Borderlands 3 has the best narrative in the series...

[Holografix]

because it takes plot points from all previous games and merges them together into a cohesive whole.

Thoughts?

[Bankai9212]

Didn't you make a thread like this already a year ago, Okay so how is it the best narrative in the series? Otherwise you are just farming jester points. I've never seen someone so bent out of shape for any games story let alone BL3.

[Caramel_Clown]

Picking best narrative out of those games is like deciding what's the best disease to have. They all have very basic level of writing, with the simplest of plots a child could come up with. I don't see anyone playing Borderlands game for the story, or caring about it that much. BL3 was a success, despite having some of the worst characters I have ever seen in any game. No, any form of media period.

[daskarN]

Im struggling to get through this game because the story is so boring, i find myself not caring about any characters at all..

[vee-kay]

*munches popcorn*

[Junipercat]

Originally posted by Caramel_Clown:

Picking best narrative out of those games is like deciding what's the best disease to have.

I don't see anyone playing Borderlands game for the story, or caring about it that much.

Fortunately that is just your opinion. May of us do in fact play Borderlands for the story even if you cannot see us doing so. Borderlands was a great combination of gameplay and story, Problem is that BL3 decided to turn story and character writing on its head. The writers of BL3 should have designed a new game instead of ruining someone else's good franchise.

In any case, this thread is a repeat of a prior one that got shut down because of how toxic it became. I would be surprised if this one fares any better.

[kukuhimanpr]

*sips a nice warm mug of b2gaige-approved hot chocolate*

[Junipercat]

Originally posted by kukuhimanpr:

*sips a nice warm mug of gaige-approved hot chocolate*

Yumm! She has the best dad. Even protected her while she was on "vacation".

That would be a cool father-in-law...

[agentM]

No Handsome Jack no worth it

[Bankai9212]

Now we leave the thread for a week, then op returns to bump it saying nothing.

[Holografix]

Borderlands 3 is all about Sirens. BL2 was all about "finding" or "needing" sirens. TPS didn't have any sirens. Borderlands 3 connected the Siren plot-lines and gave us an understanding of the Siren life cycle. BL3 gave us one of the most impactful, heartbreaking and polarizing scenes ever in video game history: Maya's death.

[Bankai9212]

Again saying a whole lot of nothing, also there was a siren in TPS Lilith and angel are part of the narrative.

[Omega24]

It's like saying the fallout tv show is good......

[CEO of skill issue]

The story is garbage. Usually it's not good in the series but this is the lowest point in terms of storytelling. You can defend it all you want, but Girl Power vs. Tiktokers plot won't get any better from it. You can like it, but clearly you're a minority in this regard. My main issue with it is that they focused on it so much, every idiotic monologue you MUST listen over and over again, because the quest marker forces you too. Every time you replay the game they force you to experience that trash in all it entirety, you can skip basically nothing. It just adds insult to injury bc the story, monologues, dialogues and overall writing is cringe almost constantly. Like, I dont want to hear 15th joke about feces in a row, I just want to play the game.

[vee-kay]

Originally posted by CEO of skill issue:

The story is garbage. Usually it's not good in the series but this is the lowest point in terms of storytelling. You can defend it all you want, but Girl Power vs. Tiktokers plot won't get any better from it. You can like it, but clearly you're a minority in this regard. My main issue with it is that they focused on it so much, every idiotic monologue you MUST listen over and over again, because the quest marker forces you too. Every time you replay the game they force you to experience that trash in all it entirety, you can skip basically nothing. It just adds insult to injury bc the story, monologues, dialogues and overall writing is cringe almost constantly. Like, I dont want to hear 15th joke about feces in a row, I just want to play the game.

It wasn't really all about Girl Power, though the all-girl protagonists/antagonists was due to wokeism (thanks to Sweet Baby Inc.).


Borderlands lore tells us that Sirens are the deadliest force known in the universe (which is why the supervillains keep trying to trap and exploit their powers). Sirens like Lilith become veteran leaders due to their fame and clout attained due to incredible heroism and vanquishing of archvillains.

But in this BL3 game, the Sirens are reduced to most idiotic suicidal wimps, and everyone around them are either whining, crying, killing or dying. Lilith does nothing in Sanctuary, except stand idly in the bridge of the ship making idle chatter or sarcastic quips.
It's as if the writers decided that they had to turns Sirens into mere plot devices that can do nothing by themselves except be trapped or die.

Mark my words. BL4 will again see Sirens captive and exploited by the archvillains, And vault hunters sent in to rescue them. Basically it's the plotline of BL2 all over again. And I won't be surprised to see Handsome Jack revived in some way, as the writers couldn't even come up with decent villain in recent games (though The Dragon Lord was a good enough villain, as Tiny Tina and gang's fantasy tabletop RPG trope equivalent of Handsome Jack. Will Arnett did a good job as voice actor as Dragon Lord, though Dameon Clarke as Handsome Jack is still the bee's knees in that department in this game series).

[Junipercat]

Makes me wonder if those that go so far as desperately trying to convince others that BL3 is the best, like the OP has done, if they identify themselves as one of those special groups and just wants to push propaganda.

To be clear, I take no issue with anyone liking BL3 better than the others. We each have our preferences. But for those that only like it because it checks boxes under the guise of being inclusive, but not the game's own merits, they need a reality check Sounds like sweet baby needs to shut up and go out of business if they want to destroy existing franchises.