Borderlands 2 is a smash hit; selling 2.73 MM units to date while receiving a 93% here and holds a metacritic score of 91%. Some, if not all, of the critiques of the previous game in the series were corrected with Borderlands 2; compelling story, more variance of weapons, crank the humor up even more and a few others. As great as Borderlands 2 truly is, there are new things that need to be built upon to make Borderlands 3 be the best that it can be.
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seems like a pretty good evolution
...maybe a launch title for the new xbox/ps?
A 3rd game will happen but it will be next gen and I would bet it would probably even be a few years into next gen so I would not expect it anytime soon but It's gonna happen.
I would kinda like to see them make a Borderlands MMO. Basically plays just like Borderlands except much bigger and with more people. Would be awesome.
But i hope the vehicles are improved, they were horrible in the first.
For Borderlands 3 the only thing I want is for Gearbox to learn how to make the game fun once you hit level 50, there's absolutely nothing to do at 50 but farm the same 3-4 bosses over and over for the same loot.
I forget what else I thought of that would make the next Borderlands a game I'd buy...
I don't really like the golden keys thing as someone else stated either. It's cool to get something nice from a chest like that but you have to be active on twitter and so much other crap. It's nice to get something that helps out at that level too but as I've noticed there are NO chests in Sanctuary other than itself.
If they ever do ANYTHING like this they better make a way to circumvent this by providing a solution in-game (as I have read and been curious about bringing up another use for eridium). Still though...I'm not a fan.
Weapon customisations for altering and upgrading stats kinda takes away from wanting to find and compare different guns. A good idea, perhaps make the customisations limited to aesthetic changes, but nothing which ruins the "gazillion guns" appeal.
New outfits would be cool too.
Really whats the point in farming, looting, or giving a damn about drops if people are more than willing to constantly make a copy of it? I really don't see the issue with close friends, but Borderlands 2 is out of hand with these people making legendary items all but common. Whats worse is that they also detour people from playing online too. I saw a couple of people that farmed Terra though online games because they wanted the praise, but not everyone wants their challenges done for them. Sure Terra isn't insanely powerful, but he's a lot more fun with 2 - 4 people and purple gear than The Bee / CC / BM / whatever.
Like say I have a really nice Tediore SMG but it has open sights and I'd prefer a little zoom or maybe a reddot. So I find another Tediore SMG with lower stats but does have an optic on it. It would be nice if I could take the new SMG and salvage the optic from it and add it to my nice Tediore SMG. To keep the balance they could set it up to destroy the rest of the weapon you salvaged parts from and only make parts swap to and from weapons of the same class and brand. You could swap barrels for accuracy, receivers for fire rate, magazines for capacity, stocks for stability, fore grips for recoil control, optics for zoom and similar stuff. Maybe there could be a gunsmith you could take your weapons to for these modifications or pay the gunsmith a fee to upgrade the level of your weapons to keep a good one current and viable.
Anyone who messed with the Borderlands Gear Calculators and similar things for Borderlands 1 knows how cool it is to just sit and build weapons and try different combinations but it's was a cheat and building your weapons from scratch out of all the available parts sort of took the loot hunting out of it. Having to find weapons with the parts you want would keep loot hunting part of the game and only being able to salvage one part from each weapon while destroying the rest would add a significant cost.
Just my .02
And potentially the ability for NPC's to follow you on your missions.