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PC Gamer: Borderlands 3 review

Bad jokes clash with great guns in a looter shooter lost in time.

NecrumOddBoy1782d ago

Can we get some examples of bad jokes? Are they shitty or just unwoke? BL's isn't a politically correct game overall

Fluxour1782d ago

The general consensus seems to be they're just lame. Following release I'm sure some supercuts will be released on youtube.

Rachel_Alucard1782d ago (Edited 1782d ago )

I read in another article, the jokes are terrible with how they're implemented with the quest design. There's a quest given by a random character where you have to kill the person who killed her family, except she doesn't know who did it. You can kill one, go back to her, then she'll just tell you to go kill the other one since she changed her mind. Now you have to travel to the other guy, kill them, then backtrack to her and speak for the 3rd time. It's not a joke it's just annoying.

Fluttershy771782d ago

What do you call a fish with no eyes?

A fsh

Wolffenblitz1782d ago

Except from what I understand they've started censoring themselves...

JokerBoy4221782d ago

This could be due to the fact that Gearbox said they went politically correct this time around in order to not hurt people's feelings. That could very well attribute to lame jokes as feelings are now of main importance.

rainslacker1782d ago

@Rachel

Backtracking and going back to areas after you first visit because a quest comes up when your done had been the way bl has done all their games. Sometimes they're more fluid, but I wouldn't take one or two examples as indicative of the whole. I cant really think of any quest in the bl games after the first one which was a single point objective type deal.

NecrumOddBoy1782d ago

@above all

Just legit wondering. Isn't their CEO like a major asshole and creep too? Shame if they tanked this game. This was the one thing GEARBOX knocked out of the park.

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Born2Game831781d ago (Edited 1781d ago )

BL3 will do alright. But not nearly as BL2.

djplonker1782d ago

Guys look I found randy pitchford.

SegaGamer1782d ago

PCGamer are one of the most well known sites, they don't need to make clickbait reviews for clicks. Maybe the reviewer just wasn't that impressed with the game.

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Brave_Losers_Unite1782d ago

PC Gamer well knows site? LOL Yeah for bad reviews

Wolffenblitz1782d ago

@kernel and Brave_Losers .... Wat?

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Silly Mammo1782d ago

@kernel-

You've used some form of "toxic SJW writers" in every one of your comments. Seems like you're the one with the agenda.

rainslacker1782d ago (Edited 1782d ago )

They're well known, but they have been pretty bad about game reviews for a long while now. Their general writing about stuff going on in PC gaming is usually good. Not all their reviewers are bad, just some seem incompetent and like most sites, there doesn't appear to be any editorial standards for its writing staff

There was a time they were the best. Now, they're just more of the same.

Born2Game831781d ago

PCGamer do alright. They are nowhere near IGN or GS level of popular. Also I had the same sentiment when they gave Dragon Age 2 a 9/10.

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WukeWiking1782d ago

Good thing people aren't playing it for the jokes but for the fat loot and grind.

Razmiran1782d ago

I mean, the jokes are part of the dialogue, which is part of the story
So bad jokes can drag a big part of the game down

AngelicIceDiamond1782d ago

Sure, if you're that much invested in Borderlands Dialogue.

Razmiran1782d ago

Well, I didnt write this particular review, but I think a review should cover the whole package
And again, im not saying "Yes, the game is bad because X". I did not play this game because its not out, but im just saying that if this is the assessment the reviewer made it is not baseless

rainslacker1782d ago

I always thought half the jokes were bad. But bad in a funny way. It's just so over the top, that it's hard to take seriously. In the other games there are some genuinely funny bits of dialogue. TfTBL was packed with a lot of good humor, even if some of it was stupid.

Razmiran1782d ago

TfTBL was sooooo good
I agree mostly, I didnt like pre sequel much to be honest

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Cmv381782d ago

Imo you're right. I don't remember anything funny from bl1. A lot funny from bl 2 and the pre sequel. I'll judge these jokes myself...o just want yo know is the game fun, and how the end game is. Jokes are too subjective for me to value others opinions on then.

zen_hydra1782d ago

It's disappointing to see this, but I'm not entirely surprised. The promotional material for BL3 just hasn't grabbed me the way the other games did. After BL2 and Tales From The Borderlands, I expected BL3 to have at least a comparable quality of writing and character design. That apparently didn't pan out.

