BL3 is definitely going to be a true test for Gearbox, because this is the longest they've spent developing a game in the franchise so far. Five years, give or take some months. I'm very interested to see if they used the time wisely.
Going back to BL2, I got a chance to play Zer0 (melee build) in multiplayer tonight and it was pretty damn fun. I dunno how much it holds up in the next difficulty but I doubt we'll be going to that mode.
Edit - Oh yeah, bit more RE: Jack in TPS. Everything that's supposed to make him a "good guy gone bad" lasts only on the game's introduction. And MAYBE that one scene with the Meriff. But everything else after that, Jack is impatient, is a smartass to everyone, and has no regard for others (including employees of his). And I haven't even reached the breaking point yet!
I don't think they've spent the five years developing the game. Not at all, they've been doing various other projects. That kind of expectation might be enough to hurt them, honestly.
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BL3 is definitely going to be a true test for Gearbox, because this is the longest they've spent developing a game in the franchise so far. Five years, give or take some months. I'm very interested to see if they used the time wisely.
Going back to BL2, I got a chance to play Zer0 (melee build) in multiplayer tonight and it was pretty damn fun. I dunno how much it holds up in the next difficulty but I doubt we'll be going to that mode.
Edit - Oh yeah, bit more RE: Jack in TPS. Everything that's supposed to make him a "good guy gone bad" lasts only on the game's introduction. And MAYBE that one scene with the Meriff. But everything else after that, Jack is impatient, is a smartass to everyone, and has no regard for others (including employees of his). And I haven't even reached the breaking point yet!
I don't think they've spent the five years developing the game. Not at all, they've been doing various other projects. That kind of expectation might be enough to hurt them, honestly.
They said as such during the presentation a few days ago that they've been working on it for five years.
Of course that time could be a lot of art / map design on paper prior to starting to construct the actual 3D environments.
BL3 is definitely going to be a true test for Gearbox, because this is the longest they've spent developing a game in the franchise so far. Five years, give or take some months. I'm very interested to see if they used the time wisely.
Going back to BL2, I got a chance to play Zer0 (melee build) in multiplayer tonight and it was pretty damn fun. I dunno how much it holds up in the next difficulty but I doubt we'll be going to that mode.
Edit - Oh yeah, bit more RE: Jack in TPS. Everything that's supposed to make him a "good guy gone bad" lasts only on the game's introduction. And MAYBE that one scene with the Meriff. But everything else after that, Jack is impatient, is a smartass to everyone, and has no regard for others (including employees of his). And I haven't even reached the breaking point yet!
I don't think they've spent the five years developing the game. Not at all, they've been doing various other projects. That kind of expectation might be enough to hurt them, honestly.
They said as such during the presentation a few days ago that they've been working on it for five years.
Of course that time could be a lot of art / map design on paper prior to starting to construct the actual 3D environments.
I think they probably started after Battleborne flopped but the fact is they were probably hoping TPS would have had the dlc legs that 2 did so they wouldn't have to start right away.
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BL3 is definitely going to be a true test for Gearbox, because this is the longest they've spent developing a game in the franchise so far. Five years, give or take some months. I'm very interested to see if they used the time wisely.
Going back to BL2, I got a chance to play Zer0 (melee build) in multiplayer tonight and it was pretty damn fun. I dunno how much it holds up in the next difficulty but I doubt we'll be going to that mode.
Edit - Oh yeah, bit more RE: Jack in TPS. Everything that's supposed to make him a "good guy gone bad" lasts only on the game's introduction. And MAYBE that one scene with the Meriff. But everything else after that, Jack is impatient, is a smartass to everyone, and has no regard for others (including employees of his). And I haven't even reached the breaking point yet!
I don't think they've spent the five years developing the game. Not at all, they've been doing various other projects. That kind of expectation might be enough to hurt them, honestly.
They said as such during the presentation a few days ago that they've been working on it for five years.
Of course that time could be a lot of art / map design on paper prior to starting to construct the actual 3D environments.
I think they probably started after Battleborne flopped but the fact is they were probably hoping TPS would have had the dlc legs that 2 did so they wouldn't have to start right away.
The legs were instead transferred over to the guns in BL3. Win-win potentially.
