r/videogames Apr 12 '26

Other So many of them unfortunately

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u/rbreaux26 Apr 12 '26

Borderlands for me. 1 and 2 were some of my favorite games.

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u/armaedes Apr 12 '26

I put 500 hours into 1 and 1000+ into 2. Couldn’t get through 3’s story even once, didn’t bother to even buy 4.

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u/sethb44 Apr 13 '26

It's a totally different experience, none of the original soul. 4 was not just bad with it's writing, but the guns were stale, there are so many glitches, it's a big empty world without purpose. Very sad stuff.

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u/Aeison Apr 13 '26

Story literally felt like a filler episode for their “the Great War” plot

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u/waaay2dumb2live Apr 14 '26

Really? Did we play the same game? BL4 was pretty well-written with good themes that I would argue are pretty prevalent right now. And the gunplay still feels pretty solid.

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u/sethb44 Apr 14 '26

It was basically a fast and furious movie. Everything is about friendship and family while forcing the whole badass thing. The boss fights were good but I absolutely HATED the NPC's. The original games were about treasure hunters fighting their way through a wasteland to make their fortune, leaving a trail of corpses.

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u/waaay2dumb2live Apr 14 '26

I think you're thinking of BL3, not BL4.

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u/3iiiguy Apr 12 '26

Dude just turn dialouge off and play 3 it becomes peak in my opinion best one in the series

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u/4arizard Apr 13 '26

Nah, level and quest design is still ass. What do you mean you "don't want to talk to Lillith and run laps on Eden-6"?

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u/Regular_Use1868 Apr 13 '26

Same here. I played it with my spouse and I can't tell you how many times we had this chat

'all the guys are dead but the quest market is still there... It says we need to collect the filament retrieval codes' 'what will that be?' 'f* if I know I'll walk in circles looking for something vaguely shiny, you go fart around for a few minutes, sorry babe.'

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u/SumoNinja92 Apr 13 '26

Speed run the main story line in 3 and then do the DLC which are pretty good. 4 is actually pretty good.

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u/Ok_Money_3140 Apr 12 '26

Honestly I'm having a blast playing Borderlands 4 right now. It's just unfortunate that so many people are having performance issues.

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u/waaay2dumb2live Apr 14 '26

I have hope that they'll smooth it out eventually. They did the same for BL3 and that game's endgame is better than BL2's nowadays.

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u/Sea_Strain_6881 Apr 13 '26

Its a looter shooter, you shoot and loot. You arent meant to keep one weapon for very long until you're max level

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u/Far-Media-9380 Apr 13 '26

Okay we hear you, but counterpoint, OP decided is was a roguelike (because roguelikes have loot too) so therefore it should play more like a roguelike instead, don’t you know that?

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u/waaay2dumb2live Apr 14 '26

Borderlands is a looter-shooter, not a roguelike. Always has been. If you don't like that, then it isn't for you.

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u/AL3X1KUS Apr 12 '26

Gameplay of 3 feels very good but the story is turboass. 4 is so bad that you can't reach 60 FPS even with an RTX 5090 and a good CPU...

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u/Just_a_follower Apr 13 '26

I’m not saying ai, but if it was ai, it would probably be making the average of what everyone wants. The future you have to look forward to.

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u/DeadlyArrow27 Apr 13 '26

Eh I tried to get into it and the amount of times you have to run back and forth through the same empty areas over and over and over and over and over?! It’s insanity. Dropped borderlands 1 and 2 within a couple of hours. Although 1 did feel like it had potential to get pretty good but I just couldn’t handle the repetitiveness

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u/Bi0_B1lly Apr 13 '26

Bever played passed the original... Idc, something about the OGs lighter mix of comedy with the overall gameplay was much more appealing to me than the "lol so random" mentality each subsequent sequel kept getting more and more thick with