Re: Is it that time again? Half Life 3

On Fri, 09 May 2025 16:44:47 +0300, Anssi Saari
<anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote:

Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> writes:
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I think I just felt done with both BL and the looter shooter grind by
3.   I was also not impressed on what I heard about the DLCs and never
got them, but was constantly reminded to get them in game which I
found highly irritating.

I got the initial batch of four DLCs but they weren't that good. There
was a horror themed one and a western themed one and I can't even
remember the others. Oh, now that I checked, the first one was a kind of
BL2 throwback, a heist on some Hyperion space station. So lots of the
loader bots and I remember this was actually fun. Only issue, BL3 isn't
so heavy on needing corrosive weapons so I didn't have much but I think
the DLC drops may have been tuned with that in mind.

With the exception of the General Knoxx DLC for BL1, every other DLC
for all three of the Borderlands so far has been awful.

I particularly disliked all of the BL2 DLC's and was really
disappointed by them as BL2 is a really good game. I have recently
replayed BL2 and came away with a new appreciation of BL2 in terms of
its place in my rankings of BL2 games.

In order of preference my favourite is Borderlands 1, followed by BL2
and then BL3

I preferred Tiny Tina's Wonderlands over Borderlands 3, but that's not
to say that I dislike BL3, far from it.

Even the BL PS was OK

I enjoyed playing the girl with the mech, but didn't have any interest
in continuing after finishing the game with her.  I can't see myself
buying BL 4.

I specifically wanted to see if she was going to be any less OP in PT2
but no. I was so amazed I just went and finished PT2 with her :) I mean,
for sure she was a little more vulnerable when on foot but in the mech
nothing could touch her. I think with some of the bosses you had to
fight on foot at least some of the time so there was that but that still
didn't really change anything, difficulty-wise.
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And with the legendary class mod you get twice the time in the mech
which is enough to be there almost all the time, the cooldown finishes
before the mech self destructs.

Moze was my least favorite character in BL3 and I never once went
beyond PT1 with my character.

FL4K was just about OK but I much preferred Zane and then Amara, in
that order.

In Tiny Tina's Wonderlands my preferred character is the Spore Warden,
but an added bonus of TTW is that you can mix and match character
skill trees after gaining the basic skills for your class. The Spore
Warden skill tree allows for your pet to have a chance to revive you
if you get killed, assuming that you can keep your pet Spore alive.

You can play any character and then add a Spore Warden's early skill
tree  perks (obviously limited by available skill points).

Being revived by your pet is a real boon, especially during boss
fights which are particularly tough (and annoying) in TTW's.

Perhaps a subject for a new thread? I *HATE* boss fights, always have
done, always will do too. I have abandoned many a game because of the
boss mechanic.

Good games too that I have never touched again due to annoying boss
fights. The curse of 'consolitis'.

--
Rob