This is the kind of bullshit I was expecting to plague this thread.
Maybe watch this and think about how shitty your attitude is and reflect.
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Borderlands 3 - Review Thread
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This is the kind of bullshit I was expecting to plague this thread.
Maybe watch this and think about how shitty your attitude is and reflect.
Would be surprised if this ends higher than mid 80's. I think it's going to get hit hard by reviewers for being more of the same, 7 years later.
I'm just asking, but...
Shouldn't a review thread made near embargo release for convenience...?
It's 5 hours more by the time I posted this. : |
Shouldn't a review thread made near embargo release for convenience...?
It's 5 hours more by the time I posted this. : |
Man, how did BL2 ever get a 91?! I bought the Handsome Collection recently having not played the series at all besides a brief stint with the first, and most things about it feel really mediocre. Level design is fine, fairly uninteresting, but not actively bad. The shooting feels bad (I've been playing a few hours) and enemies tend to be damage sponges who barely t react to getting shot. I'm hoping this will change once I get better weapons. The driving is incredibly crap considering it has the same controls as Halo, and while the co-op stuff is cool it's not enough to excuse all the other ways (key things for an FPS) in which it feels undercooked.
The person who made the thread pointed out he will be out for some hours, so he got the thread online in advance. Of course mods may lock this thread for a couple hours while we wait, it happened in the past.
Nothing in the footage has looked that impressive to me, it looks like more of the same. Not a bad thing, but not something to get really excited about.
Its an FPS looter-shooter. Can I ask what differences you think it should/could make? Its amazing how this gets trotted out. Next "cinematic 3rd person game" I'm going to demand its radically different or reviewers should mark it down for being "yet another boring 3rd person cinematic styled game".
86 - A very solid game, but doesn't do much new for the genre and series.
I personally can't wait.
I personally can't wait.
I love how defensive some people get about these things...
BL gunplay feels weak, imo. I enjoyed the structure of BL2, but the gunplay didn't grab me. And while they seem to have improved this, it still seems to be the similar low impact ballizion guns that never feel as fun to fire as they are in concept.
I would have liked them to make some fundamental changes, not refine something that, imo, wasn't anywhere near the best in class.
Opinions.
I was thinking it would be better like 15 or even 5 minutes before embargo ended, so we don't have to do Metacritic polls & such...
Just straight to review scores.
I would assume if future The Last of Us Part II review thread like this, first couple of pages would be marred by that, in my opinion.
That's whats exciting, though. First good loot shooter/loot 'em up/fire-and-acquire-game in years.
Destiny 2 has been great for a while now. BL has never come close to D2's combat.
Reminds me of the way Activision releases the game MTS-free to gain positive scores then adds them a week later.
The enemies don't have to be bullet sponges with minimum reactions.
The level designs can be different.
There can be better multiplayer activities.
There can proper raids, rifts, high level content that doesn't just require spamming a ridiculously OP boss for a while.
There can be actual gameplay variety in the weapons, without them feeling like 3-4 different guns plus the elemental stuff that changes its after effect.
There can be more dynamic content that offers unpredictability.
There can be better AI.
There can be a shooting that feels more modern, more in line with what games like Titanfall, Halo 5, modern Call Of Duty games, etc. brought to the field.
There can be deeper RPG elements.
There can be less linear progression.
There can be a truly worthy storyline.
It's not like Borderlands 1 + 2 is literally the only way an FPS with RPG elements can be done. A lot of people will be fine if Borderlands 3 is more of the same, but it's not like it's a perfect untouchable formula like Tetris where every addition or change probably breaks the game. I spent hundreds of hours on those games myself, but a bit of a shake-up would absolutely be welcome to me. And if the AI, the encounter design, the gameplay variety, etc. is the same as it was in a last-gen game, I'll be disappointed personally. There are ways to improve the formula, let's see if they try hard enough.
I'm expecting high 80s now, with cherry picked outlets reviewing the game.
Probably low to mid 80 down the line, I'll still enjoy it in 6 months when it releases on steam.
