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Borderlands. Anonymous 09/12/2025 (Fri) 01:10:11 Id: 631e4a No. 1744035
I am confused by something /v/. I was surprised to find out that borderlands 4 was released but it has less than 4000 reviews as of me writing this. I think this is odd since I was entirely expecting normalfags to just eat it up like they ate up 3. So why aren't they? It might not seem related at all but I was under the impression that about 3-5% of gamers leave steam reviews. So having the numbers for a major triple AAA game be low baffles me a bit. I want it to be clear that I fucking hate gearbox and i have hated them since the second borderlands game. For some reason people pretend like borderlands 2 is good for whatever reason. So I am quite a bit happy that Gearbox is flopping but I am still confused why. The quality of a game doesn't matter at all to sales so I am ruling that out. Was there a controversy before hand? That usually doesn't matter either but maybe some people were more pissed than usual? Maybe people are just distracted by everything else going on right now. That could be a factor but I am not sure if that is enough to explain how little this game is selling. Maybe I am to quick to jump to conclusions and the game will sell really well tomorrow? Please help me out here /v/. Also the pestilent defiler is the best gun.
>>1806943 Wow, the one Burch fan on /v/. I will agree the writing in 3 is even worse. I could tolerate 2, but 3 was so bad even redditors were sharing guides on how to remove the dialogue. >>1806980 The funny thing? Memelands was by absolutely no means a common insult for the game, that's something you only heard on 4chan. Burch had to have been browsing /v/ and getting butthurt which means he also had to have seen the wall-to-wall cuck jokes. >>1806993 Okay to be completely fair, the context of that is when he kills a female character in-game. He also says something like "FEMINISM IS AWESOME". This is something I have heard second hand and am completely open to it being false
>>1807002 >"FEMINISM IS AWESOME" I think that one is from battleborn. Its ok to get that wrong though, no one remembers battleborn.
>>1806980 >>1806993 >>1807001 All i hear are squeaky noises from future meat bicycles. Squeak on niggers, it means nothing to me.
>>1807031 Burch, you should have made Clappy canonically gay and romancable.
>>1807006 I haven't played battleborn in over a decade at this point, how do you even remember this?
>>1804703 <Diablo is a shitty game for normalfags Because, looking back with 20/20 hindsight, it kind of is a really basic game. Yes, it's genre defining and yes it's fun, but you're not there for this tiered loot bullshit, yet that's pretty much the most important feature from Diablo that shitty normalfag games took from it and that's what I'm focusing on the most as a response to >>1803387. There's a fuck ton of games for normalfags where the design misses the forest for the trees and ends up implement tiered loot so that you'll end up focusing entirely on leveling and dropping bullshit shiny items as a distraction that you're playing a shitty game, which is 100% the case for Borderlands, for Destiny, even for that shitty Hogwarts game, it's ~le modern gaymurr design~ just like having a front-facing menu with items you can artificially fill in a feel good and a telltale sign that if a game has it, it's probably a really shitty game making up for itself using psychological tricks and is slop aimed at the lowest common denominator. >>1805437 You're right, agian, but this is why normalfags play this shit, they get hooked on through those psych tricks rather than enjoying the game itself, I've had a bunch of friends that would refuse or deride games that didn't have any open progression mechanics, because they really are addicted to the idea of being drip fed content, which is just abhorrent, and that's one of my biggest criticism for modern rogue-likes nowadays that force you to slog through their game to unlock the things that you would enjoy doing the most, rather than having it all unlocked from the get go and allow yourself to learn.
>>1807053 It was one of the few things that came out of it people kept memeing everywhere. Wait... >played battleborn Oh my God I'm so sorry.
>>1807053 >how do you even remember this? I dont know. I didn't even play it. I didn't think anyone actually played it. Did you actually anon? Why?
>>1807050 He'd have to be more of a dork and less of a bastard to be a viable robottom.
>>1807057 >>1807059 I got it for like 5 bucks and wanted to see what all the buzz was about, it wasn't good
>>1802762 >Does that BLassic have the pestilant defiler? Sadly no, but you can roll the masher acc. on other unique / legendaries which ends up having some pretty busted and funny combos. >Or double anarchies? It does have anarchy, not sure you can also roll double on top. >>1803029 There has been attempts and they all suck far worse than BL even, Destiny in particular I fail to understand how you can spend so much money to produce so much nothing.
