Why I Actually Liked This Game

[Bean Butt]

Lots of people give Borderlands 3 hate, but I digress. I made a video going over the game briefly and why it still struck me in many ways, you don’t have to watch, but I’d appreciate the support! 🙂
https://youtu.be/-DTCxH4UiS8?si=XOMrlL2SLY3tmuc2

[Bankai9212]

I mean the biggest issue people have is the narrative more then anything, That's been discussed at length over the last 4 years.

[Bean Butt]

Originally posted by Bankai9212:

I mean the biggest issue people have is the narrative more then anything, That's been discussed at length over the last 4 years.

That’s what I meant, it didn’t really seem to grasp me

[Nakos]

BL3 has great gameplay. It's a beautiful, smooth, liquid feeling environment.

But the story is this horrible, insulting step down from the previous games.

Also, legendaries just drop waaaaaaay too often, they're just handed out like candy, there's pretty much no reason to EVER us white/green/blue gear beyond the first 5 minutes of the game.


I'll also add that I think the world design was weaker. The specific encounters (and encounter environments were okay, but they way they were fitted together and spaced in the over-world felt clumsy and amateurish compared to the map designs of the earlier games.

[Admiral]

My biggest gripes are characters, story and world design/maps. Gameplaywise BL3 is the best BL overall minus what Nakos already said about the legendary items being handed out like candy.

EDIT: I also felt BL3 had way more technical issues than the previous games. And it hasn't exactly gotten much better when I last checked. Multiplayer/Shift is total crap and in a good session you and your friends only get disconnected 5 times. In a bad session the Shift is unable to establish the whole connection in the first place.

[Junipercat]

Originally posted by Nakos:

BL3 has great gameplay. It's a beautiful, smooth, liquid feeling environment.

But the story is this horrible, insulting step down from the previous games.

Also, legendaries just drop waaaaaaay too often, they're just handed out like candy, there's pretty much no reason to EVER us white/green/blue gear beyond the first 5 minutes of the game.


I'll also add that I think the world design was weaker. The specific encounters (and encounter environments were okay, but they way they were fitted together and spaced in the over-world felt clumsy and amateurish compared to the map designs of the earlier games.

Nice and concise. A valid critical opinion of the game. Another issue is treatment of characters. From the prior games you will notice they devalued certain characters to artificially put them in the spot light, as opposed to raising them up solidly on their own merits.

And the twin/parasitic siren concept was a nice idea but the two they made are horrible, with Tyreen being the worst. Removing her entire voice from the game improves it immensely.

[Random]

Only issue with Borderlands 3 is mainly the story, story sucked dk. Everything else on the gameplay side is either the same or been improved.

[Uzkniso o.o]

Originally posted by Random:

Only issue with Borderlands 3 is mainly the story, story sucked dk. Everything else on the gameplay side is either the same or been improved.

This. The gameplay is best in the series.

[Al1X1RO]

I think the story is fine. Sure its not as good as BL2, but its still great. I think people just expected a copy of Handsome jack kind of villain or something but gunplay was the biggest improvement. I hated a lot of guns in the past games and the gunplay was just terrible. I still got myself through the story somehow but the gunplay was just not it, but this one has godly gunplay and so far i loved every weapon i got.

[Bankai9212]

Originally posted by Al1X1RO:

I think the story is fine. Sure its not as good as BL2, but its still great. I think people just expected a copy of Handsome jack kind of villain or something but gunplay was the biggest improvement. I hated a lot of guns in the past games and the gunplay was just terrible. I still got myself through the story somehow but the gunplay was just not it, but this one has godly gunplay and so far i loved every weapon i got.

No one expected anything close too Jack.

[Al1X1RO]

Originally posted by Bankai9212:

Originally posted by Al1X1RO:

I think the story is fine. Sure its not as good as BL2, but its still great. I think people just expected a copy of Handsome jack kind of villain or something but gunplay was the biggest improvement. I hated a lot of guns in the past games and the gunplay was just terrible. I still got myself through the story somehow but the gunplay was just not it, but this one has godly gunplay and so far i loved every weapon i got.

No one expected anything close too Jack.

And yet it feels like everyone did. Or most at least.

[Bankai9212]

Originally posted by Al1X1RO:

Originally posted by Bankai9212:

No one expected anything close too Jack.

And yet it feels like everyone did. Or most at least.

Even when not compared to him they are still bad/underwhelming as villains.

[Al1X1RO]

Originally posted by Bankai9212:

Originally posted by Al1X1RO:

And yet it feels like everyone did. Or most at least.

Even when not compared to him they are still bad/underwhelming as villains.

Not everyones opinion. I think they are 7/10 villains. If i had to rate them with word, i would say good. Not great, not fantastic or mid/bad but just good.

[Bankai9212]

Originally posted by Al1X1RO:

Originally posted by Bankai9212:

Even when not compared to him they are still bad/underwhelming as villains.

Not everyones opinion. I think they are 7/10 villains. If i had to rate them with word, i would say good. Not great, not fantastic or mid/bad but just good.

They aren't even good, they are pretty passive as villains only doing something once the player moves on. The only memorable thing is there entire bit of being streamers that's about it. Least TPS and even 1 in some cases had villains that had plans or were actively doing something. Not even going to score them as they aren't good villains.

[Bean Butt]

Originally posted by Bankai9212:

Originally posted by Al1X1RO:

Not everyones opinion. I think they are 7/10 villains. If i had to rate them with word, i would say good. Not great, not fantastic or mid/bad but just good.

They aren't even good, they are pretty passive as villains only doing something once the player moves on. The only memorable thing is there entire bit of being streamers that's about it. Least TPS and even 1 in some cases had villains that had plans or were actively doing something. Not even going to score them as they aren't good villains.

That's pretty much how I felt, every time they are on screen it's not even like I'm excited. I roll my eyes and mute the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tv lmao

[Bankai9212]

Cool free points, your free to disagree but they are still weak villains in the eyes of many.