Take a bag of potato chips—any brand, anywhere—and you more or less know what you’re going to get. Crispy, greasy salt and oil delivered via thin layers of starch, they make a mess of crumbs and grease, and they’re terribly delicious, extremely difficult to stop eating once you’ve caved into the first, and likely to cause a carbohydrate crash and a sense of regret. Potato chips are great and awful and we all know what we’re getting into when we open a bag.
The new Borderlands has been a huge flop, but it has caused the video games to see a boost in popularity following its release.
There have been some good adaptations recently though. I think the Gran Turismo movie is really good and The Last of Us and Fallout TV shows are great too.
If they're going to try, some of them are going to fall short. That's just inevitable. If anything we should encourage more effort so that they learn more about what makes some of these work, while others don't. Honestly I think Borderlands should have been a hit, but I think it would have been much better as an animated show akin to the League of Legends TV show on Netflix.
Yea but the good to bad ratio still leans more to the bad. All the ones you pointed out have been pretty great, can't wait for season 2 of all those shows. With that said, you can't "fall short" unless it's on purpose, in this case it's Borderlands. These characters, the world, the lore is/are fleshed out, there's a ton of source material, there are 7 games!
But BL3 is the worst one in the series....should do #2 and experience Handsome Jack
Nah. Tiny TIna's Wonderland is the worst in my opinion. I enjoyed 3 more than the "pre-sequel" and Tiny Tina's Wonderland.
Agreed, at least 3 felt like borderlands, gameplay was great, bosses were interesting. Wonderlands was just a turn in the wrong direction, the idea seemed great, but playing through the game just didn't feel like borderlands to me. Also dlc scam.
My issue with TTW is that it's supposedly a new IP in the Borderlands universe, not just a Borderlands game. Yet it plays and feels just like Borderlands with some magic tacked on. For every cool new idea there's a handful of ideas just rehashed from Borderlands. They really didn't do enough to make it feel like its own thing. It's still just an FPS with guns, except the guns are magical now. Why not focus instead on crazy melee weapons, bows, and magic/spells instead?
In terms of gameplay BL3 is the strongest in the series. It's the narrative that really lets that game down.
Eh...
The story is definitely worse but there's more to these games than that. Gameplay, loot, endgame and build variety is definitely better in 3. I think they did a great job with the game, some of the DLC is fantastic too.
I agree with people are saying. There's sole really good ideas in the games followed by some odd choices. I loved Bl2 , and I liked the presequel because it tries to explain Handsome Jack's downfall (YouTube game theory handsome jack).
Also PreSeq, has this really cool team play where talents could help pick your friends up from bleeding out. Athena throwing her shield if it bounces of a player they are picked up from dying. Head shots Aith the sniper chick etc.
BL3, I cannot get past the annoying social media influences, it's meant to be funny, it's just unbearable. Gameplay feels solid though. But I've not made it past lvl 20 ish on 3 tries. The story does not interest me, the classes are poor and talents feel bland.
i didnt like 3s sotry villains, like at all.
but i dont think any of the borderlands mainline games were "bad". i nejoyed all of them
but im not part of the community and play them mostly with my friends or alone.
there are worse games rly.
I totally forgot there was a movie coming out. I’m not a big fan of adaptations mainly because most of them suck and they take away from me playing video games. I didn’t get into Borderlands 3 game. 1 was my favorite 2 was pretty good but a third with more of the same didn’t interest me much to begin with.
PS Plus has nine games set to leave the service soon. Here is every game earmarked on our PlayStation Plus leaving list for Essential, Extra, and Premium.
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Among Us
Borderlands 3
NBA 2K24
Need For Speed Unbound
SpellForce III Reforced
Destroy All Humans
Destroy All Humans 2
Trials of Mana
If you added Among Us and Borderlands 3 to your library they won’t disappear. Not sure if any others were part of essential or not but if they were and you added them to the library they also will still be in your library
All playable July 2.
Yea, I honestly have never been a follower of hockey, but I did grow up occasionally playing games here and there with some of my friends. Especially Blades of Steel NES and I honestly think my last one was one of the NHL ones on PS1 also! This may stir up some nostalgia. I wouldn't have bought it otherwise, but I'll give it a go w PS+.
Well that's a lot of nope from me.
Doesn't Among Us sell for a whopping €2.50 anyway?
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.
I'd have said that cover art was easily the best thing about the game. Shame they neutered the humour in game so much.
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).
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.
@phoenixwing Allah is the arabic word for God used by Christians in the region too.
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.
Sounds like it was overall a goof decision. Nothing wrong with some blasphemy.
You missed nothing the game sucked key reason why it was selling for under 5 bucks not even a year after launch
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.
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Hell no! It had Crusader kings and anno!
But city builders/4x aren't that popular among console users.
Sadly these days I associate Kotaku with silly activism like Land rights for trans whales.
***Even less flattering are the game’s many comedic asides that make light of casual misogyny even as they exhibit an awareness of it. There’s the man who purposefully misstates “bitch” instead of “witch” when referring to a villain who’s an actual swamp witch. Another character, after saying something that could be interpreted as sexual harassment, notes that he “definitely attended that meeting.”***
How about the one where you kill a misogynist on behalf of Moxxi? No? Silence? Interesting.
***Borderlands 3 has a white character appropriating African American Vernacular English.***
Big tip for you white kids, don't get raised in predominantly black communities and learn to communicate like the other kids you spend your life around. I mean, yeah, it's an annoying character, but appropriation of vernacular is a pretty petty argument when it's so fluid and even changes based on where you go online let alone where you are raised.
***It remains baffling and infuriating that the game continues to treat dwarfism as fodder for slapstick comedy***
It continues to treat everything in the game as fodder for slapstick comedy. Everything.
***Or that this game prominently features Chris Hardwick reprising his Tales From The Borderlands role of Vaughn despite public allegations of emotional abuse ***
Public allegations = truth, apparently? Even though he was investigated, got his job back, was fully supported by past and current relationships?
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Those few paragraphs are just bad writing and bad reporting. If you're going to complain about when they do something wrong, you must praise them for what they do correct. And don't bring in your own opinion of a person into it for the review of a product that they are but a cog within.
Kotaku isn't about games anymore, rather it's part of a sad agenda of drama outside and around games that is completely useless. Kotaku is completely useless. Avoid and save yourself some time.
I mean, they took out a lot of "mean talk", so I would assume Kotaku would give it a glowing review.
Leave it Kotaku to try to make mountains out of mole hills.