>>1807050 >but what if even MORE gay???? Found the 1.5 enjoyer.
>>1807073 His bastardry could be brat play~ >>1807127 >There has been attempts and they all suck far worse than BL even, Destiny in particular I fail to understand how you can spend so much money to produce so much nothing. There are prolly some indie takes on Borderlands. The problem is indie games can be so obscure nobody on this board would know of them, I know I've asked here and elsewhere for game recommendations several times and gotten bad/no answers, but found a game matching my requests by happenstance. The average game on Steam sells less than 2000 copies, I've played some of those and they've been good! I've heard Mycopunk is like Borderlands, and it has cute bugs to boot. >>1807161 Never played it, in fact.
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>>1807191 >Mycopunk I wonder how Bruce Bethke feels about having such a direct influence on the English language?
>>1807055 Did I seriously just read an entire paragraph about game progression being bad? You could have just said "I only like pure sandbox games" and typed less. >>1807191 >Never played it, in fact Almost every new character is gay and they retconned 3 old characters to be bi (or gay). It's the exact kind of self-destructive hyper progressivism that infested the entire industry. 3 wasn't much better in this regard.
>>1807191 >There are prolly some indie takes on Borderlands. A lot less than you'd think and most either died or sucked, mostly because they don't have a fixed world but are short run roguelikes, granted doesn't mean they can't be fun, Mycopunk and Unyielder do look like decently fun games but it's not quite borderlands
>>1807031 Being a retarded cuckold won't bring your WiiU back.
>>1807191 >The average game on Steam sells less than 2000 copies Wow, that's shocking and a little sad but makes sense. And it's sort of inspiring in a way, it means even if most of them are trash there's always bound to be a few gems out there nobody's really discovered yet.
>>1807055 I just don't play any game with tiered loot, makes everything an RNG fucking chore.
>>1807191 >average game sells less than 2000 copies That's not a useful metric given the sheer number of games on Steam (and the fact that AAA games take the lion's share of sales) A more accurate metric would be what the median game makes.
>>1807001 Yes but the first game had awful gungplay so even if you're a rainbow loot faggot and don't mind most of the gameplay being inventory management there's still no decent entry in the entire series.
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>>1808592 >Yes but the first game had awful gungplay How bout you stop trying to sex up the gungans you disgusting lowlife
>>1807006 There's a very similar line in Borderlands 2 though. In Tiny Tina's DnD ripoff DLC in the quest you get armor for Ellie, if you give her the full armor set instead of the battle bikini she exclaims "Yay feminism" or "hooray for feminism". I can see how someone could blur the two lines. I only remember this because I didn't want to see the fat fuck in a bikini and got flashbanged by that line instead.
>>1806943 agreed. all the crazy and bonkers characters in 1 who were stereotypes of badlands/post apocalypse settings were really fun. I hate how they steered away from the stereotypes by making everyone into another claptrap.
>>1807191 that turk waifu looks cute
They're already putting the game on sale lmao. Those sales must be looking pretty awful to put it on sale less than a month after release.
>>1846978 The main characters look so bland for a game that was supposed to be zany and wild.
>>1846978 Holy shit, has it even been a week? I almost feel bad for my normalfag friend who bought it at launch.
>>1847002 I think Steam offers partial refunds if it goes on sale shortly after you buy games now.
>>1846978 I noticed I haven't even seen anything about BL4. At least with BL3's launch I saw people talking about the game, I've seen nothing but the occasional piece about Pitchford. It has barely any R34, that's how I know it really didn't land
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>>1850236 There aren't a lot of characters to really lewd. There's only four new prominent ladies.
>>1850236 >It has barely any R34, that's how I know it really didn't land Remember when Randy tried to shill Battleborn with rule34 of the game?
>>1850419 >drag queen >grandma >downs syndrome >overwatch reject Vex is doable with a paper bag.
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Krieg is best dude. Him and Maya deserved a happy life together, one where she lived.
>>1744035 I liked the first two games because I played them together with friends irl, but I didn't have anyone to play with anymore by the time 3 came out since everyone moved on with their lives. I thought I remembered everyone saying Borderlands 3 was mid when it came out and that people didn't like the twins. I never played it though, so I don't have an opinion. Not sure what the problem with Borderlands 2 is. To each their own, but that seems like a contrarian reactionary take to me.


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