Anyone else feel like the vault hunters in this game look generic as hell? I personally can't wait to play... Guy in a hoodie.
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i thought the same for 3 then zane ended up being one of my favorites vault hunters
You know some prankster programmer is going to put that in a comment somewhere for the lols now that he's said that
Imagine if gearbox actually hired writers with experience and good credits instead of just relying on their Skinner box casino loots.
If the story of borderlands 4 is near as interesting as skibidi toilets, i might actually play it.
3 was just such a letdown after 2.
story wise definitely but 3 had the best gameplay by far. no more slag bullshit
I can't fucking believe a fat Turkish chef went from a funny tidbit to cancer upon earth with a single sfm animation
Fart jokes are out. Time to switch to dick jokes.
Can we get whomever wrote Handsome Jack to get in charge? 2 was so great because they landed into the humor and fun of the first one instead of shying away from it.
Burch was the head writer for 2 and pre sequel, they replaced him for 3 and I think the consensus was while the writing in 2/pre was mediocre 3 was much worse it feels like writing by committee. I'd prefer they get someone who wrote at least one semi successful book with a beginning, middle, and ending.
I feel like a game like Borderlands needs to lead, not follow. They took some risks with BL3 that did not pay off, but the playability of the game was significantly improved.
Naming a character "skibidi" is moronic in the sense that, this is already a meme. If it get put in the game, they're just trying to be cool for the sake of it. It's a very "hello, fellow kids" kind of thing.
Borderlands, instead, should have some creativity with what's being said and done in the game. Take a look at Tina for a second. When she's introduced, she's unapologetically strange. You either work with her on that level, or not at all. IMO, that's why Tina is a fan favorite. The absurd and borderline insane statements she constantly makes is the reason that she is so well liked. She makes sense in an almost frightening and sociopathic way.... And we love that about her.
Going to the length of dragging Gen Z memes into the game for no good reason isn't going to help, and will, in all likelihood, make things very bad. It's just, in bad taste, lazy, and a cop out IMO. With such interesting and absurd stuff already in the game, like butt stallion, CL4P-TP, BNK-3R, and more than I could possibly think of or remember that are amazing.... They're going to stoop to a pop culture meme instead?
Borderlands is about being weird and original with stuff, and some things really work, others, not so much. And that's what made the series great IMO. They took chances, and went out on a limb for a joke, sometimes literally.
I mean, who can forget shooty mcface? That's a footnote in a quest and it's honestly really funny, weird and something that sticks with you. That's what Borderlands should be. It's not some meme pop culture reference machine.
It's also worth pointing out that borderlands on it's own has contributed to the cultural zeitgeist. "Looks like we got a badass" is still a regular quote when bosses appear in games. Every single character has a quotable callout and you can normally spot a BL player and their main by the one they use. Cellshade and rotoscope both has a renaissance after BL2 and cosplay contests regularly have a Moxy or Maya. The best way for Borderlands to keep it's steam is to just be Borderlands, that alone will make the memes.
I mean, who can forget *Face McShooty?
Blam! "Thank you!"
Not in the leg or the arm....
I just want a version that supports multiplayer on Linux. I wasn't able to experience the writing disaster that was BL3. Been stuck in single player on BL2 or the pre-sequel for years.
In the before times, they did. If you can handle old graphics (which doesn’t seem like something that should be a problem but apparently is) check out the of Brothers in Arms games, specifically Road to Hill 30, Earned in Blood, and Hells Highway.
Those games were Gearbox at its best imo.
I got to about level 5 in borderlands 3 and just gave up.. It felt like a slap in the face after the great stories of borderlands and borderlands 2. The third attempt seemed like it was written by 13 year old boys...
Complaining that Borderlands 3 has a juvenile tone, while praising the first two games great stories, feels disingenuous. Or, at the very least, it reads as excessively nostalgic.
Borderlands 2 was written by Anthony Burch, and featured a lot of HAWP style humor. It had plenty of material that didn't land but plenty that hit the mark.
Burch also set a bar that 3 failed abysmally.
Yeah, but borderlands 2 feels like it was written by a funnier 13 year old that's kind of self aware. 3 has a more "hello fellow children" vibe to it.
The main issue with any borderlands title is that they aren't worth buying on day one.. Or even year 1. I quit buying after 2, and waited for a goty edition for 3. Ended up with the Pandora box which was more than I had planned on getting. Even when 4 releases, I'll be waiting for the day it goes on sale with all dlc before I even bother looking at it. So probably just 2027 at this point.
Skibidi isn't toilet humor, it's weird as fuck absurdist something that just has a toilet around.
Gen z became what boomers think millennials are.
Hilariously they still call them millenials.
Brain rot
Inb4 an npc named Skibby D.
The Rizzler
I'm glad the guy who left a flashdrive full of porn at a Medieval Times, which he explained was there for "magic trick research" will aim for high brow stuff
I think this is a different guy
I mean, a skibidi toilet mission would be right at home.
Yeah I am not sure what‘s up with the pretenses there, lowbrow and scatological humor has been very much Borderlands brand.
I've managed to avoid finding out what the slang term skibidi means so far, somehow.
I guess it just doesn't come up in the media I consume. Not heard Kruggsmash or Technology Connections mention it yet :-P
But yes slang aside, I've never enjoyed toilet humour, even as a child. Maybe because I'm very hygienic? It just disgusts me, haha. So this is good news.
It also doesn't mean anything. It's not even slang, it's just a meme reference.
By not understanding you've reached perfect understanding
Skibidi is a machinima. Like in ye olden times when we used gmod to make movies / animations / shitposts. Just another generation of people leaving their mark on the world. They do have source filmmaker now, so that makes it higher quality than the physgun posed animation way back when.
I mean we had SFM back then too
Lmao no, we didn't. You are thinking 2012. I'm thinking 2008 - DasBooSchitt with his Idiot Box series. It was a while before we got filmmaker and it was a huge gamechanger with how smooth the animation could be. No more players throwing shit with the gravity gun from the sides, no more posing a face and changing sliders to make a stop motion "animation". No more invisible thrusters to make someone flail their arms and legs. No more physgun from the side rotating the head to simulate "talking". That's why vagineer had such an exaggerated face - you can't / don't need to make that shit talk.
I don't pull this quote often, but do not cite the deep magic to me, I was there when it was written. I was on Unsmart's when Mopaz was coding the drunk combine. We had a shitload of the most talented Expression 2 minds around. We had VTOL planes, we had WW2 tanks and artillery, AC-130s which flew around the map. Hoverballs were literally the most shameful tool someone could use, everything was calculated with actual physics and applyForce / applyTorque. Those were the days. Nowadays they aren't the days.
I can't fathom the word coming out of Alec's mouth 😂
If this is the message they took from Borderlands 3 then I don't have high hopes for this game. Borderlands 3 was boring. The story was subpar and almost every single item in the game was utterly pointless due to the ridiculously high legendary drop rate.
I like a good legendary drop rate, the problem was the legendary effects were boring.
Very high brow indeed..
Fell off, if this was some millennial Nyan Cat they'd feel so clever, also the loot containers were toilets it writes itself
Hopefully that means we don't get another Tiny Tina
I agree, but that's because children should be neither seen nor heard.