I don't get it..

[xRaoriex]

With a game series that makes poop jokes and laugh gags with underwear, people were huge die hard fans.

Now suddenly it's fan base consists of 80% theater majors and Linguist.

"oh, the twins are youtube rip offs"

Torgue was a nature boy/macho man randy rip off with a huge hard on for explosions.

Scooter, ellie, and moxxi are the stereotypical media biased view of southerners (rednecks). Also Scooter wanted to smash his sister so she ran away to be a leader of cannibals in a frozen tundra. Also mid mission to the end referenced snow white and the 7 dwarfs the entire time..

The only black guy in the series died.

Let's not forget the batman reference.

[Mad Mav]

Gotta remember; a lot of the folks that are "huge die hard fans" started with BL1 when it first came out. We're all a bit older now. Some of that jazz just doesn't age well.

[Sekzon]

if you don't understand the problem why judge people being upset? people are upset because they broke their own lore and the reason for doing so was quite poorly executed. this youtube rip off thing or w/e has nothing to do. how well the past stories were executed has nothing to do with it. well kind of because it set their lore which they then chose to break for arbitrary reasons no one enjoyed really.

[Fyre]

A joke has to be funny to be good. Just referencing youtuber/streamer lingo without making it funny is just a very 'hello fellow kids' kind of cringe.

Very boomer-esque to think that 'toxic fanbases' are anything like the COV as well. The same type of person thinks that Logan Paul and Pewdiepie are basically the same thing.

Not to mention Handsome Jack is a really tough act to follow. Troy had his moments but Tyrese is just annoying but just about anything that isn't Jack is gonna be put on blast.

The very use of the word 'scrub' is so 'hello fellow kids' it hurts, nobody has used that word in maybe a decade.

[zacharyb]

Might not be remembering well but I don't recall the previous Borderlands being so focused on ♥♥♥♥ or asses as much as BL3 does. Seems like half the jokes in the game are related to the two I mentioned.

Also I think the Twins would've been a bit funnier if they would've came out with BL3 like 5 years ago or whenever Twitch streaming started to become pretty popular. It was a stale meme by the time the game released.

Personally though I felt BL3's story was very weak along with the main antagonists. The BL2 plot might've not be amazing but Handsome Jack was a great enemy because he was complex unlike the twins. He wasn't an entirely terrible person and he actually had some reason for becoming evil.

The twins on the other hand are pretty much pure evil and they don't really have much reason to be evil. There was a few moments where Troy actually looked like he might have some humanity, but they never went anywhere with it. They also never went anywhere with the conflict that started to build up between Tyreen and Troy.

[Etny2k]

dude 20k people play at monday early morning silent majority!

[shiny_dirk]

to me, logan and pewdiepie are the same. annoying - avoid.
enjoying borderlands 3, though.

edit: asmongold as a dishonorable mention to the above two.

[Darrian]

Originally posted by Etny2k:

dude 20k people play at monday early morning silent majority!

Timezones exists. For many people in Europe and Asia it's late afternoon/evening/night aka prime time for gaming.

[Linguistically Inept]

Originally posted by xRAzorxDicex:

Now suddenly it's fan base consists of 80% theater majors and Linguist.

why capitalise that? logically i know im not being called out but i feel like im being called out

[xRaoriex]

Originally posted by Linguistically Inept:

Originally posted by xRAzorxDicex:

Now suddenly it's fan base consists of 80% theater majors and Linguist.

why capitalise that? logically i know im not being called out but i feel like im being called out

Honestly idk. Felt more like a title? lol I couldn't choose whether to capitalize or not so i just went with it. No attack, just confusion on how the fan base has had such a drastic shift.

Just feels like people want to hate the game at this point simply for the fact that Randy is still in charge and they feel hurt by 2k. I'm not very far in but so far it's been pretty tame and standard borderlands fashion. kinda too tame in a spooky way.

Everything the employees go through and have gone through I know it must really suck to want to make a living but folks are just stepping all over it and forgetting how much effort went into it and there's others lower in the line of command that exist. Yea it can be a bit janky or different but its not the trash folks are making it seem like.

who knows though. maybe i'll have a different opinion by the end.

[Rhino]

Originally posted by xRAzorxDicex:

With a game series that makes poop jokes and laugh gags with underwear, people were huge die hard fans.

Now suddenly it's fan base consists of 80% theater majors and Linguist.

"oh, the twins are youtube rip offs"

Torgue was a nature boy/macho man randy rip off with a huge hard on for explosions.

Scooter, ellie, and moxxi are the stereotypical media biased view of southerners (rednecks). Also Scooter wanted to smash his sister so she ran away to be a leader of cannibals in a frozen tundra. Also mid mission to the end referenced snow white and the 7 dwarfs the entire time..

The only black guy in the series died.

Let's not forget the batman reference.

Not his sister, his cousin.
His sister only left the clan.

[Junipercat]

Originally posted by Rhino:

Originally posted by xRAzorxDicex:

Scooter, ellie, and moxxi are the stereotypical media biased view of southerners (rednecks). Also Scooter wanted to smash his sister so she ran away to be a leader of cannibals in a frozen tundra. Also mid mission to the end referenced snow white and the 7 dwarfs the entire time..

Not his sister, his cousin.
His sister only left the clan.

Ellie is his sister that left the clan, partly to avoid becoming the "clan wife".

Laney White is his cousin that went far away to live with the 7 rats.

[Rhino]

Originally posted by Junipercat:

Originally posted by Rhino:

Not his sister, his cousin.
His sister only left the clan.

Ellie is his sister that left the clan, partly to avoid becoming the "clan wife".

Laney White is his cousin that went far away to live with the 7 rats.

yes, laney became part of a cannibal tribe in a frozen area.

[Pyro Penguin]

Originally posted by xRAzorxDicex:

Let's not forget the batman reference.

I am throat scratch! I am the pants! I AM RAKKMAN!!!

[Patriot]

I do find it funny how Midgets are suddenly Tinks now.

[xRaoriex]

Originally posted by Pyro Penguin:

Originally posted by xRAzorxDicex:

Let's not forget the batman reference.

I am throat scratch! I am the pants! I AM RAKKMAN!!!

still a hilarious reference. especially when u see the outfit lol.