What is Zig Forums honest opinion of Borderlands 3?

what is Zig Forums honest opinion of Borderlands 3?

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Best gameplay, but I'll probably never go back to play it because it's always forcing you to stop and listen to the story.

I'm sure I'll enjoy it whenever the 20 buck GOTY edition comes out

could've been the best, but balance is somehow an even bigger mess than OP levels.
granted, it's not as bad this patch as it was when Mayhem 2.0 dropped but it's still such a slog now.

Maybe I'm just a picky bitch, but it kind of killed it for me when they switched settings like that. The anarchaic wasteland was what gave it identity and uniqueness. Then it became generic futuristic city. I admit I never finished the game but still.

I only got it so I could play it with my friend anyway

While no one plays the series for the plot, the storyline and villains are shit in 3. The writing is awful, characters are idiotic one-trick ponies, and Claptrap may be the smartest NPC this time around. Story scenes disregard the presence of the player, except for a single one, where Troy has the ability to finish you off after phaselocking you, but chases someone else instead.

Gunplay is decent, though legendary weapons drop almost too frequently. You'll most likely have one or two prior to leaving Pandora and they could very well carry you a dozen levels until being replaced by other legendaries.

The ability to reroll Mayhem Mode freely basically means you're hitting Q until you get Lootsplosion and 1-3 minor inconvenience modifiers.

so why were the twins evil again, aside from "dad wouldn't let us leave the planet because shit would try to kill us out there, he was right but still"

2 was better

The gunplay was the best in the series
The music and art was excellent
The story and writing was somehow worse than borderlands 2
The endgame is an abysmal slog

Tyreen is cool. Had to drop this game because I wanted to get every character in the pre sequel to max.

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Tyreen fight was so fucking underwhelming she doesn’t even say anything when she dies just yells

The terrible writing could have been excused if they didn't kill the pacing of the gameplay for it. I'm replaying it right now with all the dialogue and music muted while I listen to podcasts/albums, and the gameplay is fantastic but it will come to a screeching halt for like 10 minutes at a time because it expects you to listen to NPC's. They really thought you'd care about the story.

I got to play it for the first time because F2P weekend event.
God, the story is impossibly fucking bad and locks most progression/zone transitions behind lengthy dialogues. For example, you're on the fucking Family Jewel and gotta escort BALEX as he rides in a med bot. Instead of having him automatically run to each door after the combat is over, he'll idle next to you. You gotta walk over to the door yourself and wait for him to punch it in while he yammers off to his ex-girlfriend. Those 2 characters aren't that bad compared to many others, it's actually a slightly interesting take on the usual crazy ex-girlfriend. But this happens fucking everywhere in all sorts of little ways, either denying you waypoints so you don't know where to go on the fuck-awful layered map or you gotta sit there while someone waddles over to a door to open it or a button remains locked until a dialogue finishes. It just keeps fucking happening. It's exhausting, honestly. But when the game actually lets you play, it's fucking awesome.

Invuln phases are retarded and just goes to show how little they know about balance.

Pretty meh. Decent gameplay but all the vault hunters suck ass. They’re so fucking uninteresting my god. Story sucks too but what else would you expect from a borderlands game. Mute the dialogue turn off subtitles and enjoy the guns and music.

decent gameplay but extremely hard to sit through. the fact that so much shit is unskippable makes me never want to play through it again

Fun fact, while you couldn't skip cutscenes at launch, they changed that in a patch. This actually doubled the speedrun record time.

even still there's a shit ton of in game dialogue that's just standing around and waiting. there's a bit of that in the previous titles but i guess i lost the tolerance for it somewhere between tps and 3

not as good as 2 or even pre sequel
easily the worst story

The writing being more unbearable than usual doesn't help.

I actually replayed 2 and Presequel around the time 3 came out.
It's nowhere near as bad. Any dialogues or having to wait on NPCs to waddle over to do something for you usually took half as long and there were half as many. you could skip so many fucking ones by just running around, almost all map markers popped up as soon as you took the quest, etc.
>doubled
I meant halved the speedrun record time as well, but I'm sure you got the point. :^)

why play anyone but athena? she invalidates the entire game.
just shoot things and take no damage

you could delete the mp4 files to just get rid of them though.

i have 100s of hours in the other 3 games, have played almost every class and beaten the game on all the difficulties and....................... i could not bother to finish borderlands 3 and i will let that speak for itself because i cant really describe everything wrong with borderlands 3 but i will try:

the new characters/the artificially different returning characters/the story/the shift from a dark humored post-apocolyptic scifi to a goofy "adult cartoon" meme-fest. 2 suffered from this a bit, but 3 is above and beyond cringe. as always i suggest switching the language to german/japanese and skipping all the cutscenes if u want to try to enjoy borderlands 3.

I wish jakobs had legendaries. Overall I just wish there where more guns that I liked.

best gunplay, better than average maps, worst story/VH, mediocre endgame

Having to modify a game's files just to make it playable is retarded.
That said, it's fully excusable to delete the opening videos of the various logos since those are still unskippable and make booting the game annoying in and of itself.

This, In two you could go to a quest trigger and immediately head to the next one, usually skipping dialogue because the game knew you knew what you were doing.
during the angel betrayal you could be standing outside the door to get the eridium and it would immediately pop open.

Are there still like 4 guns that are worth using and only two classes unless you get one specific item that makes a third class fine if you play them in one way?

>better than average maps
>eden six
>the hallway that is Athenis, one of the most hyped up places in all of borderlands
>pandora is essentially what if every area was the dust
3's map design is ass

All 4 are fine now even up through OP10. Some setups are still useless (Moze Grenades) at that point, but otherwise, every character is viable with an okay variety of guns.