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Giant Bomb |OT 13| I Want To Turn Into A Wolf And Shloot
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Finally watched UPF and got to the borderlands segment. Brad and Jeff are straight up delusional.
holy shit
Destiny has poisoned their minds
holy shit
Destiny has poisoned their minds
The first batch was ok. It took place in the same landmass so it felt like a retread. The DLC next week is in Atlantis though and looks hype.
They're opinion of BL3 is very puzzling. Like, aren't the games they want Borderlands 3 to emulate are the same games they have complained about and been disappointed by for years now?
Oh... I thought the new DLC was already out... I guess I redownloaded the game for nothing lol
Edit:
destiny has:
- space magic
- cool robots
- nolan north
- mysterious large ball
- a billion pages of lore
borderlands has:
- gun
- claptrap
- gun that shoots like an old gun; bad
- a game that showed the comedic storytelling potential of the setting that will probably not be properly capitalized on by gearbox
- gun that's a shotgun but with a scope
I rest my case
- space magic
- cool robots
- nolan north
- mysterious large ball
- a billion pages of lore
borderlands has:
- gun
- claptrap
- gun that shoots like an old gun; bad
- a game that showed the comedic storytelling potential of the setting that will probably not be properly capitalized on by gearbox
- gun that's a shotgun but with a scope
I rest my case
Robot Teddy?oh, additionally borderlands has
and this strengthens point four
As a recruiter for a tech startup in SF, I know the pain. Keep at it
Guess I'll watch this since Fox Hunt didn't work out for East today.
Still ended up being a solid stream.
I feel like there's just a part of being a video game critic that makes it so you can just never reject an industry trend outright. You have to just accept the terms of the industry set by studios and even if you're disappointed with it, that's just-the-way-things-are so you start judging everything on these utterly weird standards and having expectations that push everything toward being the same, even if you complain all the time that everything is the same. It's some sort of bizarro video-game Stockholm Syndrome. "Sure, this sucks, but that's The Future and we have to work within its parameters anyway." I felt like this back in 2013 (which I've been thinking about more as the generation is coming to an end) and how it was just accepted common knowledge that the next consoles from everyone were going to be always-online anti-used game hardware, and well, that's just the world we live in now, gotta deal with it, sure it sucks but oh well, everything's just like this now, overnight we just have to accept those terms and move on. It's weird.
Borderlands being more Borderlands is super cool - I don't want more pseudo-MMOs with half-baked progression systems and tons of re-used content that is somehow supposed to be more innovative and cool than just being a cool, complete offline package you sell DLC for instead. I don't need to just accept that things like Destiny/The Division/Anthem are just-the-way-everything-is-now and get used to it even if it sucks and is continuously disappointing.
Oddly though, even after saying this, I have vague memories of Jeff always having utterly bizarre expectations for what he keeps thinking Borderlands is supposed to be, going all the way back to the first game which were more or less this sort of thing - complaints of no online shared spaces, no "proper trading system", etc. I don't know why in Jeff's mind Borderlands needs to be hamstrung as some sort of half-assed MMO, or why that's "new" or "innovative" in any way, but that's different opinions.
I love giant bomb. But if I'm being honest most of their views on games are diametrically opposed to my own.
I have now gotten through the intro and ran around both on top and inside of Notre Dame and boy, this runs better on my PC instead of chugging around the mid-20s on my PS4 (and that building is impeccably detailed). Also this just further reinforces what I came away from Origins/Odyssey and how the path of least resistance became every path. The animations are a little slower and more deliberate here and I had to sort of figure out a path up to the top of it to get the synchronize point. I miss this. Even in Unity.
Also I forgot the whole framing device was that you bought a video game system and the Assassins hack in to have you help them out and you just agree to participate cuz fuck it.
Also this was fun:
Note "Jazz Age Junkies" at the bottom there. If they weren't afraid of getting increasingly close to modern day I'd be curious what a 1920's The-Assassins-Run-Speakeasies-And-Deal-With-The-Mafia sort of game would have looked like.
Also I forgot the whole framing device was that you bought a video game system and the Assassins hack in to have you help them out and you just agree to participate cuz fuck it.
Also this was fun:
Note "Jazz Age Junkies" at the bottom there. If they weren't afraid of getting increasingly close to modern day I'd be curious what a 1920's The-Assassins-Run-Speakeasies-And-Deal-With-The-Mafia sort of game would have looked like.
Agreed, especially when they suck that microtransaction cock
I need to find a Gortys plushie.oh, additionally borderlands has
and this strengthens point four
Thanks :) I'll keep on trying, and I'll get there someday.
Sorry they eat jaded microbladed glass assholes because they fellate companies new transactions policies because they are different
yeah, the homophoboic undertones make that style of insult a no-go.
call them sellouts or something, like an average gamer would.
they're still working on reclaiming the n word last I heard
dude Microbladed Glass Assholes are clearly Blackened Screamo
I agree with you now maybe you should take your outrage and try to advocate some pro consumer products that aren't useless
Oh, I only ever listened to their early stuff.
I didn't even know that was an actual thing until just now
"Pro-consumer" advocate with a Nintendo avatar, that's hilarious.
So guys.
If you have to choose between never eating a land based animal again or never eating an aquatic based animal again.
Which would you choose.
If you have to choose between never eating a land based animal again or never eating an aquatic based animal again.
Which would you choose.
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