I would watch a good story recap on YouTube that covers BL1, 2, presequel, and tales from the Borderlands. No sense playing the older ones with this game coming out. They feel really dated by today's standards.
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Borderlands 3 - Review Thread
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I would watch a good story recap on YouTube that covers BL1, 2, presequel, and tales from the Borderlands. No sense playing the older ones with this game coming out. They feel really dated by today's standards.
Interesting PC requirements...what res is this running at on the X? Hopefully not too many effects had to be turned down there.
You can absolutely tank your framerate in BL2 with Physx accelerated particles and fluid simulation. Although BL3 is a AMD partnered game, they might have something similar that (unnecessarily) tanks performance.
The problem is not that the joke is about abortion, but rather it makes light of women who have hurt or killed themselves to perform an abortion when safer options are outlawed. Something to consider in an increasingly anti-choice political environment.
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4K 30 FPS or 1080p 60 FPS
No idea if that 4K is native or just checkerboard
Thanks. I'm quite ignorant about PC gaming atm so didn't know either of those things. Guess we'll have to wait for more thorough analysis from places like Digital Foundry (which will conveniently be after launch...)
None of the reviews mention a single raid boss. I am gonna assume there isn't one. Which is pretty fucking bad and makes me think about cancelling my pre order.
Can you explain what the joke is actually about? Being serious, I really don't see how it could not be about abortion, especially coming from Gearbox.
You're going to assume there isn't one when the last game launched with two? I'd be very surprised if there wasn't already one in there. There's plenty of repeatable and easily farmable boss fights as well. There's also going to be free monthly content updates with boss fights and/or raids.
if that's something your worried about id cancel and wait to you hear more.
It's really not if there's stuff like Ray Tracing in the game, which would have little to do with the overall look of the game
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Yeah, it's weird. Especially when Borderlands 2 heavily advertised the Terramorphous raid boss before launch. Admittedly, Gearbox themselves haven't really spoken about raid bosses outside of the Maliwan Takedown which comes out in October.
From the review:
If it isn't a reference to abortion, it's either a tone-deaf joke that appeals to the 10 people that care about plastic vs. wire hangers and enjoy Borderlands' humor, or it's a bizarrely misused reference to Mommy Dearest. /shrug
Very unlikely. If it had ray tracing, we would have known about it long ago.
Yikes at that joke. Who the fuck thought that was funny?
Then I'll be interested in seeing what settings are the reason for the low framerate on ultra
I'm going to assume a looooong draw distance and minimal load times/instances. With lighting and shadows as the additional usual suspects.
That's pretty wild. Not sure what would be the cause of it being so demanding.
So the critic is offended because they (the critic) aren't pro-choice?
Why does it have to be a joke and not a criticism?
Since the Psycho shout that he wants to live in a civilized age and dosent want more wire hanger, he may criticizing the way things are currently handle ???
The opposite.
Just a few posts back you thought it was a joke so...
How is it the opposite?
If a Psycho in the game has a line that criticizes the fact that women have to resort to coat hangers because we're outlawing civilized means of which to get abortions, then that's something someone pro-choice would say. If the game is making a comment about people not being pro-choice being wrong, and the critic is offended, then.... ???
dunno why you keep saying he's offended instead of going and actually reading the writing in question
How does this sound like the critic is anti-choice?
I'm going to have to agree with you. Sounds like a pro-lifer got offended. But others are saying he wasnt offended so who knows. It is weird either way.
I mean I make out fine in Gears 5 at 4k/Ultra on my 2080ti with minor dips only in the most demanding areas, which come mostly from act 2 and that looks absurdly better than BL3. I just don't see what could make this game require a 2080 for 1440p/60 at Ultra settings. Maybe the particles and physics are pretty crazy.
It's a bad joke because it can be read as pro-choice or pro-life, so honestly, it shouldn't even have made it into the game.
That could very well be the intent of the joke, but it can come off as tone-deaf when women are marching down the streets holding "no more wire hangers" signs in today's climate.
Personally (and this depends heavily on how the line was read), if I encountered that joke in the game before reading this review, Mommy Dearest might have been my first attempt to "get it".
Then I would shrug it off and keep mindlessly killing things like I always do when the jokes fall flat, which happens all of the time when I play these damn games with my wife, who in turn loves these games, and I 95 out of 100 her.
These outlets have an earlier version of the game and the release graphics drivers aren't out yet, it seems fairly reasonable to think that's why the performance results are the way they are.
Oh, so the critic just misinterpreted it? I don't understand how they managed to write that and not realize the Psycho is saying that pro-life people are uncivilized.
Psycho literally says it's uncivilized for abortions to not be legal.
Because I was reading the Psycho's quote, and hearing that the critic was offended. The only way to be offended is if you're pro-life, or if you're misinterpreting the comment, which the critic is. I just didn't go back and read their actual comments on the matter, because I thought the dialogue was pretty damn self-explanatory.
Psycho literally says that using wire hangers is uncivilized. I don't see how this could be interpreted in any other way.
The physics simulations would have to be pretty insane since it has roughly the same performance as Control at 1440 with max setting and all the RTX options turned to high, and that game has some pretty insane particles, destruction, and physics stuff happening during gameplay.
Why is 2K being so incompetent with these review procedures? They're making Gearbox look like they're trying to hide something even though I'm pretty sure this is 2K shenanigans alone.
Pro-lifers have also used wire hangers as a talking point to make abortion sound more dangerous than it actually is. "Civilized age" could easily be interpreted as no abortion.
It's a poorly written joke.
He's offended because he thinks it's a bad joke. He's pro-choice.
The coat hanger meme has been a thing for decades. I think it's safe to say it references on how it was used for abortions than Mommy Dearest when it comes to Borderlands MO.
Not to mention it refers to 'being civilised'
To be fair, it's a fairly old joke that has not been a thing for a while. Remembered it being bought up a decade or so ago when jokes on the internet were largely more offensive.
I think that's the crux of the reviewer's argument. Regardless of the what the joke is trying to be, it doesn't really work.
It certainly doesn't beat "I just...paid off my...mortgage." after killing a Hyperion soldier. Now that's comedy.
It's been confirmed that the X is stuck at 1080p in the 60FPS mode same as Pro? Why do devs do this parity crap
It's really hard to tell if it is indeed incompetence, or for more sinister matters. Time will tell I guess!