Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel

A total marmite game (you either love it or hate it). I'm hesitant to call it my favourite game in the series, I recognise why a lot of people don't like what this game does in terms of gameplay and story, but I'm fortunate that I either liked or was unaffected by what others found to be problems. If you've already played and enjoyed Borderlands 2, there's little reason why you wouldn't enjoy Pre-Sequel, this is a large scale expansion of that game.
Love the six vault hunters, the choices are total fan-service but that's not a bad thing. Love that they talk back to NPCs and some are treated to unique dialgoue. Great balance of serious world-building and character development, in-between very dated but charming humour. It's a shame the story they were building to was totally abandonded come Borderlands 3. Elpis's low gravity is so much fun to play around with, unlike other players I didn't mind how wide-open maps are to accomidate flying VHs. The grinder addresses the issue of low-tier loot being worthless, laser weapons are fun although I was concerned how many inaccurate some were at later levels. The new cryo element is so satisfyingly effective that you won't even notice the mistake that is slag has been removed.
When installing the game on Steam Deck, you get the linux build which seems to run great but it's outdated and doesn't allow you to play with all the nice normal people on Windows (this also means your characters on the windows build don't transfer to Linux and vice versa). I ran the game on Proton 9, switching to 8 briefly if the game ever crashed. With Proton the game runs fine with the occasional stutter, nothing a restart couldn't fix. I had vsync, maxed graphics settings and the Deck didn't break a sweat, I capped the game to 60 fps but I'm sure it could have done 90 to 100 if I so desired.

Look, my review wants to make it absolutely clear that, while this game definitely isn't as long and full of content as Borderlands 2 or 3 is, it has its own merits that I think overwhelmingly deserves that you check it out, especially if you like Borderlands 2 and want more of it.
The biggest merit by far is the playable characters. This game has the best skill trees of any Borderlands game in the franchise, and it embarrassingly kicks in the teeth of Borderlands 3's mundane and frankly boring skill trees and characters, by introducing some absolutely amazing and creative capstones and abilities that I guarantee you are going to enjoy at late game play.
Do you want to control a howitzer cannon on your shoulder that shoots tandem with your normal gun, it has that. Do you want to shove a disco-ball on your face and spew colorful lasers everywhere, or embody a pirate ship shooting cannonballs, it also has that.
Do you want to gain damage for picking up money? It has that too. Do you want to be a ruthless gladiator and dash across the battlefield slashing up enemies and dousing them in blood, it even has that.
This is only the tiniest piece of so many unique and creative builds you can make in this game, and the only major content DLC for this game is only going to amplify your bat-s*** broken and hilarious gunplay crusade even further.
I am truly saddened that this game got a short shelf life, because once you get into the character that you pick, you will undoubtedly see just how much fun there is to unpack in this game.
With so many Borderlands bundles out there, this is a brief but baller rockstar among them.
I extremely recommend that you give this game a try, especially while there are still very few people left playing it.

1st: theres no face mc Shooty
2nd: No Mission rewarding you for commiting suicide
3rd and the worst problem: still cant have sex with moxxi after 3 games.

I don't know why; one of my least favorite Borderlands games I have the most hours in. Idk what to say but it's short, fun for challenge runs, etc.

Badass ranks make it too easy and the skill trees are insanely fun; I wish the air boost ability made it's way into other games if I'm honest.

After the 2nd part, the game is not surprising!
But overall the game is very fun and interesting, just look at the classes and characters alone!

It's good, nowhere near as good as BL2, though. My main problem with the game is the npc dialogue - 80% of the dialogue is unnecessary shite. They just tried their best to cram in as much Australian slang and culture as they could, which results in every single npc talking and talking and talking utter crap for minutes on end. Plus, most of the dialogue is so cringe, and I say that as an Australian. Almost all of the side quests are pointless and very uninteresting. The graphics are good. The main quests are good. It's good. 7/10.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☑ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
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