Post #23945
October 17, 2014, 12:46:11 AM
Yeah Pre-Sequel comes off as slightly disappointing to date. I like the new weapons and the new characters are very fun to play, the low-grav thing is interesting and makes the game more tactically flexible...but it's not enough for a full priced game. This is Borderlands 2.5, not 3. It's like the expansion packs of old. Why is it 60$? 40$ would have been more like it.
Not to mention the humour falls flat sometimes, although there were brilliant spots like the "cuties" quest, it was quite smart and I liked the underlying message, but I still think it's less funny than 2. Less offbeat, less ridiculous, but overall not necessarily smarter. And it's buggy as shit. I encountered a game-breaking bug I was only able to negate using another bug, else I would have had to restart my game. Events often don't trigger properly, and the hitboxes seem all over the place.
To date I haven't seen much variation in enemies either, it's torks, scavs, lost legion, shoggoths, kraggans or these rakk wannabe things. There are too many melee mobs which are just painfully easy to kill (they have less HP than ranged ones, I mean WTF) and little more than an annoyance, get a good spike shield and you can cruise control much of the game. The bosses are easy as hell too, I had to cheese quite a few in BL2 but that never happened here. I've not completed it yet, but the game seems awfully short too, there aren't a lot of side quests nor main quests but the latter are long as fuck (lots and lots of obvious filler) which is kind of annoying, especially given the paucity of fast travel points. The spawn points of mobs seem cheaper too, often you'll have badasses spawning behind you with a lot of other fodder in front which I don't remember happening much in BL2. It reminds me of DA2, in fact the whole game reminds me of DA2 : it's an okay game on its own, but compare it to the previous one and it's obvious it's all just filler : artificial difficulty, same environments, unsatisfying bosses. I'm still having fun but I was hoping for more.
That being said, I will be very, very angry if there's no innate UVHM mode...I'm not there yet but I hope it won't be a DLC again. That would be a huge money grab, given that BL2 really starts in UVHM. Then again it's not like Gearbox isn't known for milking the fuck out of their games with DLC.
