I don't consider myself a fan of the Borderlands games but I do proper love playing them. After playing 1, 2 I played the PS and I think this is my favourite one yet. I'm not going to try and say why objectively this is better than 2 I'll just attempt to explain why I personally had more fun with this game. In terms of gameplay it's easily the best of the 3. No matter how much slander I hear or read about this game online I cannot change how much genuine fun I was having playing this.

Personally, the first games environments felt flat and empty, yes it's a wasteland but it wasn't that engaging. The second game brought a lot of variety, refinement and better abilities but personally I couldn't enjoy it's opening hour or so in the snow regions. It was slow, but boy did it pick up. What 2 has over the PS is characters and it feels very "DLC" like considering the most likable character again is Jack because Zarpedon is a whatever character. What did it for me more was the Australian characters, for me, it's the first time I've seen Australian culture, slangs and accents being added to media and not being completely butchered, it was executed phenomenally. I sat there realising that no one would understand some of the sentences except for fellow Aussies, which is a refreshing switch up considering whenever I hear in a game someone for instance say "oh so you're from (insert any of the 50 states)" I have no clue what that references/means at all.

Gameplay wise this takes the cake for me. Gunplay, killing stuff and movement are king to me, and I cannot really explain why but I had the most fun playing this and cannot say I prefered playing 1 or 2 over this. Which is why I rate this slightly above the others. The oxygen mechanic is easily forgotten about but as broken as traversing the map can be, low gravity was fun to float around in. I like the idea of the airborne damage/movement increase oz kits because I like to jump and shoot a lot. It's like I finally got to put my playstyle to full effect. Combining it with elemental ground pounds like come on, it's got the most variety killing stuff. Also best final boss fight. 1 was underwhelming and too easy, 2 had "the lava is rising!!!" which did it ever? Still to this day don't know what that was about but the PS actually had a lava is rising mechanic you had to avoid in a small arena which made things difficult. Once again, PS takes it for me.

Maybe all the criticism is valid about a non existent new game +, who knows I just beat the game, I know for a fact the characters are better in 2 compared to this but it still doesn't change how I felt about the gameplay, this just plays better and I don't know why I had a way better time playing this over BL1 and BL2. I would like to take this moment to apologise to Borderlands fans, I'm sorry.

I don't consider myself a fan of the Borderlands games but I do proper love playing them. After playing 1, 2 I played the PS and I think this is my favourite one yet. I'm not going to try and say why objectively this is better than 2 I'll just attempt to explain why I personally had more fun with this game. In terms of gameplay it's easily the best of the 3. No matter how much slander I hear or read about this game online I cannot change how much genuine fun I was having playing this. Personally, the first games environments felt flat and empty, yes it's a wasteland but it wasn't that engaging. The second game brought a lot of variety, refinement and better abilities but personally I couldn't enjoy it's opening hour or so in the snow regions. It was slow, but boy did it pick up. What 2 has over the PS is characters and it feels very "DLC" like considering the most likable character again is Jack because Zarpedon is a whatever character. What did it for me more was the Australian characters, for me, it's the first time I've seen Australian culture, slangs and accents being added to media and not being completely butchered, it was executed phenomenally. I sat there realising that no one would understand some of the sentences except for fellow Aussies, which is a refreshing switch up considering whenever I hear in a game someone for instance say "oh so you're from (insert any of the 50 states)" I have no clue what that references/means at all. Gameplay wise this takes the cake for me. Gunplay, killing stuff and movement are king to me, and I cannot really explain why but I had the most fun playing this and cannot say I prefered playing 1 or 2 over this. Which is why I rate this slightly above the others. The oxygen mechanic is easily forgotten about but as broken as traversing the map can be, low gravity was fun to float around in. I like the idea of the airborne damage/movement increase oz kits because I like to jump and shoot a lot. It's like I finally got to put my playstyle to full effect. Combining it with elemental ground pounds like come on, it's got the most variety killing stuff. Also best final boss fight. 1 was underwhelming and too easy, 2 had "the lava is rising!!!" which did it ever? Still to this day don't know what that was about but the PS actually had a lava is rising mechanic you had to avoid in a small arena which made things difficult. Once again, PS takes it for me. Maybe all the criticism is valid about a non existent new game +, who knows I just beat the game, I know for a fact the characters are better in 2 compared to this but it still doesn't change how I felt about the gameplay, this just plays better and I don't know why I had a way better time playing this over BL1 and BL2. I would like to take this moment to apologise to Borderlands fans, I'm sorry.