Re: FREE GAME: Borderlands 2

On 08/06/2025 15:20, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Sat, 7 Jun 2025 18:54:44 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
wrote:
 

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.
 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 ;-)
 

I sunk quite a few hours into BL:1 even though it wasn't in my category of this is a great game but instead I found it a rather fun and easy going. BL:2 I just didn't get on with. I'm not sure if I was missing a trick but boy did I get annoyed quickly with clearing out a path to the 'objective' and then finding when I died and had to pretty much go through it all again. I just don't remember BL:1 being like that.
If you like the Telltale games format there's also Tales from the Borderlands* which I really enjoyed. It was a shame that the sequel was given to Gearbox who totally botched it.
*As a word of warning the reviews on Steam look bad but I believe this is to do with the new EULA/ToS which I'm not even sure applies to it. The same happened over BL:3 being an Epic exclusive even though it was a totally different developer.