It’s interesting to see where the franchise started and come back to the odd lonely feeling the first game would illicit in me. I actually hated that feeling when the game first came out and really wanted to play it with people but everybody was obsessed with fifa and cod so nobody wanted to play.
It’s quite a relaxing game, just running around shooting things and looting things, not really paying attention to any of the storyline or characters. One thing I noticed is claptrap and his various incarnations are actually quite charming and not annoying at all. Infact a lot of the really obnoxious elements of the later games doesn’t seem to be present at all in this one.
It runs extremely well on the steam deck, suited to playing in bed listening to a podcast or something. Maybe I need to give borderlands 2 another try i might not hate it as much this time.
I have a bit of a soft spot for BL1, it’s very playable to this day and has a lot that seemed to click into place. I definitely think 2’s improved gameplay and endgame went a long way forward, but 1 has a sort of crunchy feel that’s still quite fun.
I never played BL1, but BL2 was huge with me and my college friends over a decade ago now. I replayed the game a year or two ago and had a lot of fun with the gameplay, but the characters, story, and overall sensibility of the game have aged like milk with a dead turtle in it. Tiny Tina.
Those elements were obnoxious even back in 2012-2013 when the game first came out, so now, a decade removed, it’s almost completely unbearable unless you somehow appreciate it from a “time capsule” perspective. I think the best way to play it is with the dialogue volume at zero. Tiny Tina.
Definitely one of my all time favorites. I love the whole series, but 1 will always have a special place for me. Last year I loaded it up after not touching it for several years and went through all of the content again with Lilith, and then decided to try to find at least one of each pearlescent. Way way too many Craw kills and armory runs later, and I still didn’t get all of them. Maybe I should fire it up again…
I think it’s still my favorite out of the series, even if only because there’s this intangible spirit of possibility in the setting, until the sequels took a more concrete tongue in cheek tone. It has this compelling balance of darkness and humor that appeals to me, before it became mostly jokes with an internet meme appeal, even if I share the mainstream opinion that -strictly speaking- the series gameplay has only improved.
Yeah thats what I’m noticing its a more muted and grounded game but occasionally throws in some decent dark comedy like finding tk baha in his house or taniths diaries. It has a portal 1 feel for me. The ideal would be 3’s gameplay in the shell of 1
I could never get into Borderlands, there’s a reason I call it Bored-erdlands
weird I also just redownloaded borderlands 1 too. Great minds and all that
Claptrap being a little shit really only starts with the DLC, Claptrap’s New Robot Revolution
Problem was that people really responded well to it and the poison tree took root
Problem was that people really responded well to it and the poison tree took root
I think a lot of the Borderlands series’ cringe can be attributed to that even though I’ve played and enjoyed it all by and large.
I never got very far in the first one because there’s a point fairly early on where enemies become so bullet spongey I got road blocked from progressing any farther without someone else to play with.
Currently quite enjoying playing with Lilith and stacking smg damage on top of more smg damage then going for headshot crits it absolutely melts everything
Old Haven?
suited to playing in bed listening to a podcast or something
That is so much psychic energy for bed lol
Very nostalgic game for me. Kind of reminds me now of OddWorld: Munch’s Odyssey