All right guys played around a bit today on a new character and got to thinking . Something needs to be done about vehicle scaling they are useful in the first run ok in second and made of paper and die instantly to anything past that .Also pacing for lower level story could stand to be accelerated. More inane nonsense thoughts nobody asked for when I (slowly) start making my way through the game
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What exactly is the citation here RE: what the brands can do? Was there a Q&A I missed?
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I must've missed something btw, I'm using a shotgun for the first time on Nisha at level 24 and godDAMN these things are murder machines. Like they feel stronger than they are in BL2.
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I just fucking hate that digital store fronts don't operate like regular stores. If I want a pack of Oreos I don't have to go to The Oreo Store™, I can go to Safeway or Target or whoever the hell else. Sometimes gas stations! If I need headphones, I can go to Best Buy, or Fry's, and they'll have the same brands in stock for likely the same price (barring sales).
But video games bought digitally? Nope, you have to go to the one-and-only. And it's starting to actively piss me off more than disappoint.
I don't get the kerfluffal about what launcher a game is on. I have like 5 launchers now for various platforms is one more or less going to really make that big of a difference. You don't have to have them all load in the tray at startup you can choose to manually run them when you need to.
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My only problem is I don't want spyware on my computer
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Um, it is April 1st, is there really any credibility to both the release date or where it'll be sold?
My only problem is I don't want spyware on my computer
Yep, this is where I'm at. I don't have a problem with humble, gog, itch, steam, hell even origin and uplay. I may use one more than another, but whatever. If those other stores started moneyhatting I'd probably be slightly annoyed but at the end of the day I can still launch from my PC and that's not a big deal.
Epic's never getting installed on my computer because of their "we're going to scrape your other game stores and send that information back to our servers!" shit.
Um, it is April 1st, is there really any credibility to both the release date or where it'll be sold?
Yeah, it was found through Twitter's ad API I believe, so probably just mistakenly uploaded. Epic is deffo in the place to get it exclusive and they've got a good working relationship with gearbox. Gearbox publishes Fortnite's physical editions.
Plus it'd be a real weird April fool's joke, like haha, y'all got us had a tweet up for 40 minutes then deleted it without any comment.
My only problem is I don't want spyware on my computer
Yep, this is where I'm at. I don't have a problem with humble, gog, itch, steam, hell even origin and uplay. I may use one more than another, but whatever. If those other stores started moneyhatting I'd probably be slightly annoyed but at the end of the day I can still launch from my PC and that's not a big deal.
Epic's never getting installed on my computer because of their "we're going to scrape your other game stores and send that information back to our servers!" shit.
I'm not a big fan of storefront exclusivity. And I like the few launchers I have (although I'd certainly be open to one that competed on the customer experience in some way). So even for games I have a strong interest in, like Metro Exodus or Operencia, it's been fairly easy for me to just say, "yep, I'll see if I'm still interested when your exclusivity period is up."
But this is Borderlands.
And I am me.
If all these rumors are true and they are taking BL3 to Epic for an exclusive year (which, glass one one-hundredth full, is not yet confirmed), I'm going to have some real deliberating to do.
Shrug , old pc so unless I update before then I’m getting it on console anyway.
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Oh hey I beat The Pre-Sequel, go me. That last boss fight was actually pretty hard for its first phase. Second phase not so much aside from how much ammo it was demanding.
I get what they were going for in the writing RE: why Jack gets obsessed with killing a particular group of people, but it tried to be so brief about it all. If the scenes about that stuff played out for a couple minutes each at least, that robustness would've made things more cohesive.
As for the rest of Jack's personality TPS doesn't really explain it. In fact he's kinda that way to begin with and only conditionally cares about saving the four people he hired in TPS. He needs their help to do his master plan, a plan which in BL2 he had already schemed out prior to ANY of the games. So he was a villain the whole time. Reaaaaaaalllly don't understand the "hero" crap the open the game with, let alone the "what if Jack wasn't wrong" crap on the net. In BL2 it was fine for him to do the "I'm the hero!" crap because he's a narcissist. In TPS it isn't okay because nothing he did was heroic, he is not a fallen hero. Bleh. Bleh!
