Borderlands 3 (2019)

The previous games of BL earned a fair share enough to play through, especially with (and because of) friends being in on it. I concede that Borderlands stand strong in the looter shooter niche gameplay-wise but in the end, that's about it. There were well-written characters that are quite colorful and gave this franchise a warm, explicitly tongue-in-cheek charm. The system with the classes and weapons had a wide range to keep your loadout fresh and up-to-scale with the challenges you come by.

But BL3 has its glaring problems in the middle of the road... The weapons and loot help me breeze through the combats, although the battle scenes are getting samey to the point of tedium (a familiar flaw in the previous games). And fighting your way to progress the quests and the main story has an underwhelming payoff, because the stories are forgettable and tries too hard to be funny. I have tried to carry on after my playmates dropped in the middle of it, but my time worth judgement has talked me out of it when I realize that I spent 20+ hours just getting half-way through.

For the above reasons, I fail to find an incentive to look forward to the progression and therefore consider it checked off. Since the experience has been barely up to standards in the previous games (BL2 comes as relatively the best), I decide it's time to break up and leave the main franchise in the rain. (But if there's a 'worthy' follow-up to the Tales From The Borderlands coming up in the future, I will raincheck on that)

getting back to grouvee and cleaning up my collections. limited review.

My title says it all. It's a Borderlands title. It's very much in the same vein of all of the other Borderlands titles. If you liked the others and are looking for more, look no further. If you didn't like the others, don't bother here.

To me, and where I am, it was very much a middle of the road experience. The mindless killing and humor falls a little flat these days in the world the way it is, but you can make that judgement for yourself.

~David.

Не так уж много отличий от второй части. И не все в лучшую сторону.

В целом стало намного удобнее: сравнение лута нагляднее, фастревел в любой момент и прочие мелочи, которые не упомнишь, но почувствуешь, если проходить игры подряд.

Но прокачка по-прежнему медленная, левел-дизайн стал кишкообразным, а сюжет скучный настолько, что хочется забить на него даже при первом прохождении. А забить не дают. Игра постоянно заставляет слушать очень длинные и скучные разговоры. Поэтому и дрочильни приличной не получается. Хоть стрелять мне и понравилось, но по второму кругу эту тягомотину терпеть не хочется. Я пробежал сюжетную кампанию и забил, хотя это как в «Диабло» — только начало.

The gameplay is fantastic, much more polished than previous entries in the series. New characters with new skill trees, hundreds of guns, and more. Overall an improvement for the series as a whole.

The writing, on the other hand, was weak. The characters fall flat (particularly the villains, who are a far cry from Handsome Jack) with little to no development. But the real kick in the teeth was your character barely existing in canon. Every cutscene acts like you just aren't there. And the former playable characters, people who have taken down Vault Monsters, seem to forget how to fight more than 1 or 2 bad guys at a time.

This does pick up a bit with the DLCs. Two are out at the time of this writing and both are solid with good self-contained stories and much better characters, including old returning characters and brand new ones.

Borderlands still holds first place among looter-shooters for me, but narratively there is nothing remarkable about this installment.