Borderlands 2 is an airtight experience that is best experienced with another person, and for the most part serves as a fun-as-fuck co-op game. While most looter shooters fail for being ridiculously repetitive, BL2 doesn’t fall under the same level of scrutiny because there is enough quest variety to keep it mostly refreshing. In fact, I’d say the side quests are some of the best I’ve seen in a title like this; on pure variety alone, I’d say bare minimum the objectives are refreshing even if you end up just killing people on the way there. Some of the quests have some interesting story & character implications and help flesh out the world just a bit.

On the topic of story, it’s…. ehhhhh. Handsome Jack was hyped up to be this amazing villain but at best he was incredibly charismatic and entertaining, beyond that he isn’t anything too special. The plot is serviceable and the stakes are hardly felt, there’s as much to get out of Borderlands 2 as there is a Resident Evil game… so like, nothing. The humour is absolutely early 2010s but I found it oddly charming even though it was cringeworthy at some points too. I didn’t hate the humour and I get it’s part of BL2’s quirks but it just led to a lotta eyeroll moments. Though, it does fit how I feel about the game holistically. The game is meant for shutting your brain off and shooting shit and in that regard it’s a solid game.

However, some gameplay quirks were a lil annoying. Endgame enemy damage scaling got ridiculous at points even when you’re at their respective level and honestly if you don’t get golden keys to get the special weapons in the cases, then you’re stuck with some really shitty and boring weapons.

It’s fun, but I don’t know how much I’d like it had I played it solo, and especially if I didn’t find out about the special crate weapons. But from what I’ve experienced, I liked it!

Borderlands 2 is an airtight experience that is best experienced with another person, and for the most part serves as a fun-as-fuck co-op game. While most looter shooters fail for being ridiculously repetitive, BL2 doesn’t fall under the same level of scrutiny because there is enough quest variety to keep it mostly refreshing. In fact, I’d say the side quests are some of the best I’ve seen in a title like this; on pure variety alone, I’d say bare minimum the objectives are refreshing even if you end up just killing people on the way there. Some of the quests have some interesting story & character implications and help flesh out the world just a bit.

On the topic of story, it’s…. ehhhhh. Handsome Jack was hyped up to be this amazing villain but at best he was incredibly charismatic and entertaining, beyond that he isn’t anything too special. The plot is serviceable and the stakes are hardly felt, there’s as much to get out of Borderlands 2 as there is a Resident Evil game… so like, nothing. The humour is absolutely early 2010s but I found it oddly charming even though it was cringeworthy at some points too. I didn’t hate the humour and I get it’s part of BL2’s quirks but it just led to a lotta eyeroll moments. Though, it does fit how I feel about the game holistically. The game is meant for shutting your brain off and shooting shit and in that regard it’s a solid game.

However, some gameplay quirks were a lil annoying. Endgame enemy damage scaling got ridiculous at points even when you’re at their respective level and honestly if you don’t get golden keys to get the special weapons in the cases, then you’re stuck with some really shitty and boring weapons.

It’s fun, but I don’t know how much I’d like it had I played it solo, and especially if I didn’t find out about the special crate weapons. But from what I’ve experienced, I liked it!

Very difficult to rate. Character writing is boarderline non existent beyond your pawn. The actual plot is very mediocre, with themes that have been done better many times over, The concept of enduring and attempting to rid the world on a continuous cylce is nothing new, just as serving as a device for the idea of combating a written out fate is and in regards to free will is definitely not something new as well, and has been done many times just within the last few years.
I do like the ending, it is a great moment seeing your pawn “attain free will”, as well as the brine serving as somewhat of a device for the cycle. But honestly thats really the only upside in terms of story and plot. This story has been done a million times, and within those million times, many of them have done it better.
In terms of gameplay, its not cute to have a game preforming this shit. It’s not quirky to be poorly made. The combat feels smooth at times, but that is the only time this game is smooth. For such a boring landscape for much of the map, and combined with the shit stamina, it is odd for them to promote traveling by foot, I can’t lie the map is pretty pathetic as well, it seems like it should have been bigger and had more content. The unmoored world is cool, the regular world is just regular fantasy, at many times not even very fantasy. There’s like 5 different mobs you can fight on a regular basis throughout the game, and about 4 reskinned bigger mobs with at least 1 or 2 varying attacks.
there’s no value or weight to any mobs. You run down a random corridor and stumble into a “boss” but 90% of the time that shit is irrelevant to anything, and after getting 4000 xp For spending 5 minutes killing this thing I just wonder why I even bothered wasting my time with it. Lets be honest almost every quest in the game sucks and feels irrelevent while you’re doing it. There’s a handful of features that will never be used. What’s the point of even bothering with vvoactions if youre not starting a new playthrough, you’re fine maxing out 1 and just using that.
A real half ass and unfinished game that I don’t believe was ready, and the workers obviously knew this as well. I’m sure there’ll be dlc, but whatever is released is something I’m sure should have been in the game upon release. The ending is good but I’m not
going to fall for it. This game is a movement in the wrong direction for
games as a whole

42/100