Should I buy this or Borderlands 2?

[KillWonder]

What are the main differences between these games?

[Lord Of War]

Hehe, mate, it's like 7 years gap between these games.

If you want a good villain and a lot-lot of missions, take BL2.

BL3 is a significant jump in gameplay i.e. arenas are the best, shooting/moving is the fastest of all BL games; but.. it's very easy, content quality decreases from DLC1 to absurd DLC4 and while base game is rich in missions, cannot say the same about DLCs.

[FiilGuud (:]

Main difference is development time
With Borderlands 2 fleshed out by now and with quite a bit of mods available, it has more stuff to choose from on what to do, the villain of the story is arguably the best in the series and the story is somewhat better than 3rd's.

With the Borderlands 3 you get better gunplay and more variety in mechanics and surroundings, albeit there's less content due to less development time. Also the story is kinda on the meh-side, but it is a looter-shooter and most people don't play games like this for their story. Needs more end-game. Also a huge plus is that you don't have to re-play the story several times to reach endgame activities/higher levels.

[Kick the Bukkit]

for now get 2 and play untill you are bored, by that time 3 will probably be finished

(weapon balance is poor and difficulty is allmost non existant)

[roug3lement]

If you're new to the world of Borderlands, you should pick up BL2. You would only pick up BL3 if you are convinced and enjoyed BL2 and are wanting more. If you want to jump into the latest entry instead, go with BL3. Gameplay mechanics makes up the differences in both entries. Think of BL TPS as an expansion game, except iti is its own game. I would pick up The Handsome Collection if you are looking to explore the entire BL series (it excludes Tales From The Borderlands and BL3 ofc).

[Mez Koo]

Get the handsome collection, if you like it then get 3 but don't expect a story as good as Handsome Jack.

Gameplay of Borderlands 3 is much better than Borderlands 2 so if its story you want then go for 2, if you want a better looter shooter than go with 3.

[GoreTiger]

The only real quality BL3 has over BL2 is the gun play. Guns in BL2 weren't bad but they were pretty stagnant. BL3 has super fun gunplay.
But BL2 outclasses BL3 in almost everything else. The characters were better, The story was better. The writing and jokes were better. The DLC's were better.

[Dyex]

Watch a playthrough of BL2 on YouTube, play BL3.

[Snarbles]

the story is not that bad. its borderlands not red dead. neither 2 or 3 have great stories its about the gameplay, and 3 is more updated and fluid. The only reason i would recommend 2 right now would be hardware/performance if thats an issue. If you want a story based game there is a telltale BL. The thing is they are both good games

[GoreTiger]

Publicado originalmente por Snarbles:

the story is not that bad. its borderlands not red dead. neither 2 or 3 have great stories its about the gameplay, and 3 is more updated and fluid. The only reason i would recommend 2 right now would be hardware/performance if thats an issue. If you want a story based game there is a telltale BL. The thing is they are both good games

Borderlands 2 has the best story of the series, What do you mean? If you combine things like user reviews, awards, general reception, It's the best of the series. And for it's time, BL2 had pretty good gunplay/physics.

[Silly Syndrome]

both games have high quality jokes so both

[Lord Of War]

Publicado originalmente por World of Warcraft:

both games have high quality jokes so both

Such jokes would deserve Kevin Hart in the movie. Oh wait!

[Casurin]

BL2 - hands down - the handsome Collection.
More content, better story, better price (the handsomeCollection often is on sale for ~15$ and you can buy keys for it for under 10$ - you only need to buy Lilith-DLC extra - but only buy it when it is on sale).

BL3 as objectively the better movement and gun mechanics, but that's about it.
The graphics? It has way worse performance for how it looks and it is a complete overload with how your screen constantly gets flooded with bright effects to the point that you can not even see the enemies anymore.
And it also has a lot of annoying problems - many small bugs that have been there for months or even since release.
Story... Bl1 had a better story and that game was not known for having a good story.
And replay-value?
Not great either. The main-part of the game is significatly easier than BL2 (heck, BL2 NVHM is harder than BL3 TVHM) and the Mayhem-Levels mostly make the enemies Bullet-sponges but not hard.


And lastly the handsome-collection comes with BL:TPS included. So 2 games for less than one of the 2 season-passes of BL3.

[Penumbra]

Borderlands 2 for sure. Make sure you either get the Handsome collection or buy all the DLCs. A few of them could almost be their own standalone games in my opinion.

[GuNNuP]

Borderlands 2 imo is trash gun-play.

[GoreTiger]

Publicado originalmente por GuNNuP:

Borderlands 2 imo is trash gun-play.

It wasn't trash for it's time tho. You have to take into account it's age.