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What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. (lemm.ee)
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[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 51 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

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