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    I guess I will stick to my “non-premium” games made by devs who actually care about providing experiences worth experiencing, instead of a checklist-driven, committee designed and overpriced games that are most AAA games.

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    Hot take, Borderlands was never really a good franchise. Yeah I played through the second game, but i did so once, and never wanted to return to it afterwards.

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    In other words:

    “We don’t want to put resources towards optimising our product. We don’t care if the methods we built our product with make it more difficult to use, while regressing in several key visual aspects. The burdon of our shortcomings will be placed on the end user, who will have to spend their resources to out-power them.”

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    5 hours ago

    How does someone with such a shitty personality and dress sense get so smug?

    If I looked and acted like him I would want to punch myself in the face

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      How does someone with such a shitty personality and dress sense get so smug?

      Lots and lots of money.

      If I looked and acted like him I would want to punch myself in the face

      He has top of the line security details to do that for him.

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    Is Borderlands really all that popular still? Like I remember seeing the first few games everywhere, and people talking about them, but that was years ago. I realize I’m biased but I would expect to hear something about them…

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      2 was where the series really peaked. The first did some new things, and brought some fresh life into the shooter genre.

      2 expanded upon it, and had a much better story. It was also in the heyday of matchmaking game lobbies, so it was easy to boot up the match finder and jump into a game with someone. Probably half of my Steam friends list came from playing this game and just vibing with people on voice chat while we ran through the side quests.

      The prequel was… Alright? I’d put it about on par with the first game. It didn’t bring anything new or exciting to the table, but it was good at what it did.

      Then 3 was just bad. It felt really cringey, in a “how do you do, fellow kids” kind of way. Like it was trying too hard.

      And now 4 sounds like more of 3. The game sounds rushed, and the CEO’s attempting to cover for that rush makes him sound woefully out of touch. There’s no good reason that cel-shaded graphics should require a 5090 to run smoothly.

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      B1 is a bit slow, but quite fun, B2 is brilliant, BTPS is similar to B2, but the crafting stuff is annoying, B3 was too chaotic with a too cluttred UI and a damn annoying story, B4, I have no idea

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        Allegedly B4 is much better than 3, aside from the abysmal performance. I can wait until they fix it and get it for $15 on sale.

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        Have you tried Wonderlands? I really liked it, and would love a sequel/more of that one.

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          I liked that one but weirdly there’s no NG+ and the DLC kind of sucked. I finished it with a friend and we were like, “that’s it?”. It’s not very long, and it ends shortly after your end of skill tree powers become available.

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          The TIny Tina game?

          I tried it, didn’t like it and uninstalled it.

          I am not saying it is a bad game, just that at the time it wasn’t game I liked.

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        I’ve been playing B4 for a few hours now and it’s been pretty good. Definitely getting more B2 vibes than B3.

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        Good assessment. I agree completely!

        I’m not very far in, but so far I’m enjoying B4 more than TPS, and MUCH more than 3.

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    How tf do companies get to say this shit and still be in business?? Are there that many people who just blindly bend over and take it?? Don’t people have standards anymore?

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      Most of their customers don’t listen to them. Not hear and disregard, never listen in the first place. Have no interest in game industry gossip.

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    Considering Randy REALLY wants you to pay $130 USD for this game, I’m not shocked his performance advice was “be less poor”

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    It’s sad that a lot of devs just make their game and then slap frame-gen on it and then release it. Like who cares about optimization. Not that I blame them, people still buy those games full-priced, so…

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      Who even has time to play full price games? I have enough unplayed games piled up in my steam/epic/gog libraries to keep me busy for decades.

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        Well a surprisingly lot of people. Just a guess but maybe this is the main or only hobby for a significant amount of buyers?

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      Not the current one, no. The Steam Deck is closer to a PS4 spec, and even if there weren’t optimization problems, this is built to a PS5 spec.