In this video I talk about Loot Based Games. I don't really like them at all. I think they are some of the most shallow, boring, grindiest games on the marke...
  • FourteenEyes [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    16·
    2 years ago

    People kept trying to sell me on Borderlands but the terrible gunplay made it so unfun. And the loot is just another thing to manage while you’re not having fun.

  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    13·
    2 years ago

    I was thinking this when the first Borderlands came out. Everybody went nuts for it but it seemed like the most boring thing ever

    Of course, the real killer for me was the humour dean-frown

    • Graphite22 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      9·
      2 years ago

      Of course, the real killer for me was the humour

      Looking back, the writing of BL2 caused two moments of cognitive dissonance at different points in time for me.

      First playthrough, I was tricked into thinking I was part of a mini-zeitgeist for gaming with all the epic references.

      Second time around, years later, my good friend and I ripped it all to shreds and had a good fucking time!! But I still felt that clashing, sharpening stone-like feeling when everything collides.

    • Anne_Teefa@hexbear.netEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      I liked tank girl and I could bunny hop with the iron bear to move faster and look goofy af, that plus scaling homing rockets were really nice. I did play Zane 1st though, he was fun because he had the zoomies but otherwise plain and I did feel the need to grind and test out different weapons to weed out slots and sell the rest. So it depends ig.

      • roux [they/them, xe/xem]@hexbear.netEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        Moze with nukes is obnoxiously hilarious to me and I haven’t had this much fun just mindlessly shooting shit in a while.

        I kind of love the series but in a “warts and all” sort if way. Plus a lot of nostalgia playing with my wife. But I can definitely see how annoying loot management is in the game. My best advice for loot in 3 is honestly blindly sell all whites, greens and probably blues unless you are very early game. Purples and legendaries are so common in this that the rest is pointless to compare stats on.

    • sevenapplesEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      I like borderlands’ loot system. In most fps games you have a close/mid/long range weapons and use the one you prefer, or in certain cases the only one that can work in certain maps/levels. You can easily play 80% of a game using the same weapon.

      In borderlands I adapt my playstyle to the best weapon I currently have. For example, if I get an OP shotgun drop, then I’m gonna play more aggressively and seek close range fights more often than I normally would, which makes me change my playstyle a lot throughout one run. This combined with the variety of weapons makes it enjoyable for me, and I was never stuck because I lacked a good weapon to progress.