Thinking about buying this with a Voucher from Epic Stores. I loved Borderlands 2, probably one of my favourite games ever. However, everything I read about Borderlands 3 suggests that it is worse than BL2. I don't want to buy the game if it's just ok.
So for all you Borderland's fans out there. How are you finding BL3 these days?
Very poor. I'll finish it then I'll uninstall it to save space.
If you can ignore bad writing, casual extreme prejudice from the "good" characters, complete disregard for gameworld lore, instability, unfixed bugs, horrendous loading times (and yes, I do have it on an SSD), repeatedly trying to be online even if you've chosen offline and you're using Steam in offline mode, deliberately annoying level design, being railroaded into following questlines and not exploring and, above all, bad writing (so bad it deserves mentioning twice), then you'll probably enjoy BL3.
What it does well, even better than BL2, is the core gameplay. They're done a great job of improving the graphics while retaining the "hand drawn cartoon on paper" art style that the series is known for. The FPS aspect is also at least as good as BL2. Some aspects of the UI have been improved, e.g. approach an ammo vending machine and in addition to the option to shop you get the option to buy however much ammo of every type is necessary to bring you up to full. One keypress, job done. It's one of those "yes, that's how it should work" changes. A plethora of equipment drops from everywhere with no sane explanation, which is just the job for a looter-shooter. Shoot some small mob and it drops a rocket launcher bigger than it was, a shielding device, 3 grenades, a pistol, 50 rounds of ammunition and some cash. And the pistol fires bullets that are on fire and split into 3 bullets each of which explodes in a fireball because that's how it is in the world of Borderlands and good job too. Loot is hyperabundant with complete and gleeful disregard for realism, as it should be in a Borderlands game. I killed myself twice today after clearing an area of enemies because the gun I'm using shoots exploding ice bombs and I was freezesploded by my own ammunition that remained on the field after the fight. And it was funny and entertaining.
So if you think it's a good thing to shoot men in the dick for being more successful at something than you (and yes, that's taken directly from the game - it's one of the missions given to you by Moxxi) and you generally hate men and you don't give a rat's arse about the already established story of Borderlands and the characters from the previous games in the series and you don't care about having no choices in the games you play and you don't care about important events in a game frequently being cut scenes in which you're paralysed for no reason and can't do anything and you don't care about characterisation in games you play and you don't want to explore the world in games you play and you like deliberately annoying platform games in a first person shooter, you'll probably enjoy BL3 a lot.
And, of course, you should buy all 3 slightly different versions of the same game at full price each and the season pass that gives you all the DLC and then the other season pass that gives you the DLC that was excluded from the first season pass because they lied about what the first season pass contained. Because you're a magic money tree sucker.
So yeah, overall I recommend not buying it despite the minor but nicely done gameplay improvements over BL2.
