Tiny Tina's Wonderlands VS Borderlands 3

[No' Name]

So, I just bought everything from Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, had that game before on console, I was out of town for work (no PC/Laptop out there), and I did manage to beat that game. I originally thought I had way more fun in Tiny Tina's Wonderlands than Borderlands 3 But, I'm not so sure anymore. I was one of those people who got Borderlands 3 on Epic, and seen it on sale 2 days ago on Steam for everything, which was only $30, so decided to pick it up on Steam. Also beat Borderlands 3.

Now Tina's Wonderland, while the spells, and skills were cool, the Character customization in that game was absolutely garbage, and I think I would have much rather had the typical Heroes/Classes the other Borderlands games had offered. The story in Tina's Wonderlands was "meh" nothing too special, but definitely not the type of Story Cringe that is on the same level as Borderlands 3, I'm not too sure any game could pull that off.

I will say though, as soon as I stopped playing Tina's Wonderlands, and booted up Borderlands 3 again, immediately I was hit with a breath of fresh air, the gunplay is better, the maps are better, and the game has Vehicles. For as cringe as the story is in Borderlands 3, if you just ignore that, and realise the Side-quests in the game have a far superior design/story to Borderlands 3, it's almost forgivable how trash the actual Story is.

There is a lot Tina's Wonderlands did right I feel, like the different Magic Abilities, but let's be real, those were just different kind of grenades.

I think they worst part about Tina's Wonderlands is they actually got some decent voice Actors like Will Arnet (albeit most of his performance was done outside of the studio, and sounded like it was just recorded over a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ laptop microphone), and those are the kind of actors that should have been in Borderlands 3 to begin with.

Either or, it could be just that's it's been along time since I've touched Borderlands 3, but basically everything but the Story seems to be done much better than Tina's Wonderlands.

Here's Hoping Borderlands 4's Story isn't a complete joke (the bad kind).

Not even sure why they would make Borderlands 3's Story about "Streamers". Most of them have the audience of pre-teens. Whoever thought that would have been a good story to tell needs to rethink their life-choices.

[Kobeth]

I refuse to touch Tiny Tina's Wonderland because the endgame is trash.

[kukuhimanpr]

for any borderlands games (tftb is a telltale game with borderlands skin. ntftb is considered to not exist by 9001% of borderlands fans), challenging end game contents with high replayability is essential. ttwl sucks in that part. also doesn't help that ttwl's vibe was focus designed for 'exlusive modern audience'.

its a shame that the first borderlands game that feature custom create your own vault hunter system was tarnished and tied into ttwl's reputation... i really wish there's a borderlands game set in the proper sci fi 6 galaxy borderlands setting where we can make our own custom vault hunters and go make our own adventures with very minimal storytelling (kinda like b1 but with much less cutscenes and npcs monologuing on our vault hunters' constantly hijacked echo device) so that b3+ modern controversial plotholey anti classic characters writing won't get in the way.

[Gom]

I like BL3's endgame better, but I prefer TTW for replaying story. At least you don't need to stop for a few minutes to listen to some cringey lines.

[★REM★]

TTW is superior in almost everything . Does not mean BL3 is bad at all, both enjoyable.

[Ackerlight]

Originally posted by ★REM★:

TTW is superior in almost everything . Does not mean BL3 is bad at all, both enjoyable.

so arena fights in small crappy levels together with pre-teen dialog is superior?

Watch the payer count for TTW - you are wrong badly

[CitizenX3639]

I have 100% all of the BL franchise(working on 3 now) including TTWL and BL3 is by far a superior product in every way. TTWL is not even really a BL game becasue it is shallow AF.

[Kobeth]

Originally posted by ★REM★:

TTW is superior in almost everything . Does not mean BL3 is bad at all, both enjoyable.

BL3's active player count around 5 to 6k, TTWL active player count around 7 to 8 hundreds ...

[RoboSauce]

TTW was fun for a playthrough, it looked amazing and as a ttrpg player it had some funny moments. For some reason the enemy types didn't excite me too much, the guns were just OK vs BL3. It was a side game made mostly over the internet during Covid so I don't judge it too harshly (insert Borderlands movie comment here lol).

[Bankai9212]

Originally posted by RoboSauce:

TTW was fun for a playthrough, it looked amazing and as a ttrpg player it had some funny moments. For some reason the enemy types didn't excite me too much, the guns were just OK vs BL3. It was a side game made mostly over the internet during Covid so I don't judge it too harshly (insert Borderlands movie comment here lol).

They charged a premium, along with dlc it should be judged compared to previous games.

[Gallifrey - CSSC Gaming Founder]

Both have weaker stories than earlier titles in the franchise although TTWL has fewer really irritating aspects.

The meta on TTWL is far weaker than Assault on Dragon's Keep.

BL 3 for me drops the ball on Typhon and pacing. Typhon I found really irritating and he blew away any chance of true emotion in the twins' story.

TTWL - the DLC is awful. Don't repeat that ever again Gearbox.

But for me both are good to very good games in the franchise. Enemies, combat and weapons are all done well. Both have a lot of content and some decent surprises.

S.x.