Borderlands Game of the Year

funny robot made me laugh.

mid go play new tales from the borderlands

‣ 5/10 – Where it all began. An average co-op shooter, but a garbage looter shooter. That’s how I’d describe Borderlands 1. This feels like a prototype to everything that comes after. I said this about other games already, but that is genuinely how playing this feels. Every gameplay mechanic, idea seems like it’s on a foundational level and not fully realized. The loot is always shared. Boss fights drop green tier garbage and acquiring fun legendary weapons almost is impossible. After finishing the entire game, I only received one gun that felt good. Everything else was stand-in garbage until the next drop. That is not how a lotter shooter should feel. Every enemy should in theory have a chance to drop something exciting. If not at least finish quests should lead to better gear that you would have no reason to reject. And yet, here almost every quest led to common garbage that nobody wanted to use. The only difference were the expansions. They had better loot, nothing exciting, but better. Unfortunately, all of them are poorly scaled. So, if you are over leveled, fighting or even doing quests has no impact. That’s why we didn’t finish all the DLC content. All in all, a meh game. Inaccurate combat, bad loot RNG and just a forgettable story.

Game feels really complete with all the DLC, brings back so many memories!

An incredibly fun journey, especially with friends, but a horrifically disappointing ending where you just stand behind something and shoot.

Fun ;p