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    I haven’t played more than about 30 minutes of a Borderlands game. But from clips I have seen of all of them over the years, they all look exactly the same. Sounds to me like it’s just a poorly optimized game, as is standard for new AAA slop releases.

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    21 minutes ago

    When was the last time Randy Pitchford got through a day without being a prick?

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    Only PCVR titles can even approach saying such things without looking like jerks. And even then, it’s probally counter productive.

    An example, for those curious, is Microsoft Flight Simulator.

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      44 minutes ago

      From my experience graphics doesn’t matter much in VR if FPS is fine. You can play HL Alyx on a what was sometime ago affordable gpu and get almost the same experience as with 5900.

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      I haven’t seen a $500 gpu in near a decade. Even used. If you see a $500 gpu today, I guarantee you it can’t run Borderlands 4.

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    3 hours ago

    I guess I will stick to my “non-premium” games made by devs who actually care about providing experiences worth experiencing, instead of a checklist-driven, committee designed and overpriced games that are most AAA games.

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    Hot take, Borderlands was never really a good franchise. Yeah I played through the second game, but i did so once, and never wanted to return to it afterwards.

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      there was something special about playing through 1 for the first time knowing nothing what to expect. Then when 2 came out I liked it alright but already felt like it was a big tonal departure. funny to see the discussion shift over time to 2 being the benchmark and 3(+) going too far.

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    In other words:

    “We don’t want to put resources towards optimising our product. We don’t care if the methods we built our product with make it more difficult to use, while regressing in several key visual aspects. The burdon of our shortcomings will be placed on the end user, who will have to spend their resources to out-power them.”

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    7 hours ago

    How does someone with such a shitty personality and dress sense get so smug?

    If I looked and acted like him I would want to punch myself in the face

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      How does someone with such a shitty personality and dress sense get so smug?

      Lots and lots of money.

      If I looked and acted like him I would want to punch myself in the face

      He has top of the line security details to do that for him.

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      B1 is a bit slow, but quite fun, B2 is brilliant, BTPS is similar to B2, but the crafting stuff is annoying, B3 was too chaotic with a too cluttred UI and a damn annoying story, B4, I have no idea

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        Allegedly B4 is much better than 3, aside from the abysmal performance. I can wait until they fix it and get it for $15 on sale.

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        Have you tried Wonderlands? I really liked it, and would love a sequel/more of that one.

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          I liked that one but weirdly there’s no NG+ and the DLC kind of sucked. I finished it with a friend and we were like, “that’s it?”. It’s not very long, and it ends shortly after your end of skill tree powers become available.

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          The TIny Tina game?

          I tried it, didn’t like it and uninstalled it.

          I am not saying it is a bad game, just that at the time it wasn’t game I liked.

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        I’ve been playing B4 for a few hours now and it’s been pretty good. Definitely getting more B2 vibes than B3.

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        Good assessment. I agree completely!

        I’m not very far in, but so far I’m enjoying B4 more than TPS, and MUCH more than 3.