Cmv381782d ago

S stray too far from design choices people like and people may complain about that too. I waited too long not top try the game. But standard edition for me, since I don't know how long imma be into this game.

drunkenspy0071782d ago

wait, so issue is with gags, but game play is good? SMH

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LG_Fox_Brazil30d ago

Seems like I'll finally play my first NHL since the PS1 days

OtterX29d ago

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monkey60230d ago

Well that's a lot of nope from me.

Doesn't Among Us sell for a whopping €2.50 anyway?

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phoenixwing30d ago (Edited 30d ago )

Never bought borderlands 3 since they picked that Jesus mockery of a photo. Was not impressed. There was literally no reason to use it other than to be blasphemous. There's no angels or demons in the game yet they had to be profane toward God and go out of their way to do it.

monkey60230d ago

I'd have said that cover art was easily the best thing about the game. Shame they neutered the humour in game so much.

BISHOP-BRASIL30d ago

Driving boring ass mainline Christians into rage fits is reason enough. Are you not entertained? 'cause we are...

(Also the third game revolves around the radicalization os Bandits and Psychos into the cult Children of the Vault which see the female twin as literally a goddess, in fact the whole franchise always made extensive use of tropes such as cult like factions and villains with a Messiah complex, so it's fitting, however a logical rebuttal to your whining is just less fun).

phoenixwing30d ago (Edited 30d ago )

No the point is they could easily have pictured a character from the game who they're worshipping but instead go after Christians. If they were so altruistic to stop and point out radicalization as if they're brave people they would have put Allah on the cover but oh no we can't upset them because instead of taking it in stride they'd have to actually confront the Muslims who would be outraged. But yeah let's do our weak attempts at being edgy on people who are more mature toward others. Basically all you atheists like to punch down why not go to an Arab country and protest.

Hofstaderman29d ago

@phoenixwing Allah is the arabic word for God used by Christians in the region too.

DarXyde29d ago

phoenixwing,

I can think of a few reasons why the Jesus imagery works better.

1. The intended audience would understand Christian imagery more than Islamic imagery. I'll also add that it's fascinating to observe Christian whataboutisms largely run to Islam to criticize when they feel attacked.

2. If you're trying to sell a game in more countries, there's literally only one Christian theocracy in the world. Do you think B3 not selling in Vatican City has the same impact as being shut out of the multiple Muslim theocracies globally?

3. Islam has an image problem in countries with high Christian populations in the modern era due largely to 11 September. There are people outraged by Hamas' actions without any willingness to engage with the context of how it happened. The Zionists are pretty supportive of the ongoing genocide of innocent civilians. In light of this, your imagery complaint feels very entitled if I'm being honest.

If you want to take it as a W, perhaps the devs in a weird, islamophobic way see Christians as being more tolerant of such imagery being used...? That you can disapprove and boycott without violence? I don't really know.

It's fine if you don't play the game on the basis that it upsets you, though as a member of a racial group that either gets dunked on routinely or pushed forward to further some tolerance agenda, I've learned to laugh at it. If I can learn to do that for immutable characteristics, you can for your beliefs.

You don't have to.... But you can.

thorstein29d ago

@phoenixwing

"Atheists like to punch down"

You poor, oppressed Christian.

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MrBaskerville30d ago

Sounds like it was overall a goof decision. Nothing wrong with some blasphemy.

Profchaos30d ago (Edited 30d ago )

You missed nothing the game sucked key reason why it was selling for under 5 bucks not even a year after launch

Chance_of_Raine29d ago

I used to be like you, then I realized its all a fraud. You'll wake up, when and if you want to, in your own time.

thorstein29d ago

I bet you think pronouns shouldn't be taught in elementary school.

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RhinoGamer8830d ago

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Shane Kim29d ago

Hell no! It had Crusader kings and anno!
But city builders/4x aren't that popular among console users.

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