I liked 1 and 2. Got bored for the prequel and 3 early on. Tiny Tinas I did play and really enjoyed that game. It felt like a reasonable advancement over BL 1 and 2. It felt like they stagnated for a bit and raised the bar slightly with Tinas. I really wanted an MMO style Borderlands with 4, and I wouldn't value 4 any higher than Tinas launch price. But I am interested in what the game has to offer. If you liked only the first two, def give Tina's a try, if it has a good sale. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* I loved the gameplay of pre sequel. But the writing for that was constantly throwing me for a loop on how any of it was greenlit. I didn't mind the writing in 1 and 2, I got a few chuckles out of that. Pre sequel just made me groan, moan and yawn. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev -1 points 1 year ago (1 child) What are you arguing with? I don't see your comment as contradictory to theirs at all. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] red@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child) I guess his premise, that it's for edgy teens. Heck, half the pop references were ancient on launch. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) You would've been 16 years old on launch if you're 39 now though. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] red@sopuli.xyz 1 point 1 year ago True, but I've been couch-cooping them only recently. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] red@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child) I guess his premise, that it's for edgy teens. Heck, half the pop references were ancient on launch. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) You would've been 16 years old on launch if you're 39 now though. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] red@sopuli.xyz 1 point 1 year ago True, but I've been couch-cooping them only recently. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) You would've been 16 years old on launch if you're 39 now though. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] red@sopuli.xyz 1 point 1 year ago True, but I've been couch-cooping them only recently. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] red@sopuli.xyz 1 point 1 year ago True, but I've been couch-cooping them only recently. permalink fedilink source parent