Anyway, I've come around on TPS gameplay-wise. You don't out-level the content so every fight you're in throughout the game matters and that's good. I was shocked to find enemies that had really high Shield based health and low non-shielded health, because in BL2 enemies with shields were largely a joke and Shock weapons just didn't seem important. So good on them for figuring that out in TPS.
Nisha with two pistols is fucking insane, damage-wise. The ammo use is pretty nutty but I like it. For the last stretch of the game I was rocking some purple quality Hyperion pistol that had negative accuracy and recoil reduction but that went away in a couple shots, and had huge damage in return.
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edited April 2019
Timed exclusivity deals in general are awful, but on PC it is even worse.
We get these companies spending millions on exclusivity deals instead of spending that money on improving infrastructure, user experience or features. Because why bother improving your storefront when you can just strong arm everyone in to shopping there?
I had high hopes for the Epic store because I thought it’d provide real competition to Steam (which is desperately needed). Instead they just taught Valve that they can moneyhat games and I’m pretty sure Valve has a substantial warchest.
Everybody loses, yay!
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I loved the soundtrack for TPS, it has some really nice ambient score in it.
I can't even remember any of BL2's music.
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Oh hey I beat The Pre-Sequel, go me. That last boss fight was actually pretty hard for its first phase. Second phase not so much aside from how much ammo it was demanding.
I get what they were going for in the writing RE: why Jack gets obsessed with killing a particular group of people, but it tried to be so brief about it all. If the scenes about that stuff played out for a couple minutes each at least, that robustness would've made things more cohesive.
As for the rest of Jack's personality TPS doesn't really explain it. In fact he's kinda that way to begin with and only conditionally cares about saving the four people he hired in TPS. He needs their help to do his master plan, a plan which in BL2 he had already schemed out prior to ANY of the games. So he was a villain the whole time. Reaaaaaaalllly don't understand the "hero" crap the open the game with, let alone the "what if Jack wasn't wrong" crap on the net. In BL2 it was fine for him to do the "I'm the hero!" crap because he's a narcissist. In TPS it isn't okay because nothing he did was heroic, he is not a fallen hero. Bleh. Bleh!
Anyway, I've come around on TPS gameplay-wise. You don't out-level the content so every fight you're in throughout the game matters and that's good. I was shocked to find enemies that had really high Shield based health and low non-shielded health, because in BL2 enemies with shields were largely a joke and Shock weapons just didn't seem important. So good on them for figuring that out in TPS.
Nisha with two pistols is fucking insane, damage-wise. The ammo use is pretty nutty but I like it. For the last stretch of the game I was rocking some purple quality Hyperion pistol that had negative accuracy and recoil reduction but that went away in a couple shots, and had huge damage in return.
Jack kind of slowly just kept falling further and further into the dark side.
He was probably never the most stable guy (but I don't think he was evil at the start of Pre-Sequel), especially with everything going on with Angel, but he got addicted to the power and violence.
I loved the soundtrack for TPS, it has some really nice ambient score in it.
I can't even remember any of BL2's music.
I'm the other way around. TPS' ambience didn't do it any favors really. Ambience can be a good thing, like it was brilliant in Breath of the Wild. But a game like Borderlands, you want something going on.
BL2's music jumps around several genres that don't really convey the same thing. Some of the music is very memorable to me, but the rest of it is meh. Anything that was like Starcraft styled Terran music was aces.
I loved the soundtrack for TPS, it has some really nice ambient score in it.
I can't even remember any of BL2's music.
Man, I can't even think of a song from TPS to say whether it was good or not, but I remember a fair bit of BL2 music, like Caustic Caverns, Flamerock Refuge (from Tiny Tina), Fink's Slaughterhouse, or this classic:
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I don't think they've spent the five years developing the game. Not at all, they've been doing various other projects. That kind of expectation might be enough to hurt them, honestly.
Of course that time could be a lot of art / map design on paper prior to starting to construct the actual 3D environments.
I think they probably started after Battleborne flopped but the fact is they were probably hoping TPS would have had the dlc legs that 2 did so they wouldn't have to start right away.
Woah , s&s is back ? That would be awesome , but as a loyal atlas customer and shill I will probably stick with them.
