More likely the frame rate paused
Borderlands 4 was so forgettable I literally forgot it was already released.
I skipped 1, I adored 2 and played it to a harmful degree, I tried 3 and got bored after three attempts to get into it. There was a fourth??
I mean, the second game was basically setting the thing up for a MMO open-world, group-mission-running/loot extraction type game across a huge, cel-shaded world with open PvP areas and wild custom characters... and they dropped the ball on that?
Technically a 5th. There was one between two and three. Called Borderlands : The Pre-sequal. It wasnt that good either.
Borderlands had two really solid games, and theyve been running from what made it solid ever since.
Doesn't Tiny Tina's Wonderland count?
Well. I always forget that one exist tbh lmao
It's actually not terrible. Give it a shot if you can get it cheap enough.
pre sequel is genuinely the best borderlands tho
Did you play it? I thought the class designs were excellent.
I never even finished 3 because got seriously bored with it, and never had a whole lot of interest in 4, especially hearing how badly optimized it was. It just didn't look like anything worth the money to me, that's all. Then I literally forgot it has been out for a while because I was so disinterested.
I really enjoyed both of them. It may just not be your cup of tea, but I get the sense that the average person just plays them sort of mindlessly. For 3 and 4 especially, I found there's a really interesting layer in there when you start min/maxing around creating a feedback loop. In case you ever found yourself curious enough to give them another try. It makes them very memorable experiences.
I have played the original Borderlands more times than I can reasonably recall, and Borderlands 2 three or four times, but gosh I tried so hard to like BL3 and it just never landed with and felt tedious by that point.
3 was extra short, didnt feel like replaying it, just played it last year, didn't feel like buying 4 and I can afford it + have free time. It just doesn't look appealing, will def buy when it inevitably goes on sale for like 10-20$
Short? It was a similar length to the rest of the series.
From what I recall of the only time I played it, it has a lot of going back and forth and large empty spaces which artificially extends the duration of the main story.
I abused fast travel, all I remember from bl3 are the long boring unskippable non cutscene cutscenes. It always felt like they were there to artificially extend the time. I'd rather it just be a cutscene, over my gameplay while listening becoming just walking in circles waiting to actually play the game.
I can't say that was my experience when I played it last year, and you can see my recorded play times for the series below in this thread. In fact, I'd say I spent less time traversing empty spaces due to the game's more relaxed rules on fast travel.
No it was absolutely not. 3 was barely half the size 2 was. The first was bigger than the 2nd.
Their How Long to Beat times are all a tight spread. Having just played through them all in the past year, I can tell you that the only thing that makes 2 longer than the rest is that it has more DLC.
Borderlands was in essence an open world game. Two was so connected you could walk from the very beginning to the very end without any use of vehicles if you so chose. Borderlands 3 was the equivalent of Final Fantasy X.
If you say so. I can tell you I've been tracking my times pretty judiciously in the past year. For each of those Borderlands games, my times were:
So I guess Borderlands 2 wasn't longer, like I may have remembered it. In each case for the above, I basically just did enough side missions to keep pace with the recommended level of the next main story mission, which amounted to a few hours per game. All of those times include the DLC except for Borderlands 4, and the DLC is also very similarly sized and paced across games.
A former friend of mine voice acted in Borderlands 3. The moment I heard their voice I shut the game off and sold the disc back to the store, a long time ago.
In a way, they spared me a lot of boredom. I like to think I put those abruptly-refunded hours into Clair Obscur.
No, Tanis, you put them into a ton of failed Megabonk runs that you got slightly ticked off at, so the net effect emotionally was basically the same.
Megabonk is love, Megabonk is life.
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Is it like the other ones where it takes several hours until you start finding interesting guns and get cool powers?
I think the onboarding ramp is pretty standard across the series. If you stopped at 2, I thought the active abilities and corresponding upgrades were far more interesting in 3 and 4, even from the get go.
Wasn't this like a flagship game they were touting along with CoD?
Fuck Pitchford and Take2 -- sell the IP to someone who will do something cool and bring back Eddings.
Wasn’t fully on the card anyway so I wasn’t going to purchase. Fuck key cards.
Smart
Cool, idgaf about either!
It makes some sense, because basically no one has a Switch 2 anyway 🤷🏻♀️
Edit : turns out my friends are just weird. No one around ME owns a switch 2, but I guess the overall market is different.
It's the fastest selling nintendo console but sure
the real reason is they cant optimize the game enough for it to run on sw2
It is !? I have just checked and it is ! Wtf ? I used to always be able to tell how well a console was selling by just checking my friend circles (even then Nintendo was over-represented) so I am VERY confused that the console is selling well while I simultaneously don't know anyone who owns it 🤷🏻♀️
Apparently it's doing really well in Japan and less well elsewhere, but its success in Japan was enough to more than make up for it and exceed their forecast.
and given nintendo's history, the RoW market is a fun side project for them
Not sure why people think the Switch 2 sales have underperformed, I have one, my boss has one, my colleague and her brother just bought one. Yeah, it's not as popular as the first, but it's still pretty damn popular...
Fucking dicks!
Having played it on PC, if they got that running acceptably on a Switch 2, I'd be shocked.
I played and refunded after my 3080ti had a hard time getting 60 fps in 1080p.
I played through it once (twice?) and put a good amount of time into endgame. Fun game for a bit, better than 3 at least, but god the performance is abysmal.
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