Re: FREE GAME: Borderlands 2

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:
 

On 6/8/2025 10:27 AM, Xocyll wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:
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On Sat, 7 Jun 2025 18:54:44 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
wrote:
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I still haven't played the first one! They should give that one away. :P
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I looked to see if the original "Borderlands" was ever a freebie. At
one point or another all the other games seem to have been given away,
but it seems like the first game has been excluded from this
generosity. Of course, it could be that maybe it was and I'm not
seeing any mention of it, but the closest I found was a 'play-for-free
weekend' offer back in 2019.
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Personally, I think you're better off starting with the second. The
story/setting is extremely simplistic in these games, so you don't
really need to start from the first, and B2 added various QOL
refinements that just made it a better experience (assuming you liked
the gameplay, obviously). BL1 is only for die-hard fans and weirdos
who like playing games for their historical value ;-)

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and prefer a villain who isn't a retarded ass monkey.
and want a story that wasn't written by one.
and prefer better weapons (remember explosive submachine guns?)
BL2+ explosive (torgue) weapons are only slow as hell firing pistols,
marginally faster shotguns and rifles and rocket launchers.
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when the hell did vault hunter (treasure seeker) become "savior of us
all"  and why?
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BL1 vault hunters are just that, people who came to the planet to find
and open a vault and became rich as fuck.
They aren't celebrities, superheros or activists, they're the equivalent
of those guys hunting sunken ships or pirate treasure - motivated by
greed.
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What's next, a GTA game where the criminal protagonist gets elected
Pope?
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No, a Borderlands movie.  *evil grin*

 That already happened, plus

it didn't follow any of the "vault hunter"
mythos of the games, greedy treasure seeker OR superhero-activist.
 Didn't they make them bounty hunters chasing after Tina who is suddenly
not a homicidal orphan but the runaway daughter of some CEO of an
intergalactic weapons manufacturer?
 Gee they alienated the only audience they had, people who played the
games, no wonder they only pulled in 33 mil vs a budget of 110 mil.
 Might as well have had Uwe Boll direct it, he couldn't have made it
worse.