Oh these are rumors and leaks he gets from various sources
Epic Games Store for PC
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Was pretty disappointed when the sequel was all the same planet again. Theres a whole big galactic world of bullshit in BL, lets explore it.
But video games bought digitally? Nope, you have to go to the one-and-only. And it's starting to actively piss me off more than disappoint.
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Yep, this is where I'm at. I don't have a problem with humble, gog, itch, steam, hell even origin and uplay. I may use one more than another, but whatever. If those other stores started moneyhatting I'd probably be slightly annoyed but at the end of the day I can still launch from my PC and that's not a big deal.
Epic's never getting installed on my computer because of their "we're going to scrape your other game stores and send that information back to our servers!" shit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PhoenixPoint/comments/b0rxdq/epic_game_store_spyware_tracking_and_you/
e: https://metacouncil.com/threads/epic-game-store-spyware-tracking-and-you.766/
Yeah, fuck no.
I doubt the leak is real, but I don't doubt it being accurate.
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Yeah, it was found through Twitter's ad API I believe, so probably just mistakenly uploaded. Epic is deffo in the place to get it exclusive and they've got a good working relationship with gearbox. Gearbox publishes Fortnite's physical editions.
Plus it'd be a real weird April fool's joke, like haha, y'all got us had a tweet up for 40 minutes then deleted it without any comment.
Ive heard 10 13 based on some trailer Easter eggs but I dont really care enough to look into it. They'll announce it at E3.
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And even before they opened the store the epic launcher had security issues sooooo.... yea. I'm not putting any trust in them at all.
But this is Borderlands.
And I am me.
If all these rumors are true and they are taking BL3 to Epic for an exclusive year (which, glass one one-hundredth full, is not yet confirmed), I'm going to have some real deliberating to do.
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I get what they were going for in the writing RE: why Jack gets obsessed with killing a particular group of people, but it tried to be so brief about it all. If the scenes about that stuff played out for a couple minutes each at least, that robustness would've made things more cohesive.
As for the rest of Jack's personality TPS doesn't really explain it. In fact he's kinda that way to begin with and only conditionally cares about saving the four people he hired in TPS. He needs their help to do his master plan, a plan which in BL2 he had already schemed out prior to ANY of the games. So he was a villain the whole time. Reaaaaaaalllly don't understand the "hero" crap the open the game with, let alone the "what if Jack wasn't wrong" crap on the net. In BL2 it was fine for him to do the "I'm the hero!" crap because he's a narcissist. In TPS it isn't okay because nothing he did was heroic, he is not a fallen hero. Bleh. Bleh!
Anyway, I've come around on TPS gameplay-wise. You don't out-level the content so every fight you're in throughout the game matters and that's good. I was shocked to find enemies that had really high Shield based health and low non-shielded health, because in BL2 enemies with shields were largely a joke and Shock weapons just didn't seem important. So good on them for figuring that out in TPS.
Nisha with two pistols is fucking insane, damage-wise. The ammo use is pretty nutty but I like it. For the last stretch of the game I was rocking some purple quality Hyperion pistol that had negative accuracy and recoil reduction but that went away in a couple shots, and had huge damage in return.
We get these companies spending millions on exclusivity deals instead of spending that money on improving infrastructure, user experience or features. Because why bother improving your storefront when you can just strong arm everyone in to shopping there?
I had high hopes for the Epic store because I thought it’d provide real competition to Steam (which is desperately needed). Instead they just taught Valve that they can moneyhat games and I’m pretty sure Valve has a substantial warchest.
Everybody loses, yay!
I can't even remember any of BL2's music.
He was probably never the most stable guy (but I don't think he was evil at the start of Pre-Sequel), especially with everything going on with Angel, but he got addicted to the power and violence.
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BL2's music jumps around several genres that don't really convey the same thing. Some of the music is very memorable to me, but the rest of it is meh. Anything that was like Starcraft styled Terran music was aces.
Man, I can't even think of a song from TPS to say whether it was good or not, but I remember a fair bit of BL2 music, like Caustic Caverns, Flamerock Refuge (from Tiny Tina), Fink's Slaughterhouse, or this classic:
The menu theme is also excellent.
Say that after you do all the achievements for that dlc , I grew to hate it !