• Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    I got to about level 5 in borderlands 3 and just gave up… It felt like a slap in the face after the great stories of borderlands and borderlands 2. The third attempt seemed like it was written by 13 year old boys…

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      5 days ago

      Complaining that Borderlands 3 has a juvenile tone, while praising the first two games great stories, feels disingenuous. Or, at the very least, it reads as excessively nostalgic.

      • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        5 days ago

        Borderlands 2 was written by Anthony Burch, and featured a lot of HAWP style humor. It had plenty of material that didn’t land but plenty that hit the mark.

        Burch also set a bar that 3 failed abysmally.

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        5 days ago

        Yeah, but borderlands 2 feels like it was written by a funnier 13 year old that’s kind of self aware. 3 has a more “hello fellow children” vibe to it.

    • Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 days ago

      The main issue with any borderlands title is that they aren’t worth buying on day one… Or even year 1. I quit buying after 2, and waited for a goty edition for 3. Ended up with the Pandora box which was more than I had planned on getting. Even when 4 releases, I’ll be waiting for the day it goes on sale with all dlc before I even bother looking at it. So probably just 2027 at this point.