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Borderlands

Developer: Gearbox Software Publisher: 2K Games
20 October 2009
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On the planet Pandora, an enormous wasteland inhabited by loony, psychotic, and generally unhinged gang factions, four mercenaries take up odd-jobs and collect bounties on their quest to find and claim the legendary Vault, a supposed cache of powerful alien technology.
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Even though I'm aware that this game has its flaws (at least in the original version) none of them are egregious enough for me not to give it a perfect score due to how amazing the game overall is.

The only real problem I have with it and what drags the original down to a 4/5 is the lack of a mini map, it wouldn't be an issue if it wasn't for the multiple fetch quests the game has where you need to find items for the npcs. Thankfully the remaster fixes this which of course makes it the definitive version of the game to play. I guess the character interactions are a bit bland as they're largely text based even though they do talk to you using radio transmissions, this is more an issue compared to the sequels where they interact with you in person rather than using text with the mission summaries. As for the gameplay, it's the true highlight as regardless of who you play as (the classes being a soldier, siren, berserker and hunter) we have frenetic fps gameplay where you fight the thugs of the planet as well as its strange wildlife using a vast array of weapons which range in value depending on their rarity. This also has RPG elements as you can level up your character by defeating enough enemies and completing tasks both in the story and mini objectives throughout the map. Leveling up allows you to customise your characters skill tree with helps them take out stronger enemies as the game progresses. The story is fairly basic as canonically, our four heroes are on the quest to find a vault that only opens once every hundred years containing unfathomable treasure. They need to find this vault before the thugs of the planet with the help of its friendly inhabitants who see our heroes as their saviours from the thugs. As there's four players to choose from, the game naturally allows for multiplayer where you can occasionally challenge each other to death matches both out in the open and in specified areas. This of course adds to the fun that you can have while tackling the main campaign together with your friends.

It's a gorgeous looking game (impressive given its mad Max setting) that has a ton of innovative gameplay and quirky characters. Check it out if you haven't already.
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+ Spawned a whole new sub-genre.
+ Simple and fun shooting.
- Very repetitive gameplay and quest design.
- The environments get repetitive after a while, there is very little variety there.

Completed.
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Probably fun for the time, Aged Horribly
This game was likely good for it's time, but now it's painfully boring. No cutscenes, lots of backtracking, repetitive gameplay. It was hard to continue playing because this game feels more like a chore list than a fun adventure.
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Borderlands - Nintendo Switch
Oh god this game is so fucking dull. Ridiculously repetitive if you're on singleplayer, which was the case for my lonely ass.
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the vibe of this one is immaculate, 2 is definitely better but this might be my favorite. Easily the most iconic areas and enemies in the series and I love how dry and not over-the-top the humor is, definitely the biggest issue with the others. The gameplay in this is the perfect pace for these games and the world feels much more genuine, lived-in and hostile, than any of the others. Really great game and definitely worth a play even if the other ones annoy you.
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Really fun game that I could replay millions of times, but that ending was not it.
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  • Meatlejuice 2023-07-22 04:49:11.738414+00
    completely agree with the vibes being incredible but the dahl headland (i think that's what it was called) brings the game's momentum to a halt. whenever i replay this it always kills my interest and even though it picks back up in the next area the momentum is still gone
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  • luna128 2023-08-14 16:03:52.884001+00
    pacing on this game is objectively horrible, the car boss they make you do before the hub is fucking stupid, and then after that it's just running around the headland for the rest of the game until you go to desert city and kill flynt fucker then it goes all crystal skull on you and you're like damn where's short round am I right 10/10 masterpiece patrician game
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    • luna128 2023-08-14 16:06:35.548297+00
      I didn't even mention the entire opening of fucking around the first part of the game but it's actually even worse than this. I don't know how I've managed to replay it so much. DLC is bad too except knoxx which is an improvement on the base game but it's like 3 hours long
    • luna128 2023-08-14 16:07:08.880894+00
      bullets also don't go where you shoot them lmao
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  • infection 2023-10-01 04:34:42.691327+00
    2 / 3 being rated higher than this has destroyed any faith i’d have in this sites user base
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  • LaneisLame 2023-12-21 17:04:14.08785+00
    This game deserves better on here c'mon
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  • Nutty2112 2024-01-07 02:24:08.47808+00
    favorite walking simulator
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  • Nutty2112 2024-01-31 01:19:28.729432+00
    writing in this game is actually pretty funny though icl
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  • Nutty2112 2024-03-13 17:04:18.545957+00
    actually this game has grown on me very much i love it.
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  • Nutty2112 2024-03-13 17:05:05.38458+00
    also its funny how this shit runs worse on pc with low settings than bl3 does with maxed out settings
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