this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2025
404 points (99.0% liked)

Games

42251 readers
1449 users here now

Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.

Rules

1. Submissions have to be related to games

Video games, tabletop, or otherwise. Posts not related to games will be deleted.

This community is focused on games, of all kinds. Any news item or discussion should be related to gaming in some way.

2. No bigotry or harassment, be civil

No bigotry, hardline stance. Try not to get too heated when entering into a discussion or debate.

We are here to talk and discuss about one of our passions, not fight or be exposed to hate. Posts or responses that are hateful will be deleted to keep the atmosphere good. If repeatedly violated, not only will the comment be deleted but a ban will be handed out as well. We judge each case individually.

3. No excessive self-promotion

Try to keep it to 10% self-promotion / 90% other stuff in your post history.

This is to prevent people from posting for the sole purpose of promoting their own website or social media account.

4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts

This community is mostly for discussion and news. Remember to search for the thing you're submitting before posting to see if it's already been posted.

We want to keep the quality of posts high. Therefore, memes, funny videos, low-effort posts and reposts are not allowed. We prohibit giveaways because we cannot be sure that the person holding the giveaway will actually do what they promise.

5. Mark Spoilers and NSFW

Make sure to mark your stuff or it may be removed.

No one wants to be spoiled. Therefore, always mark spoilers. Similarly mark NSFW, in case anyone is browsing in a public space or at work.

6. No linking to piracy

Don't share it here, there are other places to find it. Discussion of piracy is fine.

We don't want us moderators or the admins of lemmy.world to get in trouble for linking to piracy. Therefore, any link to piracy will be removed. Discussion of it is of course allowed.

Authorized Regular Threads

Related communities

PM a mod to add your own

Video games

Generic

Help and suggestions

By platform

By type

By games

Language specific

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 23 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

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...

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 22 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

1 was fresh and new

2 was fantastic

prequel was OK

3 tried too hard and was generally average to poor

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

Maybe he could try to make another TV series.

[–] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Does 1 get better? I have 1 and 2 from a bundle years ago and started the first game. It's sooo boring, like all the bad stuff from an mmo but single player. I don't want to walk from a Hub to place A multiple times and just the spawning mobs change based on the quest.

Or if 1 doesn't get better, can I play 2 without losing to much?

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 hours ago

yeah it's a little bare bones, it's not worth more than a single playthrough really. Because the events of 1 are expanded on in 2 and some of the story beats land a little better if you knew the characters from 1 it's worth playing once for novelty - but it being a 16 year old game it shows its age.

[–] tankfox@midwest.social 1 points 15 hours ago

After what they did to my boy claptrap they can eat it. It's obvious that the voice acting department is going to go out of the way to deservedly sabotage this series until it finally gives up.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

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.