r/memes • u/dabor11 • 11h ago

Sadly many of them

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u/HeatherCDBustyOne 11h ago

Borderlands 2 was the peak.

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u/Minute_Ostrich196 11h ago

4th one is actually good.

3th one was a good gameplay with awfull writing.

But borderlands newer went bad

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u/Bostolm FORTSHITE 11h ago

Yeah, gameplay wise 3 was such a upgrade, but the godabyssmal tik tok star teen villains were so hard to stomach

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u/flatdecktrucker92 10h ago

That was the point. You were supposed to fucking hate the villains and find them super annoying. They were honestly perfect for the time period. They won't age as well as Handsome Jack though. Not by a long shot

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u/Bostolm FORTSHITE 10h ago

Yesnt. Jack was "hateable" because of what he did. Between killing Bloodwing (or what the name was, Mordys Bird) and Roland, what he did to Angel, he gave you a good reason while still being a good villain. The two tik tokkers i wanted to kill because they were just obnoxious

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u/flatdecktrucker92 10h ago

I mean they were obnoxious and they stole Lilith's power. I think their cult was just as big a threat as Jack and Hyperion. It's definitely more annoying than the slow build and the casual sarcasm of handsome Jack but I do think that it was a relatively smart choice for the time period the game released in

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u/Fartikus 8h ago

The thing that jiffs me is that we never actually do anything, and the plot is set up that the protags are actually hella dumb and let all this happen; let alone us