Probably low to mid 80 down the line, I'll still enjoy it in 6 months when it releases on steam.
I'll be disappointed if they didn't look to what Destiny does well in terms of end-game and up their own game.
Guessing somewhere in the low 80s. Gearbox has lost a lot of the goodwill they had left over from the Borderlands 2 era (blame Pitchford for that), plus it seems like people have really soured on that style of humour.
All that plus the fact that there hasn't been much of a visual update makes me think critics won't be as hot on it as before.
All that plus the fact that there hasn't been much of a visual update makes me think critics won't be as hot on it as before.
I love destiny, the franchise is my most played of this gen by far. But I'm tired of so many games just making their own version of destiny.
There are numerous destiny likes and zero games like Borderlands.
Even better, they looked at what Diablo 3 did well for their endgame.
Should be a low 80's up to 85. I'll assault any reviewer who doesn't agree in a hotel of their choice.
Seriously, I think the game will be docked for being too similar to Borderlands 2 but in the GAAS age of lootboxes that probably should be praised. I'm afraid of post review patches à la Activision though.
Seriously, I think the game will be docked for being too similar to Borderlands 2 but in the GAAS age of lootboxes that probably should be praised. I'm afraid of post review patches à la Activision though.
lol. Activision does that (and usually months later) to game the ESRB rating systems, they aren't ignoring a week or month or hardcore user MTX in order to get a few points higher in reviews.
Borderlands should retain its identity, it definitely has one.
It does, however, need to up its end-game if it has one. There's nothing wrong with looking to games that have done it better, and that doesn't mean cloning them or losing identity.
Also, what other games are you tired of that have "made their own version of Destiny"? I'm drawing blanks...
I haven't read many previews, but let's say the game is more of the same which for me is fine, I can see some sites criticizing that. But I definitely expect at least 85 or higher.
Always shocks me bl2 reviewed so much better. I loved borderlands 1, 2 just seemed more refined but I didn't get any of the excitement or enjoyment like I did from the first one.
Really curious to see how this received given that there's been a number of loot shooters released since Borderlands 2 and it seems that Borderlands 3 is doing it's own thing rather than following something like Destiny or The Division.
That's good, but I'm not sure if it's better considering Destiny is a shooter first and foremost. We'll see how it translates.
Cellshading is very much of its own style that you don't really update, but overall graphically BL3 is a lot more advanced than BL2 is. Two aren't even close graphically.
I'm going for lower then 80.
I just dont have confidence they'll move the game on enough, and they now have other loot shooters to compare with and they didnt really back in BL/BL2 times.
I have it preordered since i loved the first two and ive been on blackout so maybe i'll be wrong and they have already highligthed changes they'll make, but that's just how gearbox strike me, it'll just be a next gen looking BL2 imo. Which I'm fine with but i think reviewers will be harsher.
I just dont have confidence they'll move the game on enough, and they now have other loot shooters to compare with and they didnt really back in BL/BL2 times.
I have it preordered since i loved the first two and ive been on blackout so maybe i'll be wrong and they have already highligthed changes they'll make, but that's just how gearbox strike me, it'll just be a next gen looking BL2 imo. Which I'm fine with but i think reviewers will be harsher.
I dont get it , folks arent gunned to work there there lots of other studios . That guy is horrible humanbeing i just dont understand working under him
Some of those things don't fit IMO with a looter shooter - bullet sponges for example are a requirement otherwise - the sense of progression is somewhat curtailed.
There can definitely and should be refinements - I agree. Its more that games that aren't principally story driven cinematic titles are lazily dubbed as "more of the same". Yet the exact same game with a new story bolted on is never ever "more of the same".
I feel its a definite problem. Everything I've seen of BL3 is a refinement of the already very good game.
Anthem is one, but then it didn't copy Destiny much which is largely why it was so bad... (ie: it didn't take note of what had been done well).
The Avengers game we don't actually know anywhere near enough yet to say...
You said "so many", or was that just hyperbole?
