i’m guilty of watching your 2-3 hours indepth analysis on skill trees i pretty much already knew about.
Anyway, these villains didn’t do it for me because i think that, yeah they’re supposed to be annyoing but if you come a cross an annoying streamer, you just stop watching right? not here, here you are forced to listen to these clowns wether or not you want to… there are other reasons aswell but i’ve posted about that in 10 other threads the past few weeks. i don’t want to repeat it again for the 11th time hehe.
Thanks, I actually started making videos because I loved the content and in depth level that people did here and on youtube people didn’t. I wanted to see forum like content on youtube.
When TPS came out bahroo was going gun guides, and I want to say bahroo has done amazing things for this community, so im not bad mouthing him. Well his videos were 5 mins long on the new gun, 4.5 mins were him showing where to get it and then 30 seconds of this is how it works, its ok.
I wanted to see the gun used, I could look at the wiki with a 2 second google search to know where to farm it but I couldn’t do a 2 second google search to see how it worked, how the ammo consumption was, how it might work with different builds, etc…
The forums had all that good info, so I wanted to bring forum level info to youtube.
That’s where it got interesting for sure. I feel like the “big reveal” came way too late and could have been expanded on a lot more. Not that I could have done a better job mind you. ’
That said, the biggest thing for me is the lack of any real emotions coming from the twins. Jack gave off enough arrogance to seem like a viable threat and when pressed had legit outbreaks of anger. The twins just felt kind of bland and emotionless even once the family dynamic is introduced.
Yeah Jack was one of the best, its amazing when so much can come together. Not only did Anthony Burtch do a great job writting him but Dameon Clarke nailed the role like no one else could.
I honestly think Handsome Jack will go down as one of the great villians of all time.
Its near impossible to repeat that.
And as fans what do we do with that for expectations? Thats partly where I struggle, I went in expecting lessor villians and I got them. I don’t know how I feel about that. I think im still digesting it.
not going into spoiler territory either but if it’s what i think you are talking about, it didn’t actually supprise me, and i can’t quite explain why.
for sure! jack was brilliant, superb writing and i think he was used the correct ammount too. he was never in the way or annyoing… you know? i think overused is the word i’m looking for.
I saw it coming too but there were some real touching moments of truth and vulnerability there and I absolutely loved.
And to me that is where gearbox always seem to shine they can go into the depths of low brow toilet jokes, and then nail you with the feels and shock you with how honest they are and then before you know it you are crying over a video game.
This mirrors something I said on another topic a little while ago.
He is so iconic with the perfect storm of writing and vocal talent that you just knew lightning could not strike again like that unless you got very very lucky.
I am pretty sure its the whole reason the pre sequel was what it was.
I can just imagine the team in Australia sat around a table scratching their heads in abject misery.
“Those b*strds at Gearbox killed Jack WTF do we do??? We can’t beat jack what do we dooooooooooooo!”
Mass panic ensues until the teaboy comes in and says set it before the other games and everyone sighs with relief.
yeah, i agree with you - they are masters when it comes reality checks and make things believable, i think for me personally anyway, that was the “issue” i had with this game’s story / new characters. they were maybe a bit to real? we all know how annoying a teenage girl can be, i have 6 sisters (i’m the oldest) and we all know there are some really annoying streamers out there. but do i want that in a game aswell? maybe, but in borderlands? i’m not sure
Did you all also notice in every game of the franchise the best writting has been DLCs?
Knoxx had a way better story than bl1
TTAoDK had a way better story than bl2
Claptastic Voyage was amazing even though I think TPS has the best base game writting of the franchise so far
I wonder if its because the main campaign has to be so long that things get streched and pacing is hard over a 20 hour story. Where DLC’s can be shorter and more focused.
It’s probably that as a game about one man army badasses fighting joke-slinging super villains and their infinite armies they can only spend so much time actually getting in to the meat of the characters at any given time without crippling the pacing. So they need to stretch things out, and yet simultaneously don’t have enough time to fit everything in either.
yes, i’ve noticed that too. it could be because they’re better at shorter stories, sure. could be because they need to do something with the main campaign that makes sense in the whole grand scheme of things. small and focused thing seems to be what they really shine at.
i loved TPS btw, not so much in terms of replayability but the story was brilliant and i loved that we got to explore the moon and everything new they added were great. cryo instead of slag, low gravity and better balance.
I really thought the skill trees were brilliant in TPS thats what kept me going, the builds were amazing.
I think this game stepped that up in a large way. Maybe that is why im less concerned with the story.
The story is important but what keeps me playing for years is the combat loop, skills, gear, etc… not really the story. So to me the story is secondary to the game play
I also think Tina’s DLC was great but I think that’s mostly because of the freedom to use the characters however they liked rather than how they would act in a serious situation.
I love Brick trying to get his head round the game for example.
A lot of the more popular DLC were also centered around some fan fave character’s which alone can raise your enjoyment experience if its a character you like.
I thought bl2 was especially good overall for its DLC packs tbh.
I loved Tina’s because how real it was, for how out there it was and absurd, there was a real girl struggling to deal with a the death of a father figure. It was raw and vunerable in a crazy blow up the ocean, swordsploision video game. Being able to pull that off is a rare rare feat.
Borderlands writing to me is a very strange thing, its very much character driven more so than plot but they have created this universe that I want to spend so much time in for all the flaws.
Its almost like star wars outer rim/firefly. We have that mystery of the sirens and ereidians lurking around the corner. We have so many amazing characters we fall in love with.
TK Baha to me is the perfect example, you meet him really early in bl1, he gives you a few quests to chase around and then hes dead. I don’t think anyone expected how much we would all connect to him because since then they have found ways to bring him back because we all want more of him. We feel in love with him when we barely shared 50 words with him.
So for all the flaws in borderlands 3 we learned a lot about pandora and the surrounding planets, more about sirens, eridians, the gun manufacturers. We really got to learn a lot of Jakobs history that I loved.
I got a lot out of bl3 even though I didn’t love the villains.
And with all that I want more, I want to know more, I want to experience more, I want to meet more characters, and mourn the ones we lost.