A disappointing, iterative sequel of one of my favorite games.
I sunk dozens and dozens of hours into Borderlands 2 between the base game and all the DLC. I adored that game. It's a game that got my wife and I into co-op gaming more. It's a game we used to keep in touch with friends from out of town.
The story was wacky and fun, the grind was satisfying.
Borderlands 3 is none of those things.
Borderlands 3 tries too hard.
Randy Pitchford walked into the writers room and cranked the "Borderlandz" nob up to 11. The story is boring, the jokes don't land, the villains are awful. Man I hated the story in this game.
One of the big differences between Borderlands 2 and 3 is the Borderlands 2 set the stage for looter shooters. It created a genre.
Games like Destiny came out and then perfected that genre. So for Borderlands 3 to come out and be a minor iteration on BL2 after games like Destiny is a wildly tone-deaf move. The game is boring, the shooting feels fine, the enemies are hard to see, the classes aren't interesting. The only saving grace of this game was how much fun we had playing it with our friends.... when the game worked.
We started playing the game at launch and it barely functioned. So we waited. We waited a year.
A year later, the game was still riddled with bugs and performance issues. They launched a next-gen version of the game that was still wildly buggy and had completely broken trophies.
I can't remember the last time I was this disappointed by a sequel to a beloved piece of media I love.
I sunk dozens and dozens of hours into Borderlands 2 between the base game and all the DLC. I adored that game. It's a game that got my wife and I into co-op gaming more. It's a game we used to keep in touch with friends from out of town.
The story was wacky and fun, the grind was satisfying.
Borderlands 3 is none of those things.
Borderlands 3 tries too hard.
Randy Pitchford walked into the writers room and cranked the "Borderlandz" nob up to 11. The story is boring, the jokes don't land, the villains are awful. Man I hated the story in this game.
One of the big differences between Borderlands 2 and 3 is the Borderlands 2 set the stage for looter shooters. It created a genre.
Games like Destiny came out and then perfected that genre. So for Borderlands 3 to come out and be a minor iteration on BL2 after games like Destiny is a wildly tone-deaf move. The game is boring, the shooting feels fine, the enemies are hard to see, the classes aren't interesting. The only saving grace of this game was how much fun we had playing it with our friends.... when the game worked.
We started playing the game at launch and it barely functioned. So we waited. We waited a year.
A year later, the game was still riddled with bugs and performance issues. They launched a next-gen version of the game that was still wildly buggy and had completely broken trophies.
I can't remember the last time I was this disappointed by a sequel to a beloved piece of media I love.
FallenGrace
1